Southeast Asia Center – 91爆料 News /news Thu, 14 Nov 2024 22:20:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 ArtSci Roundup: Spring Faculty Panel, Producing Artist Lab, Indigenous Foods Symposium, and more /news/2023/04/28/artsci-roundup-spring-faculty-panel-producing-artist-lab-indigenous-foods-symposium-and-more/ Fri, 28 Apr 2023 15:57:08 +0000 /news/?p=81355 This week, listen to a leading voice in the women’s movement, watch the 91爆料 School of Drama’s student directed play “In The Blood”, attend the Indigenous Foods Symposium, and more.


May 1, 5:00 – 6:30 PM |Online

Globalization refers to increasing interdependence and integration among nations and societies. Deglobalization happens when this interdependence and integration are in decline, whether we are talking about finance, trade, migration, international agreements on pressing issues such as climate change, national security etc.

Is globalization on the decline? Is that a good thing?

Free |


May 1, 6:30 PM | May Day: Women and Equality, Kane Hall & Recorded

As a leading voice in the women鈥檚 movement, Ai-Jen Poo will talk about the status of today鈥檚 labor movement and its impact on women.

Ai-jen Poo is an award-winning organizer, author, and a leading voice in the women鈥檚 movement. She is the President of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Director of Caring Across Generations, Co-Founder of SuperMajority, Co-Host of Sunstorm podcast and a Trustee of the Ford Foundation. Ai-jen is a nationally recognized expert on elder and family care, the future of work, and what鈥檚 at stake for women of color. She is the author of the celebrated book, The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America.

Suggested Ticket Price $5 | More info and Registration


May 2, 7:00 – 9:30 PM & May 4, 7:00 – 8:30 PM | Kane Hall

For this year鈥檚 Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies, Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, a classically trained and internationally acclaimed vocalist, composer and arranger specializing in music in the Yiddish language, will perform with accompanist Dmitri Gaskin. Through oration and art music, they will take us on a melodic journey through a variety of elements come together to shape Russell鈥檚 unique genre of Jewish musicality.

Free |


May 2 & May 4听触 Glenn Hughes Penthouse Theatre and Online

This lecture series and colloquium advance crucial conversations on world language and literature study on the 91爆料 Seattle campus through an interdisciplinary, multi-departmental speaker series focused on issues of race, identity, colonialism, and migration within a broad European context. These trans- or postnational, transcultural, and multilingual approaches to national literatures offer effective frameworks for undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty to grasp the intersectional complexity of power configurations in literary and visual cultures.

Free |


May 3 – May 7 | Glenn Hughes Penthouse Theatre

The Producing Artist Laboratory is a recent development in the 91爆料 School of Drama’s production structure. Student-artists require many outlets to practice their craft from their first year to graduation. The Producing Artists Lab is an opportunity to share some of these exciting exploratory or developmental projects with the public. Audience members may see a wider range in the levels of production and often more vigorous artistic risk-taking in these Lab productions.

In the Blood was directed by graduate directing students Kate Drummond and Nick O’Leary. In this modern-day riff on The Scarlet Letter, a homeless mother of five lives with her kids on the tough streets of the inner city. Her eldest child is teaching her how to read and write, but the letter 鈥淎鈥 is, so far, the only letter she knows. Her five kids are played by adult actors who double as five other people in her life. While Hester鈥檚 kids fill her life with joy鈥攍ovingly comical moments amid the harsh world of poverty鈥攖he adults with whom she comes into contact only hold her back.

Content Warning: The play contains mature subject matter and themes, including explicit language, violence, and sexual content.

$10 – $20 Tickets |


May 4, 7:30 PM | Meany Hall

Violist and composer Melia Watras presents a celebration of the viola with an evening of world premieres composed by 91爆料 faculty, students, and alumni. The program includes 91爆料 faculty composer Jo毛l- Fran莽ois Durand鈥檚 Geister weider鈥 pour alto solo (written for Watras), a collaborative composition by Watras and her former student Madeline Warner, and four pieces commissioned by Watras especially for this event, by 91爆料 students and alums Sandesh Nagaraj, Jonathan Rodriguez, Breana Tavaglione, and Wei Yang. Watras in joined onstage by vocalist Carrie Henneman Shaw and violinist Michael Jinsoo Lim.

$10 – $20 Tickets |


May 5 – May 6 | Intellectual HouseLiving Breath logo

This symposium brings people together to share knowledge on topics such as traditional foods, plants and medicines; environmental and food justice; food sovereignty/security; health and wellness; and treaty rights. This event serves to foster dialogue and build collaborative networks as Native people strive to sustain cultural food practices and preserve healthy relationships with the land, water, and all living things.

This year’s theme is “Health, Healing & Resilience”.

Free for 91爆料 Students |


May 6, 7:30 PM | Meany Hall

From visionary theater and opera director Peter Sellars comes his most personal work to date, a staging of Orlando di Lasso鈥檚 Lagrime di San Pietro (The Tears of Saint Peter). This profoundly moving Renaissance masterpiece depicts the grief and remorse of the Apostle Peter after he disavows knowledge of Jesus Christ on the day of his arrest and crucifixion. Sung by 21 a cappella singers of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Lagrime is refracted through Mr. Sellars signature contemporary lens, suggesting a powerful allegory about facing our past head-on in order to forge a more fulfilling future.

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Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Lauren Zondag (zondagld@uw.edu).

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ArtSci Roundup: Modern Music Ensemble, Brazilian Percussion, and more /news/2023/03/03/artsci-roundup-modern-music-ensemble-brazilian-percussion-and-more/ Fri, 03 Mar 2023 19:28:35 +0000 /news/?p=80803 This week, attend a Modern Music Ensemble performance, learn how creating great urban neighborhoods and environmental justice go hand in hand, witness听percussionist Jeff Busch in a concert of Brazilian music, and more.

 


March 7, 7:30 PM | Meany Hall

Cristina Vald茅s leads the 91爆料 Modern Music Ensemble in performances of works from the mid-20th century and beyond. Program includes pieces by Patricia Alessandrini, Kaija Saariaho, Christian Wolff, Huck Hodge, Sarah Hennies, and Huang Ruo.

$10 tickets |


March 7, 7:30 PM | Brechemin Auditorium

Seattle-based percussionist Jeff Busch presents a concert of Brazilian music, featuring students from his Winter 2023 percussion ensemble, and spanning genres from samba to maracat煤 to forr贸. With guest appearances by pianist Jovino Santos Neto, singer Adriana Giordano, and other luminaries of the local Brazilian music scene, as well as 91爆料 faculty Marc Seales, Steve Rodby, and Shannon Dudley.

Free|


March 8, 5 – 7 PM |Communications Building

Southeast Asian writers experience diaspora, and its losses, both within the region and without, both psychologically and socially. How do they contend with the multiple manifestations of diaspora in their writing? Jee Leong Koh (Snow at 5 PM), Jim Pascual Agustin (Waking Up to the Pattern Left by a Snail Overnight), Lawrence Lacambra Ypil (The Experiment of the Tropics), and Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint (Names of Light) read from their work and converse with Reuven Pinnata (91爆料, English) on mapping the unmappable.

Free|


March 9, 6 – 7:30 PM | Architecture Hall

Understand how planners, civic leaders and activists are organizing around the idea of reparations for the damage caused by driving urban freeways through urban communities. Lauren Hood, Chair of the Detroit Planning Commission and a nationally known urban planner, Rosa Lopez, Reconnect South Park Organizer, and Madeleine Spencer, a leader of Placemaking US, will describe the project to restore Seattle鈥檚 South Park community, which was divided by State Highway 99.

Highway 99 in Seattle cuts through the heart of South Park. When Highway 99 was constructed, South Park was home to an immigrant population largely of Mexican heritage. It is now the home of numerous immigrant and refugee communities. Highway 99 through South Park is underutilized, and its path is another example of environmental racism. The Washington Legislature has appropriated $600,000 to explore possible actions to repair this rift. The City of Seattle is supporting this initiative and investing in community consultation around alternatives.

Creating great urban neighborhoods and taking action for environmental justice go hand in hand. This panel will make that crucial connection and show how we can envision and attain just and sustainable future cities.

Free |


March 9, 7:30 PM | 听Meany Hall

The 91爆料 Wind Ensemble director, Timothy Salzman, performs music by Chang Su Koh and Jennifer Higdon. The Symphonic Band director, Shaun Day, performs music by Darius Milhaud, Philip Sparke and Valerie Coleman. With Scott Farkas, percussion soloist on Jennifer Higdon鈥檚 Concerto for Solo Percussion and Band.

$10 tickets |


March 9, 5:30 – 7:30 PM | Solo Bar & Eatery

Seattle has become an exciting center of literary translation over the past few years. Visitors to the 2023 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference and local fans of translation are invited to help celebrate Seattle’s translation community at a party hosted by the Northwest Literary Translators, the 91爆料 Translation Studies Hub at the Simpson Center for the Humanities, and Seattle City of Literature. This event features select readings by local translators, delicious food, and a cash bar.

Free |


March 10, 7:30 PM | Meany Hall

The 91爆料 Symphony director, David Alexander Rahbee, performs music by Sibelius, Gli猫re and Tchaikovsky in this end-of-quarter concert. With faculty artist John Turman, horn soloist on Gli猫re: Horn Concerto, Op. 91 in B flat Major; and Seattle Symphony assistant conductor Sunny Xia, guest conductor for Tchaikovsky鈥檚 Symphony No. 4, Op. 36, in F minor.

$10 tickets |


Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Lauren Zondag (zondagld@uw.edu).

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International field course held in Indonesia and led by 91爆料 professor ends after 30 years /news/2022/09/29/international-field-course-held-in-indonesia-and-led-by-uw-professor-ends-after-30-years/ Thu, 29 Sep 2022 21:34:40 +0000 /news/?p=79596 Group photo of people behind banner
Randall Kyes, founding director of the 91爆料 Center for Global Field Study, led an annual field course in conservation biology and global health in Indonesia that lasted three decades. Photo: Randall Kyes

It was 1990, and 鈥 first trip to was ending. Kyes, a postdoctoral fellow at the time, had spent more than two months on the small Indonesian island monitoring a recently launched breeding program for long-tailed macaque monkeys.

But then an Indonesian colleague asked a question 鈥 one Kyes said changed his life. Local veterinary students were eager to learn about primate behavior and conservation, he said. Would Kyes be willing to return next year and run a field course?

鈥淭hat took my career and turned it in a very different direction,鈥 said Kyes, research professor of psychology at the 91爆料, core scientist in the 91爆料 Primate Center, or WaNPRC, and the founding director of the 91爆料 Center for Global Field Study. 鈥淚t didn鈥檛 take but a second for me to say, 鈥楴o problem.鈥欌

That response transformed a short trip into an annual field course in conservation biology and global health that lasted three decades. Kyes and his Indonesian colleague conducted the 30th and final iteration in the summer of 2022.

The course originally launched for Indonesian students in 1991. By 1995, it was going so well that Kyes added American students by establishing the at the 91爆料. The month-long study abroad program, held in collaboration with the Primate Research Center, or PSSP, at IPB University in Indonesia, provided field-based educational and research opportunities for students from the 91爆料, Indonesia and other participating countries.

鈥淭he cultural exchange and connection that developed from that was more than we ever could鈥檝e imagined,鈥 said Kyes, who is also a faculty member in the Southeast Asia Center in the 91爆料 Jackson School of International Studies. 鈥淭hat was almost the highlight of the whole program, more than doing the field research.鈥

PSSP, with support from the WaNPRC, established the natural habitat breeding program for free-ranging long-tailed macaques on Tinjil Island. The field course was then designed to provide educational, training and research opportunities for students interested in conservation biology, animal behavior, primatology, environmental science and global health.

Before traveling to Indonesia, 91爆料 students would take a spring course that prepped them with the basics of the Indonesian language and allowed them to develop a proposal for their independent research project. Once on the island, students conducted field research while also attending lectures and taking part in field training exercises.

A total of 372 students participated in the course over the years 鈥 266 from Indonesia and 106 from other countries. Of the 91 students from United States institutions, 77 were from the 91爆料.

鈥淵ou had this ideal environment to bring students in for a true field study experience,鈥 Kyes said. 鈥淲e don鈥檛 have any really dangerous animals on the island. It鈥檚 a stable environment and fully forested. It鈥檚 remote. You had to take about an hour’s boat ride to get there. All the resources and food had to be shipped out every few days.

鈥淭hat鈥檚 what was so special and intriguing about Tinjil Island 鈥 it was a natural and wild environment that gave the students a good feel of what it would be like to do field research as a career. Most everybody loved it. Other students told me, 鈥業鈥檓 really glad I did this because I guess field research isn鈥檛 for me.鈥 That鈥檚 perfect. We wanted to give them an opportunity before they got too involved. Tinjil provided that opportunity.鈥

The final field course culminated with a celebration seminar, which was attended by alumni from as far back as the inaugural course in 1991. Kyes gave an hour-long presentation that highlighted the program鈥檚 evolution. In the early years, he said, there wasn鈥檛 even electricity on the island.

Man standing in front of projector
Randall Kyes gives a presentation during the celebration seminar that followed the final field course. Photo: Randall Kyes

鈥淭he alumni shared these amazing stories about their experiences,鈥 Kyes said. 鈥淢any of these American and Indonesian students, they鈥檙e still in touch. I know some American students that have gone back over the years to visit friends they鈥檝e made. You don鈥檛 expect that these connections are going to last that long.

鈥淲hat kept me coming back to the program is the students鈥 motivation and their dedication in wanting to help with in-country conservation and related public health issues. Helping to promote the local students and scientists has always been the underlying theme of my work.鈥

While Kyes鈥 time on Tinjil Island is ending, his international focus isn鈥檛 done. Kyes maintains a strong partnership with PSSP and has established other collaborative programs in Indonesia and several other countries, including Nepal, Thailand, Bangladesh, China, Mexico, India and Laos. Although there isn鈥檛 a formal study abroad program at these sites, 91爆料 students have joined Kyes for one-off experiences.

And even though the Tinjil Island program is ending, two of Kyes鈥 earliest students will be continuing the field course on mainland Java, one of the Greater Sunda听Islands听in Indonesia.

One of the organizers is a former Indonesian student and current senior research scientist at PSSP, IBP University. He participated in the first field course in 1991 and has collaborated with Kyes on each ensuing course. , who was among the first study abroad students in 1995 and is now an associate professor of psychology at Central Oregon Community College, will be bringing students. Kyes won鈥檛 be leading the course, but he still plans to teach.

鈥淭his is exactly what you want to see,鈥 Kyes said. 鈥淵ou want to train people who then can take over and continue it into the future. It鈥檚 so rare that we see that. It鈥檚 so rare that you spend 30 years nurturing a program like this and you鈥檙e able to see it expand. If we want to be successful in helping the environment and biodiversity, there needs to be a next generation leading the way. This is a shining example of that.鈥

For more information, contact Kyes at rkyes@uw.edu.

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91爆料 professors to participate in panel on recently removed Volunteer Park plaque /news/2022/05/05/uw-professors-to-participate-in-panel-on-recently-removed-volunteer-park-plaque/ Thu, 05 May 2022 19:55:31 +0000 /news/?p=78369 A road lined by trees leading into a park
91爆料 professors will participate in a discussion about a memorial plaque that was recently removed from Seattle鈥檚 Volunteer Park. Photo: 91爆料

Three 91爆料 professors will participate in a presentation and discussion on May 7 about a memorial plaque that was recently removed from Seattle鈥檚 Volunteer Park due to concerns about its accuracy.

Originally called City Park, Volunteer Park was renamed in 1901 to honor veterans of the Spanish-American War. A commemorative plaque 鈥 championed by J. Willis Sayre, a veteran of the war who also supported the park鈥檚 name change 鈥 was installed in 1953 and described the war as one of liberation for the peoples of the Philippines, Cuba and Puerto Rico. The war is now widely viewed as one of imperial conquest.

In May 2021 鈥 around the same time a community member requested that Seattle Parks and Recreation remove the plaque 鈥 published a Northeast Asian Weekly op-ed titled 鈥.鈥 Seattle Parks removed the plaque that summer.

will be held in the Seattle Asian Art Museum in the Stimson Auditorium on Saturday, May 7 from 3-4:30 p.m. Tickets are free and are available through. The program will also be livestreamed via Volunteer Park Trust鈥檚 .

Giebel, a 91爆料 associate professor in the Jackson School of International Studies and of history, focuses on colonialism and imperialism in Asia.

鈥淲ords matter,鈥 Giebel said. 鈥淭erminology matters in how we commemorate and how we remember. It鈥檚 something that needs to be renegotiated all the time. There are also facts, and we must honor our facts even if they make us uncomfortable. In this case, there is simply no way around this misrepresentation.鈥

The program, 鈥淰olunteering for Empire: The Wars of 1898 and Seattle鈥檚 Volunteer Park,鈥漺ill discuss issues with the plaque in relation to the history of the war, its aftermath and how subsequent generations viewed the conflict. It will also examine broader questions related to racism, U.S. foreign policy and the consequences of American wars.

Giebel will moderate a panel featuring 91爆料 faculty members, professor and historian of Southeast Asian history and American colonialism, and, associate professor and historian of Latin American and Caribbean history. Their discussion will examine the intersections of race, colonialism and national identity.

鈥淰olunteer Park is one of the most important public spaces in Seattle, and yet like many of the public spaces in Washington and the U.S., it is permeated with the legacies of the U.S. Empire,鈥 Rafael said. 鈥淭he stone plaque that commemorated Seattle volunteers’ participation in the so-called 鈥榣iberation鈥 of the Philippines is just one example of the distortion of history to reflect the dominant historical narrative that U.S. intervention was a sort of rescue mission.鈥

In the 1890s, a nationalist movement rose against Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines. A provisional government had declared Philippine independence by early 1898. Meanwhile, the U.S. declared war on Spain, and Spain surrendered only to the U.S.

American troops refused to recognize Philippine sovereignty. While a constitutional assembly formally established the Philippine Republic in 1899, the U.S.-Spanish Treaty of Paris sold the Philippines, Cuba and Puerto Rico to the U.S.

鈥淭he Republic of the Philippines was really Asia鈥檚 first republic,鈥 Giebel said. 鈥淲ithin weeks of the declaration of independence, the Americans are coming in and conquering it and destroying it. It was really a war of conquest.鈥

The Philippine-American war resulted in more than 250,000 Filipino deaths from 1889 to 1902 and caused ecological and economic destruction of the islands, Rafael said. The Philippines remained a U.S. colony until 1946, an occupation that 鈥渟aw the persistent rise of revolts, insurgencies and colonial counter-insurgencies that resulted in even more violence and massacres.鈥

鈥淎s a Puerto Rican scholar whose family lives in Puerto Rico,鈥 Rodr铆guez-Silva said, 鈥渢his is also a unique opportunity to bring attention to the new forms of subjugation to U.S. interests lived by people in former colonies like the Philippines, as well as the everyday realities of dispossession and displacement experienced by inhabitants, and their diasporas, in the U.S. colonies of today: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.鈥

The event will also feature librarian Abe Ignacio, who co-authored 鈥淭he Forbidden Book鈥 featuring over 200 political cartoons from 1898 to 1906 that chronicle the war between the United States and the Philippines. Ignacio will explain how the American public viewed the war at the time.

鈥淭he conquest of the Philippines is one of the most forgotten wars in American history,鈥 Giebel said. 鈥淭hat moment of the Spanish-American War where America really branched out beyond the continent and became truly an empire, is something that is absolutely covered up in mainstream historical understanding.鈥

The event is sponsored by Volunteer Park Trust, the 91爆料 Southeast Asia Center and the 91爆料 Center for Global Studies.

For more information, contact Giebel at giebel@uw.edu, Rafael at vrafael@uw.edu and Rodr铆guez-Silva at imrodrig@uw.edu.

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ArtSci Roundup: Rage by B. Dance, MFA Dance Concert, and More /news/2021/05/19/artsci-roundup-rage-by-b-dance-mfa-dance-concert-and-more/ Wed, 19 May 2021 18:36:44 +0000 /news/?p=74309 During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities听to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 91爆料, and the greater community, together online.听

Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91爆料 faculty, staff, and students have access to听.听


Reading Jewish Texts in an Age of Climate Change

May 25 & 27, 4:00 PM |听

In the 2021 Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies听presented by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies,听Julia Watts Belser, associate professor of Jewish studies at Georgetown University, will use classic rabbinic Jewish texts on political violence, imperialism, and disaster to grapple with pressing contemporary questions about climate change and environmental justice in two lectures, “Grappling with Risk, Reimagining Hope” on May 25 and “The Afterlives of Noah鈥檚 Ark 鈥 Gender, Disability & the Politics of Survival” on May 27.

Bringing disability studies and activism into conversation with queer and feminist theory, these talks will examine how ancient Jewish stories invite us to tangle with grief, confront vulnerability, and re-imagine possibilities for communal survival.

Free |


Rage by B. Dance

May 26 – 30 |听

B.DANCE is invited by the Taiwan Studies Program to virtually present its production, Rage, from May 26 鈥 30. To kick off the multi-day event, an interview with choreographer Po-Cheng Tsai will take place on Wednesday, May 26, 7pm Pacific Time.

Founded in 2014 and led by Artistic Director & Choreographer Po-Cheng Tsai,听听is an emerging Taiwanese contemporary dance company. Rage premiered at the Concert Hall of Taipei National University of the Arts in 2018 and is inspired by the eponymous crime novel by the Japanese writer Yoshida Shuichi and the film directed by Lee Sang-il.听Beyond an apparent serenity, this creation exposes the violence and anger of our society. By exploring the depths of the human soul, Po-Cheng Tsai reflects on the ability to face and adopt current societal tribulations. Through beauty and fluidity, the bodies convey a narrative of desolation and loneliness.听

Free |


MFA Dance Concert

May 28 – June 13 |

Presented by the Department of Dance, the MFA Dance Concert will be streaming online & free on your own time between May 28- June 13, 2021.

While following COVID-19 protocols and safety guidelines means that 91爆料 Dance concerts will look different this year, our faculty and students have been no less active in creating new work. We鈥檙e thrilled to be able to share this work with you directly to your living room!听

Free |


A Refugee Critique of Representations: On Criticality and Creativity
May 28, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |

The Southeast Asia Center, Department of American Ethnic Studies, and Japan Studies Program will host Lan Duong, Associate Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. She is the author of听Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism听(Temple University Press, 2012). Dr. Duong鈥檚 second book project,听Transnational Vietnamese Cinemas and the Archives of Memory,听examines Vietnamese cinema from its inception to the present day. She has coedited an anthology called听Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora: Troubling Borders in Literature and Art听(91爆料 Press, 2013). A founding member of the Critical Refugee Studies Collective, Duong serves as coeditor for the UC Press book series on Critical Refugee Studies and听.

Free |


MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition
May 29 – June 27听触听

Each year, the Henry Art Gallery presents the 91爆料’s School of Art + Art History + Design Master of Fine Arts and Master of Design thesis exhibition. Throughout their programs, fine arts and design students work with advisers and other artists to develop advanced techniques, expand concepts, discuss critical issues, and emerge with a vision and direction for their own work. The 2021 presentation of this exhibition will include work by both 2020 and 2021 graduating students.

Free |


Looking for more?

Check out 91爆料AA’s Stronger Together web page for听more digital engagement opportunities.

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ArtSci Roundup: A new Measure: the Revolutionary Quantum Reform of the Metric System, Sacred Breath: Indigenous Writing and Storytelling Series, and more /news/2021/05/10/artsci-roundup-a-new-measure-the-revolutionary-quantum-reform-of-the-metric-system-sacred-breath-indigenous-writing-and-storytelling-series-and-more/ Mon, 10 May 2021 22:10:19 +0000 /news/?p=74264 During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities听to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 91爆料, and the greater community, together online.听

Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91爆料 faculty, staff, and students have access to听.听


Sacred Breath: Indigenous Writing and Storytelling Series

May 17, 6:00 – 7:15 PM |听

The Department of American Indian Studies听hosts an annual literary and storytelling series.听Sacred Breath听features Indigenous writers and storytellers at听w菨色菨b蕯altx史 – Intellectual House听on the 91爆料 Seattle campus. Storytelling offers a spiritual connection, a sharing of sacred breath. Literature, similarly, preserves human experience and ideals. Both forms are durable and transmit power that teaches us how to live. Both storytelling and reading aloud can impact audiences through the power of presence, allowing for the experience of the transfer of sacred breath as audiences are immersed in the experience of being inside stories and works of literature.

Free |


A new Measure: the Revolutionary Quantum Reform of the Metric System

May 18, 6:00 PM |听

Scientists must rely on a system of units to provide a quantitative description of our universe. The International System of Units (the SI, or Metric system) starts with seven base units from which all measurable properties of objects and phenomena can be expressed. The universal and international character of science strives for the standards that define the units鈥攏ecessary for the effective scientific communication that underpins the longstanding and continued success of science鈥攖o be unambiguous, precise, constant and accessible to everyone.

On May 20, 2019, World Metrology Day, the international metrology community听adopted revolutionary changes to the SI听wherein all of the base units of measure are defined by fixing the values听of constants of nature. The SI is now firmly based on quantum methods of measurement. The talk, sponsored by the Department of Physics and presented by William D. Phillips, 1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics, will explain why we needed such听reform and how we achieved it.

Free |


Art and Political Activism:听A Conversation from Peru

May 18, 4:00 PM |

Visual artists Jorge Miyagui and Mauricio Delgado, and visual anthropologist Karen Bernedo Morales, will share their experiences in executing award-winning public art interventions that include Art for Memory (Asociaci贸n Cultural Museo Itinerante Arte por la Memoria) and the Muralist Brigade (La Brigada Muralista). They will help us understand the role that art has played in moments of political instability, mass protest, and COVID. Discussing recent events in Peru, they will also describe how a visual internationalism informs their political activism and creative work.

Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and co-sponsored by Comparative History of Ideas, African Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Jackson School of International Studies, School of Art + Art History + Design, School of Drama, Geography, and Photo/Media.

Free |


Stephanie M.H. Camp Lecture | Tiya Miles (Harvard), 鈥淎 Tattered Dress鈥: Materiality and Memory in the Lives of Enslaved Women
May 19, 3:30 – 5:00 PM |

This talk, sponsored by the Department of History and 91爆料 Libraries and presented by听Tiya Miles,听Professor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard University, will highlight artifacts of Black women鈥檚 material culture to consider ways that objects can help us recover experiential aspects of the gendered Black past. Together, we will unpack Ashley鈥檚 Sack, the gift of an enslaved mother to her daughter in antebellum Charleston, in an effort to gain special access to Black women鈥檚 cultures of care and strategies of memory keeping. The sack contained several objects, including a hand-me-down dress. By applying the trailblazing findings of the historian Stephanie M. H. Camp, we will explore the meanings of adornment, dignity, and survival.

Free |


E.U. Democracy Forum:听Phillip Ayoub – Pride amid Prejudice: The Impact of the First Pride in Sarajevo
May 20, 12:00 – 1:15 PM |听

Democracy cannot be taken for granted — not in Europe, not anywhere. With this series of talks by experts on European politics and society we want to encourage discussion about the future of democracy in the European Union, its member states, and the neighborhood. Phillip Ayoub, Associate Professor, Occidental College听will present the final lecture in the听E.U. Democracy Forum.

This lecture series is organized by the Center for West European Studies and the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence with support from the Lee and Stuart Scheingold European Studies Fund, the EU Erasmus+ Program, the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, and the Center for Global Studies.

Free |


Without Enhancements: Sexual Violence in the Everyday Lives of Asian American Women
May 21, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |

Join Erin Khu Ninh, who听writes about the model minority as racialization and subject formation, for this talk sponsored by the听Southeast Asia Center,听Department of American Ethnic Studies, and听Japan Studies Program.

Free |

 


Asian American Women Rising: NOT the Model Minority
May 22, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM |

Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with host Velma Veloria, Former WA Rep and 91爆料 Honors Scholar-in Residence,听Doan听Diane Hoang Dy, Wing Luke Museum,听Connie So, teaching professor of American Ethnic Studies and OCA-GS,听Sutapa Basu, 91爆料 Women’s Center,听Tianna Andresen, a student in American Ethnic Studies, and听Aretha Basu, City of Seattle.

Free |


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91爆料 secures competitive $1 million Luce Foundation grant to advance Southeast Asian research and community engagement /news/2020/10/05/uw-secures-competitive-1-million-luce-foundation-grant-to-advance-southeast-asian-research-and-community-engagement/ Mon, 05 Oct 2020 16:59:18 +0000 /news/?p=70871 art piece
A photo from the video installation 鈥淭he Age of the Kampuchea Picture鈥 at 91爆料 Libraries. 2017 Photo: 91爆料 Libraries/Judith Henchy

The at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and the at the 91爆料 will spearhead a new initiative of innovative collaborations to explore the effects and consequences of authoritarianism in Southeast Asia and on Southeast Asian American communities in the United States.

The $1 million grant to deepen discourse on Southeast Asia was approved in June by the after a national competition seeking projects that will develop expertise, capacity and resources on Southeast Asia. At the 91爆料, the will attract underrepresented students, faculty, future librarians and the regional Southeast Asian American community to the project of engaging with Southeast Asian history, language and culture in new ways.

We are excited to develop our work to engage scholars and students in the crosscurrents and interconnections between the U.S. and Southeast Asia,鈥 said Celia Lowe, chair of the Jackson School鈥檚 Southeast Asia Center. 鈥淭his grant will help build a vibrant and relevant future for Southeast Asian studies.鈥

Multiple 91爆料 departments will be involved in the four-year project, which will be administered by the Southeast Asia Center. 91爆料 Libraries and the will form innovative collaborative projects on healing and reconciliation from histories of violence and dislocation, while the Department will create a new faculty position to connect language study to meaningful community engagement.

The grant includes introducing Southeast Asian Studies graduate students to archival practices. An undergraduate research class will study applicable museum artifacts, with a focus on making collections meaningful听and accessible to communities of Southeast Asian heritage, and in Southeast Asia. The grant also will train a Southeast Asia librarian through a two-year program听supported by a听partial听tuition fellowship from the听.

A number of 91爆料 faculty are involved in the initiative. Chair of the Southeast Asia Center is the principal investigator while head of the Southeast Asia Section of 91爆料 Libraries, , also affiliate faculty at the Jackson School, is co-investigator on the grant.

鈥淭his grant will support work to heighten awareness of archival collections for graduate students in disciplines which would not normally look to those resources, for instance in film studies, or creative writing,鈥 said Henchy, who will lead a fellowships program under the grant. 鈥淎t the same time, we will encourage graduate students to consider professions in librarianship or archival studies, training them in a way that will have enormous future impact on the field of Southeast Asian librarianship.鈥

, assistant professor in anthropology, and , professor of history, will lead a collaboration with filmmakers, archivists and documentation specialists from partner institutions in Cambodia, the Philippines and Burma.

Other partners in the project include a Southeast Asia Research Family course at the Burke Museum with 91爆料 Southeast Asia Center鈥檚 Senior Lecturer, . , teaching professor and coordinator of the Southeast Asia program at 91爆料鈥檚 Asian Languages & Literature, will lead work to hire a new faculty member who studies new media, digital humanities, translation, popular culture, film or literature.

, assistant professor with 91爆料鈥檚 American Ethnic Studies Department, will bring together faculty from 91爆料, University California, Irvine, University of California, Los Angeles and University of California, Riverside to collaborate in exploring the intersections of Southeast Asian and ethnic studies to inform new curriculum, research and other pedagogies where historically there has been little interdisciplinary coordination.

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