UW Events Archive

Political Life of Development Models in India

Friday, May 30, 2025

2:45 p.m.

Thomas Hall 317

This lecture unpacks the discursive aspects of competing development models in India, paying attention to the blurring of political rhetoric and knowledge production.

Jen Rose Smith: Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic Book Talk

Thursday, May 29, 2025

7 p.m.

Elliott Bay Book Company

Educator, geographer, and writer Jen Smith discusses her new book, Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic, with scholar Jessica Perea.

Theater and Theoria in Hannah Arendt’s Late Thought

Thursday, May 29, 2025

2:30 p.m.

Denny 359

Examine the role of theoria, theater, and theatricality by reading selected excerpts from the Life of the Mind and Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy.

Giant Leaps for Humankind: Outer Space & Intergenerational Ethics

Thursday, May 29, 2025

4 p.m.

HUB 214

Together with scholars and practitioners from ethics, policy, and industry, discuss humanity’s future in space from the perspective of intergenerational ethics and justice.

The Geopoliticization of Critical Raw Materials: Undermining a Just Global Green Transition

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Thomson 317

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.

DH Colloquium – Introduction to The Black Grandmother Archive

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

12:30 p.m.

Smith 320

Dr. LaShawnDa Pittman discusses the journey to creating The Black Grandmother Archive and The Black Grandmother Worldmaking Library.

Active Learning Sampling Design: A New Adaptive Survey Design Paradigm to Improve Representativeness for Subpopulations

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

12:30 p.m.

Savery 409

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.

Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Nathan Lane, University of Oxford

Friday, May 23, 2025

1:30 p.m.

Gowen Hall 1A

Nathan Lane; University of Oxford with graduate Student Discussant: Brian Leung, UW.

An overview of entropy-regularized optimal transport and Schrödinger bridges

Friday, May 23, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Denny 259

An overview of the theory of Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport, including some recently discovered connections with score function estimation and transformers

Decolonial Approaches in Book History and the Digital Humanities with Amardeep Singh, Priya Joshi, and Anna Preus

Friday, May 23, 2025

2:30 p.m.

Communications Building 202

Explore decolonial approaches in book history and the digital humanities through projects mapping South Asia’s Adivasi communities.