[Uwhistory] UW Humanities Events: April 29-May 5, 2007 (fwd)
Lori Anthony
anthonyl at u.washington.edu
Mon Apr 30 11:06:34 PDT 2007
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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:46:42 -0700
From: UW Simpson Center <uwch at u.washington.edu>
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Subject: UW Humanities Events: April 29-May 5, 2007
Simpson Center for the Humanities Weekly Events Calendar
April 29 - May 5, 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:
* Edoardo Lèbano on Italian-American relations at the time of Lincoln
and Garibaldi
* Teens discuss their experiences living in the digital age
* Photographer Phil Borges offers a world-view of gender equality
* Paul Wouters on the promises and challenges of digital scholarship
* A panel discussion on the presentation of language in written and
visual arts
* An Asian Languages and Literature colloquium with Stevan Harrell and
Ergu Azhi (Lygu Ajy)
* Henry Shue explores whether or not torture is justified as a method
of fighting terrorism
* A conference on ethics and climate change
* Steve Ellner on anti-neoliberalism in Venezuela and its implication
for the labor movement
* Paul Gregory on the political economy of repression
* Scott Hafso on the evolution of musical theater as an art form
* Adriana Petryna on the global outsourcing of clinical trials
* Irene Bierman-McKinney on how Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Sheikh's movement
through Cairo reshaped the city
* Richard Dunn on the nationalist novels of Joseph Conrad
* Bram Dijkstra on the contested body in German and American
expressionist art
* A symposium on the implications of international education
* Thomas Christensen on Marin Mersenne's music theory treatise
* An Aperture Series talk featuring photographer Bruce Davidson
* Enroll now for Summer Quarter courses on Pacific Northwest history
and literature
* A graduate student opportunity at the UW Press
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Edoardo Lèbano
Garibaldi and Lincoln: A Missed Opportunity
A French & Italian Studies Event
When: Sunday, April 29, 2007 - 2:00 PM Where: Kane 210 Details
Edoardo Lèbano (French & Italian, Indiana University) will explore a
little, if not unknown, page in Italian-American history concerning the
offer of a command of an American army made by President Abraham Lincoln
to Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1861. Talk is in English; Lebano will also give
a talk in Italian on Monday, April 30, at 2:30 p.m. in Communications 202
on "L'Epica a Firenze Nell 'Eta' Di Lorenzo il Magnifico."
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Youth Forum
Gaming, IMing, Internet: Onboard or Overbored? Kids Speak Out about
Living in the Digital Age
A Reclaiming Childhood Event
When: Monday, April 30, 2007 - 5:30 PM Where: Town Hall Seattle
Download e-Flyer
From virtual reality games to the internet to Instant Messaging to MP3
players, technological devices have become part of our everyday lives.
What is the impact of these new forms of technology on the social life
and self-awareness of young teens? Come hear middle school students talk
about their experiences in a friendly, youth-oriented forum. Parents,
teachers, and others are welcome to participate in the discussion.
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Phil Borges
Women Empowered: Inspiring Change in the Emerging World
Part of the Graduate School's Diversity Book Talk Series
When: Monday, April 30, 2007 - 7:00 PM Where: Kane 220 Download e-Flyer
Seattle photographer Phil Borges traveled the globe, documenting efforts
by the relief organization CARE for the new book, Women Empowered. In
this talk he will offer a world view of gender equality that may change
our understanding of local problems.
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Paul Wouters
Forging a New Academic Identity: Key Dilemmas and Challenges in Digital
Scholarship
When: Tuesday, May 1, 2007 - 3:30 PM Where: Communications 202 Download
e-Flyer
Scholars interested in the application of new technologies in their
research emphasize technology's many promises to make materials more
accessible, create more efficient or effective working routines, and even
inspire completely new research questions. Paul Wouters (Virtual
Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Royal
Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) will analyze new technologies
as the construction site of new academic and scholarly identities as well
as confronting their perceived challenges.
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Panel Discussion
Visible Language
Part of the Writing for their Lives Series
When: Tuesday, May 1, 2007 - 3:30 PM Where: UW Bothell Library Room 205
Details
Poet Charles Alexander, Elizabeth Brown (Chief Curator, Henry Art
Gallery), and Brian Reed (English) will discuss the presence and
presentation of language in written and visual arts. This discussion is
presented in conjunction with Seeing Sound, Hearing Form, an exhibition
of works that simultaneously engage our visual and aural senses.
Exhibition curator Sandra Kroupa (Allen Library Book Arts and Rare Book
Curator) and Alexander will give a special talk on Thursday, May 3, at
7:00 pm in UW Bothell Library Room 205.
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Stevan Harrell & Ergu Azhi (Lygu Ajy)
How to Harmonize a Marriage through Ritual: Lessons from the Nuosu (Yi)
Text Kepu Jjylur Shy-a-te
An Asian Languages and Literature Colloquium
When: Tuesday, May 1, 2007 - 3:30 PM Where: Communications 226 Details
Stevan Harrell (Anthropology) and Ergu Azhi (Southwest Nationalities
Institute, Chengdu) will provide a brief introduction to the context of
the featured text, Kepu Jjylur Shy-a-te, and will show how certain
passages reflect different ideas about the Nuosu ideal world order.
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Henry Shue
Can Fighting Terrorism Justify Torture
A Program on Values in Society Lecture
When: Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - 7:00 PM Where: Kane 210 Details
Henry Shue (Politics and International Relations, Oxford University) will
explore whether torture can be excused if it is the only weapon to
prevent a terrorist catastrophe or whether torture is so threatening to
civilized values that it has been a mistake for the United States to
unleash it even in the fight against terror.
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Conference
Ethics and Climate Change
Presented by the Program on Values in Society and the Evans School of
Public Affairs
When: Thursday-Friday, May 3-4, 2007 - 9:00 AM Where: Henry Art Gallery
Auditorium and Kane Hall Details
This conference will consider climate change as an ethical issue by
focusing on topics such as the ethical responsibilities of scientists,
obligations to future generations, and the intersection between climate
change, global justice, and human rights.
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Steve Ellner
Anti-neoliberalism in Venezuela and its Implications for the Labor
Movement
Part of the Latin American Challenges to the Neo-Liberal Order Lecture
Series
When: Thursday, May 3, 2007 - 3:30 PM Where: Communications 226 Details
Steve Ellner (Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela) will address the
argument that Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez supports neoliberal
measures and strategies while masquerading as an anti-neoliberal.
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Paul Gregory
The Political Economy of Repression: Evidence from the NKVD Files
An Ellison Center Lecture
When: Thursday, May 3, 2007 - 3:30 PM Where: Communications 126 Details
Paul Gregory (Economics, University of Houston, Texas) is the author of
many books and articles on economic history, the Soviet economy,
transition economies, comparative economics, and economic demography.
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Scott Hafso
Musical Theatre or Music Theatre? The Evolution of an American Art Form
Pre-Show Talk for On the Boards Performance by Cynthia Hopkins
When: Thursday, May 3, 2007 - 6:45 PM Where: On the Boards Studio
Theatre Details
Scott Hafso (Drama) presents a pre-show talk for the On the Boards
opening night performance of Must Don't Whip 'Um by Cynthia Hopkins. From
its European roots through a century of social change, Hafso will discuss
how the ever-evolving American musical finds its voice in each
generation.
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Adriana Petryna
A Pair of Talks on the Global Outsourcing of Clinical Trials
Part of the Critical Medical Humanities Lecture Series
When: Thursday, May 3, 2007 - 7:00 PM Where: Communications 120
Download e-Flyer
When: Friday, May 4, 2007 - 12:00 PM Where: Turner Auditorium D209,
Health Sciences
Adriana Petryna's (Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania) ethnographic
research investigates U.S.-based pharmaceutical research and the ways in
which cultural values and political and economic practices affect
scientific production. She is co-editor of Global Pharmaceuticals:
Ethics, Markets, Practices (2006) and is completing an ethnography of the
evolving clinical trials industry.
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Irene Bierman-McKinney
Making the City of Cairo through Motion
Farhat J. Ziadeh Distinguished Lecture Series in Arab and Islamic
Studies
When: Thursday, May 3, 2007 - 7:00 PM Where: Kane 120 Details
Irene Bierman-McKinney (Art History, University of California, Los
Angeles) will examine the area of Cairo from the mosque complex of Sultan
al-Mu'ayyad Sheikh and Bab Zuwayla through the Dar al Ahmar. Her
examination will start in the 15th century when the Sultan built his
mosque. His almost daily movement through Cairo altered the Bab by
literally demarcating the urban area of Cairo, which served to reshape
the city and move its power center.
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Richard Dunn
Joseph Conrad: Supra-National Novelist
Distinguished Polish Studies Speakers Lecture
When: Thursday, May 3, 2007 - 7:30 PM Where: Kane 110 Details
Richard Dunn (English) will reconsider Joseph Conrad's writing as
forerunner of "World English," the body of literature in English by
distinguished writers whose native languages are not English. Dunn will
discuss Conrad's fictional perspective, complementary to but never really
in the tradition of the English novel to which he has been most often
linked.
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Bram Dijkstra
German vs. American Expressionism? The Contested Body in Art
When: Friday, May 4, 2007 - 1:30 PM Where: Communications 202 Download
e-Flyer
Born in Indonesia, Bram Dijkstra (American and Comparative Literature
University of California, San Diego), a writer on literary and artistic
subjects, is well-known for his academic publications that have broken
into popular culture.
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Symposium
International Education: From Multiculturalism to Cosmopolitanism?
When: Friday, May 4, 2007 - 1:30 PM Where: Petersen Room, Allen Library
Download program
International education is all the rage. Bi-lingual initiatives in
schools, foreign exchange programs, and increased funding for "global"
education are but a few examples of increased interest in this pedagogic
philosophy. But what exactly does it mean? And why is it the center of
attention now? This symposium will bring together university academics
including Walter Parker (Education and Political Science) and Matthew
Sparke (Geography and International Studies), policy makers, teachers,
and parents to discuss the implications of this new turn in educational
policy and practice.
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Thomas Christensen
Music Theory Colloquium
When: Friday, May 4, 2007 - 3:30 PM Where: Music 213
Thomas Christensen (Music, University of Chicago) is a theorist and
historian of music theory with special interests in 18th-century
intellectual history, problems in tonal theory, historiography, and
aesthetics. In this colloquium, he will discuss Marin Mersenne's
encyclopedic Harmonie Universelle (1636-38), the longest and most
comprehensive treatise of music theory written in the 17th century.
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Bruce Davidson
Aperture Series Lecture
When: Sunday, May 6, 2007 - 5:00 PM Where: Henry Art Gallery Auditorium
Details
Entering worlds such as a traveling circus in 1958, a Brooklyn street
gang in 1959, and the Civil Rights movement (including the Freedom Rides
in 1961 and the Selma March in 1965), artist Bruce Davidson demonstrates
that once a photographer finds his way into a world, he can manifest
meaning and beauty by utilizing a keen sense of compassion, commitment,
and discipline.
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Summer Quarter 2007 Courses
A Pair of Courses on Pacific Northwest History and Literature
Presented in Conjunction with A Sense of Where We Are, II: History and
Literature of the Pacific Northwest
When: Summer Quarter 2007 Where: Sieg 225 Details
Instructors John Findlay (History) and Dan Lamberton (English, Walla
Walla College) will offer two linked courses featuring visits from
prominent regional writers such as Kim Barnes, Debra Magpie Earling,
Heather McHugh, Marilynne Robinson, Richard White, and Robert Wrigley.
Lamberton's "Pacific Northwest Literature" (ENGL 457A) course will focus
on literary texts by historical and contemporary writers associated with
the Pacific Northwest. Findlay's "Writing the Region: A Documentary
History of Pacific Northwest Identity" (HSTAA 433) course will examine
the emergence of regional identity through diverse texts, beginning with
Native stories and tracing different phases of development.
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Graduate Student Opportunity
University of Washington Press Internship
When: September 2007-August 2008 Where: Application Deadline: May 7,
2007 Download e-Flyer
A 50% GSA position, the UW Press intern will be exposed to a wide range
of areas in the publication process, including acquisitions, copyediting,
design, production, and marketing. The work will be substantial in nature
and offer a larger sense of the publishing profession and current issues.
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