UW Events Archive

Fluid or Solid? The Physics of Shape-Shifting Materials

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

7:30 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 130

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.

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

Monday, May 12, 2025

5 p.m.

Livestream

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

Monday, May 12, 2025

4 p.m.

Communications 120

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

Jill Fredericksen-Adams Endowed Lecture: The genomics of climate change adaptation (and extinction)

Monday, May 12, 2025

Noon

HCK 132

The ongoing climate change has put a spotlight on rapid evolutionary processes that could aid species to adapt to new environments. However, many questions remain unanswered

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

Friday, May 9, 2025

2 p.m.

Gowen Hall 1A

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

2025 NanoES Symposium

Thursday, May 8, 2025

3:30 p.m.

NanoES 181

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

Thursday, May 8, 2025

6 p.m.

Henry Auditorium

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

Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Reading

Thursday, May 8, 2025

7:30 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 130

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.

Second Seattle Organic Chemistry Seminar

Thursday, May 8, 2025

4 p.m.

Chemistry Building 102

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

Sawad Hussain: Selling literature: What’s a translator got to do with it?

Thursday, May 8, 2025

11:30 a.m.

CMU 202

This seminar will examine the marketing tools that today’s translators are expected to master and whether these expectations are fair to begin with.