![]() Salish Sea fishes: Theodore Pietsch, curator emeritus of fishes at the Burke Museum and a professor emeritus of aquatic and fishery sciences, teamed with James Orr of the Alaska Fisheries Center for “ Fishes of the Salish Sea,” the first-ever documenting of all the known species of fishes that live in the Salish Sea. ![]() It’s about understanding that we are all living in a much longer history that has put us in different positions of advantage and disadvantage, and equipped us with very few tools to talk about it.” “Mindful travel in an unequal world,” she says, is about “paying attention, and noticing positionality in relation to each other. Taranath has led student trip to India, Mexico and other locations. Mindful travel: How can travelers respectfully explore cultures with lower incomes, different cultural patterns and far fewer luxuries? Anu Taranath, lecturer in English and the Comparative History of Ideas program, explores such questions in “ Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World,” published by Between the Lines. The new edition has an introduction by Seattle writer Knute Berger. ![]() Any serious student of Seattle or of recent urban history will now read Roger Sale, and with good reason.” Sale, who taught at the UW for decades, died in 2017. Seattle stories: University of Washington Press is republishing UW English professor Roger Sale‘s well-loved 1976 reflections on his city, its history and its possible futures, “ Seattle, Past to Present.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly called the book “an exhilarating critique of Seattle’s birth, growth, sickness, health, promise and fulfillment. Publishers Weekly wrote: “O’Mara’s extraordinarily comprehensive history is a must-read for anyone interested in how a one-horse town birthed a revolution that has shifted the course of modern civilization.” The New York Times called it an “accessible yet sophisticated chronicle.” Nominated for a 2020 Pacific Northwest Book Award. O’Mara’s ‘Code’: History professor Margaret O’Mara provides a sweeping history of California’s computer industry titans in her book “ The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America,” published by Penguin Press. Here’s a quick look at some gift-worthy books and music created by UW faculty in the last year - and a reminder of some recent favorites. The Composers Society of Singapore (CSS), formed in 2007, fosters the creation of new music by Singapore composers, and promotes musical works both locally and abroad through concerts, conferences, discussions and other activities.A teacher discusses respectful world travel, a historian explores Silicon Valley’s evolution, a professor and violist plays the music of Robert Schumann and a late English faculty member’s meditation on Seattle returns … Video version can be found in our YouTube channel. Part of a playlist of all the seven works from the concert "Dialogues and Reflections" by the Composers Society of Singapore (CSS), in collaboration with Asian Composers League-Korea (ACL-Korea).Įsplanade Recital Studio | (Tu) | 8:00 PM Expressing various states of reflection using natural harmonics as sound material, each movement reflects briefly on the previous movement in an interlocking form akin to the alternation found in the rhyming scheme of pantun poetry. There are meditative qualities in this work that perhaps reveal an influence of my mother, a devout Buddhist. ![]() Composed with the viola in mind, Four Reflections has also been performed on the violin (transposed up a fifth). 4) CHEN Zhangyi - Four Reflections (2010)įour Reflections was written in dedication to a friend and an admirable instrumentalist, Lim Chun, who had also inspired my viola concerto.
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