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 Summer.

ArtSci on the Go

Looking for more ways to get more out of Arts & Sciences? Check out these resources to take ArtSci wherever you go!

Zev J. Handel, “Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese”听()

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

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

Back to School Podcast 听with Liz Copland ()

Featured Podcast: “Ways of Knowing” (College of Arts & Sciences)

This podcast highlights how studies of the humanities can reflect everyday life. Through a partnership between and the 91探花, each episode features a faculty member from the 91探花College of Arts & Sciences, who discusses the work that inspires them and suggests resources to learn more about the topic.

Episode 1: Digital Humanities with Assistant Professor of English and Data Science, Anna Preus.

Episode 2: Paratext with Associate Professor of French, Richard Watts.

Episode 3: Ge’ez with Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Hamza Zafer.

with Associate Professor听of Law, Societies and Justice, and of International Studies, Stephen Meyers.

with Professor of Mathematics and of the Comparative History of Ideas, Jayadev Athreya.

with Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, Golden Marie Owens.

From the School of Music

External Event:

The student-run Improvised Music Project presents performances by a rotating cast of 91探花jazz studies students, faculty, and special guests every first and third Wednesday, 6 to 10 pm, at (1508 11th Ave, Seattle, WA).

Event Dates:

June 18
July 2
July 16
July 30
August 6
August 20

From the Burke Museum

| 10:00 am – 8:00 pm

Admission to the Burke Museum is FREE, and the museum is open until 8 p.m. on the first Thursday of every month. Large crowds are expected, 听in advance.

CLOSING EXHIBIT | – Final day Sunday, June 22

Learn about the diversity and significance of trees with our hands-on activities. Play the tree-themed Hidden Husky gallery hunt 鈥� spot the five hidden huskies in the galleries to earn a special sticker prize!

OPENING EXHIBIT | – Saturday, September 13, 2025 to Sunday, August 30, 2026

Woven听in听Wool: Resilience听in听Coast Salish Weaving听showcases both historical and contemporary woven items 鈥� from blankets and tunics to hoods and skirts. Journey through the seasonal cycle of weaving, from gathering materials and spinning wool to dyeing with natural ingredients and weaving intricate designs. Along the way, learn听firsthand from weavers and gain听insight听into the deep cultural and scientific knowledge embedded听in听every strand.

From the Henry Art Gallery

OPENING EXHIBIT | – Saturday, July 26, 2025 to Sunday, January 11, 2026

Through the work in the exhibition, contemporary artists connect fragmented family narratives shaped by war, migration, and generational trauma to broader global contexts, creating new narratives that transform their difficult origins. With these artists as guides,听Spirit House听invites you to commune with your ancestors, reflect on significant memories, and journey through time and space.

CLOSING EXHIBIT | – Final day Sunday, July 27

This exhibition highlights听Sanctuary听(2017), a monumental tapestry commissioned by Western Bridge for Seattle鈥檚 Saint Mark鈥檚 Cathedral and now part of the Henry鈥檚 collection.

CLOSING EXHIBIT | – Final days, August 2025

For Bass鈥檚 project, commissioned and organized by the Henry, a series of fourteen stone benches is placed throughout Seattle鈥檚 , with two additional sculptures residing outside the Henry itself. Each bench is engraved with its own inscription and a silhouetted image applied in light-responsive pigment. The project examines themes of cultivation and wildness, the laws we impose to control human bodies, hierarchy and proximity, and stones as memorials, boundaries, and legislative markers.

CLOSING EXHIBIT | – Final day Sunday, August 25

Be flat听is听Tala Madani’s debut solo exhibition in Washington State, featuring recent and newly commissioned works that explore the influence of symbols, language, and mark-making on power dynamics and individual agency.

CLOSING EXHIBIT | – Final day Thursday, September 25

This focused exhibition features works from听Passing On听(2022), a series of collaged newspaper obituaries of influential feminist activists and organizers. The clippings, presented with Winant鈥檚 handwritten annotations, reflect on a lineage of non-biological inheritance and how language shapes memory and history.

June 2025

Wednesday, June 18, 2:00 – 5:00 pm | 听(Burke Museum)

Ravenstail weaving skills have returned to the hands of Northwest Coastal People, but their historical robes are still in museum collections. Mentor weaver Ksm Lx’sg瘫a瘫n, Ruth Hallows, and apprentice weaver Jay Hallows work in tandem with more than twenty weavers to symbolically restore historical Ravenstail robes by reweaving them and bringing them home to dance in ceremony.

Thursday, June 19, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm | (Burke Museum)

BLUEs.Weave will present two interrelated demonstrations of explorative Black American music in honor of the holiday of Juneteenth.

The first demonstration will feature original music works, lyrics, and improvisations meditating on the various forms and aesthetics of celebration as they appear throughout the sonic lineage of Black American music.听The second demonstration will be a live, collaborative composition session where BLUEs.Weave, culminating in a piece and performance reflecting on the importance of Juneteenth and Black freedom.

Thursday, June 19, 7:00 – 8:00 pm | ONLINE ONLY: (Center for Child & Family Well-Being)

Join the Center for Child & Family Well-Being for their monthly Community Drop-In with Shayla Collins. A time of mindfulness, self-compassion, and common humanity. You spend so much of your time caring for others, join for a very informal hour (or whatever you can commit to) of practice for yourself.

Thursday, June 19, 10:30 am – 2:00 pm | (Center for Labor Studies)

Join ILWU Local 19 and APRI Seattle for their 6th Annual Juneteenth Waterfront Freedom Celebration. There will be live entertainment, food, drinks, and guest speakers.

ILWU Local 19
3440 East Marginal Way S.
Seattle, WA

Wednesday, June 25, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm | (Chemistry)

Join the Department of Chemistry for a lunch-and-learn workshop with an Introduction to Optical Photothermal Infrared (O-PTIR), which provides submicron IR, simultaneous Raman, and co-located fluorescence. It has been used for a wide range of application areas.

Thursday, June 26, 7:00 – 8:30 pm | (Astrobiology)

Join the Institute for Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics & Cosmology (DiRAC) for a special celebration marking a new chapter in astronomy. This milestone represents over two decades of dedication and collaboration from the global Rubin community. DiRAC is especially proud to honor the UW’s Rubin Team, whose leadership and involvement have been instrumental.

This is more than an astronomy event 鈥� it鈥檚 a celebration of human curiosity, collaboration, and imagination. Whether you鈥檙e a student, researcher, space enthusiast, or simply someone who looks up at the night sky in wonder, you鈥檙e invited to be a part of this historic moment.

Thursday, June 26, 3:30 – 6:30 pm | Summer Celebration | Live Jazz @ the 91探花Club ( 91探花Alumni Association)

Join 91探花faculty, staff, and guests for an end-of-year afternoon of community and connection at the storied, scenic 91探花 Club. Enjoy live music performed by the Alliance of Improvisers, an ensemble composed of 91探花Jazz faculty, students, alumni musicians, and special guests.

This event is part of a series of community-building opportunities planned for the year ahead. As the University continues to assess and review future permanent directions for the building, the facility will remain closed for general use.

Wednesday, June 4 to Friday, July 4 | (Taiwan Studies)

This exhibition seeks to honor the memories of those who suffered and reflect on the lasting impact of the 228 Incident. Through archival photographs, personal testimonies, historical documents, and artistic interpretations, view a narrative of loss, resilience, and the ongoing pursuit of justice.

Information Sessions

June 24 |

June 25 |

June 26 |

June 27 |

June 30 |

July 2025

Wednesday, July 2, 12:30 pm | (School of Music)

Students of the 91探花School of Music perform in this听lunchtime concert series co-hosted听by 91探花Music and 91探花Libraries.

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.

ArtSci on the Go

Looking for more ways to get more out of Arts & Sciences? Check out these resources to take ArtSci wherever you go!

Zev J. Handel, “Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese”听()

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

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

Back to School Podcast 听with Liz Copland ()

Featured Podcast: “Ways of Knowing” (College of Arts & Sciences)

This podcast highlights how studies of the humanities can reflect everyday life. Through a partnership between and the 91探花, each episode features a faculty member from the 91探花College of Arts & Sciences, who discusses the work that inspires them and suggests resources to learn more about the topic.

Episode 1: Digital Humanities with assistant professor of English and data science, Anna Preus.

Episode 2: Paratext with associate professor of French, Richard Watts.

Episode 3: Ge’ez with听associate professor of Middle Eastern languages and cultures, Hamza Zafer.

Closing Exhibits

Week of June 2

Monday, June 2, 5:00 – 6:20 pm | ONLINE ONLY: (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.

Monday, June 2, 5:00 – 7:00 pm | (Jackson School)

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 鈥渞escue the dead鈥� (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 – 5:00 pm | (The Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies)

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.

Tuesday, June 3, 5:00 – 6:30 pm | (Communications)

A conversation with local public media leaders about current challenges–including federal funding cuts–and pathways forward for sustaining public service journalism.

Speakers include:

Rob Dunlop, President and CEO, Cascade PBS
David Fischer, President and General Manager, KNKX
Tina Pamintuan, incoming President and CEO, KUOW
Matthew Powers, Professor and Co-Director, Center for Journalism, Media and Democracy

Wednesday, June 4, 3:30 – 4:30 pm | (Psychology)

Cognitive biases 鈥� such as attentional biases toward aversive cues, distorted expectations of negative events, and biased interpretations of ambiguity 鈥� 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 – 1:30 pm | (Center for Statistics & Social Sciences)

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, 91探花, 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 | (School of Music)

David Alexander Rahbee leads the 91探花Symphony in a program of concerto excerpts by York Bowen, Keiko Abe, and Camille Saint-Sa毛ns, 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.

Saturday, June 7 & Sunday, June 8, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm | (Burke Museum)

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 “,” plus a conversation with co-producer Aaron McCanna and Wakulima USA’s David Bulindah and Maura Kizito about food sovereignty and community building.

Additional Events

June 2 | (Music)

June 2 | (Asian Languages & Literature)

June 2 – June 6 | (Astronomy)

June 3 | (Music)

June 4 | (Music)

June 4 | (Psychology)

June 5 | (Music)

June 5 | (Speech & Hearing)

June 5 | (Labor Studies)

June 5 | (Art + Art History + Design)

June 6 | (Dance)

June 6 | (Geography)

June 7 | (Music)

Week of June 9

Wednesday, June 11 to Friday, June 27 | (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 91探花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 | (Henry Art Gallery)

June 11 | (Art + Art History + Design)

June 12 & June 13 | (DXARTS)

June 13 | (Art + Art History + Design)

Events for the week of June 23

June 24 | (Information Sessions)

June 25 | (Information Sessions)

June 26 | (Information Sessions)

June 27 | (Information Sessions)

Commencement

June marks the end of many College of Arts & Sciences students’ undergraduate experience. Interested in attending a graduation ceremony? Click here to find information on ceremonies across campus.

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 May.

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 March.

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Closing Exhibits

March 1 | (Henry Art Gallery)

March 1 | (Henry Art Gallery)

March 13 | (Allen Library)

March 31 | (China Studies)

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March, the Month of Music

Join the for a full month of melodious events.

| Campus and Concert Bands: Passages

| Modern Music Ensemble

| Chamber Singers and University Chorale: The Promise of Living

| Campus Philharmonia Orchestras

| Composition Studio

| Studio Jazz Ensemble and Modern Band

| Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band: Transformation

| Seattle Modern Orchestra, Tribute: Jo毛l-Fran莽ois Durand

| 91探花Symphony Orchestra with 91探花Choirs

| CD Release Celebration: Melia Watras, the almond tree duos

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Week of March 3

March 6, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm | (Department of Asian Language & Literature)

Spring 2025 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Second Indochina War, also known as the Vietnam War. This milestone invites scholars, artists, authors, community leaders, and 91探花students to reflect on the transformations, challenges, and developments in Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Southeast Asian diaspora in Greater Seattle since April 1975.

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March 6, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm | (Jackson School)

How did Taiwan, a former Japanese colony and the last fortress of the defeated Chinese Nationalists, ascend to such heights in high-tech manufacturing? In Island Tinkerers, Honghong Tinn tells the critical history of how hobbyists and enthusiasts in Taiwan, including engineers, technologists, technocrats, computer users, and engineers-turned-entrepreneurs, helped transform the country with their hands-on engagement with computers.

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March 7, 7:30 pm and March 8, 10 am – 3:00 pm | 听(American Indian Studies)

The Department of American Indian Studies at the 91探花 hosts an annual literary and storytelling series. Sacred Breath features Indigenous writers and storytellers sharing their craft at the beautiful w菨色菨b蕯altx史 Intellectual House on the 91探花Seattle campus. Storytelling offers a spiritual connection; a sharing of sacred breath. Literature, similarly, preserves human experience and ideals. Both forms are durable and transmit power that teaches us how to live. Both storytelling and reading aloud can impact audiences through the power of presence, allowing for the experience of the transfer of sacred breath as audiences are immersed in the experience of being inside stories and works of literature.

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Additional Events

March 2 | (German Studies)

March 3 | (Music)

March 3 | (Comparative History of Ideas)

March 4 | (Music)

March 4 | (Public Lectures)

March 4 | (Jackson School)

March 4 | (Communication)

March 4 | (China Studies)

March 4 | (Jackson School)

March 6 | (Political Science)

March 6 | (History)

March 6 | (French and Italian Studies)

March 6 | (Henry Art Gallery)

March 6 | (African Studies)

March 7 | (Political Science)

March 7 | (Slavic Language & Literature)

March 7 | (Music)

March 7 | (American Ethnic Studies)

March 7 | (Cinema & Media)

March 8 | (Burke)

March 8 | (Music)

March 8 | (Henry Art Gallery)

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Week of March 10

March 11 to March 15 | (School of Drama)

It is a play for all the lady cowboys of heart and mind who ride outside the city limits of convention.

Audience members may see more vigorous artistic risk-taking in these Lab productions. From their first year to graduation, the Lab is a space for our student artists to practice their craft.

Written by Sarah Ruhl / Directed by Nick O鈥橪eary

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March 11, 9:30 am – 8:30 pm | (Stroum Center for Jewish Students)

You are invited to join past and present SCJS faculty and students as they spend the day marking the fostering of five decades of meaningful and insightful discussions on diverse Jewish experiences.

We have a full day of events planned, starting with a series of daytime panels highlighting SCJS鈥檚 key accomplishments and ending with an evening discussion titled 鈥淭oday鈥檚 campus conflicts and the future of Jewish Studies.鈥�

– Morning panels: 鈥�50 years of impact on campus and beyond鈥�

– Evening talk: 鈥淭oday鈥檚 campus conflicts and the future of Jewish Studies鈥�

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March 15, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm | (Henry Art Gallery)

Spring into art at the Henry! Join the Henry for the Spring Open House, a day filled with vibrant activities, hands-on artmaking, and engaging programs that bring contemporary art and ideas to life. Whether you鈥檙e an art enthusiast or simply curious, there鈥檚 something for everyone to enjoy.

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Additional Events

March 10 | (Music)

March 11 | (Music)

March 12 | (Music)

March 12 | (American Ethnic Studies)

March 13 | (History)

March 14 | (Music)

March 14 | (Music)

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Week of March 17

March 18, 7:30 pm | (Meany Center)

One of America鈥檚 foremost pianists, Jeremy Denk鈥檚 creative blend of virtuosic dexterity and colorful imagination has earned him praise as 鈥渁n artist you want to hear no matter what he performs鈥� (The New York Times). A winner of both the MacArthur 鈥淕enius鈥� Fellowship and the Avery Fisher Prize, his bestselling memoir,听Every Good Boy Does Fine, showcases his original and insightful writing about music. Denk鈥檚 recital features Bach鈥檚 Six Partitas for Keyboard, known for being as technically difficult as they are beautiful.

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Week of March 24

March 28, 7:30 pm | (Meany Center for the Performing Arts)

Grammy Award-winning musical ensemble Silkroad鈥檚听Uplifted Voices听brings together a stellar lineup of performer-composers from the Silkroad Ensemble in a series of pieces that highlight each artist鈥檚 musical storytelling. These compositions, often inspired by their homeland, ancestors, community, and family, represent previously under-recognized voices from around the world, offering a fresh perspective on the history and migration of music.

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Week of March 31

March 31, 5:00 pm – 6:20 pm | (Jackson School)

Join JSIS for Trump in the World 2.0, a series of talks and discussions on the international impact of the second Trump presidency. Faculty and guest speaker presentations will explore how different regions and global issues are affected by the policies of the Trump administration. The series is moderated by Danny Hoffman, Director of the Jackson School of International Studies, and Stanley D. Golub Chair of International Studies.

Mondays, 5-6:20 p.m. from March 31 to June 2, 2025 | in-person 2 credit/no credit course for 91探花students Free for the public via live stream only.

The first lecture is only open to students. Public lectures begin Monday, April 7.

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

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.

February 4 | (Center for Southeast Asia and its Diasporas)

February 5 | (Communication)

February 6 |听 (Art + Art History + Design)

February 10 | (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)

February 19 | (Stroum Center for Jewish Students)

February 21 | (Political Science)

February 21 | (East Asia Center)

February 26 | (American Ethnic Studies)

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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.

Join Associate Professor听Mary Callahan听as she explores the evolving crisis in Myanmar four years after the coup.

Free

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February 4, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm |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.

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February 5, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm | (Department of Communication)

Social media has reshaped how Americans consume news. As content creators rise as primary sources of information, they are overtaking traditional journalists for younger audiences. This shifting landscape brings critical questions: What does this mean for journalism? What does this mean for news consumers? How can we navigate news literacy in a digital world? And what role do these voices play in shaping the media ecosystem?

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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?

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February 7, 7:30 pm |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.

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Additional Events

February 3 | (Simpson Center for the Humanities)

February 5听| (School of Music)

February 5 | (Stroum Center for Jewish Students)

February 5 | (History)

February 6 | (Burke Museum)

February 7听| (School of Music)

February 7 | (Simpson Center for the Humanities)

February 7 | (Linguistics)

February 7 | (Burke Museum)

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Week of February 10

February 10, 3:30 pm – 6:00 pm | (Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)

Recent years have seen the proliferation of cop cities, limits on free speech, and the gutting of governmental safety nets. In this context, trans and intersex people have been the casualties of a fascist agenda that seeks to outlaw abortion and to erase and further marginalize oppressed communities.

Join Dr. Sean Saifa Wall in a conversation that asks questions, speaks truths, and offers a way forward through these troubled times.

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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 Analects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Analects听itself, as a piece of literature, was meant to help train moral-perceptual expertise.

Free

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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.

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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

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February 13 through April 18 | (School of Art + Art History + Design)

Opening: Thursday, February 13

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.

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Additional Events

February 12 | (Asian Language & Literature)

February 12 | (History)

February 13听| (South Asia Center)

February 14 | (School of Music)

February 14 | (Meany Center for Performing Arts)

February 14 | (Simpson Center)

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Week of February 17

February 19, 4;30 pm – 6:00 pm听| (Stroum Center for Jewish Students)

Guest lecturer Naomi Seidman will take us inside听 鈥渢he Freud craze鈥� to explore the impact Freud鈥檚 work had on Eastern European Jews.

The Austrian journalist Karl Kraus reportedly quipped, 鈥淧sychoanalysis is the disease of assimilated Jews; Eastern European Jews make do with diabetes.鈥� And yet, Eastern European Jews were fascinated by Freud and psychoanalysis, flocking to lectures on the subject and following Freud鈥檚 life and career with curiosity and enthusiasm. This lecture will trace 鈥渢he Freud craze鈥� in the burgeoning Hebrew and Yiddish press of the interwar period when readers eagerly sought information about 鈥渢he most famous Jew in the world,鈥� and journalists and others were compelled to actively translate psychoanalytic terminology from German into Jewish languages.

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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�

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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.

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February 21, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm | (Department of Political Science)

Center for Environmental Politics: David Konisky, Indiana University Bloomington, 鈥淒isparities in Disconnections: Utility Access in the Age of Climate Change鈥�

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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.

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February 22, 4:00 pm | UWAA Movie Night: Singles ( 91探花Alumni Association)

Get ready for a night of nostalgia, laughter, and love at this special screening of 鈥淪ingles,鈥� the classic rom-com set against the backdrop of Seattle鈥檚 iconic grunge scene. Filled with awkward first dates, unpredictable connections, and the kind of romantic chaos that only young adulthood can bring, this movie is the perfect blend of romantic misadventures and the energy of 鈥�90s Seattle. SIFF Executive Director Tom Mara, 鈥�88,听will introduce the film.

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Additional Events

February 19听| (School of Music)

February 20 | (School of Music)

February 20听| (School of Music)

February 20 | (Jackson School)

February 21 | (Meany Center for Performing Arts)

February 22 | (Classics)

February 22 | (Center for Child & Family Wellbeing)

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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.

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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

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February 27, 6:00 – 7:00 pm | (School of Art + Art History + Design)

Join us for this year鈥檚 Kollar Lecture in American Art featuring Colby College鈥檚 Tanya Sheehan. This talk explores how Black life could and could not be represented on the walls of Harlem Hospital by Jacob Lawrence in 1937, and how a commitment to the publicness of Black care took shape in Lawrence鈥檚 private images.

Free

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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 |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)

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Closing Exhibits

March 1 |

March 1 |

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

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 November.

October 22, 7:30 pm | , Kane Hall

In this Frontiers of Physics Public Lecture, Katherine Freese will recount the stories of the dark matter puzzle, starting with the discoveries of visionary scientists from the 1930s who first proposed its existence, to Vera Rubin in the 1970s whose observations conclusively showed its dominance in galaxies, to the deluge of data today. Freese will provide an overview of this cosmic cocktail, including the evidence for the existence of dark matter in galaxies. She will also talk about Dark Stars, early stars powered by dark matter, that may have already been discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope.

Free |

October 16, 5:00 – 7:00 pm | , Kane Hall

Join the 91探花Department of Communication and the journalism community to learn about the changing lives of orcas in the Puget Sound from Lynda V. Mapes, an environment reporter for The Seattle Times. She will discuss the process of reporting the story of a mother orca who carried her dead calf around the Salish Sea for 17 days and more than 1,000 miles. Mapes also will discuss the dangers orcas continue to face as a species and the potential ways their population could recover.

Free |