This week, head to the Henry Art Gallery for the Freedom in Failure: 鈥淭hat鈥檚 how the light gets in” program, learn how virtual reality platforms can advance personalized treatment options for patients, visit the DXARTS gallery for Time and Time Again,听and more.
April 3, 12:30 pm | 听North Allen Library Lobby
Students of the 91探花School of Music perform in this lunchtime concert series co-hosted by 91探花Music and 91探花Libraries.
Free |
April 3, 12:30 – 1:30 pm | 听Husky Union Building
Join the Jackson School of International Studies for a talk featuring Colonel Nate Strohm, 91探花US Army War College Fellow 2023-2024 on the evolution and future of Security Force Assistance Brigades in the military. This talk will be followed by a discussion with Colonel Nate Strohm.
Colonel Nathan 鈥淣ate鈥� Strohm is a career logistician who has served in multiple tactical logistics units, brigade combat teams, command positions, and in strategic staff positions on both the Army Staff and the Joint Staff.
April 3, 3:30 – 4:20 pm | 听Kincaid Hall or Zoom
The Department of Psychology invites Associate Professor Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez from the University of Rochester to speak about his research on understanding the brain mechanisms underlying discrimination of threat, safety, and reward within a context.
Suarez-Jimenez’s research specifically focuses on developing and validating innovative virtual reality (VR) tasks to study brain mechanisms of complex behavior.
Free |听
April 3, 5:00 – 7:00 pm | Jacob Lawrence Gallery
The Jacob Lawrence Gallery presents the Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency exhibition featuring the 2024 resident artist Simon Benjamin. A Bolt from the Blue is an exhibition curated as a living space of temporal contemplation that continues Simon Benjamin鈥檚 research of the sea and coastal areas as connected sites of colonial legacy. Through video installation, painting, sculpture, and photography we are immersed in the artist鈥檚 visual, sound, and material vocabularies on relational community histories alongside objects of inquiry.
Free |
April 3, 7:00 – 8:30 pm | 听Kane Hall
The Department of Asian Languages and Literature invites professor Zev Handel to explain how the building blocks of the Chinese script were adapted to represent the words and sounds of Japanese via their transformation into the scripts known as kanji and kana.
Through this lecture, the audience will learn the similarities and differences between the Chinese writing and alphabetic writing, what happened to Chinese-character writing in Korea and Vietnam, and why today Japanese is the only one of these languages that still uses Chinese characters in its writing.
Free |
April 4 – 26 | DXARTS Gallery
Time and Time Again is a collaborative installation by artists Leo Nu帽ez and Juan Pampin. The work is a playful exploration of the cyclical and catastrophic aspects of the Argentine economy. Organized into four interrelated pieces, the installation invites visitors to immerse themselves in a chaotic world of data-driven flashbacks, monetary bicycle rides, and circular financial ruins.
Free |
April 5, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Smith Hall
The Department of Geography invites Charlotte Cot茅, professor in the Department of American Indian Studies, to speak at this Geography Colloquium.
In her new book, A Drum in One Hand, A Sockeye in the Other, Cot茅 shares many stories from her personal life and stories shared with her about Tseshaht and Northwest Coast Indigenous food traditions. Through these stories, Dr. Cot茅 wants readers to understand why her community of Tseshaht, and Indigenous peoples worldwide, are revitalizing their foodways and reconnecting with their ha蕯um, cultural food, by enacting food sovereignty.
Free |
April 5, 1:30 – 3:00 pm | Gowen Hall 
Associate Professor Sheena Chestnut Greitens at the University of Texas, Austin, will speak on internal security and Chinese grand strategy for this 91探花 International Security Colloquium.
Free |
April 6, 3:00 – 4:30 pm | Henry Art Gallery
Inspired by the process of regeneration and rebirth embodied in听Ra煤l de Nieves: A window to the see, a spirit star chiming in the wind of wonder鈥�, currently on view at the Henry Art Gallery, the gallery will conjure the power and possibilities of imminent failure in an experimental combination of poetry craft talk, courageous conversation, community freestyle, improv music, and facilitated dialogue.
Free |
April 6, 8:00 pm | Meany Hall
An evening length concert experience with dance, poetry and music, Carnival of the Animals is an intentional response to the January 6 insurrection written and conceived by Marc Bamuthi Joseph. It navigates the reality of the political jungle by embodying shifting societal values and our relationship to democracy. Choreographed and directed by Francesca Harper and anchored in the words of Joseph and the transcendent movement of Wendy Whelan (New York City Ballet).
Tickets |
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