Conference

"Weavings of War: Fabrics of Memory" exhibition to open at Design Gallery Oct. 8

When we began to design the textiles, the women cried. They remembered the moments when their houses were burned, when they had to flee in the middle of the night. And we put those stories into the cloths.
--Juliana Quinoja, Suyasun refugee workshop, Lima, Peru, 1994

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Dates: October 8 December 11, 2005
Location: Design Gallery, UW School of Human Ecology, 1300 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53705.
Contact: Jody Clowes, Director, 262-8815, clowes@wisc.edu www.designgallery.wisc.edu

Opening Reception October 9, 1-4 p.m.
Lecture 2 p.m., Room 21, School of Human Ecology
Marsha MacDowell, catalog essayist and professor of Art and Art History at Michigan State University, will speak on "Reading History in Textiles."
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures and the Folklore Program.

Related Events:

November 15, 5:40 p.m., Chazen Museum of Art, 800 University Drive, Madison.
Lecture by Cy Thao, Hmong artist and legislator in the Minnesota State House of Representatives. Thao will discuss The Hmong Migration, his series of fifty paintings in the story-cloth style. Sponsored by the Department of Art.

November 17 & 18
Symposium: Violent Texts/Violent Textiles
Organized by the Legacies of Violence Research Circle and co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities.

November 17, 5 p.m., Room L140, Chazen Museum of Art, 800 University Ave., Madison
Lecture by James E. Young, professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, on ³Memory, Absence, and the End of the Monument in Berlin and New York.²

November 18 a.m., Design Gallery Gallery talk by curator Ariel Zeitlin Cooke.
10:30 a.m., Room 21, School of Human Ecology
Panel discussion with Ariel Zeitlin Cooke, James E. Young , and the Legacies of Violence Research Circle.

All events are free and open to the public.

March 11, 2005

Legacies of Violence
2nd Research Circle Conference
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December, 2004

War Is Sell
Premieres At Barrymore Theater

Minitrue Productions and Prolefeed Studios will present the world premiere of War is Sell, the latest feature-length documentary by Madison's own Brian Standing. War is Sell delves into the history and tactics of war propagandists soldiers armed not with guns, but with words, pictures and commercial advertising techniques in their "battle to win hearts and minds." Wisconsin audiences will recognize many of the sources interviewed in the piece, including: John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, of the Madison-based Center for Media & Democracy, and authors of Weapons of Mass Deception: The Use of Propaganda in Bush's War Against Iraq; University of Wisconsin anthropologist Neil Whitehead (recently featured in Isthmus) who discusses, among other topics, the historic links between so-called "cannibals" and modernday terrorists; Students and faculty from Wausau's D.C. Everest High School as they engage in a classroom exercise to analyze war propaganda.

2004 Conference

To launch The Legacies of Violence research circle, we are planning an inaugural short conference for Friday, October 15. The conference, titled “The Legacies of Violence,” will feature presentations by UW faculty who are working on issues related the study of those who perpetrate violence, their motivations, and the social conditions under which they operate. The conference is supported through funding from the International Institute.

As co-sponsor of the conference, the Center for the Humanities is bringing Professor Michael Taussig (Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University) to campus as part of its Humanities Without Boundaries Lecture Series. Taussig, who will make several campus presentations, will serve as keynote speaker for the conference. His talk, "What Color Is the Sacred?" will be delivered Thursday, October 14, 2004, 7:30 PM at the Red Gym, On Wisconsin Room, 716 Langdon Street.