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”?()

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 ?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.

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 “rescue the dead” (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 — such as attentional biases toward aversive cues, distorted expectations of negative events, and biased interpretations of ambiguity — 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?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 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 |

April 15, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Thomson Hall

The 91探花Japan Studies Program invites Dr. Charles T. McClean to explore why young politicians are so rare in Japan. Young people in Japan are considerably underrepresented in the country’s political institutions, leaving decision-making mostly in the hands of older politicians. This may have profound consequences for the structuring of welfare policies in Japan, which faces a declining birth rate and a rapidly aging population.

Free |

April 16, 1:00 – 2:30 pm | ?Kane Hall

April 16, 7:30 pm | ?Meany Hall

April 18, 5:15 – 6:45 pm | Henry Art Gallery

April 18, 7:00 – 9:00 pm | Kane Hall

Mihri Hatun (d. circa 1512) was the first Ottoman woman whose poetry was collected during her lifetime and is still intact in four manuscript copies. The way she is registered in intellectual history vis-à-vis her own writing reveal not only her story in the male-dominated intellectual circles, but also the performative nature of the intellectual world.

Associate Professor at Duke University, Didem Havlioglu will discuss Mihri’s unapologetically marginal voice as a way to understand the physical and discursive contours of the Ottoman intellectual world.

Free |?

April 18, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

Internationally recognized as one of today’s most acclaimed and admired pianists, Yefim Bronfman is known for his exceptional lyrical gifts backed by a commanding technique. Widely praised for his solo, chamber, and orchestral recordings, Bronfman has won multiple Grammy awards, the Avery Fisher Prize and has a prolific catalog of recordings and illustrious collaborations. His return to Meany features a program of piano sonatas by Schubert, Chopin, and Prokofiev, plus Schumann’s celebration of Carnival, Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26.

April 19, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm | Communications Building

Join the?Translation Studies Hub for two presentations. Jang Wook Huh will speak on “American Sentimentalism and the Translation of ‘Race’ in Korea.” He will examine how translation facilitated the migration of Western notions of Blackness to Korea at the turn of the twentieth century.

The second workshop is led by Aria Fani and Maxine Savage on “How to Edit a Work of Translation?”, highlighting their approaches to editing poetry in translation. The two will focus on two poems to ground their discussion.

Free |

April 19, 12:00 – 1:30 pm | Gowen Hall

The Department of Political Science invites Dr. Gary Machlis, Clemson University’s Professor of Environmental Sustainability, to speak on “The Imperative Challenges of Sustainability for the Forgotten.”

Free |

April 19, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Gowen Hall

Join the Department of History for a talk and discussion with Waleed Salem, Graduate Student in the Department of Political Science at the 91探花, and faculty discussant George Lovell, 91探花 Political Science?Department.

Free |

April 21, 3:00 – 4:30 pm | ?Henry Art Gallery ??

Inspired by the process of regeneration and rebirth embodied in??currently on view at the Henry, we will conjure the power and possibilities of imminent failure in an experimental combination of poetry craft talk, courageous conversation, community freestyle, improv music, and facilitated dialogue.

Free |

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

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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)

January 18 – February 15, 7:30 PM |, Kane Hall

The medieval period has always occupied a paradoxical position in our cultural memory. An age of fantasy unimaginably distant from historical reality, it is also an era onto which writers and artists—and now moviemakers and gamers—have long projected their fears and desires. Why do cultures remake certain figures from the past—but not others–in their own image?

Join Professor Emerita Robin Stacey for this five-lecture series where she looks at the present’s relationship with the past through the lens of the making and remaking of important historical figures—some real, some fictional, and some the creatures of myth.

Free |

New Exhibition: , Henry Art Gallery

February 3, 7 – 9 pm |

Thick as Mud explores how mud animates relationships between people and place, with works by an international roster of artists. Across multiple geographies and a range of aesthetic approaches—from figurative clay sculpture to audio recordings of the swamp—these artists engage mud as a material or subject that shapes personal and collective histories, memory, and imagination.

Free |

February 8, 5:30 PM | , Communication 120

This talk considers how theatre—like television and photography—was vital to the cultural and political fronts of the Civil Rights Movement. It explores how black artists and activists used theatre to stage a radical challenge to a violent racial project that I call black patience—a project that has historically delayed black freedom as a means of reinforcing anti-blackness and white supremacy. Mounting plays like Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, these cultural workers used theatre to demand “freedom now.” In exploring theatre’s intervention into the violent cultures of black patience, this talk foregrounds the centrality of race to theories of ephemerality and disappearance in performance studies scholarship.

Free |

February 9 – 11, 8 PM | ,?Meany Hall

Driven by the artistic vision of mother-daughters Ranee Ramaswamy, Aparna Ramaswamy (Artistic Directors) and Ashwini Ramaswamy (Choreographic Associate), Ragamala Dance Company is committed to the idea that while history is time bound, the stories we share are timeless. Rooted in the South Indian dance form of Bharatanatyam, Ragamala’s work is expansive – extending beyond the stage to embody their immigrant experiences and show a kindred relationship between ancient and contemporary within today’s world.

$48 tickets |

February 9, 6 PM | , Nordic Museum

The ever-popular Scand30 series returns with a twist! During the month of sweethearts and heartaches, join Olivia Gunn, Associate Professor in the Department of Scandinavian Studies, as she explores the practicalities of pairing off in modern Norway.

Co-presented with the?91探花’s Department of Scandinavian Studies, this latest iteration of our popular Scand30 series?uses one object in the Museum’s collection as a point of departure for the speaker’s topic. These short, snappy talks are delivered by 91探花 faculty and reflect current research. A light reception will follow the presentation.

Free |

February 10, 10:45 AM | Online

Gregg Colburn, Assistant Professor of Real Estate, and Emily Levesque, Associate Professor of Astronomy, will welcome NASA Astronaut Josh Cassada, LIVE from the International Space Station.

The highlight of this Friday in Space will be a 20-minute downlink with astronaut Cassada, currently stationed on the ISS. A downlink affords participants on Earth to see video and hear audio from the ISS, while the astronaut will have audio only from Earth’s side of the conversation. During the downlink, 91探花students, moderated by Prof. Colburn, will have the chance to ask questions directly of astronaut Cassada.

Free |

February 10, 4 PM |,?Communication 206

Celebrate the launch of Going Public, a podcast dedicated to exploring public scholarship and publicly-engaged teaching in the humanities. From 2015-2022, two successive Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded grant initiatives under the name Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics supported public scholars at the 91探花. The Going Public podcast showcases the public-facing graduate seminars and doctoral student projects made possible by this generous support.

At this special event, you’ll be able to independently listen to clips of the podcast and explore the Reimagining the PhD digital archive of graduate seminar syllabi and doctoral student projects. You’ll have a chance to learn more about public-facing scholarship and teaching at the 91探花 from many people who have been involved in the Reimagining the Humanities PhD program and talk with podcast host and co-producer Annie Dwyer about her vision for the Going Public project.

Free |

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

Highlights of current and upcoming exhibitions:?

Until October 29 |, SOIL Art Gallery (Pioneer Square)

October 27 – November 23 | / November 2, 5 – 8 PM: , Art Building

November 6 – April 16 | , Burke Museum?(Free admission for 91探花students, faculty and staff)

Until January 8 | , Henry Art Gallery (Free admission for 91探花students, faculty and staff)

October 24, 6 PM | , Kane Hall

You know when you get that unexpected text asking you to add something big to your already enormous to-do list, you start to feel sweaty palms and that empty, freaked-out sensation in your stomach? Then you know, it’s back again….. Anxiety. But what if anxiety isn’t always a bad thing? What if, by using tools from neuroscience and psychology, you could learn to turn down the volume on your anxiety and transform all that activation energy that’s making your mind race into something that’s actually helpful? That jiu-jitsu move of transforming anxiety into something productive and helpful is the topic of Dr. Suzuki’s talk.

Free |

October 25, 1:30 PM | , Online

This panel confronts the question of whether the globally affluent have a moral obligation, either individually or collectively, to reduce their flying in view of the large carbon emissions associated with individual plane trips. We also raise the question of whether academic associations, universities, and departments ought morally to reduce the combined professional air travel currently entailed by their activities. The panelists will present diverse and sometimes conflicting perspectives on these questions and will raise related issues of accessibility, expense, and professional advancement.

Free |

October 27 – 29, 8 PM| , Meany Center

In this newest work by choreographer Abby Zbikowski, dancers of the New Utility dive head-on into the unknown, exploring complex movement that upends expectations. Radioactive Practice embodies the cultural collisions of contemporary living, testing the group’s own mental and physical limits with a hard-wiring for survival. Using movement traditions inspired by street and postmodern dance, contemporary African forms, tap, martial arts and sports, Abby Z shatters established assumptions through an arsenal of physical possibility.

91探花Faculty, 91探花Staff, 91探花Retirees and 91探花Alumni Association (UWAA):?, subject to availability. A valid 91探花ID (e.g. Husky card or UWAA card) is required; limit of one ticket per valid ID |

October 27, 7 PM | , 91探花Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center and Theater?

“RIT” is a musical program featuring the poetry of Norwegian poet Olav H. Hauge as performed by Norwegian artists Reidun Horvei (voice) and Inger-Kristine Riber (keyboard and composition). The poems in this song cycle follow the seasons of the year at the same time that they mark developments in Hauge’s poetry and in his personal life.

Free |

October 27, 10:30 AM |, online

Featured guest speakers:

• Wendy R. Sherman, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
• Nathaniel C. Fick, U.S. Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy
• Sara Curran, (Moderator) Professor of International Studies, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, 91探花

Free |

, online

What did it mean to be a Jewish minority in an Arab-Islamic society? How did Judaism shape Islam and vice versa? What is the future of Jewish-Arab relations?

Today, Jews and Arabs sometimes seem to be entrenched in a timeless conflict. But for centuries, over 90% of the world’s Jews lived, worked, and thrived (or sometimes floundered) in the Arab

Near East.

In four talks from scholars drawing on their original research, this series will explore interactions between Jews and Arabs across fifteen hundred years of history.

• October 26, 4 PM | Lecture 2. The Jews of Medieval Baghdad in the Abbasid Era
• November 2, 3 PM | Lecture 3. Jews and Muslims in Colonial Algeria: Between Intimacy and Resentment
• November 10, 3 PM | Coffeehouses, Parks, and Neighborhoods: Jews and Muslims
  in 20th-Century Cairo

Free |

Autumn Quarter:

The College of Arts & Sciences is launching its initiative by inviting students, faculty, and staff to join a campus-wide reading experience, followed by conversations about how we can enhance teaching and learning at the 91探花.

(in person or Zoom).

2022 Awards of Excellence recipients?

June 9, 3:30 – 5:30 PM | Meany Hall

This year’s?Awards of Excellence?recipients are being recognized for achievements in teaching, mentoring, public service and staff support.?

The winners will be honored from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. on June 9 at the?Meany Hall for the Performing Arts. The 91探花community?and the general public are encouraged to attend.?The program includes a one-hour ceremony hosted by President Ana Mari Cauce and Provost Mark Richards, followed by a reception with hors d’oeuvres, desserts, a photo booth and a chance to connect and celebrate with your team members and the rest of the 91探花community.?

Free | More info

Undergraduate Design Show

June 8 -18 |

Free |

Undergraduate Composers Concert

June 7, 6:30 PM |

Free |

Crossing North Podcast

View at your leisure |

Crossing North?is a podcast about Nordic and Baltic society and culture. Episodes feature interviews with authors, performers, and leaders from Scandinavia and the Baltic, as well as discussions with faculty in the Scandinavian Studies Department and Baltic Studies Program.?Crossing North?is produced and hosted by Colin Gioia Connors, lecturer of Scandinavian Studies, with Kristian N?sby, visiting lecturer of Danish.

(Re)Defining American Labor Lecture Archive

View at your leisure |?

The?UWT Labor Solidarity Project?presents recordings of a past weekly seminar that adopted an intersectional approach while exploring the recent histories of the regional, national, and global labor movements. Each recording features a presentation and discussion facilitated by a leading voice in mapping the trajectory of labor activism and scholarship.