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Designing Robust and Domain-Specific Multimodal Foundation Models
May 21, 2025 12:30 am
Livestream, Savery 409 (Hybrid)
FreeAvailableOpen
Ian Stewart surveys the landscape of modern multimodal foundation models, then discusses two recent projects meant to empower models.
VIRTUAL COM Colloquium by Steve Rains, Communicating Emotional Support Offline and Online
May 21, 2025 2:00 pm
Livestream
FreeAvailableOpen
Study the means for the effects of person-centeredness, the processes that emerge between support seekers and providers, and collective support practices that occur on social media
Experimentation and Inference on Networks
May 21, 2025 2:00 pm
Livestream
FreeAvailableOpen
Explore how to draw reliable inferences from experiments in the presence of network interference, and how to optimally design such experiments.
Judge Joel Ngugi
May 21, 2025 6:30 pm
Town Hall Seattle, Livestream (Hybrid)
Pay What You WillAvailableRecordedOpen CART Captioning
As a member of the Kenyan judiciary Judge Ngugi will talk about some of the most pressing political questions of our time in both his country and the USA, including how we ensure an equitable, independent and wise judiciary; as well as how we can imagine justice beyond narrow legal frameworks.
“To Stand with Palestine: Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the United States” by Dr. Karam Dana
May 22, 2025 5:00 pm
Kane Hall (Room 110)
FreeAvailableOpen
Explore how Palestinian identity is strengthened by the absence of a defined home nation and how a coalition rooted in exile continues to resist and advocate for a homeland.
Sacred Breath: Indigenous Writing and Storytelling Series
May 22, 2025 7:30 pm
Town Hall Seattle
FreeAvailableOpen
Sacred Breath features Indigenous writers and storytellers sharing their craft at the beautiful wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House on the UW Seattle campus.
Taiwan Studies Spring Colloquia
May 22, 2025 2:30 pm
HUB 214
FreeAvailableOpen
The annual Spring Colloquium, to celebrate the end of a busy academic year, will feature research presentations from graduating M.A. and Ph.D. students and visiting scholars.
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Nathan Lane, University of Oxford
May 23, 2025 1:30 pm
Gowen Hall 1A
FreeAvailableOpen
Nathan Lane; University of Oxford with graduate Student Discussant: Brian Leung, UW.
An overview of entropy-regularized optimal transport and Schrödinger bridges
May 23, 2025 3:30 pm
Denny 259
FreeAvailableOpen
An overview of the theory of Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport, including some recently discovered connections with score function estimation and transformers
The Geopoliticization of Critical Raw Materials: Undermining a Just Global Green Transition
May 28, 2025 3:30 pm
Thomson 317
FreeAvailableOpen
This public talk is based on Dr. Anni Kangas's ongoing research into the politics and political economies of critical raw material (CRM) extraction and value chains.
DH Colloquium – Introduction to The Black Grandmother Archive
May 28, 2025 12:30 pm
Smith 320
FreeAvailableOpen
Dr. LaShawnDa Pittman discusses the journey to creating The Black Grandmother Archive and The Black Grandmother Worldmaking Library.
Active Learning Sampling Design: A New Adaptive Survey Design Paradigm to Improve Representativeness for Subpopulations
May 28, 2025 12:30 pm
Savery 409
FreeAvailableOpen
A presentation of experiments on simulated data and the results of a pilot telephone survey of food insecurity conducted jointly with the World Food Program in Zimbabwe in 2023.
Theater and Theoria in Hannah Arendt’s Late Thought
May 29, 2025 2:30 pm
Denny 359
FreeAvailableOpen
Examine the role of theoria, theater, and theatricality by reading selected excerpts from the Life of the Mind and Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy.
Giant Leaps for Humankind: Outer Space & Intergenerational Ethics
May 29, 2025 4:00 pm
HUB 214
FreeAvailableOpen
Together with scholars and practitioners from ethics, policy, and industry, discuss humanity’s future in space from the perspective of intergenerational ethics and justice.
Jen Rose Smith: Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic Book Talk
May 29, 2025 7:00 pm
Elliott Bay Book Company
FreeAvailableOpen
Educator, geographer, and writer Jen Smith discusses her new book, Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic, with scholar Jessica Perea.
The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping with Joseph Torigian
May 30, 2025 1:00 pm
Gowen Hall M232
FreeAvailableOpen
Join for a book talk with Joseph Torigian on "The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping."
University of Washington International Security Colloquium
May 30, 2025 1:30 pm
Smith Hall 40A
FreeAvailableOpen
“Invocation of International Law and Regime Types” with Jihyeon Bae
Political Life of Development Models in India
May 30, 2025 2:45 pm
Thomas Hall 317
FreeAvailableOpen
This lecture unpacks the discursive aspects of competing development models in India, paying attention to the blurring of political rhetoric and knowledge production.
Trump in the World 2.0 Lecture Series – The Long View
June 2, 2025 5:00 pm
Livestream
FreeAvailableOpen
A series of online talks and discussions on the international impact of the second Trump presidency featuring Jackson School and other UW faculty and guest speakers. Topic: The Long View featuring Professor Daniel Bessner, International Studies.
Social Protests and Electoral Authoritarianism in Kazakhstan
June 2, 2025 3:30 pm
Thomson Hall 317
FreeAvailableOpen
In this talk, Masaaki Higashijima argues that anti-regime mobilization struggles to gain momentum when opposition elites and the masses have divergent motivations for protesting.
Militant Mothers of Kurdistan: Mothering the Dead and Care Beyond Life
June 2, 2025 5:00 pm
HUB 337
FreeAvailableOpen
This talk discusses the unconventional forms of care that arise out of Kurdish resistance in Turkey, where mothering becomes a strong response against necropolitical state violence.
Public Media Under Pressure: Why It Matters & What Can Be Done
June 3, 2025 5:00 pm
Mary Gates Hall 389
FreeAvailableOpen
An engaging conversation with local public media leaders about current challenges--including federal funding cuts--and pathways forward for sustaining public service journalism.
Robustly Estimating Heterogeneity in Factorial Data Using Rashomon Partitions
June 4, 2025 12:30 pm
Savery 409
FreeAvailableOpen
Explore how the output of interest varies with mixes of covariates and how drug combinations affect health results or how technology adoption depends on incentives and demographics.
Psychology Loucks Colloquium with Prof. Hadas Okon-Singer
June 4, 2025 3:30 pm
Kincaid Hall 102/108
FreeAvailableOpen
Prof. Okon-Singer presents a series of studies exploring emotional biases in both healthy individuals and participants diagnosed with mental disorders.
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