| Monday, January 28 | |
| 1:00 PM | Recital Voice Division Recital: A free recital by School of Music voice students. For more information, call (206) 685-8384. 7:30 pm, Brechemin Auditorium, School of Music. |
| 3:00 PM | Classics Lecture "Rome as Alexandria: Appropriation and Alienation," by Alessandro Barchiesi (University of Arezzo/Stanford University). Alessandro Barchiesi is the author of La traccia del modello (1984), Il poeta e il principe: Ovidio e il discorso augusteo (1994, translated into English in 1997 as The Poet and the Prince), and a 1992 commentary on Ovid, Heroides 1-3. His influential Italian articles on Ovid have just been collected and translated as the book Speaking Volumes (2001); among his new projects is a book on 'Vergilian Geopoetics'. Prof. Barchiesi has established himself as one of the world's foremost interpreters of Latin poetry; his critical idiom, both in his native Italian and in English, is as elegant as it is innovative. He studied at Pisa with Gian Biagio Conte, and now holds professorships both at Arezzo and at Stanford. In 1995 he anchored the UW colloquium Allusion and the Limits of Interpretability, whose proceedings were published in the Pisan journal Materiali e Discussioni for 1998. Sponsored by the Department of Classics. 3 PM, Denny 212. |
| 3:30 PM 4:30 | Anthropology Lecture "Of Hybridity and Mestizaje: The Ambivalences of Transcultural Modernities," Quetzil Castenada (Director, Field School in Experimental Ethnography). The concepts of hybridity, mestizaje, transculturation are interrogated for their analytical, theoretical and ideological value. Each concept has a different locus of origination or emergence - Indian subcontinent, mainland Latin America, and the Caribbean. How does this localization effect their mobility (or salability?) in the globalized market of academic thought? What advantages might one or another have in conceptualizing forms of modernity, Indian identity, and national cultures in Latin America? Sponsored by the Sociocultural Colloquium, Department of Anthropology. For more information, e-mail anagnost@u.washington.edu. 3:30-4:30 pm, Denny 401. |
| 3:30 PM | Asian Languages Lecture "The Politics of Doodling: Tamura Toshiko and Beyond," Shu Kuge (Stanford University). Sponsored by Japan Studies Program/JSIS & Asian Languages and Literature. For more information, call (206) 543-4391. 3:30-5:00 PM, Smith 313. |
| 7:00 PM | **TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES LECTURE** "Anti-Racist Hope or Resignation to Race?" Paul Gilroy (Sociology and African American Studies, Yale University). Part of "Human Agency In a Globalizing World," a lecture series focusing on the concept and issue of agency in the context of globalization. Gilroy is a key figure in the development of British Cultural Studies and the author of numerous important books and essays addressing the politics of anti-racism and the cultures of black diasporic peoples in the Atlantic world. His books include, "There Ain't no Black in the Union Jack": The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation (1987), Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black Cultures (1993), The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness (1993), and Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color-Line (2000). Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities; Taylor Institute for Transnational Studies; Earl and Edna Stice Memorial Lectureship in Social Science; Evans School of Public Affairs; Center for Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution; Comparative Law and Society Studies Center; Center for Women and Democracy; Center for West European Studies; Center for Labor Studies; Program on Africa; Jackson School of International Studies; and the Departments of Women Studies, Anthropology, History, French, and English at the University of Washington, Seattle. For more information please call (206) 616-1190. 7 pm, Savery 239. |
| Tuesday, January 29 | |
| 1:30 PM | Germanics Lecture "Translating Remnants: Effects of German Judaism," Dana Hollander (Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Michigan State University). Sponsored by the Department of Germanics. Dana Hollander (Ph.D. Humanities, Johns Hopkins University) is a candidate for the position of Assistant Professor of German. She works in the areas of German-Jewish studies (including the postwar period), 20th-century/contemporary French and German philosophy and literary theory, and modern Jewish thought. Her lecture confronts prewar philosophical interpretations of the Biblical "remnant of Israel" (Cohen, Rosenzweig) and theories of translation (Rosenzweig, Benjamin) with questions raised in contemporary German-Jewish writing, including texts by Ernst Simon, Margarete Susman and Ruth Klüger. Her dissertation, entitled "Exemplarity and Chosenness," is a combined study of the philosophy of Jacques Derrida (ranging from his earliest book on Husserl to his "philosophical nationality" project during the late 1980s) and the philosophy of the German-Jewish thinker Franz Rosenzweig, centering on his conception of Judaism in terms of election and messianism. Her current research concerns conceptions of the self-other relation in Husserl, Sartre, Beauvoir, and Buber, with a special focus on Hermann Cohen's writings on the figure of "the neighbor" (Der Nächste) and Emmanuel Levinas's ethics of alterity. In addition, she is currently working on article-length projects on the question of "forgiveness" in Levinas, Derrida, and Jankélévitch; on Margarete Susman's work on the book of Job; and on the life and thought of Jacob Taubes, whose lectures on "The Political Theology of Paul" she has translated into English. 1:30 PM, William H. Rey Library, Denny 308. Reception to follow. |
| 6:00 PM 8:00 PM | Art Exhibit Scholarships for Scholars Celebration/1st Year Ceramics Graduate Exhibition: Join the School of Art's Ceramics Program as they host the opening of their first year graduate student exhibition in conjunction with the second annual Scholarships for Scholars Raffle and Silent Auction. This year's raffle prize was created and donated by Professor Doug Jeck. All proceeds are used for graduate scholarships. For more information, call Kris Jones, 685-2552 or Jamie Walker, 543-7179. 6-8 PM, Ceramics and Metal Arts Building, 4205 Mary Gates Memorial Boulevard. |
| 6:30 PM 9:00 | **FILM STUDIES LECTURE** Laleen Jayamanne (University of Sydney). Jayamanne is a Sri Lankan/Australian film critic and filmmaker. Her films include "A Song of Ceylon," a study of colonialism, gender and the body. She is also the author of several film theory books, including "Toward Cinema and its Double: Cross-Cultural Memesis." Sponsored by the Simpson Center, the UW Dept. of Comparative Literature, and the UW Film Colloquium. Reception: 6:30 pm, 206 Communications Bldg. Talk: 7-9 pm, 226 Communications Bldg. |
| 7:00 PM | Asian Studies Lecture "Warming India - US relations and its Impact on China," Venu Rajamony, (Political Counselor, Embassy of India, Beijing, China). Part of the series "Perspectives on East Asia: American & Asian Voices." Sponsored by the Jackson School of International Studies, The Jackson Foundation, China Studies Program, Japan Studies Program, East Asia Center, International Studies Center, South Asia Center. For more information, call (206) 543-6938. 7-8:30pm, Kane Hall 220. |
| 7:00 PM | Performance Preview "The Importance of Being Earnest," by Oscar Wilde, directed by Leland Patton. Two young men bend the truth to add excitement to their lives in Oscar Wilde's comic masterpiece skewering hypocrisy, smug provincialism and the follies and foibles of the idle rich. Previews: 1/27 & 1/29, 7PM. Performances: 1/30-2/10, 7PM Wed. & Thurs., 8PM Fri. & Sat., 2PM Sun. $5 Previews; $8 Sun.-Thurs.; $12 Fri. & Sat.; Students w/valid ID always $7; $1 Discount for Seniors/Groups, UW School of Drama, 206-543-4880. 7 PM, Meany Studio Theatre. |
| 7:00 PM | Reading Frank H. Wu talks about and signs "Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White." Using the experiences of different racial groups, Wu presents a provocative and fresh perspective on American race relations. Tickets required, available (free) at University Book Store. For more information, call (206) 634-3400. 7:00 pm, Roethke Auditorium, 130 Kane Hall. |
| 7:30 PM | Symphony Performance The University Symphony and the winners of the November 2001 School of Music concerto competition -- Erin Earl, piano; Memmi Ochi, marimba; Eric Rynes, violin; Jeremy Samolesky, piano; and Jeanne Drumm, viola -- perform works by Rachmaninoff, Rosauro, Bartok, Liszt, and Hindemith. (Peter Erös, conductor). Tickets: $5-$8 (206-543-4880 or available at the door). For more information, contact the School of Music, (206) 685-8384. 7:30 pm, Meany Theater. |
| Wednesday, January 30 | |
| 12:30 PM | Art Lecture "Curious Miracles, Art and Emerging Technology," a presentation by Shawn Brixey (Univ. of California-Berkeley). Brixey is a candidate for the position of Digital Arts faculty and Associate Director of the UW Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media. Brixey is currently Chair of the Department of Art Practice's Digital Media Program and Director of their Center for Digital Art and New Media Research. Recent works by Professor Brixey include "Eon," an artistic investigation of the sonoluminescence phenomenon commissioned for the Beall Center for Art and Technology at UC Irvine and "Chimera Obscura," which will be part of the "Gene(sis)" exhibit slated for the Henry Gallery this August. For more information, see Prof. Brixey's web site: http://128.32.209.193/shawn/brixey.html 12:30-1:30 PM, Henry Art Gallery Auditorium. |
| 3:30 PM | Religion Lecture "The Family of Buddha: Lineage, Transmission and Authority in Chinese Buddhism," Morten Schlutter (East Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA), candidate for the Eastern Religions position in the Comparative Religion Program, JSIS. For more information, call (206) 543-4372. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Thomson 317. |
| 3:30 PM | Women's Studies Lecture "Good Women, Bad Women: Gender Roles in Pakistan," Dr. Fouzia Saeed (Country Director for ActionAid Pakistan). Sponsored by the Women's Studies Dept. For more information, call (206)543-6900. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Thomson 125. |
| 7:00 PM | **TEXTUAL STUDIES LECTURE** "The Art Nouveaux Bindings of the Works of Louis Couperus (1863-1923)," H.T.M. Van Vliet (The Hague, Holland). Part of a lecture series in conjunction with the crossdisciplinary graduate program in Textual Studies. Van Vliet is Director of the Constantijn Huygens Institute for text-editions at the Hague (Holland) and visiting professor of textual studies at the Free University of Amsterdam. He has published numerous scholarly editions of Dutch literature and many essays on editing and bibliographic problems. His most recent publication is a book on the art nouveax bindings and their variants of the works of Louis Couperus (1863-1923). He is leading now some long-term editing projects, one of which is the new scholarly edition of all the letters of Vincent van Gogh, a collaborative venture with with Van Gogh Museum in Ambsterdam. Van Vliet is a member of the executive committee of the German Society for Scholarly Editing, a member of the editorial board of "Editio," the International yearbook of Scholarly Editing and chairman of the newly established European Society of Textual Scholarship. For more information, call (206) 543-3920. 7 PM, Faculty Club. Reception to follow. |
| Thursday, January 31 | |
| 12:30 PM | International Studies Lecture "Searching the Book Markets in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan," Mary St. Germain (Head, Near Eastern Section, UW Libraries). Sponsor: CASG/NELC. For more information, call (206) 543-9963 or (206) 543-6033. 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Denny 215. |
| 2:30 PM | Slavic Languages Talk "A Geologist's Year on Kamchatka," Joanne Bourgeois (Dept. of Earth & Space Sciences). Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures. For more information, contact Shosh Westen (206) 543-6848. 2:30-4:00 PM, 121 Raitt Hall. |
| 3:00 PM | Scandinavian Studies Talk "Back to the West - Reintegration of Former Socialist Countries into Western Structures," Erkki Huittinen, Consul General of Finland, Los Angeles. Sponsored by Scandinavian Studies. Reception immediately following. For more information, call (206) 543-0645. 3:00 - 4:00 pm, Faculty Club Music Room. |
| 3:30 PM | **HUMANITIES LECTURE** "Postcolonial Landscapes of the Heart in Rural North India," a lecture by Ann Gold (Religious Studies, Syracuse Univ.). Part of a series of lectures, "Nature and Its Publics in the Tropical World." For more information, contact the Taylor Institute: http://depts.washington.edu/tayloruw/ 3:30 pm, Communications 226. |
| 3:30 PM | Asian Languages Lecture "Poetic Form and Social Harmony in the Nativist Philosophy of Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801)" Petere Flueckiger (Columbia University and University of Tokyo). Sponsored by the Dept. of Asian Languages and Literature. 3:30-5 PM, Savery 216. |
| 7:00 PM 9 | **HUMANITIES LECTURE** Lecture and book signing with Sidney Rittenberg. A long-time resident of China and an acquaintance and prisoner of Chairman Mao, Rittenberg was "The Man Who Stayed Behind." He will speak about his experiences in conjunction with the Burke Museum's temporary exhibit, Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: China's Cultural Revolution. 5-6:30 reception in the Burke room. 6-6:30 book signing. 7:00 lecture in 220 Kane Hall. For more information, contact the Simpson Center at (206) 543-3920. |
| 7:30 PM | Poetry Reading Joshua Weiner, presented by the Counterbalance Poetry Series. 7:30 PM, UW Ethnic Cultural Theater. |
| 8:00 PM | Dance Performance Opening UW World Dance Series: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. (Jan 31-Feb 2) Dancing the fine line between high art and high camp, "The Trocks" return to Meany to perform their wicked send-ups of serious ballet. With immaculate technique and superb comic timing, this outrageous all-male corps weds the physical capabilities of male dancers with the grace and grandeur of ballerinas in performances that delight and amuse even the most discriminating dance aficionado. Tickets: $35. UW Arts Ticket Office: (206) 543-4880., UW World Series at Meany Hall, 206-543-1940. 8:00 pm, Meany Theater. |
| Friday, February 1 | |
| 11:00 AM | Comparative Religion Talk "Challenging American Religious Exceptionalism: Five Trends in the Relation of Religion and Modernity," James K. Wellman, Jr. (Lecturer Part-time, Comparative Religion Program). Wellman is a candidate for a faculty position in Comparative Religion. 11:00 - Noon, Thomson 317. |
| 12:30 PM | Concert David DiFiore, School of Music alumnus and artist-in-residence/organist at Seattle's University Temple United Methododist Church, performs works by Bach and others in the second concert of the Eichinger Memorial Concert Series. Cost: $8-$10. For more information, call (206) 685-8384. 12:30pm and 8:00pm, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. |
| 12:30 PM | Italian Studies Talk "Leonardo's Paper Bodies: from Anatomical Drawings to Critique of the Arts and Sciences," Monica Azzolini, a faculty candidate in The Division of French and Italian Studies. Monica Azzolini received her PhD in Italian Renaissance Studies in October 2001 from the University of Cambridge, where she has been an Assistant Lecturer and Teaching Assistant in the Department of Italian. She received an M Phil from the University of Cambridge in 1998. She received a Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere (German and English) cum laude from the Universita Cattolica del S. Cuore, Milan. The talk will be delivered in English. 12:30-1:30 PM, Simpson Center for the Humanities, Communications 202. |
| 3:30 PM | Linguistics Colloquium "Unsupervised Learning of Morphology," John Goldsmith (Linguistics, Univ. of Chicago). 3:30 PM, Communications 226. Reception to follow. |
| 7:00 PM | **FILM SERIES** The Cultural Revolution Film Series presents "China: the Roots of Madness" (1967) and "Hybiscus Town" (1984). See major milestones of the Chinese film industry, easy-to-view favorites, and rarely seen footage. For further details, call 206-543-3920. Admission: free. Fridays: Jan. 25, Feb. 1, 8, and 15, 2002. 7 pm, 301 Gowen. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert David DiFiore, School of Music alumnus and artist-in-residence/organist at Seattle's University Temple United Methododist Church, performs works by Bach and others in the second concert of the Eichinger Memorial Concert Series. Cost: $8-$10. For more information, call (206) 685-8384. 12:30 pm and 8:00 pm, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. |
| 8:00 PM | Ensemble Concert "Jazz Classics for Vibes and Piano," School of Music colleagues Tom Collier (jazz vibraphone) and Marc Seales (piano) in concert. Sponsored by the School of Music. Notecard Event. Cost: $8 - $10. For more information, call: (206) 685-8384. 8:00 pm, Brechemin Auditorium |
| Saturday, February 2 | |
| 3:00 PM | Slavic Studies Lecture "The Glory of the Czech Baroque," Lisa Wakamiya (Visiting Assistant Professor). Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures. For more information, call Shosh Westen (206) 543-6848. 3:00-5:00 PM, 327 Parrington Hall. |
| 8:00 PM | Dance Performance Closing UW World Dance Series: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. (Jan 31-Feb 2). Dancing the fine line between high art and high camp, "The Trocks" return to Meany to perform their wicked send-ups of serious ballet. With immaculate technique and superb comic timing, this outrageous all-male corps weds the physical capabilities of male dancers with the grace and grandeur of ballerinas in performances that delight and amuse even the most discriminating dance aficionado. Tickets: $35. UW Arts Ticket Office: (206) 543-4880. UW World Series at Meany Hall, 206-543-1940. 8:00 pm, Meany Theater. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert "Guitar Ensemble," students of Steven Novacek in recital. Sponsored by the School of Music. Cost: $5 - $8. For more information, call: (206) 685-8384. 8:00 pm, Brechmin Auditorium. |