UW Events Archive

Exploring Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition

Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025

5 p.m.

Livestream

Discover a faster, lower-risk route to business ownership — learn key entrepreneurship through acquisition strategies and start building your roadmap in this expert-led webinar.

Sacred Breath: Indigenous Writing and Storytelling Series

Friday, Nov. 21, 2025

3 p.m.

wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House

Sacred Breath features Indigenous writers and storytellers sharing their craft. Storytelling offers a spiritual connection, a sharing of sacred breath.

A Discussion of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025: The History and New Frontiers of Metal–Organic Framework Chemistry

Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025

4 p.m.

Livestream, Bagley Hall

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recognizes the architects of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). We will introduce MOFs and discuss their importance, then host an audience Q&A.

Public Trust in Science and Why it Matters

Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025

6 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 130

Lively conversation among UW Honors faculty from different areas of knowledge on what happens when scientific research and scholarship are misunderstood, mistrusted or misused.

The Office of Public Lectures presents: Becoming a Birder with Ed Yong

Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream

Discover how birding became Ed Yong’s path to healing and wonder. In this talk, he explores nature’s power to restore, revealing how paying attention to birds can reconnect us to joy, presence, and the truest reality.
Registration opens September 10, 2025.

The Office of Public Lectures presents: The Art of Refuge, Resistance and Regeneration with Peter Sellars

Friday, Oct. 24, 2025

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle

In this lecture, Peter Sellars explores how the arts foster civic imagination, emotional connection, and moral renewal—sharing global examples of art as a transformative force across institutions, crises, and communities in times of division and deep societal change.
Registration opens September 10, 2025.

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.