5 p.m.
This talk will underscore how it was new attitudes to poverty and social class that most significantly framed this Sepharadi community’s encounter with the modern age.
8 p.m.
Professor David Shulman, Israeli Indologist, will present.
11 a.m.
This panel will reflect upon the racial justice struggles of the last year and what is necessary to shift the balance of power in favor of movements.
1:30 p.m.
Assistant Teaching Professor, Bich-Ngoc Turner will give a presentation entitled, “Twentieth Century Vietnamese Literature.”
5 p.m.
Please join us for an evening of poetry and conversation with wonderful writers Naomi Shihab Nye and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.
Noon
This presentation will discuss the ‘Aenikkaeng’ Koreans of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, and the history of their migration to Mexico in the early 1900s.
4:30 p.m.
Gender and sexuality shape the ways Garifuna New Yorkers of Central American descent negotiate, perform, articulate, and self-make their Blackness, Indigeneity, and AfroLatinidad.
6:30 p.m.
17-year old activist Isra Hirsi details what environmental justice means for urban communities.
Noon
Join us in conversation with Amy Mazur, Claudius O. and Mary W. Johnson Distinguished Professor at Washington State University, for a discussion on gender parity in France.
4:30 p.m.
UW 3MT® is a Professional development competition where UW graduate students compete to explain their research/capstone project in 3min in a language appropriate to the public.