| Monday, May 21 | |
| 2:30 PM | Art History Lecture "The Christianization of the Roman Forum," John Osborne (University of Victoria). Art 312. Sponsored by Art History. For more information please contact Anna Kartsonis at kartsoni@u.washington.edu. |
| 3:30 PM | History/South East Asia Lecture "The Diasporic Crow and the Fabulization of Instinct: How Natural History Enters General History around the Indian Ocean," Paul Greenough (University of Iowa). Mary Gates Hall, Room 241. Part of "Whose Nature? Conflicting Interests & Perceptions." Paul Greenough is a Professor of History at the University of Iowa, and director of the U of Iowa-Ford Foundation Crossing Borders Project. His research interests include environmental and public health history of India, epidemiology and international health, and African-Asian diasporas and exchanges in the modern era. Dr. Greenoughs many publications include "The Social and Cultural Background to Disease and Health in India," Imagination and Distress in Southern Environmental Projects (co-edited with Anna L. Tsing), and an edited symposium on "Immunization and Culture: Compliance and Resistance in Large-scale Public Health Campaigns" (Social Science and Medicine). 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 |
| 7:00 PM | CANCELLED - Political Science Lecture
CANCELLED - "Human Rights: Democracy and the Rule of Law in the Asia Pacific Region," Nobel Peace Prize Winner Jose Ramos-Horta. 210 Kane Hall. Sponsored by the Department of Political Science as the Severyns-Ravenholt Lecturer. A reception will follow the lecture in the Walker-Ames Room. Both the lecture and the reception are free and open to the public. For additional information, contact Susan H. Whiting at 543-9163. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert University Chorale: Ensemble Concert - Compass Points: Music Celebrating Our Global Village. Meany Theater. The University Chorale, directed by Geoffrey Boers, sings music from around the world -- United States, Kenya, Java, Asia, Canada, Scandinavia, and Latin America. Program: Dello Joio: Jubilant Song; Basler: Missa Kenya; Schaefer: Gamelan; Tate: Gate Gate; Chatman: Due North; Nystedt: O Crux; Graue: Salseo. Tickets: $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Percussion Ensemble: Ensemble Concert. Meany Studio. Program includes U.S. premiere of Gunter Gross' "Sonate II for Piano and Percussion Quartet," performed by music faculty members Craig Sheppard, piano' and Michael Crusoe, timpani' and percussion students Miho Takekawa, Christian Krehbiel, and David Reeves, as well as Richard Karpen's "The Silence of Time" for computer-realized sound and percussion trio, the UW Steel Drum Ensemble, and David Reeves' transcription of three Ravel piano preludes for marimbas and vibraphone. Tickets: $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call 543-1201. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Sachi P. Hirakouji, Piano: Doctoral Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| Tuesday, May 22 | |
| 3:30 PM | Jewish/Women's Studies Lecture "Narratives of German Jewish Refugees in 1930s New York City," Judith Gerson (Rutgers University). Thomson 317. Co-sponsored by Jewish Studies, Germanics, and Women's Studies. For more information please call 543-4243. |
| 4:00 PM | Art Opening BFA 3 Painting. Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Art Building, Rm 132. Opening of the group exhibit of graduates in painting. Exhibit runs May 23 - 31, 2001. For more information please call the School of Art at 543-0970. |
| 6:00 PM | Art Opening MFA Exhibit: Sarah Lindley. CMA Building (4205 Mary Gates Memorial Drive). Join MFA candidate Sarah Lindley for the opening of her MFA exhibit. Sarah will present a lecture in conjunction with her exhibit. The show runs through May 26, 2001. For more information, please call 206.543.0178. This event is free and open to the public. |
| 7:00 PM | Taiwan Film Series "Animation Film: Grandma and Her Ghosts." HUB Auditorium. In Taiwanese culture, it is well known that the month of July is the time when ghosts come back to the land of the living. In this animated film, a grandma fights to save her village from the evil ghost. Suggested donation for each ticket is $2. For tickets or more information please call John Chou at 365-0502. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert University Singers: Ensemble Concert. Meany Theater. The University Singers, directed by Hee Won Chung, present sacred music from around the world (USA, France, Brazil, The Netherlands, Caribbean, England, and Austria) and spanning the centuries. Tickets: $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 8:00 PM | Asian Lang. and Lit. Lecture "Cognitive Approaches to Chinese Historical Linguistics," Christoph Harbsmeier (University of Oslo). Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. The Andrew Markus Memorial Lecture. Sponsored by the Department of Asian Languages and Literature. For more information please call 543-4996. |
| Wednesday, May 23 | |
| 1:30 PM | **ART HISTORY/MIDDLE EAST LECTURE** "Visualizing Power: Illustrated Histories of the Ottoman Dynasty," Serpil Bagci (Hacettept University, Turkey). Thomson 317. Sponsored by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, Middle East Center/JSIS, and International Studies Center/JSIS. For more information please call 685-2354. |
| 3:30 PM | English Lecture Linda Bierds. Denny 209. A talk by Linda Bierds, Poet and Department of English Distinguished Teaching Award Winner. Sponsored by the Department of English. For more information please call 543-2690. |
| 5:30 PM | International Studies Dinner/Lecture "The Cultural Politics of Wildlife Policy in India" (part of the series "International Updates: Trends and Transitions in Your World") Kalayanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan (Dept. of Anthropology). Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room. Sponsors: Jackson School Outreach Centers/JSIS, CIBER, South Asia Center. Cost for dinner/lecture is $22. Registration & info: 543-1675. |
| 6:00 PM | Film Parts VII and VIII of Kieslowski's masterpiece. UW faculty, staff and students only. Mary Gates Hall Room 234. Sponsored by REECAS/JSIS. For more information please call 206-543-4852. |
| 7:30 PM | Drama Performance "The Illusion," by Pierre Corneille, Directed by Adam Koplan. Penthouse Theatre. A brilliant and hilarious meditation on the nature of love. A remorseful lawyer travels to a magician to discover the fate of his long estranged son. For a fee, the magician conjures key moments in the son’s life so that the father can watch. In every episode, the son desperately searches for enduring romantic love. Adapted by Tony Kushner, author of the triumphant Angels in America, this play mines the territory of which theatre thrives: fantasy, humor, witchcraft, passion and despair. Single tickets are $10 on Friday and Saturday, $8 Sunday through Thursday. Students always pay $7. Tickets can be purchased at: UW Arts Ticket Office, 206-543-4880, 4001 University Way NE. |
| 7:30 PM | Composers Workshop: Workshop Works by School of Music composition students -- Joël François Durand, director. Brechemin Auditorium. Program: Jonathan Eck: "Poem," for solo trumpet and low brass ensemble; Jennifer Doering: "cat 1984.mov>/dev/audio" for computer-realized sound; Justin Joseph Melland: "Veils," for solo violin; Sal Sofia: "Music of Silence," for computer-realized sound; Wha-Yeon Lee: "The Wind," for string quartet; Noel Paul: "Corridor," for computer-realized sound; Joshua Parmenter: "Music for Trombone and Ensemble." Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Opera Workshop: Workshop. Meany Studio. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 8:00 PM | Slavic/Comparative Lit. Lecture "Zagreb Everywhere: An Unorthodox Lecture on the City of Zagreb, Croatia," Gordana Crnkovic, David Hahn, Victor Ingrassia. Mary Gates Hall 231. Sponsored by Slavic Languages and Literature, REECAS/JSIS, Comparative Literature and the Jack Straw Foundation's Artist Support Program. For more information please call 543-6848. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Garrick Ohlsson. Meany Theater. A longtime favorite of President's Piano Series audiences, Garrick Ohlsson seems to eclipse himself with each appearance. His expressive power, intellectual curiosity and intuitive insight are matched only by the generosity of spirit and warmhearted personality that shine through with every performance. Don't miss one of Mr. Ohlsson's "wonderful high points of the season," when he returns to Seattle for this exclusive Meany engagement. Tickets: are $30 and can be purchased at the UW Arts Ticket Office which is located at 4001 University Way NE, (206) 543-4880. |
| Thursday, May 24 | |
| 12:00 PM | Book Reading/Public Affairs Talk Pramila Jayapal on her book "Pilgrimage: One Woman's Return to a Changing India." Parrington Hall. Sponsored by The Forum at the Evans School and Co-Sponsored by the University Book Store. For more information please call 206-221-3839. |
| 12:15 PM | Mid-day Art Moment Halinka Wodzicki, associate educator, offer an informal talk on John Gutmann: Culture Shock. Henry Art Gallery. Free with museum admission. For more information please call 543-2281. |
| 12:30 PM | **PROGRAM ON AFRICAN LECTURE** "African Independent Churches in Mozambique: Healing the Afflications of Inequality," James Pfeiffer, PhD, MPH. Denny 316. Sponsored in part by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information please call 616-0998 or email kirs@u.washington.edu. For a full schedule of events see http://depts.washington.edu/POA. |
| 3:30 PM | International Studies Lecture "Labor Migrations, Transnational Communities, and State Strategies in East Asia," Stephen Castles (Oxford University). Parrington Hall, The Forum. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution and the International Studies Center/JSIS. For more informatin please call 206-685-2354. |
| 7:00 PM | Taiwan Film Series Two documentaries on Amis Tribe - Native Taiwanese. HUB Auditorium. These two documentaries relate the history and culture of the Amis Tribe, a group native to the Taiwan island. Suggested donation for each ticket is $2. For tickets or more information please call John Chou at 365-0502. |
| 7:00 PM 9:00 PM | **PROGRAM ON AFRICA ROUNDTABLE** "Medicalizing 'Circumcision': Proposals, Practices, & Problems." Mary Gates Hall 251. Participants will include: Nassim Assefi (Women's Clinic and Adult Medicine, Harborview Medical Ctr), Ylva Hernlund (Anthropology, University of Washington), Troy Jacobs (RWJ Clinical Scholars Program, University of Washington & Children and Teen's Clinic, Harborview Medical Center), Sara Musa Le Saeed (Packard-Gates Fellow, University of Washington). Heather Lindkvist (Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago), Bettina Shell-Duncan (Anthropology, University of Washington), Lynn Thomas (History, University of Washington). Drawing together social science and medical expertise, this roundtable will examine debates and interventions surrounding the medicalization of female and male "circumcision" in Africa and among African communities living in the United States. Following short presentations by each of the panelists, the forum will be opened to questions and discussion. Presented by the Program on Africa which is sponsored, in part, by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information please call 616-0998 or email kirs@u.washington.edu. For a full schedule of events see http://depts.washington.edu/POA. |
| 7:30 PM | Canadian Studies Lecture/Slide Show Lecture & slide show by author of "The Labradorians: Voices from the Land of Cain," by Lynne Fitzhugh. Kane Hall, Rm. 220. Fitzhugh has spent years living, researching and interviewing people from Labrador in Canada's North. She will give a lecture/slide show on the people and their history as well as touch on issues in Labrador today--particularly social and environmental issues. University Book Store will be on hand with copies of the book. Sponsored by: Canadian Studies Center, University Book Store, Dept. of Anthropology. For more information please call 221-6374. |
| 7:30 PM | Drama Performance "The Illusion," by Pierre Corneille, Directed by Adam Koplan. Penthouse Theatre. A brilliant and hilarious meditation on the nature of love. A remorseful lawyer travels to a magician to discover the fate of his long estranged son. For a fee, the magician conjures key moments in the son’s life so that the father can watch. In every episode, the son desperately searches for enduring romantic love. Adapted by Tony Kushner, author of the triumphant Angels in America, this play mines the territory of which theatre thrives: fantasy, humor, witchcraft, passion and despair. Single tickets are $10 on Friday and Saturday, $8 Sunday through Thursday. Students always pay $7. Tickets can be purchased at: UW Arts Ticket Office, 206-543-4880, 4001 University Way NE. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Guitar Ensemble: Ensemble Concert. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Works by Bizet, Machado, Werdin, Tarrega, Harrison, and Rodrigo. Tickets: $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Symphonic Band/Concert Band/Wind Ensemble: Ensemble Concert. Meany Theater. J. Bradley McDavid, Christopher Koch, & Timothy Salzman, directors. Program: Broege: Concerto for Marimba and Wind Orchestra (Miho Takekawa, marimba soloist); Gillingham: Be Thou My Vision; Zaninelli: Lagan Love; McTee: Timepiece; Persichetti: Symphony No. 6 for Band. Tickets: $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 7:30 PM | International Studies Lecture "Russia's Unfinished Revolution: The Protracted Transition from Communism to Democracy" (part of the lecture series "Putin and the New Russian Foreign Policy"), Michael McFaul (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace). Kane Hall 210. Sponsorsed by the Henry M. Jackson Foundation; World Affairs Council; REECAS/JSIS. For more information please call 543-4852. |
| 8:00 PM | Poetry Reading Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Reading: Tomaz Salamun. 130 Kane Hall. Tomaz Salamun is Central Europe's foremost living poet. He has published 26 books of poetry, which have been translated into almost every European language. Volumes translated into English include _The Selected Poems of Tomaz Salamun_ (1988), _The Shepherd, The Hunter_ (1992), _The Four Questions of Melancholy_ (1997), and _Feast_ (2000). Among his many awards, Mr. Salamun has received the Pushcart Prize (1994), the Literaturhaus (Berlin, 1996) and a Fulbright (1986-87). He has been Visiting Writer at the University of Iowa, Sarah Lawrence College, Harvard University, and Columbia University, among others. Until recently, he was the cultural attache to the Slovenian Consulate General in New York City. "To read Tomaz Salamun," his editors write, "is to understand the delights of contemporary poetry. Irreverent, self- mythologizing, tragic, and visionary, he is a poet of immense range and cunning...." The Roethke Readings were begun in 1964 to honor renouned poet Theodore Roethke, who taught at the UW from 1947 until his death in 1963. Sponsored by the Department of English, The Graduate School, and the Theodore Roethke Memorial Fund Committee. For more information please contact Linda Bierds at lbierds@u.washington.edu or Sherry Laing at slaing@u.washington.edu. |
| Friday, May 25 | |
| 10:30 AM | Art History Lecture "Legistimizing the Emperor: The Emperor and His Virtues in Byzantium," Ioli Kalavrezou (Harvard University). Art 004. Sponsored by Art History. For more information please contact Anna Kartsonis at kartsoni@u.washington.edu. |
| 1:30 PM | Language and Rhetoric Colloquium "Constructing Normalcy & the Tragedy of Benevolence: The Competing Discourses of Disability (a look at UW Disabled Student Service Forms)," Amy Vidali (University of Washington) and "Toward a Rhetoro-Literary Theory of Genre," Steve Johnson (University of Washington). Loew 114. Sponsored by the Language and Rhetoric/Language Use and Acquisition Colloquium. Refreshments will be provided. For more information please Contact Kim Emmons at kemmons@u.washington.edu. |
| 3:30 PM | Linguistics Colloquium "Sound Change and the Organization of Phonology," Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University). Smith 105. Sponsored by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please call (206) 543-2046. |
| 5:00 PM 8:00 PM | MFA Opening Reception MFA Opening Reception. Henry Art Gallery. Spring Quarter is an important time at the School of Art. For our MFA students it is the culmination of two years of hard work and the presentation of their Master’s thesis pieces. The works in the exhibit, selected by students and their advisers, represent the direction that each artist has discovered during the course of their graduate study. Twenty one graduates of the Ceramics, Fibers, Metals, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, and Visual Communication Design Program will be represented. The exhibition is comprised of work by the twenty one graduates of the Ceramics, Fibers, Metals, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, and Visual Communication Design Program. The MFA exhibition has been an important part of the Henry's program calendar for over twenty years. It is a wonderful opportunity for the students to work with a professional museum staff and gain an inside understanding of this aspect of the art world, while offering the public the chance to see new work by emerging artists. MFA 2001 is organized by Head Preparator and Exhibition Designer Jim Rittimann. The Exhibition will run from May 25 through June 17, 2001 in the Henry Art Gallery’s Stroum Gallery. For more information and hours, please go to: http://www.henryart.org or call 206-543-2280 |
| 8:00 PM | Drama Performance "The Illusion," by Pierre Corneille, Directed by Adam Koplan. Penthouse Theatre. A brilliant and hilarious meditation on the nature of love. A remorseful lawyer travels to a magician to discover the fate of his long estranged son. For a fee, the magician conjures key moments in the son’s life so that the father can watch. In every episode, the son desperately searches for enduring romantic love. Adapted by Tony Kushner, author of the triumphant Angels in America, this play mines the territory of which theatre thrives: fantasy, humor, witchcraft, passion and despair. Single tickets are $10 on Friday and Saturday, $8 Sunday through Thursday. Students always pay $7. Tickets can be purchased at: UW Arts Ticket Office, 206-543-4880, 4001 University Way NE. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Viola Studio Recital: Division Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Michael Roling, percussion: Senior Recital. Meany Studio. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| Saturday, May 26 | |
| 5:00 PM | Concert Jennifer-Leigh Miller, voice: Masters Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| 8:00 PM | Drama Performance "The Illusion," by Pierre Corneille, Directed by Adam Koplan. Penthouse Theatre. A brilliant and hilarious meditation on the nature of love. A remorseful lawyer travels to a magician to discover the fate of his long estranged son. For a fee, the magician conjures key moments in the son’s life so that the father can watch. In every episode, the son desperately searches for enduring romantic love. Adapted by Tony Kushner, author of the triumphant Angels in America, this play mines the territory of which theatre thrives: fantasy, humor, witchcraft, passion and despair. Single tickets are $10 on Friday and Saturday, $8 Sunday through Thursday. Students always pay $7. Tickets can be purchased at: UW Arts Ticket Office, 206-543-4880, 4001 University Way NE. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Kangmi Kim, voice: Doctoral Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. Admission complimentary. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |
| Sunday, May 27 | |
| 2:00 PM | Drama Performance "The Illusion," by Pierre Corneille, Directed by Adam Koplan. Penthouse Theatre. A brilliant and hilarious meditation on the nature of love. A remorseful lawyer travels to a magician to discover the fate of his long estranged son. For a fee, the magician conjures key moments in the son’s life so that the father can watch. In every episode, the son desperately searches for enduring romantic love. Adapted by Tony Kushner, author of the triumphant Angels in America, this play mines the territory of which theatre thrives: fantasy, humor, witchcraft, passion and despair. Single tickets are $10 on Friday and Saturday, $8 Sunday through Thursday. Students always pay $7. Tickets can be purchased at: UW Arts Ticket Office, 206-543-4880, 4001 University Way NE. |
| 2:00 PM | Concert Barry Lieberman & Friends: Faculty Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 126. The six Rossini string quartets for two violins, cello, and double bass, performed by Maria Larionoff, Theodore Arm, Warren Lash,and Barry Lieberman. Tickets: $8 Students & Seniors; $10 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call the School of Music at 543-1201. |