UW Events Archive

Linguistics Department Colloquium: Michael McAuliffe from Amazon

Friday, Feb. 7, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Hitchcock Hall 320

Department of Linguistics’ 2025 Colloquium series with Michael McAuliffe from Amazon.

The Role of Art and Journalism in Society

Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream

Join multimedia investigative journalist and artist, Wesaam Al-Badry for a conversation exploring how artists maintain a profound grasp on truth. Mr. Al-Badry will challenge us to answer questions about the role artists play in reimagining journalism as a medium of genuine critical reflection and societal truth, among others.

Rio Grande: Boundaries and Borderlands

Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025

7:30 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 130

Part of the History Lecture Series: River Histories. The power of the Rio Grande derived from its capacity to inspire reflection on the proper boundaries between peoples, nations, and races—boundaries negotiated in words but also through violence. Mexicans, Europeans, and Americans all found in the Rio a place to envision the outline of a new global order.

The Social Shift: Content Creators, New Voices, and the Future of News

Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025

5:30 p.m.

Kane Hall, Livestream, Room 225

Explore how content creators’ work brings new voices and perspectives to journalism, their evolving relationships with traditional media, and what drives their passion.

Bad Jews: Bad for the Jews? Sex, Shame and Moral Policing in Argentine Jewish History with Mir Yarfitz

Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025

7 p.m.

Thomson Hall 101

How did 20th-century Argentine Jewish organizations view sexual morality? How did these views impact the broader community? Hear guest lecturer Mir Yarfitz discuss this and more.

Hopkins Faculty Award Lecture in Chemistry: Prof. Daniel Gamelin

Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025

4 p.m.

TBD

Prof. Gamelin was selected for this award for his outstanding contributions to our research, education, and service missions.

A Shattered Country: Burma/Myanmar Four Years After the 2021 Military Coup d’Etat

Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

Join Associate Professor Mary Callahan as she explores the evolving crisis in Myanmar four years after the 2021 military coup.

Prompt Engineering & Interacting with AI

Monday, Feb. 3, 2025

11:30 a.m.

Communications Building 202

Geoffrey Turnovsky will highlight two technologies that came from early modern print: characters in textual representations of the human in fiction and characters in letterforms.

Approaches to Black Power Histories

Friday, Jan. 31, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Communications Building 202

M Aziz, Robyn Spencer-Antoine, and Dan Berger discuss Black Power Histories and Methodological approaches to African American History.

Book Talk: ‘Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhood in a Changing World Order’, with Catherine Chou and Mark Harrison

Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

Revolutionary Taiwan helps to show how democratization in Taiwan constituted a revolution, changing the form of government and how Taiwanese people see their island as a nation.