| Monday, May 14 | |
| 3:30 PM | **HUMANITIES/ENGLISH FORUM** Fashion Forum featuring Herbert Blau and Jessica Burstein. Simpson Center for the Humanities, Communications 206. Blau and Burstein will speak solo and in conversation, sharing their work on fashion and discussing potential for further study in the field. Sponsored by the American Studies Colloquium of the UW English Department, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, and the Hilen Foundation. For more information please call 543-2690. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet: Faculty Recital. Meany Theater. Performing with Craig Sheppard, piano. Program: Bernard: Divertissement for Ten Winds, Op. 36; Poulenc: Sextet for Piano and Winds; Bird: Serenade for Winds, Op. 40; Smith: "Trias" for flute, clarinet, and bassoon. Tickets: $8 Students & Seniors; $10 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Voice Division Recital: Division Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| Tuesday, May 15 | |
| 2:00 PM | English/Comp. Lit. Lecture "Close Encounters of the Kantian Kind: The Anthropology and Its Aliens," David Clark (McMaster University). Simpson Center for the Humanities, Seminar Room, Communications 202. Professor Clark teaches courses in critical theory, Continental philosophy, and the discourses of HIV/AIDS. He has twice been Visiting Professor at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario. He is contributor to and co-editor of three volumes: Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory; New Romanticisms: Theory and Critical Practice; and Regarding Sedgwick: Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory. Sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature and English. For more information please call 543-7542 or email maf@u.washington.edu. |
| 5:00 PM | **ART HISTORY LECTURE** "Architectural Transformation: Space, Structure and Light in Ottoman Mosques," Henry Matthews, Art Historian. Denny 314. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, Middle East Center and International Studies Center of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. For more information please call 543-7236. |
| 6:00 PM | Art Exhibit Opening MFA Exhibit: Paul Metivier. Building, located at 4205 Mary Gates Memorial Drive. Join Paul Metivier and the Ceramics Program at the opening of Paul's MFA exhibit. The exhibit runs through May 19, 2001. For more information, please call 206.543.0178. This event is free and open to the public. |
| 7:00 PM | Taiwan Film Series "Hill of No Return." HUB Auditorium. In the 1920's, Taiwan is a colony of Japan. Two men, Chu and Wei, travel to the mining town of Chiu-Fen looking for a way to get rich. But they find a lot more than they bargained for. Suggested donation for each ticket is $2. For tickets or more information please call John Chou at 365-0502. |
| 7:30 PM | Poetry Reading Sharon Olds. Norstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall. One of America's greatest contemporary poets, Sharon Olds is the author of eight volumes of poetry including The Dead and the Living (1984), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Father (1992); and most recently Blood, Tin, and Straw (1999). Her poems are renowned for their use of candid language and startling images to convey truths about domestic violence, sexuality, family relationships, and the body. STUDENT TICKETS $8.50 (regular tickets $14). Sponsored by Seattle Arts & Lectures. For tickets or more information call (206) 621-2230 or visit www.lectures.org. |
| 7:30 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. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert. Computer Music Concert: Division Recital - Beats and Bytes: A Concert of New Music for Percussion and Computer-Generated Sound. Meany Theater. Program: Juan Pampin: Skin Heads; Ching-Wen Chao: Sound States; Julio Viera: Divertimento III; Richard Karpen: The Silence of Time. Tickets: $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. Presented by the UW Center for Advanced Research Technology in the Arts and Humanities (CARTAH) (Richard Karpen, director) and the UW Percussion Ensemble (Tom Collier, director). For more information please call CARTAH at 543-4218. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Amber Sudduth, voice: DMA Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 8:00 PM | **SOLOMON KATZ DISTINGUISHED LECTURE**
"Dante's Idea of Rome," Andreas Kablitz (University of Cologne). Kane Hall 220. This lecture will discuss Dante's idea of the Roman Empire which not only provides an explanation for the--at first glance--surprisingly important role of the pagan Virgil in the Commedia, but is also a key concept for Dante's theories of secular and salvation history. Andreas Kablitz, born in 1957, studied Romance Languages at the University of Cologne with a scholarship of the renowned Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. In 1981 he began to work as an Assistant at the University of (West-)Berlin, where he got his Ph. D with a thesis on Lamartine in 1983. In 1994 he returned to Cologne, where - in addition to his professorial lecturing activities - he is now also the director of the Petrarca-Institute, member of the editorial board of the Romantistische Jahrbuch and of the academic comittee of the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung. In 1997 he was awarded the Leibniz-Preis of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Although his special research interest of late centers on Dante, his essays cover a wide range of topics from French, Italian and English Literature, featuring Petrarch, Tasso and other authors from the Italian and French Renaissance as well as Shakespeare, Thomas Mann and Oscar Wilde. Free and Open to the Public. Reception to Follow in the Walker-Ames Room. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information please call 543-3920 or email uwch@u.washington.edu. |
| Wednesday, May 16 | |
| 3:30 PM | Asian Lang. and Lit. Colloquium "The Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project: An Update," Richard Salomon and Collett Cox. Savery 315. Sponsored by the Asian Languages and Literature Colloquium. For more information please call 543-4996. |
| 4:00 PM | **CURRICULUM FORUM RECEPTION** A Curriculum Forum Reception. Simpson Center for the Humanities, Communications 206. For the last three years, the Simpson Center's Curriculum Forum has been working to foster innovative 200-level humanities courses. We would like to take the occasion offered by the appointment of 2001-2002 Simpson Center Curriculum Fellows to invite you to a reception honoring them and welcoming all other faculty interested in interdisciplinary team-teaching initiatives. Curriculum Fellows will give brief presentations about recent and upcoming courses, exchanging ideas and information as we seek to broaden our conversations about the goals and values of education in the humanities. 2001-2002 Simpson Center Curriculum Fellows are: Cathy Connors (Classics) and Mary O'Neil (History), "From Citizen to Self: Constructions of the Family from Antiquity to the Renaissance" (HUM 220) Fall 2001; Keith Benson (Medical History & Ethics/History) and Leah Ceccarelli (Speech Communications), Darwin's The Origin of Species (HUM 210) Winter 2002; and Philip Thurtle (Communications), Marta Lyall (Art) and Elizabeth Rutledge (Medicine), "In Vivo: Traversing Scientific and Artistic Observations of Life" (HUM 200) Spring 2002. For more information please call the Simpson Center at 543-3920. |
| 7:30 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. |
| Thursday, May 17 | |
| 2:30 PM | **ART HISTORY/CLASSICS LECTURE** "Ritual Brotherhood from Late Antiquity to Byzantium and Beyond," Prof. Claudia Rapp (UCLA, Department of History). Art 006. Co-sponsored by Art History, Classics, and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information please contact Anna Kartsonis at kartsoni@u.washington.edu. |
| 3:30 PM | International Studies Colloquium "The Failure of the Oslo Peace Process," Joel Beinin (Stanford University). The Forum, third floor of Parrington Hall. Part of the series on Ethnic Conflict in the Modern World co-ordinated by International Studies at the Jackson School. Professor Beinin has written on labor history in Egypt, Arab communism, and the Jewish Diaspora. His recent work has been shaped by an effort to develop approaches that combine the methods of political economy and cultural studies. For more information please call 543-4370. |
| 7:00 PM | Poetry Reading Poet Frank Bidart will read. Mary Gates Hall room 389. Bidart has authored five books of poetry, the most recent of which is *Desire* (1997). He has received The Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation Writer's Award, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America, and The Paris Review's first Bernard F. Conners Prize for the 1981 poem "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky." The reading is free and open to the public; no tickets are required. This reading is made possible by the Hilen Endowment and the Department of English at the University of Washington. For further information, contact Jessica Burstein, jb2@u.washington.edu, 206.616.4181. |
| 7:00 PM | Taiwan Film Series "Dust in the Wind." HUB Auditorium. Ah-yuan and Ah-yun are childhood friends whose friendship evolves into love. But this love is tested when Ah-Yuan is drafted into the military. Suggested donation for each ticket is $2. For tickets or more information please call John Chou at 365-0502. |
| 7:00 PM | Art Film "Science Friction" (VandBeek), "Land Without Bread" (Bunuel), "Les Mystères du Château Dé" (Man Ray), "Premier Nuit." Henry Auditorium. When photographer John Gutmann taught at San Francisco State University in the 1950s, he organized a now legendary film series called Art Movies, featuring a dazzling array of short and feature films about art, by artists, or motivated by avant-garde ideas. The Henry reprises a small segment of this series in conjunction with John Gutmann: Culture Shock. Each evening's presentation lasts approximately one hour and a half. Tickets: $6 general / $4 members and students. For a detailed description of films, please call 543-2281 for the flyer. |
| 7:30 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. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Jazz Combos: Ensemble Concert. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Marc Seales, director. Tickets: $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 8:00 PM | Dance Concert Dance Majors' Concert. Meany Studio Theatre. Choreography by dance majors, performed by undergraduate majors and non-majors. Tickets: Adults $8.00/Students & Seniors $6.00. For more information please call 543-9843. |
| 8:00 PM | Dance Performance Mark Morris Dance Group. Meany Theater. Brilliantly inventive, breathtakingly musical, and touchingly humorous, Morris' choreography presents the human experience in all its glorious complexity. Tickets: $38. For tickets please call the UW Arts Ticket Office at 543-4880. single tickets: $38 |
| Friday, May 18 | |
| 1:30 PM | Germanics Lecture "The Hitler Diaries: The Fascination of a Fake," Eric Rentschler (Harvard University). Denny 308. Sponsored by the Department of Germanics and the Graduate School. For more information please call 543-4580. |
| 2:30 PM | Spanish Studies Lecture "Memorias del Silencio" ("Memories of Silence"), Gloria Zamora, Mayan activist for human rights in Guatemala. Padelford B202. Active on behalf of human rights and indigenous issues for more than thirty years, Gloria Zamora will cover issues such as human rights violations suffered by the indigenous population in Guatemala; her own role in informing the "Comision para el Esclarecimiento Historico" (Commission for Historical Clarification, established in Oslo in 1994); the progress of the Guatemalan Peace Accord; assistance to the victims and their families; and the problem of returning refugees. Sponsored by The Division of Spanish and Portuguese, the Center for Spanish Studies. For more information please contact Paloma Borreguero at paloma@u.washington.edu. |
| 3:30 PM | **HISTORY/HUMANITIES LECTURE** "The Modern Girl Goes to War," Miriam Silverberg (University of California, Los Angeles). Simpson Center for the Humanities, Communications 206. Sponsored by: The Taylor Institute for Transnational Studies. Co-sponsored by: The Jackson School of International Studies, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, and the Japan Studies Program. For more information please email tayloruw@u.washington.edu or call 616-1190. |
| 3:30 PM | Linguistics Colloquium "Internally and Externally Motivated Language Change: Detroit African-American English," Lesley Milroy (University of Michigan). 325 Thomson. For more information, contact Kim Emmons at kemmons@u.washington.edu. Sponsored by the Linguistics Department. |
| 3:30 PM | Asian Lang. and Lit. Lecture "Takeeuchi Yoshimi's Theory of Literature," Richard Calichman (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies). Savery 249. Sponsored by the Department of Asian Languages and Literature. For more information please call 543-4996. |
| 7:00 PM | **LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES CONFERENCE**
"TINKUQNIPACHA: Indigeneity in the Context of Transnational Dialogues," Keynote Address by Guillermo Delgado, Quechua activist/scholar (UC-Santa Cruz). Sieg Hall 134. Opening lecture for "Indigenous Mobilization in the Americas: Forging Hemispheric Ties, A Conference with First Nations." Speakers from Latin America, Canada, and the United States will speak over two days. Free and open to all. UW Sponsors: Latin American Studies Program, JSIS; Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities; Canadian Studies, JSIS; Division of Spanish and Portuguese; Spanish Resource Center; American Ethnic Studies Department; Department of Anthropology; First Nations@UW. Community Sponsors: People for Justice in Chile, El Centro de la Raza, Washington State-Chile Partners for the Americas. For more information contact LAS-JSIS, 206-685-3435; lasuw@u.washington.edu. |
| 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 | Dance Concert Dance Majors' Concert. Meany Studio Theatre. Choreography by dance majors, performed by undergraduate majors and non-majors. Tickets: Adults $8.00/Students & Seniors $6.00. For more information please call 543-9843. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Guitar Division Recital: Division Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Solo performances of works by Sor, Lauro, Albeniz, Villa-Lobos, Mertz, and Handel. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Collegium Musicum, "Witty Ditties": Ensemble Concert. Kane Hall 220. Vocal pieces written for a gentlemen's "Catch Club" in London in the 1760s -- short, pithy observations about love, life, and taverns. These humorous pieces still amuse audiences today, but are rarely heard. Tickets: $5.00 General, $3.00 Student/Senior. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 8:00 PM | Dance Performance Mark Morris Dance Group. Meany Theater. Brilliantly inventive, breathtakingly musical, and touchingly humorous, Morris' choreography presents the human experience in all its glorious complexity. Tickets: $38. For tickets please call the UW Arts Ticket Office at 543-4880. single tickets: $38 |
| Saturday, May 19 | |
| 9:00 AM 9:00 PM | **LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES CONFERENCE**
"Indigenous Mobilization in the Americas: Forging Hemispheric Ties, A Conference with First Nations." Sieg Hall 134. Daytime panel discussions on sovereignty, legal & land issues, cultural revitalization and education. Evening film screening and discussion. 9:00-9:30: Coffee and socializing. 9:30-10:30: Welcoming remarks and opening talk. 10:45-12:15: Panel: Sovereignty Issues - Legal, Land, Cultural Rights - Tom Happynook, Nuu-chah-nulth whaling chief & leader, British Columbia; Adolfo Millabur, Mapuche mayor from Tirua, Chile; Gloria Zamora, Quiche indigenous and human rights activist, Guatemala. 1:30-3:00: Panel: Cultural Revitalization - Roberta Conner, Tamastslikt Cultural Institute, Confederated Tribes of Umatilla Reservation; Michael Marker, Ts"kel First Nations, Education Studies at University of British Columbia; Victor Montejo, UC-Davis, Maya activist and scholar. 3:15-5:00: Forum & Discussion; Wrap-up session. 7:00-9:00: Film screening, Sieg Hall 134 Dan Hart, filmmaker/professor, UW-American Indian Studies will screen and discuss the film he co-produced with Terry Macy "White Shamans and Plastic Medicine Men" (30min., 1996). For details about the conference schedule and the speakers, visit: http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/latinam. Free and open to all. UW Sponsors: Latin American Studies Program, JSIS; Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities; Canadian Studies, JSIS; Division of Spanish and Portuguese; Spanish Resource Center; American Ethnic Studies Department. For more information contact LAS-JSIS, 206-685-3435; lasuw@u.washington.edu. |
| 2:00 PM | Concert Catherine Schefter, voice-soprano: Senior Recital. Brechemin Auditorium Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 4:00 PM | Concert Secondary Keyboard Recital: Student Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 7:00 PM | Concert Ethnomusicology Student Concert: Student Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Great music from around the world, including Kulintang (traditional Philippine gong music), Trinidadian-style steel band, Heavy Shettl (a wild and upbeat Klezmer band), Brazilian acoustic guitar music, Akoma (the UW's West African drum ensemble), the UW Tibetan music ensemble, and John Kuhlman playing country and electrified blues. Tickets: $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 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 | Dance Concert Dance Majors' Concert. Meany Studio Theatre. Choreography by dance majors, performed by undergraduate majors and non-majors. Tickets: Adults $8.00/Students & Seniors $6.00. For more information please call 543-9843. |
| 8:00 PM | Dance Performance Mark Morris Dance Group. Meany Theater. Brilliantly inventive, breathtakingly musical, and touchingly humorous, Morris' choreography presents the human experience in all its glorious complexity. Tickets: $38. For tickets please call the UW Arts Ticket Office at 543-4880. single tickets: $38 |
| Sunday, May 20 | |
| 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. |
| 2:00 PM | Dance Concert Dance Majors' Concert. Meany Studio Theatre. Choreography by dance majors, performed by undergraduate majors and non-majors. Tickets: Adults $8.00/Students & Seniors $6.00. For more information please call 543-9843. |
| 2:00 PM | Concert Ariana Fillips, voice: Junior Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 5:00 PM | Concert Erin Earl, piano: Senior Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |