7:30 p.m.
MIT Morss Professor of Applied Mathematics Peter Shor’s research interests have mainly been in theoretical computer science: he formerly worked on algorithms, computational geometry, and combinatorics and currently works on quantum computing.
6:30 p.m.
Join ACLU of Washington policy experts and experts in restorative justice and violence prevention who have been directly impacted by the criminal legal system for a panel discussion on what keeps communities safe. Panelists will discuss restorative justice, violence prevention, sentencing reform, and how criminalization policies and tough-on-crime rhetoric during election seasons undermine public safety.
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. Emma S. Spiro, Mert Can Bayar, Zarine Kharazian, Rachel Moran-Prestridge and Joseph Schafer from the Information School’s Center for an Informed Public.
Free snacks will be served.
6:30 p.m.
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Join us for a moderated conversation between Senior Fellow for Public Practice at Braver Angels and author of “I Never Thought of it That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times,” Mónica Guzmán and writer, broadcaster, and interviewer, Steve Scher. Let’s learn together how to remain curious and courageous during our upcoming presidential election season.
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. Free pizza will be served.
Mark Smith, Political Science
Ralina Joseph, Communication and the Center for Communication, Difference and Equity
Carmen Gonzalez, Communication and the Center for Communication, Difference and Equity.
Noon
Renowned artist and College of Arts & Sciences alum Patti Warashina will discuss her 55+ year career and artworks on view in Poke in the Eye: Art of the West Coast Counterculture.
3:30 p.m.
This talk will discuss the interesting trends in literature and music in India from the late 1980s onwards.
3:30 p.m.
This talk considers the Filipino English teacher as a critical figure in the U.S.-Philippine program for refugee rehabilitation.
5 p.m.
This lecture examines how representations of Vietnamese refugee families show not simply the lived experiences of war, but the day to day experiences of racism and marginalization
3:30 p.m.
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.