| Monday, March 12 | |
| 12:00 PM | **SEPHARDIC STUDIES LECTURE** Date: Monday, March 12, 2001 "Report on Field Research in Seattle's Sephardic Community" by Samuel G. Armistead (UW). 154 Bagley Hall. Sponsored by the Early Music Guild, the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities and the UW Sephardic Studies Program. For more information please call 206-325-7066. |
| Tuesday, March 13 | |
| 7:30 PM | Poetry Reading Claudia Rankine and Matthew Rohrer. A Contemporary Theatre (7th & Union). Claudia Rankine and Matthew Rohrer are representative of a new generation of American poets—a generation that transcends the old debates between the academy and the avant garde. Born in Jamaica in 1963, Claudia Rankine has been praised for her intelligence, sharp wit, and formal inventiveness. "[Claudia Rankine] knows when to bless and to curse, to wonder and to judge, and she doesn't flinch," writes Robert Hass. She is the author of three collections of poetry including Nothing in Nature is Private (1995), The End of the Alphabet (1998), and the forthcoming PLOT (2001). She teaches at Barnard College in New York. Matthew Rohrer was selected for the 1994 National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver, who wrote, "What [Rohrer] tells us about his world, in language that is both lush and exact, is likely to be a haunting experience." Born in 1970, he grew up in Oklahoma and eventually attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His first collection of poetry, A Hummock in the Malookas (1997)—whimsical and quirky in sensibility—was a Publisher's Weekly 1997 Best Book of the Year. His second collection of poetry, Satellite, will be published in April 2001. He lives in Brooklyn and is a poetry editor for Fence magazine. Sponsored by Seattle Arts & Lectures, Open Books: A Poem Emporium, and ACT. For tickets please call 621-2230. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Taraf de Haïdouks. Meany Theater. Since appearing in the acclaimed film "Latcho Drum," this 12-member band from the small Romanian village of Clajani has been thrilling audiences around the globe with its extraordinary musical alchemy. From mournful heartland ballads to dizzying fiddle dances, Taraf de Haïdouks harnesses the wild energy at the essence of Gypsy music in an evening of unadulterated, uninhibited, foot-stomping music certain to leave audiences breathless. Tickets: $28, call the UW Arts Tickets Office at 543-4880. |
| Wednesday, March 14 | |
| 1:30 PM | Southeast Asia Lecture "Ho Xuan Huong: Recovering Vietnam's Lost Literature," John Balaban (Univ. of North Carolina), Ngo Thanh Nhan (NYU computational linguist and developer of digital font that has enabled the printing of the Nom script). Location tba. Sponsored by Southeast Asia Center/JSIS. Info: 543-9606. |
| 3:00 PM | Art Lecture Bob Aufuldish: VCD Candidate Lecture. Art 317. Bob Aufuldish, a final candidate for the Visual Communication Design faculty position, will be giving a public lecture. Faculty and students are particularly encouraged to attend. For more information, please call 206.543.0970. |
| 5:30 PM 8:00 PM | International Studies Dinner Lecture International Updates Dinner-Lecture series featuring Daniel Chirot, Professor, Jackson School of International Studies, speaking on "From Genocide to Reconciliation: Varieties of Ethnic Conflict in Today's World." Kane Hall, Walker-Ames room. Cost: $22.00. For more information or to register, please call 206-543-1675 or email cwes@u.washington.edu. |
| Thursday, March 15 | |
| 3:30 PM | **HUMANITIES LECTURE** E. Ann Kaplan (SUNY-Stonybrook) will speak on "Trauma, Cinema, Witnessing: Jutxaposing Freud's Moses and Tracey Moffatt's Night Cries." The Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, Communications 206. E. Ann Kaplan is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at SUNY Stony Brook, where she also founded and directs The Humanities Institute. Kaplan has written widely on topics in literary and media theory, practices and politics, with special focus on issues in gender and race. Kaplan did pioneering research in postmodernism, and authored books and articles on television, postmodernism and consumer culture, and on postmodernism and feminism. She has also written about psychoanalysis, feminism, postcolonialism and cinema. Her most recent books are Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze, Playing Dolly: Technocultural Formations, Fantasies & Fictions of Assisted Reproduction (edited with Susan Squire) and an edited volume on Feminism and Film, published in 2000. She is currently working on an authored book on trauma, melodrama and aging, as well as preparing two co-edited volumes–one on trauma, cinema and transnational memories and histories, the other on transforming the cultures of death and dying in North America. Sponsored by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information please call 543-3920. |
| 6:00 PM | Art Exhibition and Opening "Culture Shock: The Photography of John Guttman," Opening Reception. Henry Art Gallery. This survey exhibition of 100 photographs selected by Gutmann before his death in 1998 reflect a culture shocked by its own agitation and movement. The images capture a world of fast-paced change and social turbulence--while revealing Gutmann's unique appreciation of American iconography and his eye for the odd, the morbid and the freakish. As an emigre, Gutmann possessed the detachment of an anthropologist and the ability to capture the vitality and strangeness of American life without sentimentality. Exhibition runs until May 27, 2001. Opening Reception free for Henry Members, $8 for guests, $5 for students. For more information please call the Henry Art Gallery at 543-2281. |
| 6:30 PM | Burke Museum Lecture "Adventures of Captain Sturgis," Mary Malloy, Ph.D. (Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, Massachusetts). Burke Room, Burke Museum. Author Mary Malloy brings to life 19th-century Yankee shipmaster and fur trader Capt. William Sturgis, chronicling his adventures and revealing his insights about the then-remote Northwest Coast. Special thanks to the Sea Education Association for support of this event. For more information please call 543-5590. |
| Friday, March 16 | |
| 7:00 PM | Canadian Studies Event "Give me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo," Kenn Harper. University Book Store. Sponsored by the University Book Store and the UW Canadian Studies Center. "Give Me My Father's Body," recently rewritten for the younger reader, is the tragic and true story of the five Eskimos that polar explorer, Robert Peary, brought back to the US as "specimens." Four of the five die leaving Minik who one day finds his father's body on display at the Museum of Natural History and attempts to give his father a proper burial. This is the sad story of a boy caught between two cultures. For more information please call the Canadian Studies Center at 221-6374. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Mary A. Carson, viola: Student Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |