UW Events Archive

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.

We have a great deal riding on both the election and the Census. Now, more than ever, it is imperative that we ensure every vote and every person is counted. In this episode, we’ll talk to some experts who can help us understand how COVID-19 plays a role in ensuring every voice and every person is heard and counted. Featuring Lisa Marshall Manheim, Sara Curran and Michele Storms.

Every day, COVID-19 requires us to weigh the risks we are willing to take to maintain a sense of normalcy. Should you wear a mask or not? Is heading out to get a pedicure an ‘essential’ trip? Ready to sit in a restaurant for your anniversary? Or maybe you just want to stay home, hide under the covers and wait until this is all over. This week we’ll talk with experts who can help us better understand decision making in these uncertain times. Featuring Nidhi Agrawal, Linda Ko and Susan Joslyn.

Welcome back! It’s been almost three months since our last livestream and there’s been plenty of news about the global pandemic. In this episode, we’ll catch up with some of UW’s top experts who will update us on relevant advances and discoveries that may help us realize there is, in fact, a light at the end of the pandemic tunnel. Featuring Dr. Christopher Murray and Dr. Helen Chu.

IHME’s Christopher Murray and Ali Mokdad talk with Hanson Hosein about the statistical models on how COVID-19 spreads.

COVID-19 is not the first global pandemic to ever wash up in the United States. Hanson Hosein discusses the history of global pandemics with Ann Marie Kimball and Steven Goodreau.

This week, Hanson Hosein talks with Liliana Lengua and Jonathan Kanter about the global pandemic’s impact on our mental health.