Come curious. Leave inspired.

The 91探花offers an exciting lineup of in-person and online events. From thought-provoking art and music to conversations on culture, history, and science, the 91探花community invites you to explore, learn, and connect across disciplines throughout the University.

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ArtSci On Your Own Time

Exhibition | 听(School of Art + Art History + Design)
Death is a fundamental first step toward rebirth鈥攂ut this transition can feel daunting without a compassionate guide. In The Book of Zero, our 2026 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident indira allegra presents a multimedia, meditative experience shaped by their research into doula work, death care, and the cyclical nature of bodies and environments. Free.

Recorded Lectures | 听(History)
Incarceration is a hotly debated topic in the United States, a country that has one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world. Looking at the practice from a historical perspective, what can incarceration teach us about who we were and who we are now? What might histories of incarceration, and the histories of those who have been incarcerated, tell us about power dynamics, belonging, exclusion, struggle, and hope across societies in the past and present? The 2026 History Lecture Series explores the practice of incarceration, tracing its change over time from antiquity to our modern world. Recordings are available online. Free.

Recorded Lectures | 听(American Indian Studies)
People come together to share knowledge on topics such as traditional foods, plants and medicines; environmental and food justice; food sovereignty/security; health and wellness; and treaty rights. Indigenous peoples in the Northwest have maintained a sustainable way of life through a cultural, spiritual, and reciprocal relationship with their environment. This symposium serves to foster dialogue and build collaborative networks as we, Native peoples, strive to sustain our cultural food practices and preserve our healthy relationships to the land, water, and all living things. Save the date:

Book Club | Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka听( 91探花Alumni)
Readers鈥� Choice! A mix of mystery and political satire, this novel takes aim at corruption in modern Nigeria. Two old friends decide to investigate a local cartel that traffics in human body parts. But in a country where religious charlatans and dishonest officials abound, can they trust anyone in their search? Free.

Week of March 2

February 26 – March 1 | (Dance)
Presenting seven original student-choreographed works. This platform gives students the opportunity to express their creative voices through choreography and costume design, as well as collaborating with lighting designers and mentors.

March 2 | (School of Music)
The Campus Band (Solomon Encina, conductor) and Concert Band (Yuman Wu, conductor) present their Winter Quarter concert, performing music by Julie Giroux, John Philip Sousa, Percy Grainger, Johan de Meij, Frank Ticheli, Aaron Perrine, and others.

Online – March 2 | 听(Jackson School of International Studies)
Presented by Kelly McGannon, current World Affairs Council Fellow, and Jeff Hovenier, U.S. Ambassador (ret.). Trump in the World 2.0 is an online series of talks and discussions featuring guest speakers and faculty exploring global perspectives on a second Trump administration. Free.

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March 3 | (School of Music)
Winter Quarter Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Ram贸n Gutierrez hails from Xalapa, Veracruz in Mexico and specializes in playing the requinto (a small melodic guitar). He is the leader of the group Son de Madera, and has performed and recorded with musicians in other traditions, including the Chicano rock band Quetzal from Los Angeles and Antonio Corona, a performer of early music in Mexico. In this concert concluding his 91探花residency, he performs music from the Son Jarocho tradition with his 91探花students and special guests. Free.

March 3 | (School of Music)
The 91探花Chamber Singers and University Chorale collaborate with Seattle University Choirs (Leann Conley-Holcom, director) in performing Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard, a profound tale of discrimination, cruelty, death, yet with themes of hope.

Online option – March 4 |听Primary: Alma Thomas, Sisterhood, and the Revolutionary Quality of Light (Public Lectures)
Based on Alexis Pauline Gumbs鈥� forthcoming book of poetic indexes, this interactive poetic lecture explores the life, teaching, and artwork of color theorist Alma Thomas. Engaging themes of audience, intimacy, abstract expressionist art, and the dynamic relationship between Black women鈥檚 creativity and the process of being Earth, the lecture invites participants into a rhythmic dialogue of form, meaning, and presence. Free.

March 5 | 听(Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture)
Part of Burke鈥檚 Free First Thursday series, the museum opens its collections spaces from 4:30 to 7:30鈥疨M. Visitors can explore behind鈥憈he-scenes labs and storage, and speak with researchers, staff, and volunteers about their work.听Free.

Online – March 6 | (Jackson School of International Studies)
Raising The Black Star presents a historical restoration of Kwame Nkrumah鈥檚 contributions to the Pan-African movement, as well as the transnational nature of post-colonial Ghana鈥檚 nation-building process. Dr. McLeod鈥檚 richly-textured narrative highlights the startling and continued relevance of Pan-Africanism in both historical and contemporary discussions of transnational solidarities and visions of a completely liberated African continent. Free.

March 6 | (School of Music)
91探花Opera Workshop presents Melissa Dunphy’s 2023 opera Alice Tierney. With stage direction by Kelly Kitchens; music direction by Andrew Romanick. Commissioned by the Oberlin Opera Commissioning Program through the generosity of Elizabeth and Justus ’71 Schlichting, Melissa Dunphy’s opera Alice Tierney was premiered at Oberlin Conservatory in 2023, and at Opera Columbus in April 2023. Dunphy was one of seven winners of a 2020 OPERA America Discovery Grant, presented to female composers with the intention of increasing gender parity across the opera industry. That grant supported the development of Alice Tierney at Oberlin.

Online – March 6 | Palestine to Iraq with Adam Hanieh (Public Lectures)
Explore how World War I reshaped the Middle East. This lecture traces anti-colonial movements, Palestine鈥檚 pivotal role, and the shift from British to American power鈥攍inking regional upheaval to the global rise of fossil capitalism and reimagined imperial hierarchies. Free.

March 6 | (Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies)
Over the past five centuries, empires have used partition and division to justify and advance colonialism. We can see that the ongoing history of colonial rule and racial violence is exploding around the world today鈥攆rom Palestine to Minnesota and beyond. Scholars and activists gather to discuss anticolonial struggles, past and present. Free.

March 7 | (School of Music)
Emerging and established composers explore unconventional sonic landscapes in this concert of music by students, faculty, alumni, and guests of the 91探花Composition program. Free.

Week of March 9

Online – March 9 | 听(Jackson School of International Studies)
Presented by David Bachman, 91探花Professor, International Studies; James Lin, 91探花Associate Professor, International Studies and Taiwan historian; Tabitha Grace Mallory, Founder and CEO, China Ocean Institute; and Susan H. Whiting, 91探花Professor, Political Science. Trump in the World 2.0 is an online series of talks and discussions featuring guest speakers and faculty exploring global perspectives on a second Trump administration. Free.

March 10 | (School of Art + Art History + Design)
This year-long program series hopes to honor our commitment to social justice and to gather our community to think about the work of liberation through shared texts, art, film, music, conversation, and workshops. Unlike your traditional book club all the reading and study happens together, so no need to prepare. Join us monthly as we approach the topic of liberation from a number of perspectives. Free.

March 10 | (School of Music)
Students of John Popham present a chamber music showcase. Free.

March 10 | (School of Music)
The Modern Music Ensemble (Cristina Vald茅s, director) performs music by John Cage, Hilda Paredes, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Salvatore Sciarrino.

March 10 | (Stroum Center for Jewish Studies)
The short fiction collected in In the Shadow of the Holocaust, translated by Senderovich and Harriet Murav, recovers a range of compelling voices that had been scarcely known or translated, with particular emphasis on the work of women writers. Jewish authors from Ukraine, Lithuania, Russia, and Belarus鈥攕ome writing in Yiddish and others in Russian鈥攖ell stories of ordinary people living on after the massive devastation of the Holocaust on Soviet territory, depicting memory, conflict, love, and loss. Writers in this collection offer especially powerful perspectives on survival in the aftermath of genocide. These are not stories only about how people died, but about how they continued to live and make meaning. Free.

March 12 | (Communication)

Veteran reporter and editor Miranda Spivack discusses her new book, Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities鈥攁nd the Local Heroes Fighting Back (The New Press, May 6, 2025). In her book, Spivack shines a light on corruption close to home鈥攗ncovering how local governors, mayors, town councils, school boards, police, and prosecutors sometimes fail the very communities they serve. Through five eye-opening U.S. case studies, she introduces 鈥渁ccidental activists鈥濃�攐rdinary citizens who demanded answers when government officials failed to protect them. From car crashes and unsafe drinking water to faulty safety equipment, Spivack鈥檚 investigative reporting reveals the hidden deals, lies, and cover-ups that often keep communities in the dark鈥攁nd celebrates the local heroes who stand up for accountability and transparency.

March 12 | (Simpson Center for the Humanities)
Tonia Sutherland examines the consequences of digitally raising the dead. Attending to the violent deaths of Black Americans鈥揳nd the records that document them鈥揻rom slavery through the present, Sutherland explores media evidence, digital acts of remembering, and the rights and desires of humans to be forgotten. Free.

March 12 | (School of Music)
The Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band (Erin Bodnar, director) presents听Mystic Threads,听featuring music by Victoriano Valencia, Jodie Blackshaw, Reena Esmail, Florent Schmitt, Luigi Zaninelli, and others. With guest composer Simon Alami.

March 12 – 21 | (School of Drama)
For most of Sorrel鈥檚 high school career, she was friendless and quietly weird. She didn鈥檛 even seem to fit in with the geeky kids. When she turned seventeen, and late puberty produced a supermodel physique, she became seen as a 鈥渉ot dork鈥�. Bunny spans twenty years of Sorrel鈥檚 life. Unencumbered by the burden of shame, she journeys through the complex social expectations surrounding female sexuality. MFA student Ren Langer directs this intimate and thought-provoking play.

March 13 | (School of Music)
David Alexander Rahbee leads the 91探花Symphony in a program of music by Mieczyslaw Karlowicz and Sergei Prokofiev. Faculty violinist Rachel Lee Priday is featured soloist with the orchestra for Karlowicz’s Violin Concerto in A major, op. 8.

March 14 | (Meany Center for the Performing Arts)
Grammy-nominated violinist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird joins acclaimed jazz drummer and 91探花Professor Ted Poor for a night of genre-defying music. Blending elements of folk, jazz, classical and indie rock, their sound is adventurous and soulful. Bird鈥檚 signature whistling, looping and lyrical finesse meet Poor鈥檚 expressive, boundary-pushing rhythms.

Week of March 16

March 12 – March 21 | (School of Drama)
For most of Sorrel鈥檚 high school career, she was friendless and quietly weird. She didn鈥檛 even seem to fit in with the geeky kids. When she turned seventeen, and late puberty produced a supermodel physique, she became seen as a 鈥渉ot dork鈥�. Bunny spans twenty years of Sorrel鈥檚 life. Unencumbered by the burden of shame, she journeys through the complex social expectations surrounding female sexuality. MFA student, Ren, directs this intimate and thought-provoking play.

March 16 | (Chemistry)
Hemamala (Hema) Karunadasa is the J. G. Jackson and C. J. Wood Professor of Chemistry, and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, by courtesy, at Stanford University. She is a Faculty Scientist at the SLAC National Lab and a Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy. She received her A.B. from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from UC Berkeley, with postdoctoral training at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and at the California Institute of Technology. Her group uses solution-state methods for the self-assembly of solid-state materials, with an emphasis on halide perovskites and their derivatives. Her recent awards include the Brown Science Foundation Investigator award (2022) and the American Chemical Society Harry Gray award (2020) and the Inorganic Lectureship (2022). She is an Associate Editor for听Chemical Science (Royal Chemical Society).听Free.

March 16 | (Jackson School of International Studies)
What can one neighborhood reveal about the making of a modern nation? This talk deciphers the unexpected significance of Xita, a half-square-mile quarter in Shenyang, in Northeast China. It shows that over nearly four centuries, Xita has been shaped and reshaped by empire, war, migration, and urban transformation. The history of this small area mirrors large-scale changes, including and especially China鈥檚 metamorphosis from a multi-ethnic Eurasian empire to a postindustrial society. By studying how global and local forces play out in everyday spaces, the talk reveals a perspective for understanding China鈥檚 past鈥攏ot from the top down, but through the streets and people who lived it. Free.

March 18 | (Psychology)
This lecture is made possible in part by a generous endowment from Professor Allen L. Edwards. The event will conclude with a Q&A session followed by a reception. Hosted by Sheri Mizumori. Free.

March 19 | (Meany Center for the Performing Arts)
Known for his phenomenal technique and ravishing tone, German virtuoso Augustin Hadelich is one of the most celebrated violinists of our time. His musical partner, the Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi, performs with sensitivity and poetry combined with power and brilliance. Together, they embark on an evening of mostly French music, from Rameau and Poulenc to Franck, Debussy and Kurt谩g.

March 31 | 听(College of Education)
EduTalks brings together educators, researchers and community leaders to share bold ideas shaping the future of education. In just five minutes 鈥� and with a single powerful image 鈥� each presenter explores innovative approaches to today鈥檚 most pressing challenges. In the College of Education, we’re “solving for x,” taking inspiration from high school algebra to step into the complicated, often uncertain challenges in education with imagination and heart. In math, x represents the unknown. In education, it symbolizes the complex questions we face as we strive for a more just, equitable and joyful future for all learners. Solving for these challenges takes imagination, persistence and, above all, community. Free.

ArtSci Roundup goes monthly!

The ArtSci Roundup is your guide to connecting with the UW鈥攚hether in person, on campus, or on your couch.

Previously shared on a quarterly basis, those who sign up for the Roundup email will receive them monthly, delivering timely updates and engaging content wherever you are. Check the roundup regularly, as events are added throughout the month. Make sure to check out the ArtSci On Your Own Time section for everything from podcasts to videos to exhibitions that can be enjoyed when it works for you!

In addition, if you like the ArtSci Roundup, sign up to receive a monthly notice when it’s been published.

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

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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 November.

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

The Jackson School of International Studies invites Research Scholar Kim Brandt, Columbia University, to discuss the significance of the Hiroshima Maidens.

“Hiroshima Maidens鈥� loosely translates to “genbaku otome”, a phrase used to refer to young women who were scarred by injuries during the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ten years later, 25 such women were flown to New York to undergo extensive reconstructive surgery. The 鈥淢aidens鈥� received wide publicity in the U.S. and Japan, where the story resonated with growing anxiety about nuclear weapons, public fascination with new forms of beauty culture, and the potential of postwar technology.

Free |

April 23 – May 3 | Jacob Lawrence Gallery

April 24, 4:00 – 5:30 pm | Communications Building

April 24 – May 28 | Allen Library North Lobby

In partnership with the听, the 91探花Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program welcomes everyone to celebrate Taiwan鈥檚 pop music through the 鈥淢usic, Island, Stories: Taiwan Calling!鈥� pop-up exhibition on the 91探花campus.

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April 25, 3:00 – 4:30 pm | Husky Union Building

Join The Jackson School of International Studies for Modern Abortion Around the World, a panel discussion on the history of abortion in Bolivia, China, Kenya, South Asia, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands over the past 60 years, and听what those histories reveal about technopolitical developments, reproductive governance, and transnational social movements.

April 25, 5:30 – 7:00 pm | Kane Hall

The 2024 Griffith and Patricia Way Lecture will interrogate two sets of fourteenth-century hell paintings owned by the temples Gokurakuji in Hy艒go Prefecture and Konkaik艒my艒ji in Kyoto, which both posit the possibility of early escape from the infernal realms, albeit in seemingly contradictory ways. This talk will uncover the ways people in premodern Japan transformed hell from a place solely retributive in nature into one that had liberating powers.

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April 25, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

The 91探花Wind Ensemble, led by Director Timothy Salzman, and Symphonic Band, led by Director Shaun Day, present 鈥淪potlight,鈥� performing music by Nancy Galbraith, Michael Daugherty, Henk Badings, and others. This performance features winners of the 2024 Winds Concerto Competition: Devin Foster (tuba), Kelly Hou (harp), and Cole Henslee (tuba).

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April 26, 12:00 – 1:30 pm | Suzzallo Library

Guest speaker Dr. Melvin Rogers, professor of political science at Brown University, is invited to speak about “The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought.”

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April 26, 3:30 pm | Denny Hall or Online via Zoom

The Department of Classics invites Glynnis Fawkes, cartoonist and archaeological illustrator, who will analyze the way a cartoonist adapts history. Fawkes will specifically look into Eric H. Cline’s 1177BC: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed? to describe the process of interpreting Cline’s text in comic, an exercise where Fawkes repeatedly asks: how might she tell this story visually, and how can she put Eric鈥檚 words into the mouths of characters involved in the story?

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April 26, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | 听Smith Hall

Dr. Keston K Perry, who researches race, reparations, and climate change for the University of California, Los Angeles Department of African American Studies, is invited to speak for the Geography Colloquium on 鈥淏eyond Repair? The Crisis of Ecological Imperialism and Reparative Ecologies in the Caribbean.鈥�

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April 26, 7:30 pm | 听Meany Hall

David Alexander Rahbee conducts the 91探花Symphony and winners of the 91探花Concerto Competition鈥擪ai-En Cheng, violin; Rachel Reyes, flute; and Ella Kalinichenko, piano鈥攊n a program including winning concerto excerpts. This performance will feature a 91探花student composition by graduate student Yonatan Ron, Silvestre Revueltas’s Sensemay谩, and Overture to Le roi d’Ys,听by听脡duard Lalo. 听听

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April 27, 7:30 pm | 听Meany Hall

Renowned bassist Todd Sickafoose headlines this special performance as a part of the 2024 Improvised Music Project Festival (IMPFEST). Sickafoose will be performing sets with 91探花Jazz Studies students and 91探花faculty Cuong Vu, trumpet, Ted Poor, drums, and Steve Rodby, bass.

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Henry Art Galleries Events

January 4, 5:30 – 7:00pm | Auditorium

January 11, 5:30 – 7:00 pm | 听Auditorium

January 12, 3:00 – 4:00 pm | Education Studio

January 13, 3:00 – 4:00 pm | Education Studio

Through January 14 | Upper Level Galleries

Through January 14 | Upper Level Galleries

January 9, 6:30 – 7:30 pm | Online

The Department of Comparative History of Ideas invites Alice Wong, disabled activist and writer, to address topics on raising the visibility of disabled people through her book: 鈥淵ear of the Tiger: An Activist鈥檚 Life.鈥�

Alice Wong (she/her) is a disabled activist, writer, media maker, and consultant. She is the founder and director of the听Disability Visibility Project, an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture created in 2014.

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January 9 – 27 | Jacob Lawrence Gallery

Here in the dark weeks, the School of Art + Art History + Design has invited a mix of artists to bring some light in. Through animation and lightbox, by mechanical means and historical exploration, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery will be hosting several beacons to visit with while the days start growing longer again.

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January 9, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

Faculty artist Ted Poor continues his exploration of the drum set with an evening of solo performances. This concert will show the drum’s versatility.

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January 10, 7:30 pm | 听Husky Union Building

The Simpson Center for the Humanities invites Dorothy Roberts to discuss the implications of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health.听

Dorothy Roberts听is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, with joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the Law School, where she is the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. She is also founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science & Society.

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HISTORY LECTURE SERIES | Seattle and the Salish Sea: Building and Belonging听

January 10, 7:00 pm | Kane Hall

January 17, 7:00 pm | Kane Hall

January 24, 7:00 pm | 听Kane Hall

January 31, 7:00 pm | Kane Hall

February 7, 7:00 pm | Kane Hall

All lectures will be recorded and made available in the

January 11, 3:00 – 6:00 pm | 听Husky Union Building Lyceum

Join the Center for Anti-Racism & Community Health for an interdisciplinary panel discussion with Professor Dorothy Roberts. Panelists will discuss the impacts of Roberts’ scholarship across law, public policy, medical ethics, nursing, and sociology.

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January 12, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

Artist-in-Residence Tekla Cunningham and guest pianist Sheila Weidendorf presents “Between Heaven and Earth: A Year with Brahms,鈥� a performance of the Brahms violin sonatas.听

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January 13, 8:00 am – 9:00 pm | Husky Union Building

The one-day conference, consciously scheduled for the Saturday before MLK Day, will begin with a series of roundtables and panels featuring scholars and activists to present on and discuss the Black Radical Tradition in honor of Jack O鈥橠ell鈥檚 life and work.

Jack O鈥橠ell (1923-2019) was a visionary intellectual and an astute organizer who helped shape the course of the Black freedom movement in the second half of the twentieth century.

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January 15, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm | Northwest African American Museum

The Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity (CCDE) will host its first Interrupting Privilege Museum Exhibition featuring an immersive mixed-media exhibit. Attendees will learn the history and methodology of Interrupting Privilege and get the unique opportunity to listen to recorded dialogues from the Interrupting Privilege catalog to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

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November 13, 3:00 – 4:30pm | Online

In this Diversity Lecture Series, Denova Collaborative Health’s executive director, Angela Roumain, will explore the maternal rate of illness and rate of death in the United States, including health complications and harmful outcomes that can occur during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum. Poor maternal health outcomes affects Black and Indigenous women and women of color significantly more, and Roumain will highlight this stark and deeply rooted problem in the United States’ healthcare system.

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November 13, 3:30 – 5:00pm | Communications Building

The Simpson Center for the Humanities presents the AI, Creativity, and the Humanities Workshop. The workshop offers a hands-on, technical introduction to large language models (LLMs) for humanities researchers, led by Melanie Walsh, an Assistant Professor in the Information School and co-Principal Investigator of the National Endowment for the Humanities-funded AI for Humanists project, and Maria Antoniak, a Young Investigator at the Allen Institute for AI. Walsh and Antoniak will focus on building practical knowledge of (1) how these models work and how they are trained and (2) how practitioners can apply particularly for these models to humanistic texts.

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November 14, 5:30 – 7:00pm | 听Jacob Lawrence Gallery

Join the School of Art + Art History + Design to celebrate the official reopening of the Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Dedicated to Professor Jacob Lawrence, the gallery is a space for education, social justice, and experimentation, honoring the memory of one of the School鈥檚 most beloved faculty. The newly transformed gallery, now equipped with climate control, modern lighting, and new exhibition infrastructure, was made possible by the generous supporters of the 91探花Art + Music Capital Campaign.

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November 14, 6:30 – 8:00pm | Washington State Labor Council听

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November 15, 3:00 – 5:00pm | Communications Building

The Department of American Ethnic Studies is proud to sponsor a book talk at the Simpson Center with author Elmer Dixon. Rick Bonus, chair of the Department of American Ethnic studies and professor, will be speaking to Dixon about his new book: “Die Standing: From Black Panther Revolutionary to Global Diversity Consultant.”听Students and faculty in the Department of Ethnic Studies are encouraged to attend this event.

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November 16, 5:00 – 8:00pm | w菨色菨b蕯altx史 Intellectual House听

The Department of American Indian Studies hosts an annual literary and storytelling series, Sacred Breath, which 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campus. This year, Christopher B. Teuton (Cherokee Nation), professor and chair of the Department of American Indian Studies, and Tami Hohn (Puyallup), assistant teaching professor of the Department of Indian Studies, will be leading the event. 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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November 16, 6:00 – 7:00pm | Jacob Lawrence Gallery

The Jacob Lawrence Gallery presents What Do You Make of This? featuring the work of Kristine Matthews, Associate Professor of Design and Chair of the Visual Communication Design program at the 91探花School of Art + Art History + Design.

Free |听

November 16 – 18, 8:00 pm | 听Meany Hall

Inspired by the drawings and paintings of Francisco de Goya, Noche Flamenca鈥檚 new work references the artist鈥檚 response to the political turmoil and injustices of 18th and 19th century Spain, echoing conflict prevalent in contemporary time. Choreographed by artistic director Martin Santangelo and award-winning principal dancer Soledad Barrio, Searching for Goya features a company of dancers, singers, and musicians whose mastery of flamenco stretches the boundaries of the art form to a journey through Goya鈥檚 imagination.

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November 16, 7:00 – 8:30pm | Thomson Hall

The Stroum Center celebrates its 50th anniversary with a discussion on how putting mothers at the center of Jewish history can provide unexpected insights and startlingly unfamiliar perspectives. From ancient biblical narratives to cutting-edge genomic research, author Cynthia Baker will point out how this is especially true in relation to issues of race/ethnicity and its entanglements with gender, religion, and nationality.

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October – November | 鈥淲ays of Knowing鈥� Podcast: Episode 5

鈥淲ays of Knowing鈥� is an eight-episode podcast connecting humanities research with current events and issues. This week’s episode is with Jos茅 Alaniz, professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, analyzes the physical depictions of superheroes and villains through the decades.

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

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November 2, 7:30pm |Meany Hall听

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

$10 – $59 Tickets |

November 2 – 12 | 听Meany Hall

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

$10 – $20 Tickets |

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

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

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October – November | 鈥淲ays of Knowing鈥� Podcast: Episode 3

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

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

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October 12, 7:00 – 8:30pm | Husky Union Building

Rachel B. Gross, an expert on Judaism and American Jewish history, will open the conversation by addressing Yerushalmi鈥檚 influence on the field of Jewish Studies. Gross will give an overview of how and why she uses the term 鈥渘ostalgia鈥� to bridge what Yerushalmi sees as a division between Jewish history and memory.

This panel will be moderated by faculty member Nicolaas P. Barr (Comparative History of Ideas), who specializes in antisemitism, intellectual history, and modern Europe. Faculty member Jason Groves (German Studies), who specializes in memory studies in the context of ecology, will share his perspective as well.

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October 12 – 15 | , Meany Hall

The Chamber Dance Company returns to the Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater stage in October 2023. This year鈥檚 program celebrates a broad sweep of contemporary dance performed by world class artists, including Robert Moses鈥� Kin celebrated work, Speaking Ill of the Dead, and two sections from Doug Varone’s dynamic and moving dance, Possession. Completing the program are new works created by second year MFA students, Noel Price-Bracey, and Beth Twigs, that will be performed by company members with guests from the Department of Dance and Seattle鈥檚 professional dance community.

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October 13, 3:00 – 4:45pm | Allen Library

In conjunction with Tasveer South Asian Film Festival, the Film Screening of Tortoise Under the Earth explores the deeply intertwined connections between tribal communities and the forest that is their traditional home. Interweaving the vivid colors of their festivals, folk songs, and the sense of community that binds them together. The film utilizes a couple’s tragedy, expanding to reveal regional details, emphasizing the broader environmental crisis and human rights issues affecting the Santhal tribe, native people of India and Bangladesh who are threatened by uranium mining.

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October 13, 7:30pm | Brechemin Auditorium

Faculty pianist Marc Seales is joined by 91探花colleagues Ted Poor, drums, and Steve Rodby, bass, for a concert of original works by Seales, a Wayne Shorter tribute, and more.

Marc Seales is a noted pianist, composer, and leading figure in the Northwest jazz scene. He has shared stages with many of the great players of the last two decades and played with nearly every visiting jazz celebrity.

Beginning October 13 | Readers鈥� Choice: 鈥淕ilead鈥� by Marilynne Robinson, Online

Marilynne Robinson, 鈥�77, is one of the world鈥檚 premiere fiction writers. In 2023, the 91探花awarded her the Alumni Summa Laude Dignata Award 鈥� the highest award an alum can earn. In this Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, an Iowan preacher with a terminal illness writes a letter to his young child, chronicling his own life and that of his forefathers. This tender, meditative tale explores the accumulation of wisdom and the precious bonds between fathers and sons.

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October 13, 1:30 鈥� 2:50pm | 听Zoom

As the first ethnography of its kind, Weighing the Future examines the implications of ongoing pregnancy trials in the U.S. and United Kingdom, illuminating how processes of scientific knowledge production are linked to racism, capitalism, surveillance, and environmental reproduction. This groundbreaking book makes the case that science, and how we translate it, is a reproductive project that requires feminist vigilance. Instead of fixating on a future at risk, this book brings attention to the present at stake.

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October 16, 7:30pm | Brechemin Auditorium

Pianist Min Kwon shares selections from her ambitious America/Beautiful project, for which she commissioned variations on 鈥淎merica the Beautiful鈥� from 75 diverse American composers.

While some of us baked bread, sewed masks, or doom-scrolled through the latest 鈥淏reaking News,鈥� internationally-celebrated pianist, arts advocate and educator Min Kwon was busy Zooming with American composers, inviting them to come together and contribute their unique, individual talents鈥攖o create something altogether new.

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October 16, 3:30 鈥� 5:00pm | ,听Communications Building

This event is part of the AI, Creativity, and the Humanities project. 91探花Professor Emily M. Bender is one of the leading voices in both public and academic conversations about large language models (LLMs). In this discussion with Anna Preus and Melanie Walsh, Bender will specifically address how LLMs intersect with the humanities and those who care about them. She will discuss how LLMs work, what labor underlies them, and why 鈥淎I鈥� is a bad term.

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October 17, 6:30 鈥� 8:00pm |

In anticipation of the Reckoning with the Black Radical Tradition Conference in 2024 at the UW, the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies is hosting a reading group focused on the writings of Jack O’Dell.

Jack O鈥橠ell (1923-2019) was a visionary intellectual and an astute organizer who helped shape the course of the Black freedom movement in the second half of the twentieth century. Though driven out of the spotlight by anticommunism, O鈥橠ell worked creatively and tirelessly to advance the Black Radical Tradition through labor activism, piercing analysis, and political mobilization.

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October 19-21, 8:00 pm | , Meany Hall

With energy to burn, the exhilarating Grupo Corpo combines classical technique with a modern take on popular Brazilian dance. The heart and soul of the company is the Pederneiras family, who produce powerful work of stunning physicality and rich visual finesse. Brazil鈥檚 leading contemporary dance company returns to Meany with two works. Gil Refazendo 鈥� set to a spirited soundtrack by one of the godfathers of Brazilian music, Gilberto Gil 鈥� features the spirit of renewing, rebuilding and remaking. With Gira, choreographer Rodrigo Pederneiras delves into the religious traditions of his homeland with rich poetic imagery animated by gestures of praise and worship.

Please note: this performance contains partial nudity.

$10-79 tickets |

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May 8, 5:00 – 8:00 PM |Kane Hall

May 8, 7:30 PM | , Meany Hall

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May 9, 1:15 鈥� 3:15 PM | 91探花Bothell campus & Zoom

Join Imagining Trans Futures for a talk and conversation with Aveda Adara and Hil Malatino about the practices and dreams of trans and Two Spirit care and community building in the face of long-haul trans survival.

Aveda Adara will discuss her culture and how it relates to her current profession as a DJ and Musician in the underground nightlife scene, including breaking and refusing archetypes and confronting people鈥檚 expectations, how Trans is the definition of PUNK and the current infraction of the radical right鈥檚 beliefs in healthcare as well as the trans experience of hitting back, building infrastructures politically and communally to ensure a stable future.

Hil Malatino will present Weathering: Slow Arts of Trans Endurance. In a moment of profound and widespread transantagonism articulated within both liberal-centrist and alt-right political formations, how do trans subjects cultivate arts of endurance? In an historical moment that seems to demand continuous reactive defense, how are trans subjects building capacities to slow down, bear with, and endure? How do practices of collective care support the cultivation of such capacities amidst an urgent now? How are artists figuring the slow and mostly unspectacular art of long-haul trans survival?

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May 9, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM | 听Kane Hall

This Katz Distinguished Lecture with Daphne Brooks will tell the story of modern music-making and Broadway, about 鈥渉ighbrow鈥� and 鈥渓owbrow鈥� cultures, opera and jazz, the politics of race, gender, class and the early recording industry. It鈥檚 the story of how intimate and joyous artistic collaboration as well as tense, sometimes fractious competition framed the conditions of creative labor forged by Black women theatrical pioneers and music luminaries鈥擜nne Brown, Ethel Waters, Eva Jessye, to name a few鈥攁nd white auteurs: George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, Virgil Thomson, Gertrude Stein and others.

This talk sets out to reveal how Black women musicians’ aesthetic revolutions in 1920s and 鈥�30s sound and theater culture were artistic obsessions and objects of inquiry in the lifeworlds of white moderns. Their sounds, this talk argues, are the driving force at the heart of Gershwin and Heyward鈥檚 landmark opera Porgy and Bess (1935) as well as Heyward鈥檚 lesser-known Broadway drama, Mamba鈥檚 Daughters (1939).

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May 9, 4:00 鈥� 5:30 PM | Denny Hall

The Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev鈥檚 In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas is an extraordinarily courageous chronicle of the war in Ukraine that began nine years ago with Russia’s aggression through its separatist proxies. Written in the period 2015-2017, Aseyev’s dispatches expressed anti-separatist opinions while the author was living in occupied Donbas. The author鈥檚 reflections on everyday life and politics are filtered through the theme of time. References to the present, past, and future, calendars, history, and temporal patterns are found throughout the volume.

Situating these dispatches alongside Ukrainian poet Iya Kiva鈥檚 work and in the context of Eug猫ne Minkowski鈥檚 Lived Time: Phenomenological and Psychopathological Studies and Hannah Arendt鈥檚 The Human Condition, this talk argues that Aseyev鈥檚 work provides a profound investigation into the experience of time that resonates with philosophical reflections on psychological and political implications of what has been called 鈥渓ived time鈥� both under duress and in 鈥渘ormal鈥� circumstances.

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May 11, 5:00 鈥� 7:00 PM | 听Kane Hall

At this annual celebration of human rights work, students conducting human rights research will showcase their research and highlight the newest project, “Strategies for Massage Parlor Workers’ Rights,” in collaboration with the Seattle Massage Parlor Project (MPOP).

This project centers community-led campaigns and research to find systemic ways to improve Asian migrant massage and sex workers’ living and working conditions in the Chinatown/International District and the greater Seattle area.

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May 11, 3:30 鈥� 5:00 PM |Thomson Hall

The start of the Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine in 2014 has impacted regional security of the Black Sea, especially the occupation of Crimea. But the massive invasion of the 2022 has led to even more profound implications. The Black Sea area has become a battleground, where all sorts of contemporary weaponry have been used. Despite Russia鈥檚 earlier inroads into the south of Ukraine and its total naval domination in numbers, it has failed to convert it into real lasting strategic advantages. The recent liberation of Kherson and fear in Moscow that Ukraine might go into Crimea, changes situation. The instability has effected everyone in the region. The trade has been disrupted, specifically with the blockade of Ukraine鈥檚 ports, which had impact around the world.

There is much anxiety in the region. This spills over into wider European space, with Black Sea area serving as its 鈥渟oft underbelly鈥�. The NATO, EU, US all pay attention to the developments in the area, adjusting their strategic thinking and operational stance accordingly.

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