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ArtSci Roundup: November

Lauren Zondag — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:21:33 +0000

Come curious. Leave inspired.

We invite you to connect with us this November through a rich and varied schedule of more than 30 events, exhibitions, podcasts, and more. From chamber opera premieres and public lectures to Indigenous storytelling and poetry celebrations, there’s something to spark every curiosity. Expect boundary-pushing performances, thought-provoking dialogues on memory and identity, and cross-disciplinary collaborations—November is a celebration of bold ideas and creative energy.

As you plan for the end of the year, take a look at what’s coming up in the December ArtSci Roundup.

In addition, .

ArtSci On Your Own Time

Closing November 8 | (Art + Art History + Design)
This Fall MFA exhibition at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery showcases emerging artists’ work. Free.

Closing January 11 | (Henry Art Gallery)
A thematic exploration of the work of thirty-four Asian American and Asian diasporic artists, Spirit House asks the question, what does it mean to speak to ghosts, inhabit haunted spaces, be reincarnated, or enter different dimensions?

Book Club:��“The Four Winds” by Kristin Hannah��( 91̽��Alumni)
Readers’ Choice! Author (and 91̽��alum – BA, Communication, ’83 ) Kristin Hannah highlights the struggles of the working poor during the Great Depression in this novel. Elsa is an awkward wallflower who is raising her two children on the family farm. As the Dust Bowl hits, she must choose between weathering the climate catastrophe in Texas or moving her family west to follow rumors of jobs in California.��Free.

Books, podcasts, etc: (91̽�� Magazine)
This spring, 18,883 degrees were conferred upon graduates of all three 91̽��campuses. We estimate there are just under 600,000 living alumni of the UW. And the 91̽��supports or sustains 100,520 jobs, making it the fifth-largest employer in the state. No wonder we’re always hearing about new books, music, podcasts, and film projects from the 91̽��community. Read on for a few recent accomplishments from Huskies in the media.

Week of November 3

November 1 | (Meany Center for the Performing Arts)
A West Coast premiere of a chamber opera by composer Matthew Aucoin and director Peter Sellars, based on poems by Jorie Graham. The performance explores embodiment and identity in an age of transformation.

Ed Yong

Online Option – November 4 | Becoming a Birder (Graduate School Public Lectures)
This talk considers birding not only as a scientific and recreational practice but as a way of seeing and being—attuned to classification, memory, imagination, and care. Free.

November 4 | (Simpson Center for the Humanities)
A public lecture on the use—and misuse—of historical analogy in politics, focusing on Holocaust memory and the complexities of comparison in historical discourse. Free.

November 5 |(DXARTS)
Hum Under the Riverstone explores different forms of connection and dialogue that can unfold among various kinds of intelligences: human, natural, and machinic. The title of this project draws inspiration from Édouard Glissant and his concept of archipelagic thinking. Free.

November 5 | (Music)
A free lunchtime performance featuring 91̽��School of Music students in the North Allen Library lobby. Presented in partnership with 91̽��Libraries. Free.

Online Option – November 5 | (Jackson School)
What does it mean to commemorate a genocide? This is the overarching question governing this academic panel as its presenters ruminate over the mass killings that transpired in Indonesia between 1965 and 1966 which saw an estimated deaths of at least 500,000 alleged communists and their sympathizers, among others. Free.

November 6 – 16 | (Drama)
A new devised performance piece created under the direction of Adrienne Mackey with 91̽��students, set in a dystopian workplace where employees inhabit modular rooms and confront disconnection, routine, and possibility.

November 6 | (Political Science)
Bart Wilson is the Kennedy Endowed Chair in Economics & Law and the director of the Smith Institute for Political Economy & Philosophy at Chapman University, and author of Humanomics (with Vernon Smith), The Property Species, and Meaningful Economics. Free.

November 6 | (American Indian Studies)
A series to prepare for the Film Screening & 91̽��Symphony Performance: Healing Heart of the First People of This Land on February 6, 2026 ().��Free.

November 6 | (Henry Art Gallery)
Part artist talk, part lecture-performance, this presentation by artist Chloë Bass will use the lens of public art today to explore feelings as a type of knowledge. RSVP encouraged. Free.

November 6 | (Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture)
Part of Burke’s Free First Thursday series, the museum opens its collections spaces from 4:30 to 7:30 PM. Visitors can explore behind‑the-scenes labs and storage, and speak with researchers, staff, and volunteers about their work. Free.

November 6 | (Meany Center for the Performing Arts)
Renowned pianist Jon Kimura Parker returns to Meany with a dynamic solo program featuring Mozart, Beethoven’s Appassionata, Ravel’s Jeux d’Eau, and an Americana‑inflected selection including works by Chick Corea, John Adams, and Oscar Peterson.

November 7 | (American Ethnic Studies)
Celebrate the 55th anniversary of the Department of American Ethnic Studies (AES) and honor the 449 Japanese American 91̽��students of 1941-42 whose education was interrupted and who were unjustly incarcerated during WWII. Pictures and memories will be shared from the families of The Long Journey Home honorees, followed by remarks from AES Chair Alexes Harris and faculty member Vince Schleitwiler. Free.

November 7 | (Political Science)
Megan Mullin, Faculty Director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, discusses how scientific expertise shapes public decisions in the aftermath of disaster, drawing on lessons from the 2025 Los Angeles fires. Hosted by the Center for Environmental Politics. Free.

November 7 | (Anthropology)
Anthropologist Tracie Canada draws from long-term ethnographic research to explore how Black college football players navigate and resist the structural harms of college athletics. Canada is the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and director of the HEARTS Lab. Free.

November 8 | (Henry Art Gallery)
As part of the Spirit House exhibition, this reading explores grief, memory, and the porous boundary between life and death through storytelling across cultures. Free.

November 8 | (Meany Center for the Performing Arts)
This special tribute celebrates Amadou’s musical legacy with Mariam’s iconic vocals, longtime band members, and new music from their forthcoming album L’Amour à la Folie. A legendary duo blending Malian blues with Afropop, disco, and rock influences.

Week of November 10

November 12 | ��(Drama)
In conjunction with the School’s upcoming production of OMMIA Break Room, this panel discussion centers on collaborative creation across multiple fields of study with notable faculty speakers from across the Seattle campus.

November 12 | ��(Honors)
As it becomes increasingly woven into our daily lives, public trust in science— or the lack thereof — matters more than ever. Join a dynamic conversation among 91̽��Interdisciplinary Honors faculty whose scholarship and teaching engage natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities, as they explore what happens when scientific research and scholarship are misunderstood, mistrusted or misused. Free.

November 12 | (Jackson School of International Studies)
A panel discussion on the new edited volume Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in 21st-Century East Asia, exploring how scholars, artists, and activists respond to inequality, environmental degradation, and social disconnection across Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Featuring Andrea Arai, Jeff Hou, and James Lin. Free.

November 13 | (American Indian Studies)
Composer Bruce Ruddell, Musicians Adia tsi sʔuyuʔaɫ Bowen (Upper Skagit) and
Ben Workman Smith (Tolowa), Conductors Ryan Dudenbostel and David Rahbee, with John-Carlos Perea (Mescalero Apache/German/Irish/Chicano) as discussant. A series to prepare for the Film Screening & 91̽��Symphony Performance: Healing Heart of the First People of This Land on February 6, 2026 ().��Free.

November 13 | (Simpson Center for the Humanities)
Philosopher Marshall Abrams challenges standard population-level views of evolution by emphasizing the unique role of individual organisms and their environments. Drawing from his book Evolution and the Machinery of Chance, Abrams explores how evolution unfolds within dynamic “population-environment systems.” Free.

November 13 – 14 | and (Music)
91̽��Jazz Studies students perform in small combos over two consecutive nights of original tunes, homage to the greats of jazz, and experiments in composing and arranging. Free.

November 14 | ��(Political Science)
PhD Student Ryan Reynolds presents, “Structurally Induced Anxiety and Anti‑War Voting: Military Social Networks and Presidential Elections.” Free.

November 14 | (Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures)
A multilingual poetry gathering celebrating the ghazal, a poetic form rooted in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu, and more. Participants will recite ghazals in their original languages with English translations, reflecting on sound, translation, and the form’s enduring vitality. Free.

November 16 | (Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture)
Explore ancient technologies, identify animal bones, sort shells, and enjoy a flintknapping (stone tool‑making) demonstration. Burke archaeologists and community partners present hands‑on activities and share stories about artifacts and historical practices. Free with museum admission; free for Burke members.

Online Option – November 16 | (Jackson School of International Studies)
The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies brings together scholars and community members to discuss the meaning and impact of Spanish and Portuguese citizenship offers to descendants of Sephardic Jews. Featuring Rina Benmayor, Dalia Kandiyoti, and Professor Devin E. Naar. In-person registration required. Free.

Week of November 17

November 18 | ��(Chemistry)
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recognizes the architects of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi. Professors Dianne Xiao and Doug Reed from the Department of Chemistry will introduce MOFs and discuss their importance.
November 18 | (Art + Art History + Design)
Join a Narcan training workshop followed by a pizza party and conversation focused on community care, harm reduction, and accessibility. Part of the year-long Liberation Book Club series exploring liberation through shared texts, art, film, music, and workshops. Free.

November 18 | (Music)
91̽��voice students of Thomas Harper and Carrie Shaw perform art songs and arias from the vocal repertoire. ��Free.

November 18 | (Jackson School)
Forty years after the US pulled out of South Vietnam, a Vietnamese martial arts master returns to the waters that claimed his wife and children during their escape in hopes of finding their grave. The screening will be followed by a virtual discussion with members of the GETSEA consortium. Free.

November 20 | (Henry Art Gallery)
Co-presented with the 91̽��School of Art + Art History + Design, this conversation will address the role of historical research in DeVille’s object-based and performance practice, as well as her alchemical way of transforming found materials into psychically charged paintings, sculptures, and installations. Free.

November 20 | ��(American Indian Studies)
A series to prepare for the Film Screening & 91̽��Symphony Performance: Healing Heart of the First People of This Land on February 6, 2026 ().��Free.

Online – November 20 | (Geography)
Alums share how their geography degrees have shaped careers in climate risk, procurement, and user experience design. Featuring Sadie Frank (CEO, N4EA), Nina Mesihovic (Enterprise Contracts Specialist, WA State), and Anirudh Ramanathan (Senior UX Researcher). Moderated by Professor Sarah Elwood. Free.

November 20 | (Jackson School of International Studies)
Historian Edward Wright-Ríos explores the enduring and evolving practice of pilgrimage among Mexican Catholics, challenging common misconceptions and revealing why this tradition remains vital in modern life. Free.

November 20 | (Music)
The Campus Band (conducted by Solomon Encina) and Concert Band (conducted by Yuman Wu) present their Fall Quarter concert at Meany Hall—Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater. The program features works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Steven Bryant, Clifton Williams, Richard Saucedo, Frank Ticheli, and others.

November 21 | (American Indian Studies)
As the days grow shorter, we gather in for a gathering with friends, family, and community to appreciate some long-form storytelling. Free.

November 21 | (Music)
The UW’s graduate-student-led choral ensembles—the University Singers, 91̽��Glee, and Treble Choir—present an eclectic end-of-quarter concert.

November 21 | (Simpson Center for the Humanities)
This symposium brings together global wetland scholars to propose four analytical interventions in wetland studies, namely: rethinking the undisciplined wetland; post-colonial/settler politics of the wetland; shifting spatial geographies and temporalities of the wetland; and finally (counter) mapping the wetland. Free.

November 23 | (Music)

91̽��music students perform music from the Baroque era under the direction of Tekla Cunningham. Free.

November 24 | (Music)
The 91̽��Studio Jazz Ensemble and Modern Band present a shared program featuring a mix of repertory selections, original compositions, and inspired arrangements. This performance offers a dynamic evening of jazz that highlights the talents of UW’s student musicians.

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ArtSci Roundup: December 2024

Arts & Sciences — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 19:17:16 +0000

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 December.

Open Exhibits

Henry Art Gallery

Through March 2025 |

This focused presentation features a selection of photographs from the Henry’s collections that explore the uses of light to obscure, obliterate, and alter the photographic subject.

Through March 2025 |

This presentation offers a selection of extraordinary artworks recently acquired for the Henry’s permanent collection. The pieces in this rotation include paintings, sculptures, and works on paper that address themes of the body.

Jacob Lawrence Gallery

Through December 21 |

Shared Tools��brings together artists and organizations attempting to imagine otherwise for museums and galleries, offering up several prompts and tools for our community to consider and take on.

Burke Museum

December 5 |

Margery Cercado (Filipinx) plans to create a mixed-media sculpture of a giant rafflesia flower with a scent element using found materials and textiles.

Through January 12, 2025 |

Journey through the Museum’s floors to experience life in winter past. Engage in interactive activities and take-home crafts set up by museum staff.

Week of December 2

December 3, 6:30 pm | (Simpson Center)

How did the West Coast become the “Left Coast” and what does that mean for American politics? The term “Left Coast” has further underlined the significance of progressive and radical movements in these states’ political systems and reputations. In this talk, Gregory explores the history of West Coast radicalism and factors that have made it influential beyond what is common in other regions, including those with blue-state traditions.

Free

December 5, 10:00 am – 8:00 pm | (Burke Museum)

Margery Cercado (Filipinx) plans to create a mixed-media sculpture piece of a giant rafflesia flower with a scent element using found materials and textiles.

Artist Statement: With work emphasizing materiality in found objects and mediums like clay, textile, stone, wood, and metal, I examine identity, lineage, dichotomy, one’s surroundings in both the physical and intangible sense and the cultural connections we hold through relation to our land environments and the beings that coexist within it. I believe to understand ourselves we must not only acknowledge our places of origins and current surroundings, but also prioritize our bonds with nature as deep soul work.

Free –

December 8, 10:00 am – 11:30 am | (Stroum Center for Jewish Studies)

In this year’s Ladino Day celebration, acclaimed fantasy author��Leigh Bardugo��(“Shadow and Bone”) will discuss her new novel, “The Familiar,” which features a Sephardic Jewish heroine in 16th-century Spain who draws magical powers from her family’s secret language, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish).

Free –

Additional Events

Revisit | ( 91̽��Honors)

December 2 | (Department of Anthropology)

December 2 | (School of Music)

December 3 | (School of Music)

December 3 | (Meany Center)

December 4 | (School of Music)

December 5��| (School of Music)

December 6��| (School of Music)

December 8��| (School of Music)

December 11 | (Simpson Center)

December 31 | (Burke Museum)

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

ArtSci Roundup: November 2024

Arts & Sciences — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 23:43:48 +0000

Election & Democracy Events

November 7 |

Shortly after the General Election, three Washington Secretaries of State discuss the history and evolution of voting in our state—from the various systems in place to the complex and polarized climate we now operate in. If you missed the event, check out the TVW recording .

November 12 |

After the 2024 election, hear from Jessica Beyer (Jackson School of International Studies), Victor Menaldo (Political Science), and Scott Lemieux (Political Science) for a discussion on what happened and what happens next as part of the Democracy Discussions Series.

December 3 |

In this talk, James Gregory, professor of history at the UW, will explore the history of West Coast radicalism and factors that have made it influential beyond what is common in other regions, including those with blue state traditions.

Week of October 28

October 29, 6:00 – 8:00 pm | (School of Art + Art History + Design)

The Jacob Lawrence Gallery’s Shared Tools exhibition begins to unravel Lawrence’s interest in hand tools and the work of builders, and what role the community might have in building the future of the gallery. Shared Tools is the first of a series of exhibitions that pulls inspiration from the life and legacy of Jacob Lawrence.

Free

October 29, 4:30 – 6:00 pm | ONLINE OPTION (Department of Classics)

Professor Erich Gruen (UC Berkeley) will address the age-old issue of the roots of antisemitism in antiquity and the degree it may have arisen in the Jewish experience in the Greek and Hellenistic worlds. This event is co-sponsored by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of Classics.

Free

October 31, 7:30 pm | (School of Music)

Dr. Stephen Price is joined by students, colleagues, and friends of the 91̽��Organ Studies program in this concert of spooky organ classics and Halloween fun.

Free

November 1, 7:30 pm | ��(School of Music)

David Alexander Rahbee leads the 91̽��Symphony in a program of works by Ludwig van Beethoven and Akira Ifukube. With Percussion Studies Chair Bonnie Whiting, marimba.

November 2 – 10 | (School of Drama)

THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE is a parable inspired by the Chinese play CHALK CIRCLE. Written at the close of World War II, the story is set in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia, and retells the tale of an abandoned child whose custody is contested by his caretaker and his biological mother. In this production, a group of modern-day actors come together with real questions about justice, what is fair, and how to do right when it seems impossible.

Additional Events

October 29 |�� (French & Italian Studies)

Beginning November 1 | (Henry Art Gallery)

Beginning November 1 | ��(Henry Art Gallery)

November 1 | (CSDE)

November 2 | (School of Art + Art History + Design)

Week of November 4

November 4, 4:00 – 6:00 pm | ��(Scandinavian Studies)

Witness a conversation between dancer/choreographer and drag performance artist Jody Kuehner (Cherdonna Shinatra) and artist and dramaturg Maggie L. Rogers. The conversation will focus particularly on Kuehner and Rogers’ 2017 production, Cherdonna’s A Doll’s House, staged in collaboration with the Washington Ensemble Theater on Capitol Hill.

Free

November 7, 7:30 – 9:00 pm | ONLINE OPTION (College of Arts & Sciences and Evans School)

Join three Washington Secretaries of State as they discuss the history and evolution of voting in our state—from the various systems in place to the complex and polarized climate we now operate in. Current Secretary of State Steve Hobbs joins former Secretaries of State Kim Wyman and Sam Reed for a panel discussion convened by the 91̽��’s College of Arts & Sciences and the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance.

If you missed the event, check out the TVW recording .

Free

November 7 & 8, 7:30 pm | (Digital Arts and Experimental Media)

Fictions in Fugue is an interdisciplinary collaboration by new media artists/performers who come together to activate Meany Theater as a space in fugue and fragmentation. Combining interactive storytelling, Extended Reality technologies and Machine Learning experiments, a series of embodied narratives emerge throughout the evening.

Free

November 10, 4:00 pm | ��(School of Music)

The School of Music joins with the Seattle Flute Society (SFS) for its Flute Celebration Day, featuring Professor Zhao Rong Peter Chen, School of Music alumnus and faculty member at China Conservatory of Music and other highly regarded institutions throughout China. His performance is followed by additional performances from the Seattle Flute Society Flute Choir and other SFS members.

Free

Additional Events

November 6 | (Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences)

November 7 | ONLINE (Simpson Center)

November 7 |�� (Asian Languages & Literature)

Week of November 11

November 12, 5:00 – 6:30 pm | (Political Science)

Department of Political Science and the Political Economy Forum are hosting a post-election faculty roundtable moderated by Professors James Long, Jessica Beyer (Jackson School), Victor Menaldo (Political Science), and Scott Lemieux (Political Science) one week after the election on what we know so far and what to expect next.

Free

November 13, 6:00 – 8:00 pm | (Law, Societies & Justice)

Join 91̽��Honors’ annual Global Challenges—Interdisciplinary Thinking event as they bring Tony Lucero (Indigenous studies and critical university studies), Megan McCloskey (international human rights law and disability rights), and Ed Taylor (leadership, social justice and critical race theory in education) together with Interdisciplinary Honors student moderator, Jaya Field, to discuss the many purposes of public research universities like the 91̽��in our world today.

Free

November 13, 7:00 – 8:30 pm | ONLINE OPTION (Psychology)

Learn about a neurobiological perspective on anxiety, fear, and panic as adaptive and maladaptive behavior. Michael S. Fanselow,�� a professor in the Department of Psychology at UCLA, will describe how defensive behavior is organized into 3 distinct modes that fall along a continuum related to the proximity of threat, known as the predatory imminence continuum.

Free

November 14, 5:30 – 7:00 pm | ONLINE OPTION (American Indian Studies)

Join the Department of American Indian Studies for the annual literary and storytelling series Sacred Breath, this year featuring Richard Van Camp and Roger Fernandes. Indigenous writers and storytellers share their craft at the beautiful wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House.

Free

November 14, 7:30 pm | (School of Music)

91̽��Jazz Studies students perform in small combos over two consecutive nights of original tunes, a homage to the greats of jazz, and experiments in composing and arranging.

Free

Additional Events

November 12 | (School of Music)

November 13 | (Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest)

November 13 | ��(Simpson Center)

November 13 | (Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures)

November 14 | (Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures)

November 14 | (Scandinavian Studies)

November 14 | (Simpson Center)

November 15 | (Jackson School)

Week of November 18

November 18, 7:30 pm | (School of Music)

Pianist Craig Sheppard is joined by Rachel Lee Priday, violin; Noah Geller, viola; and Efe Baltacigil, cello, in performing Gabriel Fauré Piano Quartet #1 in C minor, Opus 15; and Piano Quartet #2 in G minor, Opus 45.

November 20, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)

Centering on oral histories in Fujian, Shuxuan Zhou situates firsthand accounts of labor and resistance in forestry and wood processing within the larger context of postrevolutionary socialist reforms through China’s rapid economic development after the 1990s. This book opens a conversation among the fields of gender studies, labor studies, and environmental studies.

Free

November 20, 3:30 – 4:30 pm | ONLINE OPTION (Department of Chemistry)

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry celebrates groundbreaking achievements in computational biology, awarded to David Baker from the UW. Professors Mike Gelb and Jesse Zalatan from the Department of Chemistry will introduce and set the stage for a brief presentation by Nobel Laureate David Baker. The talk will be followed by a moderated Q&A session.

Free

November 22, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | (South Asia Center and Department of Communication)

Taking stock of the centrality of streaming video and other forms of social media entertainment in Indian public culture, this lecture focuses on the enduring significance of linguistic and cultural regions. This lecture will explore the range of imaginations and understandings of regional languages, cultures, and caste politics that media companies mobilize in their quest for audiences and markets.

Free

November 23, 5:00 pm | “Bad River” Screening & Panel (UWAA)

Head to the wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House for a special screening of “Bad River,” the critically acclaimed new documentary film. “Bad River” chronicles the efforts of the Bad River Band’s ongoing fight for sovereignty. Stay after the screening for an in-depth discussion of Indigenous water rights, Indigenous health, and Native sovereignty.

Free

Additional Events

November 19 | (School of Music)

November 21 | (Geography)

November 21 | (School of Music)

November 22 | (German Studies)

November 22 | (American Ethnic Studies)

November 23 | (School of Music)

November 23��| (Burke Museum)

November 24��| (Burke Museum)

Week of November 25

November 30, 2:00 – 3:00 pm | (Henry Art Gallery)

Visit the Henry for an illuminating tour of two exhibitions, Overexposures: Photographs from the Henry Collection and Recent Acquisitions in the Henry Collection with Em Chan, curator of Overexposures and the Henry’s Curatorial Assistant. During the tour, Chan will guide visitors through a selection of photographs and artworks from the collection.

Free

December 2, 6:30 pm | (School of Music)

Phyllis Byrdwell leads the 100-voice Gospel Choir in songs of praise, jubilation, and other expressions from the Gospel tradition. Phyllis is the director of the 91̽��Gospel Choir, was inducted into the Washington Music Educators Association’s Hall of Fame in 2002, and serves on the Seattle Symphony Board of Directors.

December 3, 6:30 pm | (Simpson Center)

How did the West Coast become the “Left Coast” and what does that mean for American politics? The term “Left Coast” has further underlined the significance of progressive and radical movements in the political systems and reputations of these states. In this talk, Gregory explores the history of West Coast radicalism and factors that have made it influential beyond what is common in other regions, including those with blue state traditions.

Free

Additional Events

November 25 | (Physics)

November 25 | (School of Music)

November 26 | (School of Music)

December 2 | (School of Music)

December 2 | (Department of Anthropology)

December 3 | ��(School of Music)

December 3 | (Meany Center)

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

ArtSci Roundup: Design Show, Grandmothering While Black Book Celebration, Astrobiology Careers Panel and more

Arts & Sciences — Thu, 30 May 2024 22:00:57 +0000

This week, check out graduating Design students’ works at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, attend the Astrobiology Program’s careers panel, enjoy an evening of conversation at the Grandmothering While Black book celebration, and more.

June 5 – 21, ��Jacob Lawrence Gallery

The Division of Design presents the work of the graduating Bachelor of Design (BDes) students from Industrial Design, Interaction Design, and Visual Communication Design.

Free |

June 5, 12:30 pm | ��North Allen Library Lobby

Students of the 91̽��School of Music perform in this lunchtime concert series co-hosted by 91̽��Music and 91̽��Libraries.

Free |

June 6, 12:00 pm | Physics/Astronomy Auditorium

As part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the 91̽�� Astrobiology Program, the Astrobiology Program will be hosting an Astrobiology Careers Panel. Learn about the wide range of careers one can have as an astrobiologist.

Free |

June 6, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Thomson Hall

The South Asia Center invites Sumangala Damodaran for a talk that goes in depth to describe how the repertoires created during the period from the mid-1980s in India has influenced her research. Damodaran hopes to show how understanding performance in the present, combined with the experience of the performers and audiences, can be an important route to traveling back into and interpreting the past.

Free | ��

June 6, 4:30 – 6:30 pm | Communications Building

Join the Department of American Ethnic Studies for an evening of conversation and celebration around LaShawnDa Pittman’s book Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First-Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival.

Sociologist LaShawnDa L. Pittman, Associate Professor, American Ethnic Studies, explores the complex lives of Black grandmothers raising their grandchildren in skipped-generation households (consisting only of grandparents and grandchildren). She prioritizes the voices of Black grandmothers through in-depth interviews and ethnographic research at various sites—doctor’s visits, welfare offices, school and daycare center appointments, caseworker meetings, and more.

Free |

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

ArtSci Roundup: Assessing the 2022 Midterm Election Results With Implications for the Next Two Years and for 2024, Empires Strick Back: Football and Colonialism, and more

Lauren Zondag — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 23:24:50 +0000

Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the 91̽��community every week!

Highlights of current and upcoming exhibitions:��

October 27 – November 23 | , Art Building

The Jacob Lawrence Gallery is pleased to host Seattle artist Miha Sarani. This exhibition is a broad survey of Sarani’s work, focusing on portraiture while also reflecting his Slovenian heritage.

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

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

November 7, 6 PM | , online or HUB

Our annual public event draws from different stories and areas of knowledge to collaboratively consider a problem that’s keeping students up at night. Honors students, staff and faculty invite our broader community on campus and beyond to join our conversation on the power (and politics) of place.

With passionate speakers from public health, sociology, ethnic studies, geography, and history, we’ll explore how communities respond to systems and events that disrupt relationships to place (like colonialism, war, climate change, or global pandemics); explore how people and communities sustain themselves in the face of such displacements through creative adaptation and collective care; and find opportunities to honor the radical placemaking work of vulnerable communities and coalitions who are leading the way.

Free |

Autumn Quarter:

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

(in person or Zoom).

November 8, 7:30 PM |, Meany Center

Daniil Trifonov has made a spectacular ascent since he premiered at Meany in 2013. The Grammy-winning pianist was catapulted to international fame after winning medals in three prestigious competitions — Warsaw Chopin, Tel Aviv Rubinstein and Moscow Tchaikovsky — and has been named Artist of the Year by Musical America (2019) and Gramophone (2016). He inspires audiences with a combination of rare sensitivity, depth of expression and consummate technique. His return to Meany in a recital of Mozart, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Schumann and Scriabin is a musical event not to be missed.

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

November 8, 7:30 PM | ,��Kane Hall or online

By creating clean, ultra-low radioactivity laboratories deep underground to avoid cosmic rays, it is possible to study very fundamental questions about our Universe. These include studies of the tiniest fundamental particles called neutrinos and of Dark Matter, a very important but still mysterious component of the Universe. Dark Matter has only been revealed so far through gravitational effects but represents five times as much mass as the type of matter from which we are composed, It has had a strong influence on how the Universe has evolved since the Big Bang. Experiments to investigate these topics will be described, including the Nobel-Prize-Winning Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) experiment in which 91̽�� scientists played a major role.

Free |

November 9, noon |Empires Strick Back: Football and Colonialism, online

In anticipation of the 2022 World Cup, the Department of History presents this panel discussion which will examine the connections between colonialism and the game of football/soccer.

Chris Tounsel, Associate Professor of History, 91̽��(moderator)
Molly Yanity, Associate Professor of Journalism, Quinnipiac University
Anand Yang, Professor of History, UW

Free |

November 10, 5:30 PM| , Kane Hall or online

The Center for Korea Studies and the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Seattle will host the Korean Peninsula Forum 2022. This year’s forum will include two keynote speakers, Dr. Sang-hyun Lee of the Sejong Institute, and Mr. Scott Snyder of the Council on Foreign Relations. The two will discuss how the United States perceives of democracy in South Korea and vice-versa, the role of democracy in US-South Korean bilateral relations, and how US-South Korean relations are changing in light of geopolitical turmoil.

Professor Emeritus Kenneth B. Pyle (91̽��) and Assistant Professor James Lin (91̽��) will join Mr. Snyder and Professor Lee as discussants for the forum. Professor Yong-Chool Ha (91̽��) will moderate the forum, adding his political science expertise to the discussion.

Free |

, online

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

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

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

November 10, 3 PM | Coffeehouses, Parks, and Neighborhoods: Jews and Muslims
in 20th-Century Cairo

Free |

November 10, 8 PM | , Meany Center

Sō Percussion and Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw combine forces for a powerful new set of co-composed music in��Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part. Shaw’s faultless ear for melody and harmony, united with Sō’s rhythmic invention and compositional experimentation, create an imaginative world of sonic richness. It is a journey across the landscape of the soul, told through the medium of distinctly contemporary songs. Also on the program is Jason Treuting’s remarkably beautiful and ethereal work,��Amid the Noise.

November 14, 5 PM | Online

Please join us a week after the general elections for a roundtable discussion of what the election results portend for national and state policymaking over the next two years, and for the 2024 Presidential election race. Speakers include Scott Lemieux, Becca Thorpe, and Mark Smith moderated by John Wilkerson.

Free |

ArtSci Roundup: Democracy and the 2022 Midterm Elections, Hafu ハーフ film screening, and more!

Lauren Zondag — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 20:08:58 +0000

Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the 91̽��community every week!

Highlights of current and upcoming exhibitions:��

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

The Jacob Lawrence Gallery is pleased to host Seattle artist Miha Sarani. This exhibition is a broad survey of Sarani’s work, focusing on portraiture while also reflecting his Slovenian heritage.

Until November 5 | , Koplin Del Rio (Georgetown, Seattle)

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

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

November 1, 7:30 PM | , Meany Center

Faculty pianist Cristina Valdés performs music by Henri Dutilleux, Alexander Scriabin, Huck Hodge, Ruth Crawford-Seeger, and Gabriela Ortiz in this program of preludes and etudes. She is joined by Cuong Vu, trumpet, for the premiere of her work Sketches of an Anniversary Prelude, for trumpet and piano.

$20 tickets ($15 91̽��Affiliate, $10 students and seniors). |

November 2, 12:30 PM | ,��Online Meany Hall – Studio Theatre

Join the Department of Dance to hear research presentations by second year MFA candidates in dance. This event is free and open to all 91̽��and Seattle community members! Presentations will include:

Hip Hop Dance: A Multi-Referential Label with Controversial Considerations
Gary Champi, MFA Candidate 91̽��Department of Dance

Party Environments and the Development of the Hustle: How Dance Party Spaces Foster Creativity and Community Connection Past and Present
Abdiel Jacobsen, MFA Candidate 91̽��Department of Dance

Unlocking Creativity: Community Engaged Dance & Storytelling for Senior Adults
Jenn Pray, MFA Candidate 91̽��Department of Dance

Free |

November 2, 6:30 PM| Democracy and the 2022 Midterm Elections, Part I, Kane Hall

Jake Grumbach is an associate professor of political science at the 91̽�� who focuses on political economy of U.S. Democracy. In the first of a two- part series, he will discuss the current crisis in American democracy and how national conflicts of race, labor, and democracy are playing out in state governments.

Free | RSVP

, online

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

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

November 2, 3 PM | Lecture 3. Jews and Muslims in Colonial Algeria: Between Intimacy and Resentment
November 10, 3 PM | Coffeehouses, Parks, and Neighborhoods: Jews and Muslims
in 20th-Century Cairo

Free |

November 3, 5:30 PM | , Thomson Hall��

Hafu (2013 Producer/Director/Videographer Megumi Nishikura) With an ever increasing movement of people between places in this transnational age, there is a mounting number of mixed-race people in Japan, some visible others not. “Hafu” is the unfolding journey of discovery into the intricacies of mixed-race Japanese and their multicultural experience in modern day Japan. The film follows the lives of five “hafus”–the Japanese term for people who are half-Japanese–as they explore what it means to be multiracial and multicultural in a nation that once proudly proclaimed itself as the mono-ethnic nation.

Each quarter during the academic year the 91̽��Japan Studies Program will host a film to include discussion.

Free |

November 4, 2 PM |, HUB

Featuring:
Shaunak Sen��(Director,��All That Breathes)
Vivek Bald��and��Alaudin Ullah��(Directors,��In Search of Bengali Harlem)

In conversation with:
Anand Yang��(Professor of History and International Studies)
Alka Kurian��(Associate Teaching Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences)

Identities are in flux today. How do individuals and groups make sense of their lives and beliefs in an ever-changing world increasingly in the throes of socioeconomic and religious conflict and environmental crises? Come join us in a conversation with the award-winning directors of the films “All That Breathes” and “In Search of Bengali Harlem” which highlight the choices people make to keep hopes alive.

This event is part of the��.

Free |

November 7, 6 PM | , online or HUB

Free |

Autumn Quarter:

(in person or Zoom).

ArtSci Roundup: DXARTS Fall Concert:��Real & Imagined Soundworlds, The Importance of Being Earnest, and More

Arts & Sciences — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 15:20:42 +0000

Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the 91̽��community every week! This week, attend lectures, concerts, and more.

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

DXARTS Fall Concert:��Real & Imagined Soundworlds

November 9, 7:30 PM |

The Department of Digital Art and Experimental Media (DXARTS) is pleased to present a program of the very latest holographic sound works from DXARTS composers and associated researchers. Nature recordist and sound designer Jeff Rice’s sound portraits frame an evening of Ambisonic sound, drawing the listener through ecosystems and soundspaces known and unknown.

Free |

The Importance of Being Earnest

November 12 – 21��|

Oscar Wilde’s wildly entertaining comedy sparkles with dazzling wordplay and hilariously unlikely situations. This ahead-of-its-time satire of Victorian morality features two carefree bachelors, Jack and Algernon, each with a carefully hidden double life. But when Algernon discovers that Jack has been posing as someone named Ernest to escape to the city, he promptly travels to Jack’s country estate to pose as the fictional figure himself, and silliness ensues. Director Kelly Kitchens (Incident at Vichy) calls this play “an exquisite glass of champagne–deliciously bubbly and slightly intoxicating, but the result of a complex alchemy–a deft blend of craftmanship and artistry. You can just down it,” she says, “but it’s worth investigating more deeply.”��

$5 – 20 |

Scheming and Subversion: Conspiracy in Post-Soviet Space:��How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict

November 8, 4:30 PM |

This series from the UW’s Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies presents new research on the role that conspiracy theories, propaganda, and disinformation play in Russia and other post-Soviet states. For the first event in the series,��speaks on her book about the Kremlin’s efforts to undermine democracy abroad through influence operations.��

Free |

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

November 17, 5:30 PM |

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

Free |

Political engagements constructing our world

November 9, 5:30 PM��|

Which of your actions are political?��What is “thriving” and who is included when you imagine it?��What does it mean to save each other’s lives?��

The 91̽��Honors Program invites you to join Ben Danielson (medicine), Alexes Harris (sociology) and Dean Spade (law) in a conversation about the ways young people can influence change in areas like legal justice reform, equity in healthcare, climate justice, and more. Moderated by disability rights activist, Christine Lew.

Free |

2021 Korean Peninsula Forum, North Korea’s Nuclear Issues: from a deadlock to a breakthrough?

November 10, 4:30 PM |

The Korean Peninsula Forum is an annual series sponsored by the Korea Studies faculty at the 91̽�� and the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Seattle. Open to the general public, the forum aims at enhancing the understanding and visibility of the issues related to the Korean peninsula and the region in Northwest of America and beyond.

This year’s forum topic will be: North Korea’s Nuclear Issues: from a deadlock to a breakthrough?

The guest speaker will be Mr. Sung Lac Wi, visiting professor at the��Korea National Diplomatic Academy.

Free |

Blackwell Seminar: Closer than they appear: A Bayesian Perspective on Individual-Level Heterogeneity in Risk Assessment

The Blackwell Seminar was established in 2020 to honor the contributions of David Blackwell to mathematical statistics, game theory, probability theory, and information theory. This year, Kristian Lum presents on risk assessment.

Free |

Looking for more?

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

Northwest artists, writers, arts advocates in ‘Mary Randlett Portraits’

Peter Kelley — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 19:18:30 +0000

“Mary Randlett Portraits” was published by 91̽��Press in September. Pictured here is art advocate Betty Bowen. Photo: Mary Randlett / 91̽��Press / courtesy 91̽��Special Collections

is a senior lecturer with the 91̽�� and a writer in residence with the . She worked with well-known photographer to create a book featuring portraits of Northwest artists, writers and arts advocates. “” was published in September by . McCue answered a few questions about the work.

Q: How did this book come about?

A: Mary and I worked together on “,” my book about the poet Richard Hugo and the Northwest Towns that he wrote about. That collaboration came from a glint in the eye of Pat Soden, then the director of 91̽��Press.

Pat said: “I want you to work with Mary Randlett. You two would get a kick out of each other.” Pat is a great artistic matchmaker. I loved working with Mary. The more I got to know her, the more I saw that the scope of her work was phenomenal. Then, Rachael Levay, the wonderful publicist at 91̽��Press, suggested that I do this portraits book.

Mary likes working so it was easy to convince her. Sometimes, I’ve said that the whole project was an excuse to hang out with Mary. And, hang out we did — for two years in and in her garage, rifling through prints. We had a lot of half-finished sandwiches laying around.

Q: Several featured in this book are or were members of the 91̽��community, including , , , , , , , and others. How did you decide who to include?

A: We had these criteria: 1) we wanted to focus on artists, writers and advocates of the arts; 2) we wanted the photographs to be compelling, exposing some essence of their subjects and 3) we wanted to include people whom Mary had loved and worked with or who provided a window into the range of work being done in this region.

Q: You wrote an essay to accompany each of the subjects of the book. Would you tell a bit about your research process?��

A: I spent a lot of time reading whatever articles, books, blogs and essays I could find about the people whom we chose. Then, I dug into the rich world of Special Collections — a place where Gary Lundell, reference specialist, and Nicolette Bromberg, visual materials curator, really helped me find some fantastic prints of Mary’s and letters to and from some of the people in the book.

Frances McCue, left, and Mary Randlett. Photo: Greg Gilbert

Special Collections is a treasure trove; it’s a great hangout and the people who work there are immersed in the history of our region. Gary, for example, was a friend of ‘s and of ‘s — two artists whom I wrote about.

Then, there were the drives with Mary herself. To get her talking, you really have to be driving. She loosens up and tells great stories when she is on the road. So, I hung a tape recorder from the heating vent in the dashboard, and off we went. I love the material from those interviews and Mary’s quotes appear throughout the book.

Checking the facts, confirming memories — all of that happened with as many of the folks as I could reach and with a great assistant on the project, Shannon Foss. Shannon is an undergraduate in the Honors Program and a genius at collecting citations.

The last part, and one of the most important, involved my own speculations about the compositions of the photographs themselves. I looked and wrote and devised reactions and theories about the portraits as art.

And, I got some terrific help by asking Barbara Johns, the fabulous art historian, and Sheila Farr, one of our region’s great art critics, to peruse my work. As Richard Hugo once said, “A good teacher can save you 10 years.” Barbara and Sheila certainly saved me from years of flailing and I’ll be forever grateful to them.

“Mary Randlett Portraits” also features an afterword by Nicolette Bromberg.