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| Monday, May 19 | |
| 3:30 PM | Recasting Asia America Talk "Diaspora, Globalization, and the Rethinking of Asian 'American' Studies," Martin Manalansan (Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne) and Gayatri Gopinath (Women's Studies, University of California, Davis). Part of the year-long Recasting Asia America lecture series, sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Hilen Endowment for American Literature and Culture, and the Departments of English and Asian Languages and Literature. 3:30 PM, Communications 226. |
| 3:30 PM | Asian Studies Lecture "Lives of Hunting Dogs: Contesting Thai Masculinities Through an Ethnography of Thai Boxing," Pattana Kitiarsa (Suranaree University, Thailand). Why do Thai men receive less attention than women from both Thai and international scholars in studies of gender in contemporary Thailand? Where have all the Thai men gone? What does Thai masculinity look like? How and why has masculine culture in Thailand been constructed and maintained? Kitiarsa argues that Thai boxing as a cultural form and practice, and as the one of Thailand's favorite past-times, offers itself as a promising site to explore the culture of Thai men and its ramifications in a postmodern world. 3:30-5:00 pm, Thomson 317. |
| 4:00 PM | History of Science Colloquia "Edward Hitchcock and the Genesis Flood," Rod Stiling. Refreshments and conversation begin at 3:30 pm. 4 pm, Smith 306. |
| 7:00 PM | Asian Studies Talk "Production of Hindu Muslim Violence in Contemporary India," Paul Brass (Professor Emeritus of Political Science, UW). Chronic Hindu-Muslim rioting in India has created a situation in which communal violence is both so normal and so varied in its manifestations that it would seem to defy effective analysis. Paul R. Brass, one of the world's preeminent experts on South Asia, has tracked more than half a century's riots in the north Indian city of Aligarh. This book is the culmination of a lifetime's thinking about the dynamics of institutionalized intergroup violence in northern India, covering the last three decades of British rule as well as the entire post-Independence history of Aligarh. Brass offers a compelling argument for abandoning or refining a number of widely held views about the supposed causes of communal violence, not just in India but throughout the rest of the world. Sponsored by South Asia Center, Jackson School, UW Press, University Bookstore. For more information, contact sascuw@u.washington.edu or (206)543-4800. 7 pm, Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall. |
| Tuesday, May 20 | |
| 9:00 AM | Facets of French Cinema Conference A conference connected to the Luminous Psyche: Selected Films of Max Ophuls film series, organized to explore the recent history of French and Francophone cinema. 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Communications 202. |
| 3:30 PM | REECAS Lecture "The Old and New Eastern Europe: Diverging Paths of Postcommunist Transformations," Grzegorz Ekiert (Professor of Government and Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University). Ekiret's teaching and research interests focus on comparative politics, regime change and democratization, civil society and social movements, and East European politics and societies. He is the author of The State Against Society: Political Crises and Their Aftermath in East Central Europe (1996), Rebellious Civil Society: Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland with J. Kubik (1999) and Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule, co-edited with S. Hanson (2003). His papers have appeared in British Journal of Political Science, German Politics and Society, Studies in Comparative Communism, Research on Democracy and Society, Studia Polityczne, Studia Socjologiczne, Encuentro, East European Politics and Societies, Communist and Post-communist Studies, and World Politics, as well as in several edited volumes. He is also senior scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. At CES, Eckiert chairs the Workshop on East European Politics (WEEP) and is the editor of the Working Paper Series on Central and Eastern Europe. Sponsored by the REECAS (Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies) Program. 3:30-5:00 pm, Thomson Hall 317. |
| 5:00 PM | European Studies Lecture "Out of the Ghetto: Living Inside Walls, Crossing Invisible Frontiers" Mireille Rosello (French and Italian, Northwestern University). Sponsored by the Center for West European Studies. For more information, please see http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/cwesuw/Rosello.pdf. 5:00 pm, Thomson 119. |
| 7:30 PM | Classics Lecture "Death and Burial Among the Greeks and Romans: Attitudes and Practices," Lawrence J. Bliquez (Classics, UW). This illustrated lecture focuses on what family and friends did when an individual departed this life in the Greco-Roman world. We will be interested in what the ancients thought about death, as well as what they did about it. Also, parallels between pagan practices and attitudes and those employed right into modern times, will be considered. The Fourth Annual Faculty Lecture, sponsored by the UW Department of Classics. A reception in the Walker-Ames Room will follow the lecture. 7:30 pm, Kane Hall 210. |
| Wednesday, May 21 | |
| 3:30 PM | Comparative Religion Colloquium "Relics and Buddhist Practice in East Asia," Kyoko Tokuno (JSIS). Part of the colloquium series, "Territory and Relics." Sponsored by the Comparative Religion Program of the Jackson School of International Studies. Info: religion@u.washington.edu. 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Simpson Center for the Humanities, Communications 202. |
| 7:00 PM | German Film Series "Die Weisse Rose / The White Rose" (Verhoeven, 1982). The White Rose, from the acclaimed director of The Nasty Girl (Das schreckliche Mädchen), tells the heroic true story of a small group of students in Munich during Hitler's dictatorship. As the Second World War rages, the students form a resistance cell called the "White Rose" and begin distributing secret leaflets which questions the Germany's Nazi government. The White Rose, while at first a small group fearful of discovery, begins to gain support after a Nazi Gauleiter nearly incites a student riot with a provocative speech. The Gestapo is called in to investigate the source of the anti-Nazi propaganda and hunt down the members of the White Rose. The story of the group's members, particularly brother and sister Hans and Sophie Scholl, is one of the well-known stories of resistance to emerge from Nazi Germany. 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. |
| Thursday, May 22 | |
| 7:00 PM | REECAS Lecture "The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland," Karl Meyer. In his book, The Dust of Empire:The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland, Karl Meyer examines the historical impact of the Western encounter with Central Asia's fragile and volatile nations. Meyer provides fascinating detail about regions and peoples now of urgent concern to America: Afghanistan, the five Central Asian republics, the Caspian and the Caucasus, Iran, Pakistan, and long-dominant Russia. Karl E. Meyer is the author of nine books, most recently Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia. A longtime member of The New York Times editorial board, he previously was a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post and is currently the editor of World Policy Journal. Registration Fee: Members/Students $5, Non-Members $7. Sponsored by The World Affairs Council, University Bookstore, REECAS. For more information, contact reecas@washington.edu or 206-543-4852. 7 pm, Kane Hall 120. |
| 7:00 PM | Egyptology Lecture "Breasted's Expedition to Egypt and the Sudan," Emily Teeter (Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago). Trace the remarkable 1905-07 expedition that set out to record the monuments of the Nile Valley. Led by Oriental Institute founder James Henry Breasted, the group traveled south by boat and camel caravan from Cairo to Khartoum, producing more than 1,000 glass plate negatives. View some of the finest images from the historic collection and learn about Breasteds documentation methods the forerunner of methods used today by the Oriental Institutes Epigraphic Survey in Luxor, Egypt. Cosponsors: The Burke Museum, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization and the Comparative Religion Program. 7 pm, Boeing Auditorium, Seafirst Executive Education Center, UW campus. |
| 7:30 PM | Middle East Studies Lecture "Musical Interzones: The Middle East and Beyond," Ted Swedenburg (Anthropology). Sponsored by the Middle East Center (mecuw@u.washington.edu) of the Jackson School of International Studies and the Ethnomusicology Office of the School of Music. 7:30 pm, Music Building, Room 213. |
| Friday, May 23 | |
| Modern Language Quarterly Symposium "Postcolonialism and the Past," a symposium sponsored by Modern Language Quarterly in conjunction with a special issue of the journal. What implications do postcolonial studies have for investigating imperial and colonial dynamics in earlier periods? How can the analyses offered by postcolonial thought be put to work in these fields? Alternatively, what work cannot be done by scholarship that is so inflected, and why? How do postcolonial studies complicate the very period categories we work with? Conversely, how might the shape of postcolonial studies change in response to a consideration of earlier periods? The questions that are defined at the intersection of postcolonial studies and its neglected historical antecedents have proliferating implications for multiple disciplines. For more information, please contact mlq@u.washington.edu. 9:30 am to 5:30 pm, Parrington Commons, UW campus. |
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| 2:30 PM | Modern Girl Lecture "High Voltage Vulgarity: Pornographic Publics in Post-Liberalization India," William Mazzarella (Anthropology, University of Chicago). Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. This lecture is part of a series on "Nationalism and Ethnicity: The Modern Girl Around the World" For more information on the project and the series see http://depts.washington.edu/its/moderngirl.htm. 2:30-5:00 pm, Communications Building 226. |
| 2:30 PM | REECAS Lecture "The Lost Jenkinson Map of Russia (1562) Recovered, Redated, and Retitled," Samuel H. Baron (Professor Emeritus of History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill). Professor Baron is the author of Bloody Saturday in the Soviety Union: Novocherkassk, 1962 and Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine. Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the REECAS (Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies) Program of the Jackson School of International Studies. 2:30-4:00 pm, Communications 202. |
| 3:30 PM | Japanese Humanities Lecture "Ethnology and Dialect: Yanagita Kunio and the Authorship of National Language," Melek Ortabasi (Hamilton College). Sponsored by Asian Languages and Literature & Japan Studies. For more information, contact the Department of Asian Languages and Literature, (206) 543-4996. 3:30-5 pm, Thomson 317. |
| Saturday, May 24 | |
| 7:00 PM | Slavic Poetry Event "Singing Brodsky's Poetry," Sergei Zrazhevski. Please come enjoy the poetry of Joseph Brodsky set to music and performed by Sergei Zrazhevski. Sergei's name is gaining ever more popularity in the Seattle area among music lovers. He offers a personal and highly original approach to interpreting poetry in musical terms, combined with an obvious vocal talent. Sergei will be accompanied by Vidas Svagdis, an accomplished professional guitarist. The concert will be hosted in English by Larissa Kulinich, Ph.D., with songs performed both in Russian and in English from Larissa's translations. Tickets available at the door: $12 for general public, $6 for students. Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Northwest Translators and Interpreters Society and REECAS. 7:00 pm, Smith Hall 120. |