UW Events Archive

Making Your Business Accessible

Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2026

5 p.m.

Livestream

Make your business’s digital content accessible. Join Mary Colleen Jenkins to learn practical ways to build inclusive design and content skills you can put to work right away.

EarthLab Showcase

Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2026

5:30 p.m.

Center for Urban Horticulture

At the EarthLab Showcase, you’ll hear inspiring stories of climate action and community resilience directly from UW students, researchers, and community partners.

CIG 30th Anniversary Film Screening: The White House Effect

Wednesday, Mar. 18, 2026

5:30 p.m.

Pacific Science Center

The Climate Impacts Group (CIG) builds climate resilience by advancing understanding of climate risks & enabling science-based action to manage those risks. Researchers at CIG lead, support and advise science-based efforts to adapt to climate change across the Northwest, using their expertise to help understand and address climate impacts and risk management across a range of sectors, including water, coasts & oceans, forests & fire, wildlife & ecosystems and people & society.

In Conversation with Miranda Spivack: Backroom Deals in Our Backyards

Thursday, Mar. 12, 2026

5 p.m.

CMU 226

Join us for an insightful talk with award-winning, veteran reporter and editor Miranda Spivack as she discusses her new book, Backroom Deals in Our Backyards.

Expert Insights: AI for Project & Process Leaders

Wednesday, Mar. 11, 2026

5 p.m.

Livestream

Explore where AI adds value in project management and process improvement, when human expertise matters most and what skills professionals need to succeed in this short webinar.

Trump in the World 2.0: The China Question (s)

Monday, Mar. 9, 2026

5 p.m.

Livestream

Join us in discussion with faculty David Bachman, Tabitha Grace Mallory and Susan H. Whiting as part of our winter quarter lecture series examining how different regions and global issues are affected by the policies of the Trump administration. Co-sponsored by UW Global.

The Office of Public Lectures presents: Palestine to Iraq with Adam Hanieh

Friday, Mar. 6, 2026

Noon

Livestream

Explore how World War I reshaped the Middle East. This lecture traces anti-colonial movements, Palestine’s pivotal role, and the shift from British to American power—linking regional upheaval to the global rise of fossil capitalism and reimagined imperial hierarchies.

The Office of Public Lectures presents: Primary: Alma Thomas, Sisterhood and the Revolutionary Quality of Light with Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Wednesday, Mar. 4, 2026

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream

Step into a poetic, participatory lecture on Alma Thomas’s vibrant legacy. Through Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ lyrical lens, explore Black women’s creativity, audience intimacy, and the rhythms of Earth as art—where abstract expression meets presence, color, and cultural memory.

Trump in the World 2.0: What Was Intelligence What Was Intelligence and What Comes Next?

Monday, Mar. 2, 2026

5 p.m.

Livestream

Join us in discussion with guest speakers Ambassador (ret.) Jeff Hovenier, and Kelly McGannon as part of our winter quarter lecture series examining how different regions and global issues are affected by the policies of the Trump administration. Co-sponsored by UW Global.

The Office of Public Lectures presents: America’s Character and the Rule of Law with George Conway III

Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream

This talk will explore how America’s constitutional democracy depends not just on laws, but on citizen character. Amid rising civic unrest, it asks: can empathy, honor, and mutual respect renew the republic—and keep it, as Franklin once warned?