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Sarah Zaides Rosen

Sarah Zaides Rosen on “Tevye’s Ottoman Daughter”

April 3, 2023 4:00 pm

Livestream

FreeAvailableOpen

Historian and Stroum Center for Jewish Studies’ Assistant Director Sarah Zaides Rosen will trace the story of 19th- and 20th-century Russian Jews.
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Symposium | Energy Security in Europe: Current and Future Challenges

April 4, 2023 9:00 am

Livestream

FreeAvailableOpen

This symposium will showcase cutting-edge research on where the European Union is headed on energy security and what the U.S. and the EU can learn from each other.

A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa

April 6, 2023 3:30 pm

Communications 202

FreeAvailableOpen

A Ritual Geology tells the untold history of one of the world’s oldest indigenous gold mining industries: Francophone West Africa’s orpaillage.
Barbara Winslow

The Women’s Liberation Movement in Seattle; Book Talk with Barbara Winslow

April 6, 2023 3:30 pm

Communications 120

FreeAvailableOpen

Barbara Winslow tells the story of the radical women’s liberation movement in Seattle during the 1960s and 1970s from the perspective of its founding members.
Kai Sina

Kai Sina: The Plural Self: Thomas Mann, America, and Democracy

April 7, 2023 1:30 pm

Denny Hall 359

FreeAvailableOpen

In 1922, Thomas Mann delivered his speech “On the German Republic,” in which he – for the first time – publicly declared his support for democracy.
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Virtual Book Talk and Discussion: Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend

April 12, 2023 5:00 pm

Livestream

FreeAvailableOpen

Join the University of Washington's Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies for an evening with author Robert Cherny, labor journalist E. Tammy Kim, and ILWU activist Zack Pattin.
Martin Nekola

Martin Nekola – War in Ukraine: Impact on the Czech Republic, and on Europe

April 12, 2023 3:30 pm

Thompson Hall 317

FreeAvailableOpen

The lecture will focus on the current political developments in Europe after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Phillip Lipscy

Griffith and Patricia Way Lecture with Phillip Y. Lipscy: Stagnation or Renewal? Japan’s Energy and Climate Change Policy

April 12, 2023 7:00 pm

Kane Hall, Room Walker-Ames Room

FreeAvailableOpen

Join us for a special lecture event with Phillip Lipscy as he walks us through Japan's response to climate change.
Joshua Chambersletson

Joshua Chambers-Letson “Yoko Ono and the Art of the Breakdown”

April 13, 2023 5:30 pm

Kane Hall, Room 120

FreeAvailableOpen

Screams have always been a component of Yoko Ono’s artistic practice, but rather than received as an act of communication, the dominant reception has been not to listen. Offering a meditation on the queer dynamics of Asian American grief, this talk lingers in and listens to Ono’s shatter and scream as she mobilizes affective expressions that are at times explosive, and at others depressive, to perform various modes of coming undone, shattering, falling apart, and breaking down.

HU Tai-Li Memorial Lecture and Film Screening with Scott Simon

April 18, 2023 5:30 pm

Burke Museum - Cascade Room

FreeAvailableOpen

In memory of Dr. HU Tai-Li, the evening features an in-person screening of The Return of Gods and Ancestors and a lecture by Professor Scott Simon about Dr. Hu’s work.

Katz Distinguished Lecture with Christopher Newfield: “The End of a Global Model: Prospects for the North American Public University, 2020-2050”

April 18, 2023 6:30 pm

Kane Hall, Room 210

FreeAvailableOpen

Rescheduled: Why is the contemporary public university struggling? Newfield describes what has undermined 21st c. public universities and a model to better serve the next 30 years.
Kevin Gannon

Sustaining Communities of Hope

April 18, 2023 1:00 pm

Kane Hall, Room 225

FreeAvailableOpen

This lecture is part of a three day Teaching and Learning Symposium, April 11-18. This tri-campus event showcases UW’s vibrant teaching community and UW instructors’ new and exciting work in the classroom. Kevin Gannon, author of Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto, will invite us to develop a sustainable teaching practice grounded in an ethic of hope.
Christopher Newfield

The End of a Global Model: Prospects for the North American Public University, 2020-2050

April 18, 2023 6:30 pm

Kane Hall, Room 120

FreeAvailableOpen

Christopher Newfield discusses the external pressures and internal policy failures that have undermined North American public universities in the 21st century.
Kent Monkman

Miss Chief in the Museum

April 19, 2023 7:30 pm

Kane Hall, Room 120

Pay What You CanAvailableRecordedOpen

History is subjective. The dominant version of history upheld in museums on this continent is told from the perspective of the colonial settler cultures who projected their values and ideals onto the Indigenous people and landscape of North America. Cree artist Kent Monkman discusses his interventions in museums that have taken form as commissioned paintings, curated exhibitions, videos, and site specific performances. Monkman will also discuss his 2019 commission for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - a diptych of two monumental history paintings for the Great Hall and the creation of a new performance piece.

Registration opens March 13, 2022.

Japanese Garden

Washin Kai Presents “Visions of the Katsura Imperial Villa” with Professor Ken Oshima

April 19, 2023 7:00 pm

Gowen Hall 301

FreeAvailableOpen

The architecture and gardens of the Katsura Imperial Villa 桂離宮 live on today as a paradigm of Japanese arts and cultures.

Astronomy on Tap

April 19, 2023 7:00 pm

Bickersons Brewhouse

FreeAvailableOpen

Speakers TBA
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From the Lab to the Clinic and Back to You: Personalizing Mental Health Science and Practice

April 19, 2023 9:00 pm

Kane Hall, Room 130

FreeAvailableOpen

Dr. Angela Fang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington.
Professor Adam Guastella is the Michael Crouch Chair in Child and Youth Mental Health.
Alexei Yurchak

Alexei Yurchak on Lenin and the Sacred: Representing the Unrepresentable

April 20, 2023 6:30 pm

TBA

FreeAvailableOpen

Alexei Yurchak presents the Keynote Address for the REECAS Northwest Conference. This talk will focus on the visual depictions of Lenin.
Dawna Ballard

2023 Scheidel Lecture: How We Create Time Through Communication

April 25, 2023 6:00 pm

Kane Hall, Room 225

FreeAvailableOpen

In this talk, Dr. Ballard will illuminate how we create time through communication design, a process of intervening in human activity to enable certain forms of communication and avoid others. Using the case of the Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas, an interagency model that leverages multidisciplinary teams to prevent, treat, and prosecute child abuse, Dawna identifies two underlying communication design logics—fast and slow—which reflect contrasting beliefs about how communication works to support urgent, time-sensitive work demands.
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Getting Care to those Who Need It: Increasing Access to Mental Health Treatment

April 26, 2023 7:00 pm

Kane Hall, Room 130

FreeAvailableOpen

Drs. Vibh Forsythe Cox and Faria Kamal discuss the challenges of providing effective mental health treatment to clients from underserved and marginalized communities.
Jane Mikkelson

“Crossings: Translation as Comparative Religion on the Banks of the Ganges” Lecture & Workshop with Jane Mikkelson

April 27, 2023 4:30 pm

Communications 202

FreeSold outOpen

This talk introduces a concept of translation developed by the Indo-Persian poet-philosopher Bidel of Delhi (d.1720) called 'crossings' as a humane approach to translation.
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An Author Meets Critic Event: Featuring Rawan Arar and David FitzGerald

April 28, 2023 12:30 pm

101 Hans Rosling

FreeAvailableOpen

An author meets critic event featuring Rawan Arar and David FitzGerald's new book, The Refugee System: A Sociological Approach.
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Spring 2023 Faculty Panel, May 1st: “From Globalization to Deglobalization?”

May 1, 2023 5:00 pm

Livestream

FreeAvailableOpen

Globalization refers to increasing interdependence and integration among nations and societies. Deglobalization happens when this interdependence and integration are in decline.

May Day: Women and Equality

May 1, 2023 6:30 pm

Kane Hall, Room 120

Pay What You CanAvailableRecordedOpen

As a leading voice in the women’s movement, Ai-Jen Poo will talk about the status of today's labor movement and its impact on women.

Registration opens March 13, 2023.

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Between Homonationalism & Anti-Gender Politics

May 2, 2023 11:30 am

Zoom

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Katharina Kehl will discuss sexual and reproductive rights in the construction of Swedish nationhood. Kehl holds a PhD in peace and development studies and works as a lecturer at the department of Gender Studies.
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Andrew L. Markus Memorial Lecture – “Inevitable Impositions: Censorship and Modern Chinese Literature” with Professor Michel Hockx

May 8, 2023 5:00 pm

Kane Hall, Room 225

FreeAvailableOpen

This lecture will draw on the insights of New Censorship Studies to discuss examples of censorship of modern Chinese literature from before and after the 1949 communist takeover.

Time of Isolation: Writing From the War in Ukraine

May 9, 2023 4:00 pm

Denny Hall 313

FreeAvailableOpen

The Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev’s In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas is an extraordinarily courageous chronicle of the war in Ukraine.

Sacred Breath: Indigenous Writing and Storytelling Series

May 10, 2023 7:00 pm

wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House

FreeAvailableOpen

Sacred Breath features Indigenous writers and storytellers sharing their craft at the beautiful wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House on the UW Seattle campus.

Roundtable: Exploring The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature

May 11, 2023 3:30 pm

Thomson Hall 317

FreeAvailableOpen

Join Professors Heekyoung Cho, Jang Wook Huh, Ungsan Kim and Korea Studies Librarian Hyokyoung Yi for presentations on the creation of The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature.

Volodymyr Dubovyk – Russia’s War on Ukraine: Implications for the Wider Black Sea Region and Beyond

May 11, 2023 3:30 pm

Smith Hall 306

FreeAvailableOpen

The start of the Russia’s war on Ukraine in 2014 has impacted regional security of the Black Sea, especially the occupation of Crimea.
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Divided Allies w/ Hsaio-ting Lin

May 11, 2023 3:30 pm

Livestream

FreeAvailableOpen

Professor Hsiao-ting Lin will discuss his newly published monograph, "Taiwan, the United States, and the Hidden History of the Cold War in Asia: Divided Allies."
Dr. Denese Shervington

Whole Child Development: Navigating Trauma, Building Resilience, Optimizing Healing and Well-Being

May 11, 2023 7:00 pm

HUB 145

FreeAvailableOpen

This lecture will explore the impact of interpersonal, community, institutional, and societal factors on individual-level behaviors in minoritized children.

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge & The Teachings of Plants

May 11, 2023 7:30 pm

Kane Hall, Room 130

Pay What You CanSold outRecordedClosed

Through personal experiences and stories shared by Robin Wall Kimmerer, we are invited to consider what we might learn if we understood plants as our teachers, from both a scientific and an indigenous perspective.

Registration opens March 13, 2023.

Monsen Photography Lecture: Dana Claxton

May 12, 2023 6:00 pm

Henry Art Gallery Auditorium

FreeAvailableOpen

Dana Claxton (b. 1959, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a critically acclaimed international artist. She works in film, video, photography, installation, and performance art.

Sam Kigar and Rokiatou Soumaré, “Translation as Territorialization”

May 16, 2023 11:30 am

Communications 202

FreeAvailableOpen

Join the UW Translation Studies Hub for two short talks and conversation

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