UW Events Archive

Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire

Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Thomas Hall 217

This talk explores how leading South Asian Muslim thinkers imagined and contested the boundaries of Hindu-Muslim friendship from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.

Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire

Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

SherAli Tareen, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin & Marshall College, will engage some key fragments from his book: “Perilous Intimacies.”

Homes for Some: Seattle’s History of Housing and Racial Exclusion

Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024

7 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 130

Professor James Gregory will talk about Seattle’s history that prevented people of certain racial and religious backgrounds from buying, renting, or occupying homes.

Book Talk: One China, Many Taiwans with Ian Rowen

Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Livestream, Thomson Hall 317

Professor Ian Rowen (National Taiwan Normal University) will join in-person to discuss his new monograph, One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism.

Translation Studies Hub Colloquium

Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024

11:30 a.m.

Communications Building 202

The Translation Studies Hub serves as a platform for discussion about the theories, histories, and practice of translation at UW and in the broader Seattle community.

War in the Middle East Lecture: The ‘New Elites’ of X: Identifying the Most Influential Accounts Engaged in Hamas/Israel Discourse

Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024

5 p.m.

Architecture Hall 147

Kate Starbird, Mert Bayar and Mike Caulfield, UW Center for an Informed Public, give a talk on the war in Gaza and responses worldwide.

Hopkins Faculty Award Lecture in Chemistry: Prof. Daniel Gamelin

Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024

4 p.m.

TBD

Prof. Gamelin was selected for this award for his outstanding contributions to education, service missions, and to research in the inorganic and physical chemistry of materials

Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics – Suparna Chaudhry, Lewis and Clark College

Friday, Feb. 2, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Gowen Hall 1A

Join Suparna Chaudhry, Assistant Professor in the Department of International Affairs at Lewis and Clark College, and Ji Hyeon Chung, political science graduate for a talk.

UW Tacoma Alumni Speaker Series featuring Desmond Trufant

Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024

6 p.m.

William W. Philip Hall

Desmond Trufant, UW Husky Football Legend, Philanthropist, Businessman, Tacoma KidZ, Investor, and Former NFL Player will speak while interviewed by a student/recent grad at UWT.

Persian Literature Across Borders: The Cases of Afghanistan and Iranian Azerbaijan

Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024

7:30 p.m.

Denny Hall 159

Dr. Nasir Arian and Mehrdad Rahimi-Moghaddam speak about Persian literature in Afghanistan and Iranian Azerbaijan.