News & Events

February 1, 2007

CONTACT:

Carl Young, Interim Director of Communications
425.352.8256
cyoung@cascadia.edu

Ruth Ozeki, Writer and Filmmaker, to Speak at Cascadia Community College

Bothell, WA - Award-winning author and documentary filmmaker Ruth Ozeki will speak at Cascadia Community College on Wednesday, February 28, 2007. The talk, from 3:30-5:30pm, is open to the public and there is no charge to attend. It will be held in room 005 of building UW2 on the campus shared by Cascadia Community College and University of Washington Bothell.

Ozeki’s presentation will be titled, "HYBRID VIGOR: mixing science and fiction, splicing politics with poetics, and crossbreeding points of view." She will speak about novel forms of miscegenation and how science and technology provide fertile ground for feminist, cultural, and literary inquiry. Her lecture is part of the "Diane Gould Speaker Series" and is co-sponsored by the Cascadia Teaching and Learning Academy and the Creative Arts Club.

Ms. Ozeki is the author of two novels, My Year of Meats and All Over Creation. Her 1998 debut novel, My Year of Meats, has been translated into eleven languages and published in fourteen countries. It won the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Award, the Imus/Barnes and Noble American Book Award, and a Special Jury Prize at the World Cookbook Awards in Versailles. Her second book, All Over Creation, won the 2004 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and the Willa Literary Award for Contemporary Fiction. Both works are regularly taught in institutions of higher education, in Asian-American studies, cultural studies, and literature courses.

Ozeki's documentary film, Bodies of Correspondence, won the New Visions Award at the San Francisco Film Festival and was broadcast on PBS in 1994. Another documentary, Halving the Bones, was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and shown at the Montreal World Film Festival, and the Margaret Mead Film Festival, among others.

Members of the community interested in reading and discussing Ozeki's work are invited to discuss her novel My Year of Meats (http://www.ruthozeki.com/meats/description.html). A discussion of the second half of the book will be held from 12:00pm to 1:00pm on Feb 14 in room 161 of the college in building CC2. These will be brown bag discussions -- coffee and tea will be provided.

For more information about this event, please contact Brian Ganter at bganter@cascadia.edu or Jared Leising at jleising@cascadia.edu. For directions to the college please visit http://www.cascadia.edu or call (425) 352-8000.

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