UW Events Archive

War in the Middle East Lecture Series: Hope and Despair in Israel/Palestine

Monday, Jan. 22, 2024

7 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 130

Join the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies for a talk and discussion featuring Mira Sucharov and Omar M. Dajani on the war in Gaza and responses worldwide.

Book talk: ‘Ghosts in the Neighborhood: Why Japan is Haunted by its Past and Germany is Not’ by Walter Hatch

Monday, Jan. 22, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

Join Walter Hatch, an affiliate faculty at the Japan Studies Program, for a special book talk. Hatch will looks at ways Germany and Japan reconciled with countries post WWII.

Translating For and Against Empire

Friday, Jan. 19, 2024

11:30 a.m.

Communications Bldg 202

Join the Translation Studies Hub for two presentations by bilingual poet and artist Sylvia Nasreen Chowdhury, Aria Fani and Reza Pedram.

Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics

Friday, Jan. 19, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Gowen 1A

Join the Department of History for a talk with Laura Jakli, Asistant Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, and Jessica Sciarone, graduate student.

Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America

Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024

3 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

Adrian De Leon follows the people of Northern Luzon across space and time, advancing a new vision of the United States’s Pacific empire

Disability Justice: Centering Intersectionality and Liberation

Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream

Patty Berne, Cofounder and Executive Artistic Director of Sins Invalid, will discuss the importance of intersectionaligty in disability justice and the need to address how diverse systems of oppression reinforce each other. Ms. Berne will be joining us remotely for this moderated conversation.

Constellations of Kin: Strategies of Belonging for the Snohomish Indian Nation

Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024

7 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 130

Professor Josh Reid speaks about the Treaty of Point Elliott, the initial reservations in western Washington, Indian boarding schools, and the nuances of Coast Salish identities. Part of the History Lecture Series: Seattle and the Salish Sea: Building and Belonging.

Stephen Hammer Town Hall & Reception

Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024

4 p.m.

UW Founders Hall, Peek Family Forum

Join the Center for West European Studies | EU Center for a Town Hall presentation and reception for Stephen Hammer, the new CEO of the New York Climate Exchange.

Torn Apart: Anti-Blackness and Broken Systems

Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024

3 p.m.

HUB Lyceum

Join the Center for Anti-Racism & Community Health for an interdisciplinary panel discussion with Professor Dorothy Roberts.

City and Citizens: Seattleites and Their Rights, 1850-2000

Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024

7 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 130

In the 49th History Lecture Series, Professor Emeritus John Findlay observes changing populations of Seattle and how they were shaped by the nation’s concepts of citizenship.