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Katz Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities: Jahan Ramazani
May 13, 2025 6:30 pm
Kane Hall (Room 120)
FreeAvailableOpen
Jahan Ramazani is University Professor and Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
Fluid or Solid? The Physics of Shape-Shifting Materials
May 13, 2025 7:30 pm
Kane Hall (Room 130)
FreeAvailableOpen
Join the Department of Physics and Chiara Daraio to discover how the geometry and topology of PAMs are redefining what’s possible in material science and engineering.
Sexuality & Queer Studies Capstone: “Falling Asleep in the Museum”
May 14, 2025 3:30 pm
Hutchinson 154
FreeAvailableOpen
Eric Villiers explores the queer curation of "Gap: Having time. Counting time. Filling time," at the Schwules (Gay) Museum in Berlin, Germany.
Making AI Globally Intelligent
May 14, 2025 12:30 pm
Savery 409
FreeAvailableOpen
Talk through different data-driven strategies on broadening the scope of GenAI evaluations to be more competent in its handling of global perspectives and challenges.
Kwakwaka’wakw Art: A Presentation by Trevor Isaac
May 14, 2025 7:00 pm
Burke Museum
FreeAvailableOpen
Trevor Isaac will give a general overview of Kwakwaka’wakw art, including how both the everyday and ceremonial art form have been a means of recording and documenting their culture
Ten Paradoxes of Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership
May 14, 2025 3:30 pm
Thomson 317
FreeAvailableOpen
The talk will focus on Finland and Sweden’s accession to NATO and the repercussions that this has had on the two countries as well as on NATO and European security.
Elegies for the Planet
May 15, 2025 3:30 pm
CMU 202
FreeAvailableOpen
Jahan Ramazani will discuss how ecocriticism on the poetics of climate change can help develop and revise the paradigms of poetic mourning in elegy scholarship.
Toddler Talk: Iterative Development of a Model to Support Language and Social-Emotional Development in Infant-Toddler Community Childcare Programs
May 15, 2025 9:30 am
Eagleson Hall 211
FreeAvailableOpen
Dr. Baumingham shares lessons from developing and implementing the intervention in childcare settings and unique challenges associated with measuring language interactions
Global Sport Lab: African women, Gender and Soccer with Martha Saavedra
May 15, 2025 11:00 am
HUB 340
FreeAvailableOpen
Join the Jackson School for a retrospective reflection on the future of African women and football followed by a Q&A featuring guest speaker Martha Saavedra.
TEP Speaker Series #3
May 16, 2025 6:00 pm
Health Sciences Building - Hogness Auditorium
FreeAvailableOpen
Join us to explore Dr. Gholdy Muhammad’s frameworks for designing powerful curricula that honor all students’ identities and genius.
Linguistics Colloquium Series
May 16, 2025 3:30 pm
Johnson Hall 111
FreeAvailableOpen
Spring 2025 Linguistics Colloquium Series: "The syntax and semantics of quantificational expressions in Chuj" Justin Royer (UdeM)
Center for Environmental Politics: Maura Allaire, University of California-Irvine, “Water Governance Disparities and Utility Performance: Evidence from California”
May 16, 2025 12:00 pm
The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A
FreeAvailableOpen
University of California-Irvine's Maura Allaire discusses water governance disparities and utility performance in relation to what's been observed in California.
Atheism and Theodicy in Classical Athens
May 16, 2025 3:30 pm
Livestream, Denny 212 (Hybrid)
FreeAvailableOpen
Scholarship on atheism in classical Athens has reached an impasse, with opposing views on its definition and extent. The talk shifts stance by adopting a phenomenological approach.
Shili Lin: Sparse Estimation in Finite Mixtures of Varying Coefficient and Survival Regression Models
May 16, 2025 3:30 pm
Denny 259
FreeAvailableOpen
This talk explores two extensions of finite mixture regression models under high dimensionality.
A Tyrant’s Rise: The evolution of T. rex
May 17, 2025 6:30 pm
Burke Museum
FreeAvailableOpen
Join paleontologist Dr. Lindsay Zanno as she reveals what new dinosaur discoveries from the Cretaceous are teaching us about the fame and fortune of T. rex and its favorite meal.
The AI CON: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want
May 19, 2025 7:00 pm
Elliott Bay Bookstore
FreeAvailableOpen
Linguist, educator Emily M. Bender and social scientist Alex Hanna visit the store to discuss their new book, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want.
2025 Andrew L. Markus Memorial Lecture
May 19, 2025 5:00 pm
Kane Hall (Room 225)
FreeAvailableOpen
This lectureship was established in memory of Andrew L. Markus, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of Washington from 1986-1995.
Leaders from Biology Endowed Lecture
May 19, 2025 12:00 pm
HCK 132
FreeAvailableOpen
Join Dr. Christopher Harley from the University of British Columbia, Department of Zoology and Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, for the Leaders from Biology Endowed Lecture
Trump in the World 2.0 Lecture Series – Energy
May 19, 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: Energy featuring Scott Montgomery, International Studies
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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