UW Events Archive

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.

Digital Humanities Lecture: Ryan Cordell

Thursday, May 8, 2025

4 p.m.

CMU 120

Ryan Cordell – Bibliography & the Sociology of Large Language Models. Drawing on experiments from the Viral Texts project, study the relationship between bibliography and AI.