UW, Division of French and Italian Studies

2007-2008 Events Calendar

To have an FIS-related event posted to this calendar, please email frenital@u.washington.edu.

Date	Event	Time	Place
7/13/2008	The French Advisory Board will have a booth at the Bastille Day Celebration	10am-6pm	Fisher Pavilion, Seattle Center
5/23/2008	Faculty/Graduate Colloquium (Description in pdf format)	2:30pm	Simpson Center for the Humanities, CMU 202
5/16/2008	Job Market Workshop for Graduate Students/TAs in French & Italian Studies	3:00pm	B-202 PDL
5/10/2008-5/23/2008	French Graduate Student Organization presents French & Francophone Film Festival http://staff.washington.edu/stromj/festival/ Joel Strom stromj@u.washington.edu	See event website	See event website
5/4/2008	"My Life In Italian Opera: A Conductor's Perspective" A presentation by Dean Williamson, Seattle Opera conductor and Artistic Director of Opera Cleveland See Italian Studies Advisory Board website for details http://depts.washington.edu/itboard/	2:00pm	Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall UW-Seattle
3/30/2008	"Ghiberti and Gelato" Bring your family and friends for a special fundraiser to benefit UW's Italian Studies program. The Italian Studies Advisory Board is hosting private docent-led tours of two upcoming Seattle Art Museum exhibitions focusing on Italy. See Italian Studies Advisory Board website for details, http://depts.washington.edu/itboard/	12:00pm tour or 1:30pm tour	Seattle Art Museum, followed by gelato at Gelatiamo
3/10/2008	Lecture, Jesse Locker (PhD, Art History, Johns Hopkins University) 'La donna che fingi:' Artemisia Gentileschi's Florentine Self-Portraits Revisited	7:00pm	Art 317 UW-Seattle
3/1/2008	Gnocchi Lesson Night with Sabrina Tatta to benefit Italian Studies $45 per person (limited to the first 20 people who RSVP) THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT - PLEASE CONTACT SABRINA TATTA IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN FINDING OUT ABOUT FUTURE GNOCCHI LESSON NIGHT DATES Contact Sabrina Tatta at sabri@u.washington.edu for event details.	Lesson will begin at 5:30pm	U. Dist. (contact Sabrina for details)
2/29/2008	Winter 2008 French & Italian Studies Faculty/Graduate Colloquium	2:30-4:30pm	Simpson Center, 202 Communications
2/27/2008	Italian film event details TBA	7:30pm	EEB 003
2/26/2008	Seattle Repertory Theatre presents Moliere's Le Malade Imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid) Event details	6:00pm Lecture and Reception 7:30pm Performance	The Seattle Repertory Theater, Seattle, WA
2/17/2008	"The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece" - lecture by Chiyo Ishikawa $10 suggested donation to support the UW Italian Studies Program, payable at the door. See Italian Studies Advisory Board website for details, http://depts.washington.edu/itboard/	2:00pm	Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room, UW-Seattle
2/14/2008	Lecture, Brian Curran (Assoc. Professor of Art History, Penn State University) - "The Egyptian Renaissance: the Afterlife of Ancient Egypt in Early Modern Italy"	6:30pm	Art Building, Room 317, UW-Seattle
2/8/2008	Lecture, Lia Nicole Brozgal (Lecturer in French, Harvard University) - "Writing Back to Whom? Authorial Ambiguity in the Works of Albert Memmi"	1:30pm	Simpson Center for the Humanities, CMU 202
2/1/2008	Lecture, Assistant Professor Chantal Kalisa (University of Nebraska) - "African Literary and Artistic Responses to War and Genocide"	1:30pm	Simpson Center for the Humanities, CMU 202
1/29/2008	Prof. Denyse Delcourt will read from her 2001 novel, Gabrielle au bois dormant, published in Montreal, (Gabrielle and the Long Sleep into Mourning - Green Integer, translated by Eugene Vance).	7:30pm	Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S. Main St., Seattle
1/25/2008	Lecture, Marie-Therese Ellis (Ph.D. in French & Francophone Studies, 2007, U.C. Berkeley) - "Periodicals in Colonial Morocco: The Inception of a Multilingual Literary Culture"	1:30pm	Simpson Center for the Humanities, CMU 202
1/18/2008	Lecture, Assistant Professor Richard Watts (Tulane University) - "The Ecological Turn in Postcolonial Studies"	11:30am	Petersen Room, 4th Floor, Allen Library
1/17/2008	Lecture, Professor Constantine Christofides, "The Great Medieval Pilgrimage Revisited"	6:00pm	Henry Art Gallery Auditorium, UW-Seattle
12/19/07	Nuovo Cinema Paradiso Presents "Cosi' e' la vita" with Aldo Giovanni e Giacomo See www.italiaseattle.com for updates	7:30pm	Electrical Engineering, Bldg. 1, Room 042
12/12/07	Nuovo Cinema Paradiso Presents "Chiedimi se sono felice" See www.italiaseattle.com for updates	7:30pm	Electrical Engineering, Bldg. 1, Room 042
12/5/07	Nuovo Cinema Paradiso Presents "Tre uomini e una gamba" with Aldo Giovanni e Giacomo See www.italiaseattle.com for updates	7:30pm	Electrical Engineering, Bldg. 1, Room 042
11/8/07-11/11/07	"L'atelier d'ecriture" "Nous Etions Assis sur le Rivage du Monde"	6:30-9:00pm	Ethnic Cultural Theatre
10/20/07	Dr Dominique Abry, Senior lecturer and pedagogical expert in grammar and phonetics (Centre Universitaire d’Etudes Françaises in Grenoble), will give two talks: "Méthodes et moyens pour corriger la prononciation les apprenants" "Présentation de fiches pédagogiques de correction phonétique" Please contact Helene V.-Collins for further information at helenev@u.washington.edu	Morning session: 9am-12am Afternoon session: 1:30pm-4:30pm	THO 234
10/12/07- 10/13/07	Aesthetics and (Self) Deception - French Graduate Student Conference Abstracts due by May 18, 2007.	all day	CMU 202 , UW Seattle