UW Events Archive

The AI CON: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want

Monday, May 19, 2025

7 p.m.

Elliott Bay Bookstore

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.

Leaders from Biology Endowed Lecture

Monday, May 19, 2025

Noon

HCK 132

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

A Tyrant’s Rise: The evolution of T. rex

Saturday, May 17, 2025

6:30 p.m.

Burke Museum

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.

Center for Environmental Politics: Maura Allaire, University of California-Irvine, “Water Governance Disparities and Utility Performance: Evidence from California”

Friday, May 16, 2025

Noon

The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A

University of California-Irvine’s Maura Allaire discusses water governance disparities and utility performance in relation to what’s been observed in California.

TEP Speaker Series #3

Friday, May 16, 2025

6 p.m.

Health Sciences Building - Hogness Auditorium

Join us to explore Dr. Gholdy Muhammad’s frameworks for designing powerful curricula that honor all students’ identities and genius.

Linguistics Colloquium Series

Friday, May 16, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Johnson Hall 111

Spring 2025 Linguistics Colloquium Series: “The syntax and semantics of quantificational expressions in Chuj” Justin Royer (UdeM)

Shili Lin: Sparse Estimation in Finite Mixtures of Varying Coefficient and Survival Regression Models

Friday, May 16, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Denny 259

This talk explores two extensions of finite mixture regression models under high dimensionality.

Atheism and Theodicy in Classical Athens

Friday, May 16, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Livestream, Denny 212

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.

Global Sport Lab: African women, Gender and Soccer with Martha Saavedra

Thursday, May 15, 2025

11 a.m.

HUB 340

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.

Elegies for the Planet

Thursday, May 15, 2025

3:30 p.m.

CMU 202

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.