| Monday, November 26 | |
| 1:30 PM | Semiotics Lecture "Cognitive Semiotics and the Text," Professor Per Aage Brandt (Director, Center for Semiotic Research, University of Aarhus, Denmark). New cognitive views on language and the semiotic grounding of meaning in a phenomenology of the embodied mind inspire new approaches to literature and literary analysis of texts. This presentation of a current cognitive semiotics line of research will include mental space models, enounciation,metaphor, and some ideas on the architecture of textual form. (http://www.hum.au.dk/semiotics/docs/pers/Brandt.html). Sponsored by the Department of Scandiavian Studies. For more information contact Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen (Visiting Lecturer) at jakobsn@u.washington.edu. 1:30-3:00, Communications Building, Room 202. |
| 3:30 PM | Cultural Anthropology Colloquium "Placing Schoolgirl Pregnancies in African History" (Lynn Thomas, Department of History, University of Washington). Part of the Cultural Anthropology Colloquium Series: "Race, Gender, Language and Locality." 3:30 PM, Denny Hall 401. |
| Tuesday, November 27 | |
| 6:00 PM | Art Lecture The UW Ceramics Program presents the opening of Barry Gibbons' BFA exhibit. Gibbons will present a lecture about his work at the opening. The show runs through Sunday, December 2. CMA Building, 4205 Mary Gates Memorial Drive. For more information, please call (206) 543-0178. |
| 7:00 PM | **TEXTUAL STUDIES LECTURE** "Leaves of Grass, Leaves of Glass: What can Walt Whitman tell us about the Web?" David M. Levy (UW Information School). Part of a lecture series in conjunction with the crossdisciplinary graduate program in Textual Studies. Sponsored by the Textual Studies Program, The Department of English, the Information School, and the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. Levy will explore one particular work, Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," which began its life as a printed book and can now be found on the Web. Through textual analysis, historical understanding, and personal introspection, he will compare one particular print copy with the online edition in the Bartleby Library. In the process, he will touch on various questions raised by the movement to digital formats: To what extent can form be divorced from content? What is the place of materiality in an increasingly digital world? And more specifically, does it matter whether we read "Leaves of Grass" online or as a traditional book? 7 PM, Faculty Club. Reception to follow. |
| Wednesday, November 28 | |
| 4:30 PM | Film "Gallipoli" (1981) directed by Peter Weir, produced by Robert Stigwood and Patricia Lovell, screenplay by David Williamson. Gallipoli is a compelling story of friendship and adventure between two Australian soldiers in 1915. They cross continents and great oceans to join their regiment at the fateful battle of Gallipoli, and become part of a legendary World War I confrontation between Australia and the German allied Turks - a battle that is to Australians what the Alamo is to Americans. 4:30-7:30 pm, Kane Hall, Room 210. Free. Sponsored by International Studies, (206) 685-2354. |
| 7:00 PM | Performance Opening "Agape, Beauty is Momentary." Five characters die and two seconds before death are told they cannot leave until they answer, "What could be the greatest gift that someone could receive?" Production starts at 7 pm Wed., Thur., Sun., and 8 pm Fri. and Sat. 7:00 pm, Cabaret Theater at Hutchinson Hall. $5 at the door. For more information, contact the School of Drama, 206-543-5140. |
| 7:00 PM | Film "Jung (War) In the Land of the Mujahedin," a documentary film by Fabrizio Lazzaretti and Alberto Vendemmiati (Afghanistan/Italy, 2000, 114m) . In this beautifully produced look at Afghanistan today, an Italian surgeon and a war correspondent decide to join forces and set up a hospital in a country that has had to cope with various wars for the last twenty years. After the Russians, the Taliban took society firmly into their grasp. Houses and schools have been burnt down, sons killed on the battlefield and almost everybody is hungry. Meanwhile, tanks have conquered the mountains, soldiers are trigger-happy and the rugged, stunning landscape is strewn with mines, which are stepped on every day by countless innocent victims. The new hospital tries to help all of these war victims, but it is banging its head against a brick wall. The surgeon gets discouraged at times, because he knows that every day brings the same calamities: one after the other, people are brought in with crushed legs and skulls, and the situation is nowhere near ending. For more information about this or other events sponsored by the Evans Student Organization contact: devcert@u.washington.edu. Kane Hall, RM 130. |
| 7:30 PM | Faculty Recital "Something for everyone," jazz to avant-garde to classical music. Tom Collier, vibraphone & marimbas. 7:30 pm, Meany Theater, $8-10 (206-543-4880 or available at the door). School of Music, (206) 685-8384. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Baroque Ensemble: Music by Vivaldi, Bach, and Telemann (Margriet Tindemans & Carole Terry, directors). 7:30 pm, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. $5-8 at the door. School of Music, (206) 685-8384. |
| Thursday, November 29 | |
| 6:30 PM | Art Lecture Robin Wright (Professor of Art History and Burke Curator of Native American Art) will give a lecture and slide presentation about her book, "Northern Haida Master Carvers," at the Burke Museum. The event is free with museum admission. UW faculty, staff and students free. For more information, please call 206.545.9477, ext. 448. This event is sponsored by the Burke Museum and the University Bookstore. |
| 7:00 PM | Art Lecture Seattle artist Brent Watanabe discusses his video work in "Jeffry Mitchell: Hanabuki" at the Henry Art Gallery. Part of the Art Dialogue series of informal gallery programs offering viewers a chance for lively discussion of the Henry exhibitions in their settings. Free with museum admission. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Jazz Combos: Celebrating the 75th anniversary of John Coltrane's birth, featuring music recorded or inspired by the legendary tenor saxophonist. 7:30 pm, Brechemin Auditorium, School of Music. $5-8 (at the door). School of Music, (206) 685-8384. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert The Emerson String Quartet performs the second of three recitals this season celebrating the stylistic and emotional links between Ludwig van Beethoven and Bela Bartok. Program: Bartók: Quartet No. 3, Bartók: Quartet No. 4, and Beethoven: Quartet, Op. 59 No. 2. Meany Theater. Tickets available at the UW Arts Ticket Office: (206) 543-4880. For more information, contact the Meany: http://www.meany.org/ |
| Friday, November 30 | |
| 1:30 PM | Germanics Lecture "Der Dichter als Mörder. Schreiben und Schuld in Hans Henny Jahnns 'Fluss ohne Ufer,'" a lecture by Dr. Christoph Zeller (University of Stuttgart and Feodor-Lynen Fellow, Dept. of Germanics). William H. Rey Library, Denny 308. Sponsored by the Department of Germanics, 206-543-4580. |
| 1:30 PM | Italian Studies Lecture "Pirandello and Myth," Simona Micali (University of Bologna). Simona Micali is this year's University of Washington-University of Bologna faculty exchange visitor. Micali will explore Luigi Pirandello's shift from a pessimistic criticism of myth in the role of contemporary art to a experimentation (during the Fascist period) with creating a renewed, modern mythical discourse in the service of a theater that could be simultaneously high-brow and popular. Luigi Pirandello is a 1934 Nobel Laureate in Literature. 1:30 PM, Simpson Center for the Humanities Conference Room, Communications 202. |
| 2:30 PM | Geography Colloquium "Institutional Barriers and Migrants in the Chinese Urban Labor Market," Kam Wing Chan (UW Department of Geography). 2:30 pm, 241 Mary Gates Hall. |
| 3:00 PM | Communications Colloquium "Ethnography of Communication in Scientific and Technological Settings," by William Kinsella (Dept. of Communication, Lewis & Clark College). For more information, e-mail gphil@u.washington.edu. Raitt Hall, Room 221-223. |
| 3:30 PM | Linguistics Colloquium Dr. Gayle Ayers-Elam (Microsoft Corp.) 3:30 pm, Smith 305. |
| 3:30 PM | Philosophy Colloquium "Types, Tokens, and Templates," Ken Olson (Senior Test Specialist, Law School Admission Council). Savery Hall, Room 249. |
| 8:00 PM | Recital Viola Studio Recital: Free performance by School of Music viola students. 8:00 pm, Brechemin Auditorium, School of Music. FREE School of Music, (206) 685-8384. |
| Saturday, December 1 | |
| 8:00 PM | Performance A gifted storyteller with a smoky, textured voice reminiscent of Edith Piaf, Chava Alberstein is the first lady of Israeli song and one of the most enduring and popular artists in the Middle East. Whether performing defiant laments about the cycle of violence or prayerful songs celebrating the beauty of nature, Chava Alberstein takes audiences on an enchanting voyage into the human soul and the heart of the Israeli people. 8:00 pm, Meany Theater, $28. Tickets available through UW Arts Ticket Office: (206) 543-4880. For more information, contact UW World Series at Meany Hall, 206-543-1940. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert "Music for Lute: The Cusp of the Baroque." August Denhard, executive director of the Seattle Early Music Guild, plays music by late 16th and early 17th century composers John Dowland, Richard Allison, Nicholas Vallet, Robert Ballard, and others. Tickets: $8-10 (at the door). For more information, contact the School of Music, (206) 685-8384. 8:00 pm, Brechemin Auditorium, School of Music. |
| Sunday, December 2 | |
| 7:00 PM | Drama Performance Preview "Sleep Deprivation Chamber," a contemporary drama by Adam P. Kennedy and Adrienne Kennedy, directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton. In this dreamlike and autobiographical meditation on truth and justice, a young African-American is stopped at night by the police less than a block from his Arlington, VA home. Without provocation, he is brutally beaten, arrested and charged with assault and battery. Previews: 12/2 & 12/4, 7PM. Performances: 12/5-12/16, 7PM Wed. & Thurs., 8PM Fri. & Sat., 2PM Sun. Playhouse Theatre. Tickets: $5 Previews; $8 Sun.-Thurs.; $12 Fri. & Sat.; Students w/valid ID always $7; $1 Discount for Seniors/Groups. For more information, contact the UW School of Drama, 206-543-4880. |
| 8:00 PM | Recital Masters Recital: Conny Chen, conducting. Free. Sponsored by the School of Music. 8 pm, Brechemin Auditorium. |