UW Events Archive

In Conversation: Hank Willis Thomas and Shamim M. Momin

Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024

2 p.m.

Livestream, Henry Gallery Auditorium

Internationally renowned artist Hank Willis Thomas and Henry Director of Curatorial Affairs Shamim M. Momin explore 20 years of art making and critical civic discourse.

Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics – Jana Foxe

Friday, Feb. 23, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Gowen Hall 1A

Join Jana Foxe, Graduate Student in the Political Science Department, and Cricket Keating, faculty in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, for a talk.

Jerusalem in Rome and Galilee: Encountering the Holy City in Jewish and Christian Mosaics

Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024

7 p.m.

Thomson Hall 101

Join Professors Karen Britt and Ra‘anan Boustan as they explore a wide range of depictions of Jerusalem in floor and wall mosaics produced during late antiquity.

Christopher Miller: The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine

Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024

6 p.m.

HUB 145

Christopher Miller, a writer and journalist based in Kyiv, Ukraine and Brooklyn, New York, will discuss his book, The War Came to Us.

War in the Middle East Lecture: The U.S. and Crisis Response

Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024

5 p.m.

Architecture Hall 147

Lecture is cancelled.

Join the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and Amanda Sloat, former member of the U.S. Security Council, to discuss the war in Gaza and responses worldwide.

Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism

Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

Elora Shehabuddin, Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Global Studies at UC Berkeley, will be presenting the history of feminism between Western and Muslim societies.

Building Scyborgs. An evening on decolonization

Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream

UC San Diego scholar, organizer, and co-conspirator K. Wayne Yang will share stories about decolonizing endeavors from past, present, future and speculative somewheres. He will ask us to explore how we bend our own complicity in colonial institutions to forward Indigenous, Black, Queer, and Other futures locally and globally. Come ready to consider your own scyborg powers and plans.

War in the Middle East Lecture: Regional Repercussions of the War

Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024

5 p.m.

Architecture Hall 147

Join the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies for a talk with Marc Lynch, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University.

Katz Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities: Edward Slingerland

Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024

6:30 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room TBD

Edward Slingerland discusses his research in literature, ethics, and religious areas, as well as topics of Chinese history as discussed in his books.

An Evening with Tina Campt

Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle

Tina Campt’s lecture will present new work from her forthcoming book, Art in a Time of Sorrow, which explores the relationship between grief, loss, and black contemporary art.