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SOLD OUT: An Evening with Christine Sun Kim

April 30, 2025 7:00 pm

Town Hall Seattle

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Berlin-based artist Christine Sun Kim discusses her wide-ranging practice around sound and language. Reflecting on her experiences as a member of the Deaf community, Kim will delve into her work within various systems of visual communication, including American Sign Language (ASL), musical notation, infographics, and television captioning. Kim is currently showing a new mural, Ghost(ed) Notes, on the east facade of the Henry Art Gallery. We encourage you to visit the mural prior to the talk!

The Office of Public Lectures offers standby seating on a first-come, first-served basis for sold out lectures. 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.

The livestream of the lecture is available here: https://www.youtube.com/live/3r3d3O9e6KE?si=-GCeIA5-4UJEOfFw

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Populist Power Plays: Erdogan’s Turkey, Trump’s USA, and the Future of Democracy

April 30, 2025 5:00 pm

Kane Hall (Room 110)

FreeAvailableOpen

Garo Paylan, former Member of the Turkish Parliament in conversation with UW Professor Asli Cansunar.

Letters from the Ancestors: Family History and our Capitalist Future

April 30, 2025 4:00 pm

Bommunications Building 120

FreeAvailableOpen

In “Letters from the Ancestors,” Connolly follows the events of four generations of his Caribbean family, offering a view of the history of late capitalism in the Atlantic World.

The AfroFuture Now

May 1, 2025 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle

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Join award-winning graphic novelist and all-around champion of Black culture, John Jennings for a conversation about the current history of Black speculation.

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Splintered Intimacies: Work and Friendship in Karachi’s Service Economy

May 1, 2025 3:30 pm

Denny 313

FreeAvailableOpen

This talk will draw on ethnographic fieldwork to explore the social lives of low-wage women workers in Karachi, Pakistan.

Trump in the World 2.0 Lecture Series – U.S. Foreign Aid

May 5, 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: Migration, featuring Mark Ward, U.S. Foreign Service (ret.); Instructor Oregon State University.

A Delicate Symphony: Courtship, Guardianship, and (self-)Censorship in Translating from Arabic

May 6, 2025 4:30 pm

HUB 332

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Sawad Hussain will highlight how she has courted authors and editors, and then played guardian and censor to bring literary works from Arabic into English.

Paul C. Cross Endowed Lecture in Physical Chemistry: Prof. David Hu

May 6, 2025 4:00 pm

Guggenheim Hall 220

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"Mosquitoes, earwax, and bird baths"
Professor David Hu - School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Tech
Host: Sarah Keller

Finland: Scandinavian, Nordic, and Baltic Positioning by Sonya Amadae

May 7, 2025 3:30 pm

Allen Library Auditorium

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This talk discusses Finland's unique cultural heritage and its contemporary expression as a new NATO member and an important collaborator with the Nordic Defense Cooperation.

Not So Simple! Translating Young Adult Literature as Resistance and Entertainment with Sawad Hussain

May 7, 2025 5:00 pm

Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, 93 Pike Street #30

FreeAvailableOpen

Join a panel of three distinguished translators -Sawad Hussain, Shelley Fairweather-Vega, and Takami Nieda - for an engaging discussion on translating literature for young people.

Second Seattle Organic Chemistry Seminar

May 8, 2025 4:00 pm

Chemistry Building 102

FreeAvailableOpen

This seminar will describe the latest progress in Prof. Sarah Reisman's group's target-directed synthesis and reaction development efforts.

2025 NanoES Symposium

May 8, 2025 3:30 pm

NanoES 181

FreeAvailableOpen

Join us for light refreshments as we highlight NanoES research from our shared facilities, award seed grants and the Student Scientific Achievement Award.

Monsen Photography Lecture: Carmen Winant

May 8, 2025 6:00 pm

Henry Auditorium

FreeAvailableOpen

The Henry is excited to welcome distinguished artist Carmen Winant as the 2025 Monsen Photography Lecture speaker.

Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Reading

May 8, 2025 7:30 pm

Kane Hall (Room 130)

FreeAvailableOpen

Join Brandon Som for the 2025 Roethke Reading. The Readings began in 1964 to bringing notable contemporary poets to the University of Washington campus to give a reading.

A Triadic Counterinsurgency Framework to Unpack Government – Non State Armed Actor – Constituency Relations

May 9, 2025 2:00 pm

Gowen Hall 1A

FreeAvailableOpen

UW International Security Colloquium (UWISC): “A Triadic Counterinsurgency Framework to Unpack Government – Non State Armed Actor – Constituency Relations” with Efe Tokdemir.

Trump in the World 2.0 Lecture Series – Latin America and Africa

May 12, 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: Latin America and Africa featuring professors Vanessa Freije, International Studies, James Long, Political Science, and José Antonio (Tony) Lucero, Comparative History of Ideas.

Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire

May 12, 2025 4:00 pm

Communications 120

FreeAvailableOpen

Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire (co-sponsored by History and Labor Studies) with Sarah Bond, University of Iowa.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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

Photo of Andrew Markus and wife in black and white

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.

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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.

Judge Joel Ngugi

May 21, 2025 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream (Hybrid)

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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.

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“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)

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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

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

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.

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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