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The Dubal Memorial Lecture: Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era

October 13, 2023 1:30 pm

Livestream

FreeAvailableOpen

Natali Valdez is a medical anthropologist and science and technology scholar who studies how race, gender, and power are enveloped into scientific knowledge production.
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Dr. Joanne Woiak – Engaging Disability, Empowering History: Ethics and Politics of Disability History

October 17, 2023 6:00 pm

Livestream, Alder Hall Auditorium (Hybrid)

FreeAvailableOpen

The Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Lecture is dedicated to acknowledging the work of faculty whose nationally-recognized research focuses on diversity and social justice.
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Vidya Krishnan Lecture: Plagues, Philanthropies and the End of Imagination

October 19, 2023 4:00 pm

Hans Rosling Center for Population Health 155

FreeAvailableOpen

This talk will bring attention to medical apartheid and how it heavily affects black and brown communities across the globe.
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The Disabled Gaze: Rethinking the Past, Remaking the Future

October 24, 2023 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream (Hybrid)

FreeAvailableRecordedOpen

Join us for an evening with Jaipreet Virdi, scholar activist and Associate Professor at the University of Delaware. The author of “Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History” Dr. Virdi asks us to consider how being disabled changes the way people view the world and the things they create. Through these perspectives, she invites alternative approaches for remaking crip worlds, one in which disabled people, and the disabled gaze, are centered first and foremost.

Registration opens September 13, 2023.

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Building Resilience: future-forward solutions for nature, health and the urban environment

October 25, 2023 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle

$8AvailableOpen

Join us for an evening with Dr. Heather Tallis to explore how weaving nature more deliberately into the fabric of our urban communities can improve our quality of life.
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Generative Misinformation

October 27, 2023 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream (Hybrid)

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Jevin West, UW Associate Professor at the Information School and the co-founder of the Center for an Informed Public will discuss new challenges and potential approaches to mitigate AI and highlight the gravity of addressing misinformation as a crucial societal challenge. He will emphasize the potential consequences of misinformation spread through AI and chatbots.

Registration opens September 13, 2023.

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Machina Aesthetica, or Reflections on Art In and Out of the Machine Age

November 8, 2023 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream (Hybrid)

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Artist, writer and publisher, Paul Chan will reflect on his experiences as an artist working in and out of the domains of technology. He will talk about the various kinds of technology he has used to make work, from truetype fonts and pirated software, to datasets and machine learning frameworks. He will also present a unique perspective on artists and writers he admires, discussing how they incorporated and sometimes misused technology in their work.

Registration opens September 13, 2023.

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Embracing a Human-Centric Approach to AI Development

November 14, 2023 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle

FreeAvailableOpen

Join us for an exploration about how we can create equitable and trustworthy AI experiences with, Dr. Arathi Sethumadhavan. She will delve into the profound impact of AI technologies on individuals and society. From biased AI systems to deepfake challenges, she will present compelling case studies that emphasize the importance of involving stakeholders to identify harms and develop effective solutions.

Registration opens September 13, 2023.

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The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom

November 30, 2023 5:00 pm

Kane Hall (Room 110)

FreeAvailableOpen

Lecture on "The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom", the latest book by P. Sainath (author of "Everybody Loves a Good Drought")
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An Evening with Alice Wong

January 9, 2024 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle

FreeAvailableComing Soon

Disabled activist and writer, Alice Wong will join us remotely for a moderated converstation addressing topics important to her work in raising the visibility of disabled people. The author of the 2022 Must Read Book,
"Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life," is sure to inspire and enlighten all of us.

Registration opens December 13, 2023.

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Disability Justice: Centering Intersectionality and Liberation

January 17, 2024 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle

FreeAvailableComing Soon

Patty Berne, Cofounder and Executive Artistic Director of Sins Invalid, will discuss the importance of intersectionaligty in disability justice and the need to address how diverse systems of oppression reinforce each other. Ms. Berne will be joining us remotely for this moderated conversation.

Registration opens December 13, 2023.

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The Cooking Gene: Tracing My African American Story Through Food

January 24, 2024 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle

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Blogger, culinary historian and food writer, of African American and Jewish descent Michael W. Twitty, will spend the evening tracing his family’s Southern roots through food. Hewill use historic interpretation, interviews with contemporary voices in food that led him back to his family’s origins in West and Central Africa.

Registration opens December 13, 2023.

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An Evening with Tina Campt

February 8, 2024 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle

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Join black feminist theorist and Princeton University Humanities professor, Dr. Tina Campt on an exploration of the black diaspora and the interventions of black contemporary artists in reshaping how we see ourselves and our societies.

Registration opens December 13, 2023.

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Building Scyborgs. An evening on decolonization

February 13, 2024 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream (Hybrid)

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UC San Diego scholar, organizer, and co-conspirator K. Wayne Yang will share stories about decolonizing endeavors from past, present, future and speculative somewheres. He will ask us to explore how we bend our own complicity in colonial institutions to forward Indigenous, Black, queer, and Other futures locally and globally. Come ready to consider your own scyborg powers and plans.

Registration opens December 13, 2023.

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Is the US a democracy or a republic?

February 28, 2024 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle

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Writer and scholar, Anand Gopal will draw from historical examples in his exploration of the rise and fall of American democracy in the context of historical thinking about what makes democracies flourish and provide suggestions for ways we can fix America’s democracy.

Registeration opens December 13, 2023.

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From Artistic Joy to Collective Wellness

March 5, 2024 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream (Hybrid)

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Artist and 2017 TED Global fellow, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, will engage us in a night of spoken word and activism while exploring artistic intelligence as an agent of public healing.

Registration opens December 13, 2023.

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The Quest for Environmental and Climate Justice

April 9, 2024 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle

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Father of Environmental Justice, Dr. Robert Bullard, will offer a framework for dismantling systemic racism and policies and practices that create, exacerbate and perpetuate inequality and vulnerability.

Registeration opens March 13, 2024.

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An Evening with Kate Raworth

April 15, 2024 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream (Hybrid)

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Renegade ecological economist, Kate Raworth implores us to look at economic theory that is inclusive of 21st century realities. The author of the best selling book “Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think like a 21st Century Economist” will join us remotely for a talk asking us to consider putting these economic principles in place to better our communities, cities, businesses and eductors.

Registration opens March 13, 2024.

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Leading Change

April 24, 2024 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle

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Dr. Yvette Pearson, Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the University of Texas, 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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Hidden Biases of Good People

April 30, 2024 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle

FreeAvailableComing Soon

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.

Registration opens March 13, 2024.

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An Evening with Margaret Cho

May 1, 2024 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle

FreeAvailableComing Soon

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

May 14, 2024 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream (Hybrid)

FreeAvailableRecordedComing Soon

Join experimental psycologist Steven Pinker for an enlightening conversation about rationality and the importance of using criticial, logical, causation and correlation as it relates to modern society.

Registration opens March 13, 2024.

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