Fall 2000 - Spring 2001

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Basin Reports:
Atlantic Studies, Eurasian Seas, Mediterranean Studies and Pacific Visions Working Groups

Atlantic Studies Working Group
Leaders: Ian Baucom and Charlie Piot
Assistant: Simon Hay

      Much of our energy this year has been devoted to planning and convening a graduate seminar in Atlantic Studies. During the fall we met three times, once for a lecture by Art Historian Marcus Verhagen (Reed College) on the work of Black British artist Sonia Boyce and twice to plan the spring seminar. We have also started planning for next year.

      The spring seminar (co-taught by Ian Baucom and Charlie Piot), entitled "Atlantic Revolutionary Discourses," met every other week. Eight enrolled graduate students as well as ten non-enrolled students and faculty attended regularly. The first two sessions were devoted to readings--of broad programmatic works that attempt to constitute the Atlantic as a field of study, and of Paul Gilroy's controversial new book, Against Race. Each of our speakers gave a late-afternoon public lecture and then met with the seminar in the evening. Patricia Seed (Rice University, History) discussed the ways in which 15th and 16th century scientific discoveries by Portuguese navigators in the South Atlantic were foundational in producing a distinct Portuguese modernity at home. Lucien Taylor (Univ. of Colorado, Anthropology) shared his work on Martiniquan intellectuals and the development of the artistic and cultural movement of creolite in Martinque (as it engaged with French art and culture). Susan Buck-Morss (Cornell University, Political Science) presented material which attempts to re-read Hegel, especially Hegel's master-slave dialectic and the conception of freedom on which it's based, through the Haitian revolution (which Hegel read about daily in newspapers while he was working on "Phenomenology"). Luke Gibbons (Notre Dame, English and Irish Studies) shared his work on the conjunction of human rights, gothic memory and Irish culture. Joe Miller (University of Virginia, History) talked about the creation of a slave identity through enslavement in Africa and under slavery in Brazil. Seminar participants also attended and participated in the Black British Artists conference held in April 2001. By all accounts the seminar was a resounding success. The speakers were first-rate and the discussions lively, and--perhaps the best measure of the seminar's success--several of the students are (now) working on Atlanticist projects for their dissertations.

      Our plans for the year 2001-2002 include continuing our meetings in a seminar format. The seminar theme for the fall semester will be "Atlantic Capital." We have already secured the participation of Giovanni Arrighi (Johns Hopkins University, History) whose study, The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of our Times, offers a revisionary, Braudelian reading of modern capital's long duree. We anticipate this text will be central to our discussions. Other than Professor Arrighi, we anticipate inviting an additional 3-4 speakers over the course of the fall semester. Among them may be Peter Linnebagh and Marcus Reddiker, whose recently co-authored text The Many Headed Hydra traces a cross-Atlantic history of the modern working class, and Kevin Wheelan (Notre Dame, History) who has been working on an economic history of a "green" Irish Atlantic. We have yet to define the seminar's theme for the spring of 2002 but anticipate that we will again invite 4-6 speakers/seminar participants for that semester.

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Eurasian Seas Working Group
Leaders: Natalia Mirovitskaya and Bruce Kuniholm
Assistant: Shahin Huseynov

      The group's primary goal this year was to shift our collective focus towards the Black Sea eco-geographical region, which has been an area of international confrontation for most of the twentieth century. In the past decade, however, the convergence of several seemingly unrelated events and trends marked a turning point for the region. These include the emergence of newly independent states, the changing power balance in the region, and environmental crises that reached their peak at a time when five littoral countries were facing an economic and social transition. Since the 1990s, inter-regional cooperation has been developing in several distinct, though closely inter-related, spheres; political, economic, environmental, and scientific. From an institutional perspective the record of collaboration has been most impressive. However, are these newly created regimes effective? Do they work as designed and can they achieve their objectives? Are there any prospects of sustainable governance in this area? These questions were the main focus of the group's activities for the year 2000-01.

      As in 1999-2000, the group engaged in regular group discussions, presentations by visiting scholars, the development of an extensive database, faculty and student presentations, pedagogical initiatives and efforts to develop contacts with other institutions and individual researchers.

     The database project, in particular, is designed to alleviate some of the extraordinary difficulties in obtaining literature on the Black Sea region. One of the main aims of the group over the past year has been to expand this database beyond its present emphasis on sources in English, Russian and Greek. The group also worked towards including extensive information on academic, political, business and NGO contacts in Russia, Turkey, Greece, Georgia, Ukraine, Romania and some other countries in the region. Finally, the database now includes a selection of research tools designed to help individuals undertake research on the region. The Eurasian Seas list-serve was used extensively to supplement the database while also providing group members with the updated news from the region. A Eurasian Seas web page was also created.

      Extensive research is presently being undertaken by a number of group members on a range of issues pertaining to the region. For example, Natalia Mirovitskaya, Panagiotis Karamanos and Bruce Kuniholm are collaborating on a project designed to access the effectiveness of regional, political, economic and environmental cooperation. Ken Rogerson has authored a recent paper entitled "The Role of Civil Society in Fostering Cooperation in the Black Sea Region." Members of the group have also designed an agenda for an international research workshop: "Black Sea Region: Prospects and Challenges of Sustainable Governance."

      In keeping with the group's interest in encouraging fresh pedagogical initiatives and approaches, a course ("New Order for the Oceans") was designed with the hope that it will be offered at Duke University in 2001-02. The main focus of this course will be on the most recent developments in the international system of ocean governance.

      Over the course of the past year, the Eurasian Seas group moved to develop extensive contacts with other institutions and individual researchers. In light of the group's future research and publication plans, ties were established with the representatives of the Academies of Sciences of Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan as well as with several Iranian, Greek and Turkish scholars. Contact was also established with the International Institute of the Oceans (based in Malta), Council for Mediterranean and Black Sea Studies, and the Fridtjoff Nansen Institute (based in Norway). Information pertaining to developments in the Eurasian Seas region was also exchanged on a regular basis with Glenn Schweitzer (Director of the Eurasia Department, National Research Council), Amy Evans and Rune Castberg (Caspian Environmental Program, The World Bank), Carl Mitchell (Deputy Director of the Energy Department, USAID) and David McNellis (Director, Caroline Environment Program).

      The composition of the group changed significantly over the past year. Meetings invariably drew a broader range of faculty and graduate students from such diverse disciplines as History, Political Science, Economics, Public Policy, Environmental Studies, Engineering and Business. This has made for very interesting discussions while simultaneously challenging the group to accommodating of divergent intellectual interests and approaches.

      Eight meetings were held over the course of the year with attendance ranging from 12 to 30. Both before and after meetings information was exchanged regarding new books and articles.

Invited speakers included:

• Frederick Starr (Johns Hopkins University, Chair of the Central Asia Institute at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced Studies) who gave a lecture entitled "The Security Environment in the Arc of Instability (The Black and Caspian Sea Basins)."
• Elisabeth Mann Borgese (Dalhousie University, Canada) who gave a lecture entitled "The Prospects and Problems of International Marine Governance: Experience of the Regional Seas."
• Aaron Wolf (Colorado State University) who gave a lecture entitled "International Water Conflict Resolution: Lessons from Comparative Analysis."
• Nadia Arbatova (Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Chair of the Department on European Political Studies) who gave a lecture entitled "Russian Interests and Policies in the Southern Arc of Instability."

Plans for 2001-02:
      In the forthcoming year, the Eurasian Seas group will continue hosting monthly group discussions and inviting speakers from beyond the Duke community. Additional efforts will be undertaken towards expanding the database, encouraging pedagogical initiatives and developing contacts with other institutions and individual researchers. Among the speakers we would like to consider inviting are: Charles King (Georgetown University), Melanie Ram (Japan International Cooperation Agency) and Andrew Wilson (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London). We aim to involve all three scholars in our international research workshop should it be funded. We are also intending on possibly inviting two short-term visiting scholars. The scholars under consideration are: Dr. Loukas Tsoukalis (Greece) and Dr. Daniel Daianu (Romania). Dr. Tsoukalis is the president of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, a former ambassador, special advisor on EC affairs to the Prime Minister of Greece and the author of many publications on European integration and Black Sea issues. Dr. Daianu is a former minister of finance and current director of the Center for Economic Policies (Bucharest, Romania). The presence of both men at Duke University will contribute greatly to our group's research and organizational efforts.

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Mediterranean Studies Working Group
Leaders: Miriam Cooke, Roberto Dainotto, Eric Zakim
Assistant: Tabia Linhard

      The group's activities during this current academic year have focused on several projects: two different publishing projects; a mini-conference on visual aesthetics in the Mediterranean; lectures by various Duke University faculty; and talks by prominent scholars from outside of the university. In all these cases, the group has strengthened both its internal structure, drawing on an increasingly varied range of local scholar's to contribute to the group's discussions and research, and its external connections with Mediterranean studies centers in the US and abroad.

     In terms of publications, the group has completed one book project, "Mediterranean Thinking: Towards a New Epistemology of Place." The manuscript was delivered to Duke University Press in March 2001 and is presently undergoing review. As we have noted in past reports, this volume is a collection of essays drawn from three conferences (at Duke University and in Tunis, Tunisia) that we have sponsored since the beginning of the Oceans Connect project. The entire group has been engaged in this project through discussions of the different pieces, especially the theoretical introduction. In addition, much progress has been made on a second publication: "A Mediterranean Reader." Ken Wissoker at Duke University Press first suggested this project to the group. We have worked closely with the press on this project, and have spent time discussing the general organization of the volume, collecting material and debating the theoretical emphases that the reader should have.

      In April, the group hosted a mini-conference on visual aesthetics in the Mediterranean. We succeeded in bringing to campus several photographers and filmmakers from the region, whose work specifically engages the sea and the cultural life surrounding it. The conference was held over two and included an exhibition of photographs at the Franklin Center, as well as screenings of documentaries and movies (including "Toumah", "Khiyam" by Khalil Joureige & Jouwanah Hajjah and "Somersault in a Coffin" by Dervis Zaim) with follow-up discussions with the directors. Much of the impetus and energy behind this conference was provided by Stephen Sheehi (Duke University, Asian and African Languages and Literature).

      Among the invited speakers we brought to campus was Janet Abu-Lughod (New School, Sociology). Abu-Lughod's trip was co-sponsored by the Weigand Lecture Series on "Pivotal Ideas of World Civilizations." Abu-Lughod spoke about Cairo in the wider Mediterranean world offering the group a perspective that moves away from an American and Euro-centric analysis of cities and urbanization. Among the scholars of "globalization," it was Abu-Lughod who early on analyzed the importance of cities in a transnational context. The other invited speaker to visit Duke University in 2000-01 was Andre Nouschi (University of Nice, France). Nouschi, a former student of Braudel, broke down the fixedness of Braudel's paradigm by seeing political hegemony as the conceptual frame within which to view this duration.

      Within the Duke community, Joseph Porter, Lukas Van Rampe and Chouki El-Hamel presented seminars for the group on, respectively, "Othello" from a Mediterranean perspective, monastic transnationalism in the eastern Mediterranean, and the Muslim diaspora in France.

      In general, attendance at these events has been excellent with numbers consistently averaging around 20. The topics clearly garnered great interest from those attending and from those who were unable to attend but who heard or read about the proceedings afterwards.

      Dainotto and Zakim presented the work of the group at the 2001 conference of the Portuguese Comparative Literature Association at Evora, Portugal, on May 9-12, 2001. This trip was especially valuable because it offered the group an opportunity to engage a community of scholars oriented in part to southern Europe and the Atlantic. In the past, most of the international contacts by the Mediterranean Studies group have been centered on North Africa and southern Europe.

      Beyond the research activities of the group, this past year also witnessed the launching of several teaching initiatives within different undergraduate programs throughout the university. In Romance Studies, Roberto Dainotto taught a course on "Italian Identities between Europe and the Mediterranean." Eric Zakim taught a course on "Jewish Culture in the Mediterranean" which was cross-listed in African and Asian Languages and Literatures, Religion, and Literature.

Plans for 2001-02
      For the up-coming year, the Mediterranean Studies group will continue to operate as monthly fora for the presentation and discussion of ideas relevant to the interests of its members. Next year's activities will concentrate on expanding current activities, and strengthening existing institutional structures in anticipation of the culmination of Ford Foundation participation in the project.

      To further enhance and consolidate our connections with various Mediterranean centers in the basin region, we are planning to host a conference in Venice next spring. In addition to working with groups to whom we already have ties, our intent has always been to use the Venice conference to widen the scope of our collaborations with universities in Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. For the reason, the conference theme will focus on challenging standard geographical configurations of the Mediterranean (east-west, north-south) in a wide spectrum of humanities and social sciences. One of the groups we expect will participate in the Venice conference will be from Catania, Sicily. Before the conference, we will be working with them to forge a collaborative alliance by bringing two scholars to Duke during course of the next academic year. In exchange, we will expect to send two or three Duke faculty to Catania.

      We will certainly devote efforts toward the final organization and editing of the "Mediterranean Reader," which we expect to deliver to the press before the end of this calendar year. The reader, too, should help develop interest in new courses in the area, something we will be encouraging among the group's participants. We see course development on both the graduate and undergraduate levels as a way to sustain energy in Mediterranean Studies on a permanent basis.

      We also plan on bringing more guests to campus. Again, we will coordinate these visits with other units at Duke University. An interest has been articulated in organizing discussions specifically around questions of the eastern Mediterranean that, as a peripheral area to the usual north-south nexus in the basin, could serve well as preparation for the Venice conference on challenging geography. However, the topics and the speakers have not been decided upon.

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Pacific Visions Working Group
Leaders: Jing Wang and Anne Allison
Assistant: Amy Feistel

      Jing Wang was the convener of Pacific Visions in the fall of 2000 and Anne Allison in the spring of 2001. The general theme for this year was globalization: economics, technology, environment, and culture(s). There is a solid working group of approximately twenty members who work in the fields of China, Japan, or Latin America and across a number of disciplines (History, Literature, Sociology, Public Policy and Anthropology). Our members include professors as well as graduate students--most of who are drawn from the Duke community. We do, however, also have a small core of individuals who are drawn from University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill. There has been strong interest in Pacific Visions throughout 2000-01, with attendance at meetings ranging anywhere between 8 and 30.

      As in previous years, our format has been to invite speakers to discuss works-in-progress. We met three times in the fall and three times in the spring. Each of our sessions lasted roughly two hours with the time being almost equally divided between presentation and discussion.

Fall
      In the fall our first speaker was Mark Berger, a Senior Lecturer in the Comparative Development Program and the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, and Coordinator of the International Studies (Globalization) Program in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales. Berger's paper, "The Post-Cold War Condition? The Rise and Decline of National Development and the Origins of Post-Cold War Capitalism in the Asia-Pacific and the Americas," examined the way in which the crisis of colonialism, the universalization of the nation-state system, and the deepening of the Cold War provided the context for the emergence of powerful development discourse centered on "national development." The second speaker was Anne Allison (Duke University, Cultural Anthropology) who presented her research on the globalization of Japanese character merchandise, particularly Pokemon. The questions raised by her concerned the interface between marketing and the imagination: how Pokemon configures children's play in a globalized commodity form. The speakers for our third session were Ronie Garcia-Johnson (Duke University, Professor of Environmental Policy), Gary Gereffi (Duke University, Department of Sociology), and Erika Sasser (Duke University, Nicholas School of Environment). They presented extracts from their on-going environmental project entitled "Project on Social and Environmental Certification" which studies the development of regulatory mechanisms to monitor environmentalism in firms in this age of transnationalism (and multi-national corporations).

Spring      
       In the spring, our first speaker was Nan Ling (Duke University, Sociology and Director of Asia Pacific Studies Institute). Entitled "Cyber-networks and their Social and Economic Implications," Lin's presentation was based on three years of research on internet usage around the world. The focus was on differences and convergences of practice across places (China, Taiwan, United States, W. Europe), and how we can productively think of the social relationships formed (or inhibited) through internet usage. The final two speakers were Donald Nonini, Professor (University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill) and Ralph Litzinger (Duke University, Cultural Anthropology). Nonini's talk drew on his current research involving the rise of Chinese immigration to Australia. Litzinger's presentation, which also drew on a work in progress, focused on China and the rise of global environmentalism and environmental tourism.

      In addition to the above activities, the Pacific Visions group was co-funded and participated in events planned by the Center for East Asian Cultural and Institutional Studies, headed by Jing Wang. These included visits to Duke by two international scholars. The first was Michael Dutton (University of New South Wales, Australia, History) who spoke on the use of surveillance technologies in contemporary China. The second invited speaker was Kuan-hsing Chen (National Tsing-hua University, Taiwan, Cultural Studies) who is present editor of the new interdisciplinary Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Journal. Chen's public lecture related to political society and popular democracy in 1990s Taiwan.

Plans for 2001-02
      Due to unforeseen circumstances and Jing Wang's decision to accept a position at MIT starting next year, the Pacific Visions group has been unable to discuss its plans for the next year. Given Jing Wang's central role in the Pacific Visions group over the past two years, one of our first tasks will be to decide upon a new basin leader. Thankfully, there is a reliable and dynamic core of group members, including Leo Ching, TomikoYoda, Kris Troost, Ralph Litzinger, Kären Wigen, Sucheta Mazumdar, Xue Zhaohui, Don Nonini, Gary Gereffi, and Anne Allison, who will sustain Pacific Visions regardless of any changes in the leadership of the group. Towards the end of the summer, discussions will begin within the group regarding the thematic focus for 2001-02 and a list of possible speakers.

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Awards

• Pacific Visions Working Group to invite Kuan-hsing Chen (National Tsing-hua University, Taiwan)

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Recommendations

• Efforts have to be undertaken to improve the hitherto poor record of collaboration between members of the different working groups. To this end, funds may be set aside for inter-group initiatives aimed at bringing in speakers who appeal to two or more groups, hosting joint meetings or specifically funding inter-basin research projects.
• Additional efforts have to be undertaken towards engendering higher levels of graduate student participation in the Pacific and Mediterranean working groups. With this goal in mind, the two groups should perhaps consider providing opportunities for graduate students to present their work at group meetings.
• Oceans Connect must improve its poor track record of reaching out to the large population of faculty and graduate students based at other institutions in the Triangle area. Towards this end, the new program coordinator and the leaders of the basin groups should work towards affording greater publicity to the workings of their respective groups. This initiative, however, has to be undertaken early on in the semester before individuals not based at Duke University commit themselves to other projects and endeavors.
• All Oceans Connect publications must eventually be made available on the program's website.
• Although a fair amount of information exchange already occurs between certain basin leaders and Kris Troost (Duke University, Perkins Library), Troost should be invited to attend at least one basin meeting during the course of the year. Her participation in the meeting should also be publicized before the actual event in order that group members can compile lists of books that they would like to see acquired using Oceans Connect funding. The idea being to get the broadest degree of participation and input by members of the working groups in efforts aimed at improving Duke's ocean-oriented holdings.
• Since funding is only guaranteed for another year, it is incumbent upon basin leaders to start pursuing additional monies from other Duke and external sources.
  

Fall 2000

September 6 Atlantic Studies Working Group Meeting (CIS, 5:00 pm)

September 6 Mediterranean Studies Working Group Meeting (CIS, 6:30 pm)

September 14 Oceans Connect Steering Committee Meeting (AALL, 8.30 am)

September 22 Eurasian Seas Working Group Meeting (Sanford Institute, 12:30 pm)

September 28 Pacific Visions Working Group: public lecture by Mark Berger (University of New South Wales) (Carpenter Board Room, 5:00 pm)

September 29 Eurasian Seas Working Group: public lecture by S. Frederick Starr (Johns Hopkins University) (Breedlove Room, 4:00 pm)

October 3 Mediterranean Studies Working Group Meeting (AALL, 6:30 pm)

October 6 Pacific Visions Working Group: public lecture by Michael Dutton (University of Melbourne) (Carpenter Board Room, 3:00 pm)

October 17 Atlantic Studies Working Group: public lecture by Marcus Verhagen (Reed College) (Carpenter Board Room, 6:00 pm)

October 20 Eurasian Seas Working Group: public lecture by Elisabeth Mann Borgese (Dalhousie University) (Sanford Institute, 4:00 pm)

October 24 Mediterranean Studies Working Group: public lecture by Andre Nouschi (University of Nice) (Flowers Drive 201, 4:00 pm)

October 24 Mediterranean Studies Working Group: seminar with Andre Nouschi (University of Nice) (Franklin Center 232, 6:30 pm)

October 26 Pacific Visions Working Group: talk by Anne Allison (Duke University) (Franklin Center 130, 6:00 pm)

November 2 Mediterranean Studies Working Group: talk by Chouki El-Hamel (Duke University) (139 Social Sciences, 4:00 pm)

November 14 Mediterranean Studies Working Group: seminar with Lukas Van Rampe (Duke University) (AALL, 6:30 pm)

November 15 Atlantic Studies Working Group meeting (Franklin Center 232, 7:00 pm)

November 18 Mediterranean Studies Working Group: talk by Janet Abu-Lughod (New School)(Gray 306, 4:30 pm)

November 18 An Oceans Connect sponsored dinner with Janet Abu-Lughod (New School) (Brightleaf 905, 6:30 pm)

November 29 Inaugural meeting of the working group on stimulants and intoxicants (Franklin Center 132, 12:00 pm)

November 30 Pacific Visions Working Group: talk by Gary Gereffi, Ronie Garcia-Johnson and Erika Sasser (Duke University) (Franklin Center 028, 5:30 pm)

December 6 Mediterranean Studies Working Group meeting (AALL, 12:30 pm)

December 18 Mediterranean Studies Working Group meeting (AALL, 12:15 pm)

Spring 2001

January 22 Atlantic Studies Seminar meeting (Franklin Center 028, 7:00 pm)

January 25 Meeting of the Oceans Connect Program Coordinator and the Program Assistants (George's Garage, 12:15 pm)

January 26 Eurasian Seas Working Group meeting (Sanford, 12:30 pm)

January 26 Pacific Visions Working Group: public lecture by Kuan-hsing Chen (National Tsing-hua University) (Von Canon, 4:00 pm)

January 29 Mediterranean Studies Working Group: seminar with Joseph Porter (Duke University) (AALL, 6:30 pm)

February 1 Oceans Connect Steering Committee Meeting (Franklin Center 112, 8:45 am)

February 8 Atlantic Studies Seminar meeting (Franklin Center 028, 7:00 pm)

February 8 Pacific Visions Working Group: talk by Nan Lin (Duke University) (Franklin Center 230, 5:45 pm)

February 15 Eurasian Seas Working Group: public lecture by Aaron Wolf (University of Oregon) (Nicholas School, A156, 12:00 pm)

February 26 Atlantic Studies Working Group: public lecture by Patricia Seed (Rice University) (Breedlove Room, 5:00 pm)

February 26 Atlantic Studies Working Group: seminar with Patricia Seed (Rice University) (Franklin Center 130, 7:00 pm)

March 5 Atlantic Studies Working Group: public lecture by Lucien Taylor (University of Colorado--Boulder) (Breedlove Room, 5:00 pm)

March 5 Atlantic Studies Working Group: seminar with Lucien Taylor (University of Colorado--Boulder) (Franklin Center 028, 7:00 pm)

March 21 Atlantic Studies Working Group: seminar with Susan Buck-Morss (Cornell University) (Franklin Center 110, 12:15 pm)

March 23 Eurasian Seas Working Group: co-sponsored workshop on "The Economy and Ecology of Globalization" (Sanford, all day)

March 30 Atlantic Studies Working Group: public lecture by Luke Gibbons (Dublin City University) (Carr 206, 5:00 pm)

March 30 Atlantic Studies Working Group: seminar with Luke Gibbons (Dublin City University) (Franklin Center 130, 7:00 pm)

April 2 Atlantic Studies Working Group: public lecture by Joe Miller (University of Virginia) (139 Social Science, 5:00 pm)

April 2 Atlantic Studies Working Group: seminar with Joe Miller (University of Virginia) (Franklin Center 028, 7:00 pm)

April 4-5 Mediterranean Studies Working Group: conference on "Film and Photography of the Mediterranean: Engagement from the South"

April 12 Pacific Visions Working Group: talk by Don Nonini (University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill) (Franklin Center 028, 5:00 pm)

April 13 Eurasian Seas Working Group: public lecture by Nadia Arbatova (Institute of World Economy and International Relations) (Sanford, 12:30 pm)

April 19-22 Oceans Connect co-sponsored conference on "Shades of Black, Assembling the Eighties: A Trans-Atlantic Dialogue on Afro-Asian Arts in Post-War Britain"

April 27 Pacific Visions Working Group: talk by Ralph Litzinger (Duke University) (APSI, 12:00 pm)

May 2 Atlantic Studies Seminar meeting (Franklin Center 028, 7:00 pm)

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Prepared by Munis D. Faruqui
May 2000