Economics Prospective Student Info Session
Students who study economics learn to decode the systems that are a part of our everyday lives using models and a variety of social and economic data to analyze how decisions are made, and how limited resources are made, traded, and used.
In this session, students will learn helpful information about the Department of Economics Undergraduate Program and its Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science majors. Students will also have an opportunity to meet with Department of Economics advisers, and get helpful tips on pursuing Economics as a major at the UW.
This session will be offered online, via Zoom, at the following link:
Join Zoom Meeting
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Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: econadv@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Thursday, March 20, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpdemhqDooG9IwzzXk_lGdLJZIjDNcCrFg.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. 228 Memorial Screening & Director Q&A: "In Search of a Mixed Identity" with Co-directors Ming-zheng HUANG & Chen-Hui LIEN
In partnership with the Taiwanese Association of Greater Seattle and Seed Kite Foundation, the UW Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program welcomes you to our 228 Memorial Screening & Director Q&A: In Search of a Mixed Identity with Co-directors Ming-zheng HUANG & Chen-Hui LIEN!
About the Film
In Taiwan, at the heart of Tainan City, there is a park and a road named after Thng Tek-chiong, though most local citizens don't know who he is.
Thng Tek-chiong was born in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period. His father, a Japanese policeman, died when Thng was eight during an armed confrontation between the locals and the authorities. Following in his father's footsteps, he joined the police force before becoming a lawyer. After World War II, he forgot the lesson taught by his father’s history and died in the February 28 incident, a conflict that erupted amid the transition of political power in Taiwan. As a half-Taiwanese, half-Japanese man, Thng witnessed the injustices of colonization and spent his life…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Taiwan Studies (taiwanst@uw.edu). Event Types: Screenings. Special Events. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/19s6o2WFKY/.
Saturday, March 22, 2025, 2:30 PM – 5:30 PM.
Lincoln Square Cinemas
700 Bellevue Way NE #310
Bellevue, WA 98004, USA.
Know Our Rights: An Information Session for Immigrants and Allies at UW
“Know Our Rights: An Information Session for Immigrants and Allies at UW”
An information session for UW employees
Monday, March 24, 2025 4:30-6:00pm
Via Zoom (link provided upon registration)
Presented by the Director of UW Law School’s Immigration Law Clinic and moderated by teaching faculty, this session will provide an overview of varying immigrant categories, individuals’ rights, protections at the national and local levels, and the current state of enforcement practices on college campuses. The last part of the session will involve interactive engagement with presenters and audience members as we collectively discuss UW guidance on what to do if ICE shows up on our campus, including sharing resources and toolkits for developing concrete response plans for individuals or units should the need arise.
ASL interpretation and real time captioning will be provided. To request other accommodations, please contact UW Disability Services Office at dso@uw.edu and cc event organizer hdevans@uw.edu.
RSVP…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/know-our-rights-an-information-session-for-immigrants-and-allies-at-uw-tickets-1284690516919?aff=oddtdtcreator. Campus room: Zoom Registration. Accessibility Contact: dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Monday, March 24, 2025, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM.
For more info visit www.eventbrite.com. Tax LL.M. Information Session
During this information session, prospective students will learn about the UW School of Law's Tax Law LL.M, program. You will have a chance to meet with program faculty and staff and ask questions about the program and the application process.
Since its inception in 1995, the Tax Law LL.M. program has been dedicated to providing students in-depth instruction and guidance in technical and practical aspects of tax law. Our program teaches the necessary skills for innovative tax planning in all areas — federal, state and local, international and estate, gift and trust tax. Our practice-oriented curriculum accommodates both traditional students and working professionals. Most classes are offered in the late afternoon or early evening. Students may apply for admission to any quarter and students may enroll on either a full-time or part-time basis.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98585669077. Accessibility Contact: ruhlig@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: Prospective Tax LLM Students.
Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
online.
Silkroad Ensemble: Uplifted Voices with Special Guest Pura Fé
In a stunning collaboration of global instrumentation and strings, Silkroad champions women and non-binary members of the ensemble with special guest Tuscarora/Taíno musician Pura Fé.
Drawing inspiration from the folk and ancestral music of Japan, China, Armenia, Ireland and the Hebrides, and native cultures across North America, Silkroad’s newest project Uplifted Voices brings together a collection of distinctive and powerful musical origins within a contemporary musical tapestry.
Curated by Artistic Partner Rhiannon Giddens.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Accessibility Contact: ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Student Activities. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/CxBk7MPSoN3LcPdZ/.
Friday, March 28, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM.
For more info visit meanycenter.org. GETSEA Simulcast | Hot Stuff: Exposing Indonesia's Geothermal Dreams
"Hot Stuff: Exposing Indonesia's Geothermal Dreams" is an AIFIS film award winning documentary and part of a trio of Indonesian films that delve into energy policies in Indonesia, corporate ties to those policies, and their detrimental effects on local environments and populations.
Director Dandhy Laksono and Producer Cypri Dale will join GETSEA live from the University of Michigan’s Center for Southeast Asia Studies as 20 universities from across North America connect via Zoom to watch Hot Stuff simultaneously, followed by a discussion about the film, energy policy in Indonesia, and the new Prabowo Subianto administration’s response to local grassroots movements in the country.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: THO 317. Accessibility Contact: csead@uw.edu. Event Types: Screenings. Target Audience: Free and open to the public. Registration advised.
Monday, March 31, 2025, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Guest Pianist Lecture-Recital: Catherine Koutsky
Pianist Catherine Kautsky, chair of the keyboard department at Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, presents a lecture-recital: “Debussy’s Paris: Poets, Politics and the Piano.”
FREE admission.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Music Building (MUS). Campus room: Brechemin Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: dos@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 5:00 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Social Justice Pathways in GWSS, BASW, and ECO
Are you passionate about helping others and furthering social justice? Do you want to explore majors that will prepare you for careers in public education, social work, counseling, and other work that serves your communities?
Join advisers from the School of Social Work, the College of Education, and the Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies for a conversation about social justice pathways at UW. We will cover: What you’ll learn as a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work; Education, Communities and Organizations; and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies student , How to apply to each major , How these fields are interconnected and options for double majoring/minoring , What careers alumni pursue after graduation, 🗓️ Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 🕔 Time: 5pm - 6pm PST, 📍 Location: Virtual event (REGISTER HERE )
If you have questions, please email Alejandra (ECO) at alebai@uw.edu, Adrian (GWSS) at gwssadvs@uw.edu, or Shyla (BASW) at uwsocialwork@uw.edu.
We’re excited to see…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: gwssadvs@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Student Activities.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
Zoom.
First Wednesday Concert
Students of the UW School of Music perform in this lunchtime concert series co-hosted by UW Music and UW Libraries.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Event Types: Performances.
Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. GWSS Spring Colloquium: Duke Feminist Theory Workshop Report
Join Us!
for an exciting report back on this year's Duke Feminist Theory Workshop (FTW)
Join GWSS Ph.D. students Dinka Benitez-Piraino and Nastasia Paul-Gera as they share the knowledge and insights they gained at the 18th annual Duke Feminist Theory Workshop.
What is FTW?
A dynamic gathering where internationally recognized scholars and emerging voices in feminist theory come together to spark diverse, focused debates.
This year’s workshop featured keynote talks by:
Nicole Fleetwood, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Sophie Lewis, and Linda Zerilli.
Dinka and Nastasia will discuss key themes and conversations from the event—join us for an engaging discussion!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Campus room: PDL B110 G. Accessibility Contact: gwss@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
UW Astrobiology Program's 25th Anniversary Lecture Series
UWAB is excited to announce that we are hosting a public lecture series to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the program in April 2025! On April 2nd, 9th, 16th, and 23rd we will be welcoming the program director and several of our distinguished alumni to give free public talks on their exciting research. All talks will take place in Kane Hall (Room 120) with doors open at 6:30 pm, and lectures beginning at 7 pm. Each event will feature an hour long lecture followed by up to 45 min of Q&A with our speaker. RSVPs are required for both in person and zoom attendance, please RSVP at this link! Our exciting speaker and topic list can be found below: April 2, 2025 – “Exploring the Frontiers of Life in the Universe: 25 Years of the UW Astrobiology Program“ Dr. Victoria Meadows, UW Astrobiology Program Director Professor of Astronomy at the University of Washington, April 9, 2025 – “From the Deep Ocean to Deep Space, Dr. Giada Arney, UW Astrobiology Program Graduate 2016,NASA Research Scientist & Interim Project…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Online Meeting Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uw-astrobiology-programs-25th-anniversary-lecture-series-tickets-1114163285379?aff=oddtdtcreator. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Special Events. Target Audience: Public.
Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit urldefense.com. Economics Prospective Student Info Session
Students who study economics learn to decode the systems that are a part of our everyday lives using models and a variety of social and economic data to analyze how decisions are made, and how limited resources are made, traded, and used.
In this session, students will learn helpful information about the Department of Economics Undergraduate Program and its Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science majors. Students will also have an opportunity to meet with Department of Economics advisers, and get helpful tips on pursuing Economics as a major at the UW.
This session will be offered online, via Zoom, at the following link:Join Zoom Meeting
https://washington.zoom.us/j/95427263003
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Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: econadv@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Thursday, April 3, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpde6qqDgqGtfMUkSMx18rlP-YU2BGeUh8.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. TALK | Institutes for Advanced Studies: A case study and some reflections by Martin Cloonan, Univeristy of Turku (Finland)
About the Talk
Institutes for Advanced Studies (IASs) are now expanding across the globe. First pioneered in Princeton in the 1930s, IASs can now be found in almost every corner of the globe. But what IS and IAS and what SHOULD it be? Using the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) in Finland as case study, this talk will examine such issues in the contemporary context. It will also report recent developments in the Nordic countries and offer some thoughts about future prospects.
About the Speaker
Professor Martin Cloonan is the Director of the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) at the University of Turku, Finland. He was previously Professor of Popular Music Politics at the University of Glasgow. Martin is the coordinating editor of the journal Popular Music (Cambridge University Press) and his research interests cover the political economy of the music industries. Martin's latest book is the co-edited collection Made in Scotland, a series of essays on popular music in Scotland. He has…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: 317. Accessibility Contact: cweseuc@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Meetings.
Thursday, April 3, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Alonzo King LINES Ballet 'Deep River'
Alonzo King LINES Ballet, led by choreographer Alonzo King, bends the lines between classical and contemporary aesthetics while drawing from deeply rooted cultural traditions.
The company presents Deep River, a soulful collaboration with Grammy–winning vocalist Lisa Fischer and jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran, that melds dance with Black spirituals, inviting audiences to look at human beings as the pinnacle of creation. In King’s words, “love is the ocean that we rose from, swim in, and will one day return to” — and that love can set us free.
"Gripping, urgently beautiful choreography." — San Francisco Chronicle.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Accessibility Contact: ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Student Activities. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/xwegZvq5gfiXuocq/.
Thursday, April 3, 2025, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
For more info visit meanycenter.org. Psychology Social & Personality Edwards Seminar with PJ Henry, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology, NYU Abu Dhabi
Who’s Afraid of Femininity? Valuing the Feminine in Psychological Science, PJ Henry, Associate Professor of Psychology, New York University Abu Dhabi
Two general, competing approaches to addressing gender inequality have emerged since the 19th century. One is based on the assumption that there are few differences between women and men, and that women should therefore be treated equally to men (called “equality feminism”); the other is based on the assumption that there are differences between women and men, and that organizations and governments should value more what women have to offer (called “difference feminism”). The dominant approach today, both in psychology and popular culture, is to embrace equality feminism and to reject difference feminism due to its putative essentialization of devalued traits in women. In this talk, I propose this dominant approach may be misguided and predicated on unhelpful ways of thinking about gender. Difference feminism can be reframed as a useful approach that does not…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kincaid Hall (KIN). Campus room: Kincaid 102/108. Accessibility Contact: chairpsy@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Faculty, students, staff.
Friday, April 4, 2025, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
University of Washington International Security Colloquium (UWISC): "The Blame Game: Militias, civilians, and the states' accountability-effectiveness trade-off"
University of Washington International Security Colloquium (UWISC): "The Blame Game: Militias, civilians, and the states' accountability-effectiveness trade-off"
Friday, April 4, 2025 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Smith Hall - SMI 40A
Ian Callison - "The Blame Game: Militias, civilians, and the states' accountability-effectiveness trade-off".
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: Smith Hall - SMI 40A. Accessibility Contact: polisci@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, April 4, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
Guest Artist Concert: Bennardo Larson Duo
The violin and piano duo—Maya Bennardo (violin) and Karl Larson (piano)—performs works by recent Rome Prize winner (and School of Music alumnus) Anthony Vine and others.
FREE admission.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Music Building (MUS). Campus room: Brechemin Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: dos@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Friday, April 4, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Alonzo King LINES Ballet 'Deep River'
Alonzo King LINES Ballet, led by choreographer Alonzo King, bends the lines between classical and contemporary aesthetics while drawing from deeply rooted cultural traditions.
The company presents Deep River, a soulful collaboration with Grammy–winning vocalist Lisa Fischer and jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran, that melds dance with Black spirituals, inviting audiences to look at human beings as the pinnacle of creation. In King’s words, “love is the ocean that we rose from, swim in, and will one day return to” — and that love can set us free.
"Gripping, urgently beautiful choreography." — San Francisco Chronicle.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Accessibility Contact: ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Student Activities. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/xwegZvq5gfiXuocq/.
Friday, April 4, 2025, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
For more info visit meanycenter.org. Reel Memories: Asian American Home Movies Screening on First Hill
Join us for Reel Memories: Asian American Home Movies Screening – a special screening of historic Asian American home movies from the greater Seattle Area. Free and open to the public on Saturday, April 5, from 1:00 to 2:30 pm at the Japanese Baptist Church, 160 Broadway, Seattle. The historic home movies from private collections and the UW Libraries Special Collections feature family events, farms, and scenes from pre-war communities in our region. The event is spearheaded by UW Cinema & Media Studies doctoral candidate Sarah Choi whose research interests include race and cinema, orphan films, and found footage filmmaking. Special Collections is co-sponsoring the event. Moving image and sound archivist Ashlyn Higareda will be there to present clips from Special Collections films. RSVP for this free event at https://shorturl.at/Abp50.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: snchoi@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Screenings.
Saturday, April 5, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
For more info visit shorturl.at. Alonzo King LINES Ballet 'Deep River'
Alonzo King LINES Ballet, led by choreographer Alonzo King, bends the lines between classical and contemporary aesthetics while drawing from deeply rooted cultural traditions.
The company presents Deep River, a soulful collaboration with Grammy–winning vocalist Lisa Fischer and jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran, that melds dance with Black spirituals, inviting audiences to look at human beings as the pinnacle of creation. In King’s words, “love is the ocean that we rose from, swim in, and will one day return to” — and that love can set us free.
"Gripping, urgently beautiful choreography." — San Francisco Chronicle.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Accessibility Contact: ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Student Activities. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/xwegZvq5gfiXuocq/.
Saturday, April 5, 2025, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
For more info visit meanycenter.org. The Big Read: Keynote Conversation with Heather Cox Richardson
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Accessibility Contact: Greta Essig. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Academics. Special Events. Student Activities. Target Audience: UW students, faculty, and staff.
Monday, April 7, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit artsci.washington.edu. Virtual Talk | Trump in the World 2.0: The Indo-Pacific
Join us for a free livestream talk and discussion on the Indo-Pacific as part of our Trump in the World 2.0 Spring Lecture Series on the international impact of the second Trump presidency. RSVP here for the online link, Featuring UW faulty speakers: David Bachman, Radhika Govindrajan and James Lin
Moderator: Danny Hoffman, Director of the Jackson School of International Studies and Stanley D. Golub Chair of International Studies
Questions? Email jsiscom@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/trump-in-world-series. Accessibility Contact: jsiscom@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, April 7, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:20 PM.
Humap Mapping Platform Workshop & Trial Run
The Open Scholarship Commons invites you to a virtual onboarding workshop and trial run of Humap, a dynamic digital mapping platform designed for researchers, educators, and storytellers. Humap enables users to create interactive, multimedia-rich maps integrating text, images, videos, and data. It is a powerful tool for research visualization, digital humanities projects, and place-based pedagogy.
Join us to explore how Humap can support your research projects, enhance your teaching, and facilitate innovative storytelling. Whether you’re a graduate student, TA, instructor, professor, or researcher, this session will provide hands-on experience and insights into the platform’s potential.
This is a great opportunity to get acquainted with Humap, experiment with its features, and discuss possible applications for research and pedagogy. We encourage you to attend and help shape how this platform can be used within the UW community.
We look forward to your participation!
For questions, please reach out to Aubr…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81687921358?pwd=VfVu9LnNP2bY3bjtpAa6K26ySlS76E.1#success. Accessibility Contact: aubreyjw@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
The Pacific Circuit - A Book Talk with Alexis Madrigal
The Pacific Circuit is a deeply researched work of social and political history and an intimate portrait of an essential American city that has been at the crossroads of the defining themes of the twenty-first century. Join us on April 8 from 4pm to 5:30pm in HUB 340 as this award-winning journalist and broadcaster speaks about how a logistical revolution that began in Oakland has transformed urban America.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Accessibility Contact: Histinfo@u.washington.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Special Events. Target Audience: UW students and faculty.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
Lara Downes 'This Land'
Iconoclastic pianist and cultural visionary Lara Downes presents This Land, celebrating the spirit of resilience and imagination that grows at the crossroads of the American journey.
The program reflects a wide diversity of voices, both new and familiar, illustrating the beauty that resides in the broad landscape of American music, from Scott Joplin to Angelica Negrón, Florence Price and George Gershwin.
Curated by Artistic Partner Rhiannon Giddens
PROGRAM
SCOTT JOPLIN: Prelude from Treemonisha; Peacherine Rag; Bethena Waltz; Maple Leaf Rag
ARTURO O’FARRILL: Kaleidoscope
FLORENCE PRICE: Piano Sonata in E Minor
KIAN RAVAEI: Variations on “This Land is Your Land”
ANGELICA NEGRÓN: Sueño Recurrente
TRADITIONAL: Shenandoah
WILLIAM GRANT STILL: Summerland
DUKE ELLINGTON: Come Sunday
SHAWN OKBEPHOLO: Amazing Grace
JAKE HEGGIE: Looking Back, Facing Forward
SAMORA PINDERHUGHES: Transformation
MARGARET BONDS: Spiritual Suite
GEORGE GERSHWIN: I Loves You Porgy (arr. Nina Simone)
GEORGE GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Accessibility Contact: ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Student Activities. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/tY2bby583Ednein5/.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM.
For more info visit meanycenter.org. TALK | Finnish/Nordic Perspectives on the War in Ukraine by Ilmari Käihkö, University of Helsinki
Dr. Ilmari Käihkö is a University Researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, an Associate Professor of War Studies at the Department of War Studies, Swedish Defence University, and a veteran of the Finnish Defence Forces. He has studied the war in Ukraine since 2017. His latest book, ”Slava Ukraini!” Strategy and the spirit of Ukrainian resistance 2014 -2023, was published in open access by Helsinki University Press in December 2023.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: 317. Accessibility Contact: cweseuc@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
UW Astrobiology Program's 25th Anniversary Lecture Series
UWAB is excited to announce that we are hosting a public lecture series to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the program in April 2025! On April 2nd, 9th, 16th, and 23rd we will be welcoming the program director and several of our distinguished alumni to give free public talks on their exciting research. All talks will take place in Kane Hall (Room 120) with doors open at 6:30 pm, and lectures beginning at 7 pm. Each event will feature an hour long lecture followed by up to 45 min of Q&A with our speaker. RSVPs are required for both in person and zoom attendance, please RSVP at this link! Our exciting speaker and topic list can be found below: April 2, 2025 – “Exploring the Frontiers of Life in the Universe: 25 Years of the UW Astrobiology Program“ Dr. Victoria Meadows, UW Astrobiology Program Director Professor of Astronomy at the University of Washington, April 9, 2025 – “From the Deep Ocean to Deep Space, Dr. Giada Arney, UW Astrobiology Program Graduate 2016,NASA Research Scientist & Interim Project…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Online Meeting Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uw-astrobiology-programs-25th-anniversary-lecture-series-tickets-1114163285379?aff=oddtdtcreator. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Special Events. Target Audience: Public.
Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit urldefense.com. 31st Annual REECAS Northwest Conference
Presenter and Participant Registration Required - Registration will open in mid-February
Call for Papers open until February 17 at 11:59 pm. Apply via the conference website. REECAS Northwest, the annual ASEEES Northwest Regional Conference for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, welcomes students, faculty, independent scholars, and language educators from the United States and abroad. Established in 1994, REECAS Northwest is an important annual event for scholars and students in the Pacific Northwest and beyond, with participant and partner universities from across the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. The interdisciplinary conference is organized by the University of Washington’s Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies. Sometimes abbreviated as “REECAS NW” the conference was recognized as the official ASEEES northwest regional conference by the ASEEES Board of Directors in 2017.
The conference hosts many panels on a variety of topics from a wide…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Accessibility Contact: reecasnw@uw.edu. Event Types: Conferences. Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, April 10, 2025 – Saturday, April 12, 2025.
For more info visit jsis.washington.edu. Humap Mapping Platform Workshop & Trial Run
The Open Scholarship Commons invites you to a virtual onboarding workshop and trial run of Humap, a dynamic digital mapping platform designed for researchers, educators, and storytellers. Humap enables users to create interactive, multimedia-rich maps integrating text, images, videos, and data. It is a powerful tool for research visualization, digital humanities projects, and place-based pedagogy.
Join us to explore how Humap can support your research projects, enhance your teaching, and facilitate innovative storytelling. Whether you’re a graduate student, TA, instructor, professor, or researcher, this session will provide hands-on experience and insights into the platform’s potential.
This is a great opportunity to get acquainted with Humap, experiment with its features, and discuss possible applications for research and pedagogy. We encourage you to attend and help shape how this platform can be used within the UW community.
We look forward to your participation!
For questions, please reach out to Aubr…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81687921358?pwd=VfVu9LnNP2bY3bjtpAa6K26ySlS76E.1#success. Accessibility Contact: aubreyjw@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Thursday, April 10, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
UW Colloquium in Political Theory: Anna Nguyen UW, Ph.D. Student in Political Science
UW Colloquium in Political Theory: Anna Nguyen UW, Ph.D. Student in Political Science
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
The Olson Room, Gowen Hall room 1A.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A. Accessibility Contact: polisci@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, April 10, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
Guided Tour of artists & poets
Join us for a guided tour through our current exhibition, artists & poets. Together we will explore the legacy of collaboration between artists and poets from the Harlem Renaissance through to the Modern Day.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Art Building (ART). Accessibility Contact: jacoblawrencegallery@uw.edu. Event Types: Student Activities. Special Events. Target Audience: Students and Faculty.
Thursday, April 10, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Publish & Protect Your Research: Build a Book Fast with Manifold
Learn how to create the world's fastest book using the Manifold digital book publishing platform! Manifold offers the opportunity to upload texts, seamlessly integrate images, media, and more into your text, and allows users to annotate texts within the platform. You'll come away from this workshop with a text of your choice (either your own or a sample text that will be provided) loaded into Manifold with images added to the text. This workshop includes a mix of lectures and hands-on time that you’ll spend learning to build your own digital book.
This event will be online via Zoom. Please register before the workshop to receive your Manifold account.
This workshop is part of the OSC Push to Publish Series.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/91306163513. Accessibility Contact: aubreyjw@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Thursday, April 10, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
'Borders of Identities: Second Generation, Multiculturalism, and Geopolitics in Taiwan' with Lan Pei-Chia, National Taiwan University with Lan Pei-Chia, National Taiwan University
The influx of marriage migrants and their children of mixed heritages has transformed the ethnic landscape and multicultural policies in East Asia. In Taiwan, the evolving policy regime—what I term “geopolitical multiculturalism”—has linked Southeast Asian immigrants and their children to geopolitical interests and multicultural recognition, while PRC immigrants and their children are entangled in the rising geopolitical tensions across the Taiwan Strait and the contestation of national identity. Drawing on in-depth interviews with sixty adult children from cross-border marriages in Taiwan, Lan's research examines how the second generation—a diverse group with intersecting social differences—manage their identities to access multicultural dividends and circumvent geopolitical stigma. She identifies four major strategies of identity work: majority identity, biculturalism, rescaling, and differentiation.
Pei-Chia Lan is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at National Taiwan University and 2024-25…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: HUB 340. Accessibility Contact: Accommodation requests related to disability or health condition should be made at least ten days ahead of event date. Contact taiwanst@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Free and open to the public.
Thursday, April 10, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Faculty Recital: Tekla Cunningham, violin
Artist-in-residence Tekla Cunningham plays works for solo baroque violin by Pisendel, Telemann, and a newly commissioned work by Melia Watras in this recital combining music for solo baroque violin with the stunning choreography of Anna Mansbridge. See, hear and feel the heartbreak and solace of Bach’s iconic Ciaccona as embodied on the Meany Hall stage by dancers Tshedzom Tingke and Alejandro Frederickson in new choreography by Mansbridge in this collaboration between the School of Music and the newly minted Seattle Bach Festival.
Tickets: $20 general; $15 UW employee, retiree, UWAA member; $10 students, seniors.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Meany Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Arts UW Ticket Office at 206-543-4880 or ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Thursday, April 10, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. LUNCHTIME WORKSHOP | Mujeres en puestos de elección pública a nivel municipal: madres, esposas y ciudadanas
Professor Liliana Castañeda (University of Guadalajara) will present her paper on women and electoral office at the municipal level in the Mexican state of Jalisco. This workshop forms part of an ongoing series, Dangerous Subjects, hosted by Latin American and Caribbean Studies, which is oriented around providing constructive feedback for works in progress. This event will be conducted in Spanish and the paper will be pre-circulated. Please RSVP to vfreije@uw.edu to confirm attendance. .
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 202. Accessibility Contact: Katie Sandler, ksandl@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Workshops.
Friday, April 11, 2025, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
'Han Kang and Writing History' with Ji-Eun Lee, Washington University, St. Louis
The talk, held in celebration of Han Kang winning the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, will introduce the author and highlight some of her major works. While incorporating excerpts to showcase the poignancy of her language, various issues, including gender and ethics of storytelling, will be noted in reading Han’s writings. The main focus will be Human Acts (소년이 온다 2014) and The White Book (흰 2016), two of Han Kang’s works that center on the historical past. From that vantage point, the talk will examine the shift in Han Kang’s literary trajectory from the wounds and pain of individuals to the brutality and compassion inherent in human beings.
, Ji-Eun Lee Ph.D. (Harvard, 2006), is an associate professor of Korean Language and Literature and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research interests range from the nineteenth century to contemporary times, covering topics such as women and gender, print culture and book history, memory and post memory, and travel and domesticity.…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: Thomson Hall 317. Accessibility Contact: Accommodation requests related to disability or health condition should be made at least ten days ahead of event date. Contact UWCKS@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Free and open to the public. Registration advised.
Friday, April 11, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
From Seattle to Sudan: A Glocal Forum on the Sudanese Civil War
This event is free and open to the public.
In April 2023, civil war erupted in Sudan. To mark the second anniversary of the ongoing humanitarian crisis, “From Sudan to Seattle” will provide space for local Sudanese to share their stories of survival and migration, acknowledge the conflict’s connections to local African and Sudanese populations, and offer insights on the current state of US-Sudan relations.
About the speakers
Mubarak Elamin is a Sudanese community organizer and member of the Muslim Association of Puget Sound.
Dr. Ushari Khalil is a human rights advocate who focuses on the rights of internally displaced populations and children affected by armed conflict in Sudan. A former Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington School of Law, Dr. Khailil has worked with UNICEF and is the recipient of a Human Rights Watch Monitor Award.
Dr. Khidir Haroun is a former Sudanese Ambassador to the United States. Dr. Haroun currently serves as a Dean of Faculty at the International University of Africa.…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: Room 250. Accessibility Contact: Katie Sandler, ksandl@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Special Events.
Saturday, April 12, 2025, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Workshop in Training Large Language Models (LLMs) for Academic and Creative Applications
This workshop, led by Gabrielle Benabdallah (HCDE), explores the intersection of AI and creativity, focusing on techniques for customizing large language models (LLMs) for academic and creative applications. We'll look at how to customize LLMs for specific research topics and writing projects, using OpenAI’s GPT model and open source and local models, such as Meta’s Llama. We will go over some basics of LLM fine-tuning (how to choose the model, the dataset, how to iterate, etc.) and offer practical guidance for tailoring AI tools to support academic and creative writing and research. Bring a laptop as this is a hands-on workshop!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 202. Accessibility Contact: text@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Academics. Target Audience: Faculty, Graduate Students, Librarians, Staff.
Monday, April 14, 2025, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM.
Virtual Talk | Trump in the World 2.0: Europe
Join us for a free livestream talk and discussion on Europe as part of our Trump in the World 2.0 Spring Lecture Series on the international impact of the second Trump presidency. RSVP here for the online link, Featured speakers: Sabine Lang (Jackson School faculty) in conversation with U.S. Ambassador (ret.) Jeff Hovenier and U.S. Ambassador (ret.) and Jackson School Lecturer John Koenig
Moderator: Danny Hoffman, Director of the Jackson School of International Studies and Stanley D. Golub Chair of International Studies
Questions? Email jsiscom@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/trump-in-world-series. Accessibility Contact: jsiscom@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, April 14, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:20 PM.
FILM | Prisoners - A film by Evgeniya Chirikova about Ukrainian civilian prisoners captured by Russian security forces in occupied Ukrainian territories
Ms. Chirikova will present her film and take questions from the audience.
About the Film
This film is about Ukrainian civilian prisoners who were captured by Russian security forces in occupied territories. The reasons for detention can be anything – from a photo of Russian equipment or a Ukrainian flag on a phone to speaking the Ukrainian language. According to Ukrainian human rights organizations, at least 7,000 Ukrainian civilian prisoners are currently held in Russian prisons, five times more than the number of recognized political prisoners in Russia. The number of civilian Ukrainian prisoners left in torture prisons in the occupied territories remains unknown.
Typically, such people disappear after their arrest, and even close relatives may not know their fate for years. Sometimes, they appear in Russian propaganda stories – broken, showing signs of torture, and forced to confess to absurd accusations. But over time, the truth comes to light, and it is shocking.
The first episode of the film is…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Campus room: Allen Auditorium, Room G81L. Accessibility Contact: cweseuc@uw.edu. Event Types: Screenings. Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, April 14, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
WISIR Speaker Series presents Emily Zackin, Johns Hopkins University
WISIR Speaker Series presents Emily Zackin, Johns Hopkins University
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 - 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Smith 40A, Smith Hall (Ground Floor).
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: Smith Hall - SMI 40A. Accessibility Contact: polisci@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
Translation Beyond English - Between Persian & Italian
With Domenic Ingenito, UCLA.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Denny Hall (DEN). Campus room: 359. Accessibility Contact: ariafani@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
UW Astrobiology Program's 25th Anniversary Lecture Series
UWAB is excited to announce that we are hosting a public lecture series to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the program in April 2025! On April 2nd, 9th, 16th, and 23rd we will be welcoming the program director and several of our distinguished alumni to give free public talks on their exciting research. All talks will take place in Kane Hall (Room 120) with doors open at 6:30 pm, and lectures beginning at 7 pm. Each event will feature an hour long lecture followed by up to 45 min of Q&A with our speaker. RSVPs are required for both in person and zoom attendance, please RSVP at this link! Our exciting speaker and topic list can be found below: April 2, 2025 – “Exploring the Frontiers of Life in the Universe: 25 Years of the UW Astrobiology Program“ Dr. Victoria Meadows, UW Astrobiology Program Director Professor of Astronomy at the University of Washington, April 9, 2025 – “From the Deep Ocean to Deep Space, Dr. Giada Arney, UW Astrobiology Program Graduate 2016,NASA Research Scientist & Interim Project…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Online Meeting Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uw-astrobiology-programs-25th-anniversary-lecture-series-tickets-1114163285379?aff=oddtdtcreator. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Special Events. Target Audience: Public.
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit urldefense.com. From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks: The Life and Times of Harry Bridges
Come join us at the Washington State History Museum for an insightful (and free) event exploring the fascinating journey of Harry Bridges from wharf rat to influential dockworker leader. Discover the trials and triumphs of this legendary figure in labor history.
Featuring actor Ian Ruskin, From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks is a multi-media one-man play that tells the story of ILWU founding president Harry Bridges and his life’s work, through his passions, struggles and his wicked sense of humor. With many of his own words - from childhood stories of Australia to waterfront speeches during the 1934 strike to confessions of loss during his divorces and bouts of drinking - it brings Harry to life as a visionary but very human man. This 65-minute story was written under the watchful eye of leading scholars, ensuring that it is accurate as well as entertaining.
Register here.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: hbcls@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Special Events.
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Washington State History Museum
1911 Pacific Avenue Tacoma, WA 98402.
For more info visit www.eventbrite.com. 2025 Farhat J. Ziadeh Distinguished Lecture in Arab and Islamic Studies
"The Past Continuous: Recurrence and Renewal in Modern Palestinian Poetry"
Presented by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
In January of 2024, in the third month of the genocide in Gaza, I began a project in collaboration with Open Books: A Poem Emporium, the Poetry-only bookstore in Seattle. I would select one book of Palestinian poetry each month and write a flash essay about my selection to send to their subscribers. What followed was a year-long immersion in modern Palestinian poetry as many of the themes of the works I read were thrown into high relief by the horrific events unfolding in Gaza and the West Bank.
I am interested in the themes of recurrence and renewal in modern Palestinian poetry. The lecture will explore these themes and offer a meditation on the vitality of literature and how it shapes our consciousness, our reading of history, and maps possibilities for the future.
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. Her most recent book, Something About Living (University of Akron, 2024),…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: Walker Ames Room. Accessibility Contact: selims@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Academics.
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Guest Artist Concert: Eroica Trio
The renowned Eroica Trio—Erika Nickrenz, piano; Sara Parkins, violin; and Sara Sant’Ambrogio, cello—wraps up a three-day residency at the School of Music with a mainstage performance at Meany Hall.
Tickets: $20 general; $15 UW employee, retiree, UWAA member; $10 students, seniors.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Meany Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Arts UW Ticket Office at 206-543-4880 or ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Economics Prospective Student Info Session
Students who study economics learn to decode the systems that are a part of our everyday lives using models and a variety of social and economic data to analyze how decisions are made, and how limited resources are made, traded, and used.
In this session, students will learn helpful information about the Department of Economics Undergraduate Program and its Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science majors. Students will also have an opportunity to meet with Department of Economics advisers, and get helpful tips on pursuing Economics as a major at the UW.
This session will be offered online, via Zoom, at the following link:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://washington.zoom.us/j/96420961216
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Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: econadv@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Thursday, April 17, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpdemhqDooG9IwzzXk_lGdLJZIjDNcCrFg.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Letterpress Poetry Workshop
Join us for a letterpress workshop in collaboration with Partners in Print! We will be making poetic prints in the gallery and hope to see you there! All materials are included and it is free and open to everyone.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Art Building (ART). Campus room: Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Accessibility Contact: jacoblawrencegallery@uw.edu. Event Types: Student Activities. Workshops. Special Events. Target Audience: Students, Faculty, General Public.
Thursday, April 17, 2025, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
Master of Jurisprudence (M.J.) Information Session
The Master of Jurisprudence (M.J.) program is designed for non-lawyers who seek a deeper knowledge of law and regulations. This session will provide information about our Master’s degree program, inform candidates about the application process and offer the opportunity for candidates to meet some M.J. program faculty members and staff. Learn more about M.J. Admissions.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/91396915254. Accessibility Contact: devpim@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: Prospective M.J. Students.
Thursday, April 17, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
online.
Center for Environmental Politics: Emily M. Broad Leib, Harvard Law School, "Harnessing Law and Policy to Reduce Food Waste"
Center for Environmental Politics: Emily M. Broad Leib, Harvard Law School, "Harnessing Law and Policy to Reduce Food Waste"
Friday, April 18, 2025 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A. Accessibility Contact: polisci@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, April 18, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Iza Ding, Northwestern University
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Iza Ding, Northwestern University
Friday, April 18, 2025 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm
The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A
Gradudate Student Discussant: Tongtian Xiao, UW.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A. Accessibility Contact: polisci@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, April 18, 2025, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM.
Faculty Concert: John-Carlos Perea, "Improvising Home"
John-Carlos Perea and guests perform “Improvising Home” for jazz ensemble. Originally commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission and composed by Perea in 2016, this performance revisits and reinterprets the score following Perea’s 2023 arrival at the UW, where he serves as Ethnomusicology associate professor and adjunct associate professor of American Indian Studies.
$20 General; $15 UW affiliate; $10 students/seniors. .
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Studio Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Arts UW Ticket Office at 206-543-4880 or ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Friday, April 18, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. UW Colloquium in Political Theory: Dr. George Shulman, NYU Gallatin School of Individual Study, "Creative Paranoia & Radical Democracy: The Politics of SNNC and SDS"
UW Colloquium in Political Theory: Dr. George Shulman, NYU Gallatin School of Individual Study, "Creative Paranoia & Radical Democracy: The Politics of SNNC and SDS"
Monday, April 21, 2025 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
The Olson Room, Gowen Hall room 1A.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A. Accessibility Contact: polisci@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, April 21, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
Virtual Talk | Trump in the World 2.0: The Middle East
Join us for a free livestream talk and discussion on the Middle East as part of our Trump in the World 2.0 Spring Lecture Series on the international impact of the second Trump presidency. RSVP here for the online link, Featuring UW faulty speakers: Liora R. Halperin and Reşat Kasaba
Moderator: Danny Hoffman, Director of the Jackson School of International Studies and Stanley D. Golub Chair of International Studies
Questions? Email jsiscom@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/trump-in-world-series. Accessibility Contact: jsiscom@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, April 21, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:20 PM.
Virtual Session for Admitted Students/Families: International Studies Major Info Session
Meet with Jackson School advisers and students to learn about the major, answer your questions, and learn about all the great resources at the Jackson School!
Bring your questions to this session!
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/96880643754. Campus room: Zoom. Accessibility Contact: jsisoas@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: New students and their families.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 4:00 PM – 4:45 PM.
Online: https://washington.zoom.us/j/96880643754.
The Griffith and Patricia Way Lecture 2025: 'Consolidating Constitutional Legitimacy in Japan: Concepts, Metrics, and Pathways Forward' with Kenneth Mori McElwain, University of Tokyo
Join us for the 2025 Griffith and Patricia Way Lecture for a presentation by Professor Kenneth Mori McElwain of the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo.
Amidst global challenges to established institutions, rights, and norms, the role of constitutions in preserving democratic governance has become ever more vital. Japan offers a compelling case: its constitution, the world’s oldest unamended national charter, faces growing elite-driven calls for fundamental revision. However, public support for these changes remains uncertain, and reforms lacking legitimacy risk weakening the constitution’s ability to constrain government overreach. This talk develops a framework for understanding and assessing constitutional legitimacy.
Kenneth Mori McElwain is a Professor of Comparative Politics at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo. His research focuses on comparative institutions and Japanese politics, with an emphasis on constitutional design and change. His 2022…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: Walker-Ames room 225. Accessibility Contact: Accommodation requests related to disability or health condition should be made at least ten days ahead of event date. Contact Ellen Eskenazi at esky@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Free and open to the public. Registration appreciated.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM.
Faculty Recital: Stephanie Richards and Friends
The renowned trumpeter and newly appointed UW professor of music is joined by UW faculty colleagues in her debut Meany Hall performance.
Tickets: $20 general; $15 UW employee, retiree, UWAA member; $10 students, seniors.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Meany Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Arts UW Ticket Office at 206-543-4880 or ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. UW Astrobiology Program's 25th Anniversary Lecture Series
UWAB is excited to announce that we are hosting a public lecture series to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the program in April 2025! On April 2nd, 9th, 16th, and 23rd we will be welcoming the program director and several of our distinguished alumni to give free public talks on their exciting research. All talks will take place in Kane Hall (Room 120) with doors open at 6:30 pm, and lectures beginning at 7 pm. Each event will feature an hour long lecture followed by up to 45 min of Q&A with our speaker. RSVPs are required for both in person and zoom attendance, please RSVP at this link! Our exciting speaker and topic list can be found below: April 2, 2025 – “Exploring the Frontiers of Life in the Universe: 25 Years of the UW Astrobiology Program“ Dr. Victoria Meadows, UW Astrobiology Program Director Professor of Astronomy at the University of Washington, April 9, 2025 – “From the Deep Ocean to Deep Space, Dr. Giada Arney, UW Astrobiology Program Graduate 2016,NASA Research Scientist & Interim Project…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Online Meeting Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uw-astrobiology-programs-25th-anniversary-lecture-series-tickets-1114163285379?aff=oddtdtcreator. Accessibility Contact: Liza Young. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Special Events. Target Audience: Public.
Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit urldefense.com. Worker Memorial Day 2025
Each year, thousands of workers are killed, and millions more are injured or diseased because of their jobs. Please join us on Worker Memorial Day to honor those who have died in 2024 from a work-related injury or illness in King County. This special ceremony will raise awareness about strengthening our commitment to making jobs safer and saving lives in Washington State.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Intellectual House (INT). Accessibility Contact: hbcls@uw.edu. Event Types: Ceremonies. Special Events.
Thursday, April 24, 2025, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM.
Printmaking Social: Bookplates & Bookmarks
Grab your friends and join us for another printmaking social hour! This time our theme will be printing bookplates and bookmarks. Bring a book to print a bookplate into. Snag some snacks, make your own linocut prints, and learn more about the UW Textual Studies and UW Global Literary Studies programs. All are welcome!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: 332. Accessibility Contact: Slavic Department, slavoffice@uw.edu. Event Types: Student Activities.
Thursday, April 24, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
UW Textual Studies/Global Literary Studies Printmaking Social: Bookplates and Bookmarks
Grab your friends and join us for another printmaking social hour! This time our theme will be printing bookplates and bookmarks. Bring a book to print a bookplate into. Snag some snacks, make your own linocut prints, and learn more about the UW Textual Studies and UW Global Literary Studies programs. All are welcome!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: 332. Accessibility Contact: UW Textual Studies, text@uw.edu. Event Types: Student Activities. Workshops. Information Sessions. Target Audience: Students.
Thursday, April 24, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Apr 24 - [Roundtable Discussion] 228: From Atrocity to Transitional Justice in Taiwan
The 228 Incident—the violent suppression of anti-government protests on February 28, 1947, by the Nationalist government—marked the beginning of decades of martial law in Taiwan, a period known as the White Terror. This pivotal event continues to shape discussions on transitional justice, social memory, and democratization.
This roundtable explores the historical significance of the 228 Incident and examines how cultural productions, institutions, academia, and education contribute to representing and remembering both lived histories and collective memories. By analyzing the ways in which historical trauma is documented, taught, and memorialized, the discussion will shed light on the broader role of cultural engagement, academic scholarship, and educational practices in Taiwan’s ongoing process of transitional justice.
SPEAKERS
Sylvia Li-chun Lin, formerly Associate Professor of Chinese at the University of Notre Dame, is currently a free-lance translator. In her previous incarnation, she conducted…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: HUB 340. Accessibility Contact: Taiwan Studies (taiwanst@uw.edu). Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Meetings. Special Events.
Thursday, April 24, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit www.ticketleap.events. Walter G. Andrews Memorial Lecture | Occasions for Poetry: Politics, Literature, and Imagination Among the Early Modern Ottomans
After the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, Ottoman elites at the imperial court turned to poetry to craft distinctive modes of expression to articulate their own place within the Ottoman sultanate.
In this talk, Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano will discuss his new book, Occasions for Poetry: Politics, Literature, and Imagination Among the Early Modern Ottomans (Penn Press, 2025), where he explores how scholars and bureaucrats interacted with each other through poetic imagery, revealing how literary language affected bureaucratic practice. Poetry was not only an artistic activity, but also a means to advance or save one’s own political or bureaucratic career. For the Ottoman elite, poetry was more than a creative activity or a flattering description of Ottoman power and expansion; it was a vehicle to shape and mold their social reality. The language and genres created and used by these early modern Ottomans would define both a literary tradition and the shape of imperial politics and power for almost six centuries…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: Walker Ames Room. Accessibility Contact: selims@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, April 24, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Faculty Recital: Robin McCabe, "Around Robin"
Professor Robin McCabe brings pianistic virtuosity to the Meany mainstage, performing solo works of Ravel and Fauré in the first half of her program. In the second half, she is joined by groups of her students in rousing transcriptions for two pianos, eight hands, including arrangements of Bizet’s “Carmen Fantasy,” a Mozart opera overture, and a barn-burning version of “Stars and Stripes Forever.”
Tickets: $20 general; $15 UW employee, retiree, UWAA member; $10 students, seniors.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Meany Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Arts UW Ticket Office at 206-543-4880 or ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Thursday, April 24, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Improvised Music Project Festival (IMPFEST)
The School of Music and the student-run Improvised Music Project present IMPFest, featuring UW Jazz Studies students and faculty performing with special guests: renowned guitarist Bill Frisell; saxophonist Josh Johnson; and bassist (and School of Music alumnus) Luke Bergman.
$20 General; $15 UW affiliate; $10 students/seniors.
Notecard patrons: Seating is limited; please order tickets in advance. .
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Studio Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Arts UW Ticket Office at 206-543-4880 or ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Friday, April 25, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Improvised Music Project Festival (IMPFEST)
The School of Music and the student-run Improvised Music Project present IMPFest, featuring UW Jazz Studies students and faculty performing with special guests: renowned guitarist Bill Frisell; saxophonist Josh Johnson; and bassist (and School of Music alumnus) Luke Bergman. Presented with generous support from Seattle's Raynier Foundation.
$20 General; $15 UW affiliate; $10 students/seniors.
Notecard patrons: Seating is limited; please order tickets in advance. .
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Studio Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Arts UW Ticket Office at 206-543-4880 or ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. SAVE THE DATE: Indigenous Taiwan Workshop
Asian Indigeneities, Resilient Sovereignty, and Multiple Agencies in Taiwan and Beyond, Look for more information and registration details closer to the workshop date. Open to attendees. Presenters will be announced by end of March.
This workshop brings together scholars collaborating with Indigenous Peoples in Taiwan and beyond, bridging Taiwan’s Indigenous Studies with Indigenous scholarship in the Asia-Pacific region. Highlighting contemporary research topics on Indigenous self-determination and agency, particularly in the current context of climate change, rapid urbanization, enhanced geopolitical tensions, and institutional colonial vestiges, this workshop seeks to bring out indigenous voices and make ways for practices and identities that adapt to Taiwan’s everchanging political and environmental landscape. By embedding the lived experiences of indigenous peoples with contemporary challenges and connections, this workshop invites reflections on environmental changes, forms of sovereignty, community…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Accommodation requests related to disability or health condition should be made at least ten days ahead of event date. Contact taiwanst@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Workshops. Target Audience: Free and open to the public. Students encouraged to attend.
Monday, April 28, 2025.
Virtual Talk | Trump in the World 2.0: Global Information
Join us for a free livestream talk and discussion on global information as part of our Trump in the World 2.0 Spring Lecture Series on the international impact of the second Trump presidency. RSVP here for the online link, Featuring UW faulty speakers: Jessica L. Beyer and Scott Radnitz
Moderator: Danny Hoffman, Director of the Jackson School of International Studies and Stanley D. Golub Chair of International Studies
Questions? Email jsiscom@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/trump-in-world-series. Accessibility Contact: jsiscom@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, April 28, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:20 PM.
2025 BA Exhibitions – Group 1
Event interval: Ongoing event. Campus location: Art Building (ART). Campus room: Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Accessibility Contact: jacoblawrencegallery@uw.edu. Event Types: Exhibits.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 – Friday, May 9, 2025.
Letters from the Ancestors: Family History and our Capitalist Future | Nathan Connolly, Vanderbilt
In “Letters from the Ancestors,” Prof. Connolly follows the experiences of four generations of his Caribbean family, offering an intimate view of the history of late capitalism in the Atlantic World. Under twentieth-century colonialism, he argues, working people developed uniquely gendered coping strategies for managing the precarities of racism and reputation. Even in apparently post-colonial times, these strategies continue to govern how we relate to institutions, set our aspirations, and even narrate our own personal and political histories. More than just a tour through a single family’s past experience, “Letter from the Ancestors" seeks to retain and advance our fluency in the history of colonized families. This history, Connolly suggests, seems all the more relevant today, in a nation and world of dwindling government protections for women and people of color. N. D. B. Connolly is Associate Professor of History and holder of the Herbert Baxter Adams Professorship at Johns Hopkins University. Prof.…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 120. Accessibility Contact: histmain@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
An Evening with Christine Sun Kim
There exists a pervasive illusion that journalism embodies truth and objectivity, yet it is fundamentally entrenched in a Eurocentric perspective that has long exacerbated social polarization. What ideological forces underpin this medium, enabling it to perpetuate such divisions?
Artists, as individuals deeply connected to society and its multifaceted truths, strive to reveal these truths through various forms. Positioned on the precipice of a changing world, artists maintain a profound grasp on truth. How can artists intervene to redeem journalism from its historical complicity in supporting hegemonic ideologies? Can the creative and critical sensibilities of artists unearth and challenge the concealed biases and contradictions that journalism often obscures under the guise of objectivity? In what ways can artistic endeavors disrupt the entrenched Eurocentric narratives and foster a more inclusive and emancipatory discourse within the media landscape? How can the aesthetic and imaginative dimensions of art…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Office of Public Lectures at lectures@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Diversity Equity Inclusion.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Town Hall Seattle.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Economics Prospective Student Info Session
Students who study economics learn to decode the systems that are a part of our everyday lives using models and a variety of social and economic data to analyze how decisions are made, and how limited resources are made, traded, and used.
In this session, students will learn helpful information about the Department of Economics Undergraduate Program and its Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science majors. Students will also have an opportunity to meet with Department of Economics advisers, and get helpful tips on pursuing Economics as a major at the UW.
This session will be offered online, via Zoom, at the following link:Join Zoom Meeting
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Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: econadv@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Thursday, May 1, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpde6qqDgqGtfMUkSMx18rlP-YU2BGeUh8.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. TALK | Co-Designing the Future of Cultural Heritage: Interactive Technologies and Museum Collaborations in Northern Europe by Siiri Paananen, University of Lapland (Finland)
About the Talk:
What does cultural heritage mean today, and how can we shape its future together? My research explores interactive technologies in collaboration with Nordic museums, including Indigenous Sámi institutions. It focuses on creating new ways to experience heritage while addressing ethical concerns. From photogrammetry for detailed 3D models to virtual experiences of remote sites, digital tools reshape how people relate to the past. Heritage is not only about the past but also about shaping the future, and arts-based and speculative design approaches explore new possibilities for this. The talk considers how design and technology can support diverse cultural perspectives and recontextualize heritage in a changing world.
About the Speaker:
Siiri Paananen is a University Teacher in Design and a doctoral researcher in the Lapland User Experience Design group (LUX) at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design. She specializes in Human-Computer Interaction, focusing on designing…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: 317. Accessibility Contact: cweseuc@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, May 1, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
John Jennings: The AfroFuture Now
Afrofuturism began as a concept coined by scholar Mark Dery in 1993. It was his way of grouping ideas regarding how Black people used the technology of stories to deal with racial oppression, disrupted history, and the challenge of moving into a positive future. In recent years, we have seen an explosion of interest from various fields around the critical making space that we call Afrofuturism. Black scholars and makers have taken this term and pushed it into places we never thought it would be. Black speculative fiction has moved from the fringes to the center. Mainstream institutions like Carnegie Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Lincoln Center, and The Smithsonian have all put a great deal of time, money and effort into lavish exhibitions and productions centered around Black creativity, politics and culture. In this lecture, John Jennings will explore the major themes in the Afrofuturism movement, track the timeline of its growth, and posit future possibilities around this vibrant and ever-changi…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: lectures@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, May 1, 2025, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
Town Hall Seattle.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. The AfroFuture Now
Afrofuturism began as a concept coined by scholar Mark Dery in 1993. It was his way of grouping ideas regarding how Black people used the technology of stories to deal with racial oppression, disrupted history, and the challenge of moving into a positive future. In recent years, we have seen an explosion of interest from various fields around the critical making space that we call Afrofuturism. Black scholars and makers have taken this term and pushed it into places we never thought it would be. Black speculative fiction has moved from the fringes to the center. Mainstream institutions like Carnegie Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Lincoln Center, and The Smithsonian have all put a great deal of time, money and effort into lavish exhibitions and productions centered around Black creativity, politics and culture. In this lecture, John Jennings will explore the major themes in the Afrofuturism movement, track the timeline of its growth, and posit future possibilities around this vibrant and ever-changi…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Office of Public Lectures at lectures@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Diversity Equity Inclusion.
Thursday, May 1, 2025, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
Town Hall Seattle.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band, "Radiance"
The Wind Ensemble (Timothy Salzman, director) and Symphonic Band (David Stewart, Yuman Wu, directors) present a program of music by Carol Bremner, Kevin Day, Christopher Cerrone, David Maslanka, and others. With winners of the Winds Concerto Competition.
$10 all tickets.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Meany Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Arts UW Ticket Office at 206-543-4880 or ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Thursday, May 1, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Center for Environmental Politics: Maura Allaire, University of California-Irvine, “Water Governance Disparities and Utility Performance: Evidence from California”
Center for Environmental Politics: Maura Allaire, University of California-Irvine, “Water Governance Disparities and Utility Performance: Evidence from California”
Friday, May 16, 2025 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A. Accessibility Contact: polisci@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, May 2, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Jaimie Bleck, University of Notre Dame
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Jaimie Bleck, University of Notre Dame
Friday, May 2, 2025 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm
The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A
Gradudate Student Discussant: Minji Jeong, UW.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A. Accessibility Contact: polisci@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, May 2, 2025, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM.
Computing With Classics: The Current Digital Landscape (In Person)
Computing With Classics is a three-workshop series exploring how computing has affected classical scholarship. In this first workshop, we will examine commonly-used digital libraries and databases, their histories, their structures, and their uses.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons Presentation Space. Accessibility Contact: atobdura@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Friday, May 2, 2025, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM.
Computing With Classics: The Current Digital Landscape (Online)
Computing With Classics is a three-workshop series exploring how computing has affected classical scholarship. In this first workshop, we will examine commonly-used digital libraries and databases, their histories, their structures, and their uses.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/93394140215. Accessibility Contact: atobdura@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Friday, May 2, 2025, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM.
UW Symphony Orchestra with Donna Shin, flute
David Alexander Rahbee leads the UW Symphony in a program of music by Jessie Montgomery, Cécile Chaminade, Francis Poulenc, and Dmitri Shostakovich. With faculty guest Donna Shin, flute.
Program, Jessie Montgomery: Hymn for Everyone
Cécile Chaminade: Flute Concertino in D major, op.107
Francis Poulenc: Flute Sonata (orchd. Lennox Berkeley)
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.9 in E-flat major, op.70
$10 all tickets.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Meany Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Arts UW Ticket Office at 206-543-4880 or ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Friday, May 2, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Third Coast Percussion and Jessie Montgomery 'Strum, Strike, Bend'
This Grammy-winning percussion quartet and composer collective creates exciting and unexpected performances that “push percussion in new directions, blurring musical boundaries and beguiling new listeners” (NPR).
The ensemble will be joined by Jessie Montgomery, “one of the most distinctive and communicative voices in the U.S.” (BBC) in a dynamic program that showcases her excellence as a composer and violinist.
PROGRAM
JESSIE MONTGOMERY: New Work
TIGRAN HAMASYAN: New Work
PHILIP GLASS: Etude No. 6 (arr. Jlin)
LOU HARRISON: Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Accessibility Contact: ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Student Activities. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/BmrVWK5hBvHSgQkv/.
Saturday, May 3, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM.
For more info visit meanycenter.org. BOOK TALK Contested City | Alissa Walter (Seattle Pacific University)
Contested City offers a history of state-society relations in Baghdad, exploring how city residents managed through periods of economic growth, sanctions, and war, from the oil boom of the 1950s through the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 2011. Charting the social, economic, and political transformations of Iraq's capital city, Walter examines how national policies translate into action at the local, everyday level. Alissa Walter is an associate professor of history at Seattle Pacific University. She earned her MA in Arab Studies and her PhD in Middle Eastern History from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. She traveled frequently to Iraq for her research, and has spent significant time in Egypt, Jordan, and Morocco. Walter regularly volunteers as an expert witness for Iraqi asylum seekers in Washington.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: 337. Accessibility Contact: histmain@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, May 5, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Virtual Talk | Trump in the World 2.0: Migration
Join us for a free livestream talk and discussion on the topic of migration as part of our Trump in the World 2.0 Spring Lecture Series on the international impact of the second Trump presidency. RSVP here for the online link, Featuring UW faulty speakers: Rawan Arar and Sara Curran
Moderator: Danny Hoffman, Director of the Jackson School of International Studies and Stanley D. Golub Chair of International Studies
Questions? Email jsiscom@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/trump-in-world-series. Accessibility Contact: jsiscom@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, May 5, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:20 PM.
Faculty Recital: Melia Watras, "Broken Bell"
Violist/composer Melia Watras and writer Sean Harvey unveil their latest collaboration, Broken Bell, a mashup of a concert and a play. The program consists of Harvey’s theater piece, interwoven with world premieres of compositions by Ha-Yang Kim and Watras. Joining Watras onstage are Seattle Symphony members Elisa Barston (violin) and Eric Kim (cello), and Pacific Northwest Ballet concertmaster Michael Jinsoo Lim, violin. Broken Bell is directed by Sheila Daniels, Chair of the Theater Department at Cornish College of the Arts.
Tickets: $20 general; $15 UW employee, retiree, UWAA member; $10 students, seniors.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Meany Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Arts UW Ticket Office at 206-543-4880 or ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Monday, May 5, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. An Evening with Christine Sun Kim
Berlin-based artist Christine Sun Kim discusses her wide-ranging practice around sound and language. Kim, who was born in California and is now based in Berlin, reflects on her experiences as part of the Deaf community, using performance, video, drawing, writing, and technology to explore how we perceive and understand sound. In her talk, Kim will delve into her work within various systems of visual communication, including American Sign Language (ASL), musical notation, infographics, and television captioning. With humor and critique, Kim illuminates the complexities of social interactions where language, culture, and access collide.
Registration opens on March 12, 2025.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Christine Sun Kim is an American artist based in Berlin. Kim’s practice considers how sound operates in society, deconstructing the politics of sound and exploring how oral languages operate as social currency. Musical notation, written language, infographics, American Sign Language (ASL), the use of the body, and…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: lectures@uw.edu or 206-543-5900. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
Town Hall Seattle.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. First Wednesday Concert
Students of the UW School of Music perform in this lunchtime concert series co-hosted by UW Music and UW Libraries.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Event Types: Performances.
Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Psychology Edwards Lecture with Dr. Joerg T. Albert, Professor of Sensory Physiology & Behavior, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Perfect Distortions: What Mosquito Ears Can Tell Us About the Nonlinear Ways of Our Minds, Dr. Joerg T. Albert, Professor of Sensory Physiology & Behavior, University of Oldenburg, Germany
The title of this lecture is arguably misleading, probably deceptive. It suggests a straight line (but straight lines are tricks of light anyway) between its somewhat arcane content - i.e. the biophysics of hearing in mosquitoes and fruit flies - and its relevance to understanding our brains. Can this be true? Can any lecture live up to such hyperbole In good dialectic tradition, I would try it first with a decided Yes and No, uncertain where that will take us.
But I do know where it will start. It will start with the common ground of all animal nervous systems. Conceptually speaking, nervous systems are information brokers, networks of multiple interconnected, multidirectional sender-receiver chains. The vast majority of nervous system activity originates from neurons. A couple of sensory neurons gather information from…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kincaid Hall (KIN). Campus room: 102/108. Accessibility Contact: chairpsy@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Faculty, students, staff.
Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
TALK | Finland: Scandinavian, Nordic, and Baltic Positioning by Sonya Amadae of the University of Helsinki (Finland)
About the Talk
How is it that Finland has ranked first on the World's Happiness Report for seven consecutive years? Although typically identified as either a Scandinavian or Nordic country, Finland has its own unique history, culture, and language. Historically, Finland was under the rule of both Sweden and Russia. Culturally, Finland looks West but has the longest NATO border with Russia. Linguistically, the Finnish language is Finno-Ugric, sharing a language group with Estonia and Hungary. This talk discusses Finland's unique cultural heritage and its contemporary expression as a new NATO member and an important collaborator with the Nordic Defense Cooperation (NORDEFCO).
About the Speaker
S.M. Amadae is the Director of the Global Politics and Communication MA degree program and an Adj. Prof. in Politics at the University of Helsinki. Her research focus is at the intersection of global political economy and international security studies and concentrates on existential risk and nuclear deterrence, as…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Campus room: G81L (Allen Auditorium). Accessibility Contact: cweseuc@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Virtual COM Colloquium by Bryce Henson, Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil
Throughout Brazil’s history, countless Black people refused the terms, conditions, and lifeways of enslavement. Many bravely escaped inhumane spaces of confinement and took flight to remote locales to create quilombos (maroons), often in hard-to-reach hillside areas. More than just spaces of refuge and rest, these quilombos were established in search of Black freedom and forming alternative social systems that cultivate forms of Black life that simply were impermissible in Brazil. Drawing on critical theory, Black cultural studies, and Black intellectual thought in Brazil, this talk examines how poor and working-class Black communities in Salvador da Bahia, known as Brazil’s most African city, continue to recreate the quilombo model to challenge national mythologies of racial democracy as well as structures and everyday experiences of anti-Black racism, sexism, and segregation. It is based on several years of ethnographic research with Black Brazilian hip-hop artists, activists, and intellectuals and their co…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: CMU 126. Accessibility Contact: comadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, May 8, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Complexions Contemporary Ballet
Led by dance icons Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, Complexions Contemporary Ballet exhilarates audiences with their singular reinvention of dance and contemporary ballet.
With a rich Alvin Ailey lineage and a cadre of 16 stunning dancers, Complexions has been hailed as a “matchless American dance company” by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The company performs WOKE, set to songs by DJ Logic, Kendrick Lamar, Lil Wayne and others, and For Crying Out Loud, with music from U2’s latest album Songs of Surrender.
"Companies like Complexions are game-changing: they’re forging a path for what ballet can be instead of what it historically has been."— The Guardian
NOTE: theatrical haze will be used in this performance.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Accessibility Contact: ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Student Activities. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/amowSFtTtYYFLDuM/.
Thursday, May 8, 2025, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
For more info visit meanycenter.org. WISIR Lunch Workshare Series presents Anna Nguyen (UW Political Science)
WISIR Lunch Workshare Series presents Anna Nguyen (UW Political Science)
Friday, May 9, 2025 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Smith 40A, Smith Hall (Ground Floor).
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: Smith Hall - SMI 40A. Accessibility Contact: polisci@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, May 9, 2025, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM.
UW International Security Colloquium (UWISC): “A Triadic Counterinsurgency Framework to Unpack Government – Non State Armed Actor – Constituency Relations”
Efe Tokdemir, Bilkent University: UW International Security Colloquium (UWISC): “A Triadic Counterinsurgency Framework to Unpack Government – Non State Armed Actor – Constituency Relations”
Friday, May 9, 2025 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A. Accessibility Contact: polisci@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, May 9, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM.
Complexions Contemporary Ballet
Led by dance icons Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, Complexions Contemporary Ballet exhilarates audiences with their singular reinvention of dance and contemporary ballet.
With a rich Alvin Ailey lineage and a cadre of 16 stunning dancers, Complexions has been hailed as a “matchless American dance company” by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The company performs WOKE, set to songs by DJ Logic, Kendrick Lamar, Lil Wayne and others, and For Crying Out Loud, with music from U2’s latest album Songs of Surrender.
"Companies like Complexions are game-changing: they’re forging a path for what ballet can be instead of what it historically has been."— The Guardian
NOTE: theatrical haze will be used in this performance.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Accessibility Contact: ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Student Activities. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/amowSFtTtYYFLDuM/.
Friday, May 9, 2025, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
For more info visit meanycenter.org. Complexions Contemporary Ballet
Led by dance icons Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, Complexions Contemporary Ballet exhilarates audiences with their singular reinvention of dance and contemporary ballet.
With a rich Alvin Ailey lineage and a cadre of 16 stunning dancers, Complexions has been hailed as a “matchless American dance company” by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The company performs WOKE, set to songs by DJ Logic, Kendrick Lamar, Lil Wayne and others, and For Crying Out Loud, with music from U2’s latest album Songs of Surrender.
"Companies like Complexions are game-changing: they’re forging a path for what ballet can be instead of what it historically has been."— The Guardian
NOTE: theatrical haze will be used in this performance.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Accessibility Contact: ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Student Activities. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/amowSFtTtYYFLDuM/.
Saturday, May 10, 2025, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
For more info visit meanycenter.org. Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire | Sarah Bond, University of Iowa
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 120. Accessibility Contact: histmain@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, May 12, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Virtual Talk | Trump in the World 2.0: Latin America and Africa
Join us for a free livestream talk and discussion on Latin America and Africa as part of our Trump in the World 2.0 Spring Lecture Series on the international impact of the second Trump presidency. RSVP here for the online link, Featuring UW faulty speakers: Vanessa Freije, James D. Long, Tony Lucero and Christopher Tounsel
Moderator: Danny Hoffman, Director of the Jackson School of International Studies and Stanley D. Golub Chair of International Studies
Questions? Email jsiscom@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/trump-in-world-series. Accessibility Contact: jsiscom@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, May 12, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:20 PM.
2025 BA Exhibitions – Group 2
Event interval: Ongoing event. Campus location: Art Building (ART). Campus room: Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Accessibility Contact: jacoblawrencegallery@uw.edu. Event Types: Exhibits.
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 – Friday, May 23, 2025.
Katz Distinguished Lecture by Jahan Ramazani: "Mourning across Centuries and Languages: A Poem’s Six-Hundred-Year Journey"
Grief over the loss of a child is well known to be especially difficult and intractable. Across cultures, people have long turned to poetry in times of mourning. Years after the loss of his five-year old son, Ralph Waldo Emerson repeatedly translated an elegy written by a classical Persian, Muslim poet, Sa‘di, to mourn the loss of his child, as mediated by a nineteenth-century German translation of a sixteenth-century Ottoman Turkish commentary. What can we learn from the extraordinary journey this elegy makes across epochs, cultures, and languages about mourning, translation, and poetry’s capacity to help us grapple with grief through the words of another? Jahan Ramazani is University Professor and Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His books include Poetry in a Global Age (2020), A Transnational Poetics (2009), winner of the Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association, and Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney (1994). He is…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: 210. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center, 206.543.3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
Jonathan Biss 'Transfiguration'
A superb pianist with “impeccable taste and a formidable technique” (The New Yorker), Jonathan Biss channels his deep musical curiosity to connect the pillars of the repertoire with new compositions.
He returns to Meany with Schubert’s last major composition for piano — addressing the mysteries of life and death with directness and astonishing beauty — and a new work by Tyshawn Sorey, “a composer of radical and seemingly boundless ideas” (Wall Street Journal) who often melds composition and improvisation.
“One can immerse oneself in the greatest music of the past and work to ensure that the present and future are more just, and so much richer for it.” — Jonathan Biss
PROGRAM
FRANZ SCHUBERT: Sonata in C Minor, D. 958
TYSHAWN SOREY: For Anthony Braxton
FRANZ SCHUBERT: Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Accessibility Contact: ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Student Activities. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/QdpMS7yi7ShsDyUb/.
Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM.
For more info visit meanycenter.org. TALK | Ten Paradoxes of Finland and Sweden's NATO membership by Tuomas Forsberg, Tampere University (Finland)
About the Talk
Basing on a forthcoming book, NATO's Northern Enlargement: Finland and Sweden's Road to the Alliance (co-authored with Magnus Christiansson, Bristol University Press 2025), the talk will focus on Finland and Sweden’s accession to NATO and the repercussions that this has had on the two countries as well as on NATO and European security, particularly in the precarious Baltic-Arctic area in Russia’s vicinity. NATO’s northern enlargement can be understood in terms of multiple paradoxes. For Finland and Sweden, NATO membership represented both change and continuity. For the region, NATO’s northern enlargement has both increased stability and heightened tensions. For Russia, NATO's enlargement to Finland and Sweden was both expected and a major surprise. Yet, the greatest paradox of all can be that Finland and Sweden joined the alliance just before its entire logic was challenged by a new NATO-skeptical US administration.
About the Speaker
Dr. Tuomas Forsberg is Professor of International…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: 317. Accessibility Contact: cweseuc@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Jazz Innovations I
UW 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 admission.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Music Building (MUS). Campus room: Brechemin Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: dos@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. UW Colloquium in Political Theory: Patrich Co UW, Ph.D. "Libertarian Modalities of Anti-Capitalist Struggle"
UW Colloquium in Political Theory: Patrich Co UW, Ph.D. "Libertarian Modalities of Anti-Capitalist Struggle"
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
The Olson Room, Gowen Hall room 1A.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A. Accessibility Contact: polisci@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
Economics Prospective Student Info Session
Students who study economics learn to decode the systems that are a part of our everyday lives using models and a variety of social and economic data to analyze how decisions are made, and how limited resources are made, traded, and used.
In this session, students will learn helpful information about the Department of Economics Undergraduate Program and its Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science majors. Students will also have an opportunity to meet with Department of Economics advisers, and get helpful tips on pursuing Economics as a major at the UW.
This session will be offered online, via Zoom, at the following link:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://washington.zoom.us/j/96420961216
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Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: econadv@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpdemhqDooG9IwzzXk_lGdLJZIjDNcCrFg.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Master of Jurisprudence (M.J.) Information Session
The Master of Jurisprudence (M.J.) program is designed for non-lawyers who seek a deeper knowledge of law and regulations. This session will provide information about our Master’s degree program, inform candidates about the application process and offer the opportunity for candidates to meet some M.J. program faculty members and staff. Learn more about M.J. Admissions.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/91396915254. Accessibility Contact: devpim@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: Prospective M.J. Students.
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
online.
Faculty Recital: Craig Sheppard, piano
Chair of the UW piano program presents a program of works by French composers, including Franck Prelude, Chorale and Fugue, Joël-François Durand Enfance: Quatre Tableaux, and works by Ravel, including Miroirs, and the two-hand version of La Valse.With guest pianist (and former student of Sheppard) ZeZe Xue.
Tickets: $20 general; $15 UW employee, retiree, UWAA member; $10 students, seniors.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Meany Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Arts UW Ticket Office at 206-543-4880 or ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Jazz Innovations II
UW 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 admission.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Music Building (MUS). Campus room: Brechemin Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: dos@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Hamid Rahmanian’s Song of the North
Song of the North is a cinematic performance combining the manual art of shadow puppetry with projected animation to tell the courageous tale of Manijeh, a heroine from ancient Persia. Manijeh must use all her strengths and talents to rescue her beloved Bijan from a perilous predicament of her own making and help prevent a war.
This epic love story, adapted from the Book of Kings (Shahnameh), employs a cast of 500 handmade puppets and a talented ensemble of nine actors and puppeteers to create a spectacular multimedia experience.
After the unfortunate theft of equipment, sets and puppets that kept Song of the North from appearing on the Meany Center stage last fall, we are thrilled to have another opportunity to share this highly anticipated performance.
"The Persian soul and culture vibrate in this original and poetic show." — Toute La Culture.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Accessibility Contact: ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Student Activities. Performances. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1404626066895708/.
Saturday, May 17, 2025, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
For more info visit meanycenter.org. Virtual Talk | Trump in the World 2.0: Energy
Join us for a free livestream talk and discussion on the topic of energy as part of our Trump in the World 2.0 Spring Lecture Series on the international impact of the second Trump presidency. RSVP here for the online link, Featuring UW faulty speaker: Scott L. Montgomery
Moderator: Danny Hoffman, Director of the Jackson School of International Studies and Stanley D. Golub Chair of International Studies
Questions? Email jsiscom@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/trump-in-world-series. Accessibility Contact: jsiscom@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, May 19, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:20 PM.
Baroque Ensemble
UW music students perform music of the Baroque era under the direction of Tekla Cunningham.
FREE admission.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Music Building (MUS). Campus room: Brechemin Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: dos@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Monday, May 19, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Voice Division Recital
UW voice students of Thomas Harper and Carrie Shaw present their quarterly recital.
FREE admission.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Music Building (MUS). Campus room: Brechemin Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: dos@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 4:00 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Brechemin Piano Series
UW keyboard students perform music from the piano repertoire.
FREE admission.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Music Building (MUS). Campus room: Brechemin Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: dos@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Film Screening: "How I Learned to Fly" ("Leto kada sam naučila da letim") with Director Radivoje Andrić
Please join us for a screening and discussion of "How I Learned to Fly" ("Leto kada sam naučila da letim") with Director Radivoje Andrić on Wednesday, May 21.
The University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services, programs, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact the Slavic department at slavoffice@uw.edu or 206-543-6848 by May 7.
Director Radivoje Andrić.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: 210. Accessibility Contact: Slavic Department, slavoffice@uw.edu. Event Types: Screenings.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Judge Joel Ngugi
As a member of the Kenyan judiciary Judge Ngugi will talk about some of the most pressing political questions of our time in both his country and the USA, including how we ensure an equitable, independent and wise judiciary; as well as how we can imagine justice beyond narrow legal frameworks.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Office of Public Lectures at lectures@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Diversity Equity Inclusion.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
Town Hall Seattle.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. BOOK LAUNCH | “To Stand with Palestine: Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the United States” by Dr. Karam Dana
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged. Doors expected to open at 4:40pm.
In recent years, attitudes in the United States toward the Palestinian cause have shifted dramatically. Although Palestinians have long been demonized in U.S. media and politics, their struggle, often portrayed as illegitimate, is now increasingly supported by emergent progressive voices challenging the status quo on Israel and Palestine. What accounts for this change and its evolution? This book explores how Palestinian identity is strengthened by the absence of a defined home nation and how a coalition rooted in exile continues to resist and advocate for a distant homeland. It examines the social, political, economic, and technological forces that have amplified Palestinian voices globally, particularly in the United States, fostering new forms of activism and solidarity.
Dr. Karam Dana is Professor of Middle East Studies and the Alyson McGregor Distinguished Professor of Excellence & Transformative…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: 110. Accessibility Contact: Katie Sandler, ksandl@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, May 22, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:45 PM.
TALK | Changing Security Dynamics in the North: A View from Finland by Hiski Haukkala, Director of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs
About the Talk
The war in Ukraine is reaching a culmination point while the Transatlantic relations are being recalibrated. What does the security situation look like in the European North? Does Russia pose a threat beyond Ukraine? What does a small country like Finland bring to the table? How can we ensure that we move together in lock-step over the Atlantic?
About the Speaker
Dr. Hiski Haukkala is the Director of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. He is also an Adjunct Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Finland, and a Senior Research Associate at RAND Europe. Before joining FIIA in November 2024 he was a Professor of International Relations at Tampere University. Until spring 2024 he was the Secretary General and Chief of the Cabinet at the Office of the President of the Republic of Finland. Previously he has held positions at the Universities of Turku and Tampere, the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Finnish Institute…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: 225. Accessibility Contact: cweseuc@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, May 22, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM.
Guest Artist Concert: Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble
Dedicated to the presentation of new and rarely-heard works and gems of the historical avant garde, Ekmeles vocal ensemble performs works by UW faculty composers in their Meany Hall performance.
Tickets: $20 general; $15 UW employee, retiree, UWAA member; $10 students, seniors.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Meany Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Arts UW Ticket Office at 206-543-4880 or ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Thursday, May 22, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Nathan Lane, University of Oxford
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Nathan Lane, University of Oxford
Friday, May 23, 2025 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm
The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A
Gradudate Student Discussant: Brian Leung, UW.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A. Accessibility Contact: polisci@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, May 23, 2025, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM.
Guitar Studio Recital
Students of Michael Partington perform music from the guitar repertoire.
FREE admission.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Music Building (MUS). Campus room: Brechemin Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: dos@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Friday, May 23, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Modern Music Ensemble
The University of Washington Modern Music Ensemble (Cristina Valdés, director) presents works of our time in several concerts each year. Including repertoire from the early to mid-20th century and beyond, the group focuse on small ensemble and chamber orchestra works, performed by both undergraduate and graduate students.
$10 all tickets.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Meany Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Arts UW Ticket Office at 206-543-4880 or ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Friday, May 23, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Memorial Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Spring. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, May 26, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. 2025 BA Exhibitions – Honors
Event interval: Ongoing event. Campus location: Art Building (ART). Campus room: Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Accessibility Contact: jacoblawrencegallery@uw.edu. Event Types: Exhibits.
Tuesday, May 27, 2025 – Friday, June 6, 2025.
Tax LL.M. Information Session
During this information session, prospective students will learn about the UW School of Law's Tax Law LL.M, program. You will have a chance to meet with program faculty and staff and ask questions about the program and the application process.
Since its inception in 1995, the Tax Law LL.M. program has been dedicated to providing students in-depth instruction and guidance in technical and practical aspects of tax law. Our program teaches the necessary skills for innovative tax planning in all areas — federal, state and local, international and estate, gift and trust tax. Our practice-oriented curriculum accommodates both traditional students and working professionals. Most classes are offered in the late afternoon or early evening. Students may apply for admission to any quarter and students may enroll on either a full-time or part-time basis.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98585669077. Accessibility Contact: ruhlig@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: Prospective Tax LLM Students.
Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
online.
Studio Jazz Ensemble and Modern Band
The Studio Jazz Ensemble (the UW Big Band-Marc Seales, director) and Modern Ensemble (Cuong Vu, director) present a shared program of repertory selections, original music, and inspired arrangements.
$10 all tickets.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Studio Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Arts UW Ticket Office at 206-543-4880 or ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. TALK | The Geopoliticization of Critical Raw Materials: Undermining a Just Global Green Transition by Anni Kangas, Tampere University (Finland)
About the Talk:
This public talk is based on Dr. Anni Kangas's ongoing research into the politics and political economies of critical raw material (CRM) extraction and value chains, focusing on the collaboration between the European Union and Central Asia. Kangas's point of departure is the idea of a CRM paradox: while these materials are essential for the green transition, their mining comes with considerable ecological and social costs, the brunt of which is borne by mining communities, while most of the benefits accumulate at the end of the value chains in the Global North. This emphasizes the importance of steering the green transition to a more just and sustainable direction globally. However, with the current geopoliticization of critical raw materials, achieving this is increasingly difficult.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Anni Kangas is a University Lecturer in International Relations at Tampere University. She has a versatile research profile that includes Finnish-Russian relations, Finnish foreign and…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: 317. Accessibility Contact: cweseuc@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
First-year Sociology Grad Student Presentations
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 409. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: (206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Sociology faculty and students.
Thursday, May 29, 2025, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Percussion Ensemble
The UW Percussion Ensemble, comprising graduate and undergraduate percussion students, performs many genres of contemporary music arranged for percussion ensembles ranging in size from trios to nonets and dectets. Bonnie Whiting directs.
$10 all tickets.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Studio Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Arts UW Ticket Office at 206-543-4880 or ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Thursday, May 29, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. UW Sings
The University Singers, Treble Choir, and UW Glee Club present an eclectic program of music from around the world, folk tunes, and arrangements of popular music standards.
$10 all tickets.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Meany Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Arts UW Ticket Office at 206-543-4880 or ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Thursday, May 29, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. University of Washington International Security Colloquium (UWISC): “Invocation of International Law and Regime Types”
University of Washington International Security Colloquium (UWISC): “Invocation of International Law and Regime Types”
Friday, May 30, 2025 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Smith Hall - SMI 40A
Jihyeon Bae - “Invocation of International Law and Regime Types”.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: Smith Hall - SMI 40A. Accessibility Contact: polisci@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, May 30, 2025, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM.
Computing With Classics: Digital Sustainability (In Person)
Computing With Classics is a three-workshop series exploring how computing has affected classical scholarship. In this last workshop, we will look at how research is done in computing fields and how it relates to the work we do in classics. We'll also discuss best practices for digital sustainability.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons Presentation Space. Accessibility Contact: atobdura@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Friday, May 30, 2025, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM.
Computing With Classics: Digital Sustainability (Online)
Computing With Classics is a three-workshop series exploring how computing has affected classical scholarship. In this last workshop, we will look at how research is done in computing fields and how it relates to the work we do in classics. We'll also discuss best practices for digital sustainability.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/97709341357. Accessibility Contact: atobdura@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Friday, May 30, 2025, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM.
Chamber Singers and University Chorale
The Chamber Singers (Geoffrey Boers, director) and University Chorale (Giselle Wyers, director) present "Blue Planet," a program of works demonstrating multiple cultures through crossover genre, syncretic styles, and the African diaspora in the United States.
$10 all tickets.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Meany Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Arts UW Ticket Office at 206-543-4880 or ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Friday, May 30, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Lecture | Militant Mothers of Kurdistan: Mothering the Dead and Care Beyond Life
This event is free and open to the public.
This talk discusses the unconventional forms of care that emerge out of Kurdish resistance in
Turkey, where mothering becomes a powerful response against necropolitical state violence. By centering
the stories of two Kurdish mothers who had to care for their dead children and mother beyond life under
the violent state of emergency regime declared in 2015; the talk examines the ways in which Kurdish
mothers “rescue the dead” (Antoon, 2021) from the necropolitical state and create their own
necropolitical power through a radical embrace of death and decoupling of mothering from the corporeal
link between the mother and the child. It is a critical intervention into conventional humanitarian care
frameworks that prioritize human survival and calls for a re-imagination of humanitarianism as
something that extends to the non-human and the dead and for the discovery of sites where humanitarian care
is not passively received but is politically reconstructed as a site of…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: 337. Accessibility Contact: Katie Sandler, ksandl@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, June 2, 2025, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
Virtual Talk | Trump in the World 2.0: The Long View
Join us for a free livestream talk and discussion on The Long View as part of our Trump in the World 2.0 Spring Lecture Series on the international impact of the second Trump presidency. RSVP here for the online link, Featuring UW faulty speaker: Daniel Bessner
Moderator: Danny Hoffman, Director of the Jackson School of International Studies and Stanley D. Golub Chair of International Studies
Questions? Email jsiscom@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/trump-in-world-series. Accessibility Contact: jsiscom@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, June 2, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:20 PM.
UW Gospel Choir
Phyllis Byrdwell leads the 100-voice Gospel Choir in songs of praise, jubilation, and other expressions from the Gospel tradition.
$10 all tickets.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Meany Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Arts UW Ticket Office at 206-543-4880 or ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Monday, June 2, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Concert: Silvio Dos Reyes, "Afro-Brazilian Capoeira"
Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Silvio Dos Reis, known to his students as Mestre Silvinho, is a master of Capoeira Angola, an Afro-Brazilian martial art that integrates music, movement, and philosophy. In a culmination of his two-quarter residency at the UW, he and his UW students from Music and Dance present an end-of-quarter performance including music and movement of Capoeira Angola from Brazil.
Tickets: FREE.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Music Building (MUS). Campus room: Brechemin Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Tuesday, June 3, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. First Wednesday Concert
Students of the UW School of Music perform in this lunchtime concert series co-hosted by UW Music and UW Libraries.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Event Types: Performances.
Wednesday, June 4, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Economics Prospective Student Info Session
Students who study economics learn to decode the systems that are a part of our everyday lives using models and a variety of social and economic data to analyze how decisions are made, and how limited resources are made, traded, and used.
In this session, students will learn helpful information about the Department of Economics Undergraduate Program and its Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science majors. Students will also have an opportunity to meet with Department of Economics advisers, and get helpful tips on pursuing Economics as a major at the UW.
This session will be offered online, via Zoom, at the following link:Join Zoom Meeting
https://washington.zoom.us/j/95427263003
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Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: econadv@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Thursday, June 5, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpde6qqDgqGtfMUkSMx18rlP-YU2BGeUh8.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band, "Finale"
The Wind Ensemble (Timothy Salzman, director) and Symphonic Band (David Stewart, Yuman Wu, directors) present "Finale," performing music by Cindy McTee, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Julie Giroux, and others. With the UW Alumni Band.
$10 all tickets.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Meany Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Arts UW Ticket Office at 206-543-4880 or ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Thursday, June 5, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. UW Symphony Orchestra with Concerto Competition Winners
David Alexander Rahbee leads the UW Symphony in a program of concerto excerpts, performed with winners of the 2024-25 School of Music Concerto Competitions.
$10 all tickets.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Meany Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Arts UW Ticket Office at 206-543-4880 or ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Friday, June 6, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Composition Studio
Student composers present original sonic explorations in performances presented by the UW Composition Program.
FREE admission.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Music Building (MUS). Campus room: Brechemin Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: dos@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Saturday, June 7, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. 2025 Design Show
Event interval: Ongoing event. Campus location: Art Building (ART). Campus room: Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Accessibility Contact: jacoblawrencegallery@uw.edu. Event Types: Exhibits.
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 – Friday, June 27, 2025.
Juneteenth
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Summer. Event Types: Academics.
Thursday, June 19, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Economics Prospective Student Info Session
Students who study economics learn to decode the systems that are a part of our everyday lives using models and a variety of social and economic data to analyze how decisions are made, and how limited resources are made, traded, and used.
In this session, students will learn helpful information about the Department of Economics Undergraduate Program and its Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science majors. Students will also have an opportunity to meet with Department of Economics advisers, and get helpful tips on pursuing Economics as a major at the UW.
This session will be offered online, via Zoom, at the following link:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://washington.zoom.us/j/96420961216
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Thursday, June 19, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
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