6:30 p.m.
Christopher Newfield discusses the external pressures and internal policy failures that have undermined North American public universities in the 21st century.
5:30 p.m.
In memory of Dr. HU Tai-Li, the evening features an in-person screening of The Return of Gods and Ancestors and a lecture by Professor Scott Simon about Dr. Hu’s work.
5:30 p.m.
Screams have always been a component of Yoko Ono’s artistic practice, but rather than received as an act of communication, the dominant reception has been not to listen. Offering a meditation on the queer dynamics of Asian American grief, this talk lingers in and listens to Ono’s shatter and scream as she mobilizes affective expressions that are at times explosive, and at others depressive, to perform various modes of coming undone, shattering, falling apart, and breaking down.
5 p.m.
Join the University of Washington’s Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies for an evening with author Robert Cherny, labor journalist E. Tammy Kim, and ILWU activist Zack Pattin.
3:30 p.m.
The lecture will focus on the current political developments in Europe after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
7 p.m.
Join us for a special lecture event with Phillip Lipscy as he walks us through Japan’s response to climate change.
3:30 p.m.
Martin Großheim is a professor in the History Dept. of Seoul National University, Korea, and is currently on a one-year research sabbatical at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC.
1:30 p.m.
In 1922, Thomas Mann delivered his speech “On the German Republic,” in which he – for the first time – publicly declared his support for democracy.
3:30 p.m.
A Ritual Geology tells the untold history of one of the world’s oldest indigenous gold mining industries: Francophone West Africa’s orpaillage.
3:30 p.m.
Barbara Winslow tells the story of the radical women’s liberation movement in Seattle during the 1960s and 1970s from the perspective of its founding members.