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| Monday, January 27 | |
| 12:30 PM | Latin American Literature Lecture "Elena, Marian, and the Bougainvillea: The Collaborations of Mariana Yampolsky and Elena Poniatowska," Cynthia Steele (Spanish, Comparative Literature, Women Studies, UW). Steele will be discussing the various books produced jointly, mostly during the 1980s, by the leading Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska and the eminent Mexican photographer Mariana Yampolsky. While sharing an interest in female subjects and popular nationalism, the creative tension in these books comes from the marriage of two radically distinct aesthetic styles: one cool, distanced, modernist and internationalist, concerned with geometric forms and the eloquence of simplicity; and the other passionate, excessive, baroque, eminently mestizo and Mexican. 12:30-1:30 pm, Thomson 215. |
| 2:30 PM | Slavic Languages Lecture "Post-Soviet Laughter Across Genres," Seth Graham (University of Pittsburgh). Mr. Graham is a candidate for a faculty position in the UW Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures. His research has focused on Russian literature, culture and cinema. His dissertation-in-progress, "A Cultural Analysis of the Soviet Anekdot," delves into Russian humor and irony. In addition to numerous articles, Mr. Graham has written and directed three short super-8mm films. For more information, call 206-543-6848. 2:30 p.m., Thomson 125. |
| 3:30 PM | Education Lecture "Modernization of University Education in Russia," Andrey Korovin. Andrey Korovin has taught at the Moscow State Pedagogical University since 1995, where he is now an Assitant Professor. He earned his PhD from MSPU in 1998 in European and American Literature. He specializes in Scandinavian Literature, Theory of Romanticism and Theory of Narrative Genres. 3:30-5:00 pm, Thomson Hall 317. |
| 7:00 PM | Slavic Lecture "Roman Jakobson's Book: Controversial Lectures on the Theory of Literature and Russian Formalism, Brno 1935," Professor Glanc (Director, Slavic and European Studies, Charles University, Prague). Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature and the Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies. 7:00 pm, Commmunications 120. |
| Tuesday, January 28 | |
| 3:30 PM | Philosophy Lecture "Effort and Moral Worth," Kelly Sorenson (Ph.D. candidate, Philosophy, Wesleyan University). Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy. 3:30 pm, Savery 239. |
| 3:30 PM | Pedagogy Colloquium Event "Shouting from the Margins: Practical Approaches to Written Feedback," Lisa Thornhill (English) and Peter Clements (English). In this session, we will discuss pedagogical issues in written response, as well as practical strategies for making the task of commenting less onerous. We will consider, among other things, how we might develop thoughtful reflective practices by investigating the discursive space that exists on the pages of student essays: the relatively closed dialogue between the speech acts embodied in teacher commentary and the response represented in student revision. Participants will be invited (but not required) to share ideas and vent frustrations. Sponsored by the Practical Pedagogy Colloquium. 3:30-5:00 pm, English Graduate Lounge (Padelford B-11). |
| 3:30 PM | Scandinavian Studies Colloquium "Scandinavian Studies in Russian," Andrey Korovin (Moscow Pedagogical State University; Visiting Scholar, UW). Korovin will discuss the history of Scandinavian studies in Russia since the 18th century, the Russian views of Scandinavia, and the organization of university education of Scandinavian studies in Russia. He is the author of 30 articles and the book, Western European and American Romanticism. 3:30 PM, Raitt 314. |
| 7:30 PM | **NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIST PRESENTATION** "Artist Presentation: Robert Davidson." Davidson is one of Canada's most respected and important contemporary artists. A Northwest Coast native of Haida descent, he is a master carver of totem poles and masks and works in a variety of other media as a printmaker, painter and jeweler. He is also a leading figure in the renaissance of Haida art and culture. He has always taken seriously his trusteeship of his Haida knowledge and much of the focus of his life has been in reclaiming both the visual artforms and the old songs and stories. With his younger brother, Reg, he founded the Rainbow Creek Dancers group, which performs at major ceremonies and potlatches. Robert Davidson is best known as an impeccable craftsman whose creative and personal interpretation of traditional Haida form is unparalleled. Davidson will present and discuss his art and the influences on his artistic development, with comments by art historian Dr. Robin K. Wright. For more information, visit the Burke Museum website. 7:30 pm, Kane Hall 120. |
| Wednesday, January 29 | |
| 3:30 PM | Comparative Religion Colloquium "Relics in the Ancient Near East," Scott Noegel (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations). Part of the Colloquium Series, "Territory and Relics." Sponsored by the Comparative Religion Program of the Jackson School of International Studies. Email religion@u.washington.edu for more information. 3:30-5 pm, Communications 202. |
| 7:00 PM | Germanics Film Screening "Run, Lola, Run," Twyker, 1999. Lola (Franka Potente) and Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu) are a Berlin couple who encounter a challenge when Manni has lost the money he was charged with. Both work to acquire 100.000,00 DM in a 20-minute period in order to prevent Manni's death. Lola and Manni navigate through numerous possible courses of action, as Twyker shows how these possible actions, in turn, affect not only the final outcome but differnt characters' destinies themselves. Twyker's "philosophical romance" intersperses cartoons with reality. Shown in German with English subtitles. Sponsored by the Department of Germanics. 7:00 pm, Smith 205. |
| Thursday, January 30 | |
| 12:00 PM | Public Space Forum "Constructing Local-Global Communities: Transforming Local Memories and Identities in the Process of Building Global Cities: Case Studies of Shanghai and Beijing," Shenglin Chang (University of Maryland) and John Liu (National Taiwan University). Part of the forum series, "Public Spaces and the Public Sphere: Multidisciplinary Inquiries into Urban Change in the Asia Pacific." For more information, see the website at http://depts.washington.edu/tayloruw/publics.htm. Sponsored by the Institute for Transnational Studies. 12-1:30 pm, Gould Hall 100. |
| 3:30 PM | **EMERGE LECTURE** "Knights, Demons, and False Gardens: The New World and Early Modern Symbolic Landscapes," Jorge Canizares Esguerra (History, SUNY Buffalo). Part of the Early Modern Research Group (EMERGE) 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. Caņizares-Esguerra is among the leading scholars of Atlantic World history and the author of the award-winning "How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" (Stanford, 2001). His present research explores "nature narratives" in early modern Europe and America. His lecture will explore chivalry in the Americas as a discourse of conquest of nature. Chivalry permeated the views of all participants in the project of colonization, not merely those of Spanish and Portuguese origin, as is often argued. Caņizares will demonstrate how chivalry helped frame early modern perceptions of space and nature in America, saturating practices and discourses as dissimilar as navigation, landscape painting, cosmography, political philosophy, and missionary work. 3:30-5 pm, Communications 226. Reception to follow. |
| 3:30 PM | Human Rights Lecture "Human Rights, Political Culture, and the Recent Elections in Kenya," Mutuma Ruteere (Human Rights Activist and Scholar). Ruteere, a graduate of Moi University and the University of Essex, is the author of numerous reports on human rights in Kenya, including *Shackled Messengers: The Media in Multiparty Kenya* and *Mission to Repress: Torture, Illegal Detentions and Extra-judicial Executions in Kenya*. He has worked with the *Nairobi Law Monthly*, The Media Institute, and, from 1997 to 2002, as the Head of Research at the Kenya Human Rights Commission. Mr. Ruteerešs talk will focus on the politics of human rights change and their role in ensuring free elections and the recent political transition in Kenya. Sponsored by the UW Program on Africa & the UW Comparative Law and Society Studies Center. 3:30-5 pm, Smith 404. |
| 3:30 PM | China Studies Lecture "White Hats, Oilcakes, and Common Blood: The Local and the National Among the Hui," Jonathan Lipman (History, Mount Holyoke College). Sponsored by the China Studies Program/JSIS. For more information, call (206) 543-4391. 3:30 - 5:00 PM, Thomson 317. |
| 7:00 PM | **TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES LECTURE** "Out of the West: Intimacies of Four Continents," Lisa Lowe, (Literature, University of California, San Diego). Aiming to rethink the conditions for the emergence of modern humanism, Lowe situates modern definitions of the "human" that depended on distinctions between the "free" and "unfree," within the global context of colonialism, slavery, migration and indentureship. Building on the work of C. L. R. James, W. E. B. DuBois and others, the "intimacies of four continents" names the connections between African and Asian migrations to the Americas and the rise of bourgeois societies in Europe and North America. This talk is presented as part of the Transnational Studies Project's Transnational Times, Transnational Literacies Lecture Series. Sponsored by the Transnational Studies Reading Group. Co-sponsored by the Hilen Endowment for American Literature and Culture and the Departments of English and Asian Languages and Literatures. 7:00 pm, Communications 120. |
| 7:00 PM | Korea Studies Lecture "The KEDO and the North Korean Nuclear Crisis: How We Got Here?," Ambassador Charles Kartman. Sponsored by Institute for Global and Regional Security Studies (IGRRS) and the Korean Studies Program of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. For more information, call (206) 543-4391. 7:00 pm, Kane Hall 210. |
| Friday, January 31 | |
| 12:30 PM | Asian Literature Lecture "Confronting the Past: the Stalin Years in Current Uzbek Literature," Ilse D. Cirtautas (Near Eastern Languages & Civilization/Central Asian Studies Group, UW). 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 Denny Hall. |
| 3:30 PM | **TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES WORKSHOP** "Out of the West: Intimacies of Four Continents," Lisa Lowe, (Literature, University of California, San Diego). Sponsored by the Transnational Studies Reading Group. Co-sponsored by the Hilen Endowment for American Literature and Culture and the Departments of English and Asian Languages and Literatures. 3:30 pm, Communications 202. Reception following. |
| 3:30 PM | Japan Studies Colloquium "Profiteering Women and Primitive Communists: Propriety and Scandal in Interwar Japanese Studies of Okinawa," Alan Christy (History, University of California at Santa Cruz). A paper by Professor Christy on this topic is available at the East Asia Library. Sponsored by the Japan Studies Program. 3:30 pm, Thomson 202. |
| 7:00 PM | **FILM SCREENING** "La Signora di Tutti (Everybody's Lady)," a 1934 film in Italian with English subtitles. Presented by Albert Sbragia and Terrill Gibson. Part of the Friday evening series, "Luminous Psyche: Selected Films of Max Ophuls," at the Seattle Art Museum. Presented by the Northwest Psychoanalytic Film Study Group, in conjunction with Cinema Seattle "Talking Pictures." The film will be followed by a presentation meant to encourage thoughtful dialogue from audience members. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the UW Cinema Studies Department, the Henry Art Gallery, and others. See luminouspsyche.org for more information. Tickets are available through the Seattle Art Museum box office (206-654-3121). 7-10 pm, Seattle Art Museum. 7:00 p.m., Plestcheeff Auditorium, Seattle Art Museum. |