| Monday, April 9 | |
| 11:30 AM | Reading The Andrew R. Hilen Lectures on American Literature and Culture, John D'Agata. Communications 226. Born on Cape Cod, John D'Agata earned MFAs in both nonfiction and poetry at the University of Iowa. He has been published in numerous journals and magazines, including Utne Reader, Paris Review, Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, and Creative Nonfiction, and has edited The Next American Essay, an anthology of lyric essays by contemporary writers. D'Agata's first collection, Halls of Fame, was published by Greywolf Press in January 2001. D'Agata is currently editor for lyric essays for the Seneca Review. Sponsored by the English Department. For more information please call 543-2690. |
| 3:30 PM | Environmental Studies Lecture "Is the Earth Local? Insiders and Outsiders in the Struggle for La Sierra," Joe Gallegos (Costilla County, CO). Mary Gates Hall, Room 241. Part of a series entitled, "Whose Nature? Conflicting Interests and Perceptions." 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 Program, and the Departments of American Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, Fisheries Science, Geography, and History. The coordinator is Eric A. Smith (Department of Anthropology). For further information, send email to whosenat@u.washington.edu. |
| 5:30 PM | Art Lecture Rebecca Cummins: Photography Candidate. Art 317. Rebecca Cummins, a final candidate for the Photography faculty position, will be giving a public lecture. Faculty and students are particularly encouraged to attend. For more information, please call 206.543.0970. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Voice Division Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Jazz Studies Concert: Ensemble Concert. Meany Theater. Marc Seales Trio (Marc Seales, piano; Steve Korn, drums; Paul Gabriel, bass) and special guests from the UW School of Music: Tom Collier, percussion; Julian Patrick, baritone; Don Immel, trombone; and Jay Thomas, trumpet. Tickets: $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| Tuesday, April 10 | |
| 4:00 PM | Art Opening BFA 1 Studio Art. Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Art Building, Rm 132. Opening group exhibit of graduates from the areas of ceramics, fibers, metals, photography, printmaking and sculpture. Exhibit runs April 11 - 21, 2001. For more information please call the School of Art at 543-0970. |
| 5:30 PM | Architecture Lecture Kathryn Merlino, Faculty candidate for a position in the Department of Architecture in Design and History, will give a lecture. 322 Gould. For more information please call 543-4180. |
| 5:30 PM | Art Lecture Andrea Piper: Painting Candidate. Art 003. Andrea Piper, a final candidate for the Painting faculty position, will be giving a public lecture. Faculty and students are particularly encouraged to attend. For more information, please call 206.543.0970. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Ronald Patterson, violin & Toby Saks, cello: Faculty Recital. Meany Theatre. Ronald Patterson, violin, and Toby Saks, cello, play works by Ravel, Janacek, Vycpalek, and Brahms with School of Music colleagues Carmen Pelton, soprano, Craig Sheppard, piano, and Felix Skowronek, flute, and guest artist Roxanna Patterson, viola. The Ravel "Chansons Madecasses" is a magical impressionistic masterpiece with drama, mystery, and lyricism. The "Duo, Opus 20" by Ladislav Vycpalek for violin and viola is by a major, yet relatively unknown Bartok-era Czech composer whose work was banned by the Communists. Janacek's "Rikadla" is a delightful series of 19 very brief children's songs. Brahms' "Piano Quartet in G minor" is one of the most exciting chamber works, with a rousing gypsy finale. Program: Ravel: Chansons Madecasses; Janacek: Rikadla (Children's Songs); Vycpalek: Duo, Opus 20; Brahms: Piano Quartet in G minor. $8 Students & Seniors; $10 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please contact the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| Wednesday, April 11 | |
| 12:30 PM | Art Collection Seminar "Ladies' Paradise? Women as Producers and Consumers of Silk in Turn-of-the-Century France," Raymond Jonas (Department of History, UW). Reed Collection Study Center, Henry Art Gallery. Emile Zola's 1883 novel The Ladies' Paradise emphasized the role of women as consumers of new commodities, notably silk fabric produced for mass markets. Ironically, women also dominated the production of silk as laborers in France's burgeoning silk industry. Raymond Jonas explores the story of silk as the fabric that linked these two feminine worlds. Pieces from the collection related to the topic of discussion are on view. Free with museum admission. For more information please call 543-2281. |
| 3:30 PM | Reading Robert Wrigley, Poet. Parrington Forum. Robert Wrigley is the author of six books of poetry, including "Reign of Snakes" which won the Kingsly Tufts Prize in 2000. He directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Idado. Admission is free. Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, Department of English, and the Mountain Writers Series. For more information please call 543-9865. |
| 3:30 PM | Speech Communication Lecture "Civic Awakening in the Jury Room: Exploring the Impact of Jury Deliberation on Electoral Participation," John Gastil (UW). Raitt 221. Mark Smith (UW, Political Science) will respond. Sponsored by the Department of Speech Communication. For more information please call 543-4860. |
| 5:30 PM | International Studies Dinner/Lecture Beyond Rangoon: Political Instability in Burma (part of the series "International Updates: Trends and Transitions in Your World"), Speaker: Mary Callahan (Jackson School of International Studies). Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room. Sponsors: Jackson School Outreach Centers/JSIS, CIBER, Southeast Asia Center. Cost for dinner/lecture is $22. Registration & info: 543-1675. |
| 7:30 PM | Drama Performance "Under Milk Wood," by Dylan Thomas, Directed by Jon Jory. Playhouse Theatre. The celebrated American director, Jon Jory, revisits this moving and hilarious account of a spring day in a small Welsh coastal town. Three decades ago he began his legendary tenure at Actor’s Theatre Louisville with a production of Under Milk Wood that critics called “dizzyingly inventive.” (The Louisville Courier-Journal) Now he inaugurates his UW professorial career by restaging Dylan Thomas’s poetic masterpiece. Tickets are $7-10. For tickets please call the UW Arts at 206-543-4880. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Saxophone Night: Division Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Solo and ensemble performances by Brad Fitch, Nicole Barnes, Phillip Cheung, Phdar Kinlow, Amanda Montgomery, Sarah Cavassa, and the UW Saxophone Quartet (Fitch, Cheung, Cavassa, and Montgomery), students of Michael Brockman. Program: Ryo Noda: Improvisation; Robert Muczynski: Sonata for Saxophone; Bernard Heiden: Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano; Jacques Ibert: Concertino da Camera; Paule Maurice: Tableaux de Provence; William Schmidt: Sonata for Tenor Saxophone and Piano. Tickets: $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 8:00 PM | **POETRY READING** Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Meany Theatre. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, widely associated with the Beat poetry movement and with San Francisco's literary community since the 1950s, will read. Ferlinghetti established the City Lights Book Store and publishing house. His work, "A Coney Island of the Mind," is one of the best selling books of poetry ever published. His latest book of poems, "How to Paint Sunlight: New Poems," will be published in April and will be available at the reading. $5 donation requested. $25 donation will receive a reserved seat. Reception and book signing will follow the reading. The Seattle Garfield High School Jazz Combo will play from 7 to 8 p.m. Sponsored by Counterbalance Poetry and the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information please email jeffrey@counterbalancepoetry.org or call 206-282-2677. |
| Thursday, April 12 | |
| 3:30 PM | Japan Studies Event "In Search of Hirohito: Decision-Making and Ideology in Imperial Japan," Herbert Bix (Hitotsubashi University). Balmer 203. Sponsored by the Japan Studies Program. For more information please call 543-4391. |
| 3:30 PM | Concert Janos Cegledy, piano: Lecture. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Pianist, scholar, and composer Janos Cegledy will present a lecture/demonstration on his "Zen On" edition of the Beethoven Sonatas, a re-publication of the original Liszt Edition of 1857, which was the first complete edition of the Beethoven Sonatas. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 3:30 PM | Ethnic Conflict/International Studies
"Ethnic Violence and Accommodation in Indonesia and Malaysia: A Comparison," Anthony Reid (University of California, Los Angeles). Parrington Hall, The Forum. Sponsors: The Center for the Study of Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution and the International Studies Center/JSIS. Info: 685-2354. |
| 4:00 PM | Canadian Studies Lecture/Reading Dr. Leah Vosko, McMaster University Author of "No Jobs, Lot's of Work: The Rise & Spread of Temporary Work in Canada." University Book Store. Dr. Leah Vosko, will provide an overview/history of temporary employment in Canada & its place in an international context. Vosko's book deals with how & to what extent "temporary work" is becoming a norm for a diverse group of workers in the labour market taking gender as a central lens of analysis. Co-sponsored by the University Book Store and the Canadian Studies Center. For more information please call 221-6374. |
| 5:30 PM | Architecture Lecture Tony Rizzuto, faculty candidate for a position in the Department of Architecture in Design and History, will give a lecture. 322 Gould. For more information please call 543-4180. |
| 7:30 PM | Jewish Studies/Middle East Lecture Yoram Peri, Hebrew University, "Challenges to Israeli Democracy." Henry Art Museum Auditorium, UW Campus. Peri is the President of the Board of NIF which is an international philanthropy which works to strengthen Israel's democracy. Professor of Political Sociology and Communication at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Dr. Peri was the Chief Editor of the daily Israeli newspaper Davar and a political advisor to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin; during Golda Meir's term as Prime Minister, Dr. Peri was the spokesperson for the Israel Labor Party and its special emissary to Europe. He earned his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and in the 1980's was a senior fellow at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University and visiting professor at Harvard University and Dartmouth College. New Israel Fund (NIF), co-sponsored by Jewish Studies, Middle East Studies Program. Reception to follow. Info: 246-0931. |
| 7:30 PM | Drama Performance "Under Milk Wood," by Dylan Thomas, Directed by Jon Jory. Playhouse Theatre. Tickets are $7-10. For tickets please call the UW Arts at 206-543-4880. SEE APRIL 11 LISTING. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Keyboard Debut Series: Division Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 7:30 PM | Eastern European Lecture "Russia's Relations with Eastern Europe and the Baltic States: A New Divide in Europe?" Mark Kramer (Harvard Project on Cold War Studies, Harvard University). Kane Hall 210. Sponsors: Henry M. Jackson Foundation; World Affairs Council; REECAS/JSIS. Info: 543-4852. |
| Friday, April 13 | |
| 1:30 PM | Language and Rhetoric Colloquium "Two Profiles of Communications Strategies in French L2 Acquisition," Julia Herschensohn (Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics, UW). Loew 105. Sponsored by the Language and Rhetoric/Language Use and Acquisition Colloquium. For more information please email kemmons@u.washington.edu. |
| 3:30 PM | Linguistics Colloquium "Putting 'teach' back in 'teacher': MEG studies of lexical access and morphological structure", Alec Marantz, (MIT). Thomson 325. Sponsored by the Linguistics Department. For more information please call the Department of Linguistics at 543-2046. |
| 3:30 PM | East European/History Lecture "'Great Russians' and 'Little Russians': Russian-Ukrainian Relations and Perceptions in Historical Perspective," Andreas Kappeler (Institute for East European History, University of Vienna) (The Donald W. Treadgold Lecture). Parrington Hall Forum (Room 309). Sponsors: REECAS, History, Jackson School of International Studies. Info: 543-4852. |
| 8:00 PM | Drama Performance "Under Milk Wood," by Dylan Thomas, Directed by Jon Jory. Playhouse Theatre. Tickets are $7-10. For tickets please call the UW Arts at 206-543-4880. SEE APRIL 11 LISTING. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Brechemin Scholarship Winners Concert: Student Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Come hear some of the best musicians at the School of Music, winners of the prestigious Brechemin scholarships! Featuring Ashley Cragun, oboe; Brad Fitch, saxophone; Eri Inoue, trumpet; Natalya Kalendarev, piano; Melodie Linhart, composition; Karen Jenning Mu, piano; Kwan Bin Park, violin; and Amber Sudduth, soprano. Tickets: $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| Saturday, April 14 | |
| 8:00 AM | Music Workshop Oboe Day: Workshop. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. An all day workshop for young Oboe players. The featured clinician will be Mr. Wayne Rapier. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 8:00 PM | Drama Performance "Under Milk Wood," by Dylan Thomas, Directed by Jon Jory. Playhouse Theatre. Tickets are $7-10. For tickets please call the UW Arts at 206-543-4880. SEE APRIL 11 LISTING. |
| Sunday, April 15 | |
| 2:00 PM | Drama Performance "Under Milk Wood," by Dylan Thomas, Directed by Jon Jory. Playhouse Theatre. Tickets are $7-10. For tickets please call the UW Arts at 206-543-4880. SEE APRIL 11 LISTING. |
| 5:00 PM | Concert Sven Hermann & Matthias Hettmer, accordion and electric bass,: Guest Artist Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Sven Hermann, accordion, and Matthias Hettman, electric bass -- "Interzone perceptible" -- present cutting-edge contemporary music. ("Interzone perceptible" refers to the fictional place "interzone" in William Burroughs' 1959 novel The Naked Lunch, a place where the borderline between fiction and reality bcomes blurred. "Interzone perceptible" define themselves through a constantly broadening and changing field of activity.) Program: Volker Heyn: Burroughs' bellows; Alvaro Carlvaro: Tembleque; Interzone perceptible: Inner Loops (conceptional improvisation); Sven Hermann: ILI I & XVI; Kunshu Shim: a silent swaying breath; Manuel Hidalgo: Garla; Jeff Kowalkowski: Anchor; Interzone perceptible: Pyrethum (performance). Tickets: $8 Students/Seniors; $10 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Jorge Morales, Piano: Junior Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission is complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |