6:30 p.m.
Join us for an evening of community inspired music with the relentlessly innovative, bi-lingual, Chicano Grammy award-winning rock band, Quetzal. Together we will celebrate the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a band that narrates the social, cultural and political stories of humanity.
Registration opens on December 12, 2024.
4 p.m.
In this lecture, Silky Shah, incorporating historical and legal analyses of the last forty years, frames US immigration policy and its relationship to mass incarceration.
6:30 p.m.
Ahead of the presidential inauguration, join UW’s Delsman Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Professor of Law, Societies, and Justice Dr. Megan Ming Francis who will reflect on the lessons of the 2024 election and point to the possibilities to reimagine a more just future.
10 a.m.
Author Leigh Bardugo will discuss her new novel, “The Familiar,” and its use of Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) with UW faculty member Canan Bolel.
5 p.m.
UW Alumna, Dr. Natalie Hart, Inaugural Equity Strategic Advisor for the Washington State Senate shares her academic and career path plus more as she is interviewed by a student.
6 p.m.
Insights about the challenges some people with disabilities face, what the DoJ’s new rule on accessibility means, and 10 tips for getting started with digital accessibility.
6:30 p.m.
This talk explores the history of West Coast radicalism and factors that have made it influential beyond what is common in other regions.
3:30 p.m.
Taking stock of the centrality of entertainment in Indian public culture, this lecture focuses on the enduring significance of linguistic and cultural regions.
6 p.m.
Join the Department of Geography community for our annual event featuring a panel of three alumni sharing their experiences as geographers in practice!
3:30 p.m.
Shuxuan Zhou situates firsthand accounts of labor and resistance in wood processing within the context of postrevolutionary socialist reforms through China’s economic development.