| Monday, December 9 | |
| 3:30 PM | **LIUBAVA MOREVA EVENT** A discussion with Liubava Moreva, Professor of Philosophy and Director, Russian Institute for Cultural Research, St. Petersburg. With support from UNESCO and in collaboration of a wide range of international scholars and political leaders, Professor Moreva is organizing an international conference to be held in the Pacific Northwest next year on the subject of interreligious and intercultural dialogue. The first cycle of meetings on cross-cultural and interreligious dialogue began with "Ontology of Dialogue as the Main Value of Cultural and Religious Experience"; and "Creation-Creativity-Reproductions: The Wisdom of the Creator, the Reason of Daedalus, and the Cunning of the Hacker" (2002). Both of these conferences were held in St. Petersburg, Russia, and hosted by the St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Institute for Cultural Research. Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. 3:30 pm, Communications 202. Reception to follow. |
| Tuesday, December 10 | |
| 3:30 PM | Forum on Women in Graduate School "Women in Graduate School: Strategies for Success," Maresi Nerad (College of Education). Women in Graduate school face unique challenges-from managing family responsibilities to breaking into traditionally male-dominated fields. Nerad will share with us some of her national research on women graduate students, and our panel of graduate women will discuss these concerns in various UW contexts. Presented by the President's Advisory Committee on Women. 3:30 - 5:00 PM, HUB 309. |
| 3:30 PM | Asian Languages Colloquium "The Enigma of 'The Green Grocer's Daughter': On the Fourth Epidose of The Five Women who Loved Love," Megumi Inoue. 3:30-5:00 PM, Communications 226. |
| Wednesday, December 11 | |
| 3:30 PM | Comparative Religion Colloquium "Money is not Territory: Religious Dimensions of the Iroquois Wampum," Philip Arnold (Syracuse University and Harvard Center for World Religions). Part of the Colloquium Series "Territory and Relics". For more information, contact the program at religion@u.washington.edu. Sponsored by the Comparative Religion Program of the Jackson School of International Studies. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Communications 202. |
| 7:00 PM | German Film Series "Der Krieger und die Kaiserin/The Princess and the Warrior," Tom Twyker (2001). Franka Potente plays Sissi, a lonely nurse in a psychiatric hospital. When hit by a car, her life is saved by Bodo (Benny Fuermann), a man on the run from the police, who promptly disappears. She decides to find Bodo, who is planning a bank robbery. She wants to discover whether their meeting was pure chance or destiny at work. The Autumn German Film Series (Oct 30-Dec 11) presents films in German with English subtitles. Wednesdays, 7pm, Thomson 101. |
| 7:00 PM | Puppetry Presentation "Puppetry Around the World." Seattle Puppetory Theatre will present a sampling of puppet theatre from all over the world. Each culture has its own tradition of puppets and the stories they tell. For all ages. This program will be in the main Faculty Club dining room following dinner. Dinner is at 6 pm. For reservations, call 543-0437. Sponsored by the UW Faculty Auxiliary. 7:00 pm, Faculty Club. |
| Thursday, December 12 | |
| 1:30 PM | Information Studies Lecture "Information Commons, Copyright, and Access," David Bollier. Bollier is a Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center and Director of the Information Commons Project at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. Mr. Bollier is the author of Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth (Routledge). He is also an occasional strategic advisor to foundations and citizen groups. Much of Mr. Bollier's recent work has been focused on developing a new analysis and language for reclaiming "the American commons" - publicly owned resources such as the Internet, public lands, the airwaves, government R&D, public institutions and cultural spaces, which are being rapidly privatized and commercialized. To register for this event, contact email mailto:staffdev@lib.washington.edu. 1:30-3:30 PM, Odegaard Library, Room 220. |
| 3:30 PM | China Studies Lecture "Emperor Huizong's Paintings: Art and Imperial Agency," Roberta Bickford (Department of History of Art and Architecture, Brown University). 3:30 pm, Art 312. |
| 7:00 PM | **KATZ LECTURE** Susan Jeffords (Professor of English and Women Studies and Divisional Dean for Social Sciences, UW), speaks on, "Sins of the Father: American Culture in a Time of Terror." Throughout American history, narratives about fathers and sons have provided compelling frameworks for telling stories about who we are as Americans. Whether stories of rebellion, restoration, correction, or continuation, the relationships between fathers and sons have structured how we, as a culture, talk about continuity, change, and hope for the future. This lecture will explore what stories about fathers and sons look like in a post-September 11 environment and what those stories tell us about how collectively we understand ourselves as Americans. Susan Jeffords is Professor of English and Women Studies at the University of Washington, where she also serves as Divisional Dean for the Social Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of Hard Bodies: Hollywood Masculinity in the Reagan Era (1994) and The Remasculinization of America: Gender and the Vietnam War (1989) and the coeditor of Seeing Through the Media: The Persian Gulf War (1994). She teaches courses in American popular culture, with a particular emphasis on Hollywood film, the Vietnam War, and feminism. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. 7:00 pm, Kane Hall 220. Reception to follow in Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. |
| Friday, December 13 | |
| 3:30 PM | **NEW WORKS IN PRINT** Ruby Blondell (Classics, UW) discusses her new book, The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues (Cambridge University Press, 2002). Despite the recent explosions of interest in alternative ways of reading Plato, a gulf still exists between "literary" and "philosophical" interpretations. Blondell's new book attempts to bridge that division by focusing on Plato's use of characterization, which is both intrinsic to the "literary" questions raised by his use of dramatic form, and fundamental to his "philosophical" concern with moral character. Form and content are also reciprocally related through Plato's preoccupation with literary characterization on the discursive level. Two opening chapters examine the methodological issues involved in reading Plato "as drama," and other preliminary matters, including ancient Greek conceptions of "character," the figure of Sokrates qua "dramatic" hero, and their influence of literary characters on an audience. The rest of the book offers close readings of select dialogues, chosen to show the wide range of ways in which Plato uses his characters, with special attention to the kaleidoscope figure of Sokrates. 3:30-5 pm, Communications 206. |