| Monday, May 7 | |
| 3:30 PM | Anthropology/Southeast Asia Lecture Christina Fink (anthropologist and author) will be speaking about her new book, "Living Silence: Burma Under Military Rule." Thomson Hall, Room 317. For more information please call 543-9606. |
| 3:30 PM | Environmental Studies Lecture "Use, Management, and Sanctification of Nature: Comparing California Indian and Western Worldviews", M. Kat Anderson (USDA Natural Resources Conservation Services). 241 Mary Gates Hall. This colloquium series, "Whose Nature: Conflicting Interests and Perceptions," 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 or call 206.616.3310. |
| 3:30 PM | History/Law Lecture "An Historian's Adventure in the Law: The Nixon Tapes and Freedom of Information," Stanley I. Kutler, (University of Wisconsin). Room 109/129 Condon Hall (Law School). Stanley I. Kutler has written widely in a number of fields of American history, particularly concentrating on American Constitutional History and the twentieth century. He is the author of ABUSE OF POWER: THE NEW NIXON TAPES (Free Press, 1997), THE WARS OF WATERGATE (Norton, l992), THE AMERICAN INQUISITION (l982), which won the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association; PRIVILEGE AND CREATIVE DESTRUCTION; THE CHARLES RIVER BRIDGE CASE (Norton, l978) and more than half dozen text books and numerous scholarly articles on American history and law. Professor Kutler is the founding editor of REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. His op-ed pieces have appeared in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Nation. He is also the editor of ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICA and THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE VIETNAM WAR and has appeared as a commentator on National Public Radio. His book ABUSE OF POWER is currently being adapted for a Broadway Play. Sponsored by The Graduate School, The Department of History, the Comparative Law and Society Studies Center (CLASS), and the School of Law. For more information please call 543-5790. |
| 7:00 PM | Taiwan Film Series "Pushing Hands," (Directed by Ang Lee, 110 minutes). HUB Auditorium. A Taiwanese man travels to the United States and marries an American. This film takes an amusing look at the differences between Taiwanese and American Culture. Discussion led by Professor Yomi Braester (Comparative Literature), Professor Steven Harrell (Anthropology), and Dr. Hsin-Yi Lu (RA at East Asia Library, UW). Suggested donation for each ticket is $2. For tickets or more information please call John Chou at 365-0502. |
| 8:00 PM | Jewish Studies Lecture "Cultural Disjunctions and Modern Jewish Identity," Paul Mendes-Flohr (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). 220 Kane Hall. The Jewish Studies Program at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies presents The Samuel & Althea Stroum Lectureship in Jewish Studies. Paul Mendes-Flohr will give a three-part lecture series on the subject of Post-Traditional Jewish Identities. Lectures to follow on May 9 and May 14. Paul Mendes-Flohr is Professor of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he is the director of the Franz Rosenzweig Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History. He is also a member of the faculty of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Mendes-Flohr is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History (with Jehuda Reinharz); Divided Passions: Jewish Intellectuals and the Experience of Modernity; and German Jews: A Dual Identity. Together with Peter Schäfer, he serves as the editor-in-chief of a twenty-one volume critical edition (in German) of the writings of Martin Buber. Admission Complimentary. Reception following lecture, Walker-Ames Room. Dietary laws observed. For more information please call 543-4835. |
| Tuesday, May 8 | |
| 3:30 PM | Jewish Studies/Germanics Lecture "German Jews and Bildung," Paul Mendes-Flohr (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). Thomson 317. Sponsored by Jewish Studies and Germanics. For more information please call Jewish Studies at 206-543-4243. |
| 6:00 PM | **ENGLISH/HUMANITIES LECTURE** "The Politics of Beauty," Denis Donoghue. Kane Hall 210. Professor Denis Donoghue, noted critic of Irish and American literature, will deliver a Walker-Ames lecture on the topic of "The Politics of Beauty." Discussions of Beauty--of Beauty as a value, comparable to truth and virtue--have been continuous since Plato and Aristotle. But in the last forty years these discussions have often come under rebuke. It has been alleged that an interest in Beauty is a sign of political and social corruption or of indifference to the obligations of truth and justice. Besides, it is said, even if Beauty were an important value, we have already lost it to television, Hollywood, and the cosmetics industry. This lecture will argue, nonetheless, that Beauty may be retained in a valid politics without shame or apology. Born in Tullow, County Carlow, Ireland, Donoghue grew up in Northern Ireland and attended University College, Dublin. He has written numerous works on Irish and American literature and culture, including studies of Yeats, Pater, and T.S. Eliot; his recent books include Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls and Adam's Curse: Reflections on Literature and Religion. Sponsored by the Graduate School, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, and the Departments of English and Comparative Literature. For more information please call the Graduate School at 206-616-1825. |
| Wednesday, May 9 | |
| 12:15 PM | Art Tour Kurt Kiefer, exhibition curator, offers an informal talk on Alexis Rockman: Future Evolution. Henry Art Gallery. Free with museum admission. For more information please call 543-2281. |
| 1:30 PM | Middle East Studies Lecture "Reflections on the Social and Political Roles of Bathhouses in Early Islamic Syria," Lara G. Tohme (Aga Khan Fellow of Islamic Architecture, MIT). Thomson 317. Sponsored by the Middle East Center. For more information please call 206-543-4227. |
| 5:30 PM | Canadian Studies Dinner Lecture "Canadian Film: The Making of an Industry through Government Policy," Dinner/Lecture with the founder/executive director of the Seattle International Film Festival, Darryl Macdonald. Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. $22 per person. To reserve or for more information: email canada@u.washington.edu. |
| 7:00 PM | Political Science/Journalism Forum 36 Days: The Presidential Election Crisis. 120 Kane Hall. Reporters who covered the 2000 Presidential election crisis will be on campus to discuss their articles and offer post-election insights. Reporters include Sam Howe Verhovek, Northwest correspondent, and Adam Clymer, chief Washington correspondent. Sponsored by the Dept. of Political Science & The New York Times. For more information please call 206-543-2580. |
| 7:30 PM | Opera "The Turn of the Screw." Meany Theater. The UW School of Music presents their Spring Opera: Benjamin Britten's harrowing work about ghostly possession. Tickets: $10-$15. Call 543-4880 for tickets or purchase at the door. For more information please call the School of Music at (206) 685-8384. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Marci Morrell, soprano: Masters Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 8:00 PM | Jewish Studies Lecture "Jewish Cultural Memory: Its Multiple Configurations," Paul Mendes-Flohr (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). 220 Kane Hall. The Jewish Studies Program at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies presents The Samuel & Althea Stroum Lectureship in Jewish Studies, part two of a three-part lecture series on the subject of Post-Traditional Jewish Identities. Lecture to follow on May 14. Paul Mendes-Flohr is Professor of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he is the director of the Franz Rosenzweig Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History. He is also a member of the faculty of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Mendes-Flohr is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History (with Jehuda Reinharz); Divided Passions: Jewish Intellectuals and the Experience of Modernity; and German Jews: A Dual Identity. Together with Peter Schäfer, he serves as the editor-in-chief of a twenty-one volume critical edition (in German) of the writings of Martin Buber. Admission Complimentary. For more information please call 543-4835. |
| Thursday, May 10 | |
| 3:00 PM | **HISTORY/HUMANITIES LECTURE** "Ghostly Interior: House, Home and Archive in Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column," (Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois, History). Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. Sponsored by The Taylor Institute for Transnational Studies and Co-sponsored by The Jackson School of International Studies, the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, and the Center for West European Studies. For more information please email tayloruw@u.washington.edu. |
| 3:30 PM | Comparative Religion Forum Godesses Who Rule: A Subject and Its Teaching. Thomson 317. The theme of relationships of goddesses and sovereignty in varous traditions will be introduced and discussion will include consideration of ways in which these materials may be taught and incorporated into various curricula. This discussion should be of interest to teachers and students in Comparative Religion, Asian Studies, Anthropology, History and Women's Studies. Sponsored by the Comparative Religion Program. For more information please call 206 543-4835. |
| 3:30 PM | Ethnic Conflict/International Studies
"Willing Europeans: Preventing Ethno-National Conflict in Macedonia," Anastasia Karakasidou (Wellesley College). Parrington Hall, The Forum. Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution and the International Studies Center/JSIS. For more information please call 206-685-2354. |
| 7:00 PM | Japan Studies/Art Lecture "Fiber Art Movement in Postwar Japan," Yoshiko I. Wada (University of California, Berkeley). Henry Auditorium, Henry Art Gallery. During the late 1960s and early '70s an experimental movement in fiber art emerged in North America, but the majority of textile artists in Japan were exploring new forms of expression within the traditional context. By looking at examples from post-war Japan, we can contemplate essential and universal aspects of Japanese textile arts in an historical context. Co-sponsored by the UW Japan Studies Program. Sponsored by the Japan America Society & Japan Studies Program. $6 general / $4 Henry members, free to students. For more information please call 543-4391. |
| 7:00 PM | Art Lecture Rod Slemmons, photography historian and lecturer, UW School of Art, discusses the photography of John Gutmann within its historical context. Henry Art Gallery. For more information please call 543-2281. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Keyboard Debut Series. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. School of Music piano students in recital. Sponsored by the School of Music. For more information please clal (206) 685-8384. |
| 7:30 PM | Polit. Sci./Russian Studies Lecture "Putin's Nature: A Cautionary Fable" by Steven Solnick (Columbia University). 210 Kane Hall. Sponsored by Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Center and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation. For more information please call 206-543-4852. |
| Friday, May 11 | |
| 1:30 PM | History/West European Studies Lecture
"Petrarchism and the Strangeness of Empire," Richard Helgerson (University of California, Santa Barbara). Communications Building, room 226. Richard Helgerson is the author, most recently, of" Adulterous Alliances: Home, State, and History in Early Modern European Drama and Painting," a wide-ranging study of English, Spanish, and French drama and of Dutch genre painting in the early modern period. His other seminal books include "The Elizabethan Prodigals; Self Crowned Laureates: Spenser, Jonson, Milton, and the Literary System," and "Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England," which won the British Council Prize in the Humanities and the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association. Sponsored by the Department of History, the Department of English, the Center for West European Studies West European Colloquium, and the Early Modern Research Group. For more information please email cwes@u.washington.edu. |
| 1:30 PM | Political Science Lecture "Constructing a Judiciary in Service of Democracy: Insights from the Chilean Case," Elisabeth Hilbink, post-doctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows, and lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Gowen 1B. Dr. Hilbink received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California-San Diego in 1999. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Chile in 1996, and her doctoral dissertation, entitled "Legalism Against Democracy: The Political Role of the Judiciary in Chile, 1964-1994" won the Western Political Science Association's 1999-2000 Best Dissertation Award. Her research and teaching interests include conparative judicidal politics, Latin American politics, democratization, transitional politics, comparative constitutionalism, and liberal and democratic theory. Sponsorsed by The Comparative Law and Society Studies Center (CLASS) and the Department of Political Science. For more information please call 543-2780. |
| 3:30 PM | Linguistics Lecture "Why Early Immediate Constituents? The Role of Memory and Locality," Gabriel Webster. 325 Thomson. Sponsored by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please call (206) 543-2046. |
| 3:30 PM | Japan Studies Lecture "Infrastructure Investment and Industrialization in Postwar Asia: How relevant is Japan?" Carl Mosk (University of Victoria). Thomson 317. Sponsored by the Japan Studies Program. For more information please call 543-4391. |
| 7:30 PM | Opera "The Turn of the Screw." Meany Theater. The UW School of Music presents their Spring Opera: Benjamin Britten's harrowing work about ghostly possession. Tickets: $10-$15. Call 543-4880 for tickets or purchase at the door. For more information please call the School of Music at (206) 685-8384. |
| 8:00 PM | Drama Performance "Joan: In Her Own Voice," by Connie Amundson, directed by Cathy Madden. Playhouse Theatre, 4045 University Way NE. She’s sassy, petulant and strong-willed. A pretty typical teenager, right? Except this adolescent girl leads an army of men to victory on the battlefield, and inspires a nation. In this world premiere, Seattle playwright Connie Amundson gives us a Joan of Arc, whose power and beliefs are fueled by the old matriarchal religion of the French countryside. Joan struggles with her upbringing, her inner voices, her loves and eventually her captors amidst a backdrop of song, dance and stirring action. Tickets $5.00, available at the door night of performance only. For more information please call the School of Drama at 543-5140. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Kyongsook K. Jun, Voice: Doctoral Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| Saturday, May 12 | |
| 8:30 AM 5:00 PM | Spanish Films Diversity in Spain. BLM 413. A series of four films about Spain and its geographical and cultural diversity. This event will include a section on the use of films in the Spanish class. Sponsored by UW Center for Spanish Studies. For more info, email the Center for Spanish Studies at spnrectr@u.washington.edu or call 206-221-6571. |
| 2:00 PM | Burke Museum Event Laotian Fire Rocket Festival. Begins at the Burke Museum and travels through the UW campus to Red Square. Boun Bang Fai (Lao Fire Rocket Festival) is the most important holiday in the Lao calendar. Join the Northwest Lao community for a lively parade of traditional fire rockets, music, mime and dance. Sponsored by the Burke Museum. For more information please call 206-543-5590. |
| 8:00 PM | Drama Performance "Joan: In Her Own Voice," by Connie Amundson, directed by Cathy Madden. Playhouse Theatre, 4045 University Way NE. She’s sassy, petulant and strong-willed. A pretty typical teenager, right? Except this adolescent girl leads an army of men to victory on the battlefield, and inspires a nation. In this world premiere, Seattle playwright Connie Amundson gives us a Joan of Arc, whose power and beliefs are fueled by the old matriarchal religion of the French countryside. Joan struggles with her upbringing, her inner voices, her loves and eventually her captors amidst a backdrop of song, dance and stirring action. Tickets $5.00, available at the door night of performance only. For more information please call the School of Drama at 543-5140. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Vocal Jazz Solo Night. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Solos by members of the UW Vocal Jazz I ensemble, including "Old Devil Moon," "When I Look In Your Eyes," "Straighten Up and Fly Right," and "Since I Fell For You," and "My Romance" and "I Don't Know Enough About You" by the new UW Women's Vocal Jazz Quintet. Sponsored by the School of Music. Tickets: $5-$8 (cash or check, at the door). For more information please call (206) 685-8384. |
| Sunday, May 13 | |
| 2:00 PM | Drama Performance "Joan: In Her Own Voice," by Connie Amundson, directed by Cathy Madden. Playhouse Theatre, 4045 University Way NE. She’s sassy, petulant and strong-willed. A pretty typical teenager, right? Except this adolescent girl leads an army of men to victory on the battlefield, and inspires a nation. In this world premiere, Seattle playwright Connie Amundson gives us a Joan of Arc, whose power and beliefs are fueled by the old matriarchal religion of the French countryside. Joan struggles with her upbringing, her inner voices, her loves and eventually her captors amidst a backdrop of song, dance and stirring action. Tickets $5.00, available at the door night of performance only. For more information please call the School of Drama at 543-5140. |
| 3:00 PM | Opera "The Turn of the Screw." Meany Theater. The UW School of Music presents their Spring Opera: Benjamin Britten's harrowing work about ghostly possession. Tickets: $10-$15. Call 543-4880 for tickets or purchase at the door. For more information please call the School of Music at (206) 685-8384. |
| 5:00 PM | Concert Yuh-Pey Lin, oboe, and Chia-Shan Yang, piano: Doctoral Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |