UW Events Archive

Invisible Beauty: Film Screening and Q&A with Bethann Hardison and Frédéric Tcheng

Friday, Apr. 19, 2024

4 p.m.

Henry Art Gallery

The School of Art + Art History + Design hosts a film screening for “Invisible Beauty” followed by a Q&A with Bethann Hardison and Frédéric Tcheng.

Community Conversations – Management of Chronic Kidney Disease

Friday, Apr. 19, 2024

Noon

Livestream

Join our Community Conversations webinar to learn about management of chronic kidney disease. General guidelines, when to see a nephrologist (kidney MD), meds to avoid, and more.

Walter Andrews Memorial Lecture: Performance, Subversion and Gender-Bending in Ottoman Poetry

Thursday, Apr. 18, 2024

7 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 225

Didem Havlioglu will discuss Ottoman woman Mihri’s unapologetically marginal voice as a way to understand the physical and discursive contours of the Ottoman intellectual world.

Panel: What Makes a Good Art Critic?

Thursday, Apr. 18, 2024

5:15 p.m.

Henry Gallery Auditorium

Join the Henry Art Gallery for a panel featuring visiting curator and art critic Seph Rodney, Kemi Adeyemi and artist Srijon Chowdhury.

UW Tacoma Alumni Speaker Series featuring Jeremy Williams

Thursday, Apr. 18, 2024

6 p.m.

Milgrad Hall 110

Jeremy Williams is a Senior UX Researcher. He graduated from UW Tacoma with a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. Originally from Georgia, he is a Navy veteran.

An Afternoon with Kate Raworth

Monday, Apr. 15, 2024

Noon

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream

Renegade ecological economist, Kate Raworth implores us to look at economic theory that is inclusive of 21st century realities. The author of the best selling book “Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think like a 21st Century Economist” will join us remotely for a talk asking us to consider putting these economic principles in place to better our communities, cities, businesses and educators.

Registration opens March 13, 2024.

Silver Democracy: Youth Representation in an Aging Japan

Monday, Apr. 15, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

In this talk, Dr. McClean explores why young politicians are so rare in Japan and how this shortage affects democracy and the social policies implemented by the government.

Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics – Devin Joshi, Singapore Management University

Friday, Apr. 12, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Gowen Hall 1A

Join the Department of History for a discussion with Devin Joshi, Associate Professor of Political Science at Singapore Management University and PhD student Jihyeon Bae.

Rabinowitz Symposium in Medical Ethics – Race, Health, and Justice

Friday, Apr. 12, 2024

9:45 a.m.

Kane Hall, Room 225

In this Benjamin Rabinowitz Symposium in Medical Ethics on Race, Health and Justice, speakers will be invited to talk about anti-racism in public health and bioethics.

The Double-Helix Entanglements of Transnational Advocacy: Moral Conservative Resistance to SOGI Rights in Europe

Thursday, Apr. 11, 2024

Noon

TBD

This talk introduces the double-helix metaphor that describes the relationship between those that wish to explore sexual orientation, identity and those that oppose them.