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| Monday, April 28 | |
| 9:30 AM | Feminism X Fundamentalisms Symposium "Feminisms X Fundamentalisms in South Asia Symposium," featuring a keynote address by Professor Tanika Sarkar (Jawahar Lal Nehru University). The symposium seeks to address the following themes: Religious fundamentalisms, transformations in state formations, and the rapid globalization of national economies and mass media have led south Asian feminists to radically interrogate their conceptual frameworks and practices. The symposium will spotlight recent scholarship that frames discussions of religion, culture, and politics in contemporary south Asia through a gender-lens. It asks how such a questioning can be intellectually and politically enabling. Though contemporary south Asia is the ground from which the symposium speaks, the research and ideas presented will cross intellectual and national political/ religious/ cultural divides by dismantling those boundaries and evoking connections to other sites. RSVP required for some sessions. Full details are available by contacting the South Asia Center at (206)543-4800, sascuw@u.washington.edu, and on the symposium web site. Sponsored by: South Asia Center, Center for Women and Democracy, Project for Critical Asian Studies, Jackson School of International Studies, Simpson Center for the Humanities, Institute for Transnational Studies, and the Department of Women Studies at the University of Washington. All day event, Peterson Room, Allen Library. |
| 12:00 PM | Anti-War Arts Fair The Anti-War Arts Fair will feature dance, music, puppetry, spoken word, and open-mic events in opposition to war. Attendees will have the opportunity to add to a public mural and make art expressing their feelings about the impacts of war on society. All viewpoints welcome. 12 - 3 pm, Red Square, UW campus. |
| 1:30 PM | Humanities Lecture "Autobiography's Wounds: Jamaica Kincaid, Generational Trauma, and the Literary Witness," Leigh Gilmore (English, Ohio State University). This talk considers how Jamaica Kincaid's recent autobiographical fiction and nonfiction might contribute an extra-legal, non-confessional discourse to transnational feminist and human rights projects that value first-person testimony. Leigh Gilmore, Professor of English at Ohio State University, is a Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A scholar of 20th-century American literature and culture, autobiography, and feminist theory, Gilmore is the author of The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony (Cornell University Press, 2001) and Autobiographics: A Feminist Theory of Women's Self-Representation (Cornell University Press, 1994). Gilmore received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington. This is the final lecture in "Humanities on the Move: A Lecture Series." Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. 1:30 pm, Communications 226. |
| 3:30 PM | REECAS event "Belief and Knowledge in Islamic Central Eurasia: The Northern Tier in the 18th and 19th Centuries," Dr Edward Lazzerini (Indiana University). Edward Lazzerini (Ph.D., University of Washington, 1973) is a Professor of Central Eurasian History at the Central Eurasian Studies Department, Indiana University and has recently become the Indiana University Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center's Associate Director. Author of The Chinese Revolution and co-editor with Daniel R. Brower of Russia's Orient, Dr. Lazzerini has written extensively on the history of Central Eurasia's major Turkic peoples, particularly their cultural and intellectual evolution since the eighteenth century as adherents to Islam and adaptation to Russian and Chinese imperial expansion. Courses taught include Russia Under the Old Regime, History of the Soviet Union, China During the Warring States, Modern China, Travelers and History, Central Asia and the History of Eurasia, and Historical Methods and Cultural Geography. He was creator and director of the Asian Studies Program, the Critical Languages Program, and the Historical Cartography Project. Sponsored by the Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Program (REECAS) at the University of Washington. 3:30-6:00 pm, Parrington Forum (Room 307). |
| 3:30 PM | Classics Lecture "Virgil and History," Michael Putnam (Classics, Brown University). Putnam has taught at Brown University since 1960 and also serves on the Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies. A reader of exceptional talent, he was among the first to apply techniques of 'new criticism' to classical philology, and his work has been a major shaping influence upon Latin poetic studies from the 1960s until the present day. Prof. Putnam is known above all for his publications on Virgil, from The Poetry of the Aeneid (1965) and Virgil's Pastoral Art (1970) to Virgil's Epic Designs: Ekphrasis in the Aeneid (1998). No less influential is his work on Horace's later lyric poetry, from Artifices of Eternity: Horace's Fourth Book of Odes (1986) to Horace's Carmen Saeculare (2000). Prof. Putnam is a former President of the APA (whose Goodwin Award he won in 1971); he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Trustee of the American Academy in Rome. Sponsored by the Department of Classics. 3:30 pm, 216 Denny Hall. |
| 3:30 PM | Feminism X Fundamentalisms Lecture "Theologizing the Female Body: Location of Gender in Hindu Militarism," Tanika Sarkar (History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi). Keynote address of the Feminism X Fundamentalisms Symposium (April 27-28). Full details are available by contacting the South Asia Center at (206)543-4800, sascuw@u.washington.edu, and on the symposium web site. 3:30-5:00 pm, Peterson Room, Allen Library. |
| 3:30 PM | Japan Studies Lecture "Parody and Satire of Blood Revenge in Kabuki," Laurence Kominz (Professor and Director, Institute for Asian Studies, Portland State University and Editor, The Asian Theatre Journal). In traditional Japanese warrior society, and on the traditional Japanese stage, no secular act was as heroic, even sacrosanct, as the successful resolution of a legitimate vendetta. At the same time, in the Edo period (1600-1867), numerous plays were written poking fun at heroic avengers, mocking their virtuous, violent deeds. Prof. Kominz examines how and why the Japanese parodied and satirized their greatest culture heroes on the kabuki stage, examining representative works that range from Chikamatsu in the 1690s to avant-garde dramatist Noda Hideki in 2001. Sponsored by Department of Asian Languages & Literature and the Japan Studies Program. 3:30-5:00 pm, Communications 202. |
| 4:00 PM | History of Science Colloquia "Anatomy of a Dispute: Leonardo on Word and Image" Monica Azzolini. Refreshments and conversation begin at 3:30 pm. 4 pm, Smith 102. |
| 7:00 PM | Reading and Slide Presentation "Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land," Subhankar Banerjee (photographer). The Arctic Refuge is the calving grounds for the Porcupine Caribou--the heart and culture of the First Nations of Canada's Yukon, Northwest Territories and Alaska. For two decades the Gwich'in People have fought to prevent oil and gas development in the Arctic. Renowned photographer Subhankar Banerjee spent two years capturing the year-round story of the landscape, animals, plants, birds, and people of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In his striking new book, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land, Banerjee documents the necessity to preserve this unique region, which Native people refer to as "The Sacred Place Where Life Begins," in its pristine state. Banerjee will show slides from the book, and discuss the hazards that face the ANWR. Book signing will follow the presentation. Co-sponsored by the Canadian Studies Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies; the University Book Store, Mountaineers Books, and Blue Earth Alliance. Tickets are FREE, but required for this event. You may pick up tickets at any University Book Store location. 7 pm, Kane Hall, Rm. 110. |
| Tuesday, April 29 | |
| 10:00 AM | Anti-War Arts Fair The Anti-War Arts Fair will feature dance, music, puppetry, spoken word, and open-mic events in opposition to war. Attendees will have the opportunity to add to a public mural and make art expressing their feelings about the impacts of war on society. All viewpoints welcome. 10 am - 3 pm, Red Square, UW campus. |
| 2:30 PM | Latin American Studies Lecture "The Brazilian Workers' Party Rise to Power," Lucilene Lira Whitesell (field organizer/labor educator for the Evergreen State College Labor Education Center, Olymia: coordinator, Annual Summer School for Union Women). Whitesell is currently working on the following issues: young workers in the labor movement, immigrant rights, community organizing to stop the war on Iraq , and creating a Regional Social Forum based on the experience of the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil in which more than 100,000 from all over the world participate in January of this year. Ms. Whitesell is originally from Brazil where in the 1980s she worked with the Catholic Church organizing agricultural workers, fisherman and rubber tappers in the Amazonian region through. She was also a factory worker, community and union organizer and member of the Workers' Party (PT). Sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program. 2:30 pm, Thomson 211. |
| Wednesday, April 30 | |
| 10:00 AM | Anti-War Arts Fair The Anti-War Arts Fair will feature dance, music, puppetry, spoken word, and open-mic events in opposition to war. Attendees will have the opportunity to add to a public mural and make art expressing their feelings about the impacts of war on society. All viewpoints welcome. 10 am - 3 pm, Red Square, UW campus. |
| 3:30 PM | REECAS Event "Islam in Central Asia," Michael Speckhard and Richard Grimes (Office of Russian and European Affairs, CIA). These two analysts from the CIA's Office of Russian and European Affairs (OREA) will give a substantive presentation on Islam in Central Asia as an example of what kind of work CIA analysts do and how they go about it. They will also be available on May 1st from 9-11 am by appointment (sign up for a 15-minute appointment at the April 30th session or by email to reecas@u.washington.edu to answer specific, individual questions of students interested in pursuing a career with the CIA. Michael Speckhard is a senior analysts in the Office of Russian and Eurasian Analysis following the Caspian, Caucasus, and Central Asian region. He spent 9 years in the US army as a Chinese and Russian linguist. He did his undergraduate work in History at the University of Maryland, and got his PhD in Political Science from the University of Houston. He has been with the agency since 1991. Richard Grimes has been chief of the Caspian/Caucasus/Central Asia team of the CIA's Office of Russian and European Analysis since September 2001. He joined the CIA in 1990 and has worked primarily on Ukraine, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Mr. Grimes also served on Vice President Gore's National Security Staff. He received a BA in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Princeton University and an MA in Russian and East European Studies from the George Washington University. 3:30 pm, Thomson Hall 317. |
| 3:30 PM | Japan Studies Lecture "Expo Fascism? What to Do with Japan in the 1930s," Angus Lockyer (History, Wake Forest University). Lockyer, a UW alumnus, is currently writing a book, "Japan at the Exhibition, 1867-1970," which looks at Japan's participation in world's fairs, beginning in Paris in 1867, as well as the ways in which expositions were adapted for domestic consumption, both stories culminating in the 1970 Osaka Expo. His professional and research interests are modern Japan, expositions and world's fairs, and comparative modernizations and modernities. His publications include "Japans in Paris, 1867," Bureau International des Expositions, Bulletin (2002); Tadao Umesao, Yoshida Kenji, and Angus Lockyer, eds. Japanese Civilization in the Modern World XVII, Collection and Exhibition (Osaka National Museum of Ethnology, Senri Ethnological Studies no. 54, 2001) and includes his own essay, "Japan at the Exhibition, 1867-1877: From Representation to Practice." Sponsored by the Japan Studies Program and the Department of Asian Languages & Literature. 3:30-5:00 pm, Communications 202. |
| 3:30 PM | American Studies Lecture "U.S. Culture, Nationalism, and Globalization," John Carlos Rowe (English, University of California, Irvine). This talk will focus on filmic and televisual representations from the Gulf War till the present, paying particular attention to what Rowe refers to as the "en-folding" of the Moslem subject into U.S. national symbology. In particular, Rowe will examine the deflection if not direct repression of our increasingly urgent consideration of Moslem histories, people, cultures and geopolitical realities in post-9/11 cinematic and televisual representational practices. This lecture the keynote address of the American Studies Colloquium Conference, Nation Matters: Americas Shifting Terrains, presented in affiliation with the Transnational Studies Projects Transnational Times, Transnational Literacies Lecture Series. Additional support for this event was provided by the UW Department of English, the Hilen Fund, the UW Department of History, the Graduate School Fund for Excellence and Innovation, and the Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program (GOMAP). 3:30 pm, Communications Building, Room 226. |
| 7:00 PM | German Film Series "Die allseitig reduzierte Persoenlichkeit, REDUPERS / The all-around reduced personality, REDUPERS" (Sander, 1977) This film shows three days of the life of a single mother photographer, Edda. Her work documenting East and West Berlin after the fall of the wall in March 1977 involves a number of adventures. Mocking "the all-around realized Socialist personality" of East German radio, this film approaches the "wholeness" of the city with a feminist critical eye and questions representations of both women's lives in the city alongside the city itself. Very successful in West Berlin. Described in The New York Times as a "feminist film as earnest and clear and chilly as its elegant black-and-white photography." 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. Wednesdays, 7 pm, Savery 239. |
| 7:00 PM | Art Lecture Art Dialogue at the Henry," Cynthea Bogel (Art History, UW), a specialist in Japanese art and architecture, offers her views on "Arlene Shechet: Building". Free with museum admission. 7 pm, Henry Art Gallery. |
| Thursday, May 1 | |
| 10:00 AM | Anti-War Arts Fair The Anti-War Arts Fair will feature dance, music, puppetry, spoken word, and open-mic events in opposition to war. Featuring a live performance by the band The Turks from 12:00-1:00 pm on May 1. Attendees will have the opportunity to add to a public mural and make art expressing their feelings about the impacts of war on society. All viewpoints welcome. 10 am - 1 pm, Red Square, UW campus. |
| 3:00 PM | Thinking Sex Workshop "Sex and Ethnography: Queer Self-Writing in Hong Kong," Helen Hok-Sze Leung (Women's Studies, Simon Fraser University). Helen Hok-Sze Leung's paper examines various practices of queer self-ethnography in Hong Kong and analyzes their cultural and political significance for the emergent movement for gender and sexual minorities in Chinese communities. In it, she theorizes the relation between such queer self-writing and the "queer unconscious" of mainstream cinema and popular music, as well as academic ethnographic discourses on queer subjects. Part of the series, "Thinking Sex in Transnational Times." Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information on this series, visit www.uwch.org/thinkingsex. To register (required), call the Simpson Center at (206) 543-3920. 3:00 pm, Communications 206. |
| 3:30 PM | China Studies Lecture "David Crocket Graham and the Ethnic Groups in Southwest China, 1911-1948," Gen Jing (Assistant Researcher, Sichuan Nationalities Research Institute in Chengdu). Sponsored by the China Studies Program. 3:30-5:00 pm, 317 Thomson Hall. |
| 7:00 PM | American Studies Roundtable "Addressing Issues of Nation and American Studies: A Roundtable on Pedagogy and Course Design." As part of the American Studies Colloquiums annual conference, Nation Matters: Americas Shifting Terrains, this roundtable asks participants to discuss the challenges of teaching and addressing issues of the U.S. nation in an institutional moment which places increased emphasis on global studies and transnationalism. The participants in this years roundtable, which will be moderated by Johnnella Butler (American Ethnic Studies and English, UW), are John Carlos Rowe (English, UC Irvine) Stephen Sumida (American Ethnic Studies and English, UW), Alys Weinbaum (English, UW), Juan Guerra (English, UW) and Kim England (Geography, UW). This event is presented in affiliation with the Transnational Studies Projects Transnational Times, Transnational Literacies Lecture Series. Sponsored by the American Studies Colloquium and the Simpson Center for Humanities. Additional support for this event was provided by the UW Department of English, the Hilen Fund, the UW Department of History, the Graduate School Fund for Excellence and Innovation, and the Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program (GOMAP). 7 pm, Communications 202. |
| Friday, May 2 | |
| 1:00 PM | Artists Against the War Lecture "Political Performances in Public Spaces," Dr. Odai Johnson. Sponsored by the Anti-War Fair: Why? Artists Against the War. 1 - 2 pm, Hutchinson 130. |
| 2:30 PM | Modern Girl Lecture "Broadway to Hollywood: Fashioning the American Girl," Linda Mizejewski (English, Ohio State University). Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information, please see http://depts.washington.edu/its/moderngirl.htm. 2:30-5:00 pm, Communications Building 226. |
| 3:30 PM | West European Studies Talk "Why does democracy survive in least likely cases and fail in most likely cases?" Gretchen Casper (Critical Cooperation). CWES Politics & Society Colloquium, sponsored by the Center for West European Studies 206-543-1675 or email cwes@u.washington.edu. 3:30 pm, Smith 102. |
| 3:30 PM | Japanese Literature Lecture "Seeing Anything and Everything: Oda Makoto's Contemporary History," Bruce Suttmeier (Japanese Literature, Lewis and Clark College). When the Japanese writer Oda Makoto published his enormous novel Contemporary History in 1968, the writer and critic Noma Hiroshi described it as trying to encompass the entire age, to bring into view the entire decade of the 1960s. Many called it a modern-day Makioka Sisters, with its story of an upper-class Osaka family trying (with great difficulty) to marry off one of their four daughters. But Oda's work exhibits a palpable anxiety toward the Japanese past, both a desire for and renunciation of historical meaning. How might we view these claims of historical and literary mastery in a novel where fragments of the past constantly threaten to overwhelm narration of the present? How does his work's staging of memory speak to the period's own problematic access to its traumatic history? How does it address the ways we make sense of (or fail to make sense of) the past? Sponsored by the Department of Asian Languages and Literature and Japan Studies Program. For more information, call (206) 543-4996 or email asianll@u.washington.edu. 3:30-5:00 pm, Smith 107. |