Nassau Notes

Dance at McCarter

Spanish dance luminary Sara Baras will perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 1, at the McCarter Theatre Center. She will appear with special guest José Serrano and a company of seven dancers and six musicians. The program, “Suenos (Dreams),” consists of a suite of dances set to traditional flamenco rhythms, but rendered in a contemporary manner.

Ticket information is available by calling the McCarter box office at 258-2787 or visiting <www.mccarter.org>.

Program looks at bridging racial divide in politics

The University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions will present a program on “Bridging the Racial Divide: Evangelical Christians in Contemporary Politics” on Thursday, Feb. 3, as part of the University’s observance of Black History Month.

The program includes a panel discussion with religious leaders at 3 p.m., followed by a keynote address at 5 p.m. titled “Racial Harmony or Racial Unrest? America’s Future” by Carol Swain, professor of political science and of law at Vanderbilt University. Both sessions will take place in Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall.

Discussants for the panel discussion will be: Eugene Rivers, pastor of the Azusa Christian Community, a Pentecostal church in Dorchester, Mass., and co-chair of the National Ten Point Leadership Foundation; and L.H. Hardwick Jr., senior pastor of the 3,500-member Christ Church in Nashville and former moderator of the Global Network of Christian Ministries. Marvin Olasky, a professor of journalism at the University of Texas-Austin and a James Madison Visiting Fellow at Princeton, will serve as moderator.

Swain, also a Madison Visiting Fellow, is the founding director of the Veritas Institute, which attempts to increase communication among people of different social classes, races, faith traditions, ethnicities and nations. She is the author of the 1994 award-winning book “Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress.” More recently, she has written “The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration” (2002).

Turkish envoy speaks on E.U.

Osman Faruk Logoglu, ambassador of Turkey to the United States, will speak at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 3, in 16 Robertson Hall. Logoglu, who earned his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1970, will discuss “Turkey and the E.U.”

Logoglu has nearly 34 years of service in the ministry of foreign affairs, addressing major areas of Turkey’s external affairs as well as Middle East and European matters. He has been the ambassador to the United States since 2001.

The event, part of a series of Ambassador’s Forum lectures, is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the European Union Program and the Department of Near Eastern Studies.

Panel to explore Asian strategy

Scholars from Princeton and other institutions will gather for a “Panel on Asian Strategic Thought in 2004” from 2 to 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 4, in 1 Robertson Hall.

This event is intended to raise awareness of Asia as an increasingly integrated region and to help identify and explain the ways in which major Asian actors are responding to changes in both the regional and global order. Among the topics under discussion will be: Sino-Indian and Sino-Russian ties; the fallout from the Korean nuclear crisis; and the intensification of Sino-Japanese differences over strategic matters.

In 2004, there was a realignment in Asia from which new ways of thinking about problems emerged. The panel will feature an array of scholars who will examine the strategic viewpoints of China, Japan, Korea, Russia, India and Indonesia as well as discuss the resulting prospects for regionalism.

Speakers will include Princeton’s Thomas Christensen, Kazuhiko Togo, Joseph Ferguson and Gilbert Rozman, along with Korea University’s Shin-wha Lee, Johns Hopkins University’s Walter Andersen and former Swarthmore College President Theodore Friend.

The panel, part of Project Strategic Asia, is sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.