Giant Leaps for Humankind: Outer Space & Intergenerational Ethics
4 p.m.
Together with scholars and practitioners from ethics, policy, and industry, discuss humanity’s future in space from the perspective of intergenerational ethics and justice.
4 p.m.
Together with scholars and practitioners from ethics, policy, and industry, discuss humanity’s future in space from the perspective of intergenerational ethics and justice.
3:30 p.m.
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.
12:30 p.m.
Dr. LaShawnDa Pittman discusses the journey to creating The Black Grandmother Archive and The Black Grandmother Worldmaking Library.
12:30 p.m.
A presentation of experiments on simulated data and the results of a pilot telephone survey of food insecurity conducted jointly with the World Food Program in Zimbabwe in 2023.
1:30 p.m.
Nathan Lane; University of Oxford with graduate Student Discussant: Brian Leung, UW.
3:30 p.m.
An overview of the theory of Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport, including some recently discovered connections with score function estimation and transformers
2:30 p.m.
Explore decolonial approaches in book history and the digital humanities through projects mapping South Asia’s Adivasi communities.
5 p.m.
Explore how Palestinian identity is strengthened by the absence of a defined home nation and how a coalition rooted in exile continues to resist and advocate for a homeland.
7:30 p.m.
Sacred Breath features Indigenous writers and storytellers sharing their craft at the beautiful wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House on the UW Seattle campus.
2:30 p.m.
The annual Spring Colloquium, to celebrate the end of a busy academic year, will feature research presentations from graduating M.A. and Ph.D. students and visiting scholars.