| Monday, April 15 | |
| 3:30 PM | Latin American Studies Talk "Grassroots Development in the Salvadoran Zone of Peace," Brad Andrews, former delegate to El Salvador with the Foundation for Self Sufficiency in Central America [FSSCA]. Brad Andrews will share photos and a report on his recent trip (Aug. 01) to rural El Salvador. He will provide an update on the work of the FSSCA, the grassroots organization that is partnering with Latin American Studies and Comparative History of Ideas in a summer 2002 study abroad program in El Salvador. For more information, call (206) 685-3435. 3:30-5 PM, Balmer Hall 413. |
| Tuesday, April 16 | |
| 2:30 PM | Latin American Studies Talk "Colombian Communities Under Attack," Nimia Teresa Vargas (Community leader) and Marino Cordoba (Leader of OCABA). Nimia Vargas and Marino Cordoba are two Afro-Colombian activists. Vargas is the founder of the Network of Women of the Choco at the state level and co-founder at the national level of the Colombian Network of Rural Women - which is at the heart of critical and historic developments in the Choco rainforest region of the Pacific, one of Colombia's traditionally most abandoned and now most coveted regions, and since 1996 an area of greatest violence against the civilian rural population. She also runs self-esteem workshops for black girls and women. Cordoba is a leader of the Association of Displaced Afro-Colombians and the Regional Peasant Association (OCABA), and has worked for many years for the inclusion of Afro-Colombians in everyday political and social life in Colombia. For more information, call (206) 685-3435. 2:30-4 PM, Johnson Hall 223. |
| 6:30 PM | **SILK ROAD LECTURE** "Sound Dialogues: Buddhist Art along the Silk Roads," Daniel Waugh (University of Washington). Waugh's talk is in connection with the Silk Road Seattle photography exhibit, the Art and Religion Lecture Series presentation by Prof. Roderick Whitfield, and other aspects of the Silk Road Festival. Participants are encouraged to read ahead of time Whitfield, et al. The Cave Temples of Mogao (Getty). For more information call 206-336-6600 or go to http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/calendar.html. 6:30-7:30 p.m., Soundbridge, Benaroya Hall, 3nd and Union, Downtown Seattle. |
| 7:00 PM | Ancient Egypt Studies "The Egyptian World of the Dead in the First Millenium, B.C.", Dr. Aidan Dodson (Visiting professor, Univ. of Bristol). Tickets required; For more information, contact: 425-828-0165 or www.aesa_nw.org, Dept. of Archaeology and NW Chapter of Ancient Egypt Studies Association, 425-828-0165. 7 PM, 110 Kane Hall. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert "Jazz Innovations," featuring jazz faculty Marc Seales (musical director and piano), Michael Brockman (saxophone), Don Immel (trombone), Doug Miller (bass), Tom Collier (vibes), Vern Sielert (trumpet), and special guests. $8-$10 (206-543-4880 or pay at the door). For more information, contact the School of Music, 206-685-8384. 7:30 pm, Meany Theater. |
| Wednesday, April 17 | |
| 12:30 PM | Latin American Studies Lecture "Peace Brigades International," a Latin American Studies Program Brown Bag Talk by Joe Sperry (Graduate Student, Evans School of Public Affairs). Sperry worked as a human rights witness in Guatemala with Peace Brigades International [PBI] in 1996-1997. PBI is a grassroots organization that explores and promotes nonviolent peacekeeping and support for human rights. When invited, PBI sends teams of volunteers into areas of political repression and conflict. Sperry is currently a member of PBI/USA's Board of Directors. For more information, call (206) 685-3435. 12:30-1:20 PM, Thomson Hall 317. |
| 12:30 PM | Art Seminar "Textiles of Eastern Turkestan," Shi Kyung Harrington (Central Asia specialist, SSRC MacArthur Fellow). This seminar examines the textile tradition of Eastern Turkestan, strategically situated on the Silk Road between China and Central Asia. Harrington discusses rugs and carpets produced in the oasis towns along the Silk Road, with an emphasis on the distinctively Eastern Turkestani design repertoire. Free with museum admission. 12:30 PM, Reed Study Center, Henry Art Gallery. |
| Thursday, April 18 | |
| 3:00 PM | **HUMANITIES LECTURE** "Making a Tropical White Man: Northern Australia, 1900-1920," a lecture by Warwick Anderson (History of Science and Medicine, Univ. of California, San Francisco). Anderson will address the role of professional medicine and public health in constructing racial identity, environment, and nation among white Australians. He examines how specialists in the new tropical medicine attempted to alleviate white anxieties about the Australian tropics, the last bastion of geographical pathology and an alleged impediment to the "whitening" of the whole continent. 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 Studies Lecture "Community and Identity across the Modern: Reflexivity in Northern Thai Spirit Cults," Shigeharu Tanabe (Anthropology, Department of Cultural Research, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Osaka, Japan). Sponsors: SE Asia Center. For more information, call (206) 543-9606. 3:30-5:00 PM, Thomson 231. |
| 7:00 PM | Art Dialogue Robin Held, Gene(sis) exhibition curator and Henry assistant curator, explores biological art in an age of bio-terrorism. Free with museum admission. 7 PM, Henry Art Museum. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Brechemin Scholarship Winners Concert: Hear some of the School of Music's best musicians, winners of prestigious Brechemin scholarships. Performers include Elizabeth Bakke, soprano; Michael Byerly, clarinet; Erin Earl, piano; Nathan Medina, viola; Justin Melland, composer; Sarah Roberts, soprano; Eric Rynes, violin; and Akash Shivashankara, trumpet. Other 2001-02 Brechemin Scholarship winners include Martin Welzel, organ, and Tim Hughes, music theory. For more information, call the School of Music: 206-685-8384. Free. 7:30 pm, Brechemin Auditorium. |
| 8:00 PM | Performance Opening Combining dance, music and spoken word, Compagnie Maguy Marin presents "Points de fuite," an intriguing new work that explores the fugue as a metaphor for the quest to find harmonic balance in a world that is "forever catching up to itself." For tickets, call UW Artst Ticket OFfice at (206) 543-4880 or Ticketmaster. April 18-20. 8 PM, Meany Theatre. |
| Friday, April 19 | |
| 12:30 PM | Music Lecture "Beyond Globalization in Music: Thoughts on contemporary composition and performance," Ian Pace. In addition to being an acclaimed pianist, Pace is renowned for his astute and insightful writings on new music. 12:30 PM, Brechemin Auditorium. |
| 1:30 PM | Opera Lecture Seattle Opera Public Lecture on Verdi's "Un Ballo In Maschera." Free. 1:30 PM, Brechemin Auditorium. |
| 3:00 PM | Language and Rhetoric Colloquium "The Native Speaker in Applied Linguistics," Peter Clements and "Keeping the Floor: Syntax, Intonation, and Pause," Ann Wennerstrom. Language and Rhetoric/LUA Colloquium. 3-4:30 PM, Chemistry Library 15. |
| 3:30 PM | Asian Languages Lecture "Dead Bodies in the Post-War Discourse of Identity in 17th-Century Korea: Subversion and Literary Production in the Private Sector," JaHyun Kim Haboush (East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University). Sponsor: Korea Studies Program/JSIS. Info: 543-4391. 3:30-5 PM, Communications 202. |
| 8:00 PM | Guest Artist Recital Virtuoso English pianist Ian Pace performs Schoenberg's "Opus 11", Ferneyhough's "Opus Contra Naturam," Durand's "Le chemin," Beethoven's "Bagatelles, Op. 126," and Sciarrino's "Polveri Laterali." Tickets $8-$10. For more information, call the School of Music: 206-685-8384. 8:00 pm, Brechemin Auditorium. |