November 7, 4:30 – 6:00pm | Communications Building

This presentation by Sharon Stein asks how universities can navigate the complexity of confronting the colonial foundations of higher education and enabling different futures. This discussion approaches reparations as a potentially regenerative process of enacting material redistribution and restitution, (re)building relationships grounded in respect and reciprocity, and repurposing our institutions to be more relevant and responsible.

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November 7, 6:00 – 8:00pm | 听Kane Hall

The Pandemics – COVID 19 and the worldwide racial reckoning – forever changed how people work, live, go to school, and interact as a community. Come listen to a recorded dialogues about the pandemics, and engage in dialogue with the 91探花community. Together the session will remember and honor each individual’s lived pandemics experiences.

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November 8, 7:00 – 8:30pm | 听Burke Museum

Join the Burke Museum to celebrate Spirit Whales & Sloth Tales: Fossils of Washington State, by Elizabeth A. Nesbitt, Burke curator emerita of invertebrate and micropaleontology, and David B. Williams, Seattle-based author, naturalist, and historian.

From primitive horses on the Columbia Plateau to giant bird tracks near Bellingham, fossils across Washington state are filled with clues of past life on Earth. With abundant and well-exposed rock layers, the state has both old and 鈥測oung鈥� fossils, from Ice Age mammals dating only 12,000 years old back to marine invertebrates more than 500 million years old.

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November 8, 7:30pm | Meany Hall

Seattle favorite Garrick Ohlsson has established himself as a pianist of masterful interpretive and technical skill. He commands an enormous repertoire ranging over the entire piano literature. He brings a full program of Chopin, Schubert, and Beethoven, along with an evocative work by Ursula Mamlok. Ohlsson鈥檚 brilliant stage presence and easy connection to audiences amplifies his well-earned reputation for bringing piano masterpieces to life with virtuosic firepower and resonant interpretations.

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November 8 | National First-Generation College Celebration

The 91探花proudly supports the experiences of first-generation students. For the sixth-straight year, the 91探花Bothell, Seattle and Tacoma campuses are joining colleges and universities throughout the nation to participate in the on November 8.

Led by the Council for Opportunity in Education (COE) and the NASPA Center for First-Generation Student Success, the day is intended to celebrate the success and presence of first-generation college students, faculty, and staff on campuses across the country.

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November 9, 6:00 – 8:00pm |

Different disciplines, cultures, and individuals have distinct approaches to gathering information, interpreting it, and forming beliefs. This begs the question: 鈥淗ow do we know things and where else should we be looking for answers?鈥�

91探花Honors鈥� annual Global Challenges/Interdisciplinary Answers conversation, led by Polly Olsen (Yakama), director of DEI & Decolonization and tribal liaison at the Burke Museum; Tony Lucero, Professor and Chair in the Department of Comparative History of Ideas; and Katie Davis, Associate Professor in the iSchool, consider questions cultivated by students in the University Honors Program. This conversation will be moderated by Samantha-Lynn Martinez, a rising junior marine biology major.

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November 12, 11:00am – 12:00pm | Burke Museum

Burke Museum education partner Hindi Time Kids has planned an exciting all-ages event to teach visitors about the meaning and traditions of Diwali, a South Asian annual festival of lights celebrated in many parts of the world. The word 鈥楧iwali鈥� derives from Sanskrit language and means 鈥渁 row of lights.” Diwali is a time for gathering with loved ones, celebrating life, and enjoying the illumination of lights.

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November 12, 1:30 – 2:30pm | 听Henry Art Gallery

Meet curator Nina Bozicnik for a tour of Sophia Al-Maria: Not My Bag. Born in Tacoma, Washington and now based in London, Al-Maria is a Qatari-American artist, writer, and filmmaker. Not My Bag brings together, her recent trilogy of films. In this exhibition, Al-Maria interrogates histories of colonial authority in contemporary culture. During the tour, Bozicnik will share insights into the concepts, ideas, and artworks within the exhibition as well as take time for questions and conversation.

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October – November | 鈥淲ays of Knowing鈥� Podcast: Episode 4

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 Louisa Mackenzie, associate professor of Comparative History of Ideas at the UW, will describe how human’s view of nature has evolved over decades, from fear to appreciation.

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.

$10-22 tickets |

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 27 – June 25 | 听Henry Art Gallery North Galleries

The Henry Art Gallery will present the UW’s School of Art + Art History + Design Master of Fine Arts and Master of Design thesis exhibition. Throughout their programs, fine arts and design students work with advisers and other artists to develop advanced techniques, expand concepts, discuss critical issues, and emerge with a vision and direction for their own work. Henry staff conduct two studio visits and work closely with the students to facilitate their projects and prepare them for exhibition at the museum. A digital publication is produced in conjunction with the exhibition to highlight the students鈥� artistic endeavors and the Henry鈥檚 commitment to this exciting and important step in the students’ development as practicing artists and designers.

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May 27 – July 29 | Reader鈥檚 Choice: 鈥淭he Overstory鈥� by Richard Powers, Online

May 30, 7:30 PM | , Meany Hall

The 91探花Wind Ensemble (Timothy Salzman, director) and Symphonic Band (Shaun Day, director) present their end-of-year concert, performing music by Marie A. Douglas, Jennifer Higdon, Nigel Hess, Paul Dukas, Augusta Read Thomas, and Michael Colgrass. With Carrie Shaw, soprano soloist on Augusta Read Thomas’ Of Being is a Bird.

$10 Tickets |

May 31, 4:00 – 6:00 PM | Allen Auditorium

All are welcome to listen in on this panel discussion with Peruvian artists Jorge Miyagui and Mauricio Delgado on the intersections of art and activism听in contemporary Peru.

Mauricio Delgado is an award-winning visual and performance artist, trained at the Institute of Visual Arts Edith Sachs. His work has been showcased internationally in Cuba, El Salvador, the United States and throughout Peru. He is active in public, collaborative and multi-media artistic collaborations like 鈥淧eruvian Art after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.鈥�

Jorge Miyagui is a celebrated visual artist, trained at the Pontificia Universidad Cat贸lica del Per煤. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in Helsinki, Finland and various cities in Peru, and has been included in various collective exhibitions in Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Germany, Spain, the United States.

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June 1, 7:30 PM | Brechemin Auditorium

Student jazz ensembles coached by Cuong Vu, Marc Seales, Ted Poor, and Steve Rodby pay homage to the icons of jazz and break new ground with original progressive jazz compositions.

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June 2,听 7:30 PM | , Meany Hall

The 91探花Symphony (David Alexander Rahbee, director) performs works by Stravinsky, Poulenc, and Faur茅 in this end-of year performance. The orchestra is joined by the combined University Choirs in a performance of Faur茅: Requiem, Op.48, with Giselle Wyers conducting. Special guest for this performance is actor Garret Dillahunt.

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June 3,听 7:30 PM | Brechemin Auditorium

Undergraduate composers at the 91探花School of Music explore new sonic landscapes in this year-end concert of original music.

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

Joseph and Friends: A Svoboda Scavenger Hunt

April 19 – May 14 |

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

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

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

Graduation Exhibition 1

April 20 – May 1 |

Each year the School of Art + Art History + Design proudly celebrates graduating Art students鈥攂oth undergraduate and graduate鈥攚ith a series of exhibitions.听

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

Missions and States: Saving or Serving Seafarers

April 19, 12:30 – 1:30 PM |听

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

April 20, 3:00 PM |听

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

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

April 21, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM |听

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

April 27, 12:00 – 1:00 PM |听

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

Next in the series:

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

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Humanitarianisms: Dean Spade & Cristian Capotescu

April 22, 3:30 PM |听

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

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

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

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Ghetto: The History of a Word

April 22, 4:00 – 5:15 PM |听

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

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

Free |

adrienne maree brown + Prem Krishnamurthy

April 23, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM |听

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

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Katarzyna Kobro Composing Space

April 24, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM |听

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

Between 1925 and 1933, Polish sculptor Katarzyna Kobro made a series of groundbreaking abstract Spatial Compositions. 鈥楢s it becomes united with space,鈥� she wrote about these works, 鈥榯he new sculpture should be its most condensed and essential part.鈥� In this lecture we will trace the artist鈥檚 discovery that the 鈥榮implest and most appropriate鈥� solution to the question of the essence of sculpture was the 鈥榮haping of space鈥� itself.

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Looking for more?

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

This 10-part series examines the ongoing impact of the 2016 election on countries and regions worldwide.听Each week, Jackson School faculty experts听will explore perspectives from Europe, Asia, Mexico, Russia and the Middle East as well as questions of climate change and historical context in the U.S. presidency.

“” lectures will be held from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Monday afternoons in room 110 of Kane Hall, and all are open to the public. Jackson School Director will be moderator for these events.

The schedule is as follows:

Oct. 2: Trump and the World 鈥� a Historical Perspective, with , assistant professor of international studies
Oct. 9: The Middle East and Israel, with , professor of international studies
Oct. 16: Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the Gulf, with , affiliate professor of international studies
Oct. 23: The US-Mexican Border, with , associate professor and chair of the
Oct. 30: India, with , associate professor, director of the
Nov. 6: China, with , professor of international studies
Nov. 13: The Korean Peninsula, with , professor of international studies
Nov. 20: The International Climate Regime, with , professor of international studies and director of the
Nov. 27: Russia, with , professor of history and international studies.
Dec. 4: Final panel discussion and round table.

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For more information about the series, contact the Jackson School at 206-543-6001 or jsisadv@uw.edu. Interested press may contact Monique Thormann, Jackson School director of communications, at 206-685-0578 or thormm@uw.edu.