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| Tuesday, April 15 | |
| 1:30 PM | Jewish Studies Colloquium
"Judaic Threads in the West African Tapestry," Labelle Prussin (author of "African Nomadic Architecture: Space, Place, and Gender"). The influence of Judaic traders, scholars, artisans in the gold jewelry and silk embroidery which stretch from the Iberian Peninsula, the Mediterranean and the Near East to North and West Africa. For more information, contact schait@u.washington.edu. 1:30-3:30 pm, Mary Gates Hall 258. |
| 3:30 PM | EMERGE Lecture
"Lights in Space," Daniel Brewer (French and Italian, University of Minnesota). 'Space' became the master metaphor of late 20th-century epistemology. Thus, to know things in a contemporary way means knowing them spatially, that is, removing them from any essentially temporal dynamic and situating them instead in a formal or structural context, analyzing them as discourse, image or representation, and mapping them onto a set of configurations and networks. This talk considers the reality and the notion of space in 18th-century French culture, as well as the space of "the 18th century" as it is produced in varying ways by early modern studies. The guiding question of this talk will be to ask what might constitute an historical understanding of space. Brewer is currently writing a book on the cultural history of Enlightenment in 18th- through 20th-century writing, institutions, and critical theory. He served as founding Director of the University of Minnesota Humanities Institute from 1998-2001. Sponsored by the Center for Western European Studies, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Division of French and Italian Studies, and the Early Modern Research Group (EMERGE). 3:30-5 pm, Communications Building, Room 206. |
| Wednesday, April 16 | |
| 7:00 PM | German Film Series
"Die Dreigroeschenoper / The Three Penny Opera" (Pabst, 1931, based on Bertolt Brecht's play). The 1700's London of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera is transformed in this film-version of the famous musical play from Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. Like the play, the film imagines a fantastic city which is part turn-of-the-century London and part 1920's Berlin. In the underworld of the city, the notorious and cunning gangster Mack the Knife (Mackie Messer) sets his eyes on Polly Peachum without the approval of her father, known as the King of the Beggars for his leadership of the city's vagrant population. This film adaptation traces the confrontation of these figures through the dirty streets, docks, alehouses, and brothels of the city, revealing a world of corruption, power, and beauty which is not far from the brutal world which it reflects. German Film Series, sponsored by the UW Department of Germanics. All films in German with English Subtitles. Full schedule and updates available at: http://staff.washington.edu/jstoff/film.html. 7 pm, Savery 239. |
| Thursday, April 17 | |
| 3:30 PM | Asian Studies Lecture "Classical Ayurveda and Its Modern Practice: Study and Fieldwork of Ayurveda in India and in America," Kenneth Zysk (Head of the Department of Indology, Copenhagen University). This paper takes the form of personal reflections and critical comments on Ayurveda and its modern practice. Zysk shall share what he encountered during fieldwork study of the practical aspects of Ayurveda and shall try to give a general picture of Ayurveda both inside and outside India. The paper will conclude with some observations about "New Age Ayurveda," which is the version of the ancient Indian medical science found in many parts of the Western world. Sponsored by the South Asia Center, Jackson School and the Department of Asian Languages and Literature. For more information, contact sascuw@u.washington.edu or 206-543-4800. 3:30 pm, Denny 307. |
| 7:00 PM | Seattle Humanities Forum "'Nothing Else Seemed Left': The Great Migration as Social Movement," Stephanie M.H. Camp (History, UW). In conjunction with the Seattle Art Museum exhibition, Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence (February 6 - May 4, 2003), Camp will lecture on the historical context of one of Lawrence's foremost subjects. In the early twentieth century, the "Great Migration" of black southerners from a land of slavery and persistent exploitation to a "land of hope" promised meaningful freedom and progress in the history of a people. This lecture will explore some of the principle issues of lynching, segregation, and sharecropping that set black southerners "streaming northward," in the words of one contemporary observer, as well as the opportunities for new lives (and disappointments) in the North that made movement possible. Camp is Assistant Professor of History at UW, where she teaches African American history, the history of slavery and southern U.S. history. Her book on enslaved women's everyday forms of resistance is due out from the University of North Carolina Press in the spring of 2004, and has been supported by a number of national and regional fellowships and grants. Free with museum admission. 7:00 pm, Nordstrom Lecture Hall, Seattle Art Museum, 100 University Street. |
| 7:30 PM | Middle East Center Lecture "The Cultural Politics of Ethnic Authenticity: Bilingual Music-Making in Morocco," Katherine Hoffman (Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago). Sponsored by the Middle East Center, mecuw@u.washington.edu. 7:30 p.m., Music Bldg, room 213. |
| Friday, April 18 | |
| 2:30 PM | Modern Girl Lecture "The 'Primitive' Woman in the Australian Modern Visual Scene," Liz Conor (Independent scholar and Editor, Melbourne, Australia). Part of the Modern Girl Around the World Project (http://depts.washington.edu/its/moderngirl.htm. The series is sponsored by the Center for International Studies, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Institute for Transnational Studies, the Graduate School, the Departments of History, English, Anthropology, Women Studies, French and Italian, the Jackson School for International Studies, the Hilen Endowment, the China Program, the East Asia Center, the South Asia Center, and the Center for West European Studies at the University of Washington. 2:30-5:00 pm, Communications Building 226. |
| Saturday, April 19 | |
| 8:30 AM | Classics Conference "Displaced Dialects: From Local Language to Panehellenic Poetics" This symposium explores the changing nature of the study of Greek dialects from the specialized realm of historical linguistics to a subject around which to organize the discussion of communal identities and literary production. For a full schedule, visit the event website. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Dept. of Classics, and the Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Culture. Free and open to all. 8:30 am - 5 pm, Parrington Forum, Parrington Hall. |