UW Events Archive

Artist, writer and publisher, Paul Chan will reflect on his experiences as an artist working in and out of the domains of technology. He will talk about the various kinds of technology he has used to make work, from truetype fonts and pirated software, to datasets and machine learning frameworks. He will also present a unique perspective on artists and writers he admires, discussing how they incorporated and sometimes misused technology in their work.

The Pandemic forever changed how we work, live, go to school, and interact as a community. Listen to recorded dialogues on the pandemic, and discuss with your UW community.

This presentation by Sharon Stein asks how universities, and might meaningfully reckon with and enact repair for our complicity in historical and ongoing coloniality and unsustainability. Part of Activating the Third University: A Worlds of Difference Initiative.

Keijiro Suga is a poet and critic based in Tokyo. This lecture will cover his work on ethnopoetics, ecocriticism, contemporary world literature, and translation theory.

Jevin West, UW Associate Professor at the Information School and the co-founder of the Center for an Informed Public will discuss new challenges and potential approaches to mitigate AI and highlight the gravity of addressing misinformation as a crucial societal challenge. He will emphasize the potential consequences of misinformation spread through AI and chatbots.

Registration opens September 13, 2023.

This talk will show how woodblock printing techniques, first developed by Buddhists, provided a technology that could give a broad number of people access to the written word.

Join us for an evening with Dr. Heather Tallis to explore how weaving nature more deliberately into the fabric of our urban communities can improve our quality of life.

Join us for an evening with Jaipreet Virdi, scholar activist and Associate Professor at the University of Delaware. The author of “Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History” Dr. Virdi asks us to consider how being disabled changes the way people view the world and the things they create. Through these perspectives, she invites alternative approaches for remaking crip worlds, one in which disabled people, and the disabled gaze, are centered first and foremost.

Registration opens September 13, 2023.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.” A panel of researchers will discuss this work and moderate a question &answer session.

This talk will bring attention to medical apartheid and how it heavily affects black and brown communities across the globe.