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| Monday, February 24 | |
| 2:00 PM | Korean Studies Lecture "Tradition and Korean Development: The Forgotten Variable," Yong-Chool Ha (Political Science, Seoul National University). Sponsored by the Korea Studies Program/JSIS. For more information, call 543-4391. 2:00-3:20 PM, Communications 202. |
| Tuesday, February 25 | |
| 1:30 PM | China Studies Lecture "A Gender-Egalitarian Society in a Patriarchal State: An Ethnographic Study of the Lahu People of Southwest China," Shanshan Du (Department of Anthropology, Tulane University). Sponsored by the China Studies Program/JSIS. For more information, call 543-4391. 1:30-3:00 PM, 317 Thomson. |
| 7:30 PM | NATIVE AMERICAN ART LECTURE "Museums and Native Artists: A Vision for the Future," Dr. George MacDonald (Director, Burke Museum). MacDonald is internationally recognized as a visionary leader in the museum profession, having more than two decades of experience in developing and transforming major museums. He began his academic research career here in the Pacific Northwest, with archaeological studies of Native village sites in British Columbia and Alaska and in years of working with Indian elders and artists to understand, interpret, and display their work. Through a distinguished series of exhibitions and educational programs, he developed "a strong interest in seeing exhibits in museums that effectively change the public image of indigenous peoples." In this presentation, he will briefly review the historical relationship of museums and Northwest Coast Native peoples and project a role for that relationship in the future. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information, visit the Burke Museum website. 7:30 pm, Kane Hall 120. |
| Wednesday, February 26 | |
| 1:00 PM | Art and Diaspora Discussion "Othello, Emperors, and Political Art in Japanese Cultural Studies," an informal roundtable discussion about the work of the Art and Diaspora Work Group, an international art research team. Featuring Rebecca Jennison (feminism and cultural studies activist and scholar), Yasuko Ikeuchi (organizer of the Kyoto Group for Byun Young Joo's "Murmuring"), and Megumi Kitahari (author of "Art Activism"). Sponsored by the Project for Critical Asian Studies and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. 1-3 pm, Communications 206. |
| 3:30 PM | SEATTLE HUMANITIES FORUM "At Peace With Evil: The Liebe Perla Project." A screening of the film "Liebe Perla" followed by a public Q & A forum. Forum panelists include: Mary Abrams (Nursing), Constantin Behler (Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Bothell), Tanis Doe (Disability Studies, University of Victoria, British Columbia), and Michael Goldberg (Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Bothell). Moderator: Michael Chemers (Independent scholar). Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and many other organizations. Free and open to the public. 3:30 pm (film screening), and 4:30 pm (public Q & A Forum), followed by a reception. Room UW 2-003, UW Bothell. |
| 4:00 PM | Practical Pedagogy Colloquium " 'You Can't Say That!': Discussing Explicit Materials in the Classroom," Gillian Harkins (English) and Kim Emmons (Language & Rhetoric). Sex. Incest. Profanity. How can these topics be handled sensitively and intelligently in the classroom? What happens when words make us uncomfortable? How can students learn to address these issues in literature and language classrooms? How do we ensure that individual students are not silenced in these discussions? Please join us for an interactive discussion of these broad questions. Sponsored by the Practical Pedagogy Colloquium of the Department of English. 4:00 pm, Communications 202. |
| 4:00 PM | Crossdisciplinary Research Presentations The Crossdisciplinary Research Initiative for UW Associate Professors presents informal presentations by research teams. Featuring: "Contingent Subjects: Gender, Place and the Construction of Meaning," by Lou Cabeen (Art) and Martha Kingsbury (Art History). "Restive Eros: Poetic Possession and Dispossession in the 20th Century," Jeanne Heuving (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW-Bothell) and Stephen Hinds (Classics). "Citizenship Formation and Historical Memory in the Wake of 9-11," Katharyne Mitchell (Geography) and Walter Parker (College of Education). Sponsored by The Simpson Center for the Humanities. 4:00 pm, Communications 206. |
| 5:30 PM | Japanese Design Lecture "Toward Sustainable Community Development: Community Design in Japan," Isami Kinoshita and Sawako Ono (Chiba University, Japan). Part of the Global Classrooms Projects - supported by the Office of Undergraduate Education. For more information, contact 543-7225. 5:30 PM, Gould 322 |
| 7:00 PM | Germanics Film Series "Oberst Redl (Colonel Redl), 1984. An interesting German-language account of Alfred Redl, a carrer-oriented soldier from a working-class background, who rises to a leadership position in the pre-World War I Austro-Hungarian Army. His working-class background is further complicated by Jewish-Catholic roots. The story is based on the actual Colonel Alfred Redl and on John Osborne's play 'A Patriot for Me.' The film appears to be a Hungarian production (directed by István Szabó) with German actors, set mostly in Prague. Shown in German with English subtitles. Sponsored by the Department of Germanics. 7:00 pm, Smith 205. |
| Thursday, February 27 | |
| 3:30 PM | EMERGE LECTURE "Ottoman Views of the West before Westernization: Beyond the Tyranny of Gratuitous Comparison," Cemal Kafadar (Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University). What was the place and role of "the Franks," or of Western Europe, in Ottoman thought before the self-conscious emulation of western ways in the nineteenth century? Did the Ottomans have any interest in learning about developments in early modern Europe? What were the channels of information and the cultural filters through which it was processed? Kafadar's talk will explore certain aspects of these questions as part of larger issues related to Ottoman identity and xenology. Kafadar is the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. He is interested in the social and cultural history of the Middle East and southeastern Europe in the early modern era, and teaches seminars on archival research and on popular culture. His latest publication is Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995). Sponsored by: The Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Early Modern Research Group, the Departments of History, Near Eastern Languages & Civilization, and the Middle East Center. This event is 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. 3:30-5 pm, Communications 226. |
| 3:30 PM | China Studies Lecture "Foreign Maritime Communities in Middle Period China (750-1450): A Preliminary Overview," John W. Chaffee (Professor of History and Director, Asian and Asian American Studies Program, Binghamton University, SUNY). 3:30 pm, Communications 206. |
| 3:30 PM | Women Studies Lecture "Counter-history: 'Memory' of Korean 'Military Comfort Women' Survivors," Hyunah Yang (Visiting Scholar from Seoul National University). Tang will be discuss her work as a prosecutor in the Joint Prosecutors Team of North and South Korea for the Women's International War Crime Tribunal on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery and as Director of the Korean Testimony team. Spnsored by the Department of Women Studies and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. 3:30-5 pm, Smith 115. |
| 6:00 PM | SEATTLE HUMANITIES FORUM "At Peace With Evil: The Liebe Perla Project." A screening of the film "Liebe Perla," followed by a public Q & A forum. Panel forum will feature Sarah Bryant-Bertell (Germanics and Drama), Eleanor Corner (WA State Holocaust Education and Resource Center), Tanis Doe (Disability Studies, University of Victoria), and Sarah Stein (History and International Studies, UW). Michael Chemers (Independent Scholar) will moderate the panel. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and multiple co-sponsoring organizations. 6 pm film screening, 7 pm public forum, followed by a reception. 110 Kane Hall. |
| Friday, February 28 | |
| 10:30 AM | Disability Studies Workshop "Introduction to Disability Studies" workshop hosted by Tanis Doe (Disability Studies, University of Victoria, BC). Open to all interested faculty, students, staff and librarians. For more information and to sign up for disability studies workshops, please contact Dr. Michael Chemers, Project Director at m.chemers@attbi.com. 10:30 am-12:00 pm, UW Bothell. |
| 11:30 AM | ENGLISH LECTURE "Literary Histories as Fictions of Collective Cultural Memory," Herbert Grabes (English and American Literature, University of Giessen, Germany). Since 1970, Grabes has held a chair in English and American literature at the University of Giessen and has been a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin and Simon Frazer University. The co-editor of REAL, Grabes has published widely on English Renaissance literature and 20th-century American literature and theory. Currently he is engaged in a research project centering on canon making and the construction of national identity through the writing of national literary histories. Light lunch provided. 11:30 am, Communications 206. |
| 1:30 PM | Disability Studies Workshop "Introduction to Disability Studies" workshop hosted by Tanis Doe (Disability Studies, University of Victoria, BC). Open to all interested faculty, students, staff and librarians. For more information and to sign up for disability studies workshops, please contact Dr. Michael Chemers, Project Director at m.chemers@attbi.com. 1:30-2:45 pm, Communications 206. |
| 3:00 PM | THINKING SEX WORKSHOP "Queer of Color Critique, Historical Materialism, and Canonical Sociology," Roderick Ferguson (American Studies, University of Minnesota). In this workshop, Ferguson will discuss the introduction to his forthcoming book, "Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique" (Minnesota Press, 2003). This work advances queer of color analysis as a genealogical and materialist interrogation of nonheteronormative racial formations. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. Call 543-3920 to register. For more information, visit the project web site. 3 pm, Communications 206. |
| 3:30 PM | Linguistics Colloquium "Amalgam: A machine learned generation module," Eric Ringger and Michael Gamon (Microsoft Research, NLP). Amalgam is a novel system developed in the Natural Language Processing group at Microsoft Research for sentence realization during natural language generation. Sentence realization is the process of converting a semantic representation (in our case a logical form graph) into a fluent text string. Amalgam transforms a given logical form graph through a series of machine-learned and knowledge-engineered stages into a syntactic representation from which an output sentence is read. Amalgam constrains the search for a fluent sentence realization by following a linguistically informed approach that includes such component steps as labeling of phrasal projections, raising, ordering of elements within a constituent, and extraposition of relative clauses. We will discuss the overall architecture, with particular attention to the use of machine learning techniques for identifying appropriate linguistic contexts for each operation of interest. To date we have focused our research on sentence realization for German and French, particularly in the context of the ongoing research into machine translation at MSR NLP. Sponsored by the Department of Linguistics. 3:30 pm, Thomson 101. |
| 3:30 PM | Germanics Lecture "Death and Empire NS-Architecture and 'Stripped Classicism'," Dieter Schirmer (DAAD Professor of Government, Cornell University). Sponsored by the Department of Germanics. 3:30 pm, William H. Rey Library, Denny 308. |
| 4:00 PM | Japan Studies Lecture "Ashikaga Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion," Donald Keene (Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature, Columbia University). Keene was the first non-Japanese to receive the Yomiuri Literary Prize for the best book of literary criticism in Japanese (awarded in 1985 for the original Japanese version of Travellers of a Hundred Ages). He has published approximately 25 books in English, consisting of studies of Japanese literature and culture, translations of Japanese works of bothclassical and modern literature, and edited works. Keene's Japanese publications include approximately 30 books, some written originally in Japanese, others translated from English. His latest publications include a biography of Emperor Meiji in two volumes and the English text, Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912. Sponsored by the Japan Studies Program/JSIS. For more information, call (206) 543-4391. 4-5:30 pm, Faculty Club, lower level. |
| 6:00 PM | Latin American Studies Event "Unsilencing the Voices: A Fundraiser for LAS." The night will include a variety of entertainment ranging from poetry, music (both live and DJ), visual art, and comedy. Suggested donation is $8.00 (donations are tax deductible). Presale tickets are available for $6.00 by contacting the LAS office at lasuw@u.washington.edu. All ages are welcome. Beer and wine will be available (21+ with ID). For more information consult the LAS website at http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/latinam/ or email the LAS Program Office. If you wish to become involved in the fundraiser by way of performing, donating services, or volunteering, please contact the LAS office as soon as possible and describe in what way you would like to become involved. 6:00pm-2:00 am, Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave., for directions please consult www.hugohouse.org. |
| 7:00 PM | FILM SCREENING "Lola Montes," 1955 film in French with English subtitles. Presented by Helene Collins and Judy Eekhoff. 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. |