| Monday, February 11 | |
| 3:30 PM | **NEW WORKS IN PRINT** "Shaping Science with Rhetoric: The Cases of Dobzhansky, Shrödinger, and Wilson," Leah Ceccarelli (Speech Communication). How do scientists persuade colleagues from diverse fields to cross the disciplinary divide, risking their careers in new interdisciplinary research programs? Why do some attempts to inspire such research win widespread acclaim and support, while others do not? Ceccarelli addresses such questions through close readings of three scientific monographs in their historical contexts--Theodosius Dobzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species (1937), which inspired the "modern synthesis" of evolutionary biology; Erwin Schrodinger's What Is Life? (1944), which catalyzed the field of molecularbiology; and Edward O. Wilson's Consilience (1998), a so far not entirely successful attempt to unite the social and biological sciences. She examinesthe rhetorical strategies used in each book and evaluates which worked best,based on the reviews and scientific papers that followed in their wake. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Communications 202. Reception to follow. |
| 3:30 PM | Anthropology Colloquium "Landscape Plasticity: Akha Knowledge and Practice in China and Thailand," Janet Sturgeon (UW Anthropology). Part of the Sociocultural Colloquium sponsred by the Dept. of Anthropology. For more information, contact anagnost@u.washington.edu. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Denny 401. |
| 3:30 PM | Asian Studies Lecture "Southeast Asian Responses to Global Terror," Michael Leigh (Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Malaysia Sarawak). When the 1997 financial crisis hit the Southeast Asian region, what was perhaps most interesting was the differential governmental responses to the crisis, especially in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. Most vocal was the Malaysian Prime Minister, who on the one hand assigned all blame upon George Soros and global financial speculators, whilst on the other hand in essence adopting the US dollar as the Malaysian currency, through the institution of a fixed peg and external de-monetisation of the ringgit. This discussion is about the way that political leaders have interpreted and utilized the changed global environment that has operated since September 11th. Malaysia has again been catapulted into a position of regional and global prominence, so the paper will commence with a consideration of that nation, in comparison with the Philippines, Indonesia and Singapore. For more information about this event, call (206) 543-9606. 3:30-5:00 pm, Thomson Hall, Room 234 |
| 4:00 PM | **TEXTUAL STUDIES LECTURE** "Forgery, Scandals of Authorship and Restoration of Paintings and Historic Houses," Paul Eggert (English, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia). Professor Eggert, Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, has published numerous influential essays on editorial theory and edited the works of D.H.Lawrence, Henry Kingsley, and Joseph Conrad. He is the author of a critical edition of _The Boy in the Bush_ and _Twilight in Italy and Other Essays_ for the Cambridge Lawrence Series and edited the counterpart titles for the Penguin Lawrence Series. Eggert is the director (since 1993) of the Australian Scholarly Editions Center at the University of New South Wales, Founder of the Colonial Texts Series published by the New South Wales University Press, and General Editor of the Academy of Australian literature. Sponsored by the Textual Studies Program, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Kenneth s. Allen Library Endowment Fund and the Department of English. A Reception will follow the lecture at the Center for the Humanities (Communications 206, 5:30-7 PM). Positive RSVPs for the reception are welcome. 4 PM, Communications 226. |
| Tuesday, February 12 | |
| 3:30 PM | Jewish Studies Colloquium "A Tale of Two Prilutskis: the Beginnings of the Yiddish Press in Warsaw," Keith Weiser (2001-02 Hazel D. Cole Fellow, Jewish Studies). Event sponsored by Jewish Studies Program/JSIS. For more information, call (206) 543-4243. 3:30 PM, Thomson 317. |
| 6:00 PM | Walker-Ames Lecture "Measuring Women's Status: How Public Policies Improve Women's Lives," Heidi Hartmann (Institute for Women's Policy Research). Admission is Free. No ticket required. For more information, contact the Graduate School, 206-685-2998. 6 PM, Kane Hall, Room 130. |
| 6:00 PM | Visiting Artist Lecture CMA Visiting Artist Gary Smoot will have an exhibit at the Ceramic Gallery through February 24th. Smoot is a local installation and set design artist. Join us for the exhibit opening and slide lecture. This event is free and open to all. Sponsored by the School of Art. For more information, please call (206) 543-0178. 6 PM. |
| 7:00 PM | Performance Preview First Annual UW Ten Minute Play Festival by various playwrights, directed by Mark Jenkins, Amy Rebecca Boyce, Josh Costello, and Mark Jared Zufelt. Inaugural Festival. Short attention span theatre. Mini-masterpieces. These plays may be short on time, but they go for the big statement - in a fast and furious way! Previews: 2/10 & 2/12, 7PM. Performances: 2/13-2/24, 7PM Wed. & Thurs., 8PM Fri. & Sat., 2PM Sun. Tickets: $5 Previews; $8 Sun.-Thurs.; $12 Fri. & Sat.; Students w/valid ID always $7; $1 Discount for Seniors/Groups. For more information call the UW School of Drama, (206)543-4880. February 10-24, Penthouse Theatre. |
| Wednesday, February 13 | |
| 3:30 PM | **HUMANITIES LECTURE** "Extraordinary Challenges: Joyce in China," Jin Di. Jin Di is translator, teacher, and theoretician, whose Chinese translation of James Joyce's Ulysses is recognized as a monumental achievement and a work of art. Ulysses remained largely unknown to the Chinese readership for the first 64 years after its publication. Although there was never a formal ban, the de facto ban on the western work regarded as "notoriously obscene" and filled with "bourgeois ideology" lasted for decades. Professor Jin's new book, Shamrock and Chopsticks, traces the odyssey of Joyce's work, including the political and cultural obstacles to its translation and reception both prior to and during the Cultural Revolution. Join Professor Jin for a discussion of the encounter between James Joyce and Chinese culture from various angles. 3:30 pm, Communications 206. |
| 4:00 PM | Exhibit Opening Join us for the opening and awards ceremony of the annual juried exhibit of undergraduate work, OPEN 2002. This event is sponsored by The University Bookstore and Lambda Rho. The show runs through March 2 and is free and open to all. For more information, please call (206) 685-1805. 4-6 pm, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, 132 Art Building. |
| 7:00 PM | German Film Series "The lost honor of Katharina Blum (Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum)" Part of a series of German movies with English subtitles about "Terrorism in Germany". Sponsored by the Department of Germanics. Free for UW students. Wednesdays, Feb 13-March 13. 7:00 pm, Thompson 101. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Pianist Naida Cole. 27-year-old Naida Cole has already accumulated a number of major achievements in her young career: she is the highest-placed Canadian in the 40-year history of the prestigious Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and the first Canadian artist to secure a multi-disc contract with the prestigious Deutsche Grammophon label. An intelligent musician with a "gorgeous tone" and "vibrant sense of rhythm," Cole has garnered accolades around the globe for exuberant performances that revel in technical and interpretive challenges. For tickets, call UW Arts Ticket Office: (206) 543-4880 or call TicketMaster: (206) 292-ARTS. 8 PM, Meany Hall. |
| Thursday, February 14 | |
| 4:00 PM | **AMERICAN STUDIES LECTURE** "La Cucaracha in Babylon: Mexican Music and Hollywood's Sonic War on Drugs," Curtis Marez (American Studies, Univ. of California/Santa Cruz). Marez is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of two exciting and innovative forthcoming books: "Drug Wars: Race, Rebellion, and Modernity" and "Becoming Brown: The Politics of Chicano/a Popular Culture." In this talk, he will explore the complex ways in which Hollywood studios in the 1920s and 30s mobilized both the police and policing practices in order to segregate the industry from the increasingly Mexican social space that surrounded it. Sponsored by the English Department. For more information, contact Bruce Burgett (burgett@u.washington.edu). 4 pm, Communications 226. Reception in Communications 202 |
| 7:30 PM | Valentine's Day Concert "Love Notes:" School of Music faculty and students, joined by narrators from other UW schools and departments, present a special Valentine's Day concert of evocative music and words about love. The music will be as varied as love itself - from sultry Latin love songs,to beautiful Romantic sounds of Brahms and Chopin; from a jazz band doing Basie, to sassy tangos and vocal jazz ballads; from poignant music from the film "Henry V," to the inspirational finale to Leonard Bernstein's opera "Candide." Tickets $8-$10 (206-543-4880 or available at the door). For more information, call the School of Music at (206) 685-8384. 7:30 pm, Meany Theater. |
| 8:00 PM | Performance "Fool For Love," written by Sam Shepard, directed by Heather Louise Parker. Tickets: $10 general, $5 student. Performance runs February 7-17 (8pm Thur-Sat, 2pm Sun), UW Ethnic Cultural Theater. |
| Friday, February 15 | |
| 11:00 AM | Comparative Religion Talk "Hallowed Ground, Contagious Corpses, and the Moral Economy of the Graveyard in 19th -Century Prussia," Robert E. Alvis (Study in Religion Program, Univ. of Massachusetts). Alvis is a candidate for a faculty position in Comparative Religion. 11:00 - Noon, Thomson 317. |
| 1:30 PM | Film "A Guerra Dos Meninos" (1991, 51 min.) Portuguese w/English subtitles. Friday Film Series, presented by Latin American Studies. For UW faculty, students and staff only. 1:30 PM, Kane 19. |
| 3:30 PM | **HUMANITIES LECTURE** "Lesbian Subcultures Now and Then," Judith Halberstam (Literature, Univ. of California, San Diego). Halberstam's tour of lesbian subcultures takes in riot dyke punk by bands like Sleater-Kinney, The Butchies, Le Tigre, Tribe 8, The Haggard and Bitch and Animal; drag kings like Dred, Mo B. Dick, Murray Hill and drag king boy band parody group Backdoor Boys; slam poets like Alix Olson and Stacey Ann Chin. Queer subcultures are related to old school subcultures like punk but they also carve out new territory for a consideration of the overlap of gender, generation, class, race and sexuality in relation to minority cultural production. When taken separately, riot dyke bands, drag kings and queer slam poets all seem to represent a queer edge in a larger cultural phenomenon. When considered together, they add up to a fierce and lively queer subculture which needs to be reckoned with on its own terms. Halberstam is the author of numerous essays and books including Skin Shows and Female Masculinity (both by Duke University Press) and The Drag King Book (Serpent's Tail). She is also co-editor with Ira Livingstone of Posthuman Bodies (Indiana University Press). Her essays have appeared in Feminist Studies, GLQ, Social Text, Nineteenth Century Studies, and more. She has given talks both across the country and internationally in countries such as England, Germany, Taiwan and Macedonia. This event is co-sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Modern Girl Around the World project, and the Departments of English, Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies, Comparative Literature, Cinema Studies. Reception to follow, Communications 206. 3:30 pm, Communications 226. |
| 3:30 PM | Linguistics Colloquium Brian Roark. For more information, contact the Department of Linguistics at (206) 543-2046. Fridays, 3:30 PM, Balmer 203. |
| 7:00 PM | **FILM SERIES** The Cultural Revolution Film Series presents "China Commune" (1973) and "XiuXiu, the Sent-down Girl" (1999). 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. |
| Saturday, February 16 | |
| 6:30 PM | International Studies Lecture "A New Iran: Iranian Culture and Politics in the New Century," Elaine Sciolino (Senior Correspondent, New York Times). 2002 Hooshang Afrassiabi Distinguished Lecture in Persian Studies and author of "Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran". Sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization. Reception to follow in Walker-Ames Room. For more information, call (206) 543-6033 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/nelc/events/events.html. 6:30 pm, Kane Hall 210. |
| Sunday, February 17 | |
| 2:00 PM | Performance Closing "Fool For Love," written by Sam Shepard, directed by Heather Louise Parker. Tickets: $10 general, $5 student. Performance runs February 7-17 (8pm Thur-Sat, 2pm Sun), UW Ethnic Cultural Theater. |