UW Events Archive

Foster Insights: Creating Better Workplaces and Better Lives

Friday, May 20, 2022

7 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle

How can we do a better job of improving lives by improving workplaces? Faculty will share research and insights on ways to improve employee well-being without sacrificing profits.

2022 In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) Plein Center Public Lecture

Thursday, May 19, 2022

4:30 p.m.

Livestream

Join the UW School of Pharmacy as we present three hot-off-the-press topics from the past year and discuss how to use this information to make decisions regarding your health.

Resistance through Resilience: CCDE 7th Annual Conference

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

10:30 a.m.

Livestream

The CCDE/UWRL Resistance through Resilience conference will showcase dialogues from program participants alongside elements of the Resistance through Resilience curriculum.

Dismantling the Body: Possibilities and Limitations in Art Making

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

9:30 a.m.

Livestream

The Graduate Students of Art History (GSAH) is pleased to invite you to the two-day virtual symposium “Dismantling the Body: Possibilities and Limitations in Art Making” on May 18–19, 2022. Throughout art’s history, the human body has been a site of tensions, subject to regulations, overcoming or submitting to physical challenges, but also offering far-reaching opportunities for self-expression. This symposium will bring together scholars and artists to explore the interactions between body and place, the production of bodily knowledge, the regulation of the body, and its agency. The event will feature two keynote lectures and six panels.

DXARTS Spring Concert: Life Studies

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

7:30 p.m.

Meany Performing Arts Center

DXARTS is pleased to present a program of classic virtuoso works of “aural cinema” and “acousmatic music” from DXARTS artist researchers.

Monica De La Torre’s, Feminista Frequencies, Book Talk & Celebration

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

3:30 p.m.

Simpsons Center

Please join us for this book launch, celebration, and discussion with author Monica De La Torre, GWSS Alum (PhD 2016) and Assistant Professor at Arizona State University.

Christina Fiig: EU Gender Policies in a Context of (Quasi) Permanent Crisis

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Noon

Livestream

The Center for West European Studies at the University of Washington presents a lecture series covering gender politics in Europe and the European Union.

Plant CSI: Diagnosing Plant Problems in the Spring Landscape (in-person)

Saturday, May 14, 2022

9:30 a.m.

UW Botanical Gardens

Please join us for the first class in the Seasonal Plant Diagnostic Walk series! These are hands on classes that will cover how to diagnose common plant problems.

STROUM LECTURES IN JEWISH STUDIES: Belonging in Question: Jews in the American Civic and Legal Imagination

Thursday, May 12, 2022

7 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 220

Lila Corwin Berman, professor of history at Temple University, will look at the question of whether Jews can be full members of a majority-Christian society — in the United States.

STROUM LECTURES IN JEWISH STUDIES 2022 | America’s Jewish Question

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

7 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 220

Lila Corwin Berman, professor of history at Temple University, will look at the question of whether Jews can be full members of a majority-Christian society in the United States.