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Leading Change

April 24, 2024 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle

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Dr. Yvette E. Pearson, Campus Resources and Support, University of Texas at Dallas, knows a lot about change. Building on her concept of ENGINEERING CH∆NGE®, Dr. Pearson will share challenges that come with change in the STEM fields and insights on navigating those challenges through intentional, iterative, people-centered strategies.

Registration opens March 13, 2024.

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Living Quarters: Gender, Slavery, and Private Life in the Early Black Atlantic

April 24, 2024 4:00 pm

Communications 120

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The 2024 Stephanie M.H. Camp Memorial Lecture by Jennifer L. Morgan explores the connections between domestic space, privacy and the presence of enslaved women in a modern world.

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Addressing Post-Pandemic Trauma in Youth: How Mindfulness Practices Support Positive Mental Health Outcomes in Challenging Times

April 25, 2024 7:00 pm

HUB 250

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This free public lecture will address post-pandemic trauma in youth and the empowering effects of trauma-informed mindfulness practices.

Paul C. Cross Endowed Lecture in Physical Chemistry: Prof. Keith A. Nelson

April 25, 2024 4:00 pm

Bagley Hall 154

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The Department of Chemistry invites Professor Keith A. Nelson to speak for the Paul C. Cross Endowed Lecture in Physical Chemistry.

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Escaping the Highway to Hell: Death, the Afterlife, and Buddhist Practice in Premodern Japan

April 25, 2024 5:30 pm

Kane 225

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Miriam Chusid introduces two sets of fourteenth-century hell paintings and examines the Buddhist narrative tales (setsuwa) embedded in both of these paintings.

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Intergenerational Encounters: A Conversation with Kelly Akashi

April 26, 2024 3:00 pm

Henry Education Studio

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Join artist Kelly Akashi at the Henry for a small group conversation on intergenerational ties through objects.

The Making of 1177 BC A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed

April 26, 2024 3:30 pm

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Glynnis Fawkes, cartoonist and archaeological illustrator, analyzes the way a cartoonist adapts history.

The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought

April 26, 2024 12:00 pm

The Smith Room, Suzzallo Library

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Dr. Melvin Rogers, Professor of Political Science, at Brown University, is invited to speak for the Political Theory Colloquium.

Hidden Biases of Good People

April 30, 2024 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle

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Professor of Social Ethics, Dr. Mahzarin Banaji studies the disparities between conscious expressions of attitudes and beliefs. Spend the evening with her as she provide insights into how our minds work, and the often surprising and even perplexing manner by which implicit bias operates.

When an event is sold out, as a courtesy, the Graduate School will offer standby seating on a first-come, first-served basis. Any reserved seats not taken by 15 minutes before the start of the lecture will be offered to our guests in the standby line. Please note: standby entrance is based on seat availability and there is no guarantee of admittance to the public lecture.

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Translator Jetlag: Voice and the World We Build

April 30, 2024 4:30 pm

HUB 332

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Anton Hur, author of Toward Eternity and No One Told Me Not To, will examine the idea of voice in literary translation.

An Evening with Margaret Cho

May 1, 2024 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle

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Comedian and five-time GRAMMY and EMMY nominee, Margaret Cho will join us for a moderated discussion about her career highs and lows as well as share her thoughts around activism in the current political climate.

Registration opens March 13, 2024.

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Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia

May 2, 2024 3:30 pm

Thomson Hall 317

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What did it mean to be Hindu, Muslim, or Untouchable in pre-colonial India?

Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States

May 2, 2024 6:00 pm

HUB 214

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In Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Divergent States, Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel explain how over Russia and Ukraine diverged politically in the past thirty years.

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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics – Phillip Ayoub, University College London

May 3, 2024 3:30 pm

Gowen Hall 1A

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Join the department for a talk and discussion with Phillip Ayoub, Professor at University College London, and political science graduate student discussant Jana Foxe.

2024 Andrew L. Markus Memorial Lecture: Melayu Malay — Mystery Miracle

May 6, 2024 5:30 pm

Kane Hall (Room 225)

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The Department of Asian Languages & Literature's 2024 Andrew L. Markus Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor Hendrik Maier of the University of California Riverside.

Opening the Infrared Treasure Chest with JWST

May 8, 2024 7:30 pm

Kane Hall (Room 130) , Livestream (Hybrid)

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Dr. John C. Mather show how the Webb was built, why study infrared, and the most exciting current discoveries.

Kollar Lecture in American Art: Jennifer Greenhill

May 9, 2024 6:00 pm

Henry Art Gallery Auditorium

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Join Jennifer Greenhill at the University of Arkansas, for her lecture Imagination Made Material: The Commercial Infrastructures of Lejaren à Hiller and Douglas Leigh.

The Republican Moment: New Perspectives on South Vietnam & the Vietnamese Diaspora

May 9, 2024 3:30 pm

Communications 202

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This event introduces the latest research on South Vietnamese politics, culture, and society, offering a fresh way to understand the young republic and the people who built it.

Center for Environmental Politics, The Duck Family Colloquium Series: “Economic and Environmental Impacts of Mining in Ecuador”

May 10, 2024 12:00 pm

Gowan Hall 1A

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Associate Professor Mahelet Fikru from the Missouri University of Science and Technology speaks on the “Economic and Environmental Impacts of Mining in Ecuador.”

The Many Names of Anonymity: Rethinking Export Art

May 14, 2024 6:30 pm

Kane Hall (Room 210)

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This lecture introduces the Chinese painters of the global maritime trade, based in the port of Guangzhou (Canton), circa 1700-1850.

ASEAN Matters with Ambassador Michael Michalak

May 14, 2024 3:30 pm

Thomson 317

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Ambassador Mike Michalak will explain ASEAN and why it is an increasingly important partner for US economics and trade, as well as for the growth of the Indo-Pacific region.

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Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

May 14, 2024 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream (Hybrid)

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Join experimental psychologist Steven Pinker for an enlightening conversation about rationality and the importance of using critical thinking, logic, and causation and correlation as it relates to modern society.

Registration opens March 13, 2024.

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Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India

May 17, 2024 3:30 pm

Thomson Hall 317

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Oza follows the social life of rape in rural northwest India to reveal how rape is not only a violation of the body but a language through which a range of issues are contested.

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Yannick Wey, “Alpine Vibes” – Callings and Echoes of the Alps A Performance-Lecture on Swiss Alphorn Music

May 17, 2024 5:00 pm

Communications Building 120

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A simple musical instrument of the Alpine shepherds, the alphorn became a source of fascination for travelers in the 19th century.

Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production

May 23, 2024 5:00 pm

Hans Rosling Center for Population Health 101

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This lecture examines how representations of Vietnamese refugee families show not simply the lived experiences of war, but the day to day experiences of racism and marginalization

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