[Uwhistory] Fw: UW Humanities Events Calendar: May 16 - 22

Fri May 13 14:51:13 PDT 2005

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> UW Humanities Events Calendar: May 16 - 22, 2005
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> This Week: (details below)
>
> -Margaret Bent on Polyphony in 15th-century Commemorations for the Dead
> -Henry Friedman
> -Aron Rodrigue on the Holocaust and the Judeo-Spanish Culture in the 
> Balkans
> -John Valliant on the Golden Spruce
> -Maria Garcia & Jose Lucero on Authenticity, Representation, and 
> Indigenous Politics in Peru
> -András Simonyi on an Insider's Look at the Outsiders in the European 
> Union
> -Elena Marasinova on Paradoxes of the Russian 18th Century
> -Seishi Karashima on a Project for a Chinese Buddhist Dictionary
> -Roundtable on Visual Art and the Classroom
> -Aron Rodrigue on Rhodes, the Island of Memory
> -Conference on Germany in the Pacific Islands
> -Rashid Khalidi on American Policy in the Middle East
> -Natalya Khan on Afghan Communities in Post-Soviet Central Asia
> -Hala Annabi on the Apache Webserver
> -Leslie Vinjamuri on Strategies of Justice and Postwar Settlements since 
> 1945
> -Ilse Cirtautas
> -J. Lorand Matory on the Afro-Atlantic Dialogue
> -Roundtable on Women and Discourse in Medieval Culture
> -Panel on Women Writers of the Arab World"
> -Film: Tampopo
>
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>
> Lecture: Henry Friedman
> Monday, May 16th, 2005 - 12:30 PM
> Kane 110
> Friedman (Washington Holocaust Education Foundation) will be offering a 
> lecture and leading a discussion about his unusual tale of survival during 
> the Nazi era. He will also be showing a short film about the Nurnberg 
> trials. He is the author of "I am No Hero," (University of Washington 
> Press, 1999).
>
> Lecture: Margaret Bent, "Memento mei: Polyphony in some 15th-century 
> commemorations for the dead"
> Monday, May 16th, 2005 - 3:30 PM
> Music 213
> Bent (All Souls College, Oxford) is a distinguished scholar of medieval 
> music and a Fellow of the British Academy. She was a Walker-Ames Professor 
> at the University of Washington in 1995.
>
> Book Talk: John Valliant, "The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, 
> Madness, and Greed"
> Monday, May 16th, 2005 - 7:00 PM
> University Book Store, 2nd floor reading room
> This is a true story of the only golden spruce in existence that was cut 
> down by an environmental protestor. As he tells the tree's story, Valliant 
> gives a balanced portrait of the Canadian logging industry and explores 
> the culture of the Canadian Haida Tribe who revered the tree.
>
> Lecture: Aron Rodrigue, "The Holocaust and the End of Judeo-Spanish 
> Culture in the Balkans"
> Monday, May 16th, 2005 - 7:30 PM
> Kane 220
> The Holocaust devastated European Jewry and dealt a death blow to the 
> Ashkenazi heartland of Eastern Europe and Russia. What is less commonly 
> known is the fact that it was also disastrous for Sephardi Jewries.
>
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>
> Lecture: András Simonyi, "An Insider's Look at the Outsiders in the 
> European Union"
> Tuesday, May 17th, 2005 - 3:00 PM
> UW Faculty Club downstairs conference room
> Prior to assuming the post of ambassador to the US, András Simonyi spent 
> nine years in Brussels during Hungary's negotiations for entry into both 
> NATO and the European Union. In his talk, Simonyi will discuss his years 
> on the "inside," providing a unique perspective on the relationship 
> between "New Europe" and "Old Europe."
>
> Lecture: Maria Garcia & Jose Lucero, "Authenticity, Representation, and 
> Indigenous Politics in Peru"
> Tuesday, May 17th, 2005 - 4:00 PM
> Gould 322
> Garcia (Anthropology, Sarah Lawrence) and Lucero (Political Science, 
> Temple) discuss how Peru has occupied a peculiar place in the study of 
> indigenous politics in the Andes. Writing against existing accounts of the 
> absence of indigenous movements and interrogating our own assumptions and 
> interpretations about indigenous politics in Peru, this lecture focuses on 
> the "authenticators" of indigenous identity and politics.
>
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>
> Lecture: Elena Marasinova, "Paradoxes of the Russian 18th Century: Russia 
> and the World; State and Society; and the Emergence of Personality"
> Wednesday, May 18th, 2005 - 1:30 PM
> Thomson 317
> Marasinova has taught both Russian literature and Russian history at 
> Moscow University. Currently she is working at UW on a special issue for 
> the journal Classical Russia. She explores the self-representation of the 
> Russian autocracy, the elite understanding of its relationship to 
> autocratic power and its role as the instrument of social control, the 
> fetish of rank and concepts such as slave and subject.
>
> Roundtable: Visual Art and the Classroom
> Wednesday, May 18th, 2005 - 2:00 PM
> Communications 202
> http://students.washington.edu/pedagogy/
> Kimberly Lamm (Ph.C., English) and Phillip Thurtle (CHID) lead a 
> roundtable discussion on teaching art and visual culture in a variety of 
> classroom situations.
>
> Colloquium: Seishi Karashima, "A Project for a Chinese Buddhist 
> Dictionary"
> Wednesday, May 18th, 2005 - 3:30 PM
> Communications 226
> Karashima (Indian Philology, Soka University - Tokyo)
>
> Lecture: Aron Rodrigue, "Rhodes, the Island of Memory"
> Wednesday, May 18th, 2005 - 7:30 PM
> Kane 220
>
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>
> Lecture: Hala Annabi, "How open source software groups learn to work 
> together: The case of Apache webserver"
> Thursday, May 19th, 2005 - 12:30 PM
> Communications 126
> Hala Annabi (iSchool)
>
> Lecture: Ilse Cirtautas
> Thursday, May 19th, 2005 - 12:30 PM
> Denny 215
> Discussion of Jo Ann Gross and Asom Urunbaev's "The Letters Of Khwaja 
> ?Ubayd Allah Ahrar and His Associates"
>
> Lecture: Natalya Khan, "Afghan Communities in Post-Soviet Central Asia: A 
> Case Study of Uzbekistan"
> Thursday, May 19th, 2005 - 3:30 PM
> Communications 226
> Khan (University of British Columbia) was previously a Senior Lecturer in 
> Asian History and Politics at the Tashkent State Institute of Oriental 
> Studies.
>
> Lecture: Leslie Vinjamuri, "The Globalization of Justice? Strategies of 
> Justice and Postwar Settlements since 1945"
> Thursday, May 19th, 2005 - 4:30 PM
> Gowen 1A
> A survey of wars terminated since 1945 suggests that there has been a 
> dramatic spike in the adoption of justice strategies, most especially war 
> crime trials, amnesties, and truth commissions, in wars concluded since 
> 1989. Despite this increase, only a quarter of all wars concluded in this 
> period have been followed by formalized justice strategies.
>
> Conference: "Germany in the Pacific Islands"
> Thursday, May 19th, 2005 - 6:30 PM
> http://depts.washington.edu/uwgerman/southseasconf.htm
> Narrating Colonial Encounters: Germany in the Pacific Islands
>
> Lecture: Rashid Khalidi, "Resurrecting Empire: American Policy in the 
> Middle East"
> Thursday, May 19th, 2005 - 7:30 PM
> Kane 130
> In his lecture, Khalidi (History, Columbia) examines the record of Western 
> involvement in the Middle East. Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of 
> the political and cultural history of an entire region, Khalidi offers a 
> tangible alternative that can help find the path to peace rather than 
> empire.
>
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>
> Roundtable: Women and Discourse in Medieval Culture
> Friday, May 20th, 2005 - 1:00 PM
> Thomson 403
> Hosted by Professor Eugene Vance's RELIG 590/COMP LIT 596 course, 
> featuring guests Stephen Jaeger (Comparative Literature and Germanics, 
> UIUC) and Peggy McCracken (Romance Languages and Literatures, Medieval 
> French Literature and Gender Studies, Michigan).
>
> Lecture: J. Lorand Matory, "The 'New World' Surrounds an Ocean: On the 
> Afro-Atlantic Dialogue"
> Friday, May 20th, 2005 - 1:30 PM
> Thomson 317
> http://www.simpsoncenter.org/africa
> Matory (Anthropology & African and African American Studies, Harvard) 
> examines the role that manumitted black travelers played across different 
> diasporas in shaping the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé, a religion of 
> divination, blood sacrifice, spirit possession, and healing.
>
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>
> Panel: "Translating Across Cultures: A Conversation with Women Writers of 
> the Arab World"
> Saturday, May 21st, 2005 - 7:00 PM
> Kane 110
> Featuring Raja Alem (Saudi Arabia), Choman Hardi (Iraqi Kurdistan/UK) and 
> Ibtihal Salem (Egypt), this panel will join readings from each of the 
> writers with conversation about their literary influences and the complex 
> process of translating experience across languages and cultures. Moderated 
> by These Saliba.
>
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>
> Film: Tampopo
> Sunday, May 22nd, 2005 - 5:30 PM
> Ethnic Cultural Theatre, 3940 Brooklyn Ave. NE
> Juzo Itami. Japan (1985) 114 minutes.
> Moderators: Davinder Bhowmik (Asian Languages and Literature) and Sudeshna 
> Sen (Art History). In this humorous paean to the joys of food, the main 
> story is about trucker Goro who rides into town like a modern Shane to 
> help Tampopo set up the perfect fast-food noodle restaurant. Woven into 
> this main story are a number of smaller stories about the importance of 
> food.
>
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