UW Events Archive

Intergenerational Encounters: A Conversation with Kelly Akashi

Friday, Apr. 26, 2024

3 p.m.

Henry Education Studio

Join artist Kelly Akashi at the Henry for a small group conversation on intergenerational ties through objects.

Addressing Post-Pandemic Trauma in Youth: How Mindfulness Practices Support Positive Mental Health Outcomes in Challenging Times

Thursday, Apr. 25, 2024

7 p.m.

HUB 250

This free public lecture will address post-pandemic trauma in youth and the empowering effects of trauma-informed mindfulness practices.

Paul C. Cross Endowed Lecture in Physical Chemistry: Prof. Keith A. Nelson

Thursday, Apr. 25, 2024

4 p.m.

Bagley Hall 154

The Department of Chemistry invites Professor Keith A. Nelson to speak for the Paul C. Cross Endowed Lecture in Physical Chemistry.

Escaping the Highway to Hell: Death, the Afterlife, and Buddhist Practice in Premodern Japan

Thursday, Apr. 25, 2024

5:30 p.m.

Kane 225

Miriam Chusid introduces two sets of fourteenth-century hell paintings and examines the Buddhist narrative tales (setsuwa) embedded in both of these paintings.

Leading Change

Wednesday, Apr. 24, 2024

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle

Dr. Yvette E. Pearson, Campus Resources and Support, University of Texas at Dallas, knows a lot about change. Building on her concept of ENGINEERING CH∆NGE®, Dr. Pearson will share challenges that come with change in the STEM fields and insights on navigating those challenges through intentional, iterative, people-centered strategies.

Registration opens March 13, 2024.

Living Quarters: Gender, Slavery, and Private Life in the Early Black Atlantic

Wednesday, Apr. 24, 2024

4 p.m.

Communications 120

The 2024 Stephanie M.H. Camp Memorial Lecture by Jennifer L. Morgan explores the connections between domestic space, privacy and the presence of enslaved women in a modern world.

Genbaku Otome: Reconsidering the “Hiroshima Maidens

Monday, Apr. 22, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies invites Kim Brandt from Columbia University to talk about the significance of the Hiroshima Maidens.

Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics

Friday, Apr. 19, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Gowen Hall 1A

Join the Department of History for a talk and discussion with political science graduate student Waleed Salem and faculty discussant George Lovell.

The Imperative Challenges of Sustainability for the Forgotten

Friday, Apr. 19, 2024

Noon

The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A

The Department of Political Science invites Gary Machlis, professor at Clemson University, to speak for the Ducky Family Colloquium Series.

Translation Studies Hub Colloquium with Jang Wook Huh and Maxine Savage

Friday, Apr. 19, 2024

11:30 a.m.

Communications 202

The Simpson Center for the Humanities invites three speakers: Jang Wook Huh, Aria Fani and Maxine Savage