UW Events Archive

The Office of Public Lectures presents: Unpacking Legacy: From the Personal to the Systemic with Dr. Uché Blackstock

Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream

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.

Thinking with Monsters: A Conversation with Novelist Gerardo Sámano Córdova

Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Communications 202

A literary conversation between novelist and artist Gerardo Sámano Córdova and UW professors María Elena García (CHID) and Vanessa Freije (JSIS/History).

Robustly Estimating Heterogeneity in Factorial Data Using Rashomon Partitions

Wednesday, Jun. 4, 2025

12:30 p.m.

Savery 409

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.

Psychology Loucks Colloquium with Prof. Hadas Okon-Singer

Wednesday, Jun. 4, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Kincaid Hall 102/108

Prof. Okon-Singer presents a series of studies exploring emotional biases in both healthy individuals and participants diagnosed with mental disorders.

Public Media Under Pressure: Why It Matters & What Can Be Done

Tuesday, Jun. 3, 2025

5 p.m.

Mary Gates Hall 389

An engaging conversation with local public media leaders about current challenges–including federal funding cuts–and pathways forward for sustaining public service journalism.

Trump in the World 2.0 Lecture Series – The Long View

Monday, Jun. 2, 2025

5 p.m.

Livestream

A series of online talks and discussions on the international impact of the second Trump presidency featuring Jackson School and other UW faculty and guest speakers. Topic: The Long View featuring Professor Daniel Bessner, International Studies.

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.”