UW Events Archive

Shili Lin: Sparse Estimation in Finite Mixtures of Varying Coefficient and Survival Regression Models

Friday, May 16, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Denny 259

This talk explores two extensions of finite mixture regression models under high dimensionality.

Atheism and Theodicy in Classical Athens

Friday, May 16, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Livestream, Denny 212

Scholarship on atheism in classical Athens has reached an impasse, with opposing views on its definition and extent. The talk shifts stance by adopting a phenomenological approach.

Global Sport Lab: African women, Gender and Soccer with Martha Saavedra

Thursday, May 15, 2025

11 a.m.

HUB 340

Join the Jackson School for a retrospective reflection on the future of African women and football followed by a Q&A featuring guest speaker Martha Saavedra.

Elegies for the Planet

Thursday, May 15, 2025

3:30 p.m.

CMU 202

Jahan Ramazani will discuss how ecocriticism on the poetics of climate change can help develop and revise the paradigms of poetic mourning in elegy scholarship.

Toddler Talk: Iterative Development of a Model to Support Language and Social-Emotional Development in Infant-Toddler Community Childcare Programs

Thursday, May 15, 2025

9:30 a.m.

Eagleson Hall 211

Dr. Baumingham shares lessons from developing and implementing the intervention in childcare settings and unique challenges associated with measuring language interactions

Ten Paradoxes of Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Thomson 317

The talk will focus on Finland and Sweden’s accession to NATO and the repercussions that this has had on the two countries as well as on NATO and European security.

Kwakwaka’wakw Art: A Presentation by Trevor Isaac

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

7 p.m.

Burke Museum

Trevor Isaac will give a general overview of Kwakwaka’wakw art, including how both the everyday and ceremonial art form have been a means of recording and documenting their culture

Making AI Globally Intelligent

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

12:30 p.m.

Savery 409

Talk through different data-driven strategies on broadening the scope of GenAI evaluations to be more competent in its handling of global perspectives and challenges.

Sexuality & Queer Studies Capstone: “Falling Asleep in the Museum”

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Hutchinson 154

Eric Villiers explores the queer curation of “Gap: Having time. Counting time. Filling time,” at the Schwules (Gay) Museum in Berlin, Germany.

Katz Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities: Jahan Ramazani

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

6:30 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 120

Jahan Ramazani is University Professor and Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia.