Enloe and Painted Crow will discuss the implications of the militarization of women's lives in the context of the increasing escalation of US militarism. They will also dialogue about their views on various approaches to peace, bringing to bear their respective experiences as feminist-scholar and former-woman soldier. There will be an opportunity for audience members to participate in the roundtable discussion.

Cynthia Enloe

Cynthia Enloe, who grew up on Long Island and received a Ph.D. from the University of California/Berkeley, has served as chair of Clark's Government Department and Director of Women's Studies. Professor Enloe is currently a Research Professor in the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment (IDCE) and teaches the intensive seven-week seminar, "Gender, Militarization, and Development." She has been awarded Clarks "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" three times and has been named the University Senior Faculty Fellow for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship.

Enloe's feminist teaching and research has focused on the interplay of women's politics in the national and international arenas, with special attention to how women's labor is made cheap in globalized factories (especially sneaker factories) and how women's emotional and physical labor has been used to support governments' war-waging policies-- and how many women have tried to resist both of those efforts. Racial, class, ethnic, and national identities and pressures shaping ideas about femininities and masculinities have been common threads throughout her studies.

In recent years, Enloe has been invited to lecture and give special seminars on feminism, militarization, and globalization in Japan, Korea, Turkey, Canada, Britain and numerous colleges across the U.S. She has written for Ms. Magazine and Village Voice and has appeared on National Public Radio and the BBC. She serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, including Signs and the International Feminist Journal of Politics. Among her nine books are: The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War (1993), Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (2000), Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives (2000 ), and The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire , (2004).

Eli Painted Crow

Eli Painted Crow, of the Yaqui Nation in Tucson, Arizona, is a mother of two sons who served in the military and has seven grandchildren. An army veteran of 22 years, she retired at the rank of Sergeant First Class E-7. She served assignments in Honduras in 1988 as an interpreter and communications specialist and in Kuwait and Iraq in 2004 as a Training NCO, Transportation NCO and Support Operations Sergeant.

This talk will focus on Koizumi Kikues Manchu Girl (Manshû no shôjo, 1936), a nonfiction work which depicts the author's attempts to "educate" her Manchu maid Li Guiyu in colonial Manchuria. Through the women's conversations on cultural differences between Japanese and Manchu, the text reveals how the colonial project, and in particular cultural assimilation, was promoted and expanded in the domestic sphere. Koizumi's evocation of the tropes of family and motherhood in relation to Guiyu also recasts colonial relations in gendered and familial terms and reflects on the specific roles made available to Japanese and Manchu women within empire.

Co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies.

In this talk, Professor Camacho will examine indigenous forms of collaboration in Japan's empire in the Pacific, from 1914-1945. Emphasis will be placed on the roles of Chamorro interpreters and police assistants during the Japanese wartime occupation of the Mariana Islands. Rather than view collaboration as a sign of moral failure or victory, as has been the case with most studies of collaboration, Camacho will treat collaboration as a category of analysis that can shed light on the conflicting, multiple and sometimes complementary modes of indigenous agency. The goal is to situate collaboration as an idea worth thinking about in terms of its methodological and theoretical contributions to and implications for the study of colonialism and resistance.

Co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies.

Japan is at the forefront of the trend in developed nations to have an increasing proportion of the population represented by the elderly. By 2030, people over 65 years of age are expected to reach 30 % of Japan's population. Despite the significance of this demographic group, remarkably little is known about how the elderly adjust to the social changes that they experience with aging. The focus of this talk is on the issue of change as it impacts on the aging individual and how this change is discursively interpreted and negotiated. Recorded informal conversations of elderly Japanese women both with peers and with younger acquaintances will be used to illustrate the speaker's continuing adjustment of her established persona, identity and attitudes in recognition of the changing reality associated with age.

Co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies.

Ambassador Sen was born on 9 April 1944. After graduating from college he joined the Indian Foreign Service in July 1966. From May 1968 to July 1984, Sen served in Indian missions and posts in Moscow, San Francisco, Dhaka and in the Ministry of External Affairs. He also served as secretary to the Atomic Energy Commission of India.

From July 1984 to December 1985, Sen served as the joint secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs. He was thereafter joint secretary to the prime minister of India from January 1986 to July 1991 where he was responsible for foreign affairs, defense, and science and technology.

Mr. Sen was ambassador to Mexico from September 1991 to August 1992; ambassador to the Russian Federation from October 1992 to October 1998; ambassador to Germany from October 1998 to May 2002; and high commissioner to the United Kingdom from May 2002 to April 2004. He assumed charge as ambassador of India to the United States of America in August 2004.

The Ambassador participated in summit meetings in the United Nations, Commonwealth, Non-Aligned Movement, Six Nation Five Continent Peace Initiative, South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, IAEA, G-15 and other forums and also in over 160 bilateral summit meetings. He had several assignments as special envoy of the prime minister of India for meetings with foreign government representatives and heads of state.

The Ambassador's visit is co-sponsored by the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Freeman Spogli Institute and the Stanford Center for International Development at Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

A discussion jointly hosted by the South Asia Initiative and SPRIE.

India's remarkable economic progress over the past 15 years belies Nehru's statement: "I believe, as a practical proposition, that it is better to have a second-rate thing made in our country, than a first-rate thing that one has to import." India has decisively rejected autarchy and a planned economy, but what has changed in its innovation system?

Has the higher education system changed? Are firms doing more research and development, and if so, of what kind? What has happened to the role of national research institutes? Is the flow of technology between Indian and foreign firms becoming more bi-directional? And are there now industries where Indian industry matters to world technical development?

About the speaker

In addition to being a Consulting Professor for the Program in Science, Technology & Society, Naushad Forbes is the Director of Forbes Marshall Inc. in Pune, India. Forbes Marshall is India's leading Steam Engineering & Control Instrumentation company. Forbes is also the CEO of the Steam Engineering Companies within the group.

Dr. Forbes holds a BAS in Industrial Engineering and History and a MS and PhD in Industrial Engineering, all from Stanford University.