| Tuesday, May 28 | |
| 1:30 PM | European Studies Talk "Rejoining Europe? Socialization and European Institutions", Jeffrey T. Checkel (Professor of International Politics, University of Oslo, Norway). Checkel is the coordinator of research on European identity change at ARENA-Advanced Research on Europeanization of the Nation-State. Sponsored by The Center for West European Studies. For more information, call 206-616-2415. 1:30-3:30 PM, Parrington Forum. |
| 3:00 PM | Classics Lecture "A Tale of Two Cities: Statius, Thebes and Rome," Susanna Morton Braund (Classics, Yale University). Braund was previously a Professor of Latin at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of many influential works on Roman literature, and is a leading modern authority on Roman satire. Her books include Beyond Anger: A Study of Juvenal's Third Book of Satires (Cambridge 1988), Roman Verse Satire (Greece and Rome New Surveys 1992), an edition and commentary on Juvenal, Satires 1 (Cambridge 1996), and, most recently, Latin Literature (Routledge 2001). She has translated Lucan for Oxford World's Classics (1991). Among her edited collections are Satire and Society in Ancient Rome (Exeter 1989), The Passions in Roman Thought and Literature (Cambridge 1997, with Christopher Gill), and Cambridge Philological Society Supplement 22 (1999), with Roland Mayer, a collection of essays by former research students in honor of E.J. Kenney. 3 PM, Balmer 201. |
| 6:00 PM | Palestine Film Festival Palestine Film Festival: "Frontiers of Dreams & Fears," Traces the delicate friendship that evolves between two Palestinian girls in different refugee camps. 7 PM: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (human rights activist and spokesperson for the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee) will talk about the refugee situation and life under occupation. 7:30 pm: Documentary film "Jerusalem: An Occupation Set in Stone?" Filmmaker Marty Rosenbluth of Amnesty International details the effects of Israel's urban planning policies. Free entry. (Info: www.palestinefilmfestival.com) Presented by HAYAAT - a student organization for Palestinian human rights (hayaat.org). Co-sponsored by Associated Students of the UW, Graduate & Professional Students Union, Jackson School Graduate Council, Jackson School Students Association, UW Office of Minority Affairs, and numerous others. 6:00 pm, HUB Auditorium. |
| 7:30 PM | Percussion Concert The UW Percussion Ensemble (Greg Campbell, guest conductor) is joined by the Akoma African Drumming Ensemble, led by Ghanaian drummer Yaw Amponsah, and the UW Steel Band, led by Shannon Dudley, in works by Cowell, Nishimura, Scelsi, Takemitsu, and Shostakovich. Tickets $5-$8. For more information, contact the School of Music, 206-543-4880. 7:30 pm, Meany Studio Theater. |
| 7:30 PM | Digital Music Concert The UW Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) (http://www.dxarts.washington.edu) presents a diverse collection of state-of-the-art digital music played by the composers on a 3D surround sound system, designed especially for the event. The concert will include works by UW faculty Richard Karpen, Juan Pampin, and Diane Thome, as well as UW composition student Cristopher Ewing and Bay Area composer Ching-Wen Chao. Tickets $5-$8. For more information, contact the School of Music, 206-685-8384. 7:30 pm, Meany Theater. |
| Wednesday, May 29 | |
| 10:30 AM | Labor Studies Lecture **EVENT CANCELLED** "Labor and Human Rights Activism in Colombia Today," Magda Ortega, Colombian labor activist. Sponsored by the Center for Labor Studies, Latin American Studies Program/JSIS, and the Geography Department. For more information, call 685-3435 or e-mail lasuw@u.washington.edu. 10:30-11:50 AM, Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall (2nd floor). **EVENT CANCELLED** |
| 7:00 PM | Germanics Film Series "Jakob der Luegner (Jacob the Liar)," (1974). The most critically acclaimed film of the series and the only East German film to ever be nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards. Portrays a Jewish man during World War II, who invents stories to give the inhabitants of the Polish ghetto hope in the face of the Holocaust. This film inspired a 1999 Hollywood remake of the same name starring Robin Williams. Part of the East German Cinema film series sponsored by the Deparment of Germanics. 7 PM, Savery 239. |
| 8:00 PM | International Studies Lecture "Whither the Peace Process? Understanding the Realities of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict," Norman Finkelstein. Sponsored by the Arab Student Union, Jackson School of International Studies, ASUW, and others. Entry $2 with UW id, $5 public. (For more information: http://www.hayaat.org/lecture). 8:00 pm, Kane Hall 130. |
| Thursday, May 30 | |
| Canadian Studies Talk "Canada's Response to September 11th and the War on Terrorism," Roger Simmons, P.C. (Consul General of Canada, Canadian Consulate, Seattle). The Honourable Roger Simmons, P.C., was appointed Consul General of Canada in August 1998 bringing to Seattle a wealth of experience. Before his appointment, he held leadership positions in the Newfoundland House of Assembly and in the Canadian House of Commons. While in Seattle he has worked to resolved the Pacific salmon dispute, repeal a restrictive United States border measure, expand regional economic links, and advance Canada's position on other transboundary issues. August 2002 marks the end of Simmons' stay in Seattle. Free and open to the public. Kane Hall, Room 210. |
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| 3:30 PM | **HUMANITIES LECTURE** "Great Unerring Nature Once Seems Wrong: Natural History and New World Tropicality," a lecture by Alan Bewell (Comparative Literature, Univ. of Toronto). Part of a series of lectures, "Nature and Its Publics in the Tropical World." For more information, contact the Taylor Institute at (206) 616-1190 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/tayloruw/ 3:30 pm, Communications 226. |
| 4:30 PM | Film Screening "Access to Evil" Film Series: Breaking Bread. Documentary of the unique cultural exchange that takes place between a North Korean U.S. immigrant's family and that of his Iranian-immigrant friend. There will be and introduction and an after-screening discussion session with Professor of Anthropology and Korean Studies Program Chair, Clark Sorensen. Sponsors: the Graduate Student and Professional Student Senate, Associated Students of the UW, Jackson School Graduate Council, Jackson School Students Association, Hayaat Palestinian Human Rights Organization, Jackson School of International Studies, Korean Studies Program, Center for Middle East Studies, and UW Office of Minority Affairs. 4:30-6:30 pm, Electrical Engineering I, Rm 105. |
| 5:00 PM | **EARLY MODERN STUDIES TALK** "Ideology and Landscape: The Case of Sixteenth-Century France," Louisa Mackenzie (French and Italian Studies, UW). Mackenzie's current book project considers landscapes in lyric poetry of the French Renaissance, with particular attention to projections of nationalist and regionalist ideologies. She has published articles on Ronsard, Montaigne and ecocriticism, and next year will be co-editing a volume of conference papers on literature and science in the early modern period based on a series of panels convened for the 2003 RSA conference. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Center for West European Studies, and the Departments of History and Geography. Reception to follow. 5 PM, Thomson 331. |
| 6:00 PM | International Studies Talk "The Cost of a Cup of Joe: Environmental and Social Justice in Coffee Production," a public forum on fair trade and environmental sustainability, presented by The Justice in Global Seattle Project. Speaker Deborah James of the San Francisco-based Global Exchange Organization is the director of their Fair Trade practices program. James is a leader in the initiative to create Fair Trade standards in the coffee industry. Speaker Helen Ross of Seattle Audubon Society is a leader of their Shade Coffee Campaign. The two will describe conditions of workers and the effects of varying practices on birds and other animals, and how changes in the way coffee is produced and marketed may benefit both workers and wildlife. This event is open to all. Environmentally and socially friendly coffee will be provided. This series is sponsored by: the Institute for Transnational Studies, the Jackson School of International Studies, and the CLASS Center. 6-8 PM, UW Bothell Campus, Room UW2 003/5. |
| 6:00 PM | Palestine Film Festival "Checkpoint" explores the Oslo peace process and its effects, including the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Rabin, the first Palestinian elections, suicide bus bombings, Arafat's abuse of power, and the growing frustration among Palestinians. Film director Tom Wright will join us for a discussion of the film. Free entry! Info: www.palestinefilmfestival.com. 6:00 pm, Mary Gates Auditorium (389). |
| 7:00 PM | **SILK ROAD LECTURE** "Courtly Art and Cultural Transmission in Western Asia in the 13th - 15th Centuries," Dr. Linda Komaroff (Head, Department of Ancient and Islamic Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art). This lecture will consider some of the remarkable cultural achievements in western Asia that followed on the heels of the Mongol invasions of the 13th century, and the Turco-Mongol conquests of the late 14th century. In each instance, periods of unfathomable destruction were succeeded by periods of brilliant creativity in the visual arts, under the Ilkhanid (1256-1353) and Timurid (1370-1507) dynasties, respectively. This creativity was fostered in part through contact with East Asian art and artistic ideas that helped to infuse and invigorate Iranian art with new forms, meanings, and motifs, and a sophisticated awareness of art as a means of political expression, which were further disseminated throughout the Islamic world. 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 | **ART LECTURE** The School of Art is proud to announce Lawrence Rinder as the 2002 capstone speaker. Rinder is the curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the chief curator of the 2002 Whitney Biennial. Prior to finding a home at the Whitney, Rinder worked with the California College of Arts and Crafts, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Walker Art Center, and the Museum of Modern Art. A prolific writer and educator, Rinder's recent efforts focus on the visual arts in the digital age. Immediately following the lecture, the Henry Art Gallery will be open to review the 2002 MFA Exhibit. Sponsored by the School of Art, the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media, the Henry Art Gallery, and the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. This event is free and open to all. 7 PM, 120 Kane Hall. |
| 7:30 PM | Poetry Reading Poetry reading by Marie Ponsot, National Book Critics Circle Award winner. Ponsot will read from her newly published book of poems (her fifth), Springing (April, 2002, Knopf). Ms. Ponsot recently garnered the cover review in the New York Times Book Review and will be remembered for her UW reading for Counterbalance a year ago. Free and open to the public. For more information, call 206-282-2677. Presented by Counterbalance Poetry and the UW Watermark Reading Series. 7:30 PM, Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. |
| 7:30 PM | Band Concert The UW Band's Wind Ensemble performs Maslanka's "Symphony No. 5," Washington premiere; the Symphonic Band performs Barnes' "Third Symphony;" and the Concert Band performs Texidor's "Amparito Roca," Reed's "A Festival Prelude," and Ives/Schuman's "Variations on America." Tickets: $5-$8. Contact: School of Music, 206-685-8384. 7:30 pm, Meany Theater, |
| Friday, May 31 | |
| 1:30 PM | Germanics Lecture "Musical Historicism and Cultural Identity in Felix Mendelssohn," John Toews (History, UW). Sponsored by the Dept. of Germanics. 1:30 PM, William H. Rey Library, Denny 308. |
| 3:30 PM | Philosophy Lecture "Epistemology as Science," J.D. Trout (Philosophy, Loyola of Chicago University). Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy. 3:30 PM, Savery 249. |
| 4:00 PM | English Colloquium "Problems in the Glossing of Middle English," David C. Fowler (Professor Emeritus, Department of English). Language and Rhetoric/Language Use and Acquisition Colloquium. Fowler will discuss a completed glossary intended to accompany the apparatus for volume 2 of the recently published text of John Trevisa's Middle English Translation of the De Regimine Principum of Aegidius Romanus. Professor Fowler experimented with the idea of accounting for all forms of each word and will discuss particular interesting problems and decisions. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, contact Amy Vidali at avidali@u.washington.edu. 4-5:30 p.m., Smith 105. |
| 7:30 PM | Asian Languages Lecture "Discourses on Vedanta," Swami Viditatmananda. Sponsored by the Dept. of Asian Languages and Literature, 206-543-0243. 7:30-9:00 pm, 205 Smith Hall. |
| 8:00 PM | Opera Workshop UW Opera Workshop: Purcell and Puccini. Two one-act operas: Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas," directed by Claudia Zahn, and Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi," directed by Erich Parce. FREE. Contact: School of Music, 206-543-4880. 8:00 pm, Meany Studio Theater. |
| Saturday, June 1 | |
| 8:30 AM | Asian Studies Symposium 14th Annual Nicholas Poppe Symposium for Inner/Central Asian Studies. Organized by the Central Asian Studies Group. Sponsor: The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization; REECAS and the Middle East Studies Program, in JSIS. 8:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m., Denny Hall, Room 215/215a. |
| 9:30 AM | Spanish Studies Seminar Music and Dance of Latin America and Spain. Sponsored by the Center for Spanish Studies. Tickets: $15 Student / General Public $20. Seven clock hours offered for teachers. For registration and information, call (206) 221-6571 / spnrectr@u.washington.edu. 9:30 am-3:30 pm, Smith Hall 205. |
| 8:00 PM | Opera Workshop UW Opera Workshop: Purcell and Puccini. Two one-act operas: Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas," directed by Claudia Zahn, and Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi," directed by Erich Parce. FREE. Contact: School of Music, 206-543-4880. 8:00 pm, Meany Studio Theater. |