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| Monday, February 10 | |
| 3:30 PM | Social Science Lecture "George W. Bush Discovers Rhetoric: September 11, 2001 and the U. S. Response to Terrorism," David Zarefsky (Owen L. Coon Professor of Communication, Northwestern University). Zarefsky will discuss the rhetorical choices made by President George W. Bush in his speeches following September 11, 2001 and their aftermath. Do the rhetorical choices a President makes in a time of crisis constrain what can be said and done later? This is the question that is a central concern of Zarefsky's analysis. Zarefsky is the recipient of the 1986 and 1991 Winans-Wichelns Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address and has been named a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association. His publications include President Johnson's War on Poverty: Rhetoric and History (1986); Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate (1990); Rhetorical Movement: Essays in Honor of Leland M. Griffin (editor, 1993). Sponsored by the Earl and Edna Stice Lectureship in Social Science. 3:30 - 5:00 p.m., Communications 104. |
| 3:30 PM | Russian Studies Lecture "Modernization of University Education in Russia," Andrey Korovin (Moscow State Pedagogical University). Korovin earned his PhD from the Moscow State Pedagogical University in 1998 in European and American Literature, and has taught there since 1995. He specializes in Scandinavian Literature, Theory of Romanticism and Theory of Narrative Genres. 3:30-5:00 PM, 317 Thomson Hall. |
| 7:00 PM | **SEATTLE HUMANITIES FORUM** "Inventions: A Public Discussion of the role of the Imagination in Our Lives and Work," a Seattle Humanities Forum. Creators across diverse disciplines will come together in a public discussion of the role of the imagination in our lives and work. This evening forum will be created in collaboration with the Simpson Center for the Humanities, Bellevue Community College, and Richard Hugo House. The discussion is part of a national initiative spearheaded by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in collaboration with ten other US cities. Each city will sponsor one or more public forums investigating the ways the imagination is used, honed, and nurtured in all areas of life. Panelists: "The Laboratory Imagination," Rebecca Lemov (History and Anthropology,UW); "The Architectural Imagination," Roxanne Hamilton (Landscape Architecture, UW); "The Poetic Imagination," Frances McCue (Richard Hugo House); "The Cinematic Imagination," Michael Korolenko (Media, Communication & Technology, Bellevue Community College). 7 pm, Richard Hugo House. |
| Tuesday, February 11 | |
| 12:30 PM | AIDS Talk "Medical Adventures in West Africa," Dr. Nancy Kiviat (Chair, Department of Pathology, Harborview Medical Center). Dr. Kiviat will share with us her ongoing research on cancer and AIDS among men and women in Senegal. Dr. Kiviat, who took a UW Masters in French and Chinese before tranferring to UW's medical school, has worked in Senegal for the past 20 years, focusing on new approaches to sexually transmitted diseases. Her talk will be geared to a non-medical audience. 12:30-1:20 pm, Mary Gates Hall 258. |
| 7:00 PM | **THINKING SEX LECTURE** "Sex and Political Economy:Sexuality, the State, and Nation-Building," Jacqui Alexander (Gender and Women's Studies, Connecticut College). Thinking Sex in Transnational Times is a year-long series of free public lectures that explores sex across different epistemologies, spaces, regions, epochs, and disciplines. Jacqui Alexander's lecture will focus upon the most recent practices of militarization with the neoimperial U.S. state and the ways in which sexuality is indispensable in the production of the 'citizen patriot,' the 'enemy' and 'military masculinity.' It will draw out some of the political/intellectual challenges we face as we think about sex in transnational times. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Departments of English and Women Studies, Hilen Endowment in American Literature and Culture, and The Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program. A workshop with Alexander is scheduled on February 13. For more information about the series, see www.uwch.org/thinkingsex. 7:00 pm, Communications 226. |
| 7:30 PM | **NATIVE AMERICAN ART PANEL** "The Indian Arts and Crafts Law," with panelists Robert Anderson (Director, Native American Law Center and Associate Professor of Law, UW), Roxanne Chinook (Director, Art Marketing Program, Northwest Indian College), and Preston Singletary (Tlingit artist), moderated by James Nason, Curator of New World Ethnology at the Burke Museum and Professor of Anthropology, UW. The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 is described by the Department of the Interior, which administers it, as "essentially a truth-in-advertising law designed to prevent marketing products as 'Indian made' when the products are not, in fact, made by Indians as defined by the Act." While the law does address an ongoing concern of Indian communities in the U.S. and Canada, it is also another federal law that defines who is and who is not Indian without reference to a definition developed by Native organizations. It has required both artists and gallery owners to consider ethnicity in ways they have not before. Their views, and those of legal and academic experts, will be presented by this panel as it addresses the "Indianness" of Indian art from a variety of perspectives. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information, visit the Burke Museum website. 7:30 pm, Kane Hall 110. |
| Wednesday, February 12 | |
| 3:30 PM | Classics Lecture "What is a Book of Epigrams [Martial I]?" William Fitzgerald (Classics, Univ. of California, Berkeley). Fitzgerald, who teaches Classics at the Univ, of California, Berkeley, previously taught at UC San Diego. His BA is from Oxford University (1975) and his PhD from Princeton (1981). Fitzgerald is one of the leading critics of Latin poetry in his generation, and also a major figure at the intersection between Classics and Comparative Literature. His books include Agonistic Poetry: the Pindaric Mode in Pindar, Horace, Ho"lderlin and the English Ode (California 1987), Catullan Provocations: Lyric Poetry and the Drama of Position (California 1995), and Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination (Cambridge 2000 [Roman Literature and its Contexts]). Fitzgerald is currently writing a book on Martial. Sponsored by the Department of Classics. 3:30 pm, Balmer Hall room 416. Reception to follow (Denny Hall 215A). |
| 5:30 PM | Binge Festival This year's Binge Festival will include a variety of theatrical performances, including: one-act plays, poetry, movement and songs. The Binge Festival provides undergraduates an opportunity to write, direct and perform original works and view the work of other theater activities. Come support their efforts and be a part of the creative process. The cost for each performance is just $5 at the door. Sponsored by the Undergraduate Theatre Society. February 12, 13, and 15 at 5:30 pm. |
| 7:00 PM | Germanics Film Screening "Heisser Sommer," Joachim Hasler, 1968 DEFA. With the arrival of summer, East German teens head in droves for the beach. While hitchhiking their way to the Baltic Sea, a group of twelve girls from Leipzig encounters a "collective" of eleven boys from Karl-Marx-City. Playful competition between the two groups turns to flirtation and, for three of the characters, love. This musical, which stars two of East Germany's top "Schlager" singers, was one of the most popular films to come out of the GDR and received renewed cult status after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Shown in German with English subtitles. Sponsored by the Department of Germanics. 7:00 pm, Smith 205. |
| Thursday, February 13 | |
| 12:30 PM | Anthropology Lecture "Life in an Uighur mahalla: Men's and Women's Gatherings," William Clark, (Visiting Scholar, Anthropology, UW). 12:30-1:30 PM, 215 Denny Hall. |
| 3:00 PM | **THINKING SEX WORKSHOP** Workshop with Jacqui Alexander (Gender and Women's Studies, Connecticut College) on "Sexuality, the State, and Nation-Building" in connection with her February 11 lecture. To register for this workshop contact the Simpson Center for the Humanities at (206) 543-3920. For more information, visit www.uwch.org/thinkingsex. 3:00 pm, Communications 206. |
| 7:30 PM | International Studies Lecture "Iraq Crisis and Turkey," Soner Cagaptay (Soref Fellow/Coordinator, Turkish Research Program, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy). Sponsors: Center for Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution, International Studies Center, Middle East Studies Center. Admission free, no tickets required. For information, please contact Resat Kasaba (206)543-6890 or kasaba@u.washington.edu. 7:30 PM, Kane Hall 210. |
| Friday, February 14 | |
| 12:00 PM | **DIGITAL MEDIA WORKING GROUP** "Beyond Formalism: Thoughts on New Media and Race in Post-World War II Culture," Tara McPherson (Gender Studies and Critical Studies, School of Cinema-TV, University of Southern California). McPherson teaches courses in television, new media, and contemporary popular culture. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals and edited anthologies. She is co-editor, along with Henry Jenkins and Jane Shattuc, of Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture and author of Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Place and Femininity in the Deep South, both forthcoming from Duke. She is also currently co-editing two anthologies on new technology, was co-organizer of the 1999 conference, Interactive Frictions, and is a founder and co-organizer of the Race in Digital Space conference and exhibit series. In this lecture, she will consider the ways in which the formal structures of new technologies enact a particular mode of visibility, especially in terms of race, inextricably linking form and meaning. 12-1:20 pm, Communications 104. |
| 12:30 PM | International Studies Lecture "Limits of Turkish Citizenship: Immigration Policies of Interwar Turkey," Soner Cagaptay (Soref Fellow/Coordinator, Turkish Research Program, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy). Sponsors: Center for Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution, International Studies Center, Middle East Center. For information, please contact Resat Kasaba at (206)543-6890. 12:30-2:00 PM, Communications 202 (Simpson Center Seminar Room). |
| 3:30 PM | Black History Month Lecture "Philosophy and Race: The Whiteness of Being," Charles Mills (Philosophy, University of Illinois). Mills' main research interests are in radical and opposional polical theory, particularly around issues of class, gender, and race. He has published numerous articles on Marxism, critical race theory, and African-American philosophy, and has two books on race from Cornell University Press: The Racial Contract (1997) and Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (1998). A past Fellow of the UIC Institute for the Humanities, Mills is currently a UIC University Scholar (1999-2002). He is now working on a third book, scheduled to appear in Rowman & Littlefield's "New Critical Theory" series, and tentatively titled From Critical Class Theory to Critical Race Theory. 3:30 PM, Savery Hall, Room 239. |
| 7:00 PM | **FILM SCREENING** "The Earrings of Madame De," 1953 film in French with English subtitles. Presented by Kathleen Murphy (film critic and teacher)and Donald Ross. 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. 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. |
| Sunday, February 16 | |
| 2:00 PM | **SEATTLE HUMANITIES FORUM** "Chinese Cosmopolitan Culture in the Interwar Period," Fan Yu-Wen (Taiwan soprano: performer, teacher, recording artist, and music expert). This forum will be held at the Frye Museum, and will include a recital of Chinese art songs of the 1920s and 30s by Taiwan soprano Fan Yu-Wen, followed by a panel discussion with her, Professor Kaz Poznanski (Jackson School of International Studies), and others. This forum will be held in conjunction with the Frye Exhibit of the paintings of Chinese-American painter Teng Hiok Chiu. The theme of the exhibit, the recital, and the discussion is the adoption of Western forms and contents by Chinese artists and composers in the "first wave" of cosmopolitan culture influence in China before World War II. Sponsored by the Frye Museum, the China Studies Program of the Jackson School of International Studies, and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. Free and open to the public. 2 PM, Frye Art Museum auditorium. |