UW Events Archive

In this poetry reading with commentary, Joy Harjo discusses the importance of safe spaces for everyone.

Join Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies faculty for an online panel discussion on what the elections mean for global engagement and what a global perspective can teach us about the elections and American democracy. Moderated by Jackson School Director Leela Fernandes.

Ambassador Nicholas Burns discusses the evolving U.S. relationship with Europe ahead of the November U.S. Presidential Election and the challenges presented by the COVID-19 and economic crises.

Every time African Americans have made advances in our democracy, White reaction has fueled a rollback of their gains. From Reconstruction to the War on Drugs, Professor Carol Anderson reveals how actions made in the name of fiscal responsibility or protecting democracy reveal a lineage of White rage.

Astronomy Professor Emily Levesque shares stories about people willing to adventure across high mountaintops and to remote corners of the planet, all in the name of science.

Richard J. Samuels discusses the dramatic evolution of Japan’s intelligence community and its future in a rapidly changing political world.

Join UW Libraries for a lively webinar with renowned author and the 2020 Maxine Cushing Gray Fellowship recipient, Susan Orlean. A staff writer for The New Yorker, Orlean is the author of many books, including “The Library Book”, “The Orchid Thief”, “Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend”, and “Saturday Night”. Orlean will discuss “The Library Book”, her writing style and the role of libraries in her life and writing. She will be interviewed by Maria Semple, a Seattle local, New York Times bestselling author and screenwriter.

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed structural health inequalities, followed by the largest civil rights uprisings in American history against police violence and systemic racism. In this talk, Megan Ming Francis will discuss how we got to this urgent moment, the role organized protest can play in the upcoming election, and the future of a fair and robust democracy.

The pandemic has highlighted the racial, social and economic inequities that shape the health and well-being of all people in the United States and throughout the world. As we look forward to a post-COVID-19 world, how can we create a future in which we are all healthier — as individuals and as entire populations? How do we enhance the resilience of the environment we rely on? And how do we address the factors perpetuating the inequities that harm so many?

Dr. Ali Mokdad will introduce the UW’s Population Health Initiative and explain how uniting our knowledge of the underlying factors that cause unhealthiness in populations will lead us to find solutions.