UW Events Archive

Samuel Kelly Lecture 2025| Beyond Status: Living Undocumented in Disruptive times

Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025

7 p.m.

Alder Hall Auditorium

This year’s lecturer, Dr. Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky, invites us to explore undocumented immigration status, identity and the human experience.

Nature heals: The global movement for mental and physical health

Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle

Join UW Environment for the 2025 Doug Walker Lecture & Reception with Mark Berejka, exploring the rise of the nature & health movement and how communities can benefit.

The Office of Public Lectures presents: The AI Con with Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream

In this lecture, Dr. Emily Bender and Dr. Alex Hanna expose AI hype as corporate-driven distortion, fueling false fears and creativity’s decline. They offer critical tools to decode these narratives and resist the exploitative systems they obscure.
In person is sold-out, livestream is still available.

Expert Insights: How AI is Shaping Instructional Design

Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025

6 p.m.

Livestream

Discover how AI is transforming instructional design, what AI can (and can’t) do and how to future-proof your role with essential new skills in this short webinar.

The Office of Public Lectures presents: Unpacking Legacy: From the Personal to the Systemic with Dr. Uché Blackstock

Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream

Dr. Uché Blackstock reflects on personal legacy and systemic racism in medicine, tracing her family’s groundbreaking path while urging reform in healthcare to protect and uplift BIPOC practitioners.
Registration opens September 10, 2025.

Thinking with Monsters: A Conversation with Novelist Gerardo Sámano Córdova

Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Communications 202

A literary conversation between novelist and artist Gerardo Sámano Córdova and UW professors María Elena García (CHID) and Vanessa Freije (JSIS/History).

Robustly Estimating Heterogeneity in Factorial Data Using Rashomon Partitions

Wednesday, Jun. 4, 2025

12:30 p.m.

Savery 409

Explore how the output of interest varies with mixes of covariates and how drug combinations affect health results or how technology adoption depends on incentives and demographics.

Psychology Loucks Colloquium with Prof. Hadas Okon-Singer

Wednesday, Jun. 4, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Kincaid Hall 102/108

Prof. Okon-Singer presents a series of studies exploring emotional biases in both healthy individuals and participants diagnosed with mental disorders.

Public Media Under Pressure: Why It Matters & What Can Be Done

Tuesday, Jun. 3, 2025

5 p.m.

Mary Gates Hall 389

An engaging conversation with local public media leaders about current challenges–including federal funding cuts–and pathways forward for sustaining public service journalism.

Trump in the World 2.0 Lecture Series – The Long View

Monday, Jun. 2, 2025

5 p.m.

Livestream

A series of online talks and discussions on the international impact of the second Trump presidency featuring Jackson School and other UW faculty and guest speakers. Topic: The Long View featuring Professor Daniel Bessner, International Studies.