| Monday, April 23 | |
| 3:30 PM | Environmental Studies Lecture "Soundings: Nature and Justice in an Indonesian Marine Environment," Charles Zerner (Sarah Lawrence College). Mary Gates Hall, Room 241. Part of "Whose Nature? Conflicting Interests & 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. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Wind Ensemble/Symphonic Band/Concert Band: Ensemble Concert. Meany Theater. Program: Gillingham: Internal Combustion; Hesketh: Danceries; Tichelli: American Elegy; Jacob: An Original Suite for Military Band; Gillingham: Intrada Jubilante; Grainger: Folk Tune; Ritter George: First Suite in F. $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| Tuesday, April 24 | |
| 3:30 PM | Southeast Asia/Drama Lecture "W.S. Rendra and the Idea of the Actor in Indonesia," Evan Winet (Drama and Humanities, Stanford University). Hutchinson 211. Please join the Southeast Asia Center and the Drama Department when they welcome Evan Winet, speaking on Willibordus Surendra Rendra who is widely acknowledged as the most influential figure in modern Indonesian theatre under the New Order (1966-1998). His poetry is widely known and read in Indonesia and abroad, and his "Struggles of the Naga Tribe" (1975) is the most frequently produced Indonesian play in the world. Evan Darwin Winet is a doctoral candidate in Drama and Humanities at Stanford University and a candidate for the UW faculty position in Southeast Asian humanities. For more information please email seac@u.washington.edu. |
| 3:30 PM | Jewish Studies Lecture "In the Blood?: Consent, Descent, and the Ironies of Jewish Identity," Susan Glenn (History, UW). Thomson 317. Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program. For more information please call 543-7145. |
| 6:00 PM | Walker-Ames Lecture "Is there a New Mexico?" Elena Poniatowska, Latin American Writer. Kane Hall, Room 210. Elena Poniatowska is one of Mexico's leading contemporary writers. She has pioneered testimonial and documentary fiction in Mexico, chronicling the major social movements since the 1960s. Also, she is among Latin America's leading feminist writers, paving the way for a new generation of women novelists. Her books include _La Noche de Tlatelolco (Massacre in Mexico)_ the definitive account of the 1968 student movement; _Nada, Nadie, Las Voces del Temblor (Nothing, No One; Voices of the Earthquake)_ on the devastating earthquake in 1985; and _Tinosimaon the biography of Italian American photographer activist Tina Modotti. Her novel _Hasta No Verte Jesus (Here's Looking at You, Jesus)_ tells the story of a spirited woman who served as a soldadera in the Mexican revolution. _Luz y Luna, Las Lunitas (The Sun, The Stars and the Little Moons)_ is a collection of her recent essays on Mexican women. Soldaderas provides a textual framework for the classic Casasola photographs of women who fought in the revolution. Poniatowska is also celebrated for her interviews with all major Mexican writers, artists and political leaders of the past four decades. Her roster includes Diego Rivera, Luis Buöuel, Octavio Paz, and Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista National Liberation Army. To date, seven volumes of her collected interviews have been published under the title _Todo Mexico (All of Mexico)_. Admission is Free. No ticket required. For additional information, contact Yvette Fields at (206) 616-1825 or yvettef@u.washington.edu. |
| 7:30 PM | Ethnomusicology Concert Ethnomusicology Visiting Artists Concert, featuring The Venerable Kelak Lama from Tibet; Munir Nurettin Beken from Turkey. Meany Theater. This is a musical performance featuring The Venerable Kelak Lama, renowned musician, director and teacher of the Rol mo Buddhist ritual music of the Tibetan Karma Kargyudpa tradition, and Munir Nurettin Beken, distinguished Turkish music expert and virtuoso on the ud (Middle Eastern lute). Kelak Lama, previously a Visiting Artist in 1994-95, will perform with his student ensemble. Mr. Beken's program will include compositions and improvisations from both the Ottoman repertoire and contemporary works, including a piece composed especially for him. Mr. Beken will perform solo. Sponsored by the Ethnomusicology Division of the School of Music, UW. For more information please contact Ellen Taylor, Secretary, Ethnomusicology Division, 543-0949. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Ashley Cragun, Oboe: Junior Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| Wednesday, April 25 | |
| 3:30 PM | **AMERICAN STUDIES COLLOQUIUM** "Performing American Identities," 9th Annual American Studies Conference, UW American Studies Colloquium. Parrington Commons (308 Parrington). Panel presentations and discussions start on Thursday, April 26th and continue through Friday, April 27th. WEDNESDAY EVENT: Keynote speaker: "The Cultural Performances of Josephine Baker: Exotic Primitivist or Modernist Icon?" Mae G. Henderson (UNC-Chapel Hill). Parrington Commons. Sponsored by the Graduate School, the Hilen Endowment, GPSS, GO-MAP, the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, and the departments of American Ethnic Studies, English, and History. For more information please contact Tamiko Nimura (tnimura@u.washington.edu) or see conference website: http://www.depts.washington.edu/englgso/program.htm>. |
| 3:30 PM | History/Japan Studies Lecture "Cultural Interaction Resulting from the Dutch Presence in Japan," Christiaan Jorg (Groninger Museum). Savery 315. Sponsored by the History Department & Japan Studies Program. For more information please call 543-4391. |
| 5:30 PM 8:00 PM | International Studies Dinner/Lecture "North-South Interactions on the Korean Peninsula: Implications for the U.S.," Speaker: Clark Sorenson, Jackson School of International Studies(part of the series "International Updates: Trends and Transitions in Your World"). Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room. Sponsors: Jackson School Outreach Centers/JSIS, CIBER, East Asia Center. Cost for dinner/lecture is $22. Registration & info: 543-1675. |
| 7:30 PM | Drama Performance "History of the Devil, or Scenes from a Pretended Life," by Clive Barker. Directed by J. Daniel Stanley. Meany Studio Theatre. Satan has stacked the deck by hosting his own trail on Earth. Tried by man and judged by the souls of the dead, a verdict of not guilty could mean a return trip to Heaven. After reviewing the evidence, the jury must consider whether the devil is a primary perpetrator or an unwitting patsy of mankind’s greatest atrocities. Best-selling novelist and Hollywood sensation, Clive Barker, waxes philosophical in this play filled with humor, horror and above all, humanity. Single tickets are $10 on Friday and Saturday, $8 Sunday through Thursday. Students always pay $7. Call the UW Arts Tickets office at 543-4880. |
| Thursday, April 26 | |
| 9:00 AM 8:30 PM | **AMERICAN STUDIES COLLOQUIUM** "Performing American Identities," 9th Annual American Studies Conference, UW American Studies Colloquium. Parrington Commons (308 Parrington). THURSDAY EVENTS: Panels in Parrington Commons: 9:00-10:30 AM: "Performing Reconstruction." 10:45 AM-12:15 PM: "Cross-Cultural Negotiations." 1:45-3:15 PM: "Corporate Identity and Its Discontents." 3:30-5:00 PM: "Roundtable Discussion: Performing American Studies in the Classroom." 6:30-8:30 PM: "Exploring 'American' Identities: An Evening of Creative Performances," Simpson Center for the Humanities. Sponsored by the Graduate School, the Hilen Endowment, GPSS, GO-MAP, the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, and the departments of American Ethnic Studies, English, and History. For more information please contact Tamiko Nimura (tnimura@u.washington.edu) or see conference website: http://www.depts.washington.edu/englgso/program.htm>. |
| 3:30 PM | International Studies Lecture "Ethnic Mobilizations without Prerequisites: The East European Gypsies," Zoltan D. Barany (University of Texas, Austin). Parrington Hall, The Forum. Sponsors: The Center for the Study of Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution and the International Studies Center/JSIS. For more information please call 685-2354. |
| 4:00 PM | Canadian Authors Reading Alberta Unbound: An Evening of Western Words and Music, featuring readings by Peter Olivia, Aritha Van Herk, & Nicole Markotic. University Book Store. Sponsored by the Canadian Studies Centre and the University Bookstore. For more information please call the Canadian Studies Centre at 221-6374. |
| 7:00 PM | Comparative Religion Lecture "The Brown Eye of God," Richard Rodriguez, journalist. Kane Hall 120. Richard Rordriguez is an editor at Pacific News Service and a contributing editor for Harper's Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, and the Sunday "Opinion" section of the Los Angeles Times. He has published numerous articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The American Scholar, Time, Mother Jones, and The New Republic, as well as other publications. He has also written two books: Hunger of Memory and Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father, as well as two BBC documentaries. The lecture is co-sponsored by Comparative Religion and the University Congregational United Church of Christ. Following the lecture, there will be a discussion with Rodriguez in the UCUCC lounge (4515 16th NE). For more information please call 543-4835. |
| 7:00 PM | Artist Conversation & Reception Artist Conversation and Opening Reception: Alexis Rockman, exhibiting artist, and Peter Ward, UW professor, Geological Sciences, and adjunct professor, Zoology. Henry Auditorium. New York artist Alexis Rockman discusses his work and his theories on evolution and extinction with Peter Ward, who is currently at work on a book called The Future of Evolution. Ward's book explores how future evolutionary events might transpire. Followed by an opening reception for Alexis Rockman: Future Evolution. $8 general / $4 members and students. For more information please call the Henry Art Gallery at 543-2281. |
| 7:30 PM | Drama Performance "History of the Devil, or Scenes from a Pretended Life," by Clive Barker. Directed by J. Daniel Stanley. Meany Studio Theatre. Single tickets are $10 on Friday and Saturday, $8 Sunday through Thursday. Students always pay $7. Call the UW Arts Tickets office at 543-4880. SEE APRIL 25 LISTING FOR DETAILS. |
| 8:00 PM | Dance Performance Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Meany Theatre. Now entering his ninth decade, Merce Cunningham is universally acknowledged as one of the leading artistic innovators of our time. Continuing his ground-breaking experimentation with computer animation, Cunningham presents BIPED, a remarkable marriage of movement and technology in which live dancers interact with digitally projected images to create a "moving decor" that is at once complex, ethereal and entrancingly beautiful. Also on the program is a stunning revival of 1968's RainForest, featuring set design by Andy Warhol. Single tickets: $36. Call the UW Arts Tickets Office at 543-4880. |
| Friday, April 27 | |
| 9:00 AM 5:00 PM | **AMERICAN STUDIES COLLOQUIUM** "Performing American Identities," 9th Annual American Studies Conference, UW American Studies Colloquium. Parrington Commons (308 Parrington). FRIDAY EVENTS: Panels in Parrington Commons: 9:00-10:30 AM: "Passing Fancies." 10:45 AM-12:15 PM: "Composing the Representative Subject." 1:45-3:15 PM: "Transnational Conversations in American Studies." 3:30-5:00 PM: "Staging the American Scene." Sponsored by the Graduate School, the Hilen Endowment, GPSS, GO-MAP, the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, and the departments of American Ethnic Studies, English, and History. For more information please contact Tamiko Nimura (tnimura@u.washington.edu) or see conference website: http://www.depts.washington.edu/englgso/program.htm>. |
| 12:30 PM | Concert UW Womens Choral Ensemble: Ensemble Concert. Mary Gates Hall. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 1:30 PM | **GERMANICS/HUMANITIES LECTURE** "The New Heloise: Women's Education in Light of the Early Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard," Stephen Jaeger (Professor of Germanics and Comparative Literature). Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, Communications 206. Sponsored by the Department of Germanics and the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information please call Germanics at 543-4580 or the Simpson Center at 543-3920. |
| 1:30 PM | Opera Preview Seattle Opera Preview: Falstaff. Brechemin Auditorium. "The brisk gossamer quality of this score perfectly reflects the breathlessness of one of the most delightful librettos ever created - a more memorable portrait of Falstaff and his world than even Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor." - Speight Jenkins, General Director, Seattle Opera. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 3:30 PM | Linguistics Colloquium "Position in Word and Manner: Effects on Coarticulation: Tsou Consonant Clusters," Richard Wright (UW). Thomson 325. Sponsored by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please call 543-2046. |
| 3:30 PM | Japan Studies Lecture Eleanor Hadley. Thomson 317. Sponsor: Japan Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4391. |
| 7:00 PM | Jessie and John Danz Lecture "Race Matters," Cornel West, Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy of Religion, Harvard. Kane Hall 130. Self described intellectual freedom fighter, Cornel West defines his philosophy as "a polemical weapon that attempts to transform linguistic, social, cultural, and political tradition to increase the scope of individual development and democratic actions." His work, influenced by traditions as diverse as the Baptist church, American transcendentalism, the Black Panthers, and European philosophy, seeks to revive the best of liberalism, populism, and democratic socialism. Dr. West is the author of 15 books including Jews and Blacks; The Future of Race and Restoring Hope, and critically acclaimed, Race Matters. In his work, Dr. West confronts the "monumental eclipse of hope and unprecedented collapse of meaning" in American race relations. He teaches that racial division fosters the poverty, paranoia, the fear and distrust that undermine our nation's democratic process. In creating an ongoing dialogue between the races, he pursues his vigilant efforts to restore hope in America. Admission is free. A ticket is required and may be picked up at the University Book Store. For more information please call 616-1825, visit www.grad.washington.edu or email YvetteF@grad.washington.edu. |
| 8:00 PM | Drama Performance "History of the Devil, or Scenes from a Pretended Life," by Clive Barker. Directed by J. Daniel Stanley. Meany Studio Theatre. Single tickets are $10 on Friday and Saturday, $8 Sunday through Thursday. Students always pay $7. Call the UW Arts Tickets office at 543-4880. SEE APRIL 25 LISTING FOR DETAILS. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Larissa A. Stucki, Voice and Samantha Duncan, voice: Junior Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 8:00 PM | Dance Performance Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Meany Theatre. Now entering his ninth decade, Merce Cunningham is universally acknowledged as one of the leading artistic innovators of our time. Continuing his ground-breaking experimentation with computer animation, Cunningham presents BIPED, a remarkable marriage of movement and technology in which live dancers interact with digitally projected images to create a "moving decor" that is at once complex, ethereal and entrancingly beautiful. Also on the program is a stunning revival of 1968's RainForest, featuring set design by Andy Warhol. Single tickets: $36. Call the UW Arts Tickets Office at 543-4880. |
| Saturday, April 28 | |
| 8:30 AM | Music Workshop Gospel Music Day: Workshop - "Gospel Music Day" with Horace Clarence Boyer. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Horace Clarence Boyer is a renowned performer and arranger/composer of gospel music, a Smithsonian scholar, and professor of music, University of Massachusetts. He will conduct participants in the performance of gospel repertoire, including his own arrangements popular with churches in the eastern U.S., and will work on stylistic nuances vital to choral performance. Professor Boyer will set gospel music in context with a presentation of "The Old Ship of Zion" on the historical evolution of Black gospel-style singing, and will discuss and demonstrate regional gospel styles. This free program will be of special interest to singers, choir directors, teachers, and other interested musicians. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 11:00 AM 3:00 PM | Basketry Demonstration Basketweaving Demonstration: Pat Courtney Gold. Burke Museum. A member of the Wasco Nation, Warm Springs Confederated Tribes of Oregon, Pat Courtney Gold is a former community college teacher who now devotes her time to creating, teaching, and lecturing on Plateau Tribal Art. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, at venues including the Seattle Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Maryhill Museum, Oregon Historical Society, and many others. "The Wasco traditional art of full-turn twined baskets with geometric human figures and motifs was a dying art. I helped revive this art and want to preserve the technique and record the traditional designs." Sponsored by the Burke Museum. For more information please call 543-5590. |
| 5:00 PM | Concert Antje Farmer, voice: Masters Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 8:00 PM | Drama Performance "History of the Devil, or Scenes from a Pretended Life," by Clive Barker. Directed by J. Daniel Stanley. Meany Studio Theatre. Single tickets are $10 on Friday and Saturday, $8 Sunday through Thursday. Students always pay $7. Call the UW Arts Tickets office at 543-4880. SEE APRIL 25 LISTING FOR DETAILS. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Claudia Hoca, piano: Guest Artist Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. This concert was originally scheduled for May 5, 2001 and was rescheduled to April 28th due to unforseen circumstances. Described by the Christian Science Monitor as "a pianist of power and interpretive discipline," Claudia Hoca will perform Leo Smit's Dance Card, among other works. Program: J.S. Bach: Partita No. 4 in D; Leo Smit: Dance Card; Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in E-flat, Op. 81a; Leo Smit: Fantasy; The Farewell: Frederic Chopin; Ballade in F minor, Op. 52. $8 Students & Seniors; $10 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 8:00 PM | Dance Performance Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Meany Theatre. Now entering his ninth decade, Merce Cunningham is universally acknowledged as one of the leading artistic innovators of our time. Continuing his ground-breaking experimentation with computer animation, Cunningham presents BIPED, a remarkable marriage of movement and technology in which live dancers interact with digitally projected images to create a "moving decor" that is at once complex, ethereal and entrancingly beautiful. Also on the program is a stunning revival of 1968's RainForest, featuring set design by Andy Warhol. Single tickets: $36. Call the UW Arts Tickets Office at 543-4880. |
| Sunday, April 29 | |
| 2:00 PM | Drama Performance "History of the Devil, or Scenes from a Pretended Life," by Clive Barker. Directed by J. Daniel Stanley. Meany Studio Theatre. Single tickets are $10 on Friday and Saturday, $8 Sunday through Thursday. Students always pay $7. Call the UW Arts Tickets office at 543-4880. SEE APRIL 25 LISTING FOR DETAILS. |
| 2:00 PM | Concert Sachi P Hirakouji, Piano: Doctoral Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |