UW Events Archive

Printing Power: Franklin Book Programs and the Cold War Ideology of Education

Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024

7 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 120

This talk examines FBP’s impact on book translation, textbook production, and educational policies in the Middle East, especially Iran, from 1952 to 1977.

Why “the Linguacene”? Accounting for Language and Linguistic Indifference in Anthropocene Histories and Futures

Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024

2:30 p.m.

Denny Hall 359

This talk asks: why has language been so suspiciously left out of discussions and analyses defining the Anthropocene / Capitalocene / Plantationcene?

War in the Middle East Lecture: The Question of Palestine and the Evolution of Solidarity and Resistance in the U.S.

Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024

5 p.m.

Architecture Hall 147

Karam Dana, Alyson McGregor Distinguished Professor of Excellence and Transformative Research UW – Bothell will host a discussion on the war in Gaza and responses worldwide.

Cultivating Tomorrow: Empowering Change through Community Farming, Agro-tourism, and Climate Action in Nepal

Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024

6 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

Join us for a case study on how Sanskriti Farms & Research Centre is responding to climate change, migration, and shifting livelihoods in Nepal.

Book Talk: ‘Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China’ by He Wenkai

Monday, Jan. 29, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

Join the China Studies Program for a book talk with Wenkai He, author of Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China.

2023-2024 Turkish & Ottoman Studies Program Talk Series – STFF Director, Semih Tareen

Friday, Jan. 26, 2024

12:30 p.m.

Denny Hall 211

“Viruses, biotechnology and horror movies”

Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia 1942-1962

Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

Drawing on materials from India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, London, and Singapore, Kalyani Ramnath, University of Georgia, narrates how former migrants battled legal requirements to revive prewar circulations.

Mt. Koya – Kukai’s Gravitational Force in Japan’s History

Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024

3 p.m.

Communications 120

Join the Department of Asian Languages & Literature for Washin Kai Conversations featuring Ven. Taijo Imanaka, Seattle Koyasan Temple.

Prison Abolition, Ancient Incarceration, and the Mirror of the Past

Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024

2 p.m.

TBD

Talk on Prison Abolition, Ancient Incarceration, and the Mirror of the Past by Mark Letteny.

The Cooking Gene: Tracing My African American Story Through Food

Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream

Blogger, culinary historian and food writer, of African American and Jewish descent Michael W. Twitty, will spend the evening tracing his family’s Southern roots through food. He will use historic interpretation, interviews with contemporary voices in food that led him back to his family’s origins in West and Central Africa.

The in person lecture is sold out. Tickets are still available to attend virtually.