UW Events Archive

Social Protests and Electoral Authoritarianism in Kazakhstan

Monday, Jun. 2, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

In this talk, Masaaki Higashijima argues that anti-regime mobilization struggles to gain momentum when opposition elites and the masses have divergent motivations for protesting.

Militant Mothers of Kurdistan: Mothering the Dead and Care Beyond Life

Monday, Jun. 2, 2025

5 p.m.

HUB 337

This talk discusses the unconventional forms of care that arise out of Kurdish resistance in Turkey, where mothering becomes a strong response against necropolitical state violence.

University of Washington International Security Colloquium

Friday, May 30, 2025

1:30 p.m.

Smith Hall 40A

“Invocation of International Law and Regime Types” with Jihyeon Bae

The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping with Joseph Torigian

Friday, May 30, 2025

1 p.m.

Gowen Hall M232

Join for a book talk with Joseph Torigian on “The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping.”

Political Life of Development Models in India

Friday, May 30, 2025

2:45 p.m.

Thomas Hall 317

This lecture unpacks the discursive aspects of competing development models in India, paying attention to the blurring of political rhetoric and knowledge production.

Jen Rose Smith: Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic Book Talk

Thursday, May 29, 2025

7 p.m.

Elliott Bay Book Company

Educator, geographer, and writer Jen Smith discusses her new book, Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic, with scholar Jessica Perea.

Theater and Theoria in Hannah Arendt’s Late Thought

Thursday, May 29, 2025

2:30 p.m.

Denny 359

Examine the role of theoria, theater, and theatricality by reading selected excerpts from the Life of the Mind and Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy.

Giant Leaps for Humankind: Outer Space & Intergenerational Ethics

Thursday, May 29, 2025

4 p.m.

HUB 214

Together with scholars and practitioners from ethics, policy, and industry, discuss humanity’s future in space from the perspective of intergenerational ethics and justice.

The Geopoliticization of Critical Raw Materials: Undermining a Just Global Green Transition

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Thomson 317

This public talk is based on Dr. Anni Kangas’s ongoing research into the politics and political economies of critical raw material (CRM) extraction and value chains.

DH Colloquium – Introduction to The Black Grandmother Archive

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

12:30 p.m.

Smith 320

Dr. LaShawnDa Pittman discusses the journey to creating The Black Grandmother Archive and The Black Grandmother Worldmaking Library.