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” 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 “Maidens” 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.

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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?, the 91探花Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program welcomes everyone to celebrate Taiwan’s pop music through the “Music, Island, Stories: Taiwan Calling!” 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?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 Hyōgo Prefecture and Konkaikōmyōji 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 “Spotlight,” 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’s words into the mouths of characters involved in the story?

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April 26, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | ?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 “Beyond Repair? The Crisis of Ecological Imperialism and Reparative Ecologies in the Caribbean.”

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April 26, 7:30 pm | ?Meany Hall

David Alexander Rahbee conducts the 91探花Symphony and winners of the 91探花Concerto Competition—Kai-En Cheng, violin; Rachel Reyes, flute; and Ella Kalinichenko, piano—in a program including winning concerto excerpts. This performance will feature a 91探花student composition by graduate student Yonatan Ron, Silvestre Revueltas’s Sensemayá, and Overture to Le roi d’Ys,?by??duard Lalo. ??

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April 27, 7:30 pm | ?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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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March 13, 6:00 – 8:00 pm | ?Zoom

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

Hosted by the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley.

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March 14 – 16, 8:00 pm | ?Meany Hall

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

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

February 12, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | ?Smith Hall

As part of the History Colloquium, Professor La Tasha Levy will discuss “Black Soldiers and the Racial Debilitation of Slavery and the Civil War.” Levy is a Black Studies scholar who currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Ethnic Studies

The History Colloquium aims to encourage greater intellectual exchange within the 91探花community by discussing works in progress from faculty members and graduate students.

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February 12, 5:30 – 7:30 pm | Thomson Hall

Join the Department of Asian Languages & Literature for a series of films exploring diversity and inclusion in Japanese society. “Whole” is a short drama created by Writer Usman Kawazoe and Director Bilal Kawazoe depicting Haruki, a biracial student who decides to quit college and travel to Japan, and Makoto, a construction worker raised in the projects of Kansai who is also biracial. Haruki and Makoto grow closer and begin their journey from “Half” to “Whole.”

The film is in Japanese with English subtitles and will be followed by a brief discussion.

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February 12, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

Dynamic duo Cuong Vu and Cristina Valdés straddle the worlds of contemporary classical music and free improvisation, premiering works for trumpet and piano by Oliver Schneller, Wang Lu, and Skúli Sverrisson, and performing music by Huck Hodge and Eva-Maria Houben.

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February 13, 5:00 – 6:20 pm | Architecture Hall

Join the Jackson School of International Studies for a Middle East Lecture Series with Marc Lynch, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University, on Regional Repercussions of the War.?

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

Recordings of past lectures are available on the .

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February 13, 6:30 pm | Building Scyborgs. An evening on decolonization, Town Hall Seattle & Livestream

Join scholar, organizer, and co-conspirator K. Wayne Yang as he shares stories about decolonizing endeavors from past, present, future, and speculative somewheres. Yang will discuss monsters, machines, mortals, and how people are the objects of colonization and agents of decolonization.

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February 14 & 15, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm | Husky Union Building Street/Lyceum

February 15, 6:00 – 8:30 pm | Kane Hall

The Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute is joined by the Departments of Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, and Statistics for the film screening of Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience.

The film, by George Csicsery, traces the cultural evolution of Black scholars, scientists, and educators. Follow the stories of prominent pioneers, and the challenges and accomplishments reflected in today’s working Black mathematicians. Their mathematical descendants are now present day college and K-12 students across the US, learning they belong in mathematics and STEM.

The screening will follow with a Q&A with Director George Csicsery.

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February 15 – 17, 8:00 pm | Meany Hall

A symphony of acrobatics, sound, and light, Humans 2.0 is next level circus by the Australian contemporary circus group Circa. Ten bodies appear in a flash of light. They move in harmony for a fleeting moment and then descend into a sinuous trance. Created by circus visionary Yaron Lifschitz, with pulsing music by composer Ori Lichtik and dramatic lighting by Paul Jackson, Humans 2.0 is intimate, primal, and deeply engaged with the challenge of being human.

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February 15, 4:00 – 5:30 pm | Thomson Hall

The 91探花South Asia Center invites Elora Shehabuddin, professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Global Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, to present a unique and engaging history of feminism as a story of colonial and postcolonial interactions between Western and Muslim societies.

Stretching from the eighteenth-century Enlightenment era to the War on Terror present, Sisters in the Mirror shows how changes in women’s lives and feminist strategies have consistently reflected wider changes in national and global politics and economics.

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February 15, 7:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

Craig Sheppard, Robin McCabe, and Cristina Valdés lead students from the 91探花piano studios to perform works from the piano repertoire.

Craig Sheppard is Professor of Piano and Head of Keyboard at the 91探花School of Music. He is also Professor of the Advanced Innovation Center at the China Conservatory in Beijing.

Celebrated pianist Robin McCabe has established herself as one of America’s most communicative and persuasive artists. McCabe’s involvement and musical sensibilities have delighted audiences across the globe.

Pianist Cristina Valdés presents innovative concerts of standard and experimental repertoire, and is known to “play a mean piano.” A fierce advocate for new music, she has premiered countless works, including many written for her.

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February 16, 3:00 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

91探花Strings students perform concerto movements for outside judges, competing?for a chance to perform with the 91探花 Symphony.

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

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

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

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February 22, 4:00 pm | Climate Crisis: Our Response as Artivists, Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall

Appearing onstage at the UW’s Meany Center in February, “Small Island Big Song” is an immersive concert experience that celebrates the seafaring cultures of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and features Indigenous musicians from the frontline of the climate crisis.

The UWAA and Meany Center are excited to gather a 91探花College of the Environment alumna, a current student (Majoring in geography) and creators of “Small Island Big Song” to talk about issues of climate change, advocacy, art and culture. Our panelists each come to these topics from different vantage points and will share their reflections on how these topics all impact one another.

As the climate crisis quickly rises to the top of world concerns, different sectors — including artists — scramble to figure out ways to respond to its impending pressures. We all have a vital role to play. Join the conversation as we explore ways we can use our voices to push the needle on political, economic, social and cultural questions at the root of this global concern.

UWAA hosted reception to follow.

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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.

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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.?

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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.

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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.?

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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.

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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.

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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 .

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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January 22, 7:30 pm | ?Meany Hall

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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January 25 – 27, 8:00 pm | Meany Hall

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

January 17, 3:30 pm | ?Husky Union Building and Online

Join the UW’s Taiwan Studies Program for a book discussion with Bonnie Glaser, co-author of U.S. – Taiwan Relations: Will China’s Challenge Lead to a Crisis? Glaser will address the rising Chinese military pressure and the intensifying gray-zone campaign tactics (economic coercion, disinformation, diplomatic pressure) that threaten Taiwan.

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January 17, 6:30 pm | Patty Berne: Disability Justice: Centering Intersectionality and Liberation, Town Hall Seattle and Online

Patty Berne, Cofounder and Executive Artistic Director of Sins Invalid, will discuss the importance of intersectionality in disability justice and the need to address how diverse systems of oppression reinforce each other. Ms. Berne’s work creates a framework and practice of disability justice, which centers the voices and experiences of disabled people who are often marginalized and oppressed in multiple ways.

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January 18 – 21, 2:00 pm & 7:30 pm? |?Meany Hall

Join the 91探花Department of Dance for an evening of live dance performance created by 91探花Dance faculty and guest artists. This year’s concert will feature Waacking/Whacking choreography by Tracey Wong, a pillar in the PNW W*acking community, as well as Middle Eastern social dances rarely seen on the concert stage, by faculty choreographer Christine ?ahin. The program will also include live music composed by Paul Matthew Moore and Gary Palmer in works by faculty choreographers Jennifer Salk and Alana Isiguen.

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January 18, 3:00 – 5:30 pm | ?Thomson Hall

The Center for Southeast Asia & Its Diasporas invites Adrian De Leon, writer, critic, and public historian, to speak about his vision of the United States’ Pacific empire that begins with the natives and migrants, who were at the heart of colonialism and its everyday undoing. De Leon traces “the Filipino” as a racial category emerging from the labor, subjugation, archiving, and resistance of native people.

Adrian De Leon is the 2023-2024 Jack and Nancy Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar in History at Simon Fraser University, and an Assistant Professor of US History at New York University.

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January 19 – 28, 2:00 pm or 7:30 pm |, Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse

A THICK DESCRIPTION OF HARRY SMITH, a proto-psychedelic medicine show, takes a wild ride through the life, work, and times of filmmaker, musicologist, painter, anthropologist, collector, occultist, and fabulist, Harry Everett Smith. Best known for editing the seminal Anthology of American Folk Music, Smith’s peculiar life is an emblem of American bohemian life in the 20th Century.

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January 19, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Gowen Hall

Join the Severyns Ravenholt Endowment at the 91探花for a talk with Laura Jakli, Asistant Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, and Jessica Sciarone, graduate student in the political science department at the 91探花.

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?January 19, 7:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

Northwest jazz legend, Marc Seales, is joined by special guests for quarterly recitals of original tunes and arrangements of jazz and pop classics.

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January 20, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm |?Thomson Hall

The East Asia Center invites William Matsuzaki, of the All Saints’ Episcopal School, to host an interactive, reflective, and practical workshop to foster a more welcoming, respectful, and safe learning environments/classrooms.

In this workshop, participants will learn strategies for the classroom, and also examine their own thoughts and biases, to learn how to have more healthy conversations with students and colleagues about DEIA issues in order to find ways to make a positive impact within their own communities.

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