| Monday, October 7 | |
| 3:30 PM | Japan Studies Lecture "Haru, Natsu, Aki: Who Gets Translated from Japanese," Alfred Birnbaum, Professional Translator. Sponsor: Japan Studies Program/JSIS. For more information, call (206) 543-4391. 3:30-5:00 pm, Simpson Humanities Center, CMU 202. |
| Tuesday, October 8 | |
| 11:30 AM | Art Lecture Karen Cheng, Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design (UW), will lecture about her work. For more information, contact the School of Art, 206-543-0970. This lecture is free and open to all. 11:30 AM, 247 Art Building. |
| 1:00 PM | Forum on Comparative Journalism "Forum on Comparative Journalism: Issues Facing Journalists in East European Democracies." Speakers: UW faculty Roger Simpson, Jerry Baldasty and Lance Bennett and prominent journalists from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia and Poland. Sponsor: REECAS, the Center for Communication & Civic Engagement, the World Affairs Council, the Dart Center, and the Department of Communications. Open to the campus community. 1:00-2:30pm, Communications 126. |
| Thursday, October 10 | |
| 3:30 PM | **HUMANITIES LECTURE** "Entangled Nature: Oral Narratives and Environmental Questions," Candace Slater (Spanish and Portuguese, UC Berkeley, and Director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities). The Nature and Its Public Spheres in the Tropical World colloquium series continues its examination of the cultural politics of nature at the various sites of public engagement. Slater's talk examines the currency and consistency of ideas of wildness in urban and rural contexts, multiple and contrasting perceptions of nature and how the power of contemporary and historical narratives reveal the multiplicities of physical and cultural transformations in Amazonia. Slater is Marian E. Koshland Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Berkeley, where she teaches courses on Brazilian literature and culture, Latin American oral traditions, and environmental imagery. She is also Director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities. The author of a half- dozen books and numerous articles, she has been doing research for the past fifteen years in Amazonia. The most recent of her books, Entangled Edens, is a study of competing visions of the Amazon. She is also the editor of In Search of the Rain Forest, a collection of essays on shifting images of rain forests, which will be published in the new 21st Century Ecologies Series at Duke University Press. Event sponsors: Simpson Center for the Humanities, Institute for Transnational Studies, the Departments of Anthropology, Comparative Literature, History, Geography, Women Studies, the Program on the Environment and the Program on Africa. For more information contact Keith Goyden at keithgo@u.washington.edu. 3:30 PM, Communications 226. |
| 3:30 PM | Classics Lecture "Problems in the iconography of Roman mime," Katherine Dunbabin (McMaster University). Dunbabin is a leading authority on Roman art and culture, especially know for her major works on Roman mosaics. She is currently working on a book of images of the Roman banquet for Harvard University Press. Sponsored by the Dept. of Classics and the Seattle Chapter of the Archaelogical Institute of America. 3:30 PM, Savery 249. |
| 7:00 PM | Drama and Physics Discussion A panel discussion of the play "Copenhagen", a dramatization of the meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in September 1941 (currently at the Seattle Repertory Theater). Panel participants are: Richard White, director of the Seattle Rep production; Bob Albrecht, Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Nuclear Engineering; Greg Dash, Emeritus Professor of Physics; Bruce Hevly, Professor of History and Barry Witham Professor in the School of Drama. For more information, call (206) 616-9652. 7-9 PM, Kane Hall, Room 110. |
| Friday, October 11 | |
| **MODERN LANGUAGES COLLOQUIUM** "Feminism in Time" colloquium, featuring Jonathan Culler (Cornell), Margaret Ferguson (UC Davis), Carla Freccero (UC Santa Cruz), Angela Leighton (University of Hull, UK), Laura Mandell (Miami University), Robyn Weigman (Duke, a University of Washington Ph.D.), Jennifer Wicke (Virginia), and Jeffrey Masten (Northwestern). The conference will examine the intersections between feminism, literary history and literary criticism, reflecting on the changing nature of feminism and on the role of literature in defining or promoting that change. Free and open to the public. 9:30-5 PM, Faculty Club Conference Room. |
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| 2:30 PM | **DRAMA LECTURE** "Toward a Poetics of Peformance," Janelle Reinelt (Associate Dean of Arts and Professor of Theatre at the University of California-Irvine). Sponsored by the Dept. of Drama and the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920. 2:30-4:00 pm, Hutchinson 154. . |
| 3:00 PM | Korea Colloquium "Globalization and Preservation of Korean Cultural Identity," YUN Hûng-gil, and "Relations of My Writing to Issues of Gender and Cultural Identity," KANG Sôk-kyông. YUN Hûng-gil: one of the most important fiction writers in South Korea today; translated works include the story collection The House of Twilight (1989); one of the best-known Korean writers in Japanese translation; has written perceptively on contemporary Korean social problems and the legacy of the Korean War. KANG Sôk-kyông: author of fiction, essays, and travel writing; translated works include the story "Days and Dreams" and the novella "A Room in the Woods" in Words of Farewell (1989), and the novel The Valley Nearby (1997); has traveled extensively in India and written important works on gender issues. These two talks will be bilingual. Papers and stories will be available before the presentation in English and Korean. An interpreter will be available for translation during discussion. Papers are on reserve for photocopying at the East Asia Library. 3:00-5:00 pm, 268 Mary Gates Hall. |
| 3:30 PM | Linguistics Colloquium "Infant Auditory Development," Lynne Werner (Speech and Hearing Sciences, UW). Infants are capable of discriminating between simple and complex sounds from the time they are born. The infant auditory system, however, remains immature in two important ways. First, neural encoding of sound properties is less precise, especially for high-frequency sounds. Second, infants listen to complex sound in a much less selective way than adults do. Infants appear to be insensitive and inefficient listeners, but their listening strategies may be adaptive in the face of uncertainty about the specific sounds that they will need to process. 3:30 PM, Smith Hall, Room 404. |
| 7:30 PM | Classics Lecture "The Language of Status in Late Antique Art," Katherine Dunbabin (McMaster University). Dunbabin is a leading authority on Roman art and culture, especially know for her major works on Roman mosaics. She is currently working on a book of images of the Roman banquet for Harvard University Press. AIA Ridgway Lecture, sponsored by the Dept. of Classics and the Seattle Chapter of the Archaelogical Institute of America. 7:30 PM, 210 Kane Hall. |