| Tuesday, February 20 | |
| Human Rights Conference UW Human Rights Awareness Week. Various locations on the UW campus. Lectures, events and films will take place throughout the week. A detailed schedule of the week's events is available online at: www.students.washington.edu/amnesty. Sponsored by Amnesty International UW Chapter, ASUW, Department of Environmental Health, Department of Environmental Health Student Advisory Committee, Jackson School of International Studies, Program on the Environment, and the International Law Society. For more information about UW Human Rights Awareness Week, please write to amnesty@u.washington.edu, or call Kristina Johnson 206-985-7283. For more information about UW Human Rights Awareness Week, please write to amnesty@u.washington.edu or call Kristina Johnson 206-985-7283 |
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| 3:00 PM | European Studies Lecture "Hungary and the European Union," Geza Jeszenszky, Hungarian Ambassador to the United States. Lower Conference Room, UW Faculty Club. Sponsors: European Union Center; REECAS/JSIS. Info: 616-2415. |
| 3:30 PM | Law/Sociology/History Lecture "Can These Bones Live? The Controversy over Kennewick Man" by Glynn Custred (California State University). Parrington 108, Auditorium. Sponsored by the School of Law and Departments of History and Sociology. For more information please call 206-543-6045. |
| 4:30 PM | **HUMANITIES LECTURE** "The Virtual Surgeon: Operating on the Data" by Tim Lenoir (Stanford University). Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206 Communications. The third lecture in the series, "Information and the Human Body," organized by Prof. Phillip Thurtle and Robert Mitchell. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information please call 543-3920. |
| 7:00 PM | Sociology/Women's Center Lecture "Myths and Misunderstandings about Love and Sex" by Pepper Schwartz (Professor of Sociology). 120 Kane. Dr. Schwartz will discuss her most recent book and her findings about the myths and misunderstandings people have today about love and sex. Free Admission. Sponsored by the UW Women's Center. To RSVP or for more information please call 206-685-1090. |
| 7:30 PM | Theatre Production "Love’s Labour’s Lost," by William Shakespeare, Directed by Mark Harrison. Playhouse Theatre. Ferdinand, King of Navarre and the young men of his court swear off women and other indulgences and devote themselves to ascetic study for three years. Navarre’s “little Academe” promptly collapses when a Princess and her beautiful traveling companions arrive. Passion enters the rational world, and vows of celibacy evaporate as the men overhear each other composing flowery love letters. In this comic feast of language, Shakespeare blends high satire of renaissance language and letters with low ribaldry of clownish support characters. For tickets please call the UW Arts Tickets office at 543-4880. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Symphonic Band/Concert Band: Ensemble Concert, J. Bradley McDavid & Christopher Koch, directors. Meany Theater. Program: Milhaud: Suite Francaise; Reineke: Sedona; Bach (trans. Reed): My Jesus! Oh, What Anguish; Stamp: With Trump and Wing; Teike: Old Comrades March. $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 8:00 PM | **SOLOMON KATZ DISTINGUISHED LECTURE**
"Medieval Platonism - Between Metaphysics and Deconstruction," Stephen Gersh (Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Notre Dame). Kane Hall 220. This lecture will, while avoiding the temptation to "demonstrate" in the strict sense, pursue two overlapping interpretations. The first will propose that a cluster of textual themes which one might label "Platonism" underlies all medieval thought, and that of particular importance within this context are the notions of ambiguity and nonambiguity. The second will suggest that the "Platonic" cluster of themes has re-appeared strikingly in modern thought, as illustrated by the important Derridean quasi-concepts of "place" and "denial." Throughout the lecture we must tackle the question, misunderstood by pro-deconstructionists and anti-deconstructionists alike, of "the ontology of presence." Stephen Gersh received his doctorate from Cambridge University in 1973 with double first-class honors in Classics and Philosophy and is Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame. One of the world's foremost scholars of medieval philosophy, Professor Gersh is the author of many books on Neoplatonism, most recently, "Concord in Discourse: Harmonics and Semiotics in Late Classical and Early Medieval Platonism" (1996), and co-editor of "Platonism in Late Antiquity." (1992). Free and Open to the public. Reception to Follow in the Walker-Ames Room. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information please call 543-3920. |
| Wednesday, February 21 | |
| Human Rights Conference UW Human Rights Awareness Week. Various locations on the UW campus. Lectures, events and films will take place throughout the week. A detailed schedule of the week's events is available online at: www.students.washington.edu/amnesty. Sponsored by Amnesty International UW Chapter, ASUW, Department of Environmental Health, Department of Environmental Health Student Advisory Committee, Jackson School of International Studies, Program on the Environment, and the International Law Society. For more information about UW Human Rights Awareness Week, please write to amnesty@u.washington.edu, or call Kristina Johnson 206-985-7283. For more information about UW Human Rights Awareness Week, please write to amnesty@u.washington.edu or call Kristina Johnson 206-985-7283 |
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| 10:30 AM | Concert: Master Class Helene Grimaud, piano: Master Class. Meany Theater. Helene Grimaud will be working with two UW School of Music Students. This young French born pianist has a performance style that is at once "explosive and ethereal". Admission Complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 12:30 PM | Polit. Sci/Lat. Am. Studies Lecture "Death and Taxes--Globalization and Burden-Shifting in Latin America," Erik Wibbels (UW). Thomson 317. Professor Wibbels will discuss the effects of global market integration on the burden of taxation across Latin American nations. He examines taxation as the globalization literature provides two clear hypotheses as to the effects of global markets on national tax policy. First, as the result of increased capital mobility, national governments will be pressured to lessen the burden of taxation on capital. Absent such reforms, capital will flee in search of lower taxation in other nations. Second, as revenues decline in response to the aforementioned pressure, governments will increase the burden of taxation on less mobile groups such as labor. The findings of the research have implications for the intersection between global markets, social policy, and democratic consolidation in Latin America. Sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program. For more information please call 685-3435. |
| 3:30 PM | English Lecture "Some Observations on John Trevisa's Language in Light of his 'De Regimine' Translation," Paul Remley (UW). Padelford English Graduate Lounge. Sponsored by the Medievalist Colloquium. For more information on this or other Colloquium events please contact Jen Gonyer-Donohue at jengd@u.washington.edu or Lauren Mahon at laurenm@u.washington.edu. |
| 3:30 PM | Scandinavian Studies Lecture "The Nazi Occupation of Norway: Historical and Personal Perspectives," Magne Skodvin (University of Oslo) and Gunnar Sonsteby (Norwegian Resistance leader during WWII). Smith Hall, room 305. Sponsored by the Department of Scandinavian Studies. For more information please call 543-0645. |
| 3:30 PM | Southeast Asia Studies Lecture "Marking and Marketing Identities: Filipino American Spaces and the Practice of Locating," Professor Rick Bonus (American Ethnic Studies). Thomson 317. Please join the Southeast Asia Center when it welcomes Prof. Bonus as he presents his talk from a chapter out of his newly released book, _Locating Filipino Americans: Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Space_ (Temple Univ. Press) The focus of the talk will be on Filipino "Oriental" stores and social halls as sites where Filipino Americans publicly construct or "locate" their identities. Sponsored by the Southeast Asia Center. For more information please contact 543-9606. |
| 6:00 PM | Film "Pretty Village, Pretty Flame" (Srdjan Dragojevic, former Yugoslavia, 1996). Mary Gates Hall 271. Sponsor: REECAS/JSIS. Info: 543-4852. |
| 7:00 PM | Film "Kika" (1993). Odegaard Library, room 220. Almodovar reprises his major themes of sexuality and women's subjectivity, this time filtered, literally, through the lens of fashion photographer Ramón. Part of "Desire Unlimited: A Pedro Almodovar Film Series." All screenings free and open to the public. Contact Prof. Anthony Geist at tgeist@u.washington.edu or 543-5629 for more information. |
| 7:30 PM | Theatre Production "Love’s Labour’s Lost," by William Shakespeare, Directed by Mark Harrison. Playhouse Theatre. For tickets please call the UW Arts Tickets office at 543-4880. SEE FEBRUARY 20 LISTING FOR MORE INFORMATION. |
| 7:30 PM | Annual Faculty Lecture "Linguistic Winners and Losers: The Power of Language and Policies," James W. Tollefson, Professor, Department of English and Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, Adjunct Professor of Linguistics. Roethke Auditorium, 130 Kane Hall. In the 1960s and 1970s, the field of language policy emerged out of growing awareness of the central role of language in economic development. Among the important advances in the study of language policy is an understanding of how the state can use language to achieve important social goals, such as increasing or restricting educational opportunities foe ethnic and linguistic groups, or channeling particular groups into specific occupations. James W. Tollefson has devoted his research career to investigating how language policies in countries around the world determine access to economic resources and political power. Reception follows at 8:30 p.m. in the Walker Ames Room. For more information please call the Office of the President, 206-543-2560. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Hélène Grimaud. Meany Theater. Behind the angelic features of French-born Helene Grimaud lies the smoldering intensity of her North African and Italian heritage. A pianist of startling artistry, Grimaud defies expectations, reveling in a performance style that is at once explosive and ethereal. Don't miss Ms. Grimaud's Meany debut, in a recital certain to display the "urgent, ferocious, color-drenched music-making" that has made her an absolute must-see on the concert circuit. Program: Sergei Rachmaninoff: Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op. 42; J.S. Bach/Busoni: Chaconne; Johannes Brahms: Intermezzi, Op. 117; Johannes Brahms: Rhapsodies, Op. 79. Tickets: $30; call the UW Arts Tickets Office at 543-4880. |
| Thursday, February 22 | |
| Human Rights Conference UW Human Rights Awareness Week. Various locations on the UW campus. Lectures, events and films will take place throughout the week. A detailed schedule of the week's events is available online at: www.students.washington.edu/amnesty. Sponsored by Amnesty International UW Chapter, ASUW, Department of Environmental Health, Department of Environmental Health Student Advisory Committee, Jackson School of International Studies, Program on the Environment, and the International Law Society. For more information about UW Human Rights Awareness Week, please write to amnesty@u.washington.edu, or call Kristina Johnson 206-985-7283. For more information about UW Human Rights Awareness Week, please write to amnesty@u.washington.edu or call Kristina Johnson 206-985-7283 |
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| 3:30 PM | **HUMANITIES/ENGLISH LECTURE** Joan Schenkar will discuss her new book, "Truly Wilde, The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilder, Oscar's Unusual Niece." Seafirst Executive Center, Room 320. "At last, an in-depth portrait of the 'Beautiful Loser of the Wilder family,' a brilliant eccentric whom Janet Flanner rightly described as 'like a character out of a book.' Anyone interested in modernism, gender-bending and/or expatriate Paris will be enthralled by Joan Schenkar's penetrating and often poignant biography of a woman strangely charismatic and witty enough to be 'truly Wilde.'" -Sandra M. Gilbert. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Department of English. For more information please call the Simpson Center at 543-3920. |
| 3:30 PM | Women's Center/Black History Event "Celebrate Black History Month: Through Literature" with Colleen McElroy, Professor of Creative Writing, and Angela Gilliam, Professor Cultural Anthropology. Women's Center Gallery, Cunningham Hall. Free Admission. Sponsored by the Women's Center. To RSVP or for more information please call 206-685-1090. |
| 6:30 PM | Canadian Studies/Architecture Lecture
"'Living First' in Downtown Vancouver - The Glittering Spectacle of a Contemporary City Shaped for People in Residence," by Larry Beasley (Director of Planning, City of Vancouver). Architecture Hall, Auditorium (Room 147). Part of the Canadian Architecture Lecture Series. Housing, neighborhoods, mixed use, mixed income and intensity – these are the elements in Vancouver's 15-year strategy for a vibrant inner city. This is a revitalization, social and urban design strategy that is yielding phenomenal results enticing over 20,000 people in the last decade back from the suburbs to live downtown. Mr. Beasley's presentation will show the results and tell how the City has made it happen through strong municipal leadership. Sponsors: UW College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Canadian Studies Center. For more information please call 543-6269. |
| 7:00 PM | Art Lecture James Wines, founder of SITE Public Art and internationally renowned public artist, architect, and green designer, will present a lecture. Room 120, Kane Hall. Following the lecture, there will be a book signing of Wine's recent publications. Funded by the Public Art Curriculum. Free to the public. For more information please call the School of Art at 543-0970. |
| 7:30 PM | Theatre Production "Love’s Labour’s Lost," by William Shakespeare, Directed by Mark Harrison. Playhouse Theatre. For tickets please call the UW Arts Tickets office at 543-4880. SEE FEBRUARY 20 LISTING FOR MORE INFORMATION. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert University Symphony: Ensemble Concert, Guest soloist: Maria Larionoff, violin. Meany Theater. Program: Nielsen: Symphony No. 2, "The Four Temperaments"; Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major; Dvorak: Carnival Overture. $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Darlene Franz, oboe: DMA Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| Friday, February 23 | |
| Human Rights Conference UW Human Rights Awareness Week. Various locations on the UW campus. Lectures, events and films will take place throughout the week. A detailed schedule of the week's events is available online at: www.students.washington.edu/amnesty. Sponsored by Amnesty International UW Chapter, ASUW, Department of Environmental Health, Department of Environmental Health Student Advisory Committee, Jackson School of International Studies, Program on the Environment, and the International Law Society. For more information about UW Human Rights Awareness Week, please write to amnesty@u.washington.edu, or call Kristina Johnson 206-985-7283. For more information about UW Human Rights Awareness Week, please write to amnesty@u.washington.edu or call Kristina Johnson 206-985-7283 |
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| 12:30 PM | Concert Lake Quartet: Ensemble Concert. Mary Gates Hall. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 1:00 PM | Art Exhibition Closing First Year MFA's Exhibit. Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Art Building, Rm 132. Today is the final day of the group exhibit of the School of Art's First Year MFA's. For more information please call the School of Art at 543-0970. |
| 1:00 PM | School of Art Open House School of Art Open House. Art building. Join the School of Art for it's annual Open House, held from 1-8pm on Friday, February 23rd. Student and faculty work will be on display throughout the building. For more information please call 543-0970. |
| 1:30 PM | Film "To Find Our Life: The Peyote Hung of the Huichols of Mexico," (1969, 16mm., 60 min.). Kane 19. Portrays the peyote rite of the Huichol Indians of Mexico. Sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program. For more information please call 685-3435. |
| 1:30 PM | Linguistics Lecture "The Glottalic Controversy: Were There Ejectives in Proto-Indo-European," Charles Barrack. 305 Smith. Sponsored by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please call 543-2046. |
| 3:30 PM | Asian Lang./Linguistics Lecture "Korean Sound Symbolism," Professor Young-Key Kim-Renaud (George Washington University). Savery 249. Professor Kim-Renaud will discuss Korean phonology, ethnolinguistics and Korean literature. In memory of the late Professor Fed Lukoff. Sponsored by The East Asia Center, Korean Regional Studies, Linguistics Department, and the Department of Asian Languages and Literature. For more information please call 543-4996. |
| 8:00 PM | Theatre Production "Love’s Labour’s Lost," by William Shakespeare, Directed by Mark Harrison. Playhouse Theatre. For tickets please call the UW Arts Tickets office at 543-4880. SEE FEBRUARY 20 LISTING FOR MORE INFORMATION. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Lee, (Helen) Yuk Lam, Flute: Junior Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| Saturday, February 24 | |
| Human Rights Conference UW Human Rights Awareness Week. Various locations on the UW campus. Lectures, events and films will take place throughout the week. A detailed schedule of the week's events is available online at: www.students.washington.edu/amnesty. Sponsored by Amnesty International UW Chapter, ASUW, Department of Environmental Health, Department of Environmental Health Student Advisory Committee, Jackson School of International Studies, Program on the Environment, and the International Law Society. For more information about UW Human Rights Awareness Week, please write to amnesty@u.washington.edu, or call Kristina Johnson 206-985-7283. For more information about UW Human Rights Awareness Week, please write to amnesty@u.washington.edu or call Kristina Johnson 206-985-7283 |
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| 11:00 AM 3:00 PM | Museum Event Basketweaving Demonstration: Karen Reed-Peter. Burke Museum. A graduate of the University of Washington with Chinook/Puyallup ancestry, Karen Reed-Peter has studied a wide range of basketry techniques with master weavers from around the Northwest. She has taught basketry in diverse settings--including Evergreen State, Northwest Indian, and Medicine Creek colleges and many private workshops--and has demonstrated basket weaving at the Washington State History Museum for the last two years. $2.50-$5.50 suggested donation. For more information please call the Burke Museum at 206-616-2036. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Nicole Blackmer, Voice: Masters Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 7:30 PM | **SEATTLE HUMANITIES FORUM** Gao Xingjian, the 2000 Nobel Laureate in Literature, in conversation with Charles Johnson, National Book Award Winner. A Contemporary Theatre (7th & Union). Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Born in 1940 in the Jiangxi province in eastern China, Gao studied in state schools, earned a university degree in French in Beijing, and since then has worked as a writer. Gai began _Soul Mountain_ (2000) in the mid-eighties, then carried the manuscript with him when he fled China in 1987. He is the author of over 18 plays, two novels, and numerous literary criticism. Gao will be accompanied by Mabel Lee, the eminent China specialist who spent 10 years translationg _Soul Mountain_ into English. Charles Johnson was awarded the 1990 National Book Award for his novel _Middle Passage_. He is a Professor of English at the University of Washington and is the author of numerous other books including _Oxherding Tale_ (1982) and _Dreamer_ (1999). A Seattle Humanities Forum sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, Seattle Arts & Lectures, and the Elliot Bay Book Company. For more information please call the Simpson Center at 543-3920. |
| 8:00 PM | Theatre Production "Love’s Labour’s Lost," by William Shakespeare, Directed by Mark Harrison. Playhouse Theatre. For tickets please call the UW Arts Tickets office at 543-4880. SEE FEBRUARY 20 LISTING FOR MORE INFORMATION. |
| Sunday, February 25 | |
| Human Rights Conference UW Human Rights Awareness Week. Various locations on the UW campus. Lectures, events and films will take place throughout the week. A detailed schedule of the week's events is available online at: www.students.washington.edu/amnesty. Sponsored by Amnesty International UW Chapter, ASUW, Department of Environmental Health, Department of Environmental Health Student Advisory Committee, Jackson School of International Studies, Program on the Environment, and the International Law Society. For more information about UW Human Rights Awareness Week, please write to amnesty@u.washington.edu, or call Kristina Johnson 206-985-7283. For more information about UW Human Rights Awareness Week, please write to amnesty@u.washington.edu or call Kristina Johnson 206-985-7283 |
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| 2:00 PM | Theatre Production "Love’s Labour’s Lost," by William Shakespeare, Directed by Mark Harrison. Playhouse Theatre. For tickets please call the UW Arts Tickets office at 543-4880. SEE FEBRUARY 20 LISTING FOR MORE INFORMATION. |
| 2:00 PM | Concert Erika Bramwell, horn: Junior Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 2:00 PM | Artist Lecture & Opening
Reception Artist Conversation and Opening Reception, Wolfgang Laib, exhibition artist, and Klaus Ottmann, exhibition curator. Henry Art Gallery Auditorium. Wolfgang Laib discusses his work with Klaus Ottmann, independent curator and critic, with an introduction by Elizabeth Brown, Henry chief curator. Followed by an opening reception for "Wolfgang Laib: A Retrospective." $8 general / $5 students, free to members. For more information please call 543-2281. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Natalie Kalendarev, piano: Doctoral Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |