UW Events Archive

Collaborative Book Celebration: The Yoga of Power

Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Communications Building 202

In their book, The Yoga of Power, Sunila S. Kalé and Christian Lee Novetzke show that yoga has long expressed political thought and practice.

Ganges: The Many Lives of an Indian River

Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025

7:30 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 130

Part of the History Lecture Series: River Histories. Over the centuries, the Ganges and its tributaries have also been a major natural resource for the highly developed states and societies that emerged in their basins, in recent times supporting a significant proportion of India’s huge population. A source of sustenance—and irrigation, transportation, and power—the Ganges story is about the fascinating and complex dynamics between its waters and religion, culture, economy, politics, and environment.

Together in Translation: Rewriting Virginity in Feminist Solidarity

Monday, Jan. 27, 2025

7 p.m.

HUB 250

The talk will explore the political role of translation in facilitating transnational feminist transformations and connectivities.

Rana Jaleel: Making Authoritarian Sex

Monday, Jan. 27, 2025

4 p.m.

Communications Building 120

Rana M. Jaleel reviews Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization’s failure to require a rape or incest exception in states that would if not ban or restrict access to abortions.

Gangstagrass

Friday, Jan. 24, 2025

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream

Gangstagrass, the band known for providing the music America needs, will demolish every preconception you have about country music and hip-hop music. Let’s party together with this irresistible blend of America’s rural and urban music traditions!

University of Washington International Security Colloquium (UWISC): “Tech Titans: Navigating the Policy Landscape from Nuclear Weapons to Artificial Intelligence”

Friday, Jan. 24, 2025

1:30 p.m.

Gowen Hall 1A

Sarah Kreps – “Tech Titans: Navigating the Policy Landscape from Nuclear Weapons to Artificial Intelligence”

Sarah Kreps – “Tech Titans: Navigating the Policy Landscape from Nuclear Weapons to Artificial Intelligence”

Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025

6 p.m.

Henry Lower Level Galleries

Surrounded by Lucy Kim’s exhibition, Mutant Optics, join Kim and Lucy Cotter, writer, curator, researcher, and author, as they discuss art practice as a form of research.

An Evening with Martha Gonzalez

Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream

Help us welcome back UW alumna, Chicana artivista, musician, feminist music theorist and Associate Professor in the Intercollegiate Department of Chicana/o Latina/o Studies at Scripps/Claremont College, Dr. Martha Gonzalez. Together we will take a lyrical journey filled with her creative ideas and thoughts on art as activism.

River of the Gods: The Nile and Ancient Egypt

Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025

7:30 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 130

Part of the History Lecture Series: River Histories. Flowing more than 4,000 miles from the highland lakes of East Africa to the Mediterranean, the Nile is Africa’s longest river. Ancient Egyptians honored the river as a god, building temples along its banks and revering the animals nourished by its waters. This lecture examines how the Nile’s geography and ecology underpinned the development of Ancient Egypt; it will also show how the river’s association with divinity has endured beyond antiquity.

Tateuchi East Asia Library Digital Scholarship Series

Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025

4:30 p.m.

Gowen Hall

The presentation highlights a number of interrelated projects in the domain of Text Analysis for the purpose of Digital Philology.