| Monday, April 2 | |
| 3:30 PM | Environmental Studies Lecture "The Strange Case of Bruno Manser: Transnational Environmental Activism and Claims to Nature," Peter Brosius (University of Georgia). Mary Gates Hall, Room 241. This colloquium series hopes to explore some of the diversity of interests and perspectives on environmental management and conservation. The scholars, managers, and community workers scheduled to speak in the series reflect this diversity, both in their fields of practice and in the communities they work with. Their visits should prove a catalyst for discussion across disciplinary lines and world-views within the UW community and beyond. This colloquium series is sponsored by the Program on the Environment at the University of Washington, and co-sponsored by the following UW units: The Graduate School, The School of Law, the South Asian Studies Program, the Southeast Asian Studies. |
| 3:30 PM | Art Lecture Ken Fandell, a final candidate for the Photography faculty position, will give a public lecture. Room 121 in Raitt Hall. Faculty and students are particularly encouraged to attend. For more information, please call 206.543.0970. |
| 7:30 PM | Arts Lecture Seattle Arts & Lectures welcomes Greil Marcus, America’s most acclaimed critic of popular music. Benaroya Hall. Greil Marcus has made a career out of finding meaning where others have found only danger and confusion. As Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, has said, "Greil Marcus is the only writer I’d trust to explain what all that horrible screaming, vile spitting, and great punk music was really about." Taken together, his writings provide a remarkable history of our time, tracing the aesthetic, political, and moral implications of Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, The Sex Pistols, and others with striking originality. Marcus is the author of numerous books, including Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ‘N’ Roll Music (1975), Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (1989) and Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives (2000). Student tickets are $7.50. Regular tickets are $15 and $18. To purchase tickets or for more information, call (206) 621-2230 or go online at www.lectures.org. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Tony Cho, Piano: Doctoral Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| Tuesday, April 3 | |
| 3:30 PM | Sociology Lecture "The Rise of Sexual Diversity and Human Rights after the Cold War," Gilbert Herdt (San Francisco State University). 126 Music. The Earl and Edna Stice Memorial Lectureship in Social Science. Sponsored by the Department of Sociology. For more information please call 206-543-1665. |
| 5:30 PM | Art Lecture Zhi Lin, a final candidate for the Painting faculty position, will give a public lecture. Room 317 of the Art Building. Faculty and students are particularly encouraged to attend. For more information, please call 206.543.0970. |
| Wednesday, April 4 | |
| 3:30 PM | Japan Studies Lecture "Japan's Political Leadership," Tomohito Shinoda (International University of Japan). Miller 316. Sponsored by the Japan Studies Program. For more information please call 543-4391. |
| 4:00 PM | Women's Center Event "Women and the Cuban Revolution." Women's Center Gallery, Cunningham Hall. Join Cindy Domingo (Board Member, NW Labor and Employment Law Office) and Jan Strout (Organizer of Building a US Women's Movement for Cuba) in a discussion about the opportunities and challenges that came out of the Cuban revolution and their impacts on women -- especially Afro-Cuban women. "From Maids to Companeras," a short video which chronicles the lives of three Afro-Cuban women, will be used to initiate the discussion. Jan and Cindy, who have both led women's delegations to Cuba, will also discuss women's leadership, their global solidarity work and opportunities to become involved. Sponsored by UW Women's Center. Free Admission: RSVP 206-685-1090. |
| 4:00 PM | **POLITICS/HUMANITIES LECTURE** "My Dangerous Desires: Negotiating Activist Identities," Amber L. Hollibaugh, Political Activist, Writer, Award-winning filmmaker. Savery 239. Sponsored by The Earl and Edna Stice Memorial Lectureship in Social Science, the Center for Labor Studies, the Department of English, the Department of Women Studies, and the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. |
| Thursday, April 5 | |
| 7:30 PM | Jewish Studies Event "The Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process: Conflict and Reconciliation," Khalil Shikaki, Director, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, Ramallah. HUB Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.Info: 206-543-4227; email mecuw@u.washington.edu |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Sarah Bahauddin, oboe: Doctoral Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 8:00 PM | Dance Concert The Faculty Dance Concert features choreography by UW Dance Faculty and guest artists, performed by faculty and students. Meany Studio Theatre. Tickets: Adults $9 Students & Seniors $7. Available at UW Arts Ticket Office 543-4880. For more information please call the Dance Program at 206-543-9843. |
| 8:00 PM | Dance Concert Grupo Corpo, "World Dance." Meany Theatre. This fascinating Brazilian company combines "balletic pliancy, loose-limbed African syncopation and Latin sensuality" in works that are by turns "flirtatious, primordial, threatening and comic." The soul and genius of Grupo Corpo is artistic director Rodrigo Pederneiras, who, like Alvin Ailey and Garth Fagan, skillfully connects rich indigenous movements, colors and rhythms with the formal structures of classical ballet. Amid meticulous sequences of breathtaking complexity, his work maintains a magical quality with images of astounding beauty and a playful, refined sense of humor. Tickets: $32. Please call the Arts Ticket Office at 543-4880. |
| Friday, April 6 | |
| 10:30 AM 5:00 PM | **ENGLISH/HUMANITIES CONFERENCE** The Modern Language Quarterly presents a day of notable speakers on the problems of periodization, perioddity, and pigeon holes. Parrington Forum. 30 minute talks in 3 sessions throughout the day. Each session is followed by open dialogue with speakers and conversations between speakers. If you have felt the constraints of period boundaries in your scholarship or noticed how much is being published on the subject lately, these talks are pertinent to you. The issues raised concern not just the periods in question, but the general consequences of periodizing, the gendered hierarchies of traditional literary history, and the structure of the curriculum. 10:30 - 12:00 Session 1: The Literary Compulsion toward Time: Marshall Brown, Editor, MLQ "Introduction to the Issues," Michael North "Virtual Histories: The Year as Literary Period." 1:30 - 3:00 Session 2: Political Uses and Misuses of the Past: Srinivas Aravamudan "The Return of Anachronism," Timothy Reiss "Perioddity: Considerations on the Geography of Histories." 3:30 - 5:00 Session 3: Psychological Uses of the Past: Margreta de Grazia "Hamlet Before Its Time," Russell Berman "Politics: Divide and Rule." This event is generously sponsored by the English Department, the Simpson Center for the Humanities and Women's Studies. |
| 3:30 PM | Japan Studies Lecture "Open Secrets: Edo Era Politics in Their Own Terms," Luke Roberts (University of California, Santa Barbara). Miller 316. Sponsored by the Japan Studies Program. For more information please call 543-4391. |
| 3:30 PM | Philosophy Lecture "Is Anyone Wronged by a Wrongful Life?: Resuscitating the Role of the Victim," Dr. Rahul Kumar (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania). Savery 249. Sponsored by the Dept. of Philosophy. For more information please call 206-543-5855. |
| 3:30 PM | Russian Studies Lecture "Constructing Primordialism: Old Histories for New Nations in the Post-Soviet Region," Ronald Grigor Suny (University of Chicago). 317 Thomson. Sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson Foundation. For more information please call 543-4852. |
| 8:00 PM | Dance Concert The Faculty Dance Concert features choreography by UW Dance Faculty and guest artists, performed by faculty and students. Meany Studio Theatre. Tickets: Adults $9 Students & Seniors $7. Available at UW Arts Ticket Office 543-4880. For more information please call the Dance Program at 206-543-9843. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Guest Artist Recital: Helen Bledsoe, Flute. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. The European-based American flutist Helen Bledsoe gives a recital of modern music for the flute, including works by Ferneyhough, Sciarrino, Durand, Klein, Applebaum, and Hui. Tickets: $8-$10 (available at the door). For more information please call the School of Music at 685-8384. |
| 8:00 PM | Dance Concert Grupo Corpo, "World Dance." Meany Theatre. SEE APRIL 5 LISTING. |
| Saturday, April 7 | |
| 1:00 PM | Concert Emily Asher, trombone: Junior Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Sharmistha Sen (Sitar) and Abhiman Kaushal (Tabla). Brechemin Auditorium, 126 Music. Tickets: $5-10. Sponsored by the UW Ethnomusicology Program. Please call 206-543-0949, for more information. |
| 8:00 PM | Dance Concert The Faculty Dance Concert features choreography by UW Dance Faculty and guest artists, performed by faculty and students. Meany Studio Theatre. Tickets: Adults $9 Students & Seniors $7. Available at UW Arts Ticket Office 543-4880. For more information please call the Dance Program at 206-543-9843. |
| 8:00 PM | Dance Concert Grupo Corpo, "World Dance." Meany Theatre. SEE APRIL 5 LISTING. |
| Sunday, April 8 | |
| 1:30 PM | **FILM** "Family" (1956) with introductory comments by UW Professor Jerome Silbergeld. Volunteer Park. Based on anarchist Ba Jin's famous semi-autobiographical novel. The rebellion of a young aristocrat against his own family and cultural class. Although done in the 50s, its the last major example of 30s-40s style, done with great visual elegance. Part of "Chinese Films: Intellectuals and Their Modern Fate" in conjunction with the Elliott calligraphy exhibition, Seattle Art Museum will be showing in April. This series looks at what has become in modern times of the scholar class (the calligraphers, artists, and literateurs). Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Seattle Art Museum. For more information please contact Jerome Silbergeld at jesi@u.washington.edu. |
| 2:00 PM | Dance Concert The Faculty Dance Concert features choreography by UW Dance Faculty and guest artists, performed by faculty and students. Meany Studio Theatre. Tickets: Adults $9 Students & Seniors $7. Available at UW Arts Ticket Office 543-4880. For more information please call the Dance Program at 206-543-9843. |
| 2:00 PM | Concert Susan E. Adkins, voice: DMA Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |