5:30 p.m.
Join us to explore healthcare cost escalation and sub-optimal quality, the relationship between service systems and the communities they serve, and other public health topics.
3:30 p.m.
Boats in a Storm centers on the legal struggles of migrants to retain their traditional rhythms & patterns of life, illustrating how they experienced citizenship and decolonization. Lecture given by Kalyani Ramnath, University of Georgia.
8 p.m.
Scientists turn into slammers as they compete with each other to bring you the most entertaining explanation of a topic in physics.
3:30 p.m.
Discussion of rise of authoritarianism in Bangladesh -government censorship of digital communication and suppression of people’s constitutional right to express their opinions.
Noon
This free public lecture will discuss how effective parenting can act as a protective shield against the difficulties that children face in challenging times and global conflict.
7:30 p.m.
In this talk, Ruha Benjamin introduces a microvision of change — a way of looking at the everyday ways people are working to combat unjust systems and build alternatives to the oppressive status quo. Born of a stubborn hopefulness and grounded in social analysis, she offers a pragmatic and poetic approach to fostering a more just and joyful world.
Registration opens December 13, 2022.
4 p.m.
Learn new research and approaches for child and family well-being using a positive approach to health that fosters self, family, and community-led healing of trauma and adversity.
7 p.m.
UW Professor of English Shawn Wong has been working on his DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) statement for 50 years (38 years at the UW) and is almost finished. He began writing it when, as an undergraduate, he was told that Asian American literature did not exist, that his writing had too much style to be written by him, that his first students could not get English credit for taking his Asian American literature classes, and that large corporations could question his birthright and his ownership of intellectual property. His first book, Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers, turns 50 in 2024 and it’s where this DEI travel story begins.
Shawn Wong will be joined in conversation by Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs Ed Taylor.
7:30 p.m.
Join award-winning poet and author, Cathy Park Hong who will bring her words to life as she shares personal anecdotes of her life as an Asian American. She will expands on the ideas from her book to incorporate the historical and cultural context of what it means to be a racialized other.
3:30 p.m.
Lecture from Preetha Mani, Assistant Professor of South Asian Literatures, Rutgers University
Abstract
Based on my recent book, this talk compares Hindi and Tamil literature to explore the feasibility and durability of the idea of Indian literature and its capacity to collect diverse literary and linguistic strategies and aims beneath the auspices of a single rubric. Hindi and Tamil writers were active theorists who claimed the literary as the terrain on which to define and contest the postcolonial condition. Their theorizations created new forms of aesthetic affiliation between readers, writers, and texts by framing how texts should be positioned and received. The affiliations they forged were tied to the fissures of language and region yet also exceeded these fissures through the promise of readerly communion in multilingualism and translation. The unrealizability of this promise breathes life into the idea of Indian literature and its ambition to circumvent the politics of language, while linking literature to nation.