UW Events Archive

Political Theory Colloquium: Becca Peach, “Replacing Welfare as We Know It: Crisis Pregnancy Centers & State Funding of Faith-Based Institutions”

Thursday, Apr. 11, 2024

Noon

Gowen Hall 1A

Becca Peach, Political Science Ph.D. candidate, speaks about “Replacing Welfare as We Know It: Crisis Pregnancy Centers & State Funding of Faith-Based Institutions.”

Contemporary Ethiopian Artists in Israel and the Question of Hyphenated Identity

Thursday, Apr. 11, 2024

7:30 p.m.

Thomson Hall 101

Artist and researcher Efrat Yerday will draw upon the work of several visual artists to illustrate the challenges faced by Ethiopian Jewish artists in Israel.

Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being

Thursday, Apr. 11, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Thomson 317

In ‘Indifference,’ Naisargi N. Davé explores human-animal relations in India, revealing care, violence, and mutual respect.

The Quest for Environmental and Climate Justice

Tuesday, Apr. 9, 2024

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle

Father of Environmental Justice, Dr. Robert Bullard, will offer a framework for dismantling systemic racism and policies and practices that create, exacerbate and perpetuate inequality and vulnerability.

Registeration opens March 13, 2024.

Southeast Asian Literature & Diasporas: Gender, Ethnicity, and Body Politics

Monday, Apr. 8, 2024

2 p.m.

HUB 214

The Department of Asian Languages and Literature and the Center for Southeast Asia and Its Diasporas welcome three distinguished authors to UW to discuss their work.

Freedom in Failure: “That’s how the light gets in”

Saturday, Apr. 6, 2024

3 p.m.

Henry Art South Gallery

This panel is inspired by the process of regeneration and rebirth embodied in Raúl de Nieves: A window to the see, a spirit star chiming in the wind of wonder.

Geography Colloquium: Charlotte Coté, University of Washington Department of American Indian Studies

Friday, Apr. 5, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Smith Hall 304

In this Geography Colloquium, Dr. Charlotte Coté, professor in the Department of American Indian Studies is invited to speak.

Internal Security and Chinese Grand Strategy

Friday, Apr. 5, 2024

1:30 p.m.

Gowen Hall 1A

Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Associate Professor at UT Austin, gives a talk on “Internal Security and Chinese Grand Strategy” with UW PhD candidate Brian Leung.

Psychology Loucks Colloquium with Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez, Ph.D.

Wednesday, Apr. 3, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Livestream, Kincaid Hall 102/108

The Department of Psychology invites Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Rochester, for the Psychology Loucks Colloquium.

Chinese Characters across Asia: Continuity and Transformation in Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese

Wednesday, Apr. 3, 2024

7 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 210

The event will focus on the history behind Japanese characters and why Japanese is the only Asian language that still uses Chinese characters in its writing.