| Monday, February 26 | |
| 11:30 AM | **ENGLISH/HUMANITIES LECTURE** "Where Angels Fear To Read," Professor Randall McLeod (Department of English, University of Toronto). Allen Auditorium (Allen Library). The lecture will deal with the text of the first edition of Castiglione's *Il Libro del cortegiano*, published at the Aldine Press in Venice (1528). But the text discussed in the lecture is not one that anyone has ever read before, or even noticed--because it is invisible. Like many other early printed books, the *Cortegiano* contains extensive blind impressions of typeface throughout. But with raking light, this embossed text can actually be read, and we can begin at last to map this ubiquitous but unknown literature. Sponsored by the Department of English, the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Textual Studies Program. For more information please call the Simpson Center at 543-3920 or the Dept. of English at 543-2690. |
| 2:30 PM | **ART/JAPAN STUDIES LECTURE** "The Living Art of the Kimono," Liza Dalby (Author and Independent Scholar). Henry Art Gallery Auditorium. The second in a series of Lectures on Japanese Art and Culture, organized by Professor Cynthea Bogel as part of Art H 309/HUM 596A. Liza Dalby, author of widely acclaimed new fiction work "Tale of Murasaki" and nonfiction titles "Kimono" and "Geisha" as well as a consultant for Steven Spielberg's forthcoming film "Memoirs of a Geisha," will speak on "The Living Art of the Kimono." Sponsored by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, Japan Studies Program, JSIS, and the Fibers Program and the Division of Art History, School of Art. For more information please contact Prof. Bogel at cjbogel@u.washington.edu or the Simpson Center at 543-3920. |
| 3:30 PM | **CLASSICS/ENGLISH LECTURE** "Messalina Imperial Whore 1870 - 1970," Maria Wyke (University of Reading). Mary Gates Hall 389. A Senior lecturer in the Department of Classics at the University of Reading, Maria Wyke is a leading authority on the reception of antiquity, especially ancient Rome, in popular culture and film. She has published widely on the subject, most notably Projecting the past: ancient Rome, cinema and history (Routledge 1997), as well as on issues of gender, sexuality and the body in antiquity. Dr. Wyke is visiting in conjunction with Humanities 210, a course entitled "Shakespeare in Rome (and Hollywood)" being taught by Profs. Webster (English) and Gowing (Classics) this quarter. Dr. Wyke's talk addresses the modern reception of the empress Messalina, wife of the Roman emperor Claudius, in film and tv. A reception in the Parrington Forum will follow immediately after the talk. Sponsored by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Department of Classics. For more information please call 543-2266. |
| 3:30 PM | Asian Lang. & Lit. Lecture "Blood Lineage, Milk Lineage: Melodrama and Meiji Family Ideology in Kikuchi Yuho's Chikyodai," Professor Ken Ito, University of Michigan. Mary Gates Hall 271. Sponsored by the Department of Asian Languages and Literature. For more information please call 543-4996. |
| 3:30 PM | History/Jewish Studies Lecture "The Sassoons and John Singer Sargent: an Anglo-Jewish Collection." Peter Stansky (the Francis and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford). Smith Hall 405. Co-sponsored by History and Jewish Studies. For more information please call 543-5790. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Voice Division Recital: Division Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Studio Jazz Ensemble: Ensemble Concert. Meany Theatre. $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. Jay Thomas, director. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| Tuesday, February 27 | |
| Art Exhibitions The Arts of Healing in Africa / Wolfgang Weingart: Posters. Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Art Building, Rm 132. Opening in Gallery 1 of the Jacob Lawrence Gallery is The Arts of Healing in Africa; Gallery 2 presents Wolfgang Weingart: Posters. Both exhibits run February 28 - March 30, 2001. Please note that the gallery will be closed March 19-24. For more information please call the School of Art at 543-0970. |
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| 12:30 PM | Southeast Asia Lecture "Malaysia's Mad magazines: Images of Females and Males in Malay Culture," Ron Provencher (Northern Illinois Univ). Location tba. Sponsored by the Southeast Asia Center/JSIS. Info: 543-9606. |
| 4:00 PM | Art Exhibition Tamara Moats, curator of education, and Halinka Wodzicki, associate educator, introduce the Wolfgang Laib exhibition and explore ways in which this work can be used in the middle school to college classroom. Henry Art Gallery. Special connections are made with German language and literature, Rumi poetry and the use of primary forms, as well as natural elements. Pre-registration required, please call the Henry Art Gallery at 616-2091. |
| 6:00 PM | Art Exhibition The Ceramics Program presents Artdrill/Erotic Art from February 27 – March 3, 2001. Ceramics Gallery, CMA, 4205 Mary Gates Memorial Drive. Exhibited works question the way personal history and sensory contexts interact to forge an erotic experience beyond a sexual understanding. The opening party will feature a mocumentary film on the artists' first erotic experiences, a live body hair sheering ceremony, partner-fed food, Aural Atmosphere, by DJs Lux Lucet and Dave, and a raffle of erotic goodies. For more information please call the School of Art at 206-543-0178. |
| 7:00 PM | Reading Castalia. Parrington Commons. Graduate students from the MFA program in Creative Writing read from their work. All are welcome. For more information please email rhoogs@u.washington.edu. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Nino Merabishvili, piano: Doctoral Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| Wednesday, February 28 | |
| 12:20 PM | Jewish Studies Lecture "Jewish Medieval Love Poetry" by Jonathan Dector, the Coles Fellow in Jewish Studies. 215a Denny. Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program and UW Hillel, 206-323-3581. |
| 3:00 PM | Classics Lecture "Negotiating Money, Space and History in Sixth Century Petra," Traianos Gagos (University of Michigan). Mary Gates Hall 295. A Reception will follow in Denny 215A. Traianos Gagos is Associate Professor of Papyrology and Greek in the Department of Classical Studies, and Archivist of Papyrology in the Graduate Library, of the University of Michigan. His many publications on papyrology and social history include, with P. van Minnen, the book _Settling a Dispute: Towards a Legal Anthropology of Late Antique Egypt_ (Ann Arbor 1994). In the area of electronic publication he is co-editor with K. Beam of _The Evolution of the English Bible: From Papyri to King James_ (Ann Arbor 1997): this interactive CD won the Univ. Michigan Press Best Book Award for 1999. Sponsored by the Department of Classics. For more information please call 543-2266. |
| 3:15 PM | Art Lecture John Rousseau. Art 317. For more information, please call 543-0970. |
| 3:30 PM | English Lecture "Broken Baroque: On John Ashbery, AIDS, and a Double Sestina," Brian Reed (UW, English). Parrington Forum (308). Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by the American Studies Colloquium of the English Department and the Hilen Foundation. For more information please call 543-2690. |
| 5:30 PM 8:00 PM | Middle East Studies Lecture "Challenges of Democracy in an Undemocratic Culture: The Case of Iran" by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, UW. Walker Ames Room, 225 Kane Hall. Part of International Updates 2001 dinner-lecture series. Call 206-543-1675 for registration one week before session. $22 per session, per person. Make checks or money order payable to "University of Washington." Sponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies, 206-543-1675. |
| 6:00 PM | Film "Underground" (Emir Kusturica, former Yugoslavia, 1995). Mary Gates Hall 271. Sponsor: REECAS/JSIS. Info: 543-4852. |
| 7:00 PM | Film " All About My Mother" (1999). Odegaard Library, Room 220. Part of the Pedro Almodovar Film Series. Almodovar achieves in this Academy Award winning film the domestication of the outrageous, "normalizing" transexuality while questioning the absolute categories of father and mother. Sponsors: Depts. Of Spanish and Portugues and Comparative Literature. Info: tgeist@u.washington.edu |
| 7:30 PM | Drama Production "Joe Versus the Volcano," by John Patrick Shanley. Meany Studio. Musical adaptation by Scott Hafso & Darcy Phillips. This world premiere musical based on John Partrick Shanley’s cult classic film "Joe Versus the Volcano" follows Joe Banks, the ultimate loser. Sick from the buzzing florescent lights and the gray dullness of his life, Joe Banks learns that he has a terminal “Brain Cloud.” According to his doctor, he’ll feel great for six months and then suddenly die. Just after his diagnosis, a rich man offers Joe the chance of a lifetime: Joe can live in high style for a bit and then he must jump into a volcano as a human sacrifice. Joe agrees to the deal, but on his way to the volcano, he falls in love with the rich man’s daughter. A modern comic fairy tale by the Oscar winning writer of the screenplay "Moonstruck." For tickets please call the UW Arts Tickets Office at 543-4880. |
| 7:30 PM | Poetry Reading Adam Zagajewski. A Contemporary Theatre (ACT), 7th & Union. Seattle Arts & Lectures welcomes one of Poland's most acclaimed poets. Internationally acclaimed, Zagajewski writes lucid poetry-at once imaginative and insightful-that illuminates the post World War II history he has experienced. A member of the "angry generation of 1968," he started by satirizing, both in verse and prose, the surreal character of the totalitarian state. Since then, his poems have turned increasingly to the relationship between the individual and history. He is the author of several books of poetry including Tremor (1985), Canvas (1991), and Mysticism for Beginners (1998), as well as the memoir Another Beauty (2000). Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz praised," [Zagajewski is] taking the lead in the poetry of my language, a living proof that Polish literature is energy incessantly renewed against all possibilities!" Student tickets are $7. Regular priced tickets are $14. Tickets are on sale through ACT's box office at (206) 292-7676. For more information, visit www.lectures.org. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Jazz Combos: Ensemble Concert. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. Marc Seales, director. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| Thursday, March 1 | |
| 12:00 PM | Public Policy/Women's Studies Event Laura Liswood, Executive Director of the Council of Women World Leaders on "International Women in Leadership and the Future For Women in Politics in the U.S." Parrington Hall, The Forum. For more information, please contact: The Forum at the Evans School at nwforum@u.washington.edu or 221-3839. |
| 7:30 PM | Drama Production "Joe Versus the Volcano," by John Patrick Shanley. Meany Studio. Musical adaptation by Scott Hafso & Darcy Phillips. This world premiere musical based on John Partrick Shanley’s cult classic film "Joe Versus the Volcano" follows Joe Banks, the ultimate loser. Sick from the buzzing florescent lights and the gray dullness of his life, Joe Banks learns that he has a terminal “Brain Cloud.” According to his doctor, he’ll feel great for six months and then suddenly die. Just after his diagnosis, a rich man offers Joe the chance of a lifetime: Joe can live in high style for a bit and then he must jump into a volcano as a human sacrifice. Joe agrees to the deal, but on his way to the volcano, he falls in love with the rich man’s daughter. A modern comic fairy tale by the Oscar winning writer of the screenplay "Moonstruck." For tickets please call the UW Arts Tickets Office at 543-4880. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Composers Workshop: Workshop. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Original works by student composers. Joël François Durand, director. Program: Donald Craig: "Assonaglyph" for computer-realized sound; Joshua Parmenter: "Sonatina" for solo flute; Melodie Linhart: "Aubade" for flute and violin; Melodie Linhart: "Neumes" for computer-realized sound; Justin Melland: "Visitations" for solo piano; Justin Melland: "Falling Asleep in Needles" for wind quartet and piano. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Grand and Glorious: A Night of Great Opera Choruses: Ensemble Concert. Meany Theatre. A collaborative concert showcasing the Northwest Chamber Chorus and the UW Chamber Singers in beloved opera choruses by Verdi, Bizet, Wagner, Rossini, Beethoven, Mascagni, Bernstein, Offenbach, and Gilbert & Sullivan, as well as UW voice students singing arias from favorite operas. $10 Students & Seniors; $15 General Admission. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 7:30 PM | **COMPARATIVE LIT/HUMANITIES LECTURE**
"Yielding its Secrets Bit by Bit: Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut'," A Gathering. Mary Gates Hall 389. Panelists include: Diana Behler (UW), Frederick Dolan (University of California, Berkeley), Claudia Gorbman (UW Tacoma), Willis Konick (UW). Sponsored by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Department of Comparative Literature. For more information please call Comparative Literature at 543-7542. |
| Friday, March 2 | |
| 8:30 AM 5:30 PM | **EARLY SOVIET FILM SYMPOSIUM** "In the Eye of the Revolution: A Symposium on Early Soviet Film," Husky Union Building (HUB) Room 310. Friday, March 2, 2001, 8:30am - 5:30pm. An 11:30am film screening will be held in the Henry Art Gallery. Speakers include Anthony Anemone (College of William and Mary), Zoran Kuzmanovic (Davidson College, North Carolina), Anne Nesbet (University of California, Berkeley) and UW faculty. A reception will follow the symposium at 5:45pm in the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. Sponsors: REECAS/JSIS, Slavic L&L, The Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, Comparative Literature and interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences (UW Tacoma). For more information please call 543-4852. |
| 11:30 AM | Film "Chertovo koleso (The Devil's Wheel)." Henry Art Gallery Auditorium. Free admission. Sponsored by Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies; the Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures. For more information please call 206-543-4852. |
| 1:30 PM | Films "Imagining New Worlds" (1996) and "Daughters of Ixchel: Maya Threads of Change" (1993). Kane 19. Due to UW copyright agreements, screenings are open to UW students, staff and faculty only. Sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program. For more information please call 685-3435. |
| 1:30 PM | Germanics Lecture "Love and Memory in Twelfth-Century Vernacular Literature: The Tristan Romances by Thomas d'Angleterre and Gottfried von Strassburg," Victor Millet (University of St. Iago da Compostela, Spain). Denny 308. To be followed by a reception. Sponsored by the Germanics Dept. For more information please call 543-4580. |
| 2:30 PM | **ART/JAPAN STUDIES LECTURE** "Violence & Serenity: The Woodblock Prints of Yoshitoshi (1839-92)," John Stevenson (Author and Independent Scholar). ART 003. The third and final lecture in a series of Lectures on Japanese Art and Culture, organized by Professor Cynthea Bogel as part of Art H 309/HUM 596A. Stevenson, former Acting Curator of Chinese Art at Seattle Asian Art Museum and author of many articles and of books including "Yoshitoshi's Women," "Yoshitoshi's One Hundred Aspects of the Moon," "Yoshitoshi's Ghosts," and "Vietnamese Ceramics: A Separate Tradition" will speak on "Violence & Serenity: The Woodblock Prints of Yoshitoshi (1839-92)." Sponsored by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, Japan Studies Program, JSIS, and the Fibers Program and the Division of Art History, School of Art. For more information please contact Prof. Bogel at cjbogel@u.washington.edu or the Simpson Center at 543-3920. |
| 8:00 PM | Drama Production "Joe Versus the Volcano," by John Patrick Shanley. Meany Studio. For tickets please call the UW Arts Tickets Office at 543-4880. SEE MARCH 1 LISTING. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Vocal Jazz Concert: Ensemble Concert. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Program: Miller/Rice: Waiting for You; Walter/Parker/Cross (arr.): My Little Suede Shoes; Broadly: Full Moon; Rollins/Cox: Oleo; Ellington/Cross (arr.): Love You Madly; Lennon & McCartney/Kraintz (arr.): Can't Buy Me Love; Youmans/Heyman/Puerling (arr.): Through the Years; Broadly: Summer Burn; Reichner/Graham/Cross (arr.): You Better Go Now; Kraintz (arr.): All of Me; Parker/Jefferson/Hendricks: Now Is the Time. $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. Featuring University Vocal Jazz I and Vocal Jazz II. Dave Cross, director. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| Saturday, March 3 | |
| 9:00 AM 4:00 PM | South Asia Colloquium South Asia Colloquium of the Pacific Northwest (SACPAN). Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. Presenters include Priya Kapoor, Portland State University. Info: 543-4800. |
| 10:00 AM 1:00 PM | **POETRY/FICTION READING AND TALK** Tess Gallagher, Kathleen Alcala & Jean Rouveral. Hub Auditorium. Join three fabulous writers in readings of their work and discussions of their craft. Sponsored in part by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. Tickets: $12.50 for sale at the University Book Store. $ 3.00 student tickets available at the HUB. For more information please call the University Book Store, 206-634-3400. |
| 8:00 PM | Drama Production "Joe Versus the Volcano," by John Patrick Shanley. Meany Studio. For tickets please call the UW Arts Tickets Office at 543-4880. SEE MARCH 1 LISTING. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Computer Music Concert: Ensemble Concert - Computer Music Across Generations. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Program: William O. Smith: Sumi-E for clarinet and computer-transformed sounds; Stuart Dempster: Standing Waves for trombone and computer-generated sounds; Joe Anderson: Kyai Pranaja for computer-realized surround-sound; Donald Craig: Assonaglyph for computer-realized surround-sound. $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. Richard Karpen, director. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| Sunday, March 4 | |
| 2:00 PM | Drama Production "Joe Versus the Volcano," by John Patrick Shanley. Meany Studio. For tickets please call the UW Arts Tickets Office at 543-4880. SEE MARCH 1 LISTING. |
| 2:00 PM | Concert Darlene Franz, Oboe: Doctoral Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 5:00 PM | Concert Shawna Avinger, voice: Senior Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert S. Glynn B. Olive, Choral Conducting: Doctoral Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |