Calendar

May 2

Ryszard Horowitz

Photo Exhibit: �Expanding the Imagination�

All day event, Odegaard Library, second floor

Frances Contreras (Education)

�The Role of Public Policy in Latino Student Access, Persistence & College Completion"

12:30 PM, Parrington 309

Queer + Public + Pedagogy

Workshop: Negotiating Instructor Identities

3:00 PM, Communications 202

Memorial Reading Night for Hussein Al-Barghouti (1954- 2002)

4:00 PM, Communications 120

Roy Mottahedeh

The Duties and Limitations of Following a Religious Guide in Contemporary Shi�ite Law

7:00 PM, Fishery Sciences 102

May 3

Frederick M. Lorenz, JD, LLM

The Conflict in Libya and the United Nations' "Responsibility to Protect"

12:30 PM, Thomson 317

John Roeder and Michael Tenzer (The University of British Columbia)

Colloquium in Music. Inside Gabor: Tempo, Melody, and the Identity of a Balinese Composition

3:30 PM, Music 216

Gabriella Lukacs

Dreamwork: Cell Phone Novelists, Labor, and Politics in Contemporary Japan

3:30 PM, Communications 202

Gwen Ottinger (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell)

The Biopolitics of the Fenceline

4:00 PM, UW Bothell, Building UW1, Room 280 (Rose Room)

Asian American Studies Research Collective

Reading Group: Reading for Race in the Prison and on the Internet.

4:00 PM, Communications 226

May 4

John Hammerback (UW Dept of Communication)

CANCELED: �To Enable Common People to do Uncommon Thing�: The Rhetorical Career of César Chávez

12:00 PM, Research Commons, Allen Library South

Loren Brandt

China's Ongoing Economic Transformation

7:00 PM, Kane 225

May 5

Rosalinda Guill�n

"If you want to remember me, organize!" César Chávez, Farm Workers, and Food Sovereignty

12:00 PM, Research Commons, Allen Library South

Transformative Education Behind Bars

4:00 PM, CMU 202

UW Sawyer Seminar

Now Urbanism: "Social Justice, Inequality, and Cities"

6:30 PM, Kane 120

Ryszard Horowitz

Expanding the Imagination

7:30 PM, Kane 110

May 6

Graduate Conferece - Excess in German Literature and Culture

2:00 PM, Communications 202

Wolfgang Struck

Keynote Address: "A Dream of Cinema - A Poetry of Excess"

4:00 PM, Communications 120

Wolfgang Struck, Universit�t Erfurt, Max Kade Distinguished Professor UW

Ein Traum vom Kinematographen: Exzess und frühes Kino

4:00 PM, Communications 120

Resat Kasaba (International Studies)

UW Turksih Studies Student Association Annual Lecture

7:00 PM, University of Washington Club, 1st floor

Master of Arts in Policy Studies Graduate Research Conference

9:00 AM, UW Bothell, various locations in UW1

May 7

Graduate Conference - Excess in German Literature and Culture

9:00 AM, Communications 202

May 9

Jonathan Zwicker

Individuality in an Age of Reproduction: Utagawa Toyokuni and the Actor's Image in Nineteenth-Century Japan

3:30 PM, Thomson 317

May 11

Peter L Shillingsburg

Moral Authority in Vanity Fair

4:30 PM, Communications 202/204

Peaceable Kingdom screening and commentary with Howard Lyman

5:00 PM, Allen Auditorium

May 12

Symposium

Race, Radicalism, and Repression on the Pacific Coast

All day event,

Rajeev Kinra, Northwestern University

Persian Vernacular Series: "Reading the Epistolary Arts Back into Mughal History: Letters from a Punjabi Brahman in King Shah Jahan's Court"

3:30 PM, Communications 226

John Shearman, ARCE Associate Director Luxor, Egypt

Contributions to Preserving Egypt's Ancient Past - Implications for Future Scholarship

7:00 PM, Gowen 201

George Lipsitz

Standing at the Crossroads: Why Race, Radicalism, and Repression on the Pacific Coast and Beyond Matter Now

7:00 PM, Kane 225

May 13

Symposium

Race, Radicalism, and Repression on the Pacific Coast

All day event,

David Cole

"Enemy Aliens" Then and Now: Race, Alienage, and Repression in World War II and Today

5:00 PM, William H. Gates 138

Conference on Fair Trade and Exploitation

9:00 AM, Parrington Forum (Morning), Walker-Ames (Afternoon)

May 14

Symposium

Race, Radicalism, and Repression on the Pacific Coast

All day event,

May 16

Queer + Public + Pedagogy

Workshop: Queering Classroom Content

3:00 PM, Communications 202

May 17

Lorri Hagman and Jacqueline Ettinger

From Dissertation to Book

1:30 PM, Odegaard 220

Gordon Lafer

Labor in the House: Trying to Build a Pro-Worker Agenda in Congress

3:00 PM, Parrington 308

Absurdity and the Everyday

4:30 PM, Communications 202

May 18

Ralina Joseph (Communication)

The First Lady speaks back: Reading Michelle Obama's post-identity performance and resistance

3:30 PM, Communications 126

Kiya Bodding and Susan Avila-Smith

Film Screening: Female Faces of War

5:00 PM, Allen Library Auditorium

D.A. Powell

Roethke Poetry Reading

8:00 PM, Kane Hall

May 19

The Teachers' Studio

Service Learning Partnerships in the Schools: A Roundtable Conversation

3:30 PM, Allen 485

Muzaffar Alam, Univ. of Chicago

Persian and the Vernaculars in South Asia: "The Politics of Piety: Of Some Sufi Critiques of Religious Truth and Mughal Regime".

3:30 PM, Communications 206

The Teachers' Studio

Roundtable on Teaching

3:30 PM,

Master of Arts in Cultural Studies Graduate Research Conference

5:00 PM, UW Bothell, North Creek Events Center

Susan Avila-Smith

Conduct Unbecoming: Sexual Assault in the Military

6:00 AM, Kane 120

May 21

Keywords "GAMER" Colloquium

All day event, Communications 202

May 23

Kent Wong

Immigrant Students and Workers, and the American Dream

12:00 PM, Parrington 308

Valerie Smith (English, Princeton University)

Seminar on the Civil Rights Movement and Cultural Memory

12:30 PM, Communications 202

Redefining Bodies: The Future of Accessible Technology

3:00 PM, Mary Gates 288

Critical Development Forum Panel

Can You Save The World?

5:30 PM, Communications 120

May 24

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Research Colloquium: The Social Power of Honor and Shame

10:00 AM, Communications 202

Asian American Studies Research Collective

Micro-seminar with Chandan Reddy and Moon-Ho Jung: Race in the 21st Century

3:30 PM, Smith 306

Film screening: "The Couple" (USSR, 1964)

5:00 PM, Odegaard 220

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers

7:00 PM, Kane 120

May 25

Every Body Freeze, Now - flash mob

12:00 PM, Red Square

Women of Color Collective Dialguing Difference Conference: First I Dream

4:00 PM, Ethnic Cultural Theater

May 26

Dialoguing Difference Conference Brownbag: Religion, Gender, Race, and Social Justice

12:00 PM, Communications 321

Ligaya Domingo, Terri Mast, Cindy Domingo

Martyrs for Justice: Revisiting the Assassinations of Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes 30 years later

2:30 PM, Smith 211

Sunil Sharma, Boston University

Persian Vernaculars Series: "Persian-Urdu Literary Cultures in Eighteenth Century North India: The Divans of Fa'iz Dihlavi

3:30 PM, Thomson 317

James Tweedie

"The French New Wave and the Mise en Scène of Globalization."

4:30 PM, Communications 120

Emizet Kisangani

Civil Wars in Central Africa and UN Failure in Post-Conflict Reconstruction

4:30 PM, Parrington 309

UW Sawyer Seminar

Now Urbanism: "The University and the City"

6:30 PM,

Cripping Culture: A Live Poetry Slam and Art Show

6:30 PM, Art 007

May 27

Women of Color Collective Dialguing Difference Conference: First I Dream

8:00 AM, Williams H. Gates Law School, UW Seattle

May 28

Patrick Fisher (aka Mr. Shineyhead)

Deaf Storytelling Night

7:00 PM, Parrington 308

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