The Jacob Lawrence Gallery and the School of Art + Art History + Design present Departing Figures: BA in Art Graduation Exhibitions, featuring the work of the 2024 graduating class in the BA in Art programs: 3D4M: ceramics + glass + sculpture, Interdisciplinary Visual Arts, Painting + Drawing, and Photo/Media. Students work closely with the gallery’s curatorial team to present their senior capstones in one of three group shows that run for two weeks each.

May 23, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Thomson Hall or Online via Zoom

May 23, 5:00 – 7:00 pm | Hans Rosling Center

This event will celebrate the release of Linh’s new book, Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production, and she will have another author joining her to share their book and connect with 91探花faculty, staff, students, and the broader community.

Free |

May 23, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

The University Singers, Treble Choir, and 91探花Glee Club present an eclectic program of music from around the world, folk tunes, and arrangements of popular music standards.

Tickets |

May 23, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

The 91探花Percussion Ensemble, led by Director Bonnie Whiting, performs music by Caroline Shaw, Elena Rykova, and Qu Xiao-Song. The performance will also have open scores by Pauline Oliveros, George Lewis, and Stacey Bowers and feature first-year undergraduates in ragtime arrangements for xylophone and marimba.

Tickets |

May 23 – June 2, 2:00 or 7:30 pm | Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse

In this unique adaptation of “The Adding Machine,” the unremarkable Mr. Zero, an accountant, is unexpectedly replaced by an adding machine. What follows is a series of remarkable events during and after his life that are outside of his control–or are they? In this devised adaptation, Director Ryan Purcell and student artists will examine the present-day emergence of artificial intelligence in the context of Rice’s prescient expressionistic classic of the 1920s.

Tickets |

May 24, 1:30 – 3:00 pm | Husky Union Building

For this 91探花 International Security Colloquium, PhD candidates Jessica Sciarone and Jihyeon Bae come together to discuss “Dark Visions for Society: The Spread of Extremist Ideas.”

Free |

May 24, 3:30 – 4:30 pm | Smith Hall

Free |

May 24, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

March 12, 11:30 am – 12:50 pm | Kincaid Hall

The Department of Psychology invites Assistant Professor of Psychology, Tyler Jimenez, to talk on Neoliberal Distress: Examining the Relationships between Neoliberalism, Precarity, and Mental Health. The conversation centers on recent research that has begun identifying political determinants of mental health, with neoliberalism theorized to be one such determinant.

Free |

March 13, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Thomson Hall

March 13, 3:30 – 5:30 pm | ?Allen Library

Join the Department of Asian Languages and Literature Literature for “Screening Queer Hong Kong,” a screening of two short films: Always My Child and Forever 17.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Kit Hung, moderated by professor Ungsan Kim. A film director, producer, media artist, and educator based in Hong Kong and London, Hung has made films and video works about LGBTQ+ people in Hong Kong and its diasporas.

Free |?

March 13, 6:00 – 8:00 pm | ?Zoom

The Jackson School lecturer with Hellenic Studies and the Center for West European Studies, Nektaria Klapaki, is featured as the 2024 Nikos Kazantzakis Endowed Lecturer at UC Berkeley. Klapaki will address two new perspectives a seminal episode in Kazantzakis’ life, the loss of his Christian faith after his introduction to Darwin’s theory of evolution, and Copernicus’ heliocentric theory.

Hosted by the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley.

Free |?

March 14 – 16, 8:00 pm | ?Meany Hall

The Look of Love is a wistful and heartfelt homage to the chart-topping songs of the late Burt Bacharach. A towering figure of popular music, Bacharach is known for his soaring melodies and unique orchestrations influenced by jazz, rock, and Brazilian music — his longtime lyricist Hal David providing unsentimental, poignant lyrics. This evening-length work features original choreography by Mark Morris and new musical arrangements by Ethan Iverson, performed by an ensemble of piano, trumpet, bass, and drums, with singer, actress, and Broadway star Marcy Harriell on lead vocals.

Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Kathrine Braseth (kbraseth@uw.edu).

March 4, 2:30 – 4:30 pm | ?Denny Hall

Graduate students in the Department of German Studies have invited Georgetown University Professor, Huaping Lu-Adler, author of Kant, Race, and Racism: Views from Somewhere (Oxford, 2023) to give a talk entitled: “Know Your Place, Know Your Calling: Geography, Race, and Kant’s ‘World-Citizen’”

Free |

March 4, 3:30 – 4:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

March 4, 4:00 – 5:00 pm | Johnson Hall

The Department of Chemistry invites Professor Jeffrey R. Long, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, to speak at the George H. Cady Endowed Lecture in Organic Chemistry.

Free |?

March 5, 7:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Shoji Kameda leads a performance of traditional and modern taiko music. The concert features his 91探花students, members of 91探花Taiko Kai, and special guests from the Seattle Taiko Community.

March 5, 7:30 pm |? Meany?Hall

The 91探花Modern Music Ensemble, led by Director Cristina Valdés, performs works by Yi?it Kolat, Ania Vu, Evis Sammoutis, Chen Yi, and George Crumb. The program includes the world premiere of Spomenik I, led by 91探花faculty composer Yi?it Kolat.

Tickets |

March 6, 12:30 pm | ?North Allen Library Lobby

Sarah Rommel, Artist-in-Residence and cello faculty at the 91探花, leads her students to perform in this lunchtime concert series co-hosted by 91探花Music and 91探花Libraries.

Free |

The 91探花South Asia Center invites Yashica Dutt, a leading anti-caste expert, journalist, and the award-winning author of the non-fiction memoir, Coming Out as Dalit,?to give a book talk. Raw and affecting,?Coming Out as Dalit?brings a new audience of readers into a crucial conversation about embracing Dalit identity, offering a way to change the way people think about caste in their own communities and beyond.

Free |

March 6, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | ?Thomson Hall

The 91探花Taiwan Studies Program welcomes Professor Niki Alsford to discuss his newest book entitled Taiwan Lives: A Social and Political History. Published by the 91探花 Press as the first book in the?Taiwan and the World?book series supported by UW-TSP,?Taiwan Lives?traces Taiwan’s complex history through the lens of colonial influences from Austronesian expansion to the economic and democratic polity it is today.

Free |

March 6, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

The Studio Jazz Ensemble performs big band arrangements and repertory selections. The Modern?Band performs innovative arrangements of jazz standards, selections from the outer limits of the?genre, and new original compositions.

Tickets |

March 7, 3:30- 5:00 pm | ?Communications Building

John Quincy Adams sailed from Boston to St. Petersburg in 1809, to begin his service as the first United States ambassador to Russia. The trip took him 80 days. This summer, along with two friends, Willard Sunderland followed his route in his own 32-foot sailboat.

Along the way, Sunderland learned something new both about the beginnings of the U.S.-Russian relationship and the connections between John Quincy’s world and our own. Learn about their trips and how a sea voyage can be an archive for seeing history differently.

Free |

March 7, 7:30 pm | ?Meany Hall

Tickets |

March 7 – 16, 2:00 or 7:30 pm | Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse

In Vanity Fair, Becky, orphaned and disadvantaged, is cunning and ambitious, while Amelia, born into privilege, is well-intentioned but naive. As they each strive to secure love, success, and stability in the patriarchy of early 19th-century London they face many obstacles to their dreams.

This thrilling, highly theatrical play explores the flexibility of our morals when faced with the harsh realities of our lives. As their parallel stories unfold, the audience is forced to confront our own hypocrisy and the complexities of a world that often rewards those who break the rules.

Tickets |

March 8, 1:30 – 3:00 pm | Gowen Hall

Rochelle Layla Terman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, will be speaking at the UWISC on “Auditing Localized Google Search Results for Human Rights.” Professor Terman will be accompanied by 91探花political science PhD student, Bobby Maxwell.

Free |

March 8, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Allen Library

The Canadian Studies Center will host an exciting talk featuring His Excellency Whit Fraser. In his book True North Rising, Fraser delivers a smart, touching, and astute living history of five decades that transformed the North, a span he witnessed first as a longtime CBC reporter and then through his friendships and his work with Dene and Inuit activists and leaders.

Free |

March 8, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

David Alexander Rahbee conducts the 91探花 Symphony in a program of music by Eugene d’Albert, W.A. Mozart, Alexander Borodin, and Igor Stravinsky. The performance will be joined by guest conductor Sunny Xia from the Seattle Symphony and faculty bassoonist Paul Rafanelli.

Tickets |

March 9, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

Pianist Hélène Grimaud is a deeply passionate and committed musical artist whose pianistic accomplishments play a central role in her life. A committed wildlife conservationist, compassionate human rights activist and writer, it is through her thoughtful pianism that Grimaud most deeply touches the emotions of audiences. For this recital, she performs a moving program of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms.

Tickets |

Through March 10 | ,?Burke Museum

Join the Burke Museum for kid and family-friendly activities. Each floor will have self-directed activities and a unique theme.

Tickets |

Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Kathrine Braseth (kbraseth@uw.edu).

February 6, 7:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

The School of Music has invited pianist Alexandre Dossin from the University of Oregon for a solo recital.

Alexandre Dossin is a graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Russia) and holds a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. He was assistant of Sergei Dorensky at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and Willliam Race and Gregory Allen at UT-Austin.

Free |

February 6, 5:00 – 6:20 pm | ?Husky Union Building

Join the Jackson School of International Studies for a talk and discussion on The ‘New Elites’ of X: Identifying the Most Influential Accounts Engaged in Hamas/Israel Discourse, featuring Kate Starbird, Mert Bayar, and Mike Caulfield.

This event is part of?War in the Middle East, a series of talks and discussions on the aftermath of October 7, the war in Gaza, and responses worldwide.

Recordings of past lectures are available on the .

Free |

February 7, 7:00 pm |??Kane Hall

Seattle has a long history of policies and practices that prevented people of certain racial and religious backgrounds from buying, renting, or occupying homes in many parts of the city and surrounding areas. Starting with the 1865 ordinance that banned Indigenous people, Professor James Gregory details this history of exclusion by showing how it was implemented through laws, zoning, deed restrictions, redlining, urban renewal, and other governmental actions and through the organized efforts of real estate professionals, banks, and neighborhood associations. The excluded often fought back, and some forms of resistance including campaigns by Black, Japanese American, Chinese American, and Filipino American community groups will be examined. Finally, this talk will also assess the way this history shapes the present, highlighting continuing patterns of housing exclusion and ongoing efforts to open opportunities, including discussion of the 2023 Covenant Homeownership Account Act – HB 1474 that proposes compensation to victims of racial restrictive covenants and other forms of state sanctioned housing discrimination. Introduced by College of Arts & Sciences Dean Dianne Harris.

Free |?

February 7, 12:30 pm | North Allen Library Lobby

The 91探花School of Music students will perform in this lunchtime concert series co-hosted by 91探花Music and 91探花Libraries.

Free |

February 8, 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Zoom

Hala Annabi, Associate Professor in the 91探花Information School, will discuss how instructors can apply neuroinclusive teaching practices. By recognizing neurodiversity and leveraging the unique strengths that neurodiverse students bring to the classroom, instructors can enhance individual and group learning, foster problem-solving, and help students develop critical thinking skills. Participants will leave this session with an understanding of the key principles of neuroinclusive teaching.

Free |

February 8, 4:00 – 5:30 pm | Thomson Hall

Perilous Intimacies explores how leading South Asian Muslim thinkers imagined and contested the boundaries of Hindu-Muslim friendship. This book illuminates the depth, complexity, and profound divisions of the Muslim intellectual traditions of South Asia on the question of Hindu-Muslim friendship. This talk will engage some key fragments of this recently published book.

SherAli Tareen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin & Marshall College. His research focuses on Muslim intellectual traditions and debates in early modern and modern South Asia. He has also written extensively on the interaction of Islam and secularism.

Free |

February 20, 1:00 pm | Husky Union Building South Ballroom

The College of Arts & Sciences welcomes the 91探花community of faculty, staff, and students to participate in the second annual “Big Read.”

Tune into the conversation with Dr. Joy Buolamwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League and author of Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines and?Dr. Emily M. Bender, 91探花Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Master’s Program in Computational Linguistics.

Free |

Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Lauren Zondag (zondagld@uw.edu)

January 26, 10:00 – 11:00 am | Zoom

91探花Textual Studies will host a virtual book talk event with Dr. Alexander Bubb on his latest book, Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf. There will be a featured presentation and Q&A session that follows.

Free |

January 26, 12:30 – 1:30 pm | ?Denny Hall

The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invites Semih Tareen, the Seattle Turkish Film Festival Director, to give a talk on viruses, biotechnology, and horror movies.?

Free |

January 29, 6:30 pm | ?Brechemin Auditorium

91探花keyboard performance students perform concerto movements for outside judges for a chance to perform with the 91探花Symphony.

Free |

January 29, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | ?Thomson Hall

Sponsored by the 91探花Japan Studies Program, the China Studies Program is hosting book talk with Wenkai He, author of Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China.?

Free |

January 30, 6:30 pm | Kane Hall

In this Katz Distinguished Lecture Series, Sasha Su-Ling Welland, Chair and Professor in the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, is invited to discuss “The Art of Living in the Nuclear Anthropocene.” This is a story of kinship, grief, and place that asks an impossible question. This lecture explores telling terrible stories in a way that centers relationally and compels those to seek repair instead of closure.

Free |

January 30, 6:00 – 7:00 pm | Thomson Hall

The converging forces of climate change, migration, and shifting livelihoods have thrust Nepal’s farmers into precarious positions. Join the South Asia Center and the Nepal Studies Initiative for a case study on how Sanskriti Farms & Research Centre is responding through innovative and sustainable agricultural practices at a local scale while empowering the community.

Shree Krishna Dhital is the Executive Director of Sanskriti Farms & Research Centre and Phoolbari Homestay. He has over a decade of experience in tourism, community farming, and sustainable technological implementation.

Free |

January 30, 5:00 – 6:20 pm | ?Husky Union Building

Karam Dana, Associate Professor at 91探花Bothell, will discuss “The Question of Palestine and the Evolution of Solidarity and Resistance in the U.S.” His research examines Palestinian political identity and the impact of Israeli occupation on Palestinian society. He also studies American Muslims, how they are racialized, and what affects their political participation in the U.S.

This event is part of War in the Middle East, a series of talks and discussions on the aftermath of October 7, the war in Gaza, and responses worldwide.

Recordings of each lecture will be made available on the . Watch or listen to the January 16, 2024, recording of .

Free |

January 30, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

Faculty colleagues Rachel Lee Priday and Craig Sheppard present a blockbuster program, including the Fauré A Major Sonata and Bartok #1 and shorter works by Arvo P?rt and Franz Schubert.

Tickets |

January 31, 7:00 – 8:30 pm | ?Kane Hall

In this History Lecture Series, Professor Elena Campbell explores the multifaceted history of Seattle’s engagement with peoples from the Romanov Empire and the Soviet Union, including trade relations and commerce, Russian emigration, the “Red Scare,” Russian studies, and citizen diplomacy.

Free |

February 1, 7:30 pm | ?Meany Hall

Lauded as “technically fearless with…an enormous, rich sound” (La Scena Musicale), pianist Michelle Cann made her orchestral debut at age 14 and has since performed as a soloist with numerous prominent orchestras.

Cann’s Meany debut features a music program by luminaries of Chicago’s Black Renaissance, including Hazel Scott, Nora Holt, Irene Britton Smith, and others. A champion of Florence Price’s music, Cann also performs the composer’s Fantasies No. 1, 2,?and 4.

Tickets |

February 2, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Gowen Hall

Join the Department of History and the Severyns Ravenholt Endowment at the 91探花for a conversation with Suparna Chaudhry, Assistant Professor in the Department of International Affairs at Lewis and Clark College, and Ji Hyeon Chung, graduate student in the Political Science Department at the UW.

Free |

February 2, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

David Alexander Rahbee conducts the 91探花 Symphony and special guest Michelle Cann, piano, in a music program by Beethoven and Rachmaninoff. With acclaimed pianist Michelle Cann, performing Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, with the orchestra.

Buy Tickets |

February 2, 7:30 pm | ?Brechemin Auditorium

Guitar students of Michael Partington perform works for solo, duo, and group arrangements.

Michael Partington is one of the most engaging of the new generation of concert players. Praised by Classical Guitar Magazine for his “lyricism, intensity, and clear technical command,” this award-winning British guitarist has performed internationally as a soloist and with an ensemble to unanimous critical praise.

Free |

February 5, 7:00 pm | Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall

Carole Terry, renowned organist and former longtime 91探花professor of Organ Studies presents a lecture, “How the body works when playing piano, organ, or harpsichord.”

This series is made possible with support from the Paul B. Fritts Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Organ.

Free |

Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Lauren Zondag (zondagld@uw.edu)

January 22, 7:30 pm | ?Meany Hall

Chamber group Frequency—violinists Michael Jinsoo Lim and Jennifer Caine Provine, violist Melia Watras, and cellist Sarah Rommel—performs works by Benjamin Britten, Felix Mendelssohn, Kaija Saariaho and the world premiere of a new work by Melia Watras in this exploration of the musical form of theme and variations.

Tickets |

January 22, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Thomson Hall

Join Walter Hatch, an affiliate faculty at the Japan Studies Program, for a special book talk. Hatch will defend the argument that political cooperation best explains Germany’s relative success and Japan’s relative failure in achieving reconciliation with neighbors brutalized by each regional power in the past.

Free |

January 22, 7:00 – 8:30 pm | Kane Hall

Join the East Asia Center and the Japan Studies Program for a talk and discussion featuring Mira Sucharov, Professor of Political Science at Carleton University in Ontario and Omar M. Dajani, Professor of Law at the McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, in Sacramento, California, as part of the department’s War in the Middle East Lecture Series on the aftermath of October 7, the war in Gaza and responses worldwide.

Free |

January 23, 6:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

91探花instrumental performance students compete for a chance to perform with the 91探花Symphony. Judges for this competition are Brian Shaw, trumpet, and Logan Esterling, oboe.

Free |

January 23 & 24 | Thompson Hall & Zoom

|El Houb (The Love, 2022), directed by Shariff Nasr, follows Karim as he navigates coming out as gay to his Moroccan-Dutch Muslim family. This film screening will be introduced by Louisa Mackenzie and Nicolaas P. Barr (Comparative History of Ideas).

| This virtual panel about the award-winning Dutch film El Houb (The Love, 2022) will discuss how dominant white European narratives of “coming out” normatively frame queer freedom in contradistinction to racialized Others – particularly Muslim men.

January 24, 7:00 – 8:30 pm | ?Kane Hall

In this History Lecture Series, Professor Devin Naar takes a look at how Seattle became home to one of the largest communities in the United States of Jews from the Muslim world.

Free |

January 24, 4:00 – 6:00 pm | ?Allen Auditorium

Join the Canadian Studies Center for the premiere screening of A Kabluna at the 91探花.

This is a documentary about Inuktitut Language Scholar Sydney Tate Mallon (“Mick”) and his life and partnership with the 91探花. The film follows Mick as he visits the 91探花to meet his students during his final year of teaching in 2019, where he shares about his life and work.

Free |

January 25 – 27, 8:00 pm | Meany Hall

Spain’s premiere dance group returns after 14 years for a rare Seattle engagement. The company is internationally renowned for its expressively powerful and refined movement style exemplified in three classic works: White Darkness, a lush and virtuosic one-act ballet created as a requiem; The vivacious and satirical Sad Case embodies the fiery, syncopated rhythms of Mexican mambo; And, Passengers Within is inspired by people determined to question the status quo.

Tickets |

January 25, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Thomson Hall

Before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work. This all changed with the war and as India, Burma, Ceylon, and Malaya wrested independence from the British empire.

Boats in a Storm centers on the legal struggles of migrants to retain their traditional rhythms and patterns of life, illustrating how they experienced citizenship and decolonization.

Kalyani Ramnath (University of Georgia) narrates how former migrants battled legal requirements to revive prewar circulations, in a postwar context of rising ethno-nationalisms that accused migrants of stealing jobs and hoarding land.

Free |

January 25, 3:00 – 6:00 pm | ?Communications Building

Join the Department of Asian Languages & Literature for Washin Kai Conversations featuring Ven. Taijo Imanaka, Seattle Koyasan Temple. This is presented by Washin Kai: Friends of Classical Japanese at UW.

Free |

Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Lauren Zondag (zondagld@uw.edu)

December 11, 7:00 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

The School of Music presents a degree recital from Chiao-Yu Wu. Wu is a Taiwanese pianist in her second year of Doctor of Musical Art in Piano Performance at the UW. She will perform Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Op. 18 and Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor Op.37 with pianists Cicy Lee and Ian Huh.

Free |

December 15 – 17 | Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center

The Native Art Market, located at the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, showcases authentic and unique work by a wide variety of Native artists and makers. Through items such as clothing, jewelry, woodworking, drums, art prints, and more, the market is a great opportunity to learn more about the Indigenous people living in Washington. The Native Art Market is a component of United Indians of All Tribes Foundation’s many programs and services dedicated to uplifting Native peoples’ in the Puget Sound region and beyond.

Free |

December 16, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

What happens when artists/activists from wildly different backgrounds and musical worlds unite around the fight for racial justice? And what if they link their original songs together by sampling and quoting a piece of classical music that’s almost 300 years old? Riffing on Handel’s masterpiece, Messiah, these musicians transform an ancient tale of a savior into an urgent call to action. The way the musicians frame it, anyone can be the Many Messiahs who build a better world together, starting now.

Buy Tickets |

December 16, 7:00 – 10:00 pm | ?Burke Museum

An evening of Salish Sea trivia, salmon-safe beer, crafts, advocacy, and snacks. Pints for Puget Sound is a 21+ party in partnership with Braided River, Washington Conservation Action, and Washington Wild. Roam the galleries at night and have a chance to check out the Burke Museum’s special exhibit, We Are Puget Sound, before it closes at the end of the year.

We Are Puget Sound highlights people working to protect and restore this region. This special exhibit brings their stories to life with stunning photography, new insights, and the Burke Museum’s expansive collections.

Buy Tickets |

“Ways of Knowing” Podcast: Episode 8

“Ways of Knowing” is an eight-episode podcast connecting humanities research with current events and issues. In this final episode, Maya Angela Smith, associate professor of French at the UW, introduces translation studies through the lens of the song Ne Me Quitte Pas. Originally recorded by Jacques Brel — a French-speaking Belgian man — the song has been covered multiple times, including by American artist Nina Simone. Smith discusses how the artists “bring different identity markers” to the piece, so each version of the same song highlights distinct political, social, and cultural narratives.

This season featured faculty from the 91探花College of Arts & Sciences as they explore race, immigration, history, the natural world—even comic books. Each episode analyzed a work, or an idea, and provides additional resources for learning more.

More info

Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Lauren Zondag (zondagld@uw.edu)

Dec. 3, 10 a.m. | Zoom

Join author Elizabeth Graver in conversation with Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies Devin E. Naar for a discussion of “Kantika,” a moving, multi-generational saga inspired by Graver’s grandmother. Rebecca Baruch Levy (née Cohen) was born into a Sephardic Jewish family from Istanbul in the early 20th century, and her kaleidoscopic journey takes her to Barcelona, Havana, and ultimately New York, exploring themes of displacement, endurance, and family as home.

Free |

Dec. 5, 4 – 5:30 pm |Thomson Hall

In this talk hosted by the Department of Anthropology and Center for Southeast Asia & its Diasporas, Joss Whittaker, graduate student in the Department of Anthropology will recount his time living in the Aru Islands with photographs and stories. When Joss Whittaker went to the Aru Islands for archaeological research, things did not go as planned: the research ran into obstacles that ranged from amusing to hair-raising, the camera broke, and much of the film was ruined. Nonetheless, thanks to the support of local allies, in a seven-month stay Joss found fascinating details about past and present in a community that built massive monuments, fought the Dutch East India Company at its peak power, and traded luxuries to remote places. The events around this research won’t make it into a scholarly paper, but they are worth recounting.

Free |

School of Music Concerts

December 3, 3:00pm |? Brechemin Auditorium

December 4, 7:30pm | Meany Hall

December 4, 7:30pm | ?Meany Hall

December 5, 7:30pm |? Brechemin Auditorium

December 6, 12:30pm | North Allen Library Lobby

December 6, 7:30pm | ?Meany Hall

December 7, 7:30pm |?, University Congregational Church

December 7, 7:30pm | Meany Hall

December 7, 7:30pm |??Brechemin Auditorium

December 8, 7:30pm | Meany Hall

October – November | “Ways of Knowing” Podcast: Episode 7

“Ways of Knowing” is an eight-episode podcast connecting humanities research with current events and issues. In this week’s episode, Chadwick Allen, professor of English and American Indian studies, at the UW, explains how the Octagon Earthworks is actually a gigantic clock designed using substantial astronomical knowledge. Allen traces the past, present, and future of mound earthworks, which he describes as feats of astronomy, engineering, and coordinated labor.

This season features faculty from the 91探花College of Arts & Sciences as they explore race, immigration, history, the natural world—even comic books. Each episode analyzes a work, or an idea, and provides additional resources for learning more.

More info

Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Lauren Zondag (zondagld@uw.edu)

November 19, 3:00pm | Brechemin Auditorium

Tekla Cunningham, Artist in Residence and Director for the 91探花Baroque Ensemble, leads the Baroque Ensemble to perform the “Baroque Pearls from Venice,” a program of works by Merula, Castello, Rosenmüller, Marini, Uccellini, as well as a fully improvised Passamezzo Antico in this?end-of-quarter concert.

Free |

November 21, 4:00 – 6:00pm | Thomson Hall

In this book, Elliott Prasse-Freeman documents grassroots political activists who advocate for workers and peasants across Burma, covering not only the so-called “democratic transition” from 2011-2021, but also the February 2021 military coup that ended that experiment and the ongoing mass uprising against it.

Elliot Prasse-Freeman is the Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore.

Free |

November 21, 4:00pm | ?Brechemin Auditorium

Students of Thomas Harper, Associate Professor of Voice, and Carrie Shaw, Artist In Residence for the Voice Program, perform works from the vocal repertoire.

Free |

November 24 – 26, 10:00am – 7:00pm | ?Duwamish Longhouse & Cultural Center

Free |

November 28, 7:30pm | Meany Hall

The 91探花Concert and Campus Bands, led by Roger Wu Fu and David Stewart, present “Sonic Luminescence,” performing music by Julie Giroux, Frank Ticheli, David Maslanka, Eric Whitacre, and others.

Buy Tickets |

November 29, 10:30am |? Brechemin Auditorium?

Viola students of Melia Watras perform for renowned violist Atar Arad, longtime professor at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Arad will also give a talk, “A Tiger in the Room,” about dealing with stage fright.?

Free |

November 29, 4:00pm | ?Brechemin Auditorium

The internationally esteemed concert pianist Garrick Ohlsson takes part in a public panel discussion during a three-day residency at the 91探花School of Music.

Free |?

November 29, 7:30 pm | ?Meany Hall

The 91探花Percussion Ensemble, led by Director Bonnie Whiting, explores early 1930s percussion repertoire in its program Ionisation, reimagining Edgard Varèse’s iconic early percussion work with the Afrocubanismo pioneer Amadeo Roldán’s Ritmicas as well as music by James Tenney, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Nick Hubble.

Buy Tickets |

November 30, 5:00 – 6:30pm | Kane Hall

Join the South Asia Center for a discussion with acclaimed journalist P. Sainath, who will discuss his new book: The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom.?The book features millions of ordinary people living in India – farmers, laborers, homemakers, forest produce gatherers, artisans, and others – that stood up to the British. Dive deep into the difference between freedom and independence through the voices of these people in P. Sainath’s book.

P. Sainath is the Founder Editor of the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI), an outcome of his three decades-plus experience in journalism. PARI aims to report and record the two-thirds of India’s population that were hidden from corporate media.

Free |?

November 30, 6:30pm | ?Husky Union Building

Katherine McKittrick will present new work that highlights anti-colonial methodologies and addresses some limitations and possibilities of theorizing climate catastrophe and ecocide alongside race and racism. McKittrick’s thinking is propelled by methodological clues and analytical frames that tend to equate environmental toxicities with (degraded) blackness. McKittrick will also center pedagogy and draw attention to how black livingness is not a concept, per se, but a set of actions that teach people how to theorize the environs anew.

The Katz Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities Series recognizes scholars in the humanities and emphasizes the role of the humanities in liberal education.

Free |?

October – November | “Ways of Knowing” Podcast: Episode 6

“Ways of Knowing” is an eight-episode podcast connecting humanities research with current events and issues. In this week’s episode, Diana Ruíz discusses how the same images can be used on both sides of the same debate. In this case, pro- and anti-immigration. Ruíz, assistant professor of cinema and media studies at the UW, describes how the photos evoked empathy and assistance for humanitarian organizations, but were also used to promote support for vigilante groups by inducing fear.

This season features faculty from the 91探花College of Arts & Sciences as they explore race, immigration, history, the natural world—even comic books. Each episode analyzes a work, or an idea, and provides additional resources for learning more.

More info

Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Lauren Zondag (zondagld@uw.edu)

November 2, 7:30pm |Meany Hall?

The Grammy-winning vocal group Roomful of Teeth continue to expand the capabilities of the human voice, unburdened by physical limitations. By engaging collaboratively with artists, thinkers, and community leaders from around the world, the group seeks to uplift and amplify voices old and new, while creating and performing meaningful and adventurous music. Their Meany debut features the world premiere of a work by special guest Gabriel Kahane, co-commissioned by Meany Center, plus music by composers known for breaking molds and bending the rules of vocal music.

$10 – $59 Tickets |

November 2 – 12 | ?Meany Hall

Experience The Moors—an ingenious dark comedy that disrupts the tropes of the 19th-century Gothic romance. Contemporary Queer playwright Jen Silverman has brilliantly crafted eight characters—six women, a dog, and a moor hen— who each contend with desire, fear, and transformation. In their struggle to change, we recognize their love and their desperate need to be seen.

$10 – $20 Tickets |

November 5, 5:00 – 8:00pm | Husky Union Building

Join the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies to recognize the work of students and faculty in the department. Learn about the latest labor research, labor issues and campaigns while honoring the contributions of past and present labor activists. The department will also share information from the Labor Archives of Washington to the Building a Movement Labor Internship. Get involved in a community with workers, students, and faculty of all ages.

Free |

October – November | “Ways of Knowing” Podcast: Episode 3

“Ways of Knowing” is an eight-episode podcast connecting humanities research with current events and issues. This week’s episode is a Close Reading with Charles LaPorte of “Dover Beach,” a poem by 19th century British writer Matthew Arnold. The poem can be read as both a romantic lament and, as many scholars have concluded, a dark, existential commentary on the loss of religious faith.

This season features faculty from the 91探花College of Arts & Sciences as they explore race, immigration, history, the natural world—even comic books. Each episode analyzes a work, or an idea, and provides additional resources for learning more.

Free | More info

Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Lauren Zondag (zondagld@uw.edu).