1 p.m.
Iranian American artist, Yasmeen Abedifard, offers a book talk and Q&A session about her newly published comic collection: When to Pick a Pomegranate (pub. Silver Sprocket 2024).
11:30 a.m.
Wendy Call (she/ella) will speak to us about translating poetry written in Mexican languages. Hamza Ahmad shares his translations and what he feels affects audiences.
3 p.m.
In a lecture on the Hindi film Laal Singh Chaddha, Madhavi Murty, UC Santa Cruz explores how film is deliberately negating the forms in which Hindu nationalism and Indian capitalism come together.
5:30 p.m.
Join Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies as they explore the U.S. election from the perspective of China, India, Taiwan, the Middle East, European Union, and Mexico. Jackson School faculty: Professor David Bachman; Associate Professor Vanessa Freije; Professor Sunila J. Kale, Professor Reşat Kasaba, Professor Sabine Lang, and Assistant Professor James Lin.
1 p.m.
The Burke Museum invites you to help build a barangay, as we reflect upon the 4,200 cultural collections and archival materials from the Philippines.
3 p.m.
Madhavi Mohan Murty discusses her essay on the Hindi film Laal Singh Chaddha (Advait Chandan, 2022), an adaptation of Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994).
6 p.m.
Dr. Sara Curran will discuss past and present ways in which demographic diversity has been measured and why, and also the complexities of measuring demographic diversity.
5 p.m.
Join the UW Department of Communication and the journalism community to learn more about the changing lives of orcas in the Puget Sound.
4 p.m.
Democracy in Focus Lecture Series: Every Tuesday leading up to the election, UW faculty members will share their expertise through a public lecture on an election-related topic.
Margaret O’Mara, History; Jessica Beyer, Jackson School of International Studies; and Daniel Bessner, Jackson School of International Studies
Free pizza will be served.
4 p.m.
Mark Rudner discusses electronic structure of two-dimensional materials, and how we can use this new paradigm of non-equilibrium dynamics to unlock novel electromagnetic phenomena.