Bound in calfskin and detailed in gold, a rare 1544 edition of Dante鈥檚 Divine Comedy was this year. The volume contains something to pique anyone鈥檚 interest, says , associate dean for Distinctive Collections at 91探花Libraries. The book is nearly 500 years old, and has likely lasted so long because its pages are made of durable linen fiber, not wood pulp. The handmade leather cover and sturdy binding also helped preserve the book. When librarians handle the book today, they use foam wedges to cradle the cover, which helps protect the centuries-old spine.

At the time this book was produced, it was customary for people to buy the pages and take them to be bound in the cover of their choice. Books were expensive and treated with care. This particular edition likely received the current leather binding a century after it was printed. There are also some marginal notes in Italian left by its owner.听

It may have been typical for a book from this period in northern Italy to have been printed 1,000 times. Today, surviving copies are rare, though a handful of collections on the West Coast have acquired copies.

Dante Alighieri was an Italian medieval poet, penning the Divine Comedy in the early 1300s. This edition is remarkable for the side-by-side text by a leading 16th century Dante commentator, Alessandro Vellutello, and for the intricate wood-cut illustrations depicting Dante鈥檚 vision of hell, purgatory and heaven.

鈥淲hat excites me is that there鈥檒l be something in this book that appeals to everyone,鈥� Tanaka said. 鈥淚t has lots of opportunities for discovery and engagement. And for 91探花Libraries, that鈥檚 why we鈥檙e here.鈥�

The Vellutello Dante may be viewed in the Special Collections Reading Room by making an appointment via the catalog link or contact Special Collection by email (speccoll@uw.edu).

March 4, 2:30 – 4:30 pm | 听Denny Hall

Graduate students in the Department of German Studies have invited Georgetown University Professor, Huaping Lu-Adler, author of Kant, Race, and Racism: Views from Somewhere (Oxford, 2023) to give a talk entitled: “Know Your Place, Know Your Calling: Geography, Race, and Kant鈥檚 ‘World-Citizen’鈥�

Free |

March 4, 3:30 – 4:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

March 4, 4:00 – 5:00 pm | Johnson Hall

The Department of Chemistry invites Professor Jeffrey R. Long, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, to speak at the George H. Cady Endowed Lecture in Organic Chemistry.

Free |听

March 5, 7:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Shoji Kameda leads a performance of traditional and modern taiko music. The concert features his 91探花students, members of 91探花Taiko Kai, and special guests from the Seattle Taiko Community.

March 5, 7:30 pm |听 Meany听Hall

The 91探花Modern Music Ensemble, led by Director Cristina Vald茅s, performs works by Yi臒it Kolat, Ania Vu, Evis Sammoutis, Chen Yi, and George Crumb. The program includes the world premiere of Spomenik I, led by 91探花faculty composer Yi臒it Kolat.

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March 6, 12:30 pm | 听North Allen Library Lobby

Sarah Rommel, Artist-in-Residence and cello faculty at the 91探花, leads her students to perform in this lunchtime concert series co-hosted by 91探花Music and 91探花Libraries.

Free |

The 91探花South Asia Center invites Yashica Dutt, a leading anti-caste expert, journalist, and the award-winning author of the non-fiction memoir, Coming Out as Dalit,听to give a book talk. Raw and affecting,听Coming Out as Dalit听brings a new audience of readers into a crucial conversation about embracing Dalit identity, offering a way to change the way people think about caste in their own communities and beyond.

Free |

March 6, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | 听Thomson Hall

The 91探花Taiwan Studies Program welcomes Professor Niki Alsford to discuss his newest book entitled Taiwan Lives: A Social and Political History. Published by the 91探花 Press as the first book in the听Taiwan and the World听book series supported by UW-TSP,听Taiwan Lives听traces Taiwan鈥檚 complex history through the lens of colonial influences from Austronesian expansion to the economic and democratic polity it is today.

Free |

March 6, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

The Studio Jazz Ensemble performs big band arrangements and repertory selections. The Modern听Band performs innovative arrangements of jazz standards, selections from the outer limits of the听genre, and new original compositions.

Tickets |

March 7, 3:30- 5:00 pm | 听Communications Building

John Quincy Adams sailed from Boston to St. Petersburg in 1809, to begin his service as the first United States ambassador to Russia. The trip took him 80 days. This summer, along with two friends, Willard Sunderland followed his route in his own 32-foot sailboat.

Along the way, Sunderland learned something new both about the beginnings of the U.S.-Russian relationship and the connections between John Quincy’s world and our own. Learn about their trips and how a sea voyage can be an archive for seeing history differently.

Free |

March 7, 7:30 pm | 听Meany Hall

Tickets |

March 7 – 16, 2:00 or 7:30 pm | Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse

In Vanity Fair, Becky, orphaned and disadvantaged, is cunning and ambitious, while Amelia, born into privilege, is well-intentioned but naive. As they each strive to secure love, success, and stability in the patriarchy of early 19th-century London they face many obstacles to their dreams.

This thrilling, highly theatrical play explores the flexibility of our morals when faced with the harsh realities of our lives. As their parallel stories unfold, the audience is forced to confront our own hypocrisy and the complexities of a world that often rewards those who break the rules.

Tickets |

March 8, 1:30 – 3:00 pm | Gowen Hall

Rochelle Layla Terman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, will be speaking at the UWISC on “Auditing Localized Google Search Results for Human Rights.” Professor Terman will be accompanied by 91探花political science PhD student, Bobby Maxwell.

Free |

March 8, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Allen Library

The Canadian Studies Center will host an exciting talk featuring His Excellency Whit Fraser. In his book True North Rising, Fraser delivers a smart, touching, and astute living history of five decades that transformed the North, a span he witnessed first as a longtime CBC reporter and then through his friendships and his work with Dene and Inuit activists and leaders.

Free |

March 8, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

David Alexander Rahbee conducts the 91探花 Symphony in a program of music by Eugene d鈥橝lbert, W.A. Mozart, Alexander Borodin, and Igor Stravinsky. The performance will be joined by guest conductor Sunny Xia from the Seattle Symphony and faculty bassoonist Paul Rafanelli.

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March 9, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

Pianist H茅l猫ne Grimaud is a deeply passionate and committed musical artist whose pianistic accomplishments play a central role in her life. A committed wildlife conservationist, compassionate human rights activist and writer, it is through her thoughtful pianism that Grimaud most deeply touches the emotions of audiences. For this recital, she performs a moving program of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms.

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Through March 10 | ,听Burke Museum

Join the Burke Museum for kid and family-friendly activities. Each floor will have self-directed activities and a unique theme.

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While visiting Seattle five years ago for a wedding, Chad Westra toured the 91探花. He made his way to the third floor of Gowen Hall and discovered the Tateuchi East Asian Library with its sculpted, curved ceiling and bright, big windows. The library was 鈥渆nchanting.鈥�

鈥淟ike wow,鈥� Westra, now a third-year doctoral student in UW鈥檚 History Department remembered thinking. 鈥淭his is an amazing space. I really would love to study here.鈥�

Westra has used the UW鈥檚 East Asian library for his doctoral research. He dug into the collection for primary source materials written by a Chinese dissident from the first half of the 20^th Century. In the Japan collection, he studied a natural resources map of Manchuria produced before World War II, when the Japanese attempted to colonize parts of mainland China.

鈥淪o often, I’ve been looking for primary sources to use or books from 100 years ago,鈥� Westra said. He鈥檇 check the internet and expected items to be out of reach, but he needn鈥檛 have looked far. 鈥淚t’s here, which is pretty amazing.鈥�

The is one of North America鈥檚 premiere libraries of its kind. But the space on the third floor of Gowen Hall was long in need of a refresh, said Hyokyoung Yi, the library鈥檚 interim director and the Korean Studies Librarian. After the library was named in 2020 for Atsuhiko and Ina Goodwin Tateuchi, 91探花alumni whose namesake foundation donated to the library, plans were made to renovate. The library closed for about a year, then reopened quietly last summer and on Wednesday will host a reopening celebration.

鈥淭hanks to the generosity of the Tateuchi foundation, we鈥檝e been able to make improvements to the library that position these important collections for the next century,鈥� said Simon Neame, dean of 91探花Libraries. 鈥淭he renovations welcome visitors, creating a more open feel and comfortable atmosphere. They allow the librarians to highlight objects from the collection, interact with students and faculty, and put the library in a position to adapt and fully utilize new technologies.鈥�

91探花Libraries received its first official funding in 1937 for collections in East Asian languages in Suzzallo Library.听The library moved to its current location in what was formerly the law library in 1976. Over the decades, the collection has grown to more than 800,000 items, including centuries-old, rare documents from the Ming Dynasty.

For the renovation, the Beckmann Reading Room鈥檚 entry way was expanded and a new, sweeping, wood-lined circulation desk built. Secure, glass-enclosed display cases allow the librarians to showcase pieces from the vast collections. The card catalog was dismantled and converted into tables, part of a set of new furniture designed to make the library feel more welcoming. In place of a row of cubicles, a long table now provides ample workspaces. And a former office was converted to a community room.

Behind the scenes, some technical services staff have joined the Libraries Cataloguing and Metadata Services (CAMS) and Acquisitions and Rapid Cataloging Services (ARCS) to increase opportunities for cross-training and professional development, but the access services staff and subject librarians still work in the library where they interact with students, faculty and visitors, and the number of staff who directly support the Tateuchi library remains unchanged.

鈥淭he future of the Tateuchi East Asian Library is deeply connected to the community 鈥� not just the students, faculty and staff at the UW, but everyone who cares passionately about the countries and cultures represented in the collection,鈥� Neame said.

Many items in the collection have been digitized, often with grant funding from foundations and East Asian government-sponsored libraries, Yi said. That preserves many fragile items and opens the collection to researchers globally.

While the library bundles China, Japan and Korea under one roof, each country鈥檚 collection has its own librarian, and the collections are a reflection of the distinct and often intertwined histories of each country, Yi said.

鈥淏eing an East Asian library, we are kind of a cultural hub,鈥� Yi said. 鈥淎nd a lot of community members in the region care about our collection, and they love to see our collections being preserved and being built and growing.鈥�

Unlike other East Asian collections at private universities that require special permission to use, the UW鈥檚 Tateuchi East Asian Library is open to all, from academics worldwide to high school students from the Seattle region, from the UW鈥檚 scholars to the region鈥檚 rich East Asian cultural organizations.

鈥淭his is a wonderful library that is open to the public,鈥� Yi said.

For more information, contact Yi at hkyi@uw.edu.

February 6, 7:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

The School of Music has invited pianist Alexandre Dossin from the University of Oregon for a solo recital.

Alexandre Dossin is a graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Russia) and holds a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. He was assistant of Sergei Dorensky at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and Willliam Race and Gregory Allen at UT-Austin.

Free |

February 6, 5:00 – 6:20 pm | 听Husky Union Building

Join the Jackson School of International Studies for a talk and discussion on The 鈥楴ew Elites鈥� of X: Identifying the Most Influential Accounts Engaged in Hamas/Israel Discourse, featuring Kate Starbird, Mert Bayar, and Mike Caulfield.

This event is part of听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 .

Free |

February 7, 7:00 pm |听听Kane Hall

Seattle has a long history of policies and practices that prevented people of certain racial and religious backgrounds from buying, renting, or occupying homes in many parts of the city and surrounding areas. Starting with the 1865 ordinance that banned Indigenous people, Professor James Gregory details this history of exclusion by showing how it was implemented through laws, zoning, deed restrictions, redlining, urban renewal, and other governmental actions and through the organized efforts of real estate professionals, banks, and neighborhood associations. The excluded often fought back, and some forms of resistance including campaigns by Black, Japanese American, Chinese American, and Filipino American community groups will be examined. Finally, this talk will also assess the way this history shapes the present, highlighting continuing patterns of housing exclusion and ongoing efforts to open opportunities, including discussion of the 2023 Covenant Homeownership Account Act – HB 1474 that proposes compensation to victims of racial restrictive covenants and other forms of state sanctioned housing discrimination. Introduced by College of Arts & Sciences Dean Dianne Harris.

Free |听

February 7, 12:30 pm | North Allen Library Lobby

The 91探花School of Music students will perform in this lunchtime concert series co-hosted by 91探花Music and 91探花Libraries.

Free |

February 8, 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Zoom

Hala Annabi, Associate Professor in the 91探花Information School, will discuss how instructors can apply neuroinclusive teaching practices. By recognizing neurodiversity and leveraging the unique strengths that neurodiverse students bring to the classroom, instructors can enhance individual and group learning, foster problem-solving, and help students develop critical thinking skills. Participants will leave this session with an understanding of the key principles of neuroinclusive teaching.

Free |

February 8, 4:00 – 5:30 pm | Thomson Hall

Perilous Intimacies explores how leading South Asian Muslim thinkers imagined and contested the boundaries of Hindu-Muslim friendship. This book illuminates the depth, complexity, and profound divisions of the Muslim intellectual traditions of South Asia on the question of Hindu-Muslim friendship. This talk will engage some key fragments of this recently published book.

SherAli Tareen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin & Marshall College. His research focuses on Muslim intellectual traditions and debates in early modern and modern South Asia. He has also written extensively on the interaction of Islam and secularism.

Free |

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 鈥淏ig Read.鈥�

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听Dr. Emily M. Bender, 91探花Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Master鈥檚 Program in Computational Linguistics.

Free |

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October 17, 7:30pm |听Kane Hall

Among the most striking everyday phenomena is the emergence of life from inanimate matter. William Bialek, professor at Princeton University, will explain how we know this everyday phenomena, which involved a quiet revolution in the ability to do physics experiments on living systems, in all their complexity.

A number of features of the living world hold a special fascination for physicists. On a dark night, eyes can count individual quanta of light. When we point to the source of a sound, we are measuring time differences of just a few millionths of a second. Even though each bird in a flock sees only a few neighbors, thousands of them can agree on a single direction and speed to fly. William will use these examples to show how these remarkable observations point toward deeper and perhaps more general theories, in the physics tradition.

Free |

October 19, 11:30am – 1:00pm | , Communication Building

Join the Translation Studies Hub for a lunchtime colloquium. Despite playing a significant role, translation often goes unremarked in scholarship and curricula on cultural histories of the environment. Jason Groves will share possibilities for introducing translation to the environmental humanities classroom. Cristina S谩nchez-Mart铆n will describe the design and implementation of a community-based translation module in ENGL 370, 鈥淚ntroduction to English Language鈥� and how students approached English(es) as a situated language practice, learning what it means to tell collective stories of translation while dwelling in incomplete closures.

Free |

October 19, 4:00 – 6:00pm | Hans Rosling Center

This author talk will bring attention to medical apartheid and how it heavily affects black and brown communities across the globe. Listen to prominent, multi award-winning, and independent health journalist Vidya Krishnan present an author talk followed by a Q&A titled Plagues, Philanthropies and the End of Imagination hosted by the School of Public Health, Department of Global Health and the South Asia Center.

Stay around for a reception following the event.

Free |

October 19, 5:00 – 6:00pm | Allen Library

The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Graduate Research Cluster is hosting a conversation with Julia Quinn, author of the听Bridgerton series, in conjunction with 91探花Libraries.

Julia Quinn is a best-selling author of historical romance fiction whose novels have appeared on听The New York Times听Best Sellers List and have garnered world-wide popularity. Her听Bridgerton听series was adapted for Netflix in 2020, and has since graced the screens of audiences all over the world, being crowned one of the streaming platform鈥檚 most popular shows of all time.

Free |

October 19, 7:30pm | Kane Hall

This lecture will reflect on the future of computing and the implications for science, business, and society, led by Dario Gil, IBM Senior Vice President and Director of Research.

Working at the intersection of information and biology, artificial intelligence advances and permeates through more applications affecting business and science. Powerful models are now emerging, enabling AI to create in new domains. Society is witnessing the growth of a new computing paradigm combining physics and information鈥攓uantum computing. Quantum computing has the potential to solve problems out of reach for even the most powerful supercomputers.

Free |

October 20, 7:30pm | 听Brechemin Auditorium

Faculty guitarist Michael Partington celebrates the release of his eleventh solo CD, “Concoctions from the Kitchen,” dedicated to the music of American composer Bryan Johanson. Featuring pieces written during the last five years, including “The Illustrated Guitar,” “Oranges,” and “Sonatine-Cahier,” the program also includes some of Johanson’s popular Preludes. The composer will be in attendance, and will take audience questions during a post-concert Q&A.

Free |

October 22, 10:00am – 3:00pm | 听Burke Museum

Celebrate International Archaeology Day with fun activities for all ages at the Burke Museum. Learn about ancient technologies, identify animal bones, sort shells, watch a flintknapping (stone tool making) demonstration, and more.

Find out more about archaeology techniques from Burke archaeologists and event partners as they share tabletop activities, and stories about artifacts and belongings.

Free – $22 tickets |

Beginning in October | 鈥淲ays of Knowing鈥� Podcast

鈥淲ays of Knowing鈥� is an eight-episode podcast connecting humanities research with current events and issues. This season features faculty from the 91探花College of Arts & Sciences as they explore race, immigration, history, the natural world 鈥� even comic books. Each episode analyzes a work, or an idea, and provides additional resources for learning more.

The podcast is a new collaboration between the The World According to Sound and the UW.

Free | More info

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Around the world, people begin each day by deciding what clothes to put on their bodies. We may not give it much thought beyond 鈥渟olid or stripe?鈥� But a current exhibit on clothing at 91探花 Libraries鈥� Special Collections takes a closer look at the history of what we wear and how we share ideas about clothing.听

鈥淓veryone wears clothes, making it one of the more personal and democratic forms of cultural heritage that we have,鈥� said curator Kat Lewis, a 91探花Special Collections librarian.

The History of Costume, a yearlong exhibit, features a rotating selection of prints, books and artwork inspired by dress from the early 19th century to the present, located in the Allen Library South basement. 鈥淐ostume鈥� encompasses everything from smocks to frocks, shoes and hats, anything with which we adorn our bodies.

Outfits are a form of self-expression, says Lewis, but also denote gender, class and wealth. We can learn much about society at a particular time from clothes 鈥� how a piece was constructed, where it was worn, and who wears what. As fashionable silhouettes changed over the decades, trade and technology also introduced new textiles, like cotton, acrylic and even PVC used in rain Wear. Depicting costume has also evolved 鈥� Victorian fashion plates eventually became magazines where fashion photography became an art in itself. Lewis finds the advertising in fashion publications particularly interesting, providing details about what might be happening in society and culture at that time.

鈥淎 lot of the time, people think that clothing and gender expression is kind of frivolous,鈥� said Lewis. 鈥淏ut there鈥檚 tons of important lines of inquiry about costume and clothing.鈥澨�

The exhibit changes quarterly, with materials and artwork on display through summer quarter 2023. More costume history resources can also be found in 91探花Libraries digital collections, from to the that looks at the former 91探花instructor鈥檚 travel and documentation of dress in the 1930鈥檚 in places like Central Europe and the Balkans.听

Lewis hopes the exhibit will be a starting point for those interested in learning more about costume. are available to see specific pieces from the Libraries鈥� costume-related collection in person. 91探花Libraries has the largest library collection in the Pacific Northwest and its houses valuable resources regarding the history and culture of the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

October 17, 1:30 PM | , Brechemin Auditorium, School of Music Building

Making his Seattle Opera debut in the role of King Marke in Tristan und Isolde, internationally acclaimed bass and recent GRAMMY winner Morris Robinson visits the 91探花 to share his story as a professional opera singer and his insights into the challenges of performing Wagner in the 21st century.

Free |

October 18, 7:30 PM| 91探花Public Lectures – Reckoning with Race: Fluidity, Invention, and Reality with Ann Morning, Kane Hall

The notion that race is a social construct, rather than an objective physical reality, is widely accepted 鈥� except in areas that include biomedical research, debates about transracial identities, and sports. In this talk, Ann Morning will dissect the reasons we hold firmly to the 18th-century understanding of race in these domains.

Free | More info

October 18, 6 PM | , online

Rena Priest (Lhaq鈥檛emish Nation), the Washington State Poet Laureate, has received numerous awards for her writing, including an American Book Award for her debut poetry collection, 鈥淧atriarchy Blues.鈥� Priest will share a reading followed by a conversation with 91探花Ta(oma professor Danica Miller (Puyallup), with an opportunity for audience questions afterward. The emcee for the event will be Annie Downey and the discussion moderator will be Anne Jenner, 鈥�93, both from the 91探花Libraries.

Free |

October 19, 7 PM | , Kane Hall

How and why did haiku come about? Why are haiku so short? Why do they include precisely 17 syllables in a 5-7-5 arrangement? This talk, which presumes no knowledge of Japan or the Japanese language, will answer these questions and more. In an engaging overview of this fascinating topic, Professor Paul Atkins will discuss the origins of haiku in medieval Japan, introduce the major classic poets, and explore the ways in which haiku is linked to other forms of Japanese literature and art. Haiku is not just a poetic genre鈥攊t is a way of looking at the world and, for many people, a way of life. This talk will be followed by a moderated roundtable discussion between Professor Paul Atkins, and haiku poets Scott Oki and Mitsuko Miller.

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鈥檚 Jews lived, worked, and thrived (or sometimes floundered) in the Arab

Near East.

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

• October 19, 4 PM | Lecture 1. Arabian Judaism and Early Islam
• October 26, 4 PM | Lecture 2. The Jews of Medieval Baghdad in the Abbasid Era
• November 2, 3 PM | Lecture 3. Jews and Muslims in Colonial Algeria: Between Intimacy and Resentment
• November 10, 3 PM | Coffeehouses, Parks, and Neighborhoods: Jews and Muslims
  in 20th-Century Cairo

Free |

Autumn Quarter:

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

(in person or Zoom).

October 20, 11 AM: Annual President鈥檚 Address, Henry Art Gallery Auditorium and online

Join President Ana Mari Cauce for her annual address to learn about her vision for the year ahead and the 91探花鈥檚 critical role in accelerating change for the public good through education, innovation, discovery and collaboration. Questions can be submitted in advance and during the event to presofuw@uw.edu.

Free | RSVP

October 20 – 22: , Meany Hall

For 50 years, Pilobolus has tested the limits of human physicality with choreography that changed the look of modern dance. Now for this anniversary celebration, Pilobolus questions its own 鈥済ivens,鈥� turns its traditions sideways, and brings its past into the future. As fresh and vibrant as ever, this feisty, shape-shifting arts organism puts the 鈥淥h!鈥� in 鈥婤IG FIVE-OH! and continues to morph its way thrillingly into audiences鈥� hearts and minds. The celebration includes signature works, from vintage classics to their trendsetting innovations in shadow play.

91探花Faculty, 91探花Staff, 91探花Retirees and 91探花Alumni Association (UWAA): 10% off regular-priced single tickets, subject to availability. A valid 91探花ID (e.g. Husky card or UWAA card) is required; limit of one ticket per valid ID.

91探花Student: $10 91探花Student Tickets are available in Section B for most Meany Center visiting artist performances. A discount of 20% off regular-priced single tickets is available to 91探花Students in Section A. Limit of one 91探花Student ticket per valid Husky ID.

October 20, 2:30 PM | , HUB听

Ploughshares Fund President Emma Belcher in conversation with Jackson School faculty Christopher Jones and Scott Montgomery on the current state of nuclear threats within the confines of the escalating crisis in Ukraine. Together they will explore the geopolitical impacts of Russia鈥檚 war and the importance of diplomacy at this critical time.

Free |

October 20, 6 PM | , Alder Hall Auditorium听

Dr. Ali Mokdad will explore the drivers of health disparities in the United States among racial/ethnic groups. Dr. Mokdad will discuss the extent to which these patterns vary geographically at the local scale and how they are not well understood. He will address the urgent need to address the shared underlying factors driving these widespread disparities and the path forward to improve population health in the US.

Free |

Highlights of current and upcoming exhibitions:听

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

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

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

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

Maysoon Zayid 鈥� Survival of the Unfittest

October 26, 6:30 PM | Meany Performing Arts Center

Join comedian, disability advocate, and author Maysoon Zayid for 鈥淪urvival of the Unfittest.鈥� This one-hour talk will tackle everything from diversity to cats named Beyonce through Maysoon鈥檚 humorous lens.

Maysoon is a graduate of and a Guest Comedian in Residence at Arizona State University. She is a Princeton University Arts Fellow for 2021-23 and will begin two years of teaching and community collaboration in September. Maysoon is the co-founder/co-executive producer of the New York Arab American Comedy Festival and The Muslim Funny Fest.听 She was a full-time On Air Contributor to听Countdown with Keith Olbermann听and a columnist for The Daily Beast. She has most recently appeared on Oprah Winfrey Networks听In Deep Shift, 60 Minutes, and听ABC News. Maysoon had the most viewed TED Talk of 2014 and was named 1 of 100 Women of 2015 by BBC.

Free | Register & More info

Working, Together: “Troublesome Questions” Organizing in Higher Ed

October 27, 6:00 – 7:30 PM听|

BOOK TALK: Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry

October 28, 4:00 PM |

Join the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies and author James Steinhoff as we discuss his recent book, “Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).

The book argues that Marxist theory is essential for understanding the contemporary industrialization of the form of artificial intelligence (AI) called machine learning. It includes a political economic history of AI, tracking how it went from a fringe research interest for a handful of scientists in the 1950s to a centerpiece of cybernetic capital fifty years later. It also includes a political economic study of the scale, scope and dynamics of the contemporary AI industry as well as a labour process analysis of commercial machine learning software production, based on interviews with workers and management in AI companies around the world, ranging from tiny startups to giant technology firms.

Free |

Anne Gould Hauberg Artist Images Series featuring Juan Alonso-Rodr铆guez

October 28, 4:30 PM |听Online

Tony Geist, On Translating Poetry: Treading the Line between the Excessively Literal and the Excessively Liberal

October 29, 12:30 – 2:00 PM听| Online

Looking for more?

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Dennis Hartmann, professor of Atmospheric Sciences, has agreed to serve as interim dean in the from July 1 until Maya Tolstoy begins as the Maggie Walker Dean on Jan. 1, 2022.

听previously served as interim dean of the College when it formed in 2009 until July 1, 2010, when the outgoing dean, Lisa Graumlich, began her term. As an atmospheric scientist who studies the atmosphere鈥檚 role in climate variability and change, and how the atmosphere interacts with the ocean in a changing climate, Hartmann鈥檚 principal areas of expertise are atmospheric dynamics, remote sensing, and mathematical and statistical techniques for data analysis. He has been an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow and has received numerous awards throughout his career, including the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal and the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal from the American Meteorological Society. Hartmann is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

At the , Lauren Pressley and Denise Pan have agreed to share the duties of dean until Sept. 1, when Simon Neame begins his term. Pressley will hold the formal title of interim dean, while she and Pan will share the business title of co-interim deans.

As associate dean for research and learning services, is responsible for strategic visioning, policy and program development, management, and overall excellence in Access Services, Information Technology Services and Digital Strategies, Learning Services, Research Services, and Scholarly Communication and Publishing. Prior this, she was an associate dean of the 91探花Libraries and director of the 91探花Tacoma campus library. Pressley also was the director of听Learning Environments for Virginia Tech University Libraries and held several roles related to instruction and technology at Wake Forest University鈥檚 library.

is the associate dean of University Libraries for Collections and Content, leading the areas of Acquisitions and Rapid Cataloging Services, Cataloging and Metadata Services, Collection Analysis and Strategy and Preservation Services. Previously, she was the associate director of technical services for the Auraria Library, administered by the University of Colorado Denver, which also serves the Metropolitan State University of Denver and the Community College of Denver. Prior to that, Pan was the public services librarian at the Johnson & Wales University, Denver Campus.

Neame will take the position vacated by Vice Provost of Digital Initiatives and Dean of University Libraries Betsy Wilson, who plans to retire July 1 after a nearly 30-year career with 91探花Libraries, including 20 years as dean. Richards plans to appoint an interim dean to fill the position until Neame arrives.

鈥淲e are fortunate and pleased that Mr. Neame is bringing to the 91探花his expertise in digitization, open access and preserving special collections,鈥� Richards said. 鈥淗e recognizes the important role libraries play in student success, as well as in engaging communities, opening access to research, and building partnerships through the university and community.鈥�

As dean of , Neame will lead a network of 16 academic research libraries across all three campuses, and the 91探花Press.

鈥淭he 91探花Libraries is one of the top research libraries in the country, and is a leader in advancing research, access to knowledge and promoting open scholarship,鈥� Neame said.

鈥淚 am very excited by the opportunity to work with such an outstanding team at the Libraries and Press, as well as the faculty and students at the UW, and to return to the beautiful Pacific Northwest.鈥�

Currently the dean of Libraries at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Neame leads the W.E.B. Du Bois Library, the Science and Engineering Library and the Wadsworth Library at the Mount Ida campus. As associate university librarian and director of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia鈥檚 Vancouver campus, Neame also was responsible for the humanities and social sciences library, the health sciences library and several subject libraries.

Neame has demonstrated his commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, work he plans to continue and expand at the UW. He has led a number of initiatives aimed at preserving Indigenous knowledge and amplifying the voices and stories of underrepresented communities through digitization programs, such as his work with the archives of civil rights activist and writer W.E.B. Du Bois. Neame鈥檚 own research explores the intersection between libraries and museums, and opportunities for integration across collections through open discovery systems.

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Neame holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree in English and history from the University of Victoria and a master of library and information studies from the University of British Columbia.