May 23, 2025

ArtSci Roundup: June 2025

From campus to wherever you call home, we welcome you to learn from and connect with the College of Arts & Sciences community through public events spanning the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. We hope to see you this June.

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Zev J. Handel, “Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese” (Department of Asian Languages & Literature)

“Ways of Knowing” Podcast – Episode 1: Digital Humanities (College of Arts & Sciences)

“Ways of Knowing” Podcast – Episode 2: Paratext (College of Arts & Sciences)

Black Composers Project engages the School of Music faculty and students (School of Music)

Ladino Day Interview with Leigh Bardugo & MELC Professor Canan Bolel (Jewish Studies)

Closing Exhibits

June 2025: Christine Sun Kim: Ghost(ed) Notes at the Henry Art Gallery

Week of June 2

Prof. Daniel Bessner

Monday, June 2, 5:00 pm – 6:20 pm | ONLINE ONLY: Trump in the World 2.0: The Long View (Jackson School)

Join the Jackson School for Trump in the World 2.0, a series of talks and discussions on the international impact of the second Trump presidency.

This week: Daniel Bessner; Anne H.H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Associate Professor in American Foreign Policy at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.

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Monday, June 2, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm | Militant Mothers of Kurdistan: Mothering the Dead and Care Beyond Life (Jackson School)

Mediha Sorma, Ph.D

This talk discusses the unconventional forms of care that emerge out of Kurdish resistance in Turkey, where mothering becomes a powerful response against necropolitical state violence. By centering the stories of two Kurdish mothers who had to care for their dead children and mother beyond life under the violent state of emergency regime declared in 2015; the talk examines how Kurdish mothers “rescue the dead” (Antoon, 2021) from the necropolitical state and create their necropolitical power through a radical embrace of death and decoupling of mothering from the corporeal link between the mother and the child.

Monday, June 2, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm | Social Protests and Electoral Authoritarianism in Kazakhstan (The Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies)

Prof. Masaaki Higashijima

Why do some protests in autocracies attract popular participation while others do not? Masaaki Higashijima’s, University of Tokyo, paper argues that when opposition elites and the masses have divergent motivations for protesting, anti-regime mobilization struggles to gain momentum. Moreover, this weak elite-mass linkage is further exacerbated when autocrats selectively repress protests led by opposition elites while making concessions to those organized by ordinary citizens. To empirically test these claims, Higashijima examines the case of Kazakhstan, where frequent protests remained small in scale until the massive January 2022 demonstrations.

Wednesday, June 4, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Psychology Loucks Colloquium with Prof. Hadas Okon-Singer, Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Israel (Department of Psychology)

Prof. Hadas Okon-Singer

Cognitive biases — such as attentional biases toward aversive cues, distorted expectations of negative events, and biased interpretations of ambiguity — are central features of many forms of psychopathology. Gaining a deeper understanding of the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying these biases is crucial for advancing theoretical models and clinical interventions.

In this talk, Prof. Hadas Okon-Singer will present a series of studies exploring emotional biases in both healthy individuals and participants diagnosed with social anxiety, major depressive disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder.

Wednesday, June 4, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | Robustly Estimating Heterogeneity in Factorial Data Using Rashomon Partitions (Center for Statistics & Social Sciences)

Prof. Tyler McCormick

Many statistical analyses, in both observational data and randomized control trials, ask: how does the outcome of interest vary with combinations of observable covariates? How do various drug combinations affect health outcomes, or how does technology adoption depend on incentives and demographics? Tyler McCormick’s, Professor, Statistics & Sociology, University of Washington, goal is to partition this factorial space into “pools” of covariate combinations where the outcome differs across the pools (but not within a pool).

Friday, June 6, 7:30 pm | UW Symphony Orchestra with Concerto Competition Winners (School of Music)

David Alexander Rahbee leads the UW Symphony in a program of concerto excerpts by York Bowen, Keiko Abe, and Camille Saint-Saëns, performed with winners of the 2024-25 School of Music Concerto Competitions–Flora Cummings, viola; Kaisho Barnhill, marimba; and Sandy Huang, piano. Also on the program, works by Mikhail Glinka, Richard Wagner, and Giuseppe Verdi.

Tickets – $10

Saturday, June 7 and Sunday, June 8, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm | Stewart Wong in the Artist Studio (Burke Museum)

Artist Stewart Wong

Stewart Wong will share knowledge and personal experiences about working with Broussonetia Papyrifera. He will talk about the history, uses, and cultivation of the paper mulberry plant. In addition, Stewart plans on dyeing, drawing on, and printing kapa. Stewart will have printed information and material samples to supplement the talk.

Saturday, June 7, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | On Our Terms with Wakulima USA (Burke Museum)

Join the Burke Museum for a short screening from “On Our Terms,” plus a conversation with co-producer Aaron McCanna and Wakulima USA’s David Bulindah and Maura Kizito about food sovereignty and community building.

Registration required

Additional Events

June 2 | UW Gospel Choir (Music)

June 2 | Graphic Novel Cafe (Asian Languages & Literature)

June 2 – June 6 | Astronomy x Art Exhibition, Art Among the Stars (Astronomy)

June 3 | Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Concert: Silvio Dos Reis, Afro-Brazilian Capoeira (Music)

June 4 | First Wednesday Concert Series: Students of the UW School of Music (Music)

June 4 | 54th Annual Psychology Research Festival (Psychology)

June 5 | Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band: Finale (Music)

June 5 | Prentice Bloedel Research Day 2025 (Speech & Hearing)

June 5 | Labor Studies Spring Celebration (Labor Studies)

June 5 | IDSA Junior Show (Art + Art History + Design)

June 6 | End of The Year Community Jam (Dance)

June 6 | Geography Undergraduate Research Symposium (Geography)

June 7 | Composition Studio (Music)

Week of June 9

Wednesday, June 11 to Friday, June 27 | 2025 Design Show (Jacob Lawrence Gallery)

At the end of the spring quarter, the academic year culminates in comprehensive exhibitions of design work created by graduating students. The UW Design Show 2025, showcasing the capstone projects of graduating BDes students, will be held from June 11 to June 27 in the Jacob Lawrence Gallery.

Additional Events

June 11 | Midday Mindfulness (Henry Art Gallery)

June 11 | 2025 Design Show – Professional Night (Art + Art History + Design)

June 13 | 2025 Design Show – Friends + Family Night (Art + Art History + Design)

Events for the week of June 23

June 24 | Personal Privacy & Your Phone (Information Sessions)

June 25 | ONLINE: Research Impact Workshop (Information Sessions)

June 26 | Creative Commons (Information Sessions)

June 27 | Introduction to Text Mining (Information Sessions)

Commencement

June marks the end of many College of Arts & Sciences students’ undergraduate experience. Interested in attending a graduation ceremony? Below are the dates for the College’s departments and partners.