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 February.
Featured Events: Topics in Social Change
February 26 | (American Ethnic Studies)
Week of February 3
February 4, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm | (Center for Southeast Asia and its Diasporas)
In February 2021, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing led a military coup that ousted Myanmar鈥檚 democratically elected government, headed by State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party had won a historic landslide in the November 2020 elections.听Since late 2023, the Myanmar military has suffered one unprecedented battlefield humiliation after another, as it faces the nationwide uprising of hundreds of armed, anti-state groups committed to a revolution to remove the army from political power for the first time in history.Free
February 4, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm 触听 (Department of Chemistry)
The Amazing Lives of Defects in Crystals
Professor Daniel Gamelin — Department of Chemistry, 91探花
Recipient of the Paul Hopkins Faculty Award
In the spirit of the Hopkins Award, this talk will explore a few historical examples and our group’s research of defects in inorganic materials used to express interesting and (sometimes) impactful physical properties. It will illustrate the role of basic science in driving the development of next-generation technologies.
February 5, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm | (Department of Communication)
February 6, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm | (School of Art + Art History + Design)
There exists a pervasive illusion that journalism embodies truth and objectivity, yet it is fundamentally entrenched in a Eurocentric perspective that has long exacerbated social polarization. What ideological forces underpin this medium, enabling it to perpetuate such divisions?February 7, 7:30 pm 触听 (School of Music)
David Alexander Rahbee leads the 91探花Symphony in “With Love, from Scotland,” a program of works by Thea Musgrave, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, and Felix Mendelssohn. With faculty guests Carrie Shaw, soprano, and Frederick Reece, narrator.
Additional Events
February 3 | (Simpson Center for the Humanities)
Week of February 10
February 10, 3:30 pm – 6:00 pm | (Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)
Join Dr. Sean Saifa Wall in a conversation that asks questions, speaks truths, and offers a way forward through these troubled times.
February 11, 6:30 pm | (Simpson Center for the Humanities)
In the听Analects, Confucius compares someone who has not adequately studied the classic听Book of Odes to a person standing with their face to a wall鈥攗nable to see, unable to act. In this talk, Edward Slingerland, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Distinguished University Scholar, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, unpacks scattered and vague references in the 础苍补濒别肠迟蝉听to construct a coherent account of how the Book of Odes听was used in early Confucianism as a tool for virtue ethical self-cultivation, as well as how the听础苍补濒别肠迟蝉听itself, as a piece of literature, was meant to help train moral-perceptual expertise.
February 12, 7:30 pm | (Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media)
Digital Arts and Experimental Media presents Daniel Peterson鈥檚 latest music composition, Into the Air, which explores the ephemeral nature of sound and the paradox of being. Inspired in part by Jorge Luis Borges’听Everything and Nothing, the 80-minute piece embodies both presence and absence, holding within it the traces of countless influences while remaining transient and听unimaginable; idiosyncratic and universal. The piece fuses Parmegiani’s听De Natura Sonorum听with Beethoven’s听Piano Sonata No. 32听through custom algorithms written in the audio programming language, SuperCollider.听The stereo piece will be diffused in real-time across 20 speakers.
February 13, 7:30 pm| (School of Drama)
The Winter’s Tale听by William Shakespeare centers on King Leontes of Sicily, who becomes irrationally jealous and falsely accuses听his best friend听and his wife, Hermione, of infidelity.听Tragedy听immediately听befalls his family and the kingdom. Sixteen years later,听Leontes鈥� lost daughter听Perdita, falls in love with听Florizel,听the Prince of Bohemia.听Leontes repents, and a 鈥渕iracle鈥� is revealed听leading to reconciliation and renewed relationships.听听
: $10 – $20
February 13 through April 18 | (School of Art + Art History + Design)
Working to emulate the interdisciplinary artistic environment Jacob Lawrence experienced in his formative years, this exhibition explores a legacy of collaboration between artists and poets.听artists & poets is a part of the re-grounding of the Jacob Lawrence Gallery in its mission of education, experimentation, and social justice. The show and space of the gallery will be split into two parts. The Cauleen Smith鈥檚 Wanda Coleman Songbook听will function as the contemporary example of this great legacy of exchange between artists and poets. The other half of the exhibition will focus on Dudley Randall’s听Broadside Presswhich began in Detroit in 1966 and will pull from archives to capture the press’s history and output.
Additional Events
February 14 | (Simpson Center)
Week of February 17
February 21, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm听| (Department of Political Science)
Christina Schneider – 鈥淚nternational Financial Institutions and the Promotion of Autocratic Resilience鈥�
February 21 | (East Asia Center)
Politicians and political parties make promises during electoral campaigns. However, achieving a policy goal can sometimes hurt them electorally, and a party can be better off not pursuing what its supporters want. This study empirically demonstrates that Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has been gaining an electoral advantage by not achieving its stated goal of revising the constitution.February 21, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm | (Department of Political Science)
February 21, 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm | (German Studies)
Prof.听Dorothee Ostmeier听will deliver a lecture in honor of beloved 91探花Prof.听Diana Behler.
In literary Romanticism to AI tales, portals mediate change between concrete and virtual, human and non-human realities. This lecture straddles the fringes of reality shifts in the Brothers Grimm and ETA Hoffmann鈥檚 tales, inserting literary German discourses on the imaginary into the vibrant questions asked by anthropologists and cultural critics, and engineers of digital virtuality.听 All diversely investigate possible futures beyond our anthropocentric minds and psyche.
February 22, 4:00 pm | UWAA Movie Night: Singles ( 91探花Alumni Association)
Additional Events
Week of February 24
February 24, 6:00 – 7:00 pm | (Slavic Languages & Literatures)
Please join us on Monday, February 24, at 6:00 pm, for a reading and a conversation with an award-winning Polish poet Krzysztof Siwczyk, and his translator Prof. Piotr Florczyk, moderated by Prof. Agnieszka Je偶yk.
February 26, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm听| (Department of Chemistry)
Weston and Sheila Borden Endowed Lecture in Theoretical Chemistry
Professor Abraham Nitzan听鈥撎鼶epartment of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Host: David Masiello
February 27, 6:00 – 7:00 pm | (School of Art + Art History + Design)
Free
Additional Events
February 24听| (School of Music)
February 24 | (University Faculty Lecture)
February 25 | (Meany Center for Performing Arts)
February 26 | Provost Town Hall (Provost Office)
February 27 through March 1 | (Meany Center for Performing Arts)
February 27 through March 2 触听 (Dance)
February 27 | Can the Subaltern Sweat? Race, Climate Change, and Inequality (Public Lectures)
February 28 | (Political Science)
February 28 | (Classics)
February 28听| (Linguistics)
February 28 | (German Studies)
Closing Exhibits
Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Kathrine Braseth (kbraseth@uw.edu).