| Tuesday, July 17 | |
| UW Summer Arts Festival UW Summer Arts Festival. UW Seattle Campus-Various Locations. A joyous celebration including performances, exhibitions, cinema, workshops and symposia. Recently harolded as a "best new idea" and a "Bumbershoot for the brain" in the Seattle Weekly, the Festival is dedicated to the role of education and the arts and is an event not to be missed. Price varies from $0 to $30. Tickets available at the UW Arts Ticket Office beginning April 16, 2001. Please call 206-685-6696 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/artsfest/ for more information. |
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| 9:15 AM | **FESTIVAL LECTURE COURSE** "Human Nature, Artistic Nature, and Nature Art: Growing Together by Coming Apart," Ronald Moore (Philosophy). Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. Inquiry into aspects of aesthetic experience--both of artworks and of natural objects--that reveal important shared characteristics of human nature and social commitment. Exploration of ways in which our engagement with the arts and natural beauty provides a countercurrent to rampant diversity and relativism. Development of a case for more connections between moral and aesthetic value than are usually recognized. Examination of original arguments and positions taken by prominent philosophers, artists, and nature writers. Our world is both expanding and shrinking; we grow together as we come apart. This lecture series includes slides and engages individuals interested in natural beauty, aesthetic and other values, philosophy of art, and the artistic treatment of nature and human nature. (No prior training in philosophy or art assumed). Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Summer ARTS Festival. Please call 206-685-6696 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/artsfest/ for more information. |
| 11:00 AM | **MIDDAY LECTURE SERIES** "From the One, Many, and Back Again: Originality and Derivation in Chinese Art," Jerome Silbergeld (Art History). Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. Consider the historical pattern of Chinese art and why it is so different from that of art in the West. The telelogical concept of visible form as patterned after the imperceptible Dao, Chinese theories of replication, the relation of man to nature, the role of master artists, the modularity of Chinese architecture, the mass production of Chinese bronzes, ceramics, and sculpture: all this is shaped by a Pangea-like notion--from the one, many. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Summer ARTS Festival. For more information please call 206-685-6696 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/artsfest/ for more information. |
| 6:00 PM | Summer Arts Fest. Evening Lecture
Series "Nature and Human Nature," John Haines. Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. The breakup of civilizations, of empires and cultures, is not always the result of human will. Natural forces are active in these situations as they are in all aspects of human life. Humanity has alwauys been a part of nature and will remain so. Sponsored by the Summer Arts Festival. For more information please call 206-685-6696 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/artsfest/ for more information. |
| 6:45 PM | Yiddish Event “Yiddish and Ladino Culture in Comparison," Professor Sarah Stein (UW). HUB 309. A Yiddish Cultural Event sponsored by Jewish Studies and Germanics. For more information please call 206-543-4835. |
| Wednesday, July 18 | |
| UW Summer Arts Festival UW Summer Arts Festival. UW Seattle Campus-Various Locations. A joyous celebration including performances, exhibitions, cinema, workshops and symposia. Recently harolded as a "best new idea" and a "Bumbershoot for the brain" in the Seattle Weekly, the Festival is dedicated to the role of education and the arts and is an event not to be missed. Price varies from $0 to $30. Tickets available at the UW Arts Ticket Office beginning April 16, 2001. Please call 206-685-6696 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/artsfest/ for more information. |
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| 9:15 AM | **FESTIVAL LECTURE COURSE** "Human Nature, Artistic Nature, and Nature Art: Growing Together by Coming Apart," Ronald Moore (Philosophy). Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. Inquiry into aspects of aesthetic experience--both of artworks and of natural objects--that reveal important shared characteristics of human nature and social commitment. Exploration of ways in which our engagement with the arts and natural beauty provides a countercurrent to rampant diversity and relativism. Development of a case for more connections between moral and aesthetic value than are usually recognized. Examination of original arguments and positions taken by prominent philosophers, artists, and nature writers. Our world is both exxpanding and shrinking; we grow together as we come apart. This lecture series includes slides and engages individuals interested in natural beauty, aesthetic and other values, philosophy of art, and the artistic treatment of nature and human nature. (No prior training in philosophy or art assumed). Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Summer ARTS Festival. Please call 206-685-6696 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/artsfest/ for more information. |
| 11:00 AM | **MIDDAY LECTURE SERIES** "Coming to America: The 200-MIllion-Year Saga of Northwest Geological Immigrants," Stan Chernicoff (Geological Sciences). Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. Roughly 250 million years ago, a single supercontinent stretched fron the North to the South Pole. About 200 milliong years ago, this supercontinent, Pangaea, split apart and began to scatter to the far reaches of the globe. As Pangaea's fragments drifted apart, they swept up islands and other landmasses in their path. Much of the familiar lands of the Pacific Northwest--the Methow Valley, the North Cascades, the San Juan Islands, and the Olympics--are such geological "foreigners," slabs of rock added to the western edge of North American as our continent has drifted westward. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Summer Arts Festival. For more information please call 206-685-6696 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/artsfest/ for more information. |
| 6:00 PM | Summer Arts Fest. Evening Lecture
Series "Nature and Human Nature," John Haines. Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. The breakup of civilizations, of empires and cultures, is not always the result of human will. Natural forces are active in these situations as they are in all aspects of human life. Humanity has alwauys been a part of nature and will remain so. Sponsored by the Summer Arts Festival. For more information please call 206-685-6696 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/artsfest/ for more information. |
| Thursday, July 19 | |
| UW Summer Arts Festival UW Summer Arts Festival. UW Seattle Campus-Various Locations. A joyous celebration including performances, exhibitions, cinema, workshops and symposia. Recently harolded as a "best new idea" and a "Bumbershoot for the brain" in the Seattle Weekly, the Festival is dedicated to the role of education and the arts and is an event not to be missed. Price varies from $0 to $30. Tickets available at the UW Arts Ticket Office beginning April 16, 2001. Please call 206-685-6696 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/artsfest/ for more information. |
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| 9:15 AM | **FESTIVAL LECTURE COURSE** "Human Nature, Artistic Nature, and Nature Art: Growing Together by Coming Apart," Ronald Moore (Philosophy). Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. Inquiry into aspects of aesthetic experience--both of artworks and of natural objects--that reveal important shared characteristics of human nature and social commitment. Exploration of ways in which our engagement with the arts and natural beauty provides a countercurrent to rampant diversity and relativism. Development of a case for more connections between moral and aesthetic value than are usually recognized. Examination of original arguments and positions taken by prominent philosophers, artists, and nature writers. Our world is both exxpanding and shrinking; we grow together as we come apart. This lecture series includes slides and engages individuals interested in natural beauty, aesthetic and other values, philosophy of art, and the artistic treatment of nature and human nature. (No prior training in philosophy or art assumed). Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Summer ARTS Festival. Please call 206-685-6696 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/artsfest/ for more information. |
| 11:00 AM | **MIDDAY LECTURE SERIES** "Our Place in the Cosmos: Ideas Migrating Through Time and Space," Woody Sullivan (Astronomy, Astrobiology, History). Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. Our view of human's place in the Cosmos has been strongly influenced by astronomical discoveries and ideas through the ages. This lecture takes a grand journey as it sweeps through historical Time and follows cosmological ideas that migrate, metamorphose, merge, appear newborn, disappear, and sometimes re-appear. But these ideas are also migrating through Space, for it can be said that events that happened, say, 2000 years ago, are now traveling at the speed of list and located 2000 light-years from Earth. Sullivan looks at the latest astronomical information on these distant realms of stars, gas and dust now being permeated by old messages from Earth. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Summer Arts Festival. For more information please call 206-685-6696 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/artsfest/ for more information. |
| 2:00 PM | **HISTORY/ENGLISH LECTURE** Tess Gallagher. Savery 239. Part of "A Sense of Where We Are: History and Literature of the Pacific Northwest." This series of talks and readings is being held in conjunction with a 10-credit course on the literature and history of the Pacific Northwest during Summer Quarter, 2001 (ENG 457 and HSTAA 432). Sponsored in part by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. For further information, contact the Student Advising Office, Department of History, University of Washington, 206-543-5691, or histadv@u.washington.edu. For information on the series of talks, contact the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, Department of History, University of Washington, 206-543-8656, or cspn@u.washington.edu. |
| 6:00 PM | Summer Arts Fest. Evening Lecture
Series "Rosemary and Rue," Laura Kalpakian. Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. Those twin antithetical impulses--to revel or to preserve--color our relationship to nature, to time, and to each other. The revel implies spontaneity, but at the cost of waste. To preserve suggests stability, but at the cost of exuberance. Technology did not vanquish these tentions, and scient cannot eradicate their struggle. Our ongoing daily dilemmas, resolving questions of revel-or-preserve, foster anxiety in us, even while they ignite creativity. The process evokes art, not always great art, perhaps small, ephemeral arts. Can we achieve both sense and savor? Sponsored by the Summer Arts Festival. For more information please call 206-685-6696 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/artsfest/ for more information. |
| 7:00 PM | **CHINA STUDIES LECTURE** "Who are (and were) the Chinese, anyway?" Stevan Harrell (Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Asian Ethnology at the Burke Museum, UW). Seattle Art Museum, Downtown, Nordstrom Lecture Hall. Stevan Harrell writes about ethnic relations in southwest China. This lecture is part of a series, "What China? A Look at Its Art, Culture, and Politics." Co-sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington and the Seattle Art Museum, this lecture series will explore notions of China as a diverse, multiethnic country from the Bronze Age to the present, drawing on evidence from art, ethnography, and the media in conjunction with the exhibit "Treasures from a Lost Civilization: Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan." Series tickets: $15 SAM members and UW students, $21 nonmembers. Individual tickets: $6 SAM members and UW students, $8 nonmembers. Purchase tickets by visiting http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/events/general/programs.htm. For more information please call (206) 654-3255. |
| Friday, July 20 | |
| UW Summer Arts Festival UW Summer Arts Festival. UW Seattle Campus-Various Locations. A joyous celebration including performances, exhibitions, cinema, workshops and symposia. Recently harolded as a "best new idea" and a "Bumbershoot for the brain" in the Seattle Weekly, the Festival is dedicated to the role of education and the arts and is an event not to be missed. Price varies from $0 to $30. Tickets available at the UW Arts Ticket Office beginning April 16, 2001. Please call 206-685-6696 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/artsfest/ for more information. |
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| 9:15 AM | **FESTIVAL LECTURE COURSE** "Human Nature, Artistic Nature, and Nature Art: Growing Together by Coming Apart," Ronald Moore (Philosophy). Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. Inquiry into aspects of aesthetic experience--both of artworks and of natural objects--that reveal important shared characteristics of human nature and social commitment. Exploration of ways in which our engagement with the arts and natural beauty provides a countercurrent to rampant diversity and relativism. Development of a case for more connections between moral and aesthetic value than are usually recognized. Examination of original arguments and positions taken by prominent philosophers, artists, and nature writers. Our world is both exxpanding and shrinking; we grow together as we come apart. This lecture series includes slides and engages individuals interested in natural beauty, aesthetic and other values, philosophy of art, and the artistic treatment of nature and human nature. (No prior training in philosophy or art assumed). Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Summer ARTS Festival. Please call 206-685-6696 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/artsfest/ for more information. |
| 11:00 AM | **MIDDAY LECTURE SERIES** "Pangaea, The Earth, and the Ethics of Importance," Mott T. Greene (University of Puget Sound). Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. "Everything flows" said Heraclitus more than 2500 years ago and darned if he wasn't right. It now appears that on their own time-scales the continents and oceans are as impermanent as may-flies. Can we extract any ethical and ecological wisdom from this large-scale addendum to the knowledge of our own mortality? I think so, and this lecture is a visual and verbal meditation on the ethical viewpoint bequeathed us by the earth beneath our feet. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Summer Arts Festival. For more information please call 206-685-6696 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/artsfest/ for more information. |
| 6:00 PM | Summer Arts Fest. Evening Lecture
Series "Rosemary and Rue," Laura Kalpakian. Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. Those twin antithetical impulses--to revel or to preserve--color our relationship to nature, to time, and to each other. The revel implies spontaneity, but at the cost of waste. To preserve suggests stability, but at the cost of exuberance. Technology did not vanquish these tentions, and scient cannot eradicate their struggle. Our ongoing daily dilemmas, resolving questions of revel-or-preserve, foster anxiety in us, even while they ignite creativity. The process evokes art, not always great art, perhaps small, ephemeral arts. Can we achieve both sense and savor? Sponsored by the Summer Arts Festival. For more information please call 206-685-6696 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/artsfest/ for more information. |
| Saturday, July 21 | |
| UW Summer Arts Festival UW Summer Arts Festival. UW Seattle Campus-Various Locations. A joyous celebration including performances, exhibitions, cinema, workshops and symposia. Recently harolded as a "best new idea" and a "Bumbershoot for the brain" in the Seattle Weekly, the Festival is dedicated to the role of education and the arts and is an event not to be missed. Price varies from $0 to $30. Tickets available at the UW Arts Ticket Office beginning April 16, 2001. Please call 206-685-6696 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/artsfest/ for more information. |
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| 9:15 AM | **FESTIVAL LECTURE COURSE** "Human Nature, Artistic Nature, and Nature Art: Growing Together by Coming Apart," Ronald Moore (Philosophy). Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. Inquiry into aspects of aesthetic experience--both of artworks and of natural objects--that reveal important shared characteristics of human nature and social commitment. Exploration of ways in which our engagement with the arts and natural beauty provides a countercurrent to rampant diversity and relativism. Development of a case for more connections between moral and aesthetic value than are usually recognized. Examination of original arguments and positions taken by prominent philosophers, artists, and nature writers. Our world is both exxpanding and shrinking; we grow together as we come apart. This lecture series includes slides and engages individuals interested in natural beauty, aesthetic and other values, philosophy of art, and the artistic treatment of nature and human nature. (No prior training in philosophy or art assumed). Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Summer ARTS Festival. Please call 206-685-6696 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/artsfest/ for more information. |
| 11:00 AM | **MIDDAY LECTURE SERIES** "We Made It! The Origin and Survival of this Human Race," Angela E. Close (Anthropology). Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. We know that earlier generations lived before us and expect that later generations will live on after us. But where did the first people "come from"? Information from archaeology, human paleontology and genetics now allows us to answer that question. Modern human beins arose from a small population of Africans, then coping with very adverse environmental conditions, our ancestors muddled through and eventually expanded across the world, replacing the older peoples of Europe and Asia. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Summer Arts Festival. For more information please call 206-685-6696 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/artsfest/ for more information. |
| 6:00 PM | Summer Arts Fest. Evening Lecture
Series "The Literature of Exile and Reunion," Nancy Rawles. Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. What happens when families and clans scatter or fall apart due to calamity? Rawles explores themes of exile, disapora, family disintegration, and cultural preservation using examples from modern African literature and the literature of the West Indies. She also reads from her new novel about a mother whose seven children have gone astray and who attempts to gather them back into the fold, even as they conspire to force her off her rock. Sponsored the Summer Arts Festival. For more information please call 206-685-6696 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/artsfest/ for more information. |
| Sunday, July 22 | |
| UW Summer Arts Festival UW Summer Arts Festival. UW Seattle Campus-Various Locations. A joyous celebration including performances, exhibitions, cinema, workshops and symposia. Recently harolded as a "best new idea" and a "Bumbershoot for the brain" in the Seattle Weekly, the Festival is dedicated to the role of education and the arts and is an event not to be missed. Price varies from $0 to $30. Tickets available at the UW Arts Ticket Office beginning April 16, 2001. Please call 206-685-6696 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/artsfest/ for more information. |
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| 9:15 AM | **FESTIVAL LECTURE COURSE** "Human Nature, Artistic Nature, and Nature Art: Growing Together by Coming Apart," Ronald Moore (Philosophy). Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. Inquiry into aspects of aesthetic experience--both of artworks and of natural objects--that reveal important shared characteristics of human nature and social commitment. Exploration of ways in which our engagement with the arts and natural beauty provides a countercurrent to rampant diversity and relativism. Development of a case for more connections between moral and aesthetic value than are usually recognized. Examination of original arguments and positions taken by prominent philosophers, artists, and nature writers. Our world is both exxpanding and shrinking; we grow together as we come apart. This lecture series includes slides and engages individuals interested in natural beauty, aesthetic and other values, philosophy of art, and the artistic treatment of nature and human nature. (No prior training in philosophy or art assumed). Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Summer ARTS Festival. Please call 206-685-6696 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/artsfest/ for more information. |
| 11:00 AM | **MIDDAY LECTURE SERIES** "The First Universal Language--The Silent Film," Jon Bridgman (History). Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. In 1915 the American film critic, Rachel Lindsay, proclaimed Thomas Edison to be the second Guttenberg because he had invented a form of communication--silent films--which cut across every national and linguistic barrier. Illustrated with snippets from the silent films, this lecture examines that claim. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Summer Arts Festival. For more information please call 206-685-6696 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/artsfest/ for more information. |
| 6:00 PM | Summer Arts Fest. Evening Lecture
Series "The Literature of Exile and Reunion," Nancy Rawles. Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. What happens when families and clans scatter or fall apart due to calamity? Rawles explores themes of exile, disapora, family disintegration, and cultural preservation using examples from modern African literature and the literature of the West Indies. She also reads from her new novel about a mother whose seven children have gone astray and who attempts to gather them back into the fold, even as they conspire to force her off her rock. Sponsored the Summer Arts Festival. For more information please call 206-685-6696 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/artsfest/ for more information. |