[Uwhistory] UW Humanities Events: May 27-June 2, 2007 (fwd)
Lori Anthony
anthonyl at u.washington.edu
Tue May 29 08:32:31 PDT 2007
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Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 15:55:25 -0700
From: UW Simpson Center <uwch at u.washington.edu>
To: simpsonevents at u.washington.edu
Subject: UW Humanities Events: May 27-June 2, 2007
Simpson Center for the Humanities Weekly Events Calendar
May 27-June 2, 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:
* Attention graduate students: Register now for an Autumn 2007
micro-seminar on James Joyce's Ulysses with Katz visiting scholar
Derek Attridge
* A meeting of the Public Rhetorics Permanent War research cluster
* A lecture-reading by Latino poet Martín Espada
* Sonia Katyal on how U.S. law understands the relationship between
gender and sex
* Sheila Coronel on new media and social movements in Southeast Asia
* A memorial gathering for David C. Fowler, professor emeritus of
English
* Craig Jeffrey presents a political ethnography of North Indian
student activism
* A French faculty colloquium featuring Louisa Mackenzie and Geoffrey
Turnovsky
* A multi-media art installation open house featuring work by local
teens
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Autumn Quarter Micro-Seminar for Graduate Students
A Micro-Seminar with Derek Attridge on James Joyce's Ulysses
When: October 15, 17, 18, 19, 2007 - 2:00-4:00 PM Where: Communications
202 Download e-Flyer
This 1-credit micro-seminar (HUM 597) presents an opportunity for
graduate students to engage with distinguished scholar, Derek Attridge
(English, University of York), in an intimate seminar setting. The
seminar will serve as a critical exploration of James Joyce's landmark
novel Ulysses. Over the course of four sessions, participants will
examine a section of Ulysses through a variety of lenses: sessions will
include examinations of realist Joyce, post-structuralist Joyce,
semi-colonial Joyce, and ethical Joyce, with the guidance of relevant
critical and theoretical material.
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Research Cluster
Public Rhetorics Permanent War Research Cluster
When: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 3:00 PM Where: Communications 202 Details
Join the Public Rhetorics Permanent War (PRPW) research cluster for a
presentation of works-in-progress and a discussion of plans for
articulating the project in the year ahead. PRPW is a collective of
humanities graduate students and faculty who share a scholarly interest
in understanding and clarifying the production and role of public
rhetorics during what increasingly appears to be a state of globalized
permanent war.
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Martín Espada
The Poetry of the Good Fight: A Lecture-Reading by Martin Espada
The Second Annual Reed-Osheroff-ALBA Lecture
When: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 7:30 PM Where: Savery 239 Details
In honor of Abe Osheroff and the late Bob Reed, two Seattle-area veterans
of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade who fought in the Spanish Civil War,
Latino poet Martín Espada (English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
will read from The Carpenter Swam to Spain. The poem chronicles Abe
Osheroff's long swim to shore after his ship to Spain was struck by a
torpedo. Osheroff will be available to answer questions after Espada's
lecture.
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Sonia Katyal
The Intellectual Commons of Gender
When: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 4:00 PM Where: Communications 226
Download e-Flyer
Sonia Katyal (Fordham Law School) will focus on how U.S. law understands
the relationship between gender and sex, arguing that recent
anti-discrimination claims by transgender rights activists demand a
significant rethinking of that understanding. Building on her prior work
on international human rights and performance theory, she will explore
the arenas of gender and sex through an analysis of property theory as it
relates to the categorization of gender through the prisms of real space
and cyberspace.
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Sheila Coronel
New Media and Social Movements in Southeast Asia
When: Thursday, May 31, 2007 - 3:30 PM Where: Communications 120
Download e-Flyer
Old and new media have played important roles in anti-dictatorship
movements in the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia. Sheila Coronel
(Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Columbia University) will
consider recent and current urban-based social movements and their
adeptness at using new media technologies, including the Internet and
mobile phones, to form networks, mobilize constituencies, and reach out
to citizens, including those overseas.
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Memorial Gathering
Memorial Gathering for David C. Fowler, Professor Emeritus of English
When: Friday, June 1, 2007 - 12:00 PM Where: Walker-Ames Room, Kane
Hall Details
All are welcome to attend a public memorial gathering honoring David C.
Fowler, a professor emeritus of English, who died on April 30. Fowler
joined the UW in 1952 and retired from teaching in 1986. His research
focused on the works of the Middle Ages and his distinguished career as a
scholar included books on Piers Plowman, the Perceval of Chrétien de
Troyes, the literary history of the English ballad, the Bible in medieval
English literature, and John Trevisa.
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Craig Jeffrey
Dominance & Dignity: A Political Ethnography of North Indian Student
Activism
Part of the Dignity and Subalterns in South Asia Series
When: Friday, June 1, 2007 - 2:30 PM Where: Thomson 317 Details
Building on ethnographic research on student politics in Meerut, Craig
Jeffrey (Geography and International Studies) will examine the everyday
political and cultural strategies of a set of middle caste and locally
dominant student political leaders. Jeffrey will examine how these
leaders seek to preserve a core of self-esteem in the face of virulent
critiques of their alleged 'corruption' and apparent betrayal of student
interests.
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Louisa Mackenzie and Geoffrey Turnovsky
Louisa Mackenzie: "Of Ladies and Landscapes"
Geoffrey Turnovsky: "Writing, Publishing, and Cultural Preeminance in
17-Century France"
Spring 2007 French Faculty Colloquium
When: Friday, June 1, 2007 - 3:00 PM Where: Communications 202 Details
Using the example of the French poet Joachim du Bellay's work, Louisa
Mackenzie (French) will explore how the topography of the woman's body in
the Petrarchan tradition becomes an eroticized, gendered, exclusive, and
aristocratic relationship to land itself in 16th-century France, a
relationship that could be argued as the foundation of the nascent
concept of the nation.
Accounts of intellectual modernization in Old Regime France most often
emphasize the writer's pursuit of social independence through
entrepreneurial claims to property rights and payments.
Seventeenth-century accounts, however, offer a different view by
associating modernity with the "civilization" of the writer who is
integrated into, rather than liberated from, elite society. Geoffrey
Turnovsky (French) will examine the alternative story of literary
socialization, and contemplate how the two narratives of progress might
be reconciled.
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Exhibition Open House
Constructing Childhood
A Reclaiming Childhood Exhibition
When: Saturday, June 2, 2007 - 1:00-4:00 PM Where: Allen Library 381L
Details
This multi-media installation features work by young people reflecting on
their experiences of childhood. The show includes two and
three-dimensional visual art, poetry, essays, soundscapes, spoken words,
and video/film by teens. The exhibit runs through June 23 and can be
viewed by appointment only after the open house. To arrange for other
viewing opportunities, please email rchild at u.washington.edu.
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