UW Events Archive

Disparities in Disconnections: Utility Access in the Age of Climate Change

Friday, Feb. 21, 2025

Noon

Gowen Hall 1A, The Olson Room

Lecture from David Konisky, Indiana University Bloomington, about utility access in the age of climate change

Diana Behler Memorial Lecture: DorotFrom the Grimms’ Wonder Tales to AI: Wells, Hedges, Automata, Screens. How to connect the dots?

Friday, Feb. 21, 2025

2:30 p.m.

Denny 359

Prof. Dorothee Ostmeier, University of Oregon, will deliver a lecture in honor of beloved UW Professor Diana Behler.

Self-Destructive Policy Seeking and Self-Benefiting Shirking, with Ko Maeda, University of North Texas

Friday, Feb. 21, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Thomson Hall

This study empirically shows that Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has been gaining an electoral advantage by not achieving its stated goal of revising the constitution

FILM SCREENING |”My Imaginary Country”

Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025

5:30 p.m.

Allen Library Auditorium

Join Livia Lima and Andrés Barría for a screening of Patricio Guzmán’s 2019 documentary, “My Imaginary Country (Mi país imaginario).”

Translating Freud: Psychoanalysis in the Popular Jewish Press with Naomi Seidman

Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025

4:30 p.m.

Communications Building 120

Guest lecturer Naomi Seidman will take us inside “the Freud craze” to explore the impact Freud’s work had on Eastern European Jews.

Global History and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab

Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

Navyug Gill explores the peasant and laborer as noval political subjects forged in the meeting between colonialism and struggles over culture and capital within Panjabi society.

The Columbia: Where the Internet Live

Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025

7:30 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 130

Part of the History Lecture Series: River Histories. An artery of indigenous commerce, a nexus of the fur trade, a power source for war work, and a water source for industrial-scale agriculture, the mighty Columbia is now home to one of the world’s most notable concentrations of data centers. These enormous facilities, owned and operated by the world’s largest technology companies, are the physical backbone that make cloud computing, social networking, and AI possible.

Confucianism, Virtue Ethics and the Science of Perception

Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025

4 p.m.

Communications Building 202

In this more technical colloquium, Edward Slingerland will review some of the academic and scientific controversies the project required him to navigate.

Stice Feminist Lecture of Social Justice: “Fighting Fascism with Intersex Justice,” presented by Sean Saifa Wall

Monday, Feb. 10, 2025

3 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 225

Join Dr. Sean Saifa Wall in a conversation that asks questions, speaks truths, and offers a way forward through these recent years.

Vali Dakhani and Early Rekhtah Networks: Sharing Poetry’s Pleasures

Friday, Feb. 7, 2025

11:30 a.m.

Communications Building 202

Purnima Dhavan and Heidi Pauwels reexamine the emergence of Rekhtah (now called Urdu) as a literary and poetic language in the eighteenth century.