| Monday, October 21 | |
| 12:30 PM | **ART HISTORY LECTURE** "Portraits are for ever: (fe)male artists and sitters in Flemish Baroque Art," Katlijne van der Stighelen (Art History, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Peter Paul Rubens Chair in Residence, History of Art Department, UC Berkeley). Dr. Van der Stighelen is the author of books on Anna Maria van Schurman (1987), Cornelis de Vos (1990), and Van Dyck (1998). She has recently co-curated a mayor exhibition on women artists in the Netherlands at the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp (1999). Presenting archival sources in connection with visual narratives, Dr. Van der Stighelen will ask about the multiple roles (fe)male artists, patrons and sitters played within the early modern urban society in Northern Europe. Co-sponsored by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities and Women Studies. The lecture is free and open to all. 12:30 PM, Thomson 125. |
| 3:30 PM | **RECASTING ASIA AMERICA** "Dislocating National Biases: A Conversation on Asian American Culture(s) Critique," Karen Shimakawa (Theater, University of California-Davis) and Kandice Chuh (English, University of Maryland). Part of the year-long Recasting Asia America lecture series, sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the English Department (Hilen Endowment for American Literature and Culture). 3:30 PM, Communications 226. |
| Tuesday, October 22 | |
| 6:00 PM | Art Opening "Stranger," a juried exhibition of new works by local artists bridging the gap between academia and the community. Exploring the notion of "Stranger" as inspiration, the show exhibits an ensemble of new work representing the local art community and UW art students. The Ceramics and Metal Arts (CMA) Gallery, located on the UW Campus, is a recognized exhibition venue for fresh and sophisticated work, created by students and invited artists alike. Special Guest Juror: Nicola Vruwink, local artist. Organized and co-juried by the 2nd year UW MFA candidates. Show runs from October 22-29. Opening reception Oct 22, 6-9 PM, Ceramics and Metal Arts Building, 4205 Mary Gates Drive, Seattle. |
| 7:00 PM | Comparative Religion Lecture "Unlikely Heroes: Women in the Bible," Gary Rendsburg (Cornell University). Rendsburg is currently the Paul and Berthe Hendrix Memorial Professor of Jewish Studies at Cornell University. He is pre-eminent in the field of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East. He is the author of five books, the editor of five more, and the author of more than one hundred articles. The topics on which he has written are as diverse as they are interesting (from ancient Hebrew dialects and diglossia, to literary approaches to the Bible, to Egyptian influence on biblical texts). This talk will explore the presence of female characters in the Bible, especially in contrast to ancient Near Eastern literature. Sponsored by Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. 7 PM, Brechemin Auditorium, Room 123, Music Building. |
| 7:30 PM | Central District Forum "How Central is the Central District to Seattle's Black Community?" panel discussion, moderated by Essex Porter of KIRO 7 News. The Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas invites you to participate in the first ever public discussion about the changing face of the Central District. A panel of local community and business leaders will tackle tough questions about recent demographic and economic shifts and the impact they are having on Black Seattle's sense of identity. Sponsors include: US Bank, La Louisiana, SAFECO. For more information, email info@cdforum.org or phone (206) 323-4032. 7:30 pm, Mount Zion Baptist Church, 1634 19th Ave. |
| Wednesday, October 23 | |
| 3:30 PM | **LATIN AMERICAN POETRY READING** Reading, Elichura Chihuailaf (poet and scholar, Mapuche indigenous community, Southern Chile). Co-Sponsors: Division of Spanish & Portuguese Studies, Latin American Studies Program/JSIS, and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information, call (206) 685-3435. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Communications 202. |
| 3:30 PM | Colloquium "Chinese Dialect Fieldwork," Dr. Zev Handel (Asian Languages and Literature, UW). Sponsored by the Department of Asian Languages and Literature. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Communications 226. |
| 3:30 PM | Scandinavian Studies Lecture "Landscape Heritage, Nature, and the Nordic Body Politic," Kenneth Olwig (Geography, Trondheim University, Norway). Professor Olwig works within the area of environmental studies with a focus on landscape and planning, the history and theory of geography, and humanities oriented approaches to historical geography. He is particularly interested in the relation between social development and individual human development, especially with regard to children. He is the designated leader for an upcoming research project on: Biological diversity, customary rights and cultural practice in mountain agricultural landscape, together with geographers Michael Jones and Mary Edwards, and botanist Gunilla Olsson. He is developing, together with Jones and a circle of Nordic scholars in geography, anthropology and history, a book on "Nordscapes: Thinking Landscapes and Regional Identity on the Northern Edge of Europe." Sponsored by the Deparment of Scandinavian Studies and The Scandinavian Initiative. 3:30-5:00 pm, Denny 312. |
| 4:00 PM | English Lecture "News as Entertainment: Survival Narratives from 9/11," Sandy Silberstein (English, UW). This talk examines the role of television in creating accounts of September 11, 2001, and in constructing post-9/11 identities. It synthesizes linguistic research on media and narrative as it explores television's handling of "real time" accounts. At the end of the colloquium, I'm particularly interested in having participants work on a nontelegenic account that is abruptly truncated. To what extent can narrative theory account for structural filtering? For more information, contact Amy Vidali at avidali@u.washington.edu. 4-6 pm, Balmer 201. |
| 7:00 PM | Jewish Studies Lecture "Reading the Abraham Story," Gary Rendsburg (Paul and Berthe Hendrix Memorial Professor of Jewish Studies, Cornell University). For more information, call (206) 543-4835. Sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization and the Comparative Religion Program of the Jackson School of International Studies. 7:00 pm, Temple Beth-Am, 2632 NE 80th Seattle. |
| Thursday, October 24 | |
| Western States Composition Conference "Writing and Disciplinarity: Rhetorics, Discourse, Literacies." Keynote speaker: David Russell (Iowa State University). The Western States Composition Conference was initiated to allow scholars in the Western region to come together to exchange current research in rhetoric and composition, with the goal of addressing theoretical and pedagogical issues through a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. In keeping with the spirit of a small gathering, the conference will be held in a professional but relaxed atmosphere. For more information, see the Conference website. Oct 24-25, South Campus Center. Sponsored by the Department of English. |
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| 5:00 PM | Distinguished Teaching Awards Lecture "The Most Important Thing(s) We Teach." Professors Kate Cummings, John Webster, and Lecturer Elizabeth Simmons-O'Neill, winners of the Department of English Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, take part in a presentation that highlights the core of their teaching. Friends and alumni are invited to attend. Sponsored by the Department of English. 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm, Parrington 309. |
| 7:00 PM | **HUMANITIES LECTURE** Performance artist Chris Burden is a participating artist in the Bellevue Art Museum's new exhibition TRESPASSING: Houses x Artists. He will discuss his role in this project as well as the role of artists and architects today. Sponsors: Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, Bellevue Art Museum and the UW Public Art Program. For more information, call 206-543-3920. 7:00-9:00 pm, Kane Hall 110. |
| Friday, October 25 | |
| 1:30 PM | Germanics Lecture "Mediating from the Margin: Ilse Aichinger's Responses to Antisemitism and the Holocoust," Laura Stahman (PhD candidate, Germanics). Sponsored by the Department of Germanics. 1:30, William H. Rey Library, Denny 308. |
| 3:30 PM | Linguistics Colloquium "The verb in Proto-Indo-European," Joseph Voyles (Germanics and Linguistics). In the reconstruction of the morphology of Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the status of nouns, adjectives, pronouns and numerals is fairly well founded since these parts of speech are more or less similar in all the later IE languages. But the verbs constitute a problem in that their paradigms differ radically in the various IE daughter languages. We consider the verbs in the earliest attested languages of the major IE sub-families -- Gothic in Germanic, Latin in Romance, Ancient Greek, Old Irish in Celtic, Old Church Slavic in Balto-Slavic, Sanskrit in Indo-Iranian and Hittite in the Anatolian family. From these data we posit some reconstructions of the PIE verb. For more information, e-mail stur@u.washington.edu. 3:30 pm, Smith 404. |
| 7:00 PM | **POLISH HISTORY AND CULTURE LECTURE** "The future is not what it was: realities of economic transformation in Poland," Witold Sulimirski (Kosciuszko Foundation). Part of "A Celebration of Polish History and Culture at the University of Washington," a lecture series focusing on contributions to Polish and American cultures. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. For full details about the series and speakers, visit this website. 7 pm, Northwest Horticultural Society Hall, Center for Urban Horticulture. |
| 7:00 PM | Poetry Reading Stanley Kunitz, former U.S. Poet Laureate, will read his own recently published "Collected Poems" and will lecture on the poetry of Theodore Roethke. Kunitz gave the Roethke Memorial Lecture in 1975. Counterbalance Poetry suggests a $10 donation at the door. For reserved seat information, please call 206-282-2677. Sponsored by University Book Store and Counterbalance Poetry. 7 PM, 130 Kane Hall. |
| 7:00 PM | Conference on Trafficking Conference on Globalization, Justice, and the International Trafficking of Women and Children. Speakers include Begum Khurshid Jahan Haque, Minister for Women and Children Affairs, Bangladesh; Ambassador Nancy Ely-Raphel, Director, Office to Monitor and Combat Human Trafficking at the US Department of State; and numerous state elected officials, representatives from non-profits, international organizations and academic institutions. For more information, call (206) 685-1090. Sponsored by the program in Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies, the International Studies Center, and the UW Women's Center. 7:00-8:30 pm, Kane Hall. |
| 8:00 PM | **E.A.T. REUNION** Billy Kluver (ex-Bell Labs engineer and co-founder of E.A.T.), Julie Martin (New York E.A.T. staff), Robert Whitman (multimedia artist, E.A.T. co-founder), and David Ross, moderator (ex-director of the Whitney Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art). Stories presented by original founders of E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology), and the West Coast premiere of a newly edited documentary film, "Open Score." Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information, visit: http://www.eatreunion.org. 8 pm, Meany Hall. |
| Saturday, October 26 | |
| 9:00 AM | Conference on Trafficking Conference on Globalization, Justice, and the International Trafficking of Women and Children. Speakers include Begum Khurshid Jahan Haque, Minister for Women and Children Affairs, Bangladesh; Ambassador Nancy Ely-Raphel, Director, Office to Monitor and Combat Human Trafficking at the US Department of State; and numerous state elected officials, representatives from non-profits, international organizations and academic institutions. For more information, call (206) 685-1090. Sponsored by the program in Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies, the International Studies Center, and the UW Women's Center. 9:00 am - 6:00 pm, Kane Hall. |
| 10:00 AM | **E.A.T. REUNION** In the morning, a moderated discussion with the founders and artists of the E.A.T. chapters in Seattle and Portland will take place, and will include the presentation of archival films and documents. In the afternoon, several prominent digital artists and E.A.T. founder Billy Kluver will participate in a discussion, "The Artist as Cultural Capital: Re-thinking E.A.T. in 2002." Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. (http://www.eatreunion.org) 10 am - 5 pm, Henry Art Gallery Auditorium. |
| 1:00 PM | Jewish Studies Lecture "I-Thou," Maurice Friedman. Dr. Friedman presents a two-fold dialogue: "Hasidic Tales - Hallowing the Everyday" and Martin Buber's I-Thou Anthropology with Friedman's Dialogical Psychology. For more information, call (206) 525-9035. Sponsored by the Seattle Holistic Center and Institute for Spiritual Studies. $225 prepaid, $275 at the door. 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Olympic Room, Seattle Center. |
| 4:00 PM | **POLISH HISTORY AND CULTURE LECTURE** "The Kosciuszko Foundation and Polish Studies in the U.S," Witold Sulimirski (The Kosciuszko Foundation). Part of "A Celebration of Polish History and Culture at the University of Washington," a lecture series focusing on contributions to Polish and American cultures. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. 4 pm, Communications Building, Room 206. |