[Uwhistory] UW Humanities Events: May 22 - 28, 2006 (fwd)

[Lori Anthony]

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May
22-28, 2006
This
event calendar is provided as a service by the University of
Washington Simpson Center for the Humanities. Events and times are
subject to change.

This week
:

Colloquium on Composition across Disciplines

Roundtable on Narrating Modernism from the 21st
Century
Exhibition Opening at the Jacob Lawrence
Gallery
Hans-Joachim Dahmson German Modernism in Art,
Architecture, and Philosophy
Screening of Pinoy/Blonde
Mark
Sandberg on Carl Dreyer's Model Homes
Roundtable on Neoliberalism, Hollywood, and
Asian Cinemas
Herbert
Blau on Apnea and True Illusion
Screening of La Visa Loca
Workshop on Writing in Public
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Practical Pedagogy Colloquium
Writing
Worlds
A
Panel Discussion on Composition across Disciplines
  Monday, May 22nd, 2006 - 3:30 PM  Communications 202  Details




This
roundtable discussion will revolve around a panel of individuals
from various departments in the College of Arts and Sciences. Our
aim is to explore the ways in which writing is taught in multiple
disciplines and to elucidate areas of commonality and contention.
Moderated by Shawna Shapiro, a PhD student who has taught
academic writing in both the UW English Language Programs and the
English Department.




Roundtable
Blind
Spots
Narrating
Modernism from the 21st Century
  Monday, May 22nd, 2006 - 5:30 PM  Communications 202 Details




The
Modernist Studies Group presents a roundtable to discuss new
perspectives on the history of modernism. The discussion will focus
on two main questions: What are the current ways in which we narrate
modernism? What occlusions occur in these accounts and why? In order
to facilitate our discussion we ask each participant to be prepared
to discuss the way his or her research makes visible a blind spot in
current narratives of modernism. Each presenter will give a short,
informal talk on his or her chosen subject, which might be a work of
art (film, novel, painting, poem, etc.), a person, a location, a
situation, a date, or even a concept (e.g. money, death, gender).
Faculty, graduate students and upper-level undergraduates from all
departments are invited to attend, as either presenting or
non-presenting participants.




Exhibition Opening
BFA
3
  Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 - 4:00 PM  Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Art 132  Details




Opening
reception featuring work by bachelor of fine arts graduates from the
areas of fibers, metals, printmaking and sculpture. Show runs
through Thursday, June 1st. Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday,
12-4pm.




Mark Sandberg
At
Home in the Set
Dreyer's
Model Homes
  Wednesday, May 24th, 2006 - 11:00 AM  Allen Library Auditorium






Using
two early filmsas the frame of analysis, Mark Sandberg
(Scandinavian and Film Studies, UC Berkeley)examines Carl Theodore
Dreyer's notion of the film set in the context of Scandinavian
architectural practice of the 1910s and 20s. At this time, the many
exhibitions of new housing in Scandinavia required a form of
consumer spectatorship from the viewers of model homes, a mode of
participatory inhabitation that puts Dreyer's notions of performance
space into interesting relief.




Hans-Joachim Dahms
News
About 'Neue Sachlichkeit'
German
Modernism in Art, Architecture, and Philosophy in the 1920s-Network
and Parallels
  Wednesday, May 24th, 2006 - 1:30 PM  Denny 308




Hans-Joachim
Dahms, a philosopher and historian, has published a series of
works about the "Vienna Circle" of 1920s philosophers and attendant
cultural phenomena.




Film Screening
Pinoy/Blonde
With
discussion with Rolando B. Tolentino
  Wednesday, May 24th, 2006 - 6:00 PM  Ethnic Cultural Theater




Pinoy/Blonde
(Peque Gallaga) is a funky, kinetic, witty and endlessly inventive
film that not only defies the conventions of Philippine cinema, but
also makes the rules twist, turn, do wild pirouettes and headstands.
With tons of clever dialogue, jokes and parodies that wink at the
audience, the film is a heady, celebratory romp through cinema
itself. Rolando B. Tolentino is one of the world's leading
scholars and theorists of Philippine literature, film and popular
culture and is currently acting director of the University of the
Philippines Film Institute and an associate professor in U.P.
Department of Film and Audiovisual Communication. His research
involves media literacy with regards to subject formation, urban
space, sexuality and gender, popular culture, transnationalism and
nationalism, and comparisons between East Asian, Southeast Asian and
Asian American film.




Roundtable
Global
Desire
Neoliberalism,
Hollywood, and Asian Cinemas
  Thursday, May 25th, 2006 - 3:00 PM  HUB 310




Featured
speakers include Rolando B. Tolentino (Film and Audiovisual
Communication, University of the Philippines), Neferti Tadiar
(History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz), and Jonathan
Beller (English and Humanities, Pratt Institute). Discussants
include Yomi Braester (Comparative Literature) and James
Tweedie (Comparative Literature). Francisco Benitez
(Comparative Literature) will serve as moderator.




Graduate Student Workshop
Writing
in Public
  Friday, May 26th, 2006 - 9:30 AM  Communications 206




Many
graduate students would like to publish their writing. This workshop
will explore and explain the pragmatics of turning ideas into
published articles. Whether you're an up-and-coming academic looking
to publish in the popular press, or you'd like to find work as a
critic, this workshop will help you conceptualize, write, and place
your writing. We'll explore the nuts and bolts of the literary
trade, from identifying outlets to reaching editors to sending query
letters to working with edits to starting and maintaining long-term
relationships and ultimately careers. Claire Dederer, a UW
graduate and Seattle writer, regularly contributes book reviews to
the New York Times Book Review and Newsday and writes longer
literary essays for The Nation. Her work has also appeared in Salon
and the Washington Post Book World. Bruce Barcott is a
contributing editor at Outside magazine, and has written for the New
York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, Harper's,
Mother Jones, and Sports Illustrated. He is currently writing a new
non-fiction book to be published by Random House next year. Space is
limited to 20 participants. To participate, email rchild at u.washington.edu
with a short paragraph describing your interest in the
workshop.




Herbert Blau
Apnea
and True Illusion
Breath(less)
in Beckett
  Friday, May 26th, 2006 - 3:30 PM  Communications 226




When
Artaud, in the first manifesto for The Theater of Cruelty, speaks of
a metaphysics of expressive gesture and speech in order to rescue
the theater "from its psychological and human stagnation," he might
have foreseen Beckett, who with "indrafts of air" around that
stagnation has reduced the drama to (a) Breath or, in the
materiality of his prose, Enough to Lessness, where the air that
seems suffocating may leave us breathless. Which can, of course, be
taken two ways: as in sleep apnea (unable to breathe) or, as with
the excitation of dreams, awakened from exhaustion into a spasm of
"true illusion," on the edge of nothing, seeing it as it
is.




Film Screening
La
Visa Loca
With
discussion with Rolando B. Tolentino
  Friday, May 26th, 2006 - 7:00 PM  Theater Off Jackson, 409 7th Ave. S  Details




With
biting with and humor, La Visa Loca (Mark Meily, 2005)
touches on many facets of contemporary Filipino culture--folk
superstition, the media, action star mythology, and the importance
of family, among others. Film Moderator: Rolando B. Tolentino
is one of the world's leading scholars and theorists of Philippine
literature, film and popular culture and is currently acting
director of the University of the Philippines Film Institute and an
associate professor in U.P. Department of Film and Audiovisual
Communication.




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