Calendar

November 1

Keith Breckenridge

Science of Empire: The South African Origins of Galtonian Eugenics

3:30 PM, Communications 226

Arturo Madrid

In the Country of Empty Crosses: The Story of a Hispano Protestant Family in Catholic New Mexico

3:30 PM, Communications 202

Naraelle Hohensee

Housing and Urban Change in Twentieth-Century Berlin

6:30 PM, Frye Art Museum

Rethinking Marxism Conference - Opening Plenary Performance and Discussion

6:30 PM, Parrington 309

Evenings with Ai Weiwei: So Sorry

7:00 PM, Smith 120

November 2

Roundtable Discussion: The Political Philosophy of Immigration

All day event, Savery 408

Amelia Glaser

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Fair: Jewish-Slavic Relations through Literary History

12:30 PM, Savery Hall 169

Christopher Faraone

Classics Lecture

3:30 PM, Denny 216

Dr. Judith Flores Carmona

Testimonio: Mind-Body-Spirit Pedagogy

3:30 PM, Communications 126

Evenings with Ai Weiwei: One Recluse

7:00 PM, Smith 120

Nayan Shah and David Ruccio

Rethinking Marxism: Stranger Economies Conference - Closing Plenary

7:30 PM, Communications 120

Rethinking Marxism Conference

8:00 AM, Communications 202

November 5

Karen Moe

Human Subjects and the IRB Process

10:30 AM, Mary Gates 271

Miriam Bartha, Associate Director, Simpson Center

Workshop for Graduate Students Applying for SOS Research Fellowships

2:00 PM, Communications 202

Scholars' Studio: Citizen Research

3:30 PM, Allen Library South, Ground Floor

November 6

Deborah Caplow

The Black Book of Nazi Terror in Europe: An International Collaboration between Artists and Writers, Mexico City, 1943

4:00 PM, UW Bothell, UW1-280

November 7

Victoria Law

Gender and Activism in Prison: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women

3:30 PM, Communications 202/204

MSGIG Reading Group

4:30 PM, Communications 226

Where Critical Theory and Place-Making Meet

6:00 PM, Gould 100

Victoria Lawson

Katz Lecture - A Crisis of Care and a Crisis of Borders: Towards Caring Citizenship

7:00 PM, Kane 110

November 8

"HISTORY": Keywords for Video Game Studies

1:30 PM, Communications 202

George Lovell

This Is Not Civil Rights

6:00 PM, University Bookstore, 4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105

David Domke and Mark Smith

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

7:00 PM, Kane 130

Daniel Chirot

From great expectations to humdrum reality: Eastern Europe's disappointments with post-communism

7:00 PM, Kane 225

Maurie D. McInnis

"Slaves Waiting for Sale: Visualizing the American Slave Trade"

7:30 PM, William H. Gates 133

November 9

Jeremy Blatter

Screening the Psychological Laboratory: Hugo Münsterberg, Psychotechnics, and the Cinema, 1906-1916

12:00 PM, Communications 202

November 13

Jon Crump

ChartEx and the Mining of Medieval Charters to Understand Sense of Place

12:30 PM, Research Commons Presentation Place (Allen Library)

November 14

Leah Garrett

Jewish American War Novels

12:30 PM, Thomson 317

Lemon Andersen

Preview and discussion of "Lemon," about the three-time felon turned Tony Award winning playwright and poet Lemon Andersen

12:30 PM, William H. Gates 138

Museums and Social Issues Reception & Poster Session

1:30 PM, UW Tower Mezzanine

John Spiak

Art & Social Practice: It's OK to Engage the Difficult

3:00 PM, UW Tower Mezzanine - Auditorium

Shu-mei Shih

Racializing Area Studies, Defetishizing China: A Colloquium with Shu-mei Shih

3:30 PM, Communications 202

Pasi Sahlberg

Finnish lessons: What can the United States learn from educational change in Finland?

7:00 PM, Kane 210

November 15

Shu-mei Shih

Katz Lecture - From World History to World Art: Reflections on New Geographies of Feminist Art in Asia

6:00 PM, Kane 220

Edgara O'Hara and Emily Thompson

Spanish Poetry Reading

7:00 PM, Third Place Books Ravenna

November 16

New Geographies of Feminist Art

1:00 PM, Henry Art Gallery

Christoph Bode

Les desordres du discours: The Subject as Blind Beggar

2:30 PM, Savery 157

Tom Geoghegan

Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why Our Country Needs to Snap Out of It and Have a New Kind of Labor Movement

6:00 PM, Kane 120

November 17

Labor, Labor Studies, and the Future: The Bridges Chair at 20 Years

12:00 PM, Husky Union Building, Room 334

New Geographies of Feminist Art

9:00 AM, Henry Art Gallery

November 19

Malia Fullerton

From Bench to Bioethics: Grappling with the Implications of Human Genetic Research

10:30 AM, Mary Gates 271

November 20

Anjali Vats

Remyth: Rhetorics of Race and Disidentification in Intellectual Property Law

3:30 PM, COM 126

November 26

Gwen Ottinger

Understanding Emerging Technology: Obligations for Proactive Knowledge Production

10:30 AM, Mary Gates 271

November 27

Raj Chetty

"Listen: American Negro" Racial Performance, Dominican Street Theater, and 'Global' Blackness

11:30 AM, Communications 202

November 29

Robin Derby

The Gender of the Spell: Explaining Demonic Animal Narratives on the Haitian-Dominican Frontier

4:00 PM, Communications 120

David Smolker

Critical Design GIG: Landscapes of Peace, Times of War

5:30 PM, Gould 100

Tomasz Pudlocki

Household and Gender Roles in 19th Century Central Europe

7:30 PM, Communications 202

November 30

Yongyi Li

Moral Concerns in the Reception of Roman Poetry in China

3:30 PM, Denny 216

J. Keith Vincent

Sex on the Mind: Queer Theory Meets Cognitive Narratology (in Japanese Literature!)

3:30 PM, Communications 226

Juan Flores

Salsa Power: Politics in/of Latin Music of the 1960s

4:00 PM, Communications 120

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