[Uwhistory] UW Humanities Events: April 8-14, 2007 (fwd)
Lori Anthony
anthonyl at u.washington.edu
Mon Apr 9 08:56:03 PDT 2007
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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 14:36:28 -0700
From: UW Simpson Center <uwch at u.washington.edu>
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Subject: UW Humanities Events: April 8-14, 2007
Simpson Center for the Humanities Weekly Events Calendar
April 08 - 14, 2007
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:
* Katherine Beckett, Ann Anagnost, and Ruby Blondell present their
crossdisciplinary research
* Brian Reed on Hart Crane's poetry
* A panel discussion on Chinese immigrant involvement in Cuba's
revolutionary struggles
* Kathleen Morrison on landscape history in south India
* An Asian Languages & Literature talk by Edward Fowler
* Juliet McMains on transculturation in the African dance
* Richard Kim on Korean immigrant nationalism and transnational
state-making
* Ed Osborn discusses the conceptual framework and development of his
sound-based installations
* Carl Craver on the Hodgkin and Huxley model of the action potential
* A Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies conference
**Attention doctoral students: Applications for the Institute on the
Public Humanities are due on Friday, April 13. Details
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Katherine Beckett, Ann Anagnost, and Ruby Blondell
Crossdisciplinary Research Presentation
When: Monday, April 09, 2007 - 3:30 PM Where: Communications 202
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Join us for a presentation by recipients of the Simpson Center's
Crossdisciplinary Research Initiative Award, an award in which each
recipient chooses a faculty counterpart from another discipline with whom
she or he would value regular conversation and guidance. Katherine
Beckett (Law, Societies, & Justice) worked with Katharyne Mitchell
(Geography) on "Discourses of Banishment, States of Exception, and Spaces
of Exclusion," Ann Anagnost (Anthropology) worked with Phillip Thurtle
(Comparative History of Ideas) on "Embodiments of Value," and Ruby
Blondell (Classics) worked with Sandra Joshel (History) on "Dangerous
Beauty: Containing Helen of Troy."
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Brian Reed
Hart Crane: After His Lights
New Books in Print
When: Tuesday, April 10, 2007- 4:00 PM Where: Communications 202
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With his suicide in 1932, Hart Crane left behind a small body of work yet
his poetry was championed and debated publicly by many of the most
eminent literary and cultural critics of his day. Join Brian Reed
(English) for a presentation and discussion of his new book on Hart
Crane's poetry and the scholarship surrounding Crane's work.
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Panel Discussion
Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban
Generals in the Cuban Revolution
When: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 7:00 PM Where: Smith 205 Download
e-Flyer
Panelists Tony Chan (Communications and International Studies), Moon-Ho
Jung (History), Martin Koppel (Interviewer for Our History Is Still Being
Written), and Freedom Allah Siyam (Political Education Officer,
BAYAN-USA) will discuss Our History Is Still Being Written, a recently
published book that recounts the little-known history of Chinese
immigrant involvement in Cuba's revolutionary struggles.
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Kathleen Morrison
On Putting Time in its Place: Landscape History in South India
A South Asia Center Event
When: Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 3:30 PM Where: Thomson 317 Details
Kathleen Morrison (Anthropology and Social Sciences, University of
Chicago) has directed and carried out archaeological research in South
India, Sri Lanka, the Pacific, and western North America. Her research
integrates paleoenvironmental analysis, archaeological survey and
excavation, and the analysis of texts and architecture.
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Edward Fowler
Edo/Tokyo from Asakusa to Azuma: Temple, Theater, Brothel, Buraku
When: Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 3:30 PM Where: Communications 226
Details
Edward Fowler (East Asian Languages & Literature, University of
California, Irvine) is an award-winning author whose work has explored
the Japanese autobiographical shishosetsu form, the politics and
aesthetics of translation, and the representation of urban space in
literature, film, and photographs.
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Juliet McMains
Transculturation in the African Dance Diaspora
Pre-Show Talk for On the Boards Performance by Reggie Wilson/Fist and
Heel Performance Group
When: Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 6:45 PM Where: On the Boards Studio
Theater Details
For three-quarters of a century, African-American choreographers have
been recontextualizing black spiritual and vernacular dance for
presentation on concert stages. Juliet McMains (Dance) will offer an
overview of this historical legacy, inherited and continued by Reggie
Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group, that persuades diverse audiences
to celebrate the richness of African diasporic culture.
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Richard Kim
Diasporic Dilemmas: Korean Immigrant Nationalism and
Transnational State-Making, 1903-1945
When: Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 7:00 PM Where: Communications 226
Richard S. Kim (Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis)
will address the multiple and contradictory efforts by Koreans in the
United States to liberate their homeland from Japanese colonialism.
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Ed Osborn
DXARTS Talk
When: Friday, April 13, 2007 - 3:00 PM Where: Allen Library Auditorium
Details
Ed Osborn (Art, University of California, Santa Cruz) will discuss the
conceptual background and development of his sound-based installations,
sculptures, and video works. Ranging from rumbling fans and sounding
train sets to squirming music boxes and delicate feedback networks, the
works demonstrate a visceral sense of space, aurality, and motion
combined with a precise economy of materials.
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Carl Craver
When Mechanistic Models Explain: The Hodgkin and Huxley Model of the
Action Potential
A Department of Philosophy Colloquium
When: Friday, April 13, 2007 - 3:30 PM Where: Savery 249 Details
Carl Craver (Philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis) will argue
that Hodgkin and Huxley were correct in regarding their mathematical
model of action potential as a phenomenological model and that they
regarded their understanding of the action potential as sketchy at best.
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Conference
From the Cold War to Post-Communism: Sixty Years of REECAS (1947-2007)
When: Saturday, April 14, 2007 Where: Communications 202, 226, 120
Details
The 13th Annual Northwest Regional Conference for Russian, East European
and Central Asian Studies will feature sessions on health and human
development in Eurasia; civil society and politics in Central Asia;
adaptation and redefinition in national cultures; issues of gender in
literature and media; and Russia's cultural relationship to the West.
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