| Wednesday, January 9 | |
| 3:30 PM | History and Germanics Lecture "Don't Look Back in Anger: The Nazi Past in West German Popular Culture of the 1960s," Detlef Siegfried (Contemporary German History, University of Copenhagen, Denmark). His publications include _Zwischen Einheitspartei und "Bruderkampf". SPD und KPD in Schleswig-Holstein 1945/46_, Kiel: Neuer Malik Verlag 1992; _Dynamische Zeiten. Die 60er Jahre in den beiden deutschen Gesellschaften_, Hamburg: Christians Verlag 2000 (Editor, with Axel Schildt and Karl Christian Lammers); _Der Fliegerblick. Intellektuelle, Radikalismus und Flugzeugproduktion 1914-1934_, Bonn: Verlag J.H.W. Dietz Nachf. 2001. Sponsored by The Center for West European Studies Politics and Society Colloquium, and the Departments of History and Germanics. 3:30 PM, Thomson Hall 125. |
| 7:00 PM | History Lecture "The San Francisco Eartquake," Jon Bridgman (UW professor emeritus of history). This is the first lecture in the series "National Tragedy-National Recovery." Tickets may be purchased at the door, by calling 206-543-3839, or through www.uwalum.com. Series tickets are $20 (students) to $65 (gen admission); single tickets (after 1/1/02) are $5-$12. Sponsored by the UW Alumni Association and The College of Arts & Sciences (206-543-0540). 7:00 pm, Roethke Auditorium, 130 Kane Hall. |
| 8:00 PM | Piano Concert UW President's Piano Series oresents Leon Bates. With a repertoire that ranges from early classical to modern jazz, Leon Bates is an artist who shines in live performance. A generous performer with powerhouse charisma, Bates's true talent lies in his ability to inspire audiences of all ages. Tickets $30 through UW Arts Ticket Office: (206) 543-4880. UW World Series at Meany Hall: (206)543-1940. 8:00 pm, Meany Theater. |
| Thursday, January 10 | |
| 7:00 PM | Humanities Lecture "The Betrayal of Liberty and Dignity on America's Campuses," Alan Charles Kors (University of Pennsylvania). Sponsors of the lecture include Departments of History and English, and Washington Association of Scholars. Kors specializes in French intellectual history and is editor in chief of "The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment." In recent years he has written extensively on the threat posed to academic freedom by political correctness. 7 PM, 220 Kane Hall. |
| Friday, January 11 | |
| 3:00 PM | Classics Lecture "Artemis and Greek Culture in the Roman Empire: Structuralism, Polytheism and Mess," Simon Goldhill (King's College, Cambridge). Goldhill is one of the world's foremost critics of ancient Greek literature and culture. His readings, rigorous, innovative, and methodologically aware, have been changing debates and shifting paradigms within Classics and beyond for twenty years. His books include Language, Sexuality, Narrative: the Oresteia (1984), Reading Greek Tragedy (1986), The Poet's Voice: Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature (1991), and Foucault's Virginity: Ancient Erotic Fiction and the History of Sexuality (1995). Among several collections edited or co-edited by him, the latest is Being Greek Under Rome: Cultural Identity, the Second Sophistic and the Development of Empire (2001). Dr Goldhill is the Classics graduate students' invited speaker for 2001-02. Sponsored by the Department of Classics. 3 pm, Denny 212. |
| 8:00 PM | Performance The UW World Music & Theatre Series presents the National Acrobats of Taiwan, ROC. These 35 master entertainers from China's foremost acrobatic company serve up an amazing feast of traditional carnival arts, including juggling, clowning, tumbling, plate balancing, table spinning and unicycle riding. With disarming control and grace, these acrobats present a jaw-dropping display of strength, agility and talent in a colorful performance that transcends boundaries of age, language and culture. Tickets $18-$28 through UW Arts Ticket Office: (206) 543-4880. UW World Series at Meany Hall, 206-543-1940. 8 PM, Meany Theatre. |
| Saturday, January 12 | |
| 8:00 PM | Performance The UW World Music & Theatre Series presents the National Acrobats of Taiwan, ROC. These 35 master entertainers from China's foremost acrobatic company serve up an amazing feast of traditional carnival arts, including juggling, clowning, tumbling, plate balancing, table spinning and unicycle riding. With disarming control and grace, these acrobats present a jaw-dropping display of strength, agility and talent in a colorful performance that transcends boundaries of age, language and culture. Tickets $18-$28 through UW Arts Ticket Office: (206) 543-4880. UW World Series at Meany Hall, 206-543-1940. 8 PM, Meany Theatre. |