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.

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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.

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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 |

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Two grants from the U.S. Department of Education International and Foreign Language Education office will allow at the 91探花 to award eight to 10 fellowships each year to students studying French or an Indigenous language spoken in Canada.

The center from a National Resource Center Grant with the Center for Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University and a Foreign Language and Area Studies, or FLAS, grant.

The grants, awarded for the 2022-26 cycle, will allow the center to build expertise in Canadian Studies, particularly in the Salish Sea region, Francophone Canada and the Arctic, and help develop a greater understanding of the role of Indigenous peoples in global affairs. 91探花received the ninth-largest FLAS grant in the country.

FLAS fellowships allow students to gain modern foreign language and area or international studies competencies, and the 91探花is one of just two National Resource Centers in the country to offer instruction in Indigenous languages spoken in Canada. Canadian Studies started offering fellowships in Indigenous languages in 2004 and has since funded fellowships in 10 languages spoken on Vancouver Island and in northern Ontario, the Arctic and more.

While the FLAS grant will fund fellowships, the National Resource Center grant will primarily be used to pay instructors and subsidize research and programming, including supporting visiting faculty. Because most languages aren’t taught on the 91探花campus, visiting faculty often teach remotely.

, interim director of Canadian Studies, said the center has awarded close to 50 FLAS fellowships in Indigenous language studies over the past 15 years.

“What our center works to do is to approach these regions and cross-border issues with a focus on Indigenous peoples and their experiences,” Fabbi said. “We work to provide courses, research and programming that includes Indigenous voices and knowledge.”

Fourteen FLAS fellowships were awarded for the 2022-23 academic year to master’s and doctoral students who are studying French, Nuu-chah-nulth and X?aad Kíl, or the Haida language. The fellows represent four departments in the College of Arts & Sciences and five professional schools, including law and marine and environmental affairs. Three of the current fellows are Indigenous students.

“The center focuses on Indigenous studies, international relations, Francophone Canada, environmental justice, and the Arctic,” Fabbi said. “The themes and issues that we touch on are of significant interest to our faculty, students and other colleagues.”

, a doctoral candidate in the 91探花Information School and a citizen of the Haida Nation (Haida Gwaii), was a FLAS fellow studying X?aad Kíl in the summer of 2022. Kuhn’s work focuses on community-engaged research at the intersection of Indigenous research review, social media and health communication. She also works to build relationships with Tribal communities in the U.S. and Canada to support the development of Indigenous research ethics boards.

Kuhn hopes her work will benefit Tribes and Bands as they seek to create and sustain their own research review processes as well as develop community-engaged approaches for social media research. She also wants to help expand the information sciences field to ethically consider how Indigenous communities use technology to support their sovereignty, cultures, language and well-being.

Kuhn was part of an interdisciplinary group of 91探花graduate students that co-created the first Haida FLAS cohort at the UW.? After her summer FLAS fellowship ended, Kuhn continued to attend X?aad Kíl classes with her cohort throughout the academic year. She said learning her own language has been an essential part of her growth as an Indigenous scholar in academia.

“I am more fully able to reflect on my own positionality as a Haida scholar within my Indigenous research and studies and, from this place, thoughtfully contribute to Indigenous theory, practice and meaning-making,” Kuhn said. “This experience has been a great gift as it connects me so fully to my Haida language and culture, supporting me as I work with Tribes and Bands on both sides of the border, while contributing so much to my own learning and research.”

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For more information, contact Fabbi at nfabbi@uw.edu.

Joyce Yen honored with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring

On Feb. 8, President Joe Biden Joyce Yen and 14 other individuals and organizations as recipients of the (PAESMEM). is the director of the UW’s , a program that works to eliminate underrepresentation of women faculty in STEM at the 91探花and beyond.

Established in 1995, PAESMEM recognizes the critical roles mentors play outside the traditional classroom in the academic and professional development of the future STEM workforce.

“This award not only validates the importance of mentoring, but it also elevates the intersection of excellence and diversity and those pushing the STEM ecosystem to be better,” Yen said. “I truly love the work I do fostering communities and cultures in STEM that support and advance inclusion and belonging.”

In March, Yen was about the award, the work of the ADVANCE Center and the challenges of increasing women’s participation in STEM academic fields. Launched in 2001 with funding from the National Science Foundation, the center partners with faculty, chairs and leadership across campus to remove barriers for women faculty and develop accountability for institutional change.

Yen is following in the footsteps of two of her mentors, and , as PAESMEM awardees. Denton, the original principal investigator of the ADVANCE IT grant, was honored in 2003, and Riskin, the faculty director of the center, was honored in 2020.

Riskin nominated Yen for the award.

“Joyce’s impact on the careers of so many faculty in STEM at 91探花and across the country has been profound,” Riskin said. “So many people are in rewarding careers thanks to Joyce’s efforts and support. I am so thrilled she was selected for this honor.”

The National Science Foundation, which manages PAESMEM on behalf of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, provides each recipient $10,000.? Award recipients also receive a certificate signed by President Joe Biden.

The White House has invited the awardees from 2020 and 2021 to Washington, D.C. from May 24 to 26 for events that will include professional development activities as well as an awards ceremony and dinner. Both Yen and Riskin are planning to attend.

Professor Nathan Kutz elected SIAM fellow

, 91探花professor of applied mathematics, has been elected as a 2022 fellow of the (SIAM). Fellows are chosen for their exemplary and outstanding service to the community.

Kutz was recognized for his innovative contributions across many disciplines of applied mathematics. Most recently, he has pioneered contributions that integrate modern machine learning methods with traditional dynamical systems modeling. These innovations have paved the way for emerging methods to be applied to complex systems where many traditional applied mathematical methods have failed.

“I believe this award ultimately is a reflection of the exceptional graduate students and postdocs I have mentored in my time at the UW,” Kutz said. “They have been the driving force and inspiration behind all the years of progressive developments leading to new paradigms and innovations in applied mathematics. I am truly thankful for the time I have had with each one of them in my journey of exploration.”

Kutz joins the UW’s Anne Greenbaum, Randy LeVeque, Robert O’Malley and Fred Wan as SIAM fellows.

“The department is honored to welcome a fifth SIAM Fellow among its ranks with the recent recognition of Professor Nathan Kutz,” said , professor and chair of the Applied Math department. “Recognitions like these reflect the outstanding quality present in the department, in these and many other areas of research.”

Alexina Kublu wins 2022 Inuit Language Recognition Award

, an instructor in the 91探花, is one of three people to receive the 2022 . Kublu teaches Inuktitut, the Inuit language of Canada.

The award is given out by the Inuit Uqausinginnik Taiguusiliuqtiit board, the language authority created by the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut. Nunavut is a territory of northern Canada that stretches across 4 million square kilometers of the Canadian Arctic, and Inuktitut is one of its official languages.

Kublu, the former Languages Commissioner of Nunavut, teaches at the Nunavut Arctic College and the 91探花remotely from her home in Iqaluit, the capital of the territory. In December 2021, she taught classes to aspiring teachers as part of the Nunavut Arctic College’s teacher education program, which prepares students to become classroom teachers in the territory’s schools. The students in those classes nominated her for the award.

Kublu once lost her native language, so teaching it to others is personally meaningful for her.
Starting in the early 20th century, the Canadian government established racially segregated hospitals to treat Indigenous people for infections like tuberculosis. Children and adults received treatment, , for months or years at a time. Sent to one of these hospitals as a child, Kublu forgot how to speak Inuktitut while she was away.

But she learned her language again, thanks to her grandmother. That experience shaped how she teaches the language.

“I think I’m more able to see my language from an analytical point of view,” Kublu said, “rather than just something I speak.”

Kublu teaches Inuktitut for the 91探花as a part of the , offered through the Canadian Studies Center. The fellowship supports students as they acquire a foreign language and conduct research related to Canada. In 2004, the Canadian Studies Center got its first fellowship application to learn Inuktitut. Since then, they’ve awarded 38 of these fellowships to 17 students. Many of the students are conducting research in the Arctic, where the language is spoken.

The 91探花is the only institution in the U.S. offering students the chance to learn Canadian Inuit languages and the only institution in the U.S. awarding the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship in Indigenous languages.

Nadine Fabbi, managing director of the Canadian Studies Center, says that Kublu’s award shows the high caliber of training fellows are receiving.

“This award just proves that Kublu is not only one of the foremost linguists in Inuktitut in Canada, but she’s also a good teacher,” Fabbi said. “I’m just proud that this is a caliber of teaching that’s occurring for these fellowships. It’s a boon to the program to see that our language teachers are also the top of their field.”

Many of these opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91探花faculty, staff, and students have access to?.?

Sharing Indigenous Knowledge Across Boundaries: Fishing Sovereignty in Alaska and British Columbia

November 16, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM |

Pacific herring are foundational to the lifeways of First Nations and Indigenous communities up and down the coast of British Columbia and Alaska. As government entities manage the herring for commercial production and profit, Indigenous elders have witnessed the depletion of sustaining abundance.

We invite you to join representatives of the Tlingit and Heiltsuk Nations, along with experts in tribal law and natural resource management from both Canada and the United States, for a discussion of the state of Pacific herring fisheries and what can be learned and shared across the border. This event is?hosted by the?Canadian Studies Center?and?Jackson School of International Studies.

Free |

Political Science Faculty Panel: Is Democracy Dead?

November 16, 5:30 – 7:00 PM?|

Katherine Simóne Reynolds: A Warning Resting in the Distance, presented by The Black Embodiments Studio

November 16 – December 11 |

The??and??(BES) are pleased to present?Katherine Simóne Reynolds: A Warning Resting in the Distance, an exhibition centered on how Black women feel in the face of danger, whether that danger is known for certain or merely speculated. Featuring photography, video, installation and sound works by Katherine Simóne Reynolds, the exhibition considers how different kinds of information influence the way we relate to our surroundings. A recorded exhibition walkthrough with a talk by Reynolds will also be available to view via BES social media channels.

Free |

Rome, the City of Illusion: A Conversation with Professor Shawn Wong?

November 17, 5:30 PM |

“Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, the city of yearning.” wrote Giotto, a 14th century painter and architect. Join the 91探花Rome Center on November 17th for a conversation with Professor of English Shawn Wong on Rome’s unreal and hallucinatory qualities. From Fiat car chases to marching bands appearing out of nowhere, Shawn shares his experiences capturing Rome’s oddities as a traveler, professor, and author. Shawn will be joined in conversation by Lisa Wogan, writer and 91探花Rome Center alum, who participated in the first study abroad program he led to Rome in 1997.

Free |

Geographers in Practice

November 18, 6:00 – 7:00 PM?|

11/18 BENAROYA LECTURE | Analyzing the Israeli COVID-19 Response in Context: Social, Historical and Ethical Perspectives

November 18, 8:00 – 9:00 PM |

Nadav Davidovitch, Professor of Health Systems Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, will give the 2021 Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Lecture in Israel Studies, discussing Israel’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic in conversation with Abraham Flaxman, Associate Professor of Global Health at the 91探花.

Free |

Looking for more?

Check out UWAA’s Stronger Together web page for?more digital engagement opportunities.

Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91探花faculty, staff, and students have access to?.?

Joseph and Friends: A Svoboda Scavenger Hunt

April 19 – May 14 |

The Svoboda Diaries Project is an interdisciplinary digital humanities project dedicated to the preservation of a unique set of historical diaries. Joseph Svoboda, who traveled up and down the Tigris River as part of his work as a steamship purser for a British shipping company, kept detailed accounts of the persons he encountered, difficulties, and happenings around him. Today, the diaries survive a unique firsthand account of social, economic, and political life around the Tigris River from the mid- to late 19th century.

This quarter, we are excited to announce a four-week online contest,?Joseph and Friends: A Svoboda Scavenger Hunt:

• Contest dates: April 19, 2021 to May 14, 2021.
• Each week, there will be a new theme and set of questions posted on our website.
• Each question will have a different theme: archeology, medicine, shipping and trade, etc.
• By participating, you can enter a lottery to win a gift card!

Graduation Exhibition 1

April 20 – May 1 |

Each year the School of Art + Art History + Design proudly celebrates graduating Art students—both undergraduate and graduate—with a series of exhibitions.?

The Jacob Lawrence Gallery will feature the work of students graduating with a BA in Art as they celebrate their achievements and embark on the next step in their creative journey.

Missions and States: Saving or Serving Seafarers

April 19, 12:30 – 1:30 PM |?

Filming Ethnographic Textures: Representing the Atmospheric Politics of Peruvian Cultural Practices

April 20, 3:00 PM |?

Patricia Alvarez Astacio will discuss and screen her short films El Se?or de los Milagros and Entretejido in this lecture sponsored by the?Simpson Center for the Humanities,?Comparative History of Ideas, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Jackson School of International Studies.

CJMD Spotlight: Public opinion in U.S. broadcast news

April 21, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM |?

Free |

Talking Gender in the E.U.: Anti-Gender Politics and Right Wing Populism in Poland

April 27, 12:00 – 1:00 PM |?

Join?El?bieta Korolczuk, Associate Professor at The School of Historical and Contemporary Studies,?S?dert?rn University, Sweden?for a discussion on anti-gender politics and right wing populism in Poland. This lecture series is organized by the Center for West European Studies and the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence with support from the Lee and Stuart Scheingold European Studies Fund, the EU Erasmus+ Program, the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, and the Center for Global Studies.?

Next in the series:

May 13, 12:00 – 1:00 PM: Gender in the European Parliament

Free |

Humanitarianisms: Dean Spade & Cristian Capotescu

April 22, 3:30 PM |?

In this lecture, sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, Spade and Capotescu will address the Spring Quarter theme, “Rethinking the Human.”

Dean Spade will lecture on “Mutual Aid: Radical Care in Crisis Conditions,” and how humanitarianism, saviorism, and charity have been extensively critiqued as logics that undergird and legitimize war, colonialism, racialized-gendered control, and extraction. How do people organizing immediate survival support for each other in the face of crisis work together to resist these methods and build practices of solidarity and collective self-determination?

Cristian Capotescu will discuss “Echoes of the ‘New Soviet Man’: Humanity and the Ethics of Giving in Late Socialism.”?In the late 1980s, for many citizens of the former socialist bloc practicing and living socialism involved helping the less fortunate, the sick, and the poor through acts of giving. Such volunteer work and private assistance often invoked moral claims of a better life based on an ethics of shared suffering, dependency, and radical equality. This talk traces how socialist giving opened the possibility for ordinary people to enact notions of shared humanity in alternative ways that frequently eluded capitalist, Western modernity.

Free |

Ghetto: The History of a Word

April 22, 4:00 – 5:15 PM |?

Few words are as ideologically charged as “ghetto.” Its early uses centered on two cities: Venice, the site of the first ghetto in Europe, established in 1516; and Rome, where the ghetto endured until 1870, decades after it had been dismantled elsewhere.

Daniel B. Schwartz,?associate professor of history and the director of the Judaic Studies Program at George Washington University, will give this talk sponsored by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies.

Free |

adrienne maree brown + Prem Krishnamurthy

April 23, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM |?

Join an online conversation, to explore ways artists contribute to community and propel structural change.?Amidst this time of great loss, yet also change and possibility, what are emerging roles for artists and designers? How does an individual’s creative practice relate to collectivity, collaboration, and interdependency? How can design processes and organizing learn from each other? Krishnamurthy poses these questions and more, as he and brown discuss potential futures for art, community building, and mutual care, as well as essential tools for today’s artists and organizers. An audience Q&A follows their dialogue.?Presented in partnership by Cranbrook Art Museum, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, The Black Embodiments Studio, and School of Art + Art History + Design.

Free |

Katarzyna Kobro Composing Space

April 24, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM |?

Join the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures and the 91探花Polish Studies Endowment Committee for a talk by Dr. Marek Wieczorek about Polish sculptor?Katarzyna Kobro.

Between 1925 and 1933, Polish sculptor Katarzyna Kobro made a series of groundbreaking abstract Spatial Compositions. ‘As it becomes united with space,’ she wrote about these works, ‘the new sculpture should be its most condensed and essential part.’ In this lecture we will trace the artist’s discovery that the ‘simplest and most appropriate’ solution to the question of the essence of sculpture was the ‘shaping of space’ itself.

Free |

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Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91探花faculty, staff, and students have access to?.?

Curating in Conversation: A Panel Series on Sharing Northwest Native Art and Art History with the Public

April 12, 7:00 – 8:30 PM |

In the second of a three-part series sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Canadian Studies Center, this panel discussion features Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, Curator of Northwest Native Art at the Burke Museum, in conversation with Tlingit artist and co-curator of the Northwest Native Art Gallery Alison Bremner and Karen Duffek, Curator of Contemporary Visual Arts & Pacific Northwest at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. The program will include an overview of Bremner’s work as an artist and curator followed by a larger discussion on the state of contemporary Northwest Coast art and the issues involved in ethical curation.

Drop-in Session: Meditation Inspired By Nature

April 12, 6:00 – 7:00 PM |?

Transcultural Approaches to Europe: A Conversation with Fatima El-Tayeb

April 13, 3:00 PM |?

In this lecture,?Professor of Literature and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego Fatima El-Tayeb and director of study abroad and part-time lecturer for the Comparative History of Ideas Department?Nicolaas Barr discuss how European identities are constructed through “racial amnesia” and how the concepts of whiteness, gender, and religion are mobilized in European politics. They might address questions such as: can you decolonize Europe? Why do white Europeans believe they are colorblind? What is the relationship between the so-called refugee crisis and Europe’s colonial legacy? How are religion, gender and sexuality connected to the rise of right-wing movements? What role do trans-community coalitions play in movements of resistance? Is a multi-religious Europe possible? What is queering ethnicity?

Borders and Blackness: Communicating Belonging and Grief

April 14, 3:30 – 5:00 PM |?

Free |

Changing Global Connections: New Formations of Identity, Place and Region:?Facing the New Geopolitics: China at the Poles

April 15, 4:30 – 6:00 PM |?

Join?Anne-Marie?Brady, professor of China Studies at the University of Canterbury, in conversation on how today’s changing geopolitics is creating new configurations across regions and in the field of international studies.?This talk explores international relations between China and the Arctic and is sponsored by the Jackson School for International Studies, the Center for Global Studies,?the Canadian Studies Center, the China Studies Program, and the East Asia Center.

Next in the series:

• April 29, 4:30 – 6:00 PM:?Indigenous Blackness in Américas: The Queer Politics of Self-Making Garifuna New York
• May 13, 9:30 – 11:00 AM:?How Emerging Technology is Changing International Security

Free |

American Christians and the Holy Land: Before, During and After Contemporary Pilgrimages to Israel/Palestine

April 15, 4:00 – 5:15 PM |?

Since the 1950s, millions of U.S. Christians have traveled to the Holy Land to visit the places where Jesus lived and died. Why do these pilgrims choose to journey halfway around the world? How do they react to what they encounter, and how do they understand the trip upon return?

Drawing on five years of ethnographic research with groups of pilgrims before, during, and after their trips, Dr. Hillary Kaell (McGill University) frames the experience as both ordinary — tied to participants’ everyday role as “ritual specialists,” or religious practitioners — and extraordinary, since they travel far away from home, often for the first time.

This talk, sponsored by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, will examine the kind of Christian education and personal experiences that compel individuals to take the trip, and cover a few key examples of what they find once they arrive. Taking the rare step of following pilgrims after they return home, the talk will also examine whether the trip makes an impact in Christians’ lives over a longer term.

Free |

E.U. Democracy Forum:?Kristina Weissenbach – The Formation and Institutionalization of New Parties in EU Member States

April 15, 12:00 – 1:15 PM |?

Affiliate Professor for Political Science Kristina Weissenbach (Ph.D. Political Science, 2012, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) will present the third lecture in the E.U. Democracy Forum series. Sponsored by the Center for West European Studies and E.U. Center.

Next in the series:

• May 20, 12:00 – 1:15 PM:?Phillip Ayoub – Pride amid Prejudice: The Impact of the First Pride in Sarajevo

Free |

Seattle Art Museum Virtual Saturday University:?The Memory of the Ancients in Modern Iranian and Parsi Architecture

April 17, 10:00 – 11:30 AM |?

In 1822 six fire temples adorned the cityscapes of West India. By the end of the century, Parsis had augmented that number tenfold. Many of these structures were erected in what they dubbed the “Persian Style,” on floor plans described as “open.” From the 1830s to the 1930s, the Persian Revival style evolved simultaneously and codependently in two different geo-cultures: the western coast of the Indian subcontinent, with large Parsi urban populations, as in Bombay and Surat, and the major cities of Qajar and Pahlavi Iran, in particular Shiraz and Tehran. These were interpretative “copies” of “originals,” not necessarily of archeological sites but European and native fantastical travelogues as “authentic” memories and national resilience.

This lecture will be presented by?Talinn Grigor,?professor and chair of the Art History Program in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of California, Davis. Co-sponsored by the South Asia Center.

Free |

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Lux Aeterna

Strange Coupling 2020 Exhibition Launch

“Literature, Language, Culture” Dialogue Series?

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Artic and International Relations Podcast Series

View at your leisure |

The International Policy Institute, Canadian Studies Center, and Center for Global Studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies are dedicated to translating scholarship into policy options to enhance international cooperation in the Arctic and the inclusion of Arctic Indigenous peoples in decision making for the region. The?Arctic and International Relations Series?includes publications, video interviews, and podcasts, educating and framing issues in understandable ways.

Looking for more?

Check out UWAA’s Stronger Together web page for?more digital engagement opportunities.

Here’s a quick look at a few such UW-created podcasts, from benevolent marketing to Arctic geopolitics — and a classics professor’s work being featured in a podcast produced by the Times Literary Supplement.

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EarthLab / 91探花Tacoma
Hosted by , associate professor, 91探花Tacoma Nursing and Healthcare Leadership Program.

“What do people think about environmental challenges? And what do they do every day to survive those challenges? We explore these questions in this podcast series,” say co-principal investigators Evans-Agnew and , urban ecologist and assistant professor in 91探花Tacoma’s School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences.

Beginning in 2019 and continuing earlier this year, this team of 91探花Tacoma professors and students asked people in Tacoma and the South Sound to fill out postcards with their own answers to those questions.

“We stood in the street, behind booths, in the sunshine and the rain … We chose places where we wouldn’t necessarily find the sort of people who already had a voice,” the researchers wrote. The team gathered about 1,000 postcards in all, and those responses are the subject of the podcasts.

Each podcast presents selections from the postcards, and the researchers also discuss their experiences. One episode features 91探花Tacoma plastics researcher and geoscience lecturer .

Evans-Agnew said the team plans a second series of the podcast that will focus on COVID-19, environment justice and police oppression issues.

“I also do not want to lose sight of the continued — and quiet roll-backs of environmental policy that are occurring in the shadows of this unrest,” Evans-Agnes said. “It is the untold story of this time.”

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Written and hosted by , senior lecturer, 91探花Bothell School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences.

“This podcast explores the emotional burden of climate change,” writes Atkinson, “and why despair leaves so many people unable to respond to our existential threat.”

The fourth episode, “Coping with Climate Despair in Four Steps,” outlines strategies to “beat the climate blues and become an agent of change.” Atkinson’s research focus is the environmental humanities and her teaching explores intersections between environmental studies and American culture and literature.

Atkinson added: “Meanwhile, frontline communities — particularly people of color, indigenous communities, and other historically-marginalized groups — are experiencing the heaviest mental health impacts of climate disruption and displacement. This series introduces ways to move from despair to action by addressing the psychological roots of our unprecedented ecological loss.”

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Hosted and produced by the Canadian Studies Center,
Jackson School of International Studies.

The inaugural 45-minute episode of this occasional podcast series features political science doctoral student

interviewing , former two-term premier of the Yukon Territory and the Jackson School’s 2013-14 Fulbright Canada Chair in Arctic studies.

The interview focuses on Penikett’s 2018 book “.” Publisher’s notes say the book explores the nature of a new “Northern consciousness” or “Arctic identity” beyond pop culture stereotypes that “fail to capture northern realities.”

Ahlness is a 2020-2021 Foreign Language and Area Studies fellow in Inuktitut with the Canadian Studies Center, which produces the podcast with the Jackson School’s International Policy Institute and Center for Global Studies.

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Hosted by , senior lecturer in the and co-director of the .

“Marketing can be a force for good,” says Mills Barnhart, but it can also be “complicated, confusing and downright nerve-wracking.” Her podcast seeks to bring clarity to marketing chaos. “I talk about how you can think about marketing differently so you can do marketing differently with less stress and more joy.”

Mills Barnhart has produced the podcast weekly since April, with 1,500 downloads so far. Most episodes are a half-hour to an hour in length and have featured interviews with the UW’s of the Department of Communication and of the Evans School.

“Whether you work for a for-profit corporation or a nonprofit organization,” Mills Barnhart writes, “if you’re out to make the world a better place, this podcast will give you the insight and inspiration you need to market your mission with clarity and confidence.”

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Times Literary Supplement podcast discusses book by 91探花classics professor Sarah Levin-Richardson

A book by , 91探花professor of classics, was the subject of a recent podcast by the Times Literary Supplement, a publication of the Sunday Times of London. The book is “,” published by Cambridge University Press in 2019.

The podcast series is called “Freedom, Books, Flowers & the Moon” and the episode about Levin-Richardson’s book, featuring Rebecca Langlands of the University of Exeter is “.” Langlands also published a of the book.

Read more on the Department of Classics’ , and listen to the podcast either or downloadable from .

A teacher discusses respectful world travel, a historian explores Silicon Valley’s evolution, a professor and violist plays the music of Robert Schumann and a late English faculty member’s meditation on Seattle returns …

Here’s a quick look at some gift-worthy books and music created by 91探花faculty in the last year — and a reminder of some recent favorites.

O’Mara’s ‘Code’: History professor Margaret O’Mara provides a sweeping history of California’s computer industry titans in her book “,” published by Penguin Press. Publishers Weekly wrote: “O’Mara’s extraordinarily comprehensive history is a must-read for anyone interested in how a one-horse town birthed a revolution that has shifted the course of modern civilization.” The New York Times called it an “accessible yet sophisticated chronicle.” ? for a 2020 Pacific Northwest Book Award.

Seattle stories: 91探花 Press is republishing 91探花English professor ‘s well-loved 1976 reflections on his city, its history and its possible futures, “.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly called the book “an exhilarating critique of Seattle’s birth, growth, sickness, health, promise and fulfillment. Any serious student of Seattle or of recent urban history will now read Roger Sale, and with good reason.” Sale, who taught at the 91探花for decades, died in 2017. The new edition has an introduction by Seattle writer Knute Berger.

Mindful travel: How can travelers respectfully explore cultures with lower incomes, different cultural patterns and far fewer luxuries? Anu Taranath, lecturer in English and the Comparative History of Ideas program, explores such questions in “,” published by Between the Lines. Taranath has led student trip to India, Mexico and other locations. “Mindful travel in an unequal world,” she says, is about “paying attention, and noticing positionality in relation to each other. It’s about understanding that we are all living in a much longer history that has put us in different positions of advantage and disadvantage, and equipped us with very few tools to talk about it.”

Salish Sea fishes: , curator emeritus of fishes at the Burke Museum and a professor emeritus of aquatic and fishery sciences, teamed with James Orr of the Alaska Fisheries Center for “,” the first-ever documenting of all the known species of fishes that live in the Salish Sea. Published by 91探花Press, this three-volume set represents the culmination of 40 years of work and features striking illustrations by and details about 260 species of fish, complete with the ecology and life history of each species.

Watras plays Schumann: , professor of viola, offers new music and a masterwork by composer in “Schumann Resonances,” a CD released on Seattle’s Planet M Records. Schumann’s is the centerpiece and artistic jumping-off point for the CD, which is inspired by fairy tales and folklore, and features 91探花faculty colleagues and . The music and culture blog An Earful wrote: “Besides having a burnished tone and monster technique, violist Watras has a gift for contextualizing the music of the past … with ‘Schumann Resonances,’ Watras continues to prove herself a curator, performer and composer of unique abilities.”

Solo cello, Icelandic composers: Assistant professor of music and cellist has a new release on the Sono Luminus label titled “,” which features music for solo cello by several Icelandic composers and a return to an earlier composition, “Solitaire.” In liner notes, writes: “This project is a compilation of pieces by composers that not only share my mother-tongue and culture, in language and music, but also bring their unique perspective and expression in their compositions … I couldn’t have asked for more generous artists to come into my life and allow me to explore my voice through their music.”

Fanfiction examined: Fan fiction has exploded in popularity in recent years. In their book, “,” and examine fanfiction writers and repositories and the novel ways young people support and learn from each other through participation in online fanfiction communities. Davis is an associate professor in the 91探花; Aragon is a professor in the . Published by MIT Press.

Here are a few other notable 2019 titles from 91探花Press.

Seawomen, Icelandic waters: “ by Margaret Willson, affiliate professor of anthropology and a faculty member in the Canadian Studies Center has been released in a paperback edition. The book, first published in 2016, was a finalist for a Washington State Book Award.

Asian American voices: A new, third edition of “,” published in 1974 and co-edited by , 91探花professor of English. The New York Times Book Review : “The stories are … strewn with new insights buried in the flesh of the narrative; they illuminate areas of darkness in the hidden experiences of a people who had been little more than exotic figments of someone else’s imagination.”

Haag remembered: A paperback edition of “,” which explores the career of the founder of the 91探花Department of Landscape Architecture, best known in Seattle for his . Written by 91探花architecture professor , who said Haag’s legacy is found in the places he designed, which “inspire students to think beyond what they know … they ignite civic engagement and public service, for Rich’s most important work was in the public realm.”

Staff discounts: 91探花Press is offering a 40% discount on all titles during the holidays. Staff and faculty get a 10% discount year-round when ordering through their website using the code WUWE.

• Joanne De Pue, School of Music communications director, assisted with this story.

91探花Notebook is a section of the 91探花News site dedicated to telling stories of the good work done by faculty and staff at the 91探花. Read all posts here.

The blog series began publication July 5 and will continue through Sept. 7 at the World Policy Institute’s website. The first of the student pieces, by Brandon Ray, has been .

Kicking off the series was a piece by , managing director of the 91探花Canadian Studies Center and lead for the Arctic Fellows Initiative in the Jackson School, with Jackson School lecturer and independent scholar Eric Finke, on “.”

Essays by fellows in the International Policy Institute and their topics and dates are as follows.

July 6: “Is the Arctic Council Still a Visionary Leader?” by

July 10: “Is the U.S. Ready for an Arctic Oil Spill?” by

July 17: “Bonanza Denied – the Double-Edged Sword of Arctic Development,”
by

July 24: “Protecting the Polar Seaways,” by

July 26: “The Ripple Effect — Downstream of the 66^th Parallel,” by
Aug. 2: “Breaking the Ice for Indigenous Voices on the World Stage,” by

Aug. 7: “No No Gain for Indigenous Groups,” by
Aug. 9: “Ships and Ice Don’t Mix,” by

Aug. 16: “Stronger Together: Weaving Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science,” by
Aug. 21: “An Emerging Voice: The Arctic Council Could Lead in Right to Water,” by

Aug. 30: “#SomethingHasToBeSaid: Angry Inuk’s Direct Yet Gentle Crusade,” by

Sept. 6: “Who Needs the Arctic Council Anyhow? Quebec’s Arctic Leadership,” by

Sept. 7: “Asian Tiger Meets the Polar Bear,” by

The Jackson School’s International Policy Institute is funded by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, with the of better connecting higher education research and expertise with the policy world in the area of global affairs.

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To learn more about the Arctic Fellows Initiative, contact Nadine Fabbi at 206-543-6269 or nfabbi@uw.edu.