Calendar

October 1

Celia Lowe

Recognizing Scholarly Subjects: Ethical Issues in Transnational Collaboration

10:30 AM, Mary Gates 271

October 2

Martha Gonzalez

Entre Mujeres: Song-writing as Testimonio ( A Brown Bag Lunch Discussion)

12:00 PM, Communications 206

Odai Johnson

Theatre and Social Efficacy

7:30 PM, Jones Playhouse

October 3

"Entre Mujeres: Translocal Musical Dialogues/Women Making Music Across Borders"

3:30 PM, Smith Hall 102

October 4

Robyn Rodriquez

Asian American Studies Research Collective

1:30 PM, Communications 202

October 5

Rick Bonus, Robyn Rodriquez, Joi Barrios-LeBlanc

The Importance of Filipino-American History: Bridging Scholarship with Community

7:00 PM, Antioch University

October 8

Tom Ackerman and Lauren Hartzell Nichols

Ethics Issues in Geo-engineering

10:30 AM, Mary Gates 271

Wang Ning

"Deconstructing Singular Modernity and Reconstructing Alternative Modernity or Modernities"

3:30 PM, Communications 202

Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo

Frontier Liberalism and the Genealogy of Mexico's indio barbaro, 1810-1870

4:00 PM, Communications 120

October 9

Lance Rhoades

American Indians in Cinema: Portrayals and Participation, Onscreen and Behind the Scene

7:00 PM, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center

October 11

Keywords for Video Game Studies

1:30 PM, Communications 202/204

David Domke and Mark Smith

Faith & Finance: Visions of America & the 2012 Presidential Election

7:00 PM, Kane 130

October 12

Cui Zi'en

Our Story: The 10-Year 'Guerrilla Warfare' of the Beijing Queer Film Festival

1:30 PM, Allen Library North Auditorium

Tad Hirsch (Art/Design), Jin Kyu Jung (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences), Sonnet Retman (American Ethnic Studies)

Scholarship as Public Practice: Artifacts and Evidence

3:30 PM, Communications 202

Kirstie Blair

Poetry for Play Hours: Victorian Poets and the Culture of Children's Verse

3:30 PM, Communications 226

Bedtime Stories Seattle 2012: Red Eye

6:30 PM, Spanish Ballroom at The Fairmont Olympic Hotel

October 13

Demystifying Digital Humanities: What is Digital Humanities and Why Does It Matter?

9:30 AM, Communications 202

October 15

Sara Goering

Thinking about Neuroethics: Ethics Engagement in the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering

10:30 AM, Mary Gates 271

Xicana Living Pedagogies GIG Meeting

11:00 AM, Communications 204

Shaul Stampfer (Hebrew University in Jerusalem)

Jewish Studies Lunchtime Learning: Shaul Stampfer

12:30 PM, Thomson Hall 317

Louise Erdrich

7:30 PM, Meany Hall

October 16

Herbert Blau

Virtually Yours: Presence, Liveness, Lessness

7:30 PM, Jones Playhouse

October 17

Leah Farish

The Use and Importance of Spanish in North Africa

3:30 PM, Sieg 224

October 18

Jonathan Culler

Theory of the Lyric

3:30 PM, Communications 202

Rick Baldoz

"The Strange Career of the the Filipino Nation: Race, Citizenship, and the Dilemmas of U.S. Empire"

4:00 PM, Gowen 201

October 19

Micha Cardenas (Developer and Instructor, USC Graduate Student and Artist)

Scalar: A Presentation and Demonstration

1:00 PM, Communications 202

Luis Croquer (Henry Art Gallery), Ralina Joseph (Communication), and Moon Ho Jung (History)

Scholarship as Public Practice: Publics and Audiences

3:30 PM, Communications 202

October 22

Gaymon Bennett

The H5N1 Flu Controversy

10:30 AM, Mary Gates 271

Jan Bardsley (UNC at Chapel Hill)

Democracy's Poster Girls: Beauty Queens and Fashion Models in Postwar Japan

3:30 PM, Communications 202

Sedat Pakay

Bearing Witness from Another Place: James Baldwin in Turkey

7:00 PM, HUB 332

David B. Ruderman (University of Pennsylvania)

38th Annual Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies

7:30 PM, Kane Hall 220

October 23

Scott Radnitz, Hans Gutbrod, Aaron Erlich

Ellison Center Brown Bag: The Georgian Elections: Power, People and the Polls

12:30 PM, Thomson 317

Lissa K. Wadewitz

The Nature of Borders: Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea

4:00 PM, Petersen Room, Allen Library

African Studies Fall Reception

4:30 PM, Denny 401

October 24

Carlos Nunez

Master class and talk by Spanish virtuoso musician Carlos Nunez

3:30 PM, Glenn Hughes Playhouse

David B. Ruderman (University of Pennsylvania)

38th Annual Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies

7:30 PM, 220 Kane Hall

October 25

Alicia Schmidt Camacho

Migrant Personhood and the Definition of Sovereign Power in North America

4:00 PM, Communications 120

October 26

Dieter Borchmeyer

Thomas Mann und Bert Brecht - Antipoden im Exil

1:30 PM, Denny 308

Gillian Harkins (English), Kelly Fryer Edwards (Bioethics and Humanities), and Trevor Griffey (U.S. History, The Evergreen State College)

Scholarship as Public Practice: Arguments and Claims

3:30 PM, Communications 202

Kathy Lavezzo

Shifting Geographies of Antisemitism: Thomas of Monmouth's Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich

3:30 PM, Parrington Commons

October 27

Demystifying the Digital Humanities: Managing and Professionalizing Your Online Presence and Identity

9:30 AM, Communications 202

October 28

James Tweedie, Jennifer Bean, Shuxuan Zhou

Women and China's New Documentaries at the Seattle Public Libary

2:00 PM, Microsoft Auditorium, Level 1, Central Library, 1000 4th Avenue, Seattle, WA

October 29

Woody Sullivan

Ethical Issues Raised in Astrobiology Concerning the Possibility of Finding Extraterrestrial Life

10:30 AM, Mary Gates 271

Charles Piot

Migration Stories: The US Visa Lottery and Global Citizenship

3:30 PM, Denny 401

Evenings with Ai Weiwei: Fairytale

7:00 PM, Smith 120

October 30

Evenings with Ai Weiwei: Disturbing the Peace

7:00 PM, Smith 120

Andrew Tsao

Beyond the Uncanny Valley

7:30 PM, Jones Playhouse

October 31

Keith Breckenridge

Legacies of Migrant Labor, Masculinity, and Violence: The Crisis in the South African Mining Industry

2:00 PM, Communications 202

Evenings with Ai Weiwei: Ordos 100

7:00 PM, Smith 120

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