6 p.m.
Lively conversation among UW Honors faculty from different areas of knowledge on what happens when scientific research and scholarship are misunderstood, mistrusted or misused.
6:30 p.m.
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.
6:30 p.m.
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.
7 p.m.
This year’s lecturer, Dr. Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky, invites us to explore undocumented immigration status, identity and the human experience.
6:30 p.m.
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.
6:30 p.m.
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.
6 p.m.
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.
6:30 p.m.
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.
3:30 p.m.
A literary conversation between novelist and artist Gerardo Sámano Córdova and UW professors María Elena García (CHID) and Vanessa Freije (JSIS/History).
12:30 p.m.
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.