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Monday, October 16
12:30 PM	China Studies Lecture edit "Creation and Re-Creation: The Case of Modern Korean Fiction" by Ch'oe In-ho & O Chong-hui. Thomson 317. China Studies, 543-4391.
6:30 PM	Architecture Lecture edit "Urban Homes / Urban Neighborhoods," Mark L. Hinshaw, LMN Architects, Seattle. Architecture Hall (room 147). Mark Hinshaw is the Director of Urban Design for LMN Architects. For over 25 years, he has been responsible for a wide range of projects in both large cities and small towns including downtown development, public spaces and pedestrian facilities, design-oriented codes and guidelines, and master plans for public facilities. Hinshaw writes a regular column on architecture and urban design for The Seattle Times. His recent book, _Citistate Seattle: Shaping a Modern Metropolis_ is now available. For more information please call 378-0233.
Tuesday, October 17 add
3:30 PM	Middle East Center Lecture edit "European Liberalisms And the Modern Concepts of Liberty in Iran" by M.A. Homayoun Katouzian. 216 Denny. Middle East Center, 543-4227.
3:30 PM	China Studies Lecture edit "Sichuan Street Songs" by Emma Zevik, Harvard University. Thomson 317. China Studies, 543-4391.
7:00 PM	Walker-Ames Lecture Series edit "Racial Justice: The Superficial Morality of Color Blindness" by Glenn Loury. 120 Kane. Graduate School, 616-1825.
7:00 PM	Book Reading edit Maya Lin, creator of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, shows slides, talks about and signs "Boundaries." Roethke Auditorium, 130 Kane. University Book Store, 634-3400.
7:30 PM	Concert edit Kyung-Sun Chee, violin: Faculty Recital. Brechemin Auditorium. A musical journey through three very distinctive and active artistic centers of Central Europe over a period of 150 years -- from Bonn to Moscow by way of Budapest, from Beethoven's early bouts with romanticism to Dohnanyi's aristocratic elegance to Prokofiev's personal and tragic testimony to World War II. Program: Prokofiev: Sonata No. 1 in F minor; Beethoven: Sonata No. 6 in A major; Dohnanyi: Sonata in C minor. Ticket Prices: $5 Student/Sr.; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call 543-1201.
8:00 PM	Concert edit Murray Perahia (special event). Meany Theater. Unquestionably the most important pianistic talent to emerge from the U.S. in the last 25 years, Murray Perahia returns to Meany to tackle J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations in a recital timed to coincide with the release of this monumental work on the Sony Classical label. A master of subtle phrasing and keen insight, Perahia's rare musical sensitivity is certain to capture the lyricism, tragic passion and exuberance of one of the most significant works in the piano repertoire. Single tickets: $50. Call the UW Arts Ticket Office at 543-4880 for tickets.
Wednesday, October 18 add
1:30 PM	OTTOMAN EMPIRE LECTURE edit "Russian-Ottoman Warfare on the Danube in the Eighteenth Century." Thomson 317. Virginia Aksan (Associate Professor of History, McMaster University, Canada) will speak as part of an ongoing series titled "Envisioning the Ottoman Empire," which is sponsored by the Middle East Center, the International Studies Center, Jackson School of International Studies; and the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information please call 543-4227.
1:30 PM	European Union Lecture edit Date: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 "Environmental Management and Ethnic Conflicts on the New European Border: The Baltic States and Russia" by Geoffrey Gooch, Linkoeping University. Faculty Club downstairs conference room. European Union Center, 616-2415.
3:30 PM	Film edit "Where War Has Passed:" The Human Consequences of 'Agent Orange' in Viet Nam. Thomson 317. Please join the Southeast Asia Center in welcoming Diane Fox (Ph.C, Anthropology) when she presents: "Where War Has Passed," a Vietnamese film, which has won numerous awards, and has been featured in juried festivals in Tokyo and Santa Barbara. Diane Fox, currently working on her doctoral dissertation in anthropology, has spent many years working and doing research in Vietnam. She recently translated a book called "History and Consequences of Agent Orange in the War in Viet Nam." For more information, please contact the Southeast Asia Center at 543-9606.
4:00 PM	English Lecture edit "Citizen Hester: The Scarlet Letter as Civic Myth," Brook Thomas. Loew 102. Brook Thomas is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine and a widely-recognized scholar in American literature, law and literature, contemporary theory, and modernism. His extensive publications include _American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract_ (California, 1997), _The New Historicism and Other Old Fashioned Topics_ (Princeton, 1991), and _Cross-Examinations of Law and Literature: Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville_ (Cambridge, 1987). Sponsored by The Andrew R. Hilen Lectures on American Literature and Culture. For more information please call 543-2690.
4:30 PM	CRITICAL ASIAN STUDIES LECTURE edit Yuko Nishimura. Seafirst Executive Center, Room 310. The Project for Critical Asian Studies and the Simpson Center for the Humanities present the first lecture in its 2000/2001 series: "Ethnicity, Gift Exchange and Altruism: case studies from the Japanese-American community in Seattle," by Yuko Nishimura. YUKO NISHIMURA has taught in the Department of Foreign Languages, Komazawa University, Tokyo. She is author of _Gender, Kinship and Property Rights : Nagarattar Womanhood in South India_ (Delhi, 1998). For more information, please contact the Project for Critical Asian Studies at critas@u.washington.edu.
7:00 PM	POETRY READING edit Marvin Bell. Seattle Public Library, Lee Auditorium. Marvin Bell will read from _Nightworks_. He is a long-time member of the Iowa Writers Program Faculty, the Flannery O'Connor Professor of Letters at the University of Iowa and the Poet Laureate of Iowa. _Nightworks_ is a collection from 12 previous volumes of poetry. An introduction will be given by Seattle artist Paul Hunter. Books will be sold by Open Books, A Poem Emporium. A Paul Hunter-designed broadside will be available. Free and open to the public. Sponsors: Counterbalance; A Poetry Series; Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities; and Copper Canyon Press. For more information please contact Roger Simpson at 206-543-0405.
Thursday, October 19 add
2:00 PM	Art Exhibition Tour edit Exhibition Tour. Henry Art Gallery. For more information please call 543-2281.
3:30 PM	English Lecture edit "Denarration and Media." Communications 326. The Departments of English and Comparative Literature invite you to a lecture by Damien Francois (Billy Wilder Institute for Film and Television Studies, and Institute for Romance Philology, University of Aix-la-Chapelle). Damien Franois is the author of _L'immediatete. Anthropologie Culturelle Critique_ (2000, Berne: Peter Lang). For more information please call 543-2690 or 543-7542.
6:30 PM	Art Seminar edit "The Politics of Costume: Dress and Identity in Bhutan." Reed Collection Study Center. Diana K. Myers, independent scholar and curator speaks on the subject of sostume and fashion in Bhutan. She explores regional weaving traditions, the relationship of "national" dress to Bhutan's political history, and the dynamism of fashion in this Himalayan kingdom. Works from the collection on view. Co-sponsored by the Seattle Textile and Rug Society (STARS). Free to STARS members and with museum admission. For more information please call 543-2281.
7:00 PM	Poetry Reading edit Michael Collier. Parrington 308. Michael Collier has been the director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference for five years and has taught English at the University of Maryland, College Park, for fifteen years. His previous volumes of poetry are _The Clasp and Other Poems_, _The Folded Heart_, and most recently _The Neighbor_. Collier is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, NEA fellowships, and the Discovery/ The Nation Award, among other honors. For more information please call 543-2690.
7:30 PM	Politics Lecture edit "Henry M. Jackson - A life in Politics" by Robert Kaufman. 210 Kane. Jackson Schol of International Studies, 543-4372.
Friday, October 20 add
12:30 PM	Human Rights Lecture edit Thomson 317. Jesus Tecu Osorio, Bufete Popular [People's Law Firm], Guatemala, will speak on "Human Rights, Justice, and International Lending Organizations: The Case of Guatemala." Jesus Tecu won the 1996 Reebok Human Rights Award for his leadership in the area of human rights in Guatemala. A child survivor of the 1982 Rio Negro massacre, he has testified against paramilitary actions and worked for exhumations and memorials of victims. He has also organized opposition to a World Bank dam project, and will speak on the links between such projects, forced relocations, and impunity in the abuses of rights. Sponsored by Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA), LAS, UW Human Rights Education and Research Network, UW Depts of Geography & Political Science. For more information call 685-3435 or email lasuw@u.washington.edu.
1:30 PM	Film edit "When the Mountains Tremble" 1983, VHS, 83 min, Span/Quiche w subtitles. Kane 23B. Nobel Peace Prize honoree Rigoberta Menchu weaves together the rich fabric of recent Guatemalan history: the beauty and richness of the culture, the courage of her people, and the tragedy of human greed. Part of Friday Film series for UW students, faculty, staff. For more information call 685-3435 or email lasuw@u.washington.edu.
1:30 PM	Language and Rhetoric Lecture edit "When Boys Could Be Girls: The Language of Gender in the History of English," by Anne Curzan, Assistant Professor of English. Loew 102. This talk will examine patterns and idiosyncrasies in the histories of words used to refer to men and women, boys and girls, in order to foreground and historicize the linguistic forms and categories that we take for granted every day as we speak and write about our gendered selves. Presented by the Language and Rhetoric/Language Use and Acquisition Colloquium. For more information contact Kim Emmons (kemmons@u.washington.edu).
2:30 PM	ENGLISH LECTURE edit Modern Language Quarterly Lecture series. Parrington Forum. The Modern Language Quarterly invites you to the first in an occasional lecture series which will form part of a special MLQ issue dedicated to periodization to be published next year. These short talks will be presented in pairs, with opportunity for debate between the speakers as well as engagement with the audience and some wine and cheese refreshments. The first pair of speakers, on October 20th, will be professors Anne Mellor speaking on "Were Women Writers Romantics?" and Robert Griffin speaking on "The Age of 'The Age of' is over: Johnson and the Late Eighteenth Century." Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Department of English, and the Department of Women Studies. For more information please call 543-6827.
3:00 PM	Classics Lecture edit "Charioteers, Victors and Victory Memorials." Denny 216. The Department of Classics cordially invites you to a talk by Nigel Nicolson, the author of several important articles on Pindar and other ancient poets. His broad literary critical interests are attested in notable engagements herein with Bakhtinian and Foucauldian perspectives. His talk for us comes from a book in progress on the representation of charioteers, jockeys and trainers in Archaic victory memorials. For more information please call 543-2266.
6:30 PM	Architecture Lecture edit "Preserving La Habana," Eduardo Luis Rodriguez, Havana. Architecture Hall Auditorium (Room 147). Architect, critic and historian Eduardo Luis Rodriguez is the Director of "Arquitectura Cuba" magazine, and the author of _Modern Architecture in Cuba_ published by Princeton Architectural Press. Sponsor: College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Co-sponsor: LAS. Free admission. For more information, please call 206-543-7679, the Dean's Office of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning or email katkern@u.washington.edu, lecture series coordinator.
7:00 PM	Art Gala edit Bal Musette au Musee. Henry Art Gallery. Dinner and dancing. For further inquiry please visit www.henryart.org or call 616.8671.
8:00 PM	Dance Performance edit Aeros. Meany Theater. Combine the choreographic genius of three of the most innovative men in movement (Daniel Ezralow, David Parsons, Moses Pendleton) with the creative team behind the percussion/theater sensation STOMP! and the physical power and sinuous grace of 15 Olympic medal-winning members of the Romanian Gymnastics Team and you create AEROS — a totally original evening of kinetic entertainment. Bodies soar high into the air, tumble to the ground and explode "like synchronized fireworks" in a curious blend of choreographic art and acrobatic athleticism that celebrates the joy of pure movement. Single tickets: $28. For tickets call the UW Arts Tickets office at 543-4880.
Saturday, October 21 add
1:00 PM	Near Eastern Civilization Lecture edit "Show Me the Blood: Games and Sports in the Ancient World." Location indicated on ticket. Prof. Scott Noegel, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, will speak on the earliest sports and games known to humankind and what these diversions meant to the people who played them, and what they tell us about ancient conceptions of leisure and enjoyment. For tickets or more information please call 543-2310.
8:00 PM	Dance Performance edit Aeros. Meany Theater. Combine the choreographic genius of three of the most innovative men in movement (Daniel Ezralow, David Parsons, Moses Pendleton) with the creative team behind the percussion/theater sensation STOMP! and the physical power and sinuous grace of 15 Olympic medal-winning members of the Romanian Gymnastics Team and you create AEROS — a totally original evening of kinetic entertainment. Bodies soar high into the air, tumble to the ground and explode "like synchronized fireworks" in a curious blend of choreographic art and acrobatic athleticism that celebrates the joy of pure movement. Single tickets: $28. For tickets call the UW Arts Tickets office at 543-4880.

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