| Tuesday, October 15 | |
| 7:00 PM | Reading Anna Quindlen reads from and signs "Blessings." Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author of three bestselling novels, Quindlen now brings us a tale of people who could just coast by on the "blessings" they have, but instead opt for a harder way. Tickets required; available (free) at University Book Store, Sponsored by University Book Store and KUOW, 206-634-3400. 7:00 pm, Roethke Auditorium, 130 Kane Hall. |
| 7:30 PM | Poetry Talk "A Poetry Doubleheader" featuring John Yau and "Nice Hat. Thanks." John Yau, critic in residence at the Maryland Institute College of Art, is well known in this area by both artists and readers of poetry, fiction and essays. His books of criticism have address Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns and he has organized a retrospective of the paintings and drawings of Ed Moses. This evening he will read from new and published poems. He has received awards from the NEA, NY Foundation for the Arts and the Academy of American Poets. Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer will perform an improvisational collaborative poetry reading reflective of the shared work published this month in "Nice Hat. Thanks." (Verse Press, Easthampton, MA). The poems reflect their talent at creating clever, funny and often startling poems. Beckman is a winner of the APR-Honickman Prize and the author of Something I Expected to be Different (2001). Rohrer is a winner of the National Poetry Series, author of Satellite (2001), and was included in The New American Poets (Breadloaf, 2000). Counterbalance suggests a donation of $5 at the door. Sponsored by Counterbalance Poetry and University Book Store. For more information, contact Jeffrey Cantrell at (206) 282-2677 or (206)799-7641. 7:30 PM, 120 Kane Hall. |
| Wednesday, October 16 | |
| 12:00 PM | Computation Lecture "The Design Machine Group: Computation + Design." The Design Machine Group (School of Architecture), SMART Studio (Sweden), and Iole Alessandrini. Formed in 2002 at the University of Washington, the Design Machine Group works as a collaborative research studio aimed at fostering and developing ideas that will shape the future of design and information technology. This lecture will be an introduction to the Design Machine Group with a brief discussion on computation and design. For more information, call (206) 616-6016. Sponsored by Cornish College of the Arts. 12:00-1:00 pm, Cornish College of the Arts, 1501 10th Avenue E., Seattle. |
| Thursday, October 17 | |
| 6:30 PM | **ART LECTURE** Chicago-based artist Jason Salavon enlists ingenious digital procedures to visually probe and survey the massiveness of data in the information age. His innovative, self-authored solutions have been recognized world wide for their technical and conceptual sophistication - and sensuous aesthetic. Titles include "MTV's 10 Greatest Music Videos", "The 25 Top Grossing Films of all Time", "Everything, All at Once", "Every Playboy Centerfold by Decades" and his latest work, "Golem" (100,000 unique abstract paintings autonomously generated). {Golem is currently featured at Howard House Contemporary Art in his first Seattle solo exhibition - until 19 October}. Salavon is a young artist with an impressive rising career including solo exhibitions at The Project, Peter Miller Gallery and the University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara - and an upcoming exhibition at the Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin. He recently exhibited at Art 33 Basel. Collectors include the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Sponsored by the School of Art Photography Program, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for Humanities and Howard House Contemporary Art. 6:30 PM, Room 3, School of Art. |
| 7:00 PM | **THINKING SEX LECTURE** "Sex and Space: Outlaw Territories," Cindy Patton (Interdisciplinary Studies, Emory Univ.). Part of the series "Thinking Sex in Transnational Times. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. Cindy Patton's public lecture is a reassessment of the case of Edward Savitz, who was imprisoned for three years for allegedly spreading HIV through sex, and died with his case never having come to trial. In earlier work, Patton examined the discourse of innocence concerning this case. Here, she shifts to a consideration of the representation of the "two neighborhoods" that inform its unspoken logic -- Savitz's wealthy one and the blighted white working-class neighborhood of the young hustlers he hired. Patton examines the spatial politics of neighborhoods and their collaboration in generations of boy-love in this ethnic community. For more information, visit www.uwch.org/thinkingsex. NOTE: A workshop on this topic will be held the following day. To register, contact the Simpson Center at (206) 543-3920. 7 pm, Communications 226. |
| 7:00 PM | Diversity Book Talk Series Deborah Meier, Education Activist and author of The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem. Meier has spent more than three decades working in public education as a teacher, principal, writer, advocate, and ranks among the most acclaimed leaders of the school reform movement in the U.S.. For 20 years, Meier, a White educator, worked in New York Cityıs East Harlem district, helping revitalize Harlem's public schools through fostering democratic community, giving teachers greater autonomy in the running of a school, giving parents a voice in what happens to their children in schools, and promoting a family-oriented system. Meier's new book, In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization, argues for a dramatic reinvention of schools based on trusting teachers to use their own judgment, inviting parents into a close relationship with the school, and surrounding children with adults who know them well. The Diversity Book Talk Series brings authors of color, as well as White authors who write on race, diversity, and multicultural issues, to the UW campus to read and discuss their work. Sponsored by The University Book Store and the UW Graduate Opportunities & Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP). Admission is free, but tickets are required. Tickets are available at any University Book Store location. 7 PM, UW Kane Hall 130. |
| Friday, October 18 | |
| **THINKING SEX WORKSHOP** Cindy Patton (Interdisciplinary Studies, Emory Univ.) is hosting a workshop in conjunction with her October 17 lecture. To register, contact the Simpson Center at (206) 543-0637 or visit www.uwch.org/thinkingsex. |
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| 9:00 AM | Digital Media Workshop "Digital Media: Building a Multimedia Presentation." Design Machine Group (School of Architecture), SMART Studio (Sweden) and Iole Alessandrini. This workshop will focus on creating web-based multimedia content as a means of artistic expression. Designing collaboratively, teams of participants will build web-based narratives. For more information, call (206) 616-6016. Sponsored by Cornish College of the Arts. 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, Cornish College of the Arts, 1501 10th Avenue E., Seattle. |
| 1:30 PM | Germanics Lecture "Adorno's Minima Moralia: On Passion, Psychoanalysis and the Postemotional Dilemma," Dr. Shierry Nicholsen (visiting scholar, Department of Germanics). "Minima Moralia, Reflections on Damaged Life," written while Adorno was exiled in the United States during the Second World War, poignantly confronts how the individual can retain the capacity for thought under the pressure of forces working to pre-form subjective experience and human relations to disguise and legitimize social domination. This talk explores Adorno's critique of psychoanalytic complicity with these forces, and the convergence of his insights with later psychoanalytic work. Shierry Nicholsen is a visiting scholar and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Seattle. This event is sponsored by the Deparment of Germanics. 1:30 pm, William H. Rey Library, Denny 308. |
| 3:30 PM | Classics Lecture "Children and Grown-ups in Persius's Satires." Kenneth Reckford (Classics, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). Reckford is immediate past-President of the American Philological Association, and since 1960 a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. His interests range broadly over many areas in both Greek and Latin literature, though he may be best known for his work on Aristophanes and his many forays into Horace and Roman poetry. Dr. Reckford is currently revising his 1999 Martin Lectures at Oberlin College for a book entitled, "Recognizing Persius." Sponsored by the Dept. of Classics. 3:30 pm, Smith 102. |
| 3:30 PM | Linguistics Colloquium "Exploiting Syntactic Structure for Language Modeling," Dr. Ciprian Chelba (Microsoft, Speech Technology Group, web site). The talk presents an attempt at using the syntactic structure in natural language for improved language models for large vocabulary speech recognition. The structured language model merges techniques in automatic parsing and language modeling using an original probabilistic parameterization of a shift-reduce parser. A maximum likelihood reestimation procedure belonging to the class of expectation-maximization algorithms is employed for training the model. Experiments on the Wall Street Journal, Switchboard and Broadcast News corpora show improvement in both perplexity and word error rate -- word lattice rescoring -- over the standard 3-gram language model. Further experiments investigate the portability of syntactic structure across domains -- Wall Street Journal to Air Travel Information Systems -- as well as the use of the structured language model for information extraction from text. 3:30 PM, Smith Hall 404. |