| Monday, March 4 | |
| 3:30 PM | **AMERICAN STUDIES COLLOQUIUM** "Reading Across Lines of Difference: Dialogic Conversations among Disciplines & Multicultural Methodologies through the Case Study of Jovita Gonzalez, Caballero," Monika Kaup (English Dept.). Kaup will discuss Caballero as a transculturated work at the intersection and between the lines of conflicting discourses, using interdisciplinary approaches from cultural geography, Chicana discourse, Latin American literary studies, and the 19th-century American domestic reform movement. Sponsored by the American Studies Colloquium of the UW English Department and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. 3:30 PM, Communications 202. |
| 3:30 PM | Anthropology Colloquium Sociocultural Anthropology Colloquium, Jennifer E. Hasty (Pacific Lutheran University, Anthropology). Sponsored by the Dept. of Anthropology. For more information, e-mail: anagnost@u.washington.edu. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Denny 401. |
| 7:00 PM 8:30 | International Studies Lecture "Saving Central Asia: Implications of U.S. Regional Involvement following the Afghan War," John Schoeberlein (Director, Forum for Central Asian Studies, Harvard University). Schoeberlein's research and teaching focus on Central Eurasia, where he has conducted over four years of field research. He has recently lectured in numerous cities in the U.S., Europe and Central Eurasia. In 1998-99, he headed the United Nations' Ferghana Valley Development Programme, working on participatory approaches to conflict resolution in the region. During 2000-01, he directed the Central Asia Project of the International Crisis Group in its efforts to diminish the possibility of conflict in the region. Currently, he is studying how national state formation impacts the potential development of inner-communal conflict in the region and how community-level participation in economic reform can be promoted. His talk is part of the series "9/11: A Global Perspective" and will survey the causes and development of extremism in Central Asia and consider the possible ramifications of recent U.S. intervention: Bolstering authoritarianism? Militarizing the region? Increasing prospects for trade in opiates? Aggravating anti-Westernism? Or making significant steps toward stability, prosperity and democratization? Sponsored by REECAS, the Central Asian Studies Group, and the Jackson School of International Studies. Please call 206-543-4852 for more information. 7-8:30 PM, Kane Hall Room 220. |
| 7:30 PM | Jazz Performance The UW Studio Jazz Ensemble (Vern Sielert, director) is joined by faculty trumpeter Allen Vizzutti and his band in an eclectic mixture of jazz and Latin styles, including Vizzutti originals. Vizzutti has performed in 30 countries and every state in the U.S.A. with a wide range of artists and ensembles. 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. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert A concert of electroacoustic music featuring works by James Dashow and William O. Smith and performances by William O. Smith, Clarinet and Judson Scott, Trumpet. Tickets available at the door ($10, $5 students and seniors) Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS), 206-543-4218. 8 PM, Meany Studio Theater. |
| Tuesday, March 5 | |
| 6:00 PM | Art Lecture CMA Visiting Artist Katsushige Nakahashi will give a slide lecture. Nakahashi is an associate professor at Seian University, Japan, and his work was included in the recent Super Flat show at the Henry Art Gallery. This event is free and open to all. Sponsored by the School of Art, 206-543-0178. 6:00 pm, CMA Building, 4205 Mary Gates Memorial Dr. |
| 7:30 PM | Classics Lecture "Isis Sanctuaries in Rome and Pompeii," Daniel Harmon (Classics, UW). The Third Annual UW Faculty Lecture on Classical Culture, sponsored by the Dept. of Classics and the Seattle Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. This illustrated lecture will discuss what remains, and what is known, of the principal sanctuaries of the Egyption goddess Isis in Rome, especially the sanctuary of Isis Campensis (on the Campus Martius) and the Isis temple complex in Pompeii, along with the relation between the sanctuaries and Isis worshop in the Late Republic and Early Empire. Daniel P. Harmon received his PhD from Northwestern University in 1968, and has been on the faculty of the UW Department of Classics since 1967. His many years of distinguished service to the University and the field include fifteen years as Department Chair from 1976 until 1991, a more recent term as co-Director of UW's Rome Center in Palazzo Pio, and some twenty-five years on the Advisory Council of the School of Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome. Reception to follow in Walker-Ames Room. 7:30 PM, Kane Hall 210. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Percussion Ensemble: Works include "Pieces of Eight" by UW student David Reeves, "Highlife," "Some Echoes" for mallet jazz ensemble, "Matheny Dreams," and "Variations on Japanese Children's Songs" for solo marimba. The Music Works Northwest Percussion Ensemble will also perform. Tickets: $5-$8 (206-543-4880 or available at the door), School of Music, (206) 685-8384. 7:30 pm, Meany Studio Theater. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Peter Veale, oboist of musikFabrik (Germany), performs works by Holliger, Carter, Globokar, Staebler, Proeve, Spassov, and Schumann. Tickets: $8-10, School of Music, (206) 685-8384. 7:30 pm, Brechemin Auditorium. |
| Wednesday, March 6 | |
| 2:30 PM | English Colloquium Works in progress: Lesley Larkin, "Acts of Hope: Theories of Reading in the Fiction of Isabel Allende," and Amy Reddinger, "Pineapple glaze and Backyard Luaus: the emergence of Hawaiian Food in Cookbooks in the 1950s." 2:30-4 PM, Hub 209B. |
| 3:30 PM | Asian Languages Colloquium "Research in Popular Chinese Fiction," Chris Hamm (UW Asian Languages and Literature Dept.). 3:30 PM, 305 Smith Hall. |
| 4:00 PM | International Studies Lecture "Ritual Purity as an Identity Marker in Late Period Egypt," Jacco Dieleman (Leiden University). For more information, call (206) 543-6033. Sponsored by: Near Eastern Languages & Civilization; History, Classics, Comparative Religion Program, and the American Research Center in Egypt-Northwest. 4 PM, Denny 211. |
| 7:00 PM | German Film Series "Stammheim," in German with English Subtitles. Introduction by Richard Huffman. Written by the best Baader-Meinhof biographer, Stefan Aust, Stammheim is a courtroom drama about the trial of the Baader-Meinhof defendants. It was the winner of the 1986 Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival. This film is currently not available in the U.S. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Richard Huffman, who is the author of an extensive website on RAF terrorism. Part of a German film series about "Terrorism in Germany". Sponsored by the Department of Germanics. Free for UW students. Wednesdays, Feb 13-March 13. 7:00 pm, Thompson 101. |
| 7:00 PM | Opera Discussion "Amoral Art: Decadence and Art for Art's Sake," a discussion of contemporary themes and controversial themes in this stormy drama (Salome). Presented by Peter Lorenzo, Seattle Opera Education Director, and author Rebecca Brown. Tickets required, available (free) at University Book Store. Sponsored by University Book Store, KUOW and the Stranger, 206-634-3400. 7:00 pm, Walker Ames Room, 225 Kane Hall. |
| 7:00 PM | Reading/Talk "Doubts and Loves: What is Left of Christianity," a reading and talk by Richard Holloway. Inviting us to be "creative subversives" in our religious approach, the renegade Bishop of Edinburgh, an advocate for a human-centered morality, draws on sources from Yeats to Tillich to Nietszche in his critique of conservative evangelism. Tickets required,; available (free) at University Book Store beginning Feb. 25, University Book Store, 206-634-3400. 7:00 pm, Roethke Auditorium, 130 Kane Hall. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert "Tutti Trombones:" Faculty trombonist Don Immel is joined by colleague Tom Collier, percussion, in William O. Smith's "Jazz Set," as well as special guests Doug Nierman, bass trombonist with the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra; "Quake," Seattle's newest contemporary chamber ensemble; and the UW Trombone Choir. Tickets $8-$10 (206-543-4880 or available at the door). School of Music, (206) 685-8384. 7:30 pm, Meany Theater. |
| Thursday, March 7 | |
| 12:30 PM | Art Seminar "Artifacts and Artistic Creations," Zhi Lin (Assistant Professor, painting, UW School of Art). Artists have been using antique artifacts as visual and historical references for their artistic creations since the dawn of civilization. Zhi Lin discusses his practice of using artifacts in his ongoing painting project, "Five Capital Executions in China." The presentation will include slides of his work, sketches from various artifacts, objects from the Henry's collection and discussion. Free with museum admission. 12:30 PM, Reed Study Center, Henry Art Gallery. |
| 3:30 PM | China Studies Lecture "The Discourse on Love and Eugenics in Modern China," Sakamoto Hiroko, (Graduate school of Social Science, Hitotsubashi University). Sponsor: China Studies Program/JSIS. For more information, call (206) 543-4391. 3:30-5:00 pm, Thomson 317. |
| 3:30 PM | Art History Talk "The City of Olives (Where There Are No Olives): Visual Culture, Urbanism, and Identity in Quanzhou, Fujian, Under Mongol Rule," Jennifer Purtle (Art History, Univ. of Chicago). 3:30, 121 Raitt Hall. |
| 3:30 PM | Digital Aesthetics Lecture "Digital Aesthetics. Features, Types, Predecessors and Prospects," Roberto Simanowksi (dichtung-digital). Since its excursion into the Internet, a word is no longer just a word. In cyberspace it can be animated (i.e., appear and disappear, blink and change color) and engage in new alliances with image, sound and film. Here stories are sometimes non-linear, and their composition and outcomes are often in the hands of the readers themselves. What form does literature take when it consists of these alliances and its structure is so heavily defined and guided by the reader/user? What new aesthetic possibilities and temptations does this new multimedia-storytelling bring with it? How does one read the hidden text behind the screen? To what extent can one still speak of it as literature? 3:30-5:30, Allen Library Auditorium. |
| 7:00 PM | **TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES LECTURE** "Making Sense of Post-Colonial Violence," Mahmood Mamdani (Anthropology and Political Science, Columbia University). Mahmood Mamdani is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. He is author of the recent path-breaking work: _When Victims become Killers: Reflections on Colonialism, Nativism and Genocide in Rwanda_ (Princeton, 2001). Professor Mamdani is the author of numerous books and essays on contemporary African politics and society, including _Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism_ (Princeton, 1998) which won the Herskovits prize from the African Studies Association. He is currently President of the Dakar-based Council for the Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA). Part of "Human Agency In a Globalizing World," a lecture series focusing on the concept and issue of agency in the context of globalization. Taylor Institute Colloquium Series. For more information please call (206) 616-1190. 7 PM, Communications 226. |
| 7:00 PM | Art Talk UW History professor Daniel Waugh and graduate student Elmira Kocumkulkizi explore the traditional culture of pastoral nomads, their interaction with settled regions in Eurasia and how the materials and motifs for the carpets in the Burns Collection were the product of this interaction. Free with museum admission. 7 PM, Henry Art Gallery. |
| 7:30 PM | Recital Keyboard Debut Series: School of Music piano students perform in a free recital. FREE, School of Music, (206) 685-8384. 7:30 pm, Brechemin Auditorium. |
| Friday, March 8 | |
| 1:30 PM | Film "Secretos del Corazon (2000, 108 min.) Spanish w/English subtitles. A young boy searches for the answers to a number of puzzling family mysteries. Javi and his friend Carlos visit an old house on the outskirts of a small Spanish village. Friday Film Series, presented by Latin American Studies. For UW faculty, students and staff only. 1:30 PM, Kane 19. |
| 1:30 PM | Opera Lecture Seattle Opera educational lecture on Strauss' "Salome." School of Music, (206)685-8384. 1:30 pm, Brechemin Auditorium, School of Music. |
| 1:30 PM | Language and Rhetoric Colloquium Language and Rhetoric/LUA Colloquium: "Rhetorical Features of Native Hawaiian Students' Writing" by Meredith Lee and "Discourses of Telling" by Riki Thomson, both in the Department of English. Refreshments provided. Questions? e-mail avidali@u.washington.edu. 1:30 PM, 102 Loew. |
| 3:30 PM | Linguistics Colloquium John Ohala (UC Berkeley). For more information, contact the Department of Linguistics at (206) 543-2046. Fridays, 3:30 PM, Communications 226. |
| 8:00 PM | **SEATTLE HUMANITIES FORUM** "Beckett on Film: a series of archival and new plays on film," moderated by UW Professor Herbert Blau, whose book "Sails of the Herring Fleet" traces more than four decades of Blau's encounters with Beckett. Blau, who is the Byron and Alice Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at UW, has also had a long and distinguished career in the theatre as co-founder of The Actor's Workshop of San Francisco, co-director of the Repertory Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York, and artistic director of the experimental group KRAKEN. Blau directed Beckett's plays when they were still virtually unknown, including the now-legendary production of Waiting for Godot that went to San Quentin Prison. No one else has sustained, from theatre work to theoretical writing, so extensive a discourse about the mind of Beckett and the quality of his thought. Presented by the Simpson Center and 911 Media Arts Center. Ticket price: $8/$6 (students/911 members). 8 PM, Lecture Hall, Seattle Art Museum. |
| 8:00 PM | Jazz Concert Jazz Combos: Marc Seales, director. Tickets: $5-8. School of Music, (206) 685-8384. 8:00 pm, Brechemin Auditorium. |
| Saturday, March 9 | |
| 8:00 PM | Vocal Jazz Concert Featuring University Vocal Jazz I and University Vocal Jazz II, directed by Dave Cross. Tickets: $5-8. School of Music, (206) 685-8384. 8:00 pm, Brechemin Auditorium. |
| Sunday, March 10 | |
| 2:00 PM | Russian Mardi Gras Maslenitsa (Russian Mardi Gras) featuring dance instruction by Jana Rickel and bliny. Donation requested (Students $1-2, Others $3-5). Sponsor: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Info: 543-6848. Costumes recommended. 2:00-4:30 PM, Waterfront Activities Center. |
| 4:00 PM | Concert Irish pianist John O'Conor has garnered international praise for his impeccable technique, eloquent phrasing, and mastery of keyboard color. He will perform works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Webern, Berg, and Schoenberg. Tickets: $8-10. School of Music, (206) 685-8384. 4:00 pm, Brechemin Auditorium. |