UW Events Archive

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.

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

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

5 p.m.

Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, 93 Pike Street #30

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.

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

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Allen Library Auditorium

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.

50 years of Danish Studies at the UW

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

4 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 225

Explore the origins, adaptations, and history of Hans Christian Andersen’s tale “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” framing it as a clever parable that questions political authority.