UW Events Archive

Gender Politics in South Asia and the Diaspora: Author Shobha Rao in Conversation with Alka Kurian

Friday, Apr. 22, 2022

4 p.m.

HUB

Join us for a discussion on gender politics in South Asia and the diaspora focusing on some of the most urgent issues facing women today.

Re-envisioning Blackness in Southeast European Culture and Film

Thursday, Apr. 21, 2022

4:30 p.m.

Livestream

Sunnie Rucker-Chang, Associate Professor of Slavic and East European Studies, gives the third lecture in the 2021-22 Public Lecture Series.

Entwined Like a Word and its Meaning: Reflections on Fifty Years of Sanskrit Studies

Wednesday, Apr. 20, 2022

7 p.m.

Livestream

Professor Emeritus Richard Salomon (Department of Asian Languages and Literature) will share the insights he has gained from studying Sanskrit and classical Indian literature.

A Conversation with Rep. Adam Smith on US National Security Challenges

Wednesday, Apr. 20, 2022

6:30 p.m.

HUB

Join us in conversation with Representative Adam Smith, Chair of the House Armed Services Committee, on how Putin’s war in Ukraine has redrawn the security blueprint of Europe.

REECAS 2021-2022 Lecture Series: Scheming and Subversion – Conspiracy in Post-Soviet Space

Thursday, Apr. 7, 2022

4:30 p.m.

Livestream

Join the Ellison Center for “‘Everybody Hates Russia:’ On the Uses of Conspiracy Theory Under Putin” with Eliot Borenstein.

‘Everybody Hates Russia:’ On the Uses of Conspiracy Theory Under Putin

Thursday, Apr. 7, 2022

4:30 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 225

Tune in for the final installment of the Ellison Center’s 2021-2022 Lecture Series, with Eliot Borenstein, Professor of Russian & Slavic Studies.

2022 Katterman Memorial Lecture – Moving Forward Mindfully: Nurturing a Resilient Pharmacy Community

Tuesday, Apr. 5, 2022

6 p.m.

Livestream

Please join us in-person or virtually for this year’s Katterman Lecture, highlighting a spectrum of post-pandemic pressures facing the pharmacy community.

Public Lecture with Jordan Marie Daniel and Rosalie Fish: Running for The Future

Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2022

6:30 p.m.

Meany Performing Arts Center

Join us for an evening with leaders of the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women’s Movement, Indigenous athletes and activists Jordan Marie Brings Three White Horses Daniel (she/they, Lakota) and Rosalie Fish (she/her, Cowlitz and Muckleshoot). This lecture will be presented in-person, with a livestream option.

Braiding Kinship and Time: Indigenous Approaches to Environmental Justice

Monday, Mar. 7, 2022

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle

Join us for a discussion about climate change as viewed through an Indigenous advocacy lens.

Care, curation, and collaboration: Centering Native values in museum work

Friday, Feb. 25, 2022

Noon

Livestream

While the museum field continues to grapple with DEI issues and representation, Native peoples have been, and continue to, create models for relationship building, community engagement, exhibitions and interventions, and respectful care of ethnographic collections. This presentation by Information School Assistant Professor Miranda Belarde-Lewis (Zuni/Tlingit) provides personal examples of work, as well as highlights from around the US and Canada. The examples demonstrate that by centering Native values in the museum field, we can act ethically towards all peoples represented by museums.