UW Events Archive

UW Tacoma Alumni Speaker Series featuring Dr. Natalie Hart

Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024

5 p.m.

Milgard Hall - Room 110

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.

Getting Started with Digital Accessibility

Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024

6 p.m.

Livestream

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.

Katz Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities: James N. Gregory

Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024

6:30 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 210

This talk explores the history of West Coast radicalism and factors that have made it influential beyond what is common in other regions.

Voice, Video, and Vernacular: Digital Media and the Politics of Cultural Regions

Friday, Nov. 22, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

Taking stock of the centrality of entertainment in Indian public culture, this lecture focuses on the enduring significance of linguistic and cultural regions.

Geographers in Practice

Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024

6 p.m.

Livestream

Join the Department of Geography community for our annual event featuring a panel of three alumni sharing their experiences as geographers in practice!

From Forest Farm to Sawmill Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State

Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Allen Library Peterson Room

Shuxuan Zhou situates firsthand accounts of labor and resistance in wood processing within the context of postrevolutionary socialist reforms through China’s economic development.

Panel Discussion – Translating Persian Literature: Problems and Prospects

Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024

5:30 p.m.

3 Pike Street #307

UW MELC Persian and Iranian Studies Presents: The Inaugural Cycle of the Iraj Khademi Residency in Persian Literature.

Sacred Breath: Indigenous Writing and Storytelling Series

Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024

6 p.m.

Livestream, wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House

Sacred Breath features Indigenous writers and storytellers sharing their craft at the beautiful wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House on the UW Seattle campus.

Stephen Katz, “From Demography to Kinship: The Crisis of Population Aging”

Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Communications Building 202

This presentation considers moving beyond population itself and its demographic crisis models of reproduction, drawing on radical concepts of kin and kinship.

Distinguished Alumni Lecture with Professor Michael Fanselow, Ph.D., UCLA

Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Hans Rosling Center 155

Using experimental rodent models I will describe how defensive behavior is organized into 3 distinct modes that fall along a continuum related to the proximity of threat.