UW Events Archive

Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India

Friday, May 17, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

Oza follows the social life of rape in rural northwest India to reveal how rape is not only a violation of the body but a language through which a range of issues are contested.

Yannick Wey, “Alpine Vibes” – Callings and Echoes of the Alps A Performance-Lecture on Swiss Alphorn Music

Friday, May 17, 2024

5 p.m.

Communications Building 120

A simple musical instrument of the Alpine shepherds, the alphorn became a source of fascination for travelers in the 19th century.

Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream

Join experimental psychologist Steven Pinker for an enlightening conversation about rationality and the importance of using critical thinking, logic, and causation and correlation as it relates to modern society.

Registration opens March 13, 2024.

The Many Names of Anonymity: Rethinking Export Art

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

6:30 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 210

This lecture introduces the Chinese painters of the global maritime trade, based in the port of Guangzhou (Canton), circa 1700-1850.

ASEAN Matters with Ambassador Michael Michalak

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Thomson 317

Ambassador Mike Michalak will explain ASEAN and why it is an increasingly important partner for US economics and trade, as well as for the growth of the Indo-Pacific region.

Center for Environmental Politics, The Duck Family Colloquium Series: “Economic and Environmental Impacts of Mining in Ecuador”

Friday, May 10, 2024

Noon

Gowan Hall 1A

Associate Professor Mahelet Fikru from the Missouri University of Science and Technology speaks on the “Economic and Environmental Impacts of Mining in Ecuador.”

Kollar Lecture in American Art: Jennifer Greenhill

Thursday, May 9, 2024

6 p.m.

Henry Art Gallery Auditorium

Join Jennifer Greenhill at the University of Arkansas, for her lecture Imagination Made Material: The Commercial Infrastructures of Lejaren à Hiller and Douglas Leigh.

The Republican Moment: New Perspectives on South Vietnam & the Vietnamese Diaspora

Thursday, May 9, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Communications 202

This event introduces the latest research on South Vietnamese politics, culture, and society, offering a fresh way to understand the young republic and the people who built it.

Film Screening – Ukrainians in Exile

Thursday, May 9, 2024

5 p.m.

Allen Library Auditorium

Join the Jackson School for a film screening and Q&A with Janek Ambros, the director and producer of the documentary “Ukrayintsi u Vyhnanni” (Ukrainians In Exile).

Opening the Infrared Treasure Chest with JWST

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

7:30 p.m.

Kane Hall, Livestream, Room 130

Dr. John C. Mather show how the Webb was built, why study infrared, and the most exciting current discoveries.