| Monday, April 8 | |
| 7 PM | **TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES LECTURE** "Politics of the Multitude," Michael Hardt (Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University). Hardt's talk is based on his and Antonio Negri's recent book "Empire," which caused a stir in the United States and abroad and has already been translated into ten languages. The publication has been hailed as a "bold move from established doctrine" and a "great new theoretical synthesis of the new millennium." Part of "Human Agency In a Globalizing World," a lecture series focusing on the concept and issue of agency in the context of globalization. For more information, call (206) 616-1190. 7 PM, Savery 239. |
| Tuesday, April 9 | |
| 3 PM | **TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES WORKSHOP** The Human Agency in a Globalizing World series invites interested faculty and students to a workshop with Professor Michael Hardt (see lecture description on April 8) to discuss a pre-circulated paper that elaborates on themes of "Empire". If you intend to participate in the workshop, please RSVP to the Institute for Transnational Studies (tayloruw@u.washington.edu) to receive a copy of the readings. The workshop is limited to 30 participants. For more information, call (206) 616-1190. 3-4:30 PM, Communications 202. |
| 6 PM | WALKER-AMES LECTURE "Understanding Institutions," Elinor Ostrum (Political Science, Indiana University). To understand institutions one needs to know what they are, how they are crafted and sustained, and what their consequences are in at least some well-defined settings. A major problem in understanding institutions relates to the complexity and diversity of contemporary life and the resulting specialization that has occurred within the social sciences. The central aim of the social sciences is to explain human behavior. But what kind of human behavior? Within which institutional settings? There are many different complex systems in which we all engage in during our daily lives. They look so different but are they really totally unique phenomena? The core question to be asked in this lecture is whether there are underlying components of these complex systems that, if identified, would constitute the elemental parts of theories -- and eventually specific models of these theories -- that may help to explain regularities in human behavior across these diverse and complex situations. Admission is Free. No ticket required. 6 PM, Kane Hall, Room 130. |
| 8 PM | PIANO PERFORMANCE Murray Perahia, Grammy award-winning pianist, performs pieces by Beethoven, Schubert, and Chopin. For ticket information call (206) 543-4880. 8 PM, Meany Theatre. |
| Wednesday, April 10 | |
| 5:30 PM | International Studies Lecture "Kashmir between India and Pakistan" (International Update Dinner-Lecture), Keith Snodgrass (Associate Director, South Asia Center). $25 fee includes dinner and clock hours for teachers. All welcome. Sponsors: Jackson School of International Studies, CIBER, South Asia Center. Registration/Info: 543-4800; sascuw@u.washington.edu. 5:30 - 8:00 PM, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. |
| 7:00 PM | Walker-Ames Lecture "New Perspectives on Ancient Persian Kingship: The Art and Architecture of Achaemenid Iran," David Stronach (Near Eastern Archaoelogy, UC Berkeley). Dr. Stronach is a profesor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1961 to 1980, he served as the Director for the British Institute for Persian Studies in Tehran. His lecture will discuss the implications of recent archaeological discoveries in Iran for the reigns of two of the most famous rulers of early Iran, Cyrus the Great (559-530 BC) and Darius the Great (522-486 BC). 7 pm, 130 Kane Hall. |
| 7:00 PM | International Studies Lecture "The War on Terrorism and Militant Islam" Daniel Pipes (Director of the Middle East Forum (Philadelphia); Former director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute). Pipes will ask and reply to the questions: "Who is the enemy? What is the war goal? How is it to be achieved?" Admission: Free to students, faculty, and staff each UW ID admits two); $3 for others. 7 p.m. in Kane Hall 120. |
| 7:30 PM | Music Faculty Recital "Scintillating Strings": Three of the School of Music's renowned string faculty -- Ronald Patterson, violin; Helen Callus, viola; and Toby Saks, cello -- join forces with colleague Craig Sheppard, piano, in Beethoven sonatas. Tickets $8-10. 7:30 PM, Meany Theatre. |
| Thursday, April 11 | |
| **SEATTLE HUMANITIES FORUM** 'Liberal Islam' and Social Justice in Indonesia: A Seattle Humanities Forum. Scholars, artists, and activists from Indonesia come together with their counterparts in the U.S. to present a program to educate students, faculty, and community members on the art, religion, law, politics, and ecology of Indonesia today. Organized by the UW Southeast Asia Center, with generous funding from the Jackson School of International Studies, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Middle East Center, and the Departments of Anthropology and History. For more information, contact (206) 543-9606. April 11-12, various campus locations. |
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| 3:30 PM | Sociology Lecture Multicultural Nation-Building: "Integration" as Public Philosophy and Research Paradigm in Western Europe (Part of the Seminar of Global Migration and Identities). Adrian Favell (University of California, Los Angeles). Sponsors: International Studies Center, Center for the Study of Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Sociology Department, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more informatin, call (206) 685-2354. 3:30-5:30, Parrington Hall Forum. |
| 3:30 PM | Asian Languages Lecture "Research in Early Chinese Manuscripts," William Boltz (UW, Asian Languages and Literature Dept.) For more information, call (206) 543-4996. 3:30-5:00 pm, Communications 202. |
| 3:30 PM | English Lecture "Courtesanry and Other Public Discourses in Late 19th-Century India," Anu Taranath (Lecturer, UW Dept. of English). In the last few decades of 19th-century colonial India, public debates proliferated about how certain women were to be disciplined, policed, and organized. Such categories were based on burgeoning notions of modern morality. This talk will trace how courtesans, once hightly respected and accomplished artists, were refigured as merely public, and hence, subject to British and Idian disciplincary techniques. Yet the story is never simply about oppression. Indian courtesans used various means to resist and rewrite their newly configured role in colonial Indian society We will examine some of these interesting moments when disenfranchised women used legal and literary means to register their dissent. Free. RSVP at (206) 685-1090 or by e-mail: womens@u.washington.edu. 3:30-5 PM, Cunningham Hall, Women's Center Gallery. |
| 7:00 PM | **SILK ROAD LECTURE** "Soghdia and its Culture," Dr. Boris Marshak (Head of the Central Asian and Caucasus section of the Oriental Division of the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia). This series is part of Silk Road Seattle, a collaborative public education project using the Silk Road theme to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era to the Sixteenth Century. Included in museum admission (Suggested $3). For more information, call (206) 543-6938. 7 pm, Seattle Asian Art Museum. |
| 7:00 PM | Poetry Reading Colleen McElroy (UW Dept. of English) will read some of her work at the opening of "We are all strangers bound by the same spirits," an exhibit celebrating the diversity of Pacific Northwest poets. The exhibit includes broadsides, limited edition books, photographs, original poetry drafts and ephemeral material by 23 women and minority poets of the Pacific Northwest, and runs through April 30th, 2002. 7-8:30 PM, Allen Library (Manuscripts, Special Collections, University Archives (MSCUA) division). |
| 7:30 PM | **WALKER AMES LECTURE** 'Liberal Islam' and Social Justice in Indonesia, Goenawan Mohamed (journalist, playwright, activist). Free and open to the public. Part of a series of events in the Seattle Humanities Forum on Indonesia. For more information, call (206) 543-9606. 7:30 PM, Kane Hall 210. |
| 7:30 PM | Classics Lecture "The Lure of Greece: Utopia Revealed," Eugene Borza (Pennsylvania State University). AIA Lecture. Sponsored by the Dept. of Classics. 7:30 PM, 210 Kane Hall. |
| 8:00 PM | Architecture Lecture "An Evening with Rem Koolhaas: the 15th Annual Callison Lecture," Rem Koolhaas (Office for Metropolitan Architecture). World-renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, 2000 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate and designer of Seattle's exciting new downtown library, will discuss his current projects. For more information, call (206) 616-2441. 8 pm, Kane Hall 130. |
| Friday, April 12 | |
| 8:45 AM | **INDONESIA ROUNDTABLE** 'Liberal Islam' and Its Critics, a roundtable discussion. Free and open to the public. Part of the Seattle Humanities Forum on Indonesia (Apri1 11-12). For more information, call (206) 543-3920. 8:45-10:15 AM, HUB 310. |
| 10:30 AM | **INDONESIA ROUNDTABLE** Violence in the Age of Reformasi, a roundtable discussion. Free and open to the public. Part of the Seattle Humanities Forum on Indonesia (Apri1 11-12). For more information, call (206) 543-3920. 10:30 AM-12 PM, HUB 310. |
| 1:00 PM | Scandinavian Studies Talk "Creating Historical Memory in a Multicultural Society," Odd Lovoll (King Olaf V Professor of Scandinavian-American Studies, Univ. of Minnesota). For more information, call (206) 543-0645. 1 PM, Smith 307. (A reception will follow in Raitt 314.) |
| 1:00 PM | Music Lecture "Temporal Dualities and the Role of Comfort in Brahms's 'Ein deutsches Requiem, op. 45'," Daniel Beller-McKenna (University of New Hampshire). For more information, visit the THEME website at http://depts.washington.edu/theme or contact Ben Albritton at bla2@u.washington.edu. 2:30 PM, Music 223. |
| 2:00 PM | **INDONESIA ROUNDTABLE** Social Justice, Nature, and the Post-Development Order, a roundtable discussion. Free and open to the public. Part of the Seattle Humanities Forum on Indonesia (Apri1 11-12). For more information, call (206) 543-3920. 2-3:30 PM, HUB 310. |
| 3:30 PM | Classics Lecture "Didonai Tithion in Menander's Samia," Adele Scafuro (Brown University). Sponsored by the Dept. of Classics. 3:30 PM, Denny 216. |
| 3:30 PM | International Studies Lecture "A General Jurisprudence for Developing Societies," Brian Tamanaha (St. John's University). Sponsors: East Asia Center, International Studies Center with Comparative Law and Society Studies and The Asian Law Center. For more information, call (206) 543-2780. 3:30-5:00 PM, 1B Gowen Hall. |
| 3:45 PM | **INDONESIA ROUNDTABLE** Language, Theater, and the Media, a roundtable discussion. Free and open to the public. Part of the Seattle Humanities Forum on Indonesia (Apri1 11-12). For more information, call (206) 543-3920. 3:45-5 PM, HUB 310. |
| 6:30 PM | Architecture Lecture "Education and Practice." Arthur Erickson. The American Institute of Architects has described Canadian architect Arthur Erickson as "a passionate advocate of cultural awareness and a fervent explorer of human and natural environments." This lecture is presented by AIAS-UW with the support of Praxis@CAUP and a grant for AIA Northwest/Pacific Region. 6:30 PM, Kane Hall 120. |
| 7:00 PM | Law Lecture "Slavery Reparations," Charles Ogletre, Jr. Presented by the Mangels Lectureships Series on Reparations in the United States. Ogletre, a noted Harvard law professor and defense attorney, asserts that the United States has never adequately addressed the lingering effects of slavery, racism, and discrimination. The legal scholar and champion of social justice will discuss the complex and controversial philosophy, practice and prospects of the slavery reparations movement. Ogletree is part of a high-powered legal team that includes Johnnie Cochran and Randall Robinson, which intends to file a lawsuit that seeks reparations for the descendants of American slaves. Admission is FREE, but tickets are required and available beginning March 28 at the following University Book Store locations: University District, Downtown Seattle, Bellevue, Tacoma, Bothell. For more info: lectures@u.washington.edu or 206-616-1825. 7:00 PM, Kane Hall, Room 130 |
| 8:00 PM | **SHADOW THEATER AND DANCE PERFORMANCE** "Arjuna Becomes a Professor: the Great War Between Good and Evil," Jan Mrazek, Nunuk Sri Rahayu, Gamelan Pacifica. Free and open to the public. Part of the Seattle Humanities Forum on Indonesia (Apri1 11-12). For more information, call (206) 543-3920. 8 PM, Faculty Club. |
| Sunday, April 14 | |
| 2:00 PM | Music Faculty Recital "Barry Lieberman & Friends," featuring guest artist Joel Quarrington, principal bassist of the Toronto Symphony and an international soloist. Tickets $8-10. Notecard event. 2 PM, Brechemin Auditorium. |
| 7:00 PM | Performance Opening "Wilder One Acts," West Coast Premiere. Two one-act plays by Thornton Wilder, Pulitzer Prize winner for such classics as Skin of Our Teeth and Our Town. Continues through 4/28. Sponsored by the School of Drama. Tickets $5-12. Call the UW Arts Ticket office at 206-543-4880. (Previews: 4/14 & 4/16, 7PM. Performances: 4/17-4/28, 7PM Wed. & Thurs., 8PM Fri. & Sat., 2PM Sun.) 7 PM, Penthouse Theatre. |