"Banned Films: Soviet Cinema under Stalin and the Failure of Power"
Maria Belodubrovskaya, Ph.D. candidate in Film Studies, Department of Communication Arts, UW-Madison
Date: Thursday, October 1 at 4:00 P.M.
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
Sponsor: CREECA
About the speaker: Maria Belodubrovskaya is a graduate student in Film Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at UW–Madison. She holds an M.A. degree in Film Studies from the State Institute of Cinema (VGIK) in Moscow. Maria is writing a dissertation on the Soviet film industry in the 1930s. She has published work on Abram Room’s film Strogii Iunosha (Stern Youth, 1936) in Tynianovskii Sbornik (2006) and an essay on the early animation of Ladislas Starewitch in KinoKultura (2009). Her Starewitch essay received a best-paper award at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone, Italy in 2008.
About the lecture: The stated goal of the Stalinist state was to use Soviet cinema as its “mighty propaganda weapon.” This goal proved extremely difficult to achieve. During the Stalin years Soviet Cinema saw its film output plummet, its major filmmakers out of work, and up to 20 percent of its new film features banned. All attempts by the Communist Party propaganda apparatus to boost film production failed to produce long-term results, and the Party found itself forced to compromise by accepting what its filmmakers could successfully deliver. This presentation reconstructs the system of Soviet film censorship to explain how and why this compromise emerged. Instead of providing preemptive and prescriptive review of future film projects, censorship focused on proscriptive measures such as film bans. In response, the filmmaking community learned to restrict its activities to a few safe films with little propaganda value.
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Red Hollywood Film Series:
Jolly Fellows / Vesyolye Rebyata
(1934, 96 min.)
Date and Time: Saturday, October 3 at 7:30 P.M.
Location: 4070 Vilas Hall (Parliamentary Room), 821 University Avenue
Sponsors: Cinematheque and CREECA
Tickets: All Cinematheque film screenings are FREE and open to the public.
About the film: As in so many countries, the first truly popular sound films were those based on national musical forms. The USSR was no exception, and Grigori Aleksandrov's Jolly Fellows provides the template for dozens of productions that followed. An ambitious but untalented singer Yelena (Mariya Strelkova) mistakes a simple shepherd, Kostya (Leonid Utyosov), for a famous jazz band leader. She invites him to accompany her at an upcoming swank get-together. Kostya readily agrees, but instead of a saxophone, he brings along his pan-pipes as well most of the animals from his nearby farm. All is not lost: Yelena's long-suffering servant, Anyuta (Liubov Orlova), happens to be a terrific singer. When she and Kostya discover each other, musical and romantic fireworks soon follow. The film was an enormous success throughout the Soviet Union, and transformed both Utyosov and especially Orlova into the first Soviet movie stars.
- Richard Pena
For more information, check out Cinematheque's Web site here.
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"Challenges and Opportunities in the European-American Partnership: A Czech Perspective"
Hon. Petr Kolář, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States
Date: Tuesday, October 6 at 4:30 P.M.
Location: ATT Lounge, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street
Sponsors: Division of International Studies, International Studies Major, CREECA
About the speaker: Petr Kolář, a native of Ceske Budejovice (Budweis) in the former Czechoslovakia, has a degree in Ethnography from Charles University in Prague. In 1991, he continued his studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C. and in 1992 at the University of London-Institute of Historical Research.
Kolář has held a number of positions both in research and the diplomatic services. He has worked with the Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway as a researcher; joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic in 1996, serving as an ambassador to Stockholm, Sweden; and from 1998-1999, he became an adviser to Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel. Kolář was named ambassador to the Republic of Ireland in 1999, and in 2003, became the Czech deputy minister of Foreign Affairs for Bilateral Relations. He is currently ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United States.
About the lecture: Kolář will give a public lecture as a UW-Madison Distinguished International Visitor. The Distinguished International Visitor program regularly brings international practitioners to UW-Madison to share their expertise with students, faculty, and the public. Past visitors include Florence Chenowoth, minister of agriculture in Liberia; former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Donald Gregg; former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Stuart Eizenstat; and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Jessica Tuchman Mathews.
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"One Homeland or Two? The Nationalization and Transnationalization of Mongolia's Kazakhs"
Alexander Diener, Associate Professor of Geography, Pepperdine University
Date: Thursday, October 8 at 4:00 P.M.
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
Sponsor: CREECA and Global Studies
About the speaker: Alexander Diener is a UW-Madison alumnus (Ph.D. geography, 2004), a former Title VIII Research Fellow at the Kennan Institute, and is currently an associate professor of geography at Pepperdine University. He is the author of One Homeland or Two?: Nationalization and Transnationalization of
Mongolia's Kazakhs and Homeland Conceptions and Ethnic Integration among
Kazakhstan's Germans and Koreans. His latest book (co-edited with fellow UW alumna Joshua Hagen - Marshall University) is
a volume titled Borderlines and Borderlands: Political Oddities at the
Edge of the Nation State.
Diener's area studies specialty is Central Eurasia and Mongolia and his
research interests include borders, migration, nationalism,
transnationalism, and the socio-political consequences of
territorialization.
About the lecture: For multiple generations, Turkic-Muslim Kazakhs have lived in the
western reaches of Mongolia's territory. Alongside ethnic Mongols
practicing a similar form of pastoralism, they have stalwartly endured
the challenges of harsh climate, the national bounding of the steppe,
the rise of communism, collectivization, and the fall of communism.
Today, Mongolia's Kazakhs stand at a crossroads. For the last decade
and a half, competing social discourses have flowed into their
semi-autonomous province. Stories from recent emigrants pertaining to
venues of resettlement abroad mix with rumors of new attitudes from the
Mongolian capital and the inconsistent migration policies of the
Kazakhstani government. In combination, these discourses leave
Mongolia's Kazakhs torn between their bonds to their local territory,
their allegiance to a Mongolian state, and the allure of an independent,
historic homeland offering prospects of modernity and the benefits of
titular status. In this talk, Alexander Diener explores the de- and re-territorialization of identity among this minority community. He
outlines how Mongolia's Kazakhs are negotiating their place in the world
amidst an unprecedented confluence of nationalism, transnationalism,
diasporism, emigration, hybridity, and hegemony. Their struggle to
attach appropriate meanings to the land on which they reside is
emblematic of a more universal effort within global society to negotiate
identity and territorial belonging outside the borders of a historic
homeland.
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CREECA Reception for "Satellites: Photographs from the Fringes of the Former Soviet Union"
Photography exhibit from noted photojournalist
Jonas Bendiksen
Date and Time: Friday, October 9 at 4:30 P.M.
Location: Porter Butts Gallery, Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street
Join CREECA for a special reception celebrating the new exhibit at the Memorial Union of Jonas Bendiksen's photos from the fringes of the former Soviet Union. The event is free and open to the public.
Please RSVP to CREECA Outreach Coordinator Nancy Heingartner by email or by phone at (608) 265-6298.
For more information about the exhibit, click here
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Red Hollywood Film Series:
Circus / Tsirk
(1936, 94 min.)
Date and Time: Saturday, October 10 at 7:30 P.M.
Location: 4070 Vilas Hall (Parliamentary Room), 821 University Avenue
Sponsors: Cinematheque and CREECA
Tickets: All Cinematheque film screenings are FREE and open to the public.
About the film: In Grigori Aleksandrov's 1936 film, Circus, Liubov Orlova came to occupy the spotlight, with her full glamour revealed. Here she plays Marion Dixon, a blond American entertainer-bombshell who becomes a victim of U.S. racism after giving birth to a black baby and is forced to flee into exile. In a prologue, Marion is shown being chased and barely escaping a crowd of angry American white men who want to lynch her and her newly born black love child. A year later Marion Dixon arrives in Moscow as a member of a travelling circus company run by a German manager, von Kneischitz. While in Moscow, she falls in love with a Soviet gymnast and starts thinking of leaving the circus and settling in the USSR. Von Kneischitz, however, is not thrilled by the idea of losing the main attraction of his show, so he threatens to disclose the existence of Marion's black child, which will supposedly immediately put off the new lover. After a confrontation between the German and the Russian all is happily resolved. Marion's 'dirty secret' is revealed, and rather then shunned, her black son is embraced by the friendly members of the Soviet audience who even begin singing a lullaby for him. Circus featured impressive choreography and some of the most popular Soviet songs of all times.
For more information, check out Cinematheque's Web site here.
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Open House for "After Chernobyl" Photography Exhibit
Date and Time: Tuesday, October 13 from 5:00 - 7:00 P.M.
Location: Madison Municipal Building ARTspace gallery (first floor), 215 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard
About the exhibit: Madison photographer Michael Forster Rothbart has just returned from a year in Chernobyl. He received a U.S. Fulbright Scholarship to photograph and interview Ukrainians who remain in villages near Chernobyl a generation after the 1986 accident.
"After Chernobyl," an exhibit of Forster Rothbart’s documentary photographs, will be on display in the Madison Municipal Building ARTspace gallery from September 3 through October 30, 2009. The exhibit reveals daily life for Chernobylites, including residents who chose to stay in the Chernobyl-affected region and liquidators, veterans of the massive Soviet clean-up after the accident.
“Most visitors think Chernobyl is a place of danger and despair, and so this is what they photograph. For me, however, Chernobyl tells a story about endurance and hope,” says Forster Rothbart. “I created this exhibit because I want the world to know what I know: The people of Chernobyl are not victims, mutants and orphans. They are simply people living their lives, with their own joys and sorrows, hopes and fears.”
Forster Rothbart was a staff photographer for University of Wisconsin-Madison for six years and worked previously as an Associated Press photographer in Kazakhstan. During the past year, he lived in Sukachi, Ukraine, a small farming village just outside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. He also spent time in Slavutych, Ukraine, the city built after the accident to house evacuated Chernobyl plant personnel.
The exhibition is sponsored by the Madison Arts Commission and FOCCUS (Friends of Chernobyl Centers, U.S.), a Madison-based non-profit that works with community centers in the Chernobyl region. Meuer Art & Picture Frame Co. and CREECA also contributed to the exhibit.
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Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company
Date and Time: Wednesday, October 14 at 8:00 P.M.
Location: Wisconsin Union Theater, Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street
Sponsors: Wisconsin Union Theater, the Wisconsin Arts Board, and CREECA
Tickets:
General Admission: $18, $27, $32
UW-Madison Students: $10
Tickets can be purchased online through Choice Ticketing or at the Wisconsin Union Theater Box Office in Memorial Union.
About the dance company: A dynamic folk dancing ensemble, the Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company is theatrical and full of energy. Traveling with its signature orchestra, this 85-member company is classically trained--and well-versed in Ukrainian folklore.
Says the New York Times, “The young men in the Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company are still soaring high in the air in splits, careering around the stage in gravity-defying butterfly jumps and spinning like tops in the 18th-century equivalent of break dancing… Any dance lover will appreciate the eye-opening level of technique that remains undiminished since the company first came [to New York City] in the 1970's. Vigor and power go with amazing lightness.”
Check out the Virsky New York Times review here.
For videos and more information, click here.
Check out the official Virsky website for photos of the dance company performing.
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Global Hot Spots Lecture Series:
"Russia Update: Issues and Challenges"
Ted Gerber, Professor of Sociology at UW-Madison, director of CREECA
Date: Thursday, October 15 at 1:30 P.M.
Location: Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street
Sponsor: Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA)
Tickets: Attendance to any "Global Hot Spots" lecture is free and open to all, BUT registration is required. To register, visit:
http://www.uwalumni.com/global_hotspots.aspx
About the speaker: TBA
About the lecture: Go beyond the headlines with Madison-area learners and UW faculty experts to get a better understanding of the events shaping our society during the Global Hot Spots Lecture Series. These thought-provoking lectures focus on everything from politics, global health and economics to human rights and the environment. They're the kinds of topics that interest you and impact the world.
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"Between Dawn and the Wind: A Poetry Reading by Anna Frajlich"
Anna Frajlich, Poet and senior lecturer in Polish, Columbia University
Date: Thursday, October 15 at 4:00 P.M.
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
Sponsor: The Department of Slavic Languages and Literature and CREECA
About the speaker: Anna Frajlich teaches Polish language and literature at Columbia University in New York City. She has a Ph.D. in Slavic literatures from New York University and an M.A. in Polish literature from Warsaw University. A leading Polish poet, she is the author of 12 books of poetry. In addition to the poetry volumes, Frajlich has published over 200 articles, essays, reviews, and poems in anthologies and periodicals in Poland, Western Europe, and the United States. Frajlich’s poetry volumes include: Between Dawn and the Wind; Le Vent, Á Nouveau Me Cherche; Znów Szuka Mnie Wiatr; and Wsloncu Listopada. She is also the recipient of a 2003 Literary Prize awarded by the W. & N. Turzanski Foundation and the Knight Cross of the Order of Merit awarded by the President of Poland in 2002, and she was recently named an Honorary Ambassador of her hometown, Szczecin, in Poland. She is a member of the Polish Writers Association, the Polish PEN, and the Board of Directors of the PEN Club Center for Writers in Exile in New York.
About the poetry reading: Noted poet Anna Frajlich will read from her collections, in both the Polish original and in English translation. Copies of Frajlich's most recent bilingual collection of poetry, Between Dawn and the Wind, will be available for purchase after the poetry reading.
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"The Ghost of Shakespeare in Szymborska"
Anna Frajlich, Poet and senior lecturer in Polish, Columbia University
Date: Friday, October 16 at 4:00 P.M.
Location: Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street (room TBA)
Sponsor: The Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, with support from the University Lectures Committee and CREECA
About the speaker: Anna Frajlich teaches Polish language and literature at Columbia University in New York City. She has a Ph.D. in Slavic literatures from New York University and an M.A. in Polish literature from Warsaw University. A leading Polish poet, she is the author of 12 books of poetry. In addition to the poetry volumes, Frajlich has published over 200 articles, essays, reviews, and poems in anthologies and periodicals in Poland, Western Europe, and the United States. Frajlich’s poetry volumes include: Between Dawn and the Wind; Le Vent, Á Nouveau Me Cherche; Znów Szuka Mnie Wiatr; and Wsloncu Listopada. She is also the recipient of a 2003 Literary Prize awarded by the W. & N. Turzanski Foundation and the Knight Cross of the Order of Merit awarded by the President of Poland in 2002, and she was recently named an Honorary Ambassador of her hometown, Szczecin, in Poland. She is a member of the Polish Writers Association, the Polish PEN, and the Board of Directors of the PEN Club Center for Writers in Exile in New York.
About the lecture: TBA
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Red Hollywood Film Series:
Volga-Volga
(1938, 106 min.)
Date and Time: Saturday, October 17 at 7:30 P.M.
Location: 4070 Vilas Hall (Parliamentary Room), 821 University Avenue
Sponsors: Cinematheque and CREECA
Tickets: All Cinematheque film screenings are FREE and open to the public.
About the film: Volga-Volga was Joseph Stalin's favorite film. He projected it many times in the dark room of the Kremlin for himself while fighting chronic insomnia, and in 1942 sent a copy of Volga, Volga to American president Franklin Roosevelt. A musical extravaganza, Volga, Volga, starred Liubov Orlova as a provincial mail woman rising to stardom. The film was made at the height of Stalinist repression; some of the people who worked on it were purged, their contribution never credited. Like Jolly Fellows, Volga, Volga is a rags-to-riches story, with Orlova cast as the cheerleading letter carrier 'Strelka' ('Arrow') Petrova, an amateur performer from the small town of Melkoretchensk. Strelka undertakes the great journey up the Volga and, on the way, overcomes various obstacles to finally reach the capital and successfully confront, challenge and overtake the high-brow bureaucrats who are trying to suffocate the popular amateur theatrical movement that she is part of. Here buoyant Orlova plays alongside Soviet star Igor Ilinskiy, an amazing veteran actor from Meyerhold's theatre (who had also appeared as Goga, the Russian man kissed by Mary Pickford in the 1927 Potselui Meri Pikforda/Mary Pickford's Kiss, an early Soviet blockbuster with American involvement). A prime example of exhilarating Soviet propaganda, Volga, Volga has been under extensive critical scrutiny for its exaggerated and idealized representation of Soviet provincial life but even so, the film still remains very entertaining and quite amusing.
- Dina Iordanova
For more information, check out Cinematheque's Web site here.
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"The Dutch Connection: Doctor Zhivago in The Netherlands"
Petra Couvée, Ph.D. candidate at Leiden University
Date: Thursday, October 22 at 4:00 P.M.
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
Sponsor: CREECA and Global Studies
About the speaker: Petra Couvée is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Leiden. She has also worked as an Instructor of Dutch Language and Culture at Moscow State University, training instructors and supervising the educational programs, and as an instructor of Dutch as a second language. In 2006, she published "Aspects of Sublime and Istinnost'" in "Contemporary Russian Poetry: the Mystic Sublime in the Poetry of Leonid Aronzon and Olga Sedakova."
About the lecture: In 2008, the Russian edition of Pasternak’s novel Doctor Zhivago celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. Caught up in a political power game and the indecisiveness of gozlitizdat, the Soviet publication had come to a total deadlock, when, in August 1958, a Russian edition appeared in the Netherlands without the author’s sanction. The publication created a bombshell in and outside the literary world, and not only because it made Pasternak a serious candidate for the Nobel Prize for literature.
Perhaps the novel itself has been largely forgotten, but its adventures in the West during the cold war are still the subject of research in which secret services, capricious publishers, linguists and Papal interventions play unusual roles.
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Red Hollywood Film Series:
Shining Path / Svetlyi Put
(1940, 102 min.)
Date and Time: Saturday, October 24 at 7:30 P.M.
Location: 4070 Vilas Hall (Parliamentary Room), 821 University Avenue
Sponsors: Cinematheque and CREECA
Tickets: All Cinematheque film screenings are FREE and open to the public.
About the film: Shining Path is seen as the epitome of Stalinist glorification. It has another socialist Cinderella-type plot: Tanya Morozova (Liubov Orlova) is a simple weaver in a textile factory located near Moscow; she becomes a shock worker and ends up in the Kremlin where she is awarded the highest Soviet medal, the Order of Lenin. She is then sent to train as an engineer and at the top of her ascent she is elected a member of the Supreme Soviet. By the time of Shining Path, Orlova was clearly established as the ultimate glamour star of Soviet cinema. Her first biography was also published around the time of Shining Path's release. At the same time, however, a new kind of musical/comedy was gaining popularity, mostly made by director Ivan Pyryev and with a new star, Marina Ladynina. Ladynina's rise barely threatened Orlova's established position; moreover the two actresses differed significantly from each other. Yet, it was Ladynina's turn to step into the limelight of Soviet musical comedy.
- Dina Iordanova
For more information, check out Cinematheque's Web site here.
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"Contemporary Russian Writers: Between the Market and the Last Judgment"
Mikhail Shishkin, Writer
Date: Monday, October 26, 5:15 - 6:30 P.M.
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
Sponsors: CREECA and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature
About the speaker: Mikhail Shishkin studied at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute where he trained as a teacher. Following his graduation in 1982, Shishkin worked as a journalist at "Rovesnik" and then, between 1985 and 1995, as a teacher of English and German. In 1995 he moved to Switzerland.
In the past few years, Shishkin has published three novels. Взятие Измаила (Seizure of Ismael) won the 2000 Booker Prize and Венерин Волос (Maiden Hair) won the National Bestseller Prize in 2005 and the Russian "Big Book"’ Prize in 2006.
In Switzerland, Shishkin works as an interpreter for the Swiss authorities, interviewing those who seek asylum who are from Russia and other areas of the former Soviet Union. In addition to his works in Russian, he also writes, and has been published, in German.
About the lecture: TBA
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"How Capitalism was Built: The Transformation of Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia"
Anders Åslund, senior fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Date: Thursday, October 29, 12:00 - 1:30 P.M.
Location: 336 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
Sponsor: Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE), European Union Center of Excellence (EUCE)
About the speaker: Anders Åslund has been a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute since 2006. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. He examines the economies of Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe and also focuses on the broader implications of economic transition. He worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1994 to 2005, first as a Senior Associate and then from 2003 as Director of the Russian and Eurasian Program. He also worked at the Brookings Institution and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies. He earned his Doctorate from Oxford University and went on to serve as an economic adviser to the governments of Russia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan. Åslund was a professor at the Stockholm School of Economics and the founding director of the Stockholm Institute of East European Economics, and he worked as a Swedish diplomat in Kuwait, Poland, Geneva, and Moscow. He is a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and an honorary professor of the Kyrgyz National University. He is Co-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Kyiv School of Economics and chairman of the Advisory Council of the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), Warsaw.
About the lecture: Special thanks to the Madison Committee on Foreign Relations for this event. Aslund will also speak on "Russia’s Awkward State of Affairs: Can US-Russia Relations be Reset?" at the regular monthly meeting of MCFR. You can visit their website here.
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"Prejudice and Human Rights in Russia"
Nicole Butkovich Kraus, Doctoral student in the department of Sociology, UW-Madison
Date: Thursday, October 29 at 4:00 P.M.
Location: 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
Sponsor: CREECA
About the speaker: Nicole Butkovich Kraus is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology. Her interests include economic and social stratification, xenophobia, and nationalism in the Russian Federation. Her past work has included statistical analyses of the effects of individual and regional level predictors of xenophobic attitude formation in Russia; more recent projects include analysis of the interaction of xenophobia and nationalism and investigating human rights in Russia today.
About the lecture: In recent years, human rights issues and abuses in the Russian Federation have garnered a great deal of international attention. This talk will explore issues of prejudice in both the individual and regional context, incorporating and discussing recent interview data gathered from human rights, economic, political, and migration experts in summer 2009.
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"US-Mongolia Relations: Looking Forward, Looking Back"
Jonathan Addleton, ambassador designate to Mongolia
Date: Thursday, October 29, 5:00 - 7:00 P.M.
Location: Alumni Lounge, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street
Sponsors: International Institute, Center for East Asian Studies, Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, and American Center for Mongolian Studies
About the speaker: Ambassador designate to Mongolia Jonathan Addleton has been a career member of the U.S. Foreign Service since 1984. Previous assignments include service as USAID Representative to the European Union in Belgium; USAID Mission Director in Pakistan, Cambodia and Mongolia; and USAID Program Officer in Jordan, Kazakhstan, South Africa and Yemen. During his previous three-year tenure in Mongolia (2001-2004), he traveled extensively within the country and was involved in a number of USAID-funded programs, including the revitalization of Xaan Bank as well as small business development through the Ger and Gobi initiatives.
Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Addleton worked briefly at the World Bank and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, both in Washington, D.C. He has a PhD and MA from Tufts University and a BS from Northwestern University. He has written two books, Some Far and Distant Place (University of Georgia Press), a memoir of a childhood spent largely in Pakistan; and Undermining the Center (Oxford University Press), an assessment of the impact of international migration on development. In addition, he has published articles on Asia in a variety of journals, including "Asian Survey," "Asian Affairs," "Muslim World," and the "Foreign Service Journal.”
About the lecture: Addleton will offer reflections on past encounters with Mongolia during his prior assignment as USAID Mission Director in Ulaanbaatar (2001-2004) and provide a perspective on future opportunities and challenges that are likely to dominate US-Mongolia relations in the years ahead. Drawing to some extent on recent Senate confirmation hearings, he will focus especially on five areas: development; private investment; democracy and good governance; security; and people-to-people relationships. Scheduled to depart for Ulaanbaatar in mid-November, his participation at the opening of the American Center for Mongolia Studies at the UW-Madison marks his first appearance at an external event since being confirmed as the next US Ambassador to Mongolia earlier this year.
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