| Wednesday, January 8 | |
| 4:30 PM | German Film Screening Directed by Michael Verhoeven, "The Nasty Girl" is the second film in a trilogy based on a true story. The film is an upbeat black comedy satirizing repressed attitudes as a schoolgirl tries to research her essay on "My Town During the Third Reich". Verhoeven emphasizes civic courage. Sponsored by the UW Faculty Auxiliary. 4:30 pm, Faculty Club. |
| 7:00 PM | Germanics Film Screening "Germany, Pale Mother," Helma Sanders-Brahms (1979). First in a series of three on Postwar Feminism in Germany. This film portrays the experience of a family: mother, father, and daughter, in Berlin during the war years. Lene, the mother, raises her daughter Anna alone in the city. When Hans, the father, returns from the war, he has become completely desensitized, while Lene suffers psychological paralysis and disintegration. Sanders-Brahms uses the perspective of Anna and fairy tale to show how social and political elements have become internalized within individual family members, providing at the same time a critique of history as it tells or represses different experiences of men and women and of personal and collective memory. Shown in German with English subtitles. Sponsored by the Department of Germanics. 7:00 pm, Smith 205. |
| Monday, January 13 | |
| 2:30 PM | Slavic Languages Lecture "Engaging with Globalization: Two Case Studies in Contemporary Russian Literature," Vitaly Chernetsky (Columbia University). Professor Chernetsky is a candidate for a faculty position in the UW Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and his research has focused on contemporary literature and culture of the former Soviet Union. He is the author of numerous articles and the co-editor of "Crossing Centuries: The New Generation in Russian Poetry." His monograph "Post-modernism, Post-colonialism, Post-communism: A Global Cultural Transformation and Its Second World Manifestations" is under consideration at SUNY Press. 2:30 PM, Thomson 125. |
| 7:30 PM | History Lecture "Defining the Diaspora: the Case of the Greeks," Dr. Richard Clogg (Senior Research Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford). Dr. Richard Clogg, Historian of Modern Greece, is visiting the University of Washington as Stice Lecturer. Sponsored by the Stice Lectureship and the Department of History. 7:30 pm, Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall. |
| Tuesday, January 14 | |
| 3:30 PM | Comparative Religion Lecture "Sufis and Hindus: 16th Century India," Willard G. Oxtoby (Comparative Religion, University of Toronto). Professor Oxtoby delivers the American Lectures in the History of Religions: Islam in Historical Interaction. Islam did not develop in a vacuum. Across 14 centuries and several continents, it spread and became widely differentiated. Oxtoby samples that diversity in 3 different historical contexts, selected to highlight the breadth of the culture and tradition known as Islam. Oxtoby is professor emeritus of comparative religion at the University of Toronto and best known as the editor of and major contributor to, the two substanial introductory text volumes, "World Religions: Western Traditions and World Religions: Eastern Traditions. Sponsored by the Comparative Religion Program in the Jackson School of International Studies. 3:30-5 pm, Henry Art Museum Auditorium. |
| 7:30 PM | **NATIVE AMERICAN ART LECTURE** Bill Holm (Curator Emeritus of Northwest Coast Indian Art and Professor Emeritus of Art History, UW). First in the series, "Contemporary Issues in Northwest Coast Native American Art," A public lecture series presented by the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, with support from the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University Book Store, and the Canadian Studies Center. For more information, visit the website for this series, 7:30 pm, 130 Kane Hall. Reception following in Walker-Ames Room. |
| Wednesday, January 15 | |
| 3:30 PM | Comparative Religion Lecture "Religion & Marxism: 21st Century China," Willard G. Oxtoby (Comparative Religion, University of Toronto). Oxtoby delivers the second lecture in the American Lectures in the History of Religions series: Islam in Historical Interaction. Islam did not develop in a vacuum. Across 14 centuries and several continents, it spread and became widely differentiated. Oxtoby samples that diversity in 3 different historical contexts, selected to highlight the breadth of the culture and tradition known as Islam. Oxtoby is professor emeritus of comparative religion at the University of Toronto and best known as the editor of and major contributor to, the two substanial introductory text volumes, "World Religions: Western Traditions and World Religions: Eastern Traditions. Sponsored by the Comparative Religion Program in the Jackson School of International Studies. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Henry Art Museum Auditorium. |
| 3:30 PM | History Lecture "Ancient Greece and the Movement for Greek Independence, 1770-1821," Dr. Richard Clogg (Senior Research Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford). Dr. Richard Clogg, Historian of Modern Greece, is visiting the University of Washington as Stice Lecturer. Sponsored by the Stice Lectureship and the Department of History. 3:30-5:00 pm, Smith 311. |
| 7:00 PM | Comparative Religion Lecture "Heritage & Diaspora: 21st Century North America," Willard G. Oxtoby (Comparative Religion, University of Toronto). Professor Oxtoby delivers the final lecture in the American Lectures in the History of Religions series: Islam in Historical Interaction. Islam did not develop in a vacuum. Across 14 centuries and several continents, it spread and became widely differentiated. Oxtoby samples that diversity in 3 different historical contexts, selected to highlight the breadth of the culture and tradition known as Islam. Oxtoby is professor emeritus of comparative religion at the University of Toronto and best known as the editor of and major contributor to, the two substanial introductory text volumes, "World Religions: Western Traditions and World Religions: Eastern Traditions. Sponsored by the Comparative Religion Program in the Jackson School of International Studies. Pre-lecture reception: 6 pm, Simpson Center for the Humanities, Communications 206. Lecture: 7-8:30 pm, Kane Hall 220. |
| 7:00 PM | Germanics Film Screening "Die Praxis der Liebe" (The Practice of Love), Valie Export, 1984. Part of the series on Postwar Feminism in Germany. Judith, a journalist in Austria, is torn between her relationships with an arms dealer and a psychiatrist. While attempting to solve a crime story about a death in Vienna, she comes to learn that both lovers are somehow involved in the crime. She also discovers that both relationships are impossible, as Judith confronts the limitations of the social context and the male world which obviate any conception of love beyond sexuality. Export's technique uses a series of experimental images and film clips within this anti-romance. Shown in German with English subtitles. Sponsored by the Department of Germanics. 7:00 pm, Smith 205. |
| Thursday, January 16 | |
| 11:30 AM | Digital Media Lecture "Connected, or, What It Means To Live in the Network Society," Steven Shaviro (Cinema Studies, UW). Sponsored by the Digital Media Working Group. 11:30 am - 12:20 pm, Communications 126. |
| 3:30 PM | Philosophy Lecture "Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Social Progress: The Case Against Incentive Based Arguments," Adam Moore (Philosophy, Eastern Michigan University). Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy. For more information, call (206)543-5855. 3:30 PM, Savery 239 |
| 7:00 PM | **KATZ LECTURE** "Yeats and Lyric Form," Helen Vendler (A. Kingsley Porter University Professor of English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University). How did Yeats choose the specific form in which he would cast different thematic materials? Did form have ideological meaning to Yeats? Why did some forms persist through his lifetime, and others appear only in one phase? Currently working on the history of Yeats's styles, Helen Vendler will address these and other questions in her lecture. Helen Vendler is the author of many books on poetry, including Seamus Heaney (1998), The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (1997) and Voices and Visions: The Poet in America (1987). Her influential essays have appeared in The New Yorker and the New York Times Book Review. Vendler has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Fulbright Foundation as well as seventeen honorary degrees from universities around the world. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. 7:00 pm, Kane Hall 220. Reception to follow in Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. |
| 7:00 PM | **SEATTLE HUMANITIES FORUM** "From the Missing: A Conversation on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha," a Seattle Humanities Forum. Held in conjunction with the exhibition, The Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982) at the Henry Art Gallery, this panel will focus on the concept of "missing" in Cha's work. How does Cha approach nostalgia, suffering, and loss? In what ways does her work challenge traditional modes of representation? What dilemmas arise from Cha's attempts to speak "from the missing," as the displaced female or the migrant? How does she represent the relationship between the material and the vanished? The panelists will discuss these and other issues surrounding Cha's work. Panelists: Patricia Failing (Art History, UW); Jeanne Heuving, (English and Women's Studies, UW); Ann Sung-hi Lee (Asian Languages and Literature, UW); Yong Soon Min (Studio Art, UC Irvine), Steve Sumida (American Ethnic Studies, UW). $4 general admission. Free for UW students. 7:00 pm, Henry Art Gallery. |
| 7:00 PM | International Studies Lecture "In the Name of the Father: Violence and the Symbolic Structure of the Monotheistic Traditions," Martin Jaffee (Jackson School of International Studies). Part of the Open Classroom Lecture Series. 7:00 pm, Kane Hall 110. Free and open to the public. |
| Friday, January 17 | |
| 2:30 PM | History Lecture "Greeks bearing gifts: Arnold Toynbee and the Koraes Chair," Dr. Richard Clogg (Senior Research Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford). Dr. Richard Clogg, Historian of Modern Greece, is visiting the University of Washington as Stice Lecturer. Sponsored by the Stice Lectureship and the Department of History. 2:30-4:00 pm, Smith 115. |
| 3:30 PM | Philosophy Lecture "Genetic Testing and Disability Rights: Finding Common Ground," Sara Goering (Assistant Professor, California State University-Long Beach). Sponsored by the Program on Values in Society and the Department of Philosophy. 3:30 pm, Savery 249. |