| Monday, November 18 | |
| 1:30 PM | Book Discussion "The 10 Best Books You've Never Read," Kim Ricketts (Events Coordinator, University Book Store). This Faculty General Meeting is open to all. Ms. Ricketts is a true book lover who enjoys bringing people and books together. She arranges the many author readings that the Book Store supports, on campus and other area venues. Please bring a favorite book to swap with someone during the refreshments. Include your name and address so it can be returned. 1:30 pm, Faculty Club Conference Room. |
| 2:30 PM | History Lecture "Digging at the Dead Sea: Excavating a Medieval Monastery Sugar Mill at the Lowest Point on Earth," Dr. Konstantinos D. Politis (British Musem). Politis has been excavating for the British Museum at the lowest place on earth at the southeastern end of the Dead Sea. His work involves excavating a monastery known as the Sanctuary of the Biblical Lot. He has also uncovered a sugar mill, long before such mills wre discovered in Europe or America. He is a Greek archaeologist educated in Greece, the U.S., Belgium and Britain. He has worked extensively in Greece, where he established the Hellenic Society for Near Eastern Studies in Athens. Since 1988, he has been based at the British Museum, which has been the principal sponsor of his excavations in both Jordan and Oman. Sponsored by the Department of History, the Middle East Center of the Jackson School of International Studies, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, and the Archaeology Program of the Department of Anthropology. 2:30 pm, Savery 239. |
| 3:30 PM | **EARLY MODERN RESEARCH GROUP LECTURE** "Melodramas of Rebellion: The Literary Historiography of King Philip's War (1675-1820)," Gordon Sayre (English, University of Oregon). Sayre is a specialist in early American literature and culture. His current research addresses the evolving reception of Metacom, or King Philip, the namesake of a war that devastated New England in 1675-76. A fearsome and demonic figure to the Puritan colonists who fought against him, Metacom was recast in early nineteenth-century orations, plays, poems, and novels as a heroic rebel against English domination. Sayre's talk will explore the political and literary context of this turnaround and propose a new reading of texts by James Fenimore Cooper and John Augustus Stone that transcends the clichés of the vanishing Indian and the immediate context of the Indian Removal Act. Professor Sayre is the author of "Les Sauvages Américains": Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature (1997) and the editor of "American Captivity Narratives", published by Houghton Mifflin (2000). This lecture is part of the EMERGE 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. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. 3:30-5 pm, Communications 226. |
| 3:30 PM | History Lecture "Slaves of the Emperor: the Master-Slave Metaphor and Elite Identity in the Later Roman Empire," Charles Pazdernik (Classics and Ancient History, Grand Valley State University). Professor Pazdernik's publications include seminal studies of the historian Procopius and the ideology of the Justinianic court. In addition to his Ph.D. in Classics (Princeton, 1997), Dr. Pazdernik has held post-doctoral fellowships in legal history at Emory University and New York University. Sponsored by the Dept. of History, the Law School and the Graduate School. For more information, please contact Joel Walker of the Department of History (jwalker@u.washington.edu). 3:30, Smith 405. |
| 3:30 PM | Works-in-Progress Series Two speakers discuss the papers they are writing. First, "Queer Bachelors: Early to Mid-Twentieth Century Chinese Migrant Sexuality," Jeff Chiu. He will discuss how the Chicago School of Sociology discursively produced the trope of the Chinese bachelor in order to manage anxieties around the implications of sex for Chinese migrants. This paper attempts to demonstrate how recovering the bachelor as a queer figure can resist logics of national belonging that operate to foreclose histories of certain social and sexual practices. Also, "Comics Space as Queer Space: Formations of Identity and Desire in Julie Doucet's *Long Time Relationship,*" Michelle La France. What happens when we define comics as queer space? Using the concept of "rendering surface" from Elspeth Probyn's _Outside Belongings_, La France will explore French Canadian comics-artist Julie Doucet's recent work *Long Time Relationship* (2001), to show that, in redefining identity as the process of rendering surface, formations of heterosexuality may, like formations of queerness, serve to challenge the heterosexing of bodies and spaces. Sponsored by the American Studies Colloquium. 3:30 PM, Denny 312. |
| 7:00 PM | Diversity Book Talk Series Derrick Bell, renowned scholar, lawyer, professor, and civil rights activist, considered by many to be the founder of critical race theory. Bell is the author of seven books, including the seminal "Faces From the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism." Noted for making difficult decisions in his own life, Bell first gained the nation¹s attention as the first tenured Black professor at Harvard Law School, a position he gained in 1971 and relinquished in 1992, when he refused to return from a two-year, unpaid leave of absence he took to protest the absence of African American women on the faculty. Since 1991 he has been a visiting professor at New York University School of Law where he teaches constitutional law. Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth, Bell¹s new book, uses literature, history, and incidents from his own life and the lives of other contemporary figures who have refused to compromise their beliefs to explore achieving success with integrity though passion, faith, courage, inspiration, humility, and relationships. 7:00 PM, Kane Hall 130. |
| Tuesday, November 19 | |
| 3:30 PM | **RECASTING ASIA AMERICA** "Resignifying Arab Racial Formations in Asian America," Muneer Ahmad (School of Law, American University). Part of the year-long Recasting Asia America series of lectures and roundtables, convened to engage a reassessment of the interdisciplinary field of Asian American studies in light of significant transformations in epistemology, culture, racial relations, and political economy. In this lecture, legal scholar Ahmad discusses the political and cultural significance of hate violence against Arabs, Muslims, and South Asians in the aftermath of "9/11" and the challenges to representation and representativeness posed by such violence to Asian Pacific Islander (API) and community of color cultural and political constructs. Ahmad is the author of "Homeland Insecurities: Racial Profiling the Day After 9/11" published in the journal Social Text. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. 3:30 PM, Communications 226. |
| 3:30 PM | Comparative Religion Lecture Lecture on a Tibetan monastery, Mark Hintzke (Culturan Restoration Tourism Project). Hintzke will speak on the last 100 years of Mongolian Buddhism and the current restoration of the Baldan Baraivan Monastery, located 300 km east of Ulaan Baatar, the capital of Mongolia. The monastery was reduced to a shell of a temple in 1938, and today, a new initiative is underway to help restore this important center of Buddhism in eastern Mongolia. Hintzke is director of the non-profit organization, Cultural Restoration Tourism Project, and has been working with the Mongolian government, employing local residents and bringing volunteers from all over the world to this site. Sponsored by the Programs in Comparative Religion and Jewish Studies, of the Jackson School of International Studies. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Thomson 317. |
| Wednesday, November 20 | |
| 3:30 PM | Asian Languages Colloquium "Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures: The Federal Interest," Thomas Gething (Jackson School of International Studies, Dept of Asian Languages and Literature). 3:30-5 PM, Communications 226. |
| 4:00 PM | Language and Rhetoric Colloquium "Discursive Balancing Acts: The Circulation of Talk about Women and Depression," Kim Emmons (English, UW). This paper explores the tensions between two competing discourses - the biomedical and the psychotherapeutic - on women and depression in the United States. Using data collected from two semi-structured group interviews with women currently experiencing symptoms of depression, recent medical and popular media sources, and other self-help and informational materials, this paper asks how the circulation of these two discourses affects individual women's self-representations. 4:00 - 5:30 pm, Balmer 201. |
| 4:00 PM | Photography Lecture Artist John Freyer (Bodine Fellow, Dept. of Art & Art History, Univ. of Iowa)will speak about his work. Freyer, author of allmylifeforsale.com, photographically catalogued and auctioned (on Ebay) more than 600 objects - Christmas presents, false teeth, his winter coat (in the middle of winter), t-shirts, and even the domain name for the on-line project. When it was over, he only had his car and enough possessions to fill its trunk. Allmylifeforsale explores our relationship to the objects around us, their role in the concept of identity and "art", as well as the emerging commercial systems of the Internet. Allmylifeforsale.com is now owned by the University of Iowa, Museum of Art. Freyer's current site is his ongoing travelogue entitled Temporama.com. Bloomsbury USA will publish a full color hard cover book (designed by John Freyer) about the Allmylifeforsale project in November 2002. Sponsored by the UW School of Art Photography Program. 4pm, Rm. 03, Art Building. |
| 7:00 PM | German Film Series "Angst essen Seele Auf/Ali: Fear Eats the Soul," (Fassbinder) 1974. Emmi, a lonely elderly cleaning woman, meets Ali, a young Moroccan immigrant to Germany when she stops into a bar on a rainy night. Both facing social isolation, the two discover themselves soulmates and begin a relationship, only to encounter the fierce racism of Emmi's family, friends, and neighbors, who shun their interracial relationship. Reacting to this, Emmi herself begins to tout Ali as her showpiece. Fassbinder shows how these externa, and internal forces combine, threatening to destroy their bond. The Autumn German Film Series (Oct 30-Dec 11) presents films in German with English subtitles. Wednesdays, 7pm, Thomson 101. |
| Thursday, November 21 | |
| 12:30 PM | **DIGITAL MEDIA WORKING GROUP** "Gender, Computer Games, and Cyberculture," Mary Flanagan (University of Oregon). Flanagan teaches in Multimedia Design and co-edited, "Reload: Rethinking Women in Cyberculture." One in a lecture series. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. 12:30-1:30 PM, Communications 104. |
| 12:30 PM | Anthropology Lecture "The Uighur and Kazakh Migrations from Xinjiang to Kazakhstan in the 1950s," William Clark (Visiting Scholar, Anthropology). Sponsored by Central Asian Studies Group. Info: icirt@u.washington.edu. 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Denny 215. |
| 12:30 PM | Program on Africa Brown Bag Lunch "Factors Affecting Marine and Coastal Resource Use in West Africa," Kate Killerlain (Marine Affairs graduate). For more information, contact Sandra Chait, 616-0998. 12:30, Mary Gates Hall 258. |
| 3:30 PM | **WOMEN STUDIES LECTURE** "Feminism in the African Diaspora," Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Women Studies, Spelman College). Guy-Sheftall is a pioneer in the development of women's studies, Black feminist and transnational feminist theory. Her recent books include "Words of Fire: An Anthology of Black Feminist Thought" and "Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality" (with R. Byrd). Sponsored by the Department of Women Studies, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, and the Curriculum Transformation Project, with support from a grant from the Ford Foundation. For more information, or to request disability accommodations, contact Cristine Hinman, hinman@u.washington.edu, 206-616-6651. 3:30-4:30 pm, Communications 226. Reception following at 5:00 pm, Communications 206. |
| 5:00 PM | English Lecture "Me, Myself, and I: The Self in Writing," Linda Bierds and David Shields (Creative Writing, UW). Beirds and Sheilds will offer their views on the range of authorial ego investments in the writing of "non-fiction" and poetry. Shields has received two NEA fellowships in fiction. His "Enough About You: Adventures in Autobiography" was recently published by Simon & Schuster. Bierds is the author of six volumes of poetry and received a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" in 1998. Sponsored by the Department of English. 5:00-6:30 pm, Parrington 309. |
| 7:00 PM | **MYRA'S WAR SERIES** "War/Memory," Haruko Taya Cook (History, Fordham University-Marymount) and Theodore F. Cook (History, William Paterson University). The authors of "Japan At War An Oral History," and the forthcoming "Emperor's War, People's War" discuss implications of their hundreds of personal interviews with war survivors. Part of a lecture series supporting the musical "Myra's War," to be performed at Meany Studio Theater in April. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. Free admission. 7 PM, Architecture Auditorium, Room 147 |
| 7:00 PM | Latin American Studies Event "Senorita Extraviada: Missing Young Women." Since 1993, over 230 young women have been raped or murdered, and over 400 remain missing, in Juarez, Mexico. Lourdes Portillo's documentary film investigates the crimes against these women of Jarez, Mexico, and poses larger questions about the disposability of young women in the global economy. Co-sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program, the ASUW Women's Action Commission, and the ASUW La Raza Commission. For more information: (206) 543-1817 or depts.washington.edu/~asuwomn. 7:00 pm, HUB Auditorium. |
| Friday, November 22 | |
| 3:30 PM | **ENGLISH LECTURE** "The Old English Formulary: New Evidence for Orality and Literacy in Anglo-Saxon Culture," Andy Orchard (University of Toronto). FOr many years, Prof. Orchard was director of Old English STudies in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at Cambridge. He recently accepted a position as Professor and Co-Director of the Medieval Institute at the University of Toronto. Prof. Orchard's appearance at the University of Washington will be his first since sending off his completed manuscript of a full commentary on the poem, "Beowulf," to the Press, and his presentation here will include gleanings from this research. Sponsored by the Department of English and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. 3:30 pm, Communications 226. |
| Saturday, November 23 | |
| 8:30 PM | Pacific Northwest History Symposium "Pacific Northwest Contours: Complicating and Questioning Notions about Region." Sessions include "Lived Environments," "Science, Technology, and Regional Context," "Race and Ethnicity in the Pacific Northwest," "Building Community: Different Notions of Diversity, Problems, and Progress," and "Teaching the Pacific Northwest: A Conversation Between Historians and Geographers." Sponsored by graduate students in the Department of History, the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, and the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild. Symposium begins at 8:30 (coffee and donuts at 7:30) and will last until 7:15 p.m. For registration information, contact the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, cspn@u.washington.edu. Registration by 11/15 is encouraged. |