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Upcoming Events
This Week
Click on the title for more details.- Showing of "Dreams and Nightmares", a documentary film about the Spanish Civil War
Tue Nov 10, 2009 - Scenes from "From Seasons Such as These", a play about the life of former UW student Thane Summers, a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War
Wed Nov 11, 2009 - Lecture on Hemingway and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Thu Nov 12, 2009
All Events
November 2009
Lecture: Cartographies of Time
Wednesday November 4, 2009
4:00pm
Communications 202
Is history linear? In at least one sense, undoubtedly: the convention of representing historical chronologies in the form of straight, measured "timelines" is so ubiquitous and intuitive that it rarely rates a mention. Yet, like the conventions of modern historical narrative, the conventions of modern historical graphics are hardly more than two centuries old. This paper explores the history of the timeline and related graphic forms in the context of the development of print media in the early modern period. It argues that the development of the linear graphic is symptomatic of both the patterns and the paradoxes of the modern historical imagination.
Daniel Rosenberg is Associate Professor of History in the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon. His work focuses on the study of history in the Enlightenment. With Susan Harding, he is co-editor of Histories of the Future (2006); and with Anthony Grafton, co-author of Cartographies of Time (forthcoming from Princeton Architectural Press).
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Showing of "Dreams and Nightmares", a documentary film about the Spanish Civil War
Tuesday November 10, 2009
7:00pm
301 Gowen Hall
Day one of "Lives, Memory, History: The Spanish Civil War 70 Years After" film and lecture series.
On Tuesday, November 10, we begin the program with a showing of Abraham Lincoln Brigade veteran Abe Osheroff's award-winning documentary “Dreams and Nightmares" (at 7:00 pm in Gowen 301). The film will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Anthony Geist (Spanish and Portuguese, UW), Mark Jenkins (Drama, UW), and Peter Carroll (Chair of the Board of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives.)
Event is free and open to the public.
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Scenes from "From Seasons Such as These", a play about the life of former UW student Thane Summers, a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War
Wednesday November 11, 2009
7:30pm
220 Kane Hall
Day two of "Lives, Memory, History: The Spanish Civil War 70 Years After" film and lecture series.
On Wednesday, November 11 UW Drama professor Mark Jenkins will discuss and present two scenes from his new play, "From Seasons Such as These," on UW student Thane Summers, who died fighting against Fascist forces in Spain. (7:30 pm, Kane Hall 220)
Event is open to the public with admission paid at the door.
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Lecture on Hemingway and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Thursday November 12, 2009
7:00pm
301 Gowen Hall
Day three of "Lives, Memory, History: The Spanish Civil War 70 Years After" film and lecture series.
And on Thursday, November 12 historian Peter Carroll will speak on Hemingway and the Lincoln Brigade volunteers (at 7:00 pm in Gowen 301).
Event is free and open to the public.
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Council of European Chambers of Commerce Networking and Business Card Exchange
Monday November 16, 2009
5:30 - 7:30 pm
Swedish Consulate, 520 Pike Street, Suite 2200
The next event on the Council of European Chambers calendar is a Monday, November 16 network business card exchange being hosted by the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce (SACC). The event will take place Monday, November 16 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. at the Swedish Consulate, 520 Pike Street, Suite 2200, in downtown Seattle.
Sweden currently holds the rotational Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The November 16 event coincides with a meeting of the national SACC Advisory Committee preparing for Swedish-American Entrepreneurial Days May 5 - 7, 2010, the first time this event will be held in Seattle.
Please RSVP to info@saccseattle.org. The cost is $20 per participant, to be paid in advance by sending a check payable to SACC-Seattle, and mailed to: SACC-Seattle, c/o Swedish Consulate, 520 Pike Street, Suite 2200 Seattle WA 98101. Payment can also be made at the door.
The Council of European Chambers of Commerce represents eight local European chambers of commerce and trade commissions, plus the EU Center of Excellence of Seattle. The CECC organizes events focusing on contemporary European themes for the local business and public communities.
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Keynote Address: Germany 1989: A new kind of revolution?
Thursday November 19, 2009
7:00 pm
Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall
This public forum will be followed by a reception and is a part of The Legacies of Unification academic conference. For more information about either the public forum or the conference please see http://jsis.washington.edu/cwes/wende/conference.shtml.
Konrad H. Jarausch has written or edited more than thirty books in modern German history. Starting with Hitler's seizure of power and the First World War, his research interests have moved to the social history of German students and professions German unification in 1989/90, with historiography under the Communist GDR, the nature of the East German dictatorship, as well as the debate about historians and the Third Reich. More recently, he has been concerned with the problem of interpreting 20th-century German history in general, the learning processes after 1945, the issue of cultural democratization, and the relationship between Honecker and Breshnew. At the same time he has been involved in discussions about quantitative methods in history, problems of postmodernism, and questions of European memory culture. Currently he is beginning to work on German responses to the challenge of globalization.
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Conference: Legacies of Unification: Twenty Years of German Unity
Friday November 20, 2009
8:30 am - 4:15 pm
Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall
The Autumn of 2009 will see the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the beginning of the transformation process that led to the formal act of German unification on October 3, 1990. The approach of these milestones provides an exceptional opportunity to take stock of how life, politics, and culture have evolved in unified Germany, and how the momentous events of 1989 continue to shape the ongoing process of European integration. This conference will feature leading US and European scholars discussing the impact and historical significance of the German Wende ("turning point').
For more information about this conference please see http://jsis.washington.edu/cwes/wende/conference.shtml.
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January 2010
Lecture: Title TBD
Friday January 15, 2010
TBD
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Michael Hechter (Ph.D. Columbia University) is Professor in the School of Government, Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University. He has taught at the Universities of Washington, Arizona and Oxford. He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences and the Russell Sage Foundation, and was a visiting professor at the Universities of Bergen and Llubljana. Hechter is the author of numerous books, including Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development, 1536-1966 (1975; 1999); Principles of Group Solidarity (1987); and Containing Nationalism (2000). He is editor/co-editor of The Microfoundations of Macrosociology (1983); Social Institutions: Their Emergence, Maintenance and Effects (1990); The Origin of Values (1993); Social Norms (2001, 2005); and Theories of Social Order (2003). His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Demography, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Rationality and Society, Sociological Theory, European Sociological Review, and many other journals. His writings have been translated into Italian, Japanese, Hungarian, Chinese, Arabic, French, Spanish, and Georgian.
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Film Screening: Goodbye Lenin!
Thursday January 28, 2010
7:00 pm
Kane Hall 210
A young German boy pulls off an elaborate scheme to keep his mother in good health in this comedy drama from director Wolfgang Becker. Suffering a heart attack and falling into a coma after seeing her son arrested during a protest, Alex's (Daniel Brühl) socialist mother, Christiane (Katrin Sass), remains comatose through the fall of the Berlin wall and the German Democratic Republic. Knowing that the slightest shock could prove fatal, Alex strives to keep the fall of the GDR a secret for as long as possible. Keeping their apartment firmly rooted in the past, Alex's scheme works for a while, but it's not long before his mother is feeling better and ready to get up and around again. German with English subtitles. (Germany, 2003, 121 minutes)
This screening is free and open to the public with no registration required. For more information, visit http://jsis.washington.edu/smak/.
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February 2010
Lecture: The longue duree of European Perception of Muslims and Islam
Friday February 5, 2010
TBD
TBD
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Film Screening: Battle of Algiers
Thursday February 18, 2010
7:00 pm
Kane Hall 210
This movie classic was commissioned by the Algerian government and originally banned in France this movie shows the Algerian revolution from both sides. The French foreign legion has left Vietnam in defeat and has something to prove. The Algerians are seeking independence. The two clash. The torture used by the French is contrasted with the Algerian's use of bombs in soda shops. This is a look at war as a nasty thing that harms and sullies everyone who participates in it. French with English subtitles. (Italy, Algeria, 1966, 121 minutes)
This screening is free and open to the public with no registration required. For more information, visit http://jsis.washington.edu/smak/.
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