UW Events Archive

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.

The Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Lecture is dedicated to acknowledging the work of faculty whose nationally-recognized research focuses on diversity and social justice.

Natali Valdez is a medical anthropologist and science and technology scholar who studies how race, gender, and power are enveloped into scientific knowledge production.

The Alumni Speaker Series brings alumni back to campus to share their stories and career advice with current students and fellow alumni.

University of Washington International Security Colloquium 2022-23
Discussant: Nela Mrchkovska, PhD Student, Political Science

Jamele Watkins is Assistant Professor of German at University of Minnesota.

Yevgenia Albats is a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, author and radio host, and Distinguished Journalist in Residence, New York University.

Christopher Ozubko is a Canadian-American designer, educator, and former Director of the School of Art + Art History + Design at the University of Washington.