UW Events Archive

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.

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.