UW Events Archive

Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan

Wednesday, Mar. 13, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

Gennifer Weisenfeld, Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University, discusses her book Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defenses in Wartime Japan.

Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust

Wednesday, Mar. 13, 2024

4 p.m.

HUB 214

Ari Joskowicz describes the experiences of Hitler’s forgotten victims and charts the evolving postwar relationship between Roma and Jews.

Auditing Localized Google Search Results for Human Rights

Friday, Mar. 8, 2024

1:30 p.m.

Gowen Hall 1A

Rochelle Terman, Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago and PhD student Bobby Maxwell discuss “Auditing Localized Google Search Results for Human Rights.”

True North Rising: My fifty-year journey with the Inuit and Dene leaders who transformed Canada’s North

Friday, Mar. 8, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Petersen Room, Allen Library

Former CBC journalist and Arctic issues leader Whit Fraser talks about his memoir and long history of work and collaboration with Indigenous leaders in Canada’s North.

A talk by Prof. Willard Sunderland

Thursday, Mar. 7, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Communications Bldg

The Ellison Center invites Professor Willard Sunderland from the University of Cincinnati to talk about early Russian-American relations.

Taiwan Lives with Niki Alsford

Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

Professor Niki Alsford (University of Central Lancashire) will join in-person to discuss his new monograph, Taiwan Lives: A Social and Political History.

Coming Out As Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India’s Caste System

Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Denny Hall 313

Yashica Dutt’s work sheds essential light on the significant influence caste-ism has across many aspects of Indian and US society.

BOOK TALK | Yashica Dutt | Coming Out As Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India’s Caste System

Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Denny 313

Yashica Dutt brings a new audience of readers into a crucial conversation about embracing Dalit identity.

From Artistic Joy to Collective Wellness

Tuesday, Mar. 5, 2024

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream

Artist and 2017 TED Global fellow, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, will engage us in a night of spoken word and activism while exploring artistic intelligence as an agent of public healing.

Hope and Honor: Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust

Tuesday, Mar. 5, 2024

2 p.m.

TBD

Sociology Colloquium Professor Rachel L. Einwohner: “Hope and Honor: Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust.”