| Monday, April 22 | |
| 10:30 AM | Latin American Studies Talk "Globalization and Grassroots Development in Central America," Jose "Checho" Alas. Salvadoran activist and liberation theologian Alas is the founder and director of the Foundation for Self-Sufficiency in Central America (FSSCA). For more information, phone (206) 685-3435. 10:30-11:50 AM, Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. |
| 1:30 PM | Latin American Studies Talk "Building a Culture of Peace: Human Rights at the Grassroots Level," Jose "Checho" Alas. Salvadoran activist and liberation theologian Alas is the founder and director of the Foundation for Self-Sufficiency in Central America (FSSCA). For more information, phone (206) 685-3435. 1:30-3:20 PM, Johnson Hall, Room 6. |
| 3:30 PM | Poetry Reading Poetry Reading: Daisy Zamora & Jimmy Santiago Baca. Part of "The Languages of Emotional Injury," a series of related events April 22-26. 3:30 PM, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. |
| 7:30 PM | Lecture "The Languages of Emotional Injury," featuring Daisy Zamora (poet) and Ted Conover (journalist). The keynote session in a series of related events April 22-26. 7:30 PM, Pigott Auditorium, Seattle University |
| Tuesday, April 23 | |
| 10:00 AM | Symposium "The Languages of Emotional Injury," a symposium featuring Daisy Zamora and Ted Conover. Part of a series of related events April 22-26. 10-11:45 AM, Pigott Auditorium, Seattle University. |
| 3:30 PM | **TEXTUAL STUDIES LECTURE** "Chaucer's Metre and the Myth of the Ellesmere Editor," Jill Mann (English, Univ. of Notre Dame). Taking issue with the earlier textual analysis of Norman Blake and other critics, Mann will show that the metrical features of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," along with clues such as the headings and rubrics in the Ellesmere Manuscript, belie the impression that received texts of the Tales present a carefully edited text. Part of a lecture series in conjunction with the crossdisciplinary graduate program in Textual Studies. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information, call (206) 543-3920. 3:30 pm, Thomson 134. |
| 3:30 PM | Forum "The Journalism of Social Change & Emotional Injury," Ted Conover, Bruce Shapiro, Jimmy Santiago Baca, and Nina Bernstein. Part of "The Languages of Emotional Injury," a series of related events April 22-26. 3:30 PM, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. |
| 7:00 PM | Art Lecture Distinguished Visiting Artist Terry Allen will speak about his work. This event is sponsored by the Public Art Program and is free and open to all. For more information, please call (206) 543-0970. 7:00 pm, 220 Kane Hall. |
| 7:30 PM | Lecture "Social Change & Emotional Injury," Jimmy Santiago Baca (poet) and Nina Bernstein (journalist). Moderated by Frank Ochberg, M.D. Part of "The Languages of Emotional Injury," a series of related events April 22-26. 7:30 PM, Pigott Auditorium, Seattle University |
| 7:30 PM | Reading/Talk Igor Guberman. Guberman is a poet, writer and storyteller, well-known for his "gariki"-marvelously funny, witty and wise short verses. He is also an author of two books: Progulki vokrug baraka (about the time he has spent in prison and lager, where he served time for his verse) and Pozhilye Zapiski. Guberman's funny and philosophical verse is sure to move everyone and his stories are entertaining and full of life. Tickets on sale at the door: $15 for adults, $12 seniors, $1 children. For more information, email: ania_burago@hotmail.com or call (425) 889-5869. 7:30 p.m., Kane Hall, Room 210. |
| Wednesday, April 24 | |
| 10:00 AM | Symposium "Social Change & Emotional Injury," a symposium featuring Jimmy Santiago Baca and Nina Bernstein. Part of a series of related events April 22-26. 10-11:45 AM, Pigott Auditorium, Seattle University |
| 3:30 PM | Forum "Intimate Violence," a panel featuring Nina Bernstein, Debra McKinney, Frances Driscoll, Marc Cooper and Semezdin Mehmedinovic. Part of "The Languages of Emotional Injury," a series of related events April 22-26. 3:30 PM, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. |
| 7:00 PM | Germanics Film Series "Karbid und Sauerampfer" (Carbide and Sorrel) (1963). A roadtrip-adventure-slapstick-comedy set in the reconstruction years following World War II about a soldier who sets out from Dresden to retrieve supplies in Wittenberge. "One of the best German film comedies" according to The Oxford History of World Cinema. Part of the East German Cinema film series sponsored by the Deparment of Germanics. 7 PM, Savery 239. |
| 7:30 PM | Lecture "Intimate Violence," Frances Driscoll (poet) and Debra McKinney (journalist). Part of "The Languages of Emotional Injury," a series of related events April 22-26. 7:30 PM, Pigott Auditorium, Seattle University. |
| 8:00 PM | Chamber Music Concert UW International Chamber Music Series: Eroica Trio. The Eroica Trio is lauded the world over as a sophisticated trio with a seasoned sense of ensemble. With a signature performance style that celebrates heart-felt expression, these striking young women resound with genuine creative spirit. Tickets $30, through UW Arts Ticket Office: (206) 543-4880. For more information, call (206)543-1940. 8:00 pm, Meany Theater. |
| Thursday, April 25 | |
| 10:00 AM | Symposium "Intimate Violence," a symposium featuring Frances Driscoll and Debra McKinney. 10-11:45 AM, Pigott Auditorium, Seattle University. |
| 3:30 PM | Forum "Reporting Political Conflict & Emotional Injury," featuring Marc Cooper, Mark West, Breyten Breytenbach, and Semezdin Mehmedinovic. Part of "The Languages of Emotional Injury," a series of related events April 22-26. 3:30-5 PM, Room 210, Kane Hall. |
| 3:30 PM | Japan Studies Colloquium "Whose Sex Is it Anyway? Representations of Male Homosexuality in Japanese Girls Comics," James Keith Vincent (East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, New York University, currently in residence at the School of Oriental and African Studies as a Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow in Japanese Arts and Cultures). A protracted and sometimes exasperating debate took place over the course of several years in the early nineties in the pages of a certain feminist minikomi called Choisir over the genre of underground comics known as "Yaoi." Yaoi emerged sometime in the 1980s as the immodest step-sister of the critically acclaimed (even men read them!) shojo manga, with more boy sex and less storyline, but (sometimes) also with a subversively savvy cultural critique. The debate was sparked by an editorial written by a gay male activist friend of one of the editors who complained that his sexuality had been unfairly coopted by yaoi and its women fans. This paper attempts to complicate an unfortunate polarization in much recent writing on yaoi, where it is seen either as a cowardly flight from empowered, desiring womanhood or as a fantasy-driven leap toward an overcoming of strai(gh)tening genital sexuality. 3:30-5 PM, Communications 226. |
| 6:00 PM | Art Talk Art historian, curator and critic Sue Taylor (Portland State University) will talk on her recent book: "Hans Bellmer: The Anatomy of Anxiety," which examines the German-born Surrealist's art from a feminist and psychoanalytic perspective. Taylor is the corresponding editor for Art in America and has just published feature articles and exhibition and book reviews in Art Journal, Art News, Dialogue and the New Art Examiner. This event is sponsored by the Painting Program. 6 PM, School of Art, Room 003. |
| 7:00 PM | **SILK ROAD LECTURE** "Come Flying! Images of Buddha at Dunhuang," Roderick Whitfield (Percival David Professor of Chinese and East Asian Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London). The lecture will trace the aerial and earthbound roots of Buddhism and Buddhist images, as they were transmitted from India to China. The epithet of feilai (come flying) or chengyun (cloud-borne) recurs frequently on Tang (618-906) and Five Dynasties (907-960) mural representations of Buddhist images in the Mogao or "Peerless" cave-temples of Dunhuang, the most important oasis on the Silk Road in the border regions of north-west China. Other, still earlier images, lacking such epithets, have their own stories to tell of their Indian origins, and of their journeys across the heart of Asia. This lecture will focus on Dunhuang, a World Heritage site which was an important center on the Silk Road that preserved a remarkably extensive record of the culture. Part of "Art and Religion on the Silk Road: A Lecture Series." For more information, call (206) 543-3920 or visit www.uwch.org/silkroad. 7 pm, Seattle Asian Art Museum. |
| 7:00 PM | Danz Lecture "Why Multiculturalism Matters in America," Ron Takaki (History and Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley). Takaki, distinguished scholar, award-winning historian, and, for many, the founder of modern multicultural studies, has an important message for all Americans in the 21st Century. Cultural diversity is becoming a defining fact of the American experience, but it is also at risk in becoming the source of much conflict. Takaki takes on those who see increasing diversity as a threat to "traditional" culture and way of life. He argues that America has always benefited from the rich range of backgrounds of all of its people and will discuss how this has been the case in the past and why we must all strive to see that it remains so in the future. Takaki's mission is to demonstrate that multiculturalism is not only an unquestionably accurate assessment of social reality, but also an intellectually stimulating approach to an array of academic disciplines. Admission free, but ticket required. Available through University Book Store. For more information, call (206) 616-1825. 7 PM, 130 Kane Hall. |
| 7:30 PM | Lecture "Political Conflict & Emotional Injury," Breyten Breytenbach, Semezdin Mehmedinovic (poets) and Marc Cooper (journalist). Part of "The Languages of Emotional Injury," a series of related events April 22-26. 7:30 PM, Pigott Auditorium, Seattle University. |
| 7:30 PM | Symphony Performance The UW Symphony, conducted by Peter Eros, performs Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet; "baritone Erich Parce sings Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder;" soprano Sarah Roberts sings the "Liebestod" from Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde;" and Parce and Roberts join forces in the final scene from Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin." Tickets $5-8 available at the door or by phoning 206-543-4880. For more information, contact the School of Music, 206-685-8384. 7:30 pm, Meany Theater. |
| Friday, April 26 | |
| 10:00 AM | Symposium "Emotional Injuries of War," featuring Marc Cooper, Breyten Breytenbach, and Semezdin Mehmedinovic. Part of "The Languages of Emotional Injury," a series of related events April 22-26. 10-11:45 AM, Pigott Auditorium, Seattle University. |
| 3:30 PM | **CINEMA STUDIES LECTURE** "The Attractions of Modernity: Expositions, Thrills and Dancing Forms," Tom Gunning (Cinema and Media Studies, Univ. of Chicago). This lecture is part of "Project Cinema: Film Studies in the Twenty-first Century." For information, contact Eric Ames, Dept. of Germanics, eames@u.washington.edu. 3:30 PM, Parrington Hall Commons. |
| 3:30 PM | Classics Lecture "On the History of the Roman calendar," Udo Scholz (Univ. of Wuerzburg). Scholz's interests include ancient Roman religion, the calendar, and many areas of Latin literature. Sponsored by the Dept. of Classics. 3:30 PM, Denny 216. |
| 3:30 PM | Lecture "Photography & Emotional Injury," Clarence Williams (Los Angeles Times). Part of "The Languages of Emotional Injury," a series of related events April 22-26. 3:30-5 PM, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. |
| 3:30 PM | Philosophy Lecture "Norms and Values," Hilary Putnam (Emeritus Professor of the Philosophy Department, Harvard University). 3:30 PM, Savery Hall, Room 249. |
| 3:30 PM | Textual Studies Lecture "Cyberspace and Romantic Plays: From Innocence to Experience," Michael Eberle-Sinatra (University of Montreal). This talk will address issues related to electronic editing. Eberle-Sinatra studies the fundamental problem of publishing a scholarly edition on the Web as opposed to print but also as opposed to electronic editions meant primarily for archival access and manipulation by search engines and other programs. Framed by a discussion of the "British Women Playwrights around 1800" project as it stands in its third year of existence, Eberle-Sinatra will be primarily considering the hypermedia archive of Joanna Baillie's play "De Monfort" that is built so that its content and its webwork of relations can be indefinitely expanded and developed. The electronic edition of "De Monfort" will be a "central text hypermedia," i.e. an electronic edition with appended notes and hypertext links, rather than a historical-critical edition, which only compares various versions of the play. Sponsored by the Department of English and the Textual Studies Program. Reception to follow. 3:30 PM, Thomson 134. |
| 7:30 PM | Poetry Reading Poetry Reading: Breyten Breytenbach. Part of "The Languages of Emotional Injury," a series of related events April 22-26. 7:30 PM, Room 210, Kane Hall. |
| 8:00 PM | Recital International performer Mack McCray, faculty member of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, plays works by Soler, J.S. Bach, Debussy, Helps, Stockhausen, and Schumann. Tickets: $8-$10. For more information, call the School of Music, 206-685-8384. 8:00 pm, Brechemin Auditorium. |
| 8:00 PM | Ragamala Concert Ragamala presents Pt.D.K. Datar (Violin) and Aneesh Pradhan (Tabla). $5 (members/students/seniors); $10 (general admission). Sponsored by UW Ethnomusicology Program and Ragamala. For more information, call 206-525-7728. 8:00 pm, 120 Kane Hall. |
| Saturday, April 27 | |
| 8:00 PM | Folk Concert UW World Music & Theatre Series presents Kate Rusby, 23-year-old British folk phenomenon, known as much as for her astonishingly beautiful voice as for her refreshingly unassuming style. Rusby takes repertoire steeped in classic themes of tragedy and heartbreak and infuses them with humor and insight "usually associated with the graceful compensations of age.", Tickets $28, through UW Arts Ticket Office: (206) 543-4880. For more information, contact UW World Series at Meany Hall, 206-543-1940. 8:00 pm, Meany Theater. |
| Sunday, April 28 | |
| Drama Performance Opening "Enrico IV," by Luigi Pirandello, directed by Adam Koplan. In this masterpiece of identity, a young nobleman descends into madness, believing himself to be the medieval German monarch, Henry IV, and comically blurring the border between lunacy and lucidity. Previews: 4/28 & 4/30, 7PM. Performances: 5/1-5/12, 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, contact the UW School of Drama, 206-543-4880. Playhouse Theatre. |
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