| Monday, November 6 | |
| 3:30 PM | Anthropology Lecture "Developing Citizens: The Subject of the State on Indonesian Periphery," by Cathryn Houghton (Yale University). 401 Denny. Anthropology, 685-1811 |
| 6:30 PM | Landscape Architecture Lecture "The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian." 147 Architecture. Architect Johnpaul Jones will present Jones & Jones'es lead design consultant role in the conceptual and final design of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. which is now under construction and will open in the winter of 2003.For more information please call 543-7679. |
| 7:00 PM | Book Reading David Sibley shows slides, reads and signs "National Audubon Society's Sibley Guide to Birds." Roethke Auditorium, 130 Kane. For more information please call the University Book Store at 634-3400. |
| Tuesday, November 7 | |
| 9:00 AM | Speech Communication Colloquim "Speaking the Discourse of Difference." Odegaard Library, Rm 220. 9:00am: Professor Kirt Wilson, University of Minnesota, Department of Speech Communication, "Repetition and Difference: Examining the Racial Politics of Imitation in the Nineteenth Century." Respondent: Professor David Domke, School of Communications; 10:30am: Professor Laura Leets, Stanford University, Department of Communication, "Experiencing Hate Speech: Personal and Legal Implications." Respondent: Professor Patricia Moy, School of Communications. 1:30pm: Professor Gerry Philipsen, University of Washington, Department of Speech Communication, "How Speakers Use Talk to Stigmatize the Racial Other." Respondent: Professor Kathleen Fearn-Banks, School of Communications. 3:00pm: Professor Charles Morris, Vanderbilt University, Department of Communication and Theater. "Pink Herring: J. Edgar Hoover's Sex Crime Panic." Respondent: Professor Roger Simpson, School of Communications. |
| 3:30 PM | Latin American Studies Event "Building Justice and Peace by Empowering People," Jose Alas, Salvadoran activist. Simpson Center for the Humanities, Communications 206. Alas speaks about a "Zone of Peace" in southern El Salvador where the peasant-led organization of 86 rural communities has overseen the development of a local micro-credit program, conflict mediation training for community and gang members, a sustainable agriculture school, a plan for prevention of flooding andemergency preparedness, and the planting of 450 acres of organic family farms. Sponsored by Latin American Studies, Comparative History of ideas (CHID), International Health Program(IHP), Political Science. Hosted by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. Info: LAS Program, 685-3435. |
| 8:00 PM | Dance Performance Charya Nritya ("dance as a spiritual discipline"). Brechemin Auditorium, 126 Music. Performance by Tantric Buddhist Dance of Nepal, $7 (donation). For more information please call Ethnomusicology at 616-8354. |
| Wednesday, November 8 | |
| 11:30 AM | Portuguese Roundtable Portuguese Roundtable on East Timor. Old EE 216. UW Portuguese language instructor Elwin Wirkala talks about his recent return visit to Dili, where he interviewed survivors of last year's post-referendum mayhem as well as UN officials, several of whom had just escaped the violence on the border with West Timor. Video will be shown. Conducted in Portuguese; for more info, contact Elwin at ewirkala@u.washington.edu. |
| 1:30 PM | **SOCIOLOGY/MIDDLE EAST LECTURE** "Alternative Routes to State Transformation: A Relational Approach to Politics, Culture, and Society in the Ottoman Empire" by Karen Barkley (Columbia University). Thomson Hall, Rm 317. This presentation is part of a year-long series of lectures titled "Envisioning the Ottoman Empire," sponsored by the Middle East Center, International Studies Center, Jackson School of International Studies,and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. For more information please call 543-4227. |
| 6:00 PM | Art Reception Uta Barth: In Between Places. Henry Art Gallery. Opening reception for Uta Barth: In Between Places. Compelling in its deceptive simplicity, Uta Barth's art questions the traditional functions of pictures and our expectations of them. By photographing in ordinary places — in simple rooms and landscapes — Barth uses what is familiar to shift attention from the subject matter to a consciousness of the processes of perception and the visceral and intellectual pleasures of seeing. In Between Places, the first museum survey of Barth's career, includes seven important projects made between 1989 and this year, a period during which Barth has gained international acclaim for her ground-breaking work. Henry members free, $8 general, $5 students. Children 12 and under free. For more information please call 543-2281. |
| 7:00 PM | Book Reading "The Telling," Ursulu LeGuin reads and signs her new book. Roethke Auditorium, 130 Kane. For more information please call the University Bookstore at 634-3400. |
| 7:30 PM | Drama Performance "On the Verge." The Penthouse Theatre. Three Victorian lady trekkers journey to terra incognita decked out in pith helmets and heavy dresses, all the while exulting in brilliant word-play. They have plenty of experience hiking across Himalayas and bush-whacking through crocodile infested waters, but now they’re heading somewhere even more dangerous and uncharted: through time. Departing in 1888, these ladies leave behind everything—husband, guides, etc., but find some amazing new items during their travels including an eggbeater, a button that says “I like Ike,” and best of all, Cool Whip. For tickets please call the UW Arts Tickets Office at 543-4880. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert "Dialogues des Carmelites" by UW Opera. Meany Theater. Francis Poulenc's moving opera about faith tested amidst social upheaval. Tickets are $10-15, call 543-4880. |
| Thursday, November 9 | |
| 10:30 AM | Human Rights Lecture "Human Rights in Colombia," Lizzie Brock, Peace Brigades International - Colombia Project. Smith Hall 407. Lizzie Brock served as a human rights as a human rights observer in Colombia in 1999. She provided protective "accompaniment" to threatened human rights leaders of national organizations and members of displaced communities in rural zones, and she reported on human rights issues to Colombia's civil and military authorities. Sponsored by Latin American Studies-JSIS, Seattle Colombia Committee. For more info: 206-685-3435. |
| 11:00 AM | Art Exhibit Uta Barth: In Between Places. Henry Art Gallery. Uta Barth: In Between Places opens, will run through January 21, 2001. Compelling in its deceptive simplicity, Uta Barth's art questions the traditional functions of pictures and our expectations of them. By photographing in ordinary places — in simple rooms and landscapes — Barth uses what is familiar to shift attention from the subject matter to a consciousness of the processes of perception and the visceral and intellectual pleasures of seeing. In Between Places, the first museum survey of Barth's career, includes seven important projects made between 1989 and this year, a period during which Barth has gained international acclaim for her ground-breaking work. For more information please call 543-2281. |
| 7:30 PM | Drama Performance "On the Verge." The Penthouse Theatre. Three Victorian lady trekkers journey to terra incognita decked out in pith helmets and heavy dresses, all the while exulting in brilliant word-play. They have plenty of experience hiking across Himalayas and bush-whacking through crocodile infested waters, but now they’re heading somewhere even more dangerous and uncharted: through time. Departing in 1888, these ladies leave behind everything—husband, guides, etc., but find some amazing new items during their travels including an eggbeater, a button that says “I like Ike,” and best of all, Cool Whip. For tickets please call the UW Arts Tickets Office at 543-4880. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert Keyboard Debut Series: Division Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music. For more information please call 543-1201. |
| Friday, November 10 | |
| 1:00 PM | Dance Workshop Prajwal Ratna Vajracharya will be performing Charya Nritya, or Tantric Buddhist Dance. University Heights Center, 5031 University Way Ave NE. Cost $35. For more information, please contact iltis@u.washington.edu. |
| 2:00 PM | Concert Erick Friedman, violin: Master Class. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 127. Described by the London Daily Telegraph as having "an unmistakable quality of greatness . . . in his stylistic individuality and inspired eloquence," Erick Friedman, professor of music at Yale University, has appeared with most of the world's great orchestras. For more information please call 543-1201. |
| 6:30 PM | Architecture Lecture "Surface/Subsurface," arion Weiss, Weiss/Manfredi Architects, New York. Auditorium of Architecture Hall (room 147). The architecture of Weiss/Manfredi resists stylistic or typological categorization. Many of their projects capitalize on the hybrid conditions created by the intersection of the city, infrastructure, and the landscape, locating the focus of the work at a point somewhere between zones of urbanity and intimacy. For more information please call 378-0233. |
| 7:30 PM | Concert "Dialogues des Carmelites" by UW Opera. Meany Theater. Francis Poulenc's moving opera about faith tested amidst social upheaval. Tickets are $10-15, call 543-4880. |
| 8:00 PM | Drama Performance "On the Verge." The Penthouse Theatre. Three Victorian lady trekkers journey to terra incognita decked out in pith helmets and heavy dresses, all the while exulting in brilliant word-play. They have plenty of experience hiking across Himalayas and bush-whacking through crocodile infested waters, but now they’re heading somewhere even more dangerous and uncharted: through time. Departing in 1888, these ladies leave behind everything—husband, guides, etc., but find some amazing new items during their travels including an eggbeater, a button that says “I like Ike,” and best of all, Cool Whip. For tickets please call the UW Arts Tickets Office at 543-4880. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Mallet Head Series: Division Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 127. Larry Starr, professor of music history, will present a brief overview of the music of the 1960s prior to Tom Collier's performance. The program includes a sampling of various musical styles of the period from the avant-garde and jazz to British and Northwest rock. Ticket Prices: $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call 543-1201. |
| Saturday, November 11 | |
| 1:30 PM | Pre-Football Lecture "An American in Toyko: Bilingual Acting in Japanese Theatre," by Professor Robyn Hunt, Drama. Savery 249. How do actors from two completely different linguistic backgrounds communicate? How can they shift from English to Japanese in the middle of a play? From her experience acting in a bi-lingual production, Professor Hunt will demonstrate the differences between the more psychological Western approach to acting and the highly rigorous, physically demanding approach of Japanese theatre. For free tickets or more information please call 543-2310. |
| 1:30 PM | Pre-Football Lecture "In Search of the Racial Frontier," by Professor Quintard Taylor, American History. Savery 239. Explore the historical experiences of persons of African ancestry in the American West. Learn about the arrival of Spanish-speaking blacks from central Mexico who founded major southwestern cities. Follow the development of free English-speaking rural and urban black communities. Particular attention will be paid to African American settlement in 19th and 20th century Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. For free tickets or more information please call 543-2310. |
| 2:00 PM | Exhibition Tour Henry Art Gallery. Guides trained in the special exhibitions and collections give regularly scheduled free tours on second Saturdays and third Thursdays of the month at 2:00 pm. For more information please call 543-2281. |
| 8:00 PM | Drama Performance "On the Verge." The Penthouse Theatre. Three Victorian lady trekkers journey to terra incognita decked out in pith helmets and heavy dresses, all the while exulting in brilliant word-play. They have plenty of experience hiking across Himalayas and bush-whacking through crocodile infested waters, but now they’re heading somewhere even more dangerous and uncharted: through time. Departing in 1888, these ladies leave behind everything—husband, guides, etc., but find some amazing new items during their travels including an eggbeater, a button that says “I like Ike,” and best of all, Cool Whip. For tickets please call the UW Arts Tickets Office at 543-4880. |
| 8:00 PM | Concert Electroacoustic Music from Sweden: Guest Artist Recital. Brechemin Auditorium, Music 127. Ticket Prices: $5 Students & Seniors; $8 General Admission; Notecard Event. For more information please call 543-1201. |
| Sunday, November 12 | |
| 2:00 PM | Drama Performance "On the Verge." The Penthouse Theatre. Three Victorian lady trekkers journey to terra incognita decked out in pith helmets and heavy dresses, all the while exulting in brilliant word-play. They have plenty of experience hiking across Himalayas and bush-whacking through crocodile infested waters, but now they’re heading somewhere even more dangerous and uncharted: through time. Departing in 1888, these ladies leave behind everything—husband, guides, etc., but find some amazing new items during their travels including an eggbeater, a button that says “I like Ike,” and best of all, Cool Whip. For tickets please call the UW Arts Tickets Office at 543-4880. |
| 3:00 PM | Concert "Dialogues des Carmelites" by UW Opera. Meany Theater. Francis Poulenc's moving opera about faith tested amidst social upheaval. Tickets are $10-15, call 543-4880. |
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