| Monday, October 28 | |
| 3:30 PM | **EARLY MODERN RESEARCH GROUP LECTURE** "'Talking with Animals': Byzantine Natural History in Sixteenth-Century France," Glenn Peers (University of Texas, Austin). Peers is the author of "Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium" (2001), and has recently completed a second manuscript on framing techniques in Byzantine art. His current research focuses on manuscripts of Greek natural history illustrated in sixteenth-century Paris. One in a lecture series dedicated to the exploration of society and culture in the early modern period, with a focus on early modernity from a trans-national perspective. Co-sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Dept of History. Free and open to the public. 3:30-5 PM, Communications 226 |
| 7:00 PM | International Studies Talk "The United States, Iraq, and the International Community," Congressman Jim McDermott. Notes: No tickets needed. Doors open at 6:30 pm. Backpacks and bags will be inspected at the door. No passes will be issued to allow attendees to re-enter the room. If you leave the room, you will be required to go to the end of the line to get back in. Sponsors: The Jackson School of International Studies; The World Affairs Council. For more information, call (206) 543-4372. 7:00 PM, Kane Hall 130 (overflow to Kane 120, which will have a remote TV feed). |
| Tuesday, October 29 | |
| 12:30 PM | **DIGITAL MEDIA WORKING GROUP** A panel on Cyberactivism, moderated by Lance Bennett (Political Science and Communication). Panelists will include Sheri Herndon (Independent Media Center) and Doug Schuler (Public Sphere Project and Seattle Community Network). Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement. 12:30-1:30 pm, Communications 126. |
| 3:30 PM | Japan Studies Lecture "Reading 'Reversion': Women and Politics of Culture in Okinawa," Linda Angst (Anthropology, Lewis and Clark College; Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University). Angst will discuss gendered nationalism in post-war Okinawa. Dr. Angst's research in cultural anthropology has focused on questions of gender, ethnicity, colonialism/postcoloniality, and national identity in Japan. Her dissertation looked at questions of Okinawan women's political subjectivity, particularly as understood through their narratives about wartime experiences and memories as well as their postwar lives under U.S. military occupation. She is currently studying the effects on Okinawan identity (especially on women's lives) of developing Okinawa as a tourist site for Japanese consumption. This lecture is one in a series commemorating the 30th anniversary of Okinawa's returning to Japan. Sponsored by the Japan Studies program. 3:30-5 PM, Communications 202. |
| 7:00 PM | International Studies Panel "21st Century Wars: Indonesia, Islam, the Middle East, and the U.S.," a panel discussion about the recent bombings in Indonesia featuring Dan Lev (Political Science, UW), Ismail Budhiarso (active member of Indonesian Muslim organizations in Seattle), Magid Shihade (PhD student, Middle Eastern Studies, UW). Moderated by Laurie Sears (History, UW). Sponsor: Southeast Asia Center/JSIS. For more information, call (206) 543-9606. 7:00-8:30 pm, Smith 120. |
| Wednesday, October 30 | |
| 12:00 PM | Computing Lecture "What is Physical Computing?" Ken Camarata (Cornish College of the Arts). This lecture will present some results discovered in Camarata's interdisciplinary design workship, which explored the physical embodiment of computation through art, science and technology. For more information, call (206) 616-6016. Sponsored by Cornish College of the Arts, UW's Design Machine Group, SMART Studio in Sweden, and Iole Alessandrini. 12:00-1:00 pm, Cornish College of the Arts, 1501 10th Avenue E. Seattle, Lap P, First Floor. |
| 7:00 PM | German Film Series "Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens/A symphony of Terror (Murnau)" (1922). Graf Orlok, a vampire, moves to Bremen, where he can satiate his bloodthirst. Newlyweds Thomas and Ellen Hutter attempt to foil Graf Orlok and his appetite through a series of chilling and dramatic scenarios. "A silent era classic," according to the Apollo Guide. The first production based on Bram Stoker's Dracula, a German Expressionist film. The Autumn German Film Series (Oct 30-Dec 11) presents films in German with English subtitles. Wednesdays, 7pm, Mary Gates Hall, Rm. 271. |
| Thursday, October 31 | |
| 3:30 PM | **ENGLISH LECTURE** "Adam's and Eve's Breeches, and Other Problems: The Origins of Scriptural Idiom in Old and Middle English," Dr. Richard Marsden (University of Nottingham). Dr. Marsden is the author of the forthcoming "Cambridge Old English Reader," the first advanced pedagogical text in Old English studies to take in the full extent of recent advances in Feminist Criticism and Gender Studies, Postcolonial Criticism and other contemporary approaches. The work was produced in consultation with Prof. Paul G. Remley of the University of Washington, who was retained as an official adviser to the Press. His own work, in a major 1995 monograph and numerous articles, has stressed the importance of bringin marginalized voices and neglected texts from the pre-Conquest era to light. Sponsored by the Department of English and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. 3:30 pm, Smith 307. |
| Friday, November 1 | |
| 10:00 AM | Workshop "Workshop: Interface: Building a Connection." Design Machine Group (School of Architecture), SMART Studio (Sweden) and Iole Alessandrini. Physical objects provide a rich interaction that far surpasses the typical mouse-based input of a desktop computer. Participants in this workship will work together to design and build a physical interface that reinforces their narrative and blurs the boundary between the physical and the virtual. Sponsored by Cornish College of the Arts. For more information, call (206) 616-6016. 10:00 am -4:00 pm, Cornish College of the Arts, 1501 10th Avenue E. Seattle, Lab P, First Floor. |
| 12:00 PM | Political Science Colloquium "Does Peacekeeping Keep Peace after Civil War? And If So, How?," Page Fortna (Political Science, Columbia University). Part of the Pacific Northwest Colloquium on International Security (PNCIS). Sponsors: College of Arts and Sciences; JSIS International Studies Center; IGRSS; Department of Political Science. For more information, contact ykawato@u.washington.edu. 12 noon, Smith 40. |
| 3:00 PM | **THINKING SEX WORKSHOP** "Inherited Desire: Arab Sexual Heritage in Modernity," Joseph Massad (Modern Arab Politics, Columbia Univ.). Joseph Massad's paper explores twentieth century Arab historical writing about Arab sexual "heritage" from the classical period of the seventh to fourteenth centuries. It explores the political and cultural uses to which more recent attempts to recuperate a sexual culture from the past are put, as well as investigating the selection process through which parts of this sexual culture and literature are found to be recoverable (popular, medical, and/or jurisprudential literatures). The paper thus analyzes a set of diverse historical writings that span centuries, contextualizing them in the era of colonialism and nationalism and the discourses they both generated. It also addresses how these historical writings arguments insert themselves in the literature on Arab women's liberation, itself inaugurated at the end of the nineteenth century. To attend a workshop, please contact the Simpson Center for the Humanities (206-543-3920) to register. 3 PM, Communications 206. |
| 3:30 PM | Philosophy Lecture "Computational Evolutionary Epistemology," Bill Harms (Seattle Central Community College, Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia). Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy. 3:30 pm, Smith 105. |
| 3:30 PM | Linguistics Colloquium "Precocious Acquisition of botanical vocabulary by Zapotec children: Implications for modular learning theories and pedagogical strategies," Eugene Hunn (UW, Anthropology). Hunn will discuss his research in In sharp contrast to many indigenous communities, San Juan Maestepec, a Zapotec-speaking town in Oaxaca, Mexico, has been successful in retaining virtually intact their Traditional Environmental Knowledge, which builds upon a basic vocabulary of ca. 700 plant names. Hunn will discuss whether "precocious acquisition" suggests that children are "programmed to learn" to distinguish "natural kinds" in their local environment. How then account for the fact that urban children in the US learn to recognize but a small fraction of this number of plants at a comparable age? If knowledge of biodiversity is prerequisite to appreciating and conserving nature, how might we redesign our natural science curricula to exploit this innate openness to learning about the natural environment? Sponsored by the Dept. of Linguistics. For more information, contact stur@u.washington.edu. 3:30 PM, Smith Hall 404. |