UW Events Archive

Monsen Photography Lecture: Dana Claxton

Friday, May 12, 2023

6 p.m.

Henry Art Gallery Auditorium

Dana Claxton (b. 1959, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a critically acclaimed international artist. She works in film, video, photography, installation, and performance art.

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge & The Teachings of Plants

Sold out
Thursday, May 11, 2023

7:30 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 130

Through personal experiences and stories shared by Robin Wall Kimmerer, we are invited to consider what we might learn if we understood plants as our teachers, from both a scientific and an indigenous perspective.

Registration opens March 13, 2023.

Whole Child Development: Navigating Trauma, Building Resilience, Optimizing Healing and Well-Being

Thursday, May 11, 2023

7 p.m.

HUB 145

This lecture will explore the impact of interpersonal, community, institutional, and societal factors on individual-level behaviors in minoritized children.

Roundtable: Exploring The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature

Thursday, May 11, 2023

3:30 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

Join Professors Heekyoung Cho, Jang Wook Huh, Ungsan Kim and Korea Studies Librarian Hyokyoung Yi for presentations on the creation of The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature.

Volodymyr Dubovyk – Russia’s War on Ukraine: Implications for the Wider Black Sea Region and Beyond

Thursday, May 11, 2023

3:30 p.m.

Smith Hall 306

The start of the Russia’s war on Ukraine in 2014 has impacted regional security of the Black Sea, especially the occupation of Crimea.

Divided Allies w/ Hsaio-ting Lin

Thursday, May 11, 2023

3:30 p.m.

Livestream

Professor Hsiao-ting Lin will discuss his newly published monograph, “Taiwan, the United States, and the Hidden History of the Cold War in Asia: Divided Allies.”

From Earth to Sky Film Screening & Panel Discussion – CBE Diversity Council EDIfy Movie Night!

Thursday, May 11, 2023

5:30 p.m.

Architecture Hall, 147

From Earth To Sky is an inspiring story of a collective of Indigenous architects, driving a movement as climate change threatens the planet.

Sacred Breath: Indigenous Writing and Storytelling Series

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

7 p.m.

wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House

Sacred Breath features Indigenous writers and storytellers sharing their craft at the beautiful wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House on the UW Seattle campus.

Time of Isolation: Writing From the War in Ukraine

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

4 p.m.

Denny Hall 313

The Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev’s In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas is an extraordinarily courageous chronicle of the war in Ukraine.

Daphne A. Brooks: “Kitchen Insurrections: Porgy & Bess, Mamba’s Daughters & the End of an Era/Error”

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

6:30 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 210

This talk reveals how Black women musicians’ aesthetic are the driving force of Gershwin and Heyward’s Porgy and Bess (1935) and Heyward’s lesser-known Mamba’s Daughters (1939).