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This page provides an at-a-glance summary of the week's humanities-related events. For detailed information about a particular event, follow the link to the description page.

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Drama Production: Checkov's The Three Sisters

• Until Sun., Mar. 12 at 7:30pm, Fri. & Sat. at 8:00pm, Sun. at 2:00pm, Meany Studio.
• Three fatherless sisters hold tight to the ideal of a better life in Moscow. Unable to escape their stale perceptions of the present, it is unlikely they will ever be happy, until a a group of military officers appear and the potential for love emerges. However, when younger brother, Andrei, takes a domineering wife, the household is greatly strained and the bonds of family become brittle. This Chekhovian classic explores the obstacles of simply living life and the human quest for happiness and success. Directed by Jude Domski. Cost: $7 - $10. For tickets, please call the Arts Ticket Office at 543-4880.

Exhibition (Future Forward: Projects in New Media) -- Banks in Pink and Blue

• Until April 16, Henry Art Gallery, East Gallery.
• A site-specific sculptural installation created by artist IÒigo Manglano-Ovalle to incite a multi-faceted dialogue about the legal and ethical issues surrounding genetics and DNA. For more information, please call 543-2280 or visit the exhibition's page at the Henry Art Gallery.

Henry Art Gallery -- Shifting Ground: Transformed Views of the American Landscape

• Until August 20, Henry Art Gallery, North Galleries.
• Featuring paintings, prints, photographs, and drawings from 1860 to the present. Exhibit hours: 11:00am - 5:00pm, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, 11:00am - 8:00pm, Thursdays. Admission: $3.50 - $5, free for gallery members, UW students, faculty, staff with ID, high school/college students with ID, children 13 and under, 5-8 p.m. For more information, please call 543-2280 or visit the exhibition's page at the Henry Art Gallery.

Burke Museum Exhibit -- Mountain Patterns: Survival of Nuosu Culture in China.

• Until September 4, 2000; 10:00am to 5:00pm daily, except Thursdays to 8:00pm; Burke Museum.
• This is the first major exhibit in North America of the culture and arts of the Nuosu people of southwestern China. Over 200 artifacts are on display. For more information, please call 543-9762.

NEW EVENTS

South Asia Center Lecture -- "Fashioning Identity: The Development of Penal Dress in Indian Convict Settlements."

• Monday, March 6, 3:30pm, Thomson 317.
• Speaker: Dr. Clare Anderson, Department of Economic and Social History, University of Leicester. For more information, please contact the South Asia Center/JSIS at 543-4964.

Book Reading -- Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe.

• Monday, March 6, 7:00pm, Kane 130 (Roethke Auditorium).
• UW's Peter Ward and Don Brownlee read and sign their new book. Sponsored by the University Book Store. For more information, please call 634-3400.

Special Performance -- Astad Deboo: "Free Dance Expression."

• Monday, March 6, 7:30pm, Ethnic Cultural Center (3940 Brooklyn Ave.)
• Indian modern dance pioneer Astad Deboo will perform three gems from his vast repertoire in his UW and Northwest premiere. The dances will be performed to the music of Dhrupad, one of the oldest Indian classical schools of singing. Also featuring singing by the Gundecha Brothers, music by Shakti (John Mclaughlin, Zakir Hussain and Hari Prasad Chaurasia) and the American group Bang on a Can. Astad Deboo originally trained in the dance form Kathak, experienced and travelled the globe, then returned to India to learn Kathakali, the powerful dance theater from Kerala state, bringing to his dance a combination of extreme physical control and stunning visual impact. He has performed with Pink Floyd, and the Wuppertal and Pilopolus dance companies from Germany and New York. Free with UW ID. Sponsored by the offices of the President, Provost, Vice President for Student Affairs, Minority Affairs, the Dance Student Association, South Asian Studies/JSIS, the School of Art and the Indian Students Association. For more information, please call 543-4964.

Concert: Contemporary Group.

• Monday, March 6, 8:00pm, Meany Theater.
• Tickets: $4 - $6. Please call the Arts Ticket Office at 543-4880.

Library and Information Sciences Lecture -- "Making Sense of Documents in a Digital Age:An Intellectual History."

• Tuesday, March 7, 12:00pm to 1:30pm, Odegaard 220.
• Speaker: Independent consultant David Levy. For more information, please call 543-1794.

LAS Lecture: "Student Movements in Latin America."

• Tuesday, March 7, 3:30pm to 5:00pm, Thomson 135.
• Speaker: Roberto Gonzalez, National Board Member of the Cuban Student Federation. Mr. Gonzalez will speak about the student movement in Cuba and the upcoming Congress of Latin-American and Carribean Students in Havana. Sponsored by Latin American Studies/JSIS. For more information, please call 685-3435.

Concert: University Wind Ensemble.

• Tuesday, March 7, 8:00pm, Meany Hall.
• Cost: $4 - $6. For more information, please contact the School of Music at 685-8384.

Walker-Ames Lectures Special Presentation (Two Colloquiums with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak): 2: "Literature and Colonialism: Colloquium on Pedagogy."

• Wednesday, March 8, 9:30am to 11:30am, Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room.
• Please note time change.
• Speakers: Nikhil Singh (American Studies), K. Sivaramakrishnan (Anthropology), John Toews (Comparative Hisotry of Ideas), Tani Barlow (Critical Asian Studies), Ranji Khanna (English), Matthew Sparke (Georgraphy), Laurie Sears (History), Chrisitine di Tefano (Women and Democracy), and Piti Ramamurthy (Women Studies). Discussants: Srinivas Aravamudhan, Gretchen Kalonji, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Vicky Lawson. Sponsored by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, also providing readings (in Lewis Annex II). For more information, please contact rkhanna@u.washington.edu.

CARTAH Presentation: The practical use of Unicode and XML in digital foreign language encoding.

• Wednesday, March 8, 2:30pm, Thomson 35-A.
• Presented by Paul Remley and George Dillon. Sponsored by the Center for Advanced Research Technology in the Arts and Humanities. For more information, please call 543-4218.

Special Lecture-Dinner Series (International Updates: Trends and Transitions in Your World) -- "Russia Between Elections."

• Wednesday, March 8, 5:30pm to 8:00pm, Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room.
• Speaker: Steve Hanson, Associate Professor of Political Science, UW. Dinner-lecture fee $22.00 per session/per person. For further information about upcoming lectures in this series, please contact the Center for West European Studies at (206) 543-1675 or email cwes@u.washington.edu. Sponsored by the Jackson School Outreach Centers and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.

Faculty Auxiliary Lecture: "Thorne Miniature Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago."

• Wednesday, March 8, 7:30pm, Faculty Club.
• Speaker: William Bowden. Optional dinner at 6:00pm. Reservations required. For more information, please call 543-0473.

NELC Uzbek Documentary Screening: Scenes from Tashkent and Samarkand. March 9-14, 1997.

• Thursday, March 9, 12:30pm to 2:00pm, Denny 123.
• Sponsored by the Near Eastern Languages and Civilization Department's Central Asian Studies Group (Uzbek Circle). For more information, please call 543-6033.

Classics Lecture: "Propertius the Novelist, Propertius the Bard."

• Thursday, March 9, 3:00pm, Savery 243.
• Speaker: Kathleen McCarthy, Assistant Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley. Prof. McCarthy's research focuses on the interrelations of social structures and literary forms, as can be seen in her forthcoming book Slaves, Masters and the Art of Authority in Plautine Comedy (Princeton, August 2000). Her current project explore masculine self-presentation in Propertius' elegies. For more information, please call 543-2266.

West European Studies Lecture: "The Freedom Party and Austrian Democracy."

• Thursday, March 9, 3:00pm, Art 003.
• Speaker: Kurt Richard Luther, Keele University, U.K. For more information, please contact the Center for West European Studies/JSIS, at 543-1675.

Burke Museum Special Lecture Series (Mountain Patterns): "The Cultural Revival in Liangshan."

• Thursday, March 9, 3:30pm, Burke Musuem.
• Speaker: Bamo Ayi, Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy, Central Nationalities University, Beijing. In conjunction with the ongoing exhibit Mountain Patterns: Survival of Nuosu Culture in China. Sponsored by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities and the China Studies Program/JSIS. Free with museum admission. For more information, please call 543-9762.

International Chamber Music: Corey and Katja Cerovsek.

• Thursday, March 9, 8:00pm, Meany Theater.
• With over a dozen years of international touring, violinist Corey Cerovsek has matured into an artist known for his clear sound, stylistic flexibility and dramatic performances. Audiences from our 1997-98 season will be hard-pressed to forget Corey & Katja's performance which drew raves from the critics. Although he continues to perform with the world's most distinguished conductors & orchestras, Corey's intimate recitals with sister Katja are where his virtuosic talents shine most brightly. Program -- Beethoven: Sonata in F Major, Op. 24 ("Spring") Janacek: Sonata for Violin and Piano (1922), Poulenc: Sonata for Violin and Piano (1943), Kreisler: Miniature Viennese March and Caprice Viennois, Wieniawski: Fantaisie brillante on themes from Gounod's Faust. Tickets: $27. Please call the Arts Ticket Office at 543-4880. For more information, please see the Cerovseks' page on the Meany Theater's website.

Concert: Jazz Combos.

• Thursday, March 9, 8:00pm, Music 126 (Brechemin Auditorium).
• Cost: $4 - $6. For more information, please contact the School of Music at 685-8384.

NELC Uzbek Documentary Screening: Excerpts from Uzbek TV News Programs (1999-2000).

• Friday, March 10, 12:30pm to 3:00pm, Denny 123.
• Sponsored by the Near Eastern Languages and Civilization Department's Central Asian Studies Group (Uzbek Circle). For more information, please call 543-6033.

Language and Rhetoric / Language Use & Acquisition Colloquium -- "Redesigning the Foreign Language Classroom: Electronic Literacies and Educational Practices."

• Friday, March 10, 1:30pm to 3:00pm, Loew 201.
• Speaker: Michael Legutke, Prof. of Applied Linguistics and TEFL, Justus-Liebig U. of Geissen, Germany. This talk will take the notion of task-based and experiential language learning as a starting point and will expand on the idea of the language classroom as a communication center. Taking a critical look at foreign language classrooms connected via the Internet to other classrooms in different parts of the world, Dr. Legutke will delineate some of the implications for reshaping the space of action available to both teachers and learners in the years to come. In addition, he will discuss the relationship between electronic literacies and educational practices. Dr. Legutke has worked at the Department of Research and Development at the Goethe-Institut Munich, as German Language Consultant in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. and as a language teacher at a comprehensive school in Germany. His research has focussed on foreign language learning in the elementary school, foreign language teacher education and development, and on electronic literacies and computer-based learning environments. For more information, please contact Kim Emmons at kemmons@u.washington.edu.

History Lecture: "The Origins of Classical Civilization."

• Friday, March 10, 3:00pm to 4:30pm, Smith 211.
• Speaker: Ian Morris, Professor of Ancient History and Archaeology, Stanford University. Sponsored by the History Department and the Graduate School. For more information, please call 543-5790.

Special Performance: PAD, An Evening of New Dance.

• Fri., Mar. 10 and Sat., Mar. 11, 8:00pm, Ethnic Cultural Theater (3940 Brooklyn Ave.)
• Dropout, a Seattle-based modern dance company, presents an evening of new dance featuring performances by Collabolab, Brian Dawbin, and Dropout Dance. Performances are Friday and Saturday, $8 for adults, $6 for students with I.D. For more information, please call 547-5127 or e-mail dropout@I-table.com.

Concert: All Beethoven Evening.

• Friday, March 10, 8:00pm, Meany Hall.
• By University Symphony and Combined Choruses. Cost: $8 - $10. Tickets available at the UW Ticket Office, 543-4880

Burke Museum Event: Hawaiian Handicrafts.

• Sun. Mar. 12; Sat. and Sun. Mar. 18, 19, 25, 26; 11:00am to 3:00pm, Burke Museum.
• Weekends in March at the Burke Museum feature special kids' activities that explore Hawaiian Handicrafts. Kids can get (temporary) tattoos and create their own printed tapa cloth to take home and hang on the wall (craft material included with musuem admission). Plus, they can check out the recordings of Hawaiian instruments in the Burke's Pacific Voices exhibit. For more information, please call 543-5590.

To request disability accommodations, contact the office of the ADA Coordinator, at least ten days in advance of the event.
543-6450 (voice); 543-6452 (TDD);  685-3885 (FAX);  access@u.washington.edu

This calendar is provided as a service by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. We publicize a wide range of on-campus events in the disciplines of the humanities and the arts, including lectures, concerts, symposia and conferences.

The calendar is updated for publication every Monday that school is in session. The deadline for submission of announcements is the Wednesday prior to the week that the event is to take place. Although we will try to accommodate late requests, we cannot guarantee their timely posting.

Deadline for the week of Mar. 13 ~ 19: Wed., Mar. 8.

This page is maintained by uwch@u.washington.edu. Last updated on Monday, March 8, 2000.