| Monday, May 6 | |
| 3:30 PM | Philosophy Colloquium "Causation: One Word, Many Things," Nancy Cartwright (Professor of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science and, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego). 3:30 PM, Smith 102. |
| 6:30 PM | Italian Film Festival IL MANOSCRITTO DEL PRINCIPE (THE PRINCE'S MANUSCRIPT) by Roberto Andō (2000, 106 mins). Set in the '50s and inspired by the biography of famous Italian writer and Sicilian nobleman Giuseppe Tommasi di Lampedusa (Il gattopardo-The Leopard, later made into a film by Luchino Visconti), the film tells the story of the artistic and moral apprenticeship of a young would-be-writer and friends under the direction of the Prince. Against the backdrop of a Palermo torn between a decadent aristocracy that barely survives and a greedy and corrupt emerging new political class, the protagonists seek refuge and lessons on literature and life in the Prince's library. The Prince's Manuscript was produced by Giuseppe Tornatore, director of Cinema Paradiso. Part of "New Italian Cinema," a series of five recent Italian films shown in 35mm format (with English subtitles) May 3-7 and brought to the UW by CinemaItalia, the UW Cimema Studies Program, and CWES. 6:30 PM, HUB Auditorium. |
| 7:00 PM | Jewish Studies Lecture Series "In the Culture of the Rabbis: Asher of Reichshofen and Glikl of Hameln," Michael Stanislawski (Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Columbia University). This lecture will begin with a theoretical discussion of the problem of using autobiographies as historical sources, given the findings of literary theory and neuroscientific research in the last decades. Against this backdrop it will move on to discuss two seventeenth-century Jewish autobiographies, one by a man and one by a woman, both of whom wrote stirring memoirs of their internal struggles and complex lives. Stroum Lecture Series, Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, JSIS. 7 PM, Kane 220. |
| 7:00 PM | International Studies Lecture "Whither Iran: The Current Situation and the Future of Democracy," Reza Pahlavi (Son of the late Shah of Iran). Pahlavi is author of "Winds of Change: The Future of Democracy in Iran." Sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization; Middle East Center, Jackson School; and the College of Arts & Sciences. For more information, call 206-543-6033. 7:00 p.m., Kane Hall 120. |
| 7:00 PM | South Africa Symposium "Bridges from Cape Town," an evening of performance and conversation about a unique collaborative theatre project developed in Cape Town earlier this year. The evening will feature a community dialogue about race, class and economics in the Puget South region moderated by the Reverend Dr. Samuel B. McKinney. Join students and teachers from Roosevelt High School, Intiman Artists, members of the performance poetry group Urban Scribes and Husky Linebacker Anthony Kelly, who traveled to the Langa and Guguletu Townships and learned more than we ever imagined about humanity, art and life. What can our communities learn from post-apartheid South Africa? How can the arts help us understand our differences and see each other in new and unique ways? A reception in the Lobby will follow the evening's program. Sponsored by Intiman Theatre and the UW Comparative History of Idea Department. Please RSVP to: (206) 269-1908 Ext. 360 or email liza@intiman.org. 7:00 pm (doors open at 6:30 pm), Intiman Theatre, 201 Mercer Street. |
| 7:30 PM | Music Lecture Series "Piano Trios of the Late Romantic Period" by Tom Dahlstrom, KING-FM. Second of four lectures in a series entitled "A Historical Survey of Chamber Music Styles." Cost for all 4 lectures is $40; single tickets are $12, $6 (students). For more information, call Seattle Chamber Music Society, 206-283-8710. 7:30-9:00 pm, 213 Music Bld. |
| Tuesday, May 7 | |
| 3:30 PM | **NEW WORKS IN PRINT** "The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000," Herbert Blau (Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities, UW Departments of English and Drama). In this lecture, Blau will discuss his new collection of essays spanning a quarter of a century. His other books include: Sails of the Herring Fleet: Essays on Beckett (2000), Nothing in Itself: Complexions of Fashion (1999), To All Appearances: Ideology and Performance (1992), The Audience (1990), and The Eye of Prey: Subversions of the Postmodern (1987). Blau has also had a distinguished career in the theater. He was co-founder and co-director of the Actor's Workshop in San Francisco (1952-65), co-director of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center in New York (1965-68), and artistic director of the experimental theater group KRAKEN (1968-81). The director of some of the first productions in this country of many now canonical or exemplary dramatists of the modernist period, including Brecht, Beckett, Pinter, Ionesco, Whiting, Arden, Duerrenmatt, Frisch, and Genet, he has written about this work in The Impossible Theater: A Manifesto (1964). His work has been honored with grants from the Ford Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation, and his books Take Up the Bodies: Theater at the Vanishing Point (1982) and Blooded Thought: Occasions of Theater (1982) received the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. 3:30 PM, Communications 206. |
| 3:30 PM | Jewish Studies Colloquium "A Jewish Monk: The Brother Daniel Case and the Origins of the First 'Who is a Jew' Case in Israel," a colloquium by Michael Stanislawski, the Samuel and Althea Stroum Lecturer for 2002. Introduction by Prof. Joel Migdal. This will be an historical and legal analysis of the Israeli Supreme Court Decision on Oswald Rufheisen, a Polish-Jewish Zionist who became a Catholic monk and priest and then sought Israeli citizenship as a Jew by nationality in thse Israel of the late 1950's and early 1960's. Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program. 3:30-5 PM, Thomson 317. |
| 6:00 PM | Art Talk Slide Talk by internationally renowned painter John Walker, sponsored by the UW Painting and Drawing program. John Walker has exhibited nationally and internationally, his work can be seen in some of the most significant museums in the world, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Tate Gallery, London and The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. John is currently professor of Art at Boston University and chair of the Graduate Painting Program. Event is free and open to the public. 6 PM, School of Art, Room 003. |
| 6:30 PM | Italian Film Festival SOLE NEGLI OCCHI (EMPTY EYES) by Andrea Porporati (2000, 90 mins). Marco, a boy from a seemingly normal Northern Italian family, murders his father. It is one of the many unexplainable crimes that the press attributes to a "raptus of madness." Porporati's film seeks to explore the deeper causes of this raptus, following the refuge of the murderer to a seaside resort where encounters with a police officer and a young girl going through her first love plunge Marco into a deep crisis and force him to open his eyes to the real reasons that led him to murder. The film was highly topical for Italian audiences coming as it did amidst a rash of highly publicized parental murders by children. of "New Italian Cinema," a series of five recent Italian films shown in 35mm format (with English subtitles) May 3-7 and brought to the UW by CinemaItalia, the UW Cimema Studies Program, and CWES. 6:30 PM, HUB Auditorium. |
| 8:30 PM | Italian Film Festival LA RENTREE (THE COMEBACK) by Franco Angeli (2000, 96 mins). Marco Gibellini is an ex-boxer who has been released from prison and at 45 years old still aspires to return to the ring but to do so he must return to a life of petty crime. The film is particularly interesting in the stylistic decision to tell Gibellini's story as a boxing match, subdividing it into twelve rounds. Digital enhancement underscores the subjective and dreamlike quality of the story whose urban landscape was inspired by the paintings of Mario Sironi. The film is a collaborative project between director Angeli (an assistant to Ettore Scola) and actor Francesco Salvi who wrote the screenplay. Part of "New Italian Cinema," a series of five recent Italian films shown in 35mm format (with English subtitles) May 3-7 and brought to the UW by CinemaItalia, the UW Cimema Studies Program, and CWES. (**Note: "Jurij" was previously scheduled for this screening, but had to be cancelled.) 8:30 PM, HUB Auditorium. |
| Wednesday, May 8 | |
| 1:00 PM | Reading Reading, Talk, & Book Signing with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts is the first novel written by an African American slave woman. This extraordinary manuscript was uncovered by the noted African American scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and only recently authenticated. This novel stands as a compelling look at American life in the mid-1800 as well as a historically unprecedented find. No tickets required, but seating is limited, so arrive early! For more info: (206) 545-4386. 1:00 PM, Mary Gates Hall, The Commons. |
| 5:30 PM | Canadian Studies Dinner-Lecture "Quebec and Canada: Nation-Building in the North," Marc Boucher, (Director, Quebec Government Office, Los Angeles.) As part of the International Updates Dinner-Lecture Series, Boucher will tell us why the present-day relationship between Quebec and the rest of Canada is a dynamic one. Boucher will examine this relationship from a historical context, touching on many intergovernmental issues that remain relevant today. Boucher has served in numerous other international positions, including Director General of Public Affairs at the Quebec Ministry of International Relations and Director of the Quebec Government Office in Atlanta. $25 fee includes Dinner and Lecture. To register contact (206) 543-4800; sascuw@u.washington.edu. Registration/payment deadline is May 1st. Sponsored by: Canadian Studies Center/JSIS and the Canada-America Society. For more information, contact 206-221-6374; canada@u.washington.edu. 5:30-8 PM, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. |
| 6:30 PM | Architecture Lecture "The Architect as Artisan," Steve Badanes (Founder of the design/build practice Jersey Devil and professor in the Dept. of Architecture). Badanes, who holds the Howard Wright Endowed Chair in Architecture and Urban Planning, will show some of his latest work in the U.S. and aroad. Free and open to the public. For more information, contact the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at 206-616-9091. 6:30 pm, Architecture Hall, Room 147 |
| 7:00 PM | Jewish Studies Lecture Series "Two Russian Jews: Moshe Leib Lilienblum and Osip Mandelstam," Michael Stanislawski (Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Columbia University). This lecture will analyze two of the most famous and controversial autobiographies penned by Russian Jews-- the late nineteenth-century Hebrew writer and critic ML Lilienblum and the great Russian poet Osip Mandelstam. Stroum Lecture Series, Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, JSIS. 7 PM, Kane 220. |
| 7:00 PM | Germanics Film Series "Das Zaubermaennchen (Rumpelstiltskin)," (1960). Colorful cinematic version of the classic Grimm Brothers' fairy tale about a mysterious dwarf who helps a young maiden spin straw into gold, with subtle socialist undertones for the children. Part of the East German Cinema film series sponsored by the Deparment of Germanics. 7 PM, Savery 239. |
| Thursday, May 9 | |
| 9:30 AM | **COMPARATIVE LITERATURE COLLOQUIUM** "The Story of How Things Are: Studies at the Intersection of Narrative and Sciences," a day-long colloquium featuring presentations by graduate-level students from the UW and elsewhere. At 5 pm, Professors Kari Tupper (CHID and Women Studies) and Jeffrey Bonadio (Bioengineering) will give a keynote presentation, "Interdisciplinarity and the Human Genome Project." All are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served. This event is sponsored by the UW Department of Comparative Literature, with support from the Departments of English, Germanics, Scandinavian, Spanish & Portuguese, GPSS, and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. For information contact the Department of Comparative Literature 543-7542, complit@u.washington.edu or hib@u.washington.edu. 9:30 AM-6 PM, Communications 206. |
| 12:00 PM | Architecture Lecture JAS Design Build is a Seattle-based firm that has amassed a considerable reputation for thoughtful and quality work. Joe Schneider, founder and principal, will show some recent projects. Free and open to the public. For more information, contact the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 206-616-9091. 12:00 pm, Gould Hall, Room 100. |
| 3:30 PM | Asian Languages Colloquium "Research in Models of Second Language Learning: Insights from Japanese L2 Interaction," Amy Snyder Ohta (UW, Asian Langauges and Literature). 3:30-5 PM, Communications 226. |
| 3:30 PM | **EARLY MODERN STUDIES TALK** "Rhetorical Femininity: Women Eidolons and the Beginnings of Essay Periodicals," a paper by Tedra Osell (Department of English, UW). Contact Brooke Stafford at stafford@u.washington.edu for an electronic copy of the paper. 3:30-5 PM, Mary Gates Hall 293. |
| 4:45 PM | Public Policy Lecture "Leaders in Forging a Land Ethic: The Rise of Modern Tribal Environmental Management Nationally and in the Pacific Northwest," Charles Wilkinson (2002 Distinguished Lecturer at UW-Bothell and Moses Lasky Professor of Law, Univ. of Colorado). This presentation will address topics of public policy and ethics in relation to natural resouces and Native American rights as well as environmental sustainability in the Pacific Northwest. Reception at 4 pm. Lecture at 4:45 pm, followed by questions and a book signing. RSVP to (425) 352-3252 or bvansant@bothell.washington.edu. 4:45 PM, UW Bothell, North Creek Cafe. |
| 7:00 PM | **TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES LECTURE** "Asian Cities of Power," Aihwa Ong (Anthropology, Univ. of California, Berkeley). Ong, a recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, will draw upon her research interests that include migrations, refugees, the state, citizenship, sovereignty, and neo-liberal urbanism. 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. Sponsored by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities; Taylor Institute for Transnational Studies; Earl and Edna Stice Memorial Lectureship in Social Science; Evans School of Public Affairs; Center for Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution; Comparative Law and Society Studies Center; Center for Women and Democracy; Center for West European Studies; Center for Labor Studies; Program on Africa; Jackson School of International Studies; and the UW Departments of Women Studies, Anthropology, History, French, and English. For more information please call (206) 616-1190. 7 PM, Communications 226. |
| 7:00 PM | **SILK ROAD LECTURE** "Cultural Exchange Under the Mongols," Prof. Thomas Allsen (History, State College of New Jersey). In the thirteenth century the Mongols created a vast, transcontinental empire that intensified commercial and cultural contact throughout Eurasia. From the outset of their expansion the Mongols identified and mobilized artisans, technicians and scholars and moved them from one cultural zone of the empire to another. The result was an extensive traffic in specialist personnel and human talent between East and West. An expert on the history of the Mongol Empire, Prof. Allsen will be drawing upon his innovative research into cultural exchange across Eurasia in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. 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. |
| Friday, May 10 | |
| 3:30 PM | Classics Lecture "The Gendering of Inscription: Herennia Procula and the Thespian Eros," Kathryn Gutzwiller (University of Cincinnati). Sponsored by the Dept. of Classics. 3:30, Denny 216. |
| 3:30 PM | Philosophy Colloquium "The Publicity of Reasons," R. Jay Wallace (Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley). Sponsored by the Philosophy Dept. 3:30 PM, Savery Hall, Room 249. |
| 7:30 PM | Opera Opening "The Beggar's Opera," by John Gay (May 10-19). Claudia Zahn directs this 1728 London smash hit, which uses an underworld of thieves and prostitutes to satirize government, society, marriage, and even opera itself. Tickets $10-$20. For more information, contact the School of Music, 206-543-4880. 7:30 pm, Meany Studio Theater, |
| 8:00 PM | Vocal Jazz Solo Performance Vocal Jazz 1, Vocal Jazz 2, and the Women's Quintet in concert, directed by Dave Cross. Program includes "Fix His Wagon Blues," "Blues in the Night," and two pieces arranged especially for Vocal Jazz 1 -- "The Things We Did Last Summer" and "O Pato" -- as well as selections from the Vocal Jazz ensembles 2001-02 repertoire. Tickets $5-$8. School of Music, 206-685-8384. 8:00 pm, Brechemin Auditorium, School of Music. |
| Saturday, May 11 | |
| 8:00 PM | Ensemble Concert Guitar Ensemble. Students of Steven Novacek perform works for one, two, three, and five guitars by Bach, Henze, Faber, Villa-Lobos, Chick Corea, and others. Ticket Prices: $8 general; $5 students/seniors. Notecard event. 8 PM, Brechemin Auditorium. |