| Monday, November 12 | |
| 7:00 PM | Reading Hazard Adams (Lockwood Professor Emeritus of Humanities) will read from his most recent novel, Home, the third volume of his trilogy on academic life. Adams has fact meet fiction in this novel when a history professor studying the harassment of an anarchist commune in south Puget sound in 1902 - a commune that actually existed-finds himself embroiled in disputes of alleged harassment on his own campus - with both comic and tragic results. 7:00 pm, University (District) Bookstore. |
| Tuesday, November 13 | |
| 1:00 PM | Art Exhibit "Superflat," an exhibition of cutting-edge contemporary Japanese art is on display at the Henry Art Museum's south gallery through March 3, 2002. Organized by artist Takashi Murakami, Superflat presents works by 19 contemporary artists working in Japan today. The exhibition features work in a variety of media including painting, photography, works on paper, video, computer animation, fashion, cartoons and sculpture. For more information, contact the Henry at 206-543-2280. |
| 7:00 PM | **MACARTHUR FELLOWS LECTURE** John Toews (chair of the Program in the Comparative History of Ideas, 1992 Fellow). 220 Kane Hall. John E. Toews, a historian of modern Europe, explores ideas in new and unconventional ways. His work is interdisciplinary and free-ranging, providing powerful commentary on culture and society through an innovative approach to human history. His work encompasses nineteenth-century conceptions of self and society, ways in which history itself is documented and produced, and the historical and cultural contexts of Freudian theory. The author of Hegelianism, the Path Toward Dialectical Humanism 1805-1841, he has also written on contemporary historical theory, the history of psychoanalysis, and historicism in music, law and literature. Presented by the University of Washington Alumni Association and the College of Arts & Sciences in cooperation with the Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information please call (206) 685-0611 or visit http://www.washington.edu/alumni/activities/lectures/2001fall.html. |
| 7:00 PM | Drama Preview Performance "Machinal" by Sophie Treadwell, directed by Amy Rebecca Boyce. What lengths will we go to in order to protect our chance at happiness? This expressionist drama, inspired by the sensational 1927 murder trial of Ruth Snyder, re-examines our world, our relationships, and our ever-growing dependence on technology. Previews: 11/11 & 11/13, 7PM. Performances: 11/14-11/25, 7PM Wed. & Thurs., 8PM Fri. & Sat., 2PM Sun. **No Performances: 11/22, 11/23. All performances at the Penthouse Theatre. Ticket prices: $5 Previews; $8 Sun.-Thurs.; $12 Fri. & Sat.; Students w/valid ID always $7; $1 Discount for Seniors/Groups. For more information, contact the School of Drama, 206-543-4880. |
| 7:00 PM | Reading "The Pacific Northwest Landscape: A Painted History," a slide presentation, talk & book signing by Kitty Harmon. Ever since the first exploration, the Pacific Northwest has inspired artists to capture its striking landscape. Now, through over 140 paintings - from such artists as Mark Tobey, Emily Carr, and Kenneth Callahan - we experience a unique and irresistibly painted history. Tickets ($5-$7) required. Call 206-543-2281 for tickets. Sponsored by University Book Store and KUOW. For more information, call (206) 634-3400. 7:00 pm, Walker-Ames Room, 225 Kane Hall. |
| Wednesday, November 14 | |
| 4:30 PM | Film "And the Ship Sales On (E la nave va)," directed by Federico Fellini, produced by Fanco Cristaldi, RAI, Vedes Produsione, and Gaumont. An allegorical film set aboard a passenger liner populated by eccentric characters ranging from Serbian peasant refugees to an Austrian duke to members of Italy's world of opera and theater. Sponsored by International Studies, (206) 685-2354. 4:30-7:30 pm, 210 Kane Hall, Free. |
| 6:00 PM | Walker-Ames Lecture "Unhealthy Societies: The Politics of Human Social Needs," a lecture by Richard Wilkinson (Professor of Social Epidemiology, University of Nottingham Medical School). Inequality kills. People die younger in societies with greater inequalities in income. The U.S. has a lower life expectancy than almost any other rich country despite its wealth, and despite spending almost half the worlds health care budget. Why? In his interview with KUOW's Steve Scher, Professor Wilkinson will provide a novel explanation, presenting evidence of the mechanisms through which inequalities of various kinds produce ill health. Wilkinson, has played a formative role in research and public awareness about health inequalities, drawing attention to likely reasons that poorer people have poorer health. His comments in 1976 to the British Labour government led to the first national report that focused on these ideas. His subsequent research is said to have produced a paradigm shift in our understanding of the social determinants of health. Rather than being left with the seemingly hopeless task of improving individual psychosocial and emotional welfare through interventions at the individual level, Wilkinsons work suggests powerful structural determinants of the health of whole populations that are amenable to public policy. Rather than relying on more police, prisons, social workers or doctors, he concludes that we must tackle the corrosive effects of hierarchy and large income disparities at their roots. Kane Hall, Room 130 at 6pm. Admission is Free. No ticket required. |
| 7:00 PM | **SYMPOSIUM** "A Case of Premature Burial: Dead Languages, Ancient Cultures, and the New Millenium," a symposium sponsored by the Washington Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, and the UW Honors Program. Lectures include: "Reviving a Lost World of Buddhism in Afghanistan," (Richard Salomon, Dept. of Asian Languages and Literature), "Hwaet! The Call to Unlock the Old English Word-hoard," (Anne Curzan, English Dept.), and "Back from the Grave: Disinterred Greco-Roman Surgical Texts and Tools and their Influences," (Lawrence J. Bliquez, Classics and Art History Depts.). Moderated by Michael C. Shapiro (Dept. of Asian Languages and Literature). 7-8:30 pm, 226 Communications. |
| 7:30 PM | Opera "Cosi fan tutte" UW Opera presents Mozart's witty exploration of the vagaries of the human heart (Peter Erös, conductor; Claudia Zahn, director). 7:30 PM, Meany Theater. Ticket Prices: $20 general, $10 student/senior. (Not a School of Music Notecard event.) |
| Thursday, November 15 | |
| 2:30 PM | East Asia Studies Lecture "Temporal Perspectives on the Political Economy of East Asia, 1800, 1900, and 2000," Bin Wong, (History, University of California, Irvine). 2:30-4:00 PM, 309 Parrington, The Forum. Sponsored by the East Asia Center, China Studies Program and Japan Studies Program. For more information please call (206) 543-4391. |
| 6:00 PM | International Studies Talk "A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya," a talk and book signing by Anna Politkovskaya and translator Andrey Kurkov. Join special correspondent for Russia's newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" as she discusses the atrocities and abuses on both sides of the ongoing Russian conflict - a conflict that has repercussions for us in our current war. She will be joined by translator, novelist and former journalist Andrey Kurkov, author of Death and the Penguin. Co-sponsored by the World Affairs Council. No tickets required. Kane Hall, Room 210 |
| 7:00 PM 9:20 PM | International Studies Lecture "Why Some Wars Become Genocidal and Others Don't," Daniel Chirot (Director, International Studies Center and Professor of International Studies, Jackson School of International Studies). 7-9:20 PM, Kane Hall 210. No entry after 7. Advance tickets (available one week in advance) must be obtained at UW Bookstore outlets. Part of an ongoing series. Experts will present their perspectives and the audience will have an opportunity to ask questions and discuss current events. Sponsored by the Jackson School of International Studies. For more information please call 206-543-4372. |
| 7:00 PM | Art Lecture Doug Jeck and Akio Takamori, ceramic artists and UW School of Art professors, discuss "Jeffry Mitchell: Hanabuki." 7 pm, Henry Art Museum. Free with museum admission (Thursday hours: 11 am - 8 pm). For more information, contact the Henry at 206-543-2280. |
| Friday, November 16 | |
| 1:30 PM | Germanics Lecture "Digitale Asthetik," a lecture by Dr. Roberto Simanowksi (Feodor-Lynen Fellow, Dept. of Germanics). Simanowski is editor of the on-line journal, dichtung-digital. William H. Rey Library, Denny 308. Sponsored by the Department of Germanics, 206-543-4580. |
| 1:30 PM | Latin American Studies Film "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands" (1977, 109 min.) Based on the Jorge Amado novel about a woman haunted by her first husband's ghost. Kane 19. For more information, contact LAS at (206) 685-3435. |
| 2:30 PM 4:00 | Communication Colloquium "The Conversalization of Media and the Mediation of Conversation" (Professor John Durham Peters, Dept. of Communication Studies, University of Iowa). OUGL 220. Sponsored by the Department of Communication and the Stice Lectureship. |
| 3:30 PM | Classics Lecture "Embodying the Statue: Statius, Silvae 1.1," by Carole Newlands (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Carole Newlands has recently taken up a position as Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin, after several years on the faculty at UCLA. Although best known as a critic of classical Latin literature, she has research interests which extend well into the medieval period. Newlands was a pioneer in the modern revival of critical interest in Statius, and has now returned to the Silvae in a major forthcoming book on Statius and court poetry. Sponsored by the Department of Classics. 3:30 PM, Denny 209. |
| 3:30 PM | Linguistics Colloquium "Taakin braad and talking broad: the changing indexicality of phonological variants in two language contact situations," Dr. Alicia Beckford Wassink (Dept. of Linguistics) 3:30 pm, Smith 305. |
| 7:30 PM | Opera "Cosi fan tutte" UW Opera presents Mozart's witty exploration of the vagaries of the human heart (Peter Erös, conductor; Claudia Zahn, director). 7:30 PM, Meany Theater. Ticket Prices: $20 general, $10 student/senior. (Not a School of Music Notecard event.) |
| Sunday, November 18 | |
| 3:00 PM | Opera "Cosi fan tutte" UW Opera presents Mozart's witty exploration of the vagaries of the human heart (Peter Erös, conductor; Claudia Zahn, director). 7:30 PM, Meany Theater. Ticket Prices: $20 general, $10 student/senior. (Not a School of Music Notecard event.) |
| 4:00 PM | Concert A concert featuring Madura R. Sundar, Jayshankar Balan and Vinod Sitaraman. Tickets $5-$15. Sponsored by Ragamala and the School of Music. For more information, call (425) 481-7729. 4:00 pm, 110 Kane, |
| 5:00 PM | Violin Recital Hsuan Lee, Violin Doctoral Recital. 5 PM, Brechemin Auditorium. Free. |