Come curious. Leave inspired.
The UW offers an exciting lineup of in-person and online events. From thought-provoking art and music to conversations on culture, history, and science, the UW community invites you to explore, learn, and connect across disciplines throughout the University. And you don’t have to wait until March—take a look at everything still happening this February.
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ArtSci On Your Own Time
Exhibition | 2026 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency | indira allegra: The Book of Zero (School of Art + Art History + Design)
Death is a fundamental first step toward rebirth—but this transition can feel daunting without a compassionate guide. In The Book of Zero, our 2026 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident indira allegra presents a multimedia, meditative experience shaped by their research into doula work, death care, and the cyclical nature of bodies and environments. Free.
Recorded Lectures | 2026 History Lecture Series – Powers & Punishment: Histories of Incarceration (History)
Incarceration is a hotly debated topic in the United States, a country that has one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world. Looking at the practice from a historical perspective, what can incarceration teach us about who we were and who we are now? What might histories of incarceration, and the histories of those who have been incarcerated, tell us about power dynamics, belonging, exclusion, struggle, and hope across societies in the past and present? The 2026 History Lecture Series explores the practice of incarceration, tracing its change over time from antiquity to our modern world. Recordings are available online. Free.
Recorded Lectures | 2025 Living Breath of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Indigenous Food Systems (American Indian Studies)
People come 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. Indigenous peoples in the Northwest have maintained a sustainable way of life through a cultural, spiritual, and reciprocal relationship with their environment. This symposium serves to foster dialogue and build collaborative networks as we, Native peoples, strive to sustain our cultural food practices and preserve our healthy relationships to the land, water, and all living things. Save the date: The 14th Annual Living Breath of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Indigenous Foods Symposium, “Healing Hands – Healing Lands,” will take place from May 1 – 2. Free.
Book Club | Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka (UW Alumni)
Readers’ Choice! A mix of mystery and political satire, this novel takes aim at corruption in modern Nigeria. Two old friends decide to investigate a local cartel that traffics in human body parts. But in a country where religious charlatans and dishonest officials abound, can they trust anyone in their search? Free.
Week of March 2
February 26 – March 1 | Dance Majors Concert 2026 (Dance)
Presenting seven original student-choreographed works. This platform gives students the opportunity to express their creative voices through choreography and costume design, as well as collaborating with lighting designers and mentors.
March 2 | Campus and Concert Bands (School of Music)
The Campus Band (Solomon Encina, conductor) and Concert Band (Yuman Wu, conductor) present their Winter Quarter concert, performing music by Julie Giroux, John Philip Sousa, Percy Grainger, Johan de Meij, Frank Ticheli, Aaron Perrine, and others.
Online – March 2 | Trump in the World 2.0 Winter Lecture Series 2026: What was Intelligence and What Comes Next? (Jackson School of International Studies)
Presented by Kelly McGannon, current World Affairs Council Fellow, and Jeff Hovenier, U.S. Ambassador (ret.). Trump in the World 2.0 is an online series of talks and discussions featuring guest speakers and faculty exploring global perspectives on a second Trump administration. Free.
March 3 | Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Concert: Ramón Gutierrez: Son Jarocho music (School of Music)
Winter Quarter Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Ramón Gutierrez hails from Xalapa, Veracruz in Mexico and specializes in playing the requinto (a small melodic guitar). He is the leader of the group Son de Madera, and has performed and recorded with musicians in other traditions, including the Chicano rock band Quetzal from Los Angeles and Antonio Corona, a performer of early music in Mexico. In this concert concluding his UW residency, he performs music from the Son Jarocho tradition with his UW students and special guests. Free.
March 3 | UW Choirs and Seattle University Choirs: “Considering Matthew Shepard” (School of Music)
The UW Chamber Singers and University Chorale collaborate with Seattle University Choirs (Leann Conley-Holcom, director) in performing Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard, a profound tale of discrimination, cruelty, death, yet with themes of hope.
Online option – March 4 | Primary: Alma Thomas, Sisterhood, and the Revolutionary Quality of Light (Public Lectures)
Based on Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ forthcoming book of poetic indexes, this interactive poetic lecture explores the life, teaching, and artwork of color theorist Alma Thomas. Engaging themes of audience, intimacy, abstract expressionist art, and the dynamic relationship between Black women’s creativity and the process of being Earth, the lecture invites participants into a rhythmic dialogue of form, meaning, and presence. Free.
March 5 | Collections Open Doors (Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture)
Part of Burke’s Free First Thursday series, the museum opens its collections spaces from 4:30 to 7:30 PM. Visitors can explore behind‑the-scenes labs and storage, and speak with researchers, staff, and volunteers about their work. Free.
Online – March 6 | Nicholas McLeod | Raising The Black Star: West Indian Pan-Africanists and The Politics Of Nation Building In Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana (Jackson School of International Studies)
Raising The Black Star presents a historical restoration of Kwame Nkrumah’s contributions to the Pan-African movement, as well as the transnational nature of post-colonial Ghana’s nation-building process. Dr. McLeod’s richly-textured narrative highlights the startling and continued relevance of Pan-Africanism in both historical and contemporary discussions of transnational solidarities and visions of a completely liberated African continent. Free.
March 6 | Opera Workshop: Alice Tierney (School of Music)
UW Opera Workshop presents Melissa Dunphy’s 2023 opera Alice Tierney. With stage direction by Kelly Kitchens; music direction by Andrew Romanick. Commissioned by the Oberlin Opera Commissioning Program through the generosity of Elizabeth and Justus ’71 Schlichting, Melissa Dunphy’s opera Alice Tierney was premiered at Oberlin Conservatory in 2023, and at Opera Columbus in April 2023. Dunphy was one of seven winners of a 2020 OPERA America Discovery Grant, presented to female composers with the intention of increasing gender parity across the opera industry. That grant supported the development of Alice Tierney at Oberlin.
Online – March 6 | Palestine to Iraq with Adam Hanieh (Public Lectures)
Explore how World War I reshaped the Middle East. This lecture traces anti-colonial movements, Palestine’s pivotal role, and the shift from British to American power—linking regional upheaval to the global rise of fossil capitalism and reimagined imperial hierarchies. Free.
March 6 | Conference: Partition and Solidarity – Anticolonial Struggles in the Colonial Present (Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies)
Over the past five centuries, empires have used partition and division to justify and advance colonialism. We can see that the ongoing history of colonial rule and racial violence is exploding around the world today—from Palestine to Minnesota and beyond. Scholars and activists gather to discuss anticolonial struggles, past and present. Free.
March 7 | Composition Studio Concert (School of Music)
Emerging and established composers explore unconventional sonic landscapes in this concert of music by students, faculty, alumni, and guests of the UW Composition program. Free.
Week of March 9
Online – March 9 | Trump in the World 2.0 Winter Lecture Series 2026: The China Question(s) (Jackson School of International Studies)
Presented by David Bachman, UW Professor, International Studies; James Lin, UW Associate Professor, International Studies and Taiwan historian; Tabitha Grace Mallory, Founder and CEO, China Ocean Institute; and Susan H. Whiting, UW Professor, Political Science. Trump in the World 2.0 is an online series of talks and discussions featuring guest speakers and faculty exploring global perspectives on a second Trump administration. Free.
March 10 | Liberation Book Club: Movie Night (School of Art + Art History + Design)
This year-long program series hopes to honor our commitment to social justice and to gather our community to think about the work of liberation through shared texts, art, film, music, conversation, and workshops. Unlike your traditional book club all the reading and study happens together, so no need to prepare. Join us monthly as we approach the topic of liberation from a number of perspectives. Free.
March 10 | Chamber Music Showcase (School of Music)
Students of John Popham present a chamber music showcase. Free.
March 10 | Modern Music Ensemble (School of Music)
The Modern Music Ensemble (Cristina Valdés, director) performs music by John Cage, Hilda Paredes, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Salvatore Sciarrino.
March 10 | Book Launch: Sasha Senderovich’s “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” (Stroum Center for Jewish Studies)
The short fiction collected in In the Shadow of the Holocaust, translated by Senderovich and Harriet Murav, recovers a range of compelling voices that had been scarcely known or translated, with particular emphasis on the work of women writers. Jewish authors from Ukraine, Lithuania, Russia, and Belarus—some writing in Yiddish and others in Russian—tell stories of ordinary people living on after the massive devastation of the Holocaust on Soviet territory, depicting memory, conflict, love, and loss. Writers in this collection offer especially powerful perspectives on survival in the aftermath of genocide. These are not stories only about how people died, but about how they continued to live and make meaning. Free.
March 12 | In Conversation with Miranda Spivack: Backroom Deals in Our Backyards (Communication)
Veteran reporter and editor Miranda Spivack discusses her new book, Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities—and the Local Heroes Fighting Back (The New Press, May 6, 2025). In her book, Spivack shines a light on corruption close to home—uncovering how local governors, mayors, town councils, school boards, police, and prosecutors sometimes fail the very communities they serve. Through five eye-opening U.S. case studies, she introduces “accidental activists”—ordinary citizens who demanded answers when government officials failed to protect them. From car crashes and unsafe drinking water to faulty safety equipment, Spivack’s investigative reporting reveals the hidden deals, lies, and cover-ups that often keep communities in the dark—and celebrates the local heroes who stand up for accountability and transparency.
March 12 | Digital/Data Humanities Lecture: Tonia Sutherland, “Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife (Simpson Center for the Humanities)
Tonia Sutherland examines the consequences of digitally raising the dead. Attending to the violent deaths of Black Americans–and the records that document them–from slavery through the present, Sutherland explores media evidence, digital acts of remembering, and the rights and desires of humans to be forgotten. Free.
March 12 | Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band: Mystic Threads (School of Music)
The Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band (Erin Bodnar, director) presents Mystic Threads, featuring music by Victoriano Valencia, Jodie Blackshaw, Reena Esmail, Florent Schmitt, Luigi Zaninelli, and others. With guest composer Simon Alami.
March 12 – 21 | Bunny (School of Drama)
For most of Sorrel’s high school career, she was friendless and quietly weird. She didn’t even seem to fit in with the geeky kids. When she turned seventeen, and late puberty produced a supermodel physique, she became seen as a “hot dork”. Bunny spans twenty years of Sorrel’s life. Unencumbered by the burden of shame, she journeys through the complex social expectations surrounding female sexuality. MFA student Ren Langer directs this intimate and thought-provoking play.
March 13 | UW Symphony Orchestra with Rachel Lee Priday (School of Music)
David Alexander Rahbee leads the UW Symphony in a program of music by Mieczyslaw Karlowicz and Sergei Prokofiev. Faculty violinist Rachel Lee Priday is featured soloist with the orchestra for Karlowicz’s Violin Concerto in A major, op. 8.
March 14 | Andrew Bird with Ted Poor (Meany Center for the Performing Arts)
Grammy-nominated violinist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird joins acclaimed jazz drummer and UW Professor Ted Poor for a night of genre-defying music. Blending elements of folk, jazz, classical and indie rock, their sound is adventurous and soulful. Bird’s signature whistling, looping and lyrical finesse meet Poor’s expressive, boundary-pushing rhythms.
Week of March 16
March 12 – March 21 | Bunny (School of Drama)
For most of Sorrel’s high school career, she was friendless and quietly weird. She didn’t even seem to fit in with the geeky kids. When she turned seventeen, and late puberty produced a supermodel physique, she became seen as a “hot dork”. Bunny spans twenty years of Sorrel’s life. Unencumbered by the burden of shame, she journeys through the complex social expectations surrounding female sexuality. MFA student, Ren, directs this intimate and thought-provoking play.
March 16 | George H. Cady Endowed Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry: Prof. Hemamala Karunadasa (Chemistry)
Hemamala (Hema) Karunadasa is the J. G. Jackson and C. J. Wood Professor of Chemistry, and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, by courtesy, at Stanford University. She is a Faculty Scientist at the SLAC National Lab and a Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy. She received her A.B. from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from UC Berkeley, with postdoctoral training at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and at the California Institute of Technology. Her group uses solution-state methods for the self-assembly of solid-state materials, with an emphasis on halide perovskites and their derivatives. Her recent awards include the Brown Science Foundation Investigator award (2022) and the American Chemical Society Harry Gray award (2020) and the Inorganic Lectureship (2022). She is an Associate Editor for Chemical Science (Royal Chemical Society). Free.
March 16 | ‘The Neighborhood: Space, State, and Daily Life in a Manchurian City’ with Nianshen Song (Jackson School of International Studies)
What can one neighborhood reveal about the making of a modern nation? This talk deciphers the unexpected significance of Xita, a half-square-mile quarter in Shenyang, in Northeast China. It shows that over nearly four centuries, Xita has been shaped and reshaped by empire, war, migration, and urban transformation. The history of this small area mirrors large-scale changes, including and especially China’s metamorphosis from a multi-ethnic Eurasian empire to a postindustrial society. By studying how global and local forces play out in everyday spaces, the talk reveals a perspective for understanding China’s past—not from the top down, but through the streets and people who lived it. Free.
March 18 | Distinguished Alumni Lecture with Professor Cynthia Berg, Ph.D., University of Utah (Psychology)
This lecture is made possible in part by a generous endowment from Professor Allen L. Edwards. The event will conclude with a Q&A session followed by a reception. Hosted by Sheri Mizumori. Free.
March 19 | Augustin Hadelich, violin & Francesco Piemontesi, piano (Meany Center for the Performing Arts)
Known for his phenomenal technique and ravishing tone, German virtuoso Augustin Hadelich is one of the most celebrated violinists of our time. His musical partner, the Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi, performs with sensitivity and poetry combined with power and brilliance. Together, they embark on an evening of mostly French music, from Rameau and Poulenc to Franck, Debussy and Kurtág.
March 31 | EduTalks: Solving for X (College of Education)
EduTalks brings together educators, researchers and community leaders to share bold ideas shaping the future of education. In just five minutes — and with a single powerful image — each presenter explores innovative approaches to today’s most pressing challenges. In the College of Education, we’re “solving for x,” taking inspiration from high school algebra to step into the complicated, often uncertain challenges in education with imagination and heart. In math, x represents the unknown. In education, it symbolizes the complex questions we face as we strive for a more just, equitable and joyful future for all learners. Solving for these challenges takes imagination, persistence and, above all, community. Free.
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