UW Events Archive

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.

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.