Calendar

May 1

Santiago Lopez

Landscape Change in Western Amazonia: From Dispersed to Nucleated Production Systems

4:00 PM, UW Bothell, UW1-280

Alice Kaplan

Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis

4:00 PM, Communication 120

Francis Ambrosio

Death Terror and Heroism: A Genetic Interpretation of the Cultural Record

7:00 PM, Communications 120

May 2

Francis Ambrosio

Becker, Dante and St. Francis of Assisi: Love and Death

3:30 PM, Johnson 022

Pheng Cheah

What is a World? Postcolonial Literature as World Literature

4:00 PM, Communications 120

May 3

Pheng Cheah

AASRC Conversation with Pheng Cheah

3:00 PM, Communications 202

Sarah Deutsch

The Speculative State: The U.S. West in the 1920s

4:00 PM, Communications 226

"Aoki" Documentary Screening

7:00 PM, Allen Auditorium

May 4

Christine Taitano DeLisle

Indigenous Modernities: Race, Gender and US Empire in Early Twentieth Century Guam

1:30 PM, Kane Hall, Walker Ames Room 225

Seth Messinger

Negotiating a Good Outcome: The Many Dimensions of Recovery from Traumatic Limb Loss at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

3:30 PM, Savery 260

Vincente Diaz

In the Wake of Mata'pang's Canoe: Determined Cultural and Political Indeterminations in Guam

9:00 AM, Kane Hall, Walker Ames Room 225

May 7

Ping-chen Hsiung

The Power of the Voiceless:Further Thoughts on the Studies of Chinese Childhood Histories

11:30 AM, Thomson Hall 317

Hsiung Ping-chen

The Power of the Voiceless: Further Thoughts on the Studies of Chinese Childhood History

12:15 PM, Thomson 317

Gary Christian

The Ethics of Scientific Writing: How to Write and How Not to Write a Paper

4:30 PM, Savery 408

May 8

Pete Richardson

Taming the Timberbeast: The IWW Timber Strike of 1917

12:30 PM, Smith 307

Professor Paul Harrison, Stanford University

Andrew L. Markus Memorial Lecture

7:30 PM, Kane 225

May 9

Sasha Welland & Sonal Khullar

GWSS Colloquium: New Geographies of Feminist Art

3:30 PM, Research Commons, Red C

Danny Hoffman

New Books in Print - The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia

4:00 PM, Communications 202

Jennifer K. Stuller and Amy Peloff with moderator Marcie Sillman

Think & Drink: Harlots and Heroines

7:00 PM, Naked City Taphouse and Brewery, 8564 Greenwood Avenue North Seattle, WA 98103

May 10

Timothy Pachirat

Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight

5:00 PM, Communications 120

Sian L. Beilock

Attitudes and Anxiety in Learning and Performance

7:00 PM, Kane 110

May 11

Bryan Averbuch

Persian Brown Bag Series

12:30 PM, Smith 306

Cristina Lafont

Global Governance and Human Rights

4:00 PM, Communications 120

Queering the Art Museum

6:30 PM, Henry Art Gallery

HI-NORM: International Conference

"Cosmopolitan Rights and Responsibilities"

9:00 AM, Communications 202

May 12

Matthias Lutz-Bachmann

Cosmopolitan Responsibility: Reflections on a New Paradigm of Political Ethics

4:00 PM, Communications 226

May 14

Jesse Bloom, Roger Brent & Gaymon Bennett

Center for Biological Futures: Avian H5N1 Influenza

6:00 PM, Pelton Auditorium, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

May 15

Ellis Goldberg

The Revolution Came Early: Reflections on an Arab Year of Living Dangerously

7:00 PM, Kane Hall, Room 210

Diana Taylor

Katz Lecture - Taking to the Streets: Arts and Activism in the Americas

7:00 PM, Kane 220

May 17

Diana Taylor

Colloquium on Multimodal Scholarship

1:30 PM, Communications 202

Performances of Queer Pedagogy: A Public Workshop

2:30 PM, Allen Library Research Commons, Red A

Lorri Hagman

From Dissertation to Book

3:00 PM, Odegaard 220

Ilya Parkins

Spatial Nostalgia and Fashion Celebrity: Dior by Dior

3:30 PM, Allen Library Auditorium

Ilya Parkins

Spatial Nostalgia and Fashion Celebrity: Dior by Dior

3:30 PM, Allen Library Auditorium

Kelly Lytle Hernandez

Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol

4:00 PM, Petersen Room, Allen Library

Satuski Takahashi

Currents of Disaster: Radiation, Ocean, and Safety in Post-Fukushima Japan

7:00 PM, Gowen 201

May 18

Master of Arts in Cultural Studies Graduate Research Conference

11:00 AM, UW Bothell, North Creek Events Center

Purnima Dhavan and Heidi Pauwels

Welcoming Vali: An Exploration of the Literary Legacy of Vali Dakhani

3:30 PM, Thompson 317

Susanna Paasonen

Distance and Resonance: Thinking Through the Grab of Pornography

4:00 PM, Communications 226

May 19

"RESEARCH/DESIGN": Keywords for Video Games Colloquium

8:00 AM, Communication 202

Critical Asian American Studies Symposium: Movements and Everyday Practices

9:00 AM, Communications 126

May 21

Christine Stickler

Bookmaking as a Motivational Tool for Young Writers

3:30 PM, Mary Gates 171E

Tom Daniel

Neural Engineering: The Intellectual and Physical Interface between Technology and Life

4:00 PM, Communications 202

Lasse Horne Kjaeldgaard

The Poetics of the Scandinavian Welfare State

4:00 PM, Kane Hall, Walker Ames Room

May 23

Beowulf Reading

4:00 PM, Communications 202

Timothy Snyder

Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin

7:00 PM, Kane 120

May 24

Alurista

The Poet Wizard of Aztlan

3:30 PM, Ethnic Cultural Theater - 3940 Brooklyn Ave. NE.

Daniel Martinez HoSang

State Power, Race Power, and the Rise of California

4:00 PM, Petersen Room, Allen Library

Black in Latin America: Mexico and Peru

6:00 PM, Odegaard 220

May 25

Richa Nagar

Coffee Hour with Richa Nagar

10:30 AM, Communications 202

Richa Nagar

Brown-bag Lunch with Richa Nagar

12:00 PM, Smith 409

Mark Neocleous

International Law as Primitive Accumulation; or, The Secret of Systematic Colonization

12:00 PM, Gowen 1-A

Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren

Diversity Theater Workshop & Lecture Demo

3:00 PM, UW Bothell campus, UW2-005

Richa Nagar

Storytelling and Co-authorship in Feminist Alliance Work: Reflections from a Journey

3:30 PM, Smith 304

Information Session for Southeast Seattle Education Coalition Research Opportunities

3:30 PM, Communications 226

May 27

Culture in a Political World: Arts, Academia and the Occupation of Palestine

7:00 PM, Velocity Founders Theater, 1621 12th Ave

May 29

Ed Mast

Occupy Seattle and Performance: A discussion with Ed Mast

1:00 PM, Communications 202

Courts, Claims, and Culture: Indigenous Rights to Water and Marine Resources

3:30 PM, William Gates Hall 138

May 31

A Contemporary Performance of Goethe's Stella

8:00 PM, Communications 120

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