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| Tuesday, February 4 | |
| 12:30 PM | Scandinavian Studies Lecture "New Voices in Contemporary Norwegian Literature," Dr. Ingeborg Kongslien (Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Norwegian as a Second Language at the University of Oslo, Norway). Kongslien earned her cand. phil. degree in 1971 and her dr. philos. in 1987 from the University of Oslo. Her major publication, Draumen om fridom og jord: Ein studies in skandinaviske emigrantromar (The Dream about Freedom and Land: A Study of Scandinavian-American Immigrant Novels), appeared in 1989. She has also co-edited, and contributed to, six volumes of Norwegian-American Studies, published in Norway. Kongslien has written several articles on modern Norwegian literature and has recently established a strong reputation for her work on immigrant and multi-cultural voices in contemporary Norwegian fiction. She has been a visiting professor at Uppsala University and Umea University in Sweden, as well as the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of Chicago in the United States. Sponsored by the Department of Scandinavian Studies. 12:30-1:20 pm, Savery 241. |
| 2:30 PM | Russian Cinema Lecture "Dulled Edges: The Necrotic Male in Late/Post-Soviet Russian Cinema," Jose Alaniz (Comparative Literature, Univ. of California at Berkeley). Alaniz is a candidate for a faculty position in Slavic Languages and Literatures. His dissertation, "Necrotopia: Discourses of Death and Dying in Late/Post-Soviet Russian Culture," examines the cultural uses of death in the works of Vladimir Sorokin, Valery Ronshin, Aleksandr Sokurov, Russian "reality TV" and "Necrorealist" cinema, as well as in the fledgling Russian hospice movement. His forthcoming (2003) publications include "Comfuture," a translation of the short story "Kombud" by Margarita Sharapova; the entry on Russian comics in "The International Encyclopaedia of Comics" (Routledge); and three articles devoted to the British graphic literature author Alan Moore in "The Alan Moore Celebration." His research interests include cinema, disability, comics and environmentalism. Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the The Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Program. For more information, call (206) 543-6848. 2:30 PM, 316 Miller Hall. |
| 3:30 PM | Philosophy Lecture "Epistemic Value Theory and Information Services," Don Fallis (School of Information Resources, University of Arizona). Sponsored by the Dept. of Philosophy. 3:30 PM, Smith 105. |
| 6:00 PM | Art Exhibit and Auction Scholarships for Scholars III: The public is invited to attend a celebratory evening for the School of Art's 1st Year Graduate Student Exhibition, Studio Tours, Alumni Silent Auction and Faculty Experience Silent Auction ending with the grand raffle drawing. For more information, contact Kris Jones at 685-2552 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/teapot. 6:00-8:00pm, Ceramics and Metal Arts Building, 4205 Mary Gates Memorial Drive. |
| 7:30 PM | **NATIVE AMERICAN ART PANEL** "Totem Poles in an Era of Empowerment and Repatriation," with panelists Nathalie Macfarlane (Director, Haida-Gwaii Museum, Skidegate, BC), Nika Collison (Curator, Haida-Gwaii Museum, Skidegate, BC), and Cindy Boyko (Archipelago Management Board, Skidegate, BC, moderated by Moderator: Dr. Robin K. Wright, Curator of Native American Art, Burke Museum; Professor of Art History, UW. Traditionally, the most important moment in the life of a totem pole is the time of its raising and the accompanying potlatch, which proclaim the status and identity of the owners. Poles were then allowed to age naturally in place, and new ones were constantly raised as the old ones decayed. Since the late 19th century, many poles have been removed from their villages -- sometimes sold by their owners and sometimes stolen -- and taken to museums around the world. At the same time, new poles were no longer being carved for a variety of reasons, among them, missionary and other social pressures, and a Canadian law (1885-1951) making potlatching illegal. Since the anti-potlatch law was dropped, many new poles are being raised, and repatriation is now returning some of the poles to tribes. Native communities are regaining control over their cultural properties, which is creating new challenges and new relationships between tribes and museums. This session will present case studies examining some of the issues involved, including 1) the recent repatriation of eight Tlingit poles taken by the Harriman expedition in 1899 and returned to their tribal owners in Cape Fox, Alaska, last year; 2) the repatriation of poles to Haida Gwaii; and 3) the management of the Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve in BC. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information, visit the Burke Museum website. 7:30 pm, Kane Hall 110. %0 |
| Wednesday, February 5 | |
| 7:00 PM | Germanics Film Screening "Die Feuerzangenbowle," Helmut Weiss, 1944. A group of distinguished gentlemen are reminiscing on their school days over a Feuerzangenbowle, a traditional German punch bowl. One of the dignified men, Dr. Hans Pfeiffer, admits that he missed out on the best part of his youth, since he was privately tutored. The group concocts a plan to disguise Pfeiffer as a pupil at a Gymnasium, where he becomes a thorn in the side of his teachers much to the delight of his fellow classmates. In Germany, this Nazi-era comedy has become a cult classic and is viewed at Christmastime, when crowds of students bring props and shout the most memorable lines back at the screen. Shown in German with English subtitles. Sponsored by the Department of Germanics. 7:00 pm, Smith 205. |
| 7:00 PM | **VIDEO DOCUMENTARY SCREENING** "Languages of Emotional Injury": Video Documentary Screening and Conversation. Featuring: Jimmy Santiago Baca (poet), Debra McKinney (journalist), Kathleen Woodward (moderator, Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities), Jeffrey Cantrell (producer), Taso Lagos (director), Adam Welch (editor), Migael Scherer (author), and Roger Simpson (author). Cosponsored by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, the University Bookstore, and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information, call (206) 616-3223. Reception to follow. 7 PM, Kane Hall, Walker Ames Room. |
| Thursday, February 6 | |
| 3:30 PM | China Studies Lecture "Forget Remembering: Gender in China's Rural Collective Past," Gail Hershatter (Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Humanities Research, University of California at Santa Cruz). This talk is drawn from Hershatter's ongoing project The Gender of Memory, which places a doubly marginalized group--rural women--at the center of an inquiry about the cultural history of the 1950s. It draws on in-depth interviews with seventy older women in rural central and south Shaanxi, as well as regional and local policy directives, local records in city and county archives, Women's Federation work reports, and contemporaneous works of literature, art, and reportage about policies that affected women. The turn to oral history as a major source requires a consideration of history, memory, and nostalgia in late twentieth-century China. What was socialism, locally, and for whom? How did gender figure in the creation of socialism? How is it incorporated or repudiated in contemporary narratives? How do memory and nostalgia intersect with official and oppositional history? This talk addresses the conditions under which we can begin to ask about this past. Sponsored by the China Studies Program of the Jackson School of International Studies. 3:30 pm, Communications 202. |
| 3:30 PM | International Studies Lecture "Global Movements of Crops Since the 'Age of Discovery'and Changing Culinary Cultures," Akhil Gupta, (Stanford University). Sponsored by the UW South Asia and International Studies Centers, JSIS, and Dept. of Geography. For more information, contact sascuw@u.washington.edu, 206-543-4800. 3:30 PM, Thomson 317. |
| 4:30 PM | Germanics Lecture "Ingeborg Bachmann and the Cold War," Sarah Lennox (German, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst). For more information, contact the Dept. of Germanics at (206) 543-4580. 4:30 p.m., William H. Rey Library, Denny 308. |
| 7:00 PM | Southeast Asia Event "A Conversation among Writers from Three Sides of the Vietnam War," Tran Van Thuy (International award-winning Vietnamese filmmaker), Truong Vu (Vietnamese war veteran, NASA aerospace engineer, and editorial board member of major Vietnamese langauge journals), Wayne Karlin (former U.S. Marine, author, and professor of langauge and literature, College of Southern Maryland), and moderator Charles F. Keyes (Anthropology and International Studies, UW). Bringing love out of terrible suffering is a theme that runs through many of Tran Van Thuy's award-winning films, a theme that links these writers who witnessed the Vietnam war from different perspectives and now attempt reconciliation through the making of films and the creation of literary works- works that reveal not only the lingering pain and damage of the war, but also the common humanity of former enemies.Their conversation begins with brief film clips from "The Story of Kindness" and "The Sound of the Violin at My Lai" (see Saturday's program), and from "The Song of the Stork", a film that looks at the war through the eyes of the next generation in Vietnam. Reflections by the panelists open out into discussion with the audience. Sponsored by the Southeast Asia Center. 7:00 pm, Kane Hall 210. |
| 7:30 PM | Middle East Center Lecture "The Role of Palestinian Political Reform in Peace Building," Khalil Shikaki (Director, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, Ramallah, Palestine). Sponsored by the Middle East Center of the Jackson School of International Studies. 7:30 pm, Kane Hall 120. |
| 7:30 PM | Asian Literature Lecture "A Close Look at a Gandharan Buddhist Manuscript," Collett Cox (Asian Languages and Literature, UW). Sponsored by the Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project of the Asian Languages and Literature Department. 7:30 PM, UW Faculty Club Conference Room. |
| Friday, February 7 | |
| Europe and Africa Conference "Cultural Transactions, Colonial Relations, National Formations: Africa and Europe." This 2-day workshop brings together Africanists and Europeanists to examine cultural transactions between the two continents since the mid-nineteenth century. Participants will trace not only how Europe figured in the imagination of Africans and vice versa; they will also investigate the uneven flows of specific cultural forms and practices -- including scientific knowledge, museum display, film, fashion, and popular fiction -- between Africa and Europe. Such interactions have been an important part of the colonial, national, and postcolonial experiences of Africans and Europeans. Refer to the full conference schedule for session details. For more information, please contact Uta Poiger at poiger@u.washington.edu. Feb 7-8, The Commons, Parrington Hall. |
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| 10:00 AM | Slide Show on Afghanistan Slide Show on Afghanistan presented by Suzanne Griffin (Dean of General Studies at South Seattle Community College). Griffin received her Ph.D. from the UW College of Education. Before she came to do her doctoral studies here, she worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in Afghanistan. Following the change in regime there last year, she returned to see what had happened to the country in the intervening years, and became involved in several projects there. She'll be presenting a slide show and talk on her expereinces. 10:00 a.m., Smith 205. |
| 2:00 PM | **HUMANITIES LECTURE** "The Industrialization of Bohemia?: Lessons from the New Economy," Andrew Ross (Director of American Studies, New York University). Con Job or Workers Paradise? Drawing on his field studies of New Economy companies over a two-year period, Ross places the humane no-collar workplace in the context of corporate history, and summarizes the lessons about modern work that can be drawn from the experience of their employees. Ross has appeared on "Charlie Rose," "The Today Show," CNN, BBC, Fox, The History Channel and many other television and radio programs. He is the author of six books, including The Celebration Chronicles, No Sweat: Fashion Free Trade and the Rights of Garment Workers, and No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. 2:00 pm, Communications 226. Book-signing to follow. |
| 3:30 PM | **RECASTING ASIA AMERICA** "Eco-Criticism and Asian American Critique: Notes Towards an Intersection," Michael Bennett (English, Long Island University) and Nayna Jhaveri (Geography, UW). Part of the year-long Recasting Asia America lecture series, sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. 3:30 PM, Communications 226. |
| 3:30 PM | Linguistics Colloquium "Classifying butterflies and speech sounds," Peter Ladefoged (UCLA, Linguistics). When classifying butterflies and other species, Linnaeus thought he was revealing the pattern of Nature and thus getting a glimpse of the mind of God. Nevertheless his classification of natural phenomena was similar to that produced by Darwin when outlining evolution. The IPA classification of speech sounds aims to provide symbols for all linguistically relevant sounds in a way that is more related to Linnaeus than Darwin. The symbols represent intersections of categories for, e.g. the place, manner and voicing of possible sounds. Nevertheless the IPA classification has similarities to the Chomsky-Halle feature system, which aims to reveal not the mind of God but the human mind. Another approach to classifying speech sounds is to consider a language as a social institution, an ever-changing property of a society, rather than an abstraction in a speaker's brain. This leads to a similar but slightly different set of categories for describing sounds, one that reflects both the ! auditory and articulatory constraints on a society's language. As a result of these dual constraints, the hierarchy of phonological features cannot be like Linnaean or Darwinian classifications, always branching from a single higher node. In addition the set of classificatory devices can never be fully known. Languages die and appear, and do not fall into systems where everything hangs together. But the natural language constraints sought by linguists provide some order out of chaos. 3:30 PM, Thomson 101. |
| 7:00 PM | **FILM SCREENING** "Letter from an Unknown Woman," 1948 film in English. Presented by Willis Konick and Maxine Nelson (psychoanalytic psychotherapist). 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 PM, Seattle Art Museum. |
| Saturday, February 8 | |
| 12:30 PM | Film Festival A Tran Van Thuy Film Festival. An afternoon of film screenings and discussion with Tran Van Thuy, who will present two of his most well-known films and introduce two others. Films include "The Story of Kindness" (also translated "Decency", or "How to Behave") (52 min), winner of the Silver Dove award at the Leipzig Festival of 1998, "The Sound of the Violin at My Lai" (32 min), winner of "Best Short" in Asia, 1999, "Story from the Corner of a Park" (45 min), and "Thang Keo," a short feature (20 min) which took Vietnam's grand prize for television films in 2002. Sponsored by the Southeast Asia Center. 12:30-4:30 pm, Kane Hall 220. |
| 6:30 PM | Art Lecture "Origins of Iranian Modernism: Visual Arts of the Late Qajar Period," Dr. Layla Diba (Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative arts). 6:30 - 8:00 PM, 210 Kane Hall. Dessert and tea reception to follow in the Walker Ames Room across the hall. |