This week, attend the Katz Distinguished Lecture Series with Winnie Wong, check out the DXARTS Spring Concert, be wowed away from the MFA Dance Concert, and more.
May 13 – 17, 91探花Innovation Month 
Innovation Month is a campus-wide celebration of the innovative work that happens everywhere at UW, every day, across disciplines. It highlights students and researchers who are entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, scientists, artists, and other leaders who are constantly imagining new heights in their fields. Join events to gain insights into the latest trends in academia and industry and build your network with others who share your passion and drive for impact.
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May 13, 3:30 – 4:30 pm | Smith Hall or Online via Zoom
For this History Colloquium, Alika Bourgette, PhD Candidate, will present their paper 鈥淎 Constellation of Care: Ka鈥櫮乲aukukui Reef, Squattersville, and the Native Hawaiian Anti-Eviction Movement in Urbanizing Honolulu.鈥� Professor James Gregory will serve as the respondent.
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May 14, 11:30 am – 12:50 pm | 听Kincaid Hall
For the Psychology Cross-Area Clinical Seminar, Dr. John J. Curtin, professor of Psychology & Scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be giving a talk on “Smart Digital Therapeutics for Alcohol Use Disorder: Algorithms for Prediction and Adaptive Intervention.”
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May 14, 6:30 pm | Kane Hall
For this Katz Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities, Associate Professor of Rhetoric at University of California, Berkeley, Winnie Wong, is invited to introduce the Chinese painters of the global maritime trade, based in the port of Guangzhou (Canton), circa 1700-1850. These painters produced thousands of artworks for European and American buyers, but even today their historical identities remain purely speculative. Examining the art market, historical archives, and collecting enterprise which have named and unnamed them, Wong explores artistic identity, anonymity, and the rise of signature authorship in its global modern form.
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May 15, 3:00 – 4:20 pm | 听Electrical and Computer Engineering Building
Attend this Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies panel that brings together Washington state legal professionals to discuss the variety of ways in which they work in and with the law. Representing a range of demographic backgrounds and lived experiences, the panels will talk about the paths that brought them to careers in the law, as well as how they view their work in the current legal, social, and political moment.
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May 15, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Communications Building
Debra Hawhee, Professor of English, Communication Arts and Sciences, and Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Pennsylvania State University, will give a lecture analyzing the extinction art of Andrea Bowers and Elizabeth Turk, two artists whose work finds presence in the face of species extinction. Bowers鈥� 鈥淓co Grief Extinction Series鈥� (acrylic paintings of birds and humans) and Turk鈥檚 鈥淭ipping Point: Echoes of Extinction鈥� (a set of sculptured bird vocalizations) meet extinction by foregrounding mood and silence, respectively. They do so by鈥攁nd help to theorize鈥攖he aesthetic and modal possibilities of mood and of silence, materializing presence in the context of decay, loss, and absence.
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May 15, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall
An evening of software performances and human-machine communions, drawing lines between the worlds of immersive sound, performing arts, and experimental extended reality. The familiar, the bearable chaos and illusions of听order unfold across technologically mediated hyper-realities, temporalities, and mnemonic worlds. Performances where interactions and reactions occur across choreographies and spatial arrangements, binding the virtual with the real in unexpected knots and impossible behaviors.
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May 16, 2:30 – 3:30 pm | Kane Hall
91探花faculty member Shirley J. Yee (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies department) will be in conversation with 91探花Women鈥檚 soccer coach Nicole Van Dyke, Courtney Gano ( 91探花Softball 鈥�16) and Amy Griffin ( 91探花Women鈥檚 Soccer and Executive Director of the Seattle Reign Academy). This event is part of the Jackson School鈥檚 new Global Sport Lab.
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May 16 – 19, 2:30 or 7:00 pm | Meany Hall
The 91探花MFA candidates in dance invite everyone to the premiere of eight diverse dance works, created for 70 undergraduate dancers. Join the Department of Dance for an evening of dance in styles drawn from contemporary modern, ballet, Chinese dance, hip-hop, street, and club dances, to explore themes about humanity, homogeneity, community, and support.
Learn about the program to support the development of educators in any dance form.
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May 16, 12:00 – 1:30 pm | Gowen Hall
Becca Peach, a Political Science Ph.D. candidate, will lecture on “Replacing the Welfare State As We Know It: Neoliberal Welfare Policy & Development of the Religious Right鈥檚 Institutional Capacity Under Charitable Choice” for the Political Theory Colloquium.
Free |
May 16, 7:30 pm | Kane Hall
Join paleontologist Dr. Jingmai O鈥機onnor for a trip back in time to learn how birds became birds and the adaptations that helped them thrive. Dr. O鈥機onnor will share a new fossil discovery that tells more about the earliest birds and the dinosaurs they evolved from.
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May 16, 5:00 – 7:30 pm | Husky Union Building
Join the 91探花Center for Human Rights for a very special 15th-anniversary edition of the annual Spring Symposium & Awards Celebration featuring stories from those deported through Boeing Field.
This year鈥檚 event features a storytelling project collaboration between 91探花students, immigrant rights group La Resistencia, and Hinton Publishing, showcasing stories of those held in deportation proceedings in Washington state.
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May 16, 7:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium
Students from the UW听piano studios perform works听from the piano repertoire.
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May 16, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall
Boka Kouyat茅 comes from a family of traditional music specialists in Guinea. A 产补濒补蹿贸苍 player, singer, and multi-instrumentalist, he is a well-known figure in both traditional culture and West African popular music.听He is joined by his 91探花students and special guests in this end-of-quarter performance.
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May 17, 5:00 – 7:00 pm | 听Communications Building
Thanks to its soothing sound and the unique visual appearance of the instrument, alphorn music is enjoying growing popularity, interestingly also in the Seattle region. Dr. Yannick Wey and Co-presenter Gary Martin demonstrate historical and new alphorn music and get to the bottom of questions such as: What music can be played on a wind instrument that has no valves, finger holes, or keys? What function does the alphorn have in the rituals, customs, and traditions of the Alpine region? How is its musical history connected to the natural environment of the Alpine region and to the purely vocal call of the Swiss yodel? The themes will be richly illustrated with live music from four centuries.
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May 17, 6:00 – 7:30 pm, Henry Art Gallery 
May 17, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall 
Faculty pianist Marc Seales is joined by 91探花colleague Steve Rodby (bass) and special guests Thomas Marriott (trumpet)听and Moyes Lucas (drums) for this concert听of original tunes and unique arrangements of jazz and pop classics.
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