October 1, 4:00 – 6:00 pm | Democracy in Focus Series: Polarization, Persuasion, and Talking Across Difference, Husky Union Building & Livestream

Join the College of Arts & Sciences Social Sciences Division for a talk on Polarization, Persuasion, and Talking Across Difference as part of the 91探花Democracy in Focus Lecture Series. This first lecture of the series will feature Mark Smith from Political Science; and Ralina Joseph and Carmen Gonzalez from Communication and the Center for Communication, Difference & Equity.

Every Tuesday leading up to the 2024 election, 91探花faculty members will share their expertise through a public lecture on an election-related topic. The series spans 91探花partners, including the College of Arts & Sciences, the Evans School, the School of Law, and the Information School, with support from the Office of the Provost.

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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�

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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March 7, 7:30 pm | 听Meany Hall

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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 .

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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