Mexican Muralism and Networks of Solidarity
Please join us for Mexican Muralism and Networks of Solidarity: "The Struggle Against Racial Discrimination" in Seattle and Beyond, a conversation between Dr. Jennifer Jolly (Ithaca College) and Dr. Gigi Peterson (SUNY Cortland), moderated by Swagato Chakravorty (The Henry Art Gallery). This conversation situates Pablo O Higgins' 1945 mural, currently on display at the University of Washington, in the larger context of mural making and international organizing to explore the conditions and contradictions that conspired to make this form of expression a radical, if imperfect, tool for social change. This event is part of the 7th triennial conference of the Association for Latin American Art taking place at Alder Hall auditorium (Oct 8-11).
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Art Building (ART). Campus room: Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Accessibility Contact: jacoblawrencegallery@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: SoA+AH+D and LACS students, faculty, staff, and ALAA conference attendees.
Thursday, October 8, 2026, 5:45 PM – 7:15 PM.
First Book Manuscript Panel: Diana Flores Ruiz
Details TBA.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 202. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, humanities@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, October 9, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Latinx Studies Community Gathering/Meet & Greet
Details & RSVP link TBA.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, humanities@uw.edu. Event Types: Not Specified.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
Arepa Venezuela Kitchen, 4500 9th Ave NE Seattle WA 98105.
Katz Distinguished Lecture: Eve Tuck
Writing is a relational practice. Like teaching, writing is central to our lives as educators, artists, and university workers. And like teaching, we rarely engage one another on what we are doing when we are writing. As such, writing can be underestimated as a practice, and overlooked as a form of relation. Writing can be a way of knowing, a visitation, a keeping, and a keeping away. Following her lecture, Eve Tuck will be joined by UW professor Dian Million (Tanana Athabascan) for a conversation on writing as one way we attend to our many relations of care and responsibility to communities, to lands and waters, and to one another.
Eve Tuck (Unangax̂) is James Weldon Johnson Professor of Indigenous Studies at Steinhardt and Gallatin, New York University. An enrolled member of the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island, Alaska, Tuck grew up outside of her community in Pennsylvania and New York City. Tuck was the founding director of the Tkaronto CIRCLE Lab, which is now The Visiting Lab in Lenapehoking. Under…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Intellectual House (INT). Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, humanities@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, October 15, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
Horn of Africa - Building Bridges: UW, the Ethiopian Community, and Global Impact
Details TBA.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 202. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, humanities@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
Graduate Student Coffee & Conversation: Making Connections Across Departments & Disciplines in the Humanities
Details TBA.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 202. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Not Specified.
Thursday, October 22, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
Digital & Data Humanities Showcase
Details TBA.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 202. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206.543.3920, humanities@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Open to UW Faculty, Students, and Staff.
Friday, October 23, 2026, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Global Antiquities & Early Modernisms Lightning Talks
Details TBA.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, humanities@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, November 9, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Horn of Africa - Lecture by Safia Aidid
Further details and zoom link TBA.
Safia Aidid is an interdisciplinary historian of modern Africa and Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the African Studies Centre at University of Toronto. She holds a PhD from Harvard University. Her research addresses anticolonial nationalism, territorial imaginations, borders, and state formation in the Horn of Africa, with a particular focus on modern Somalia and Ethiopia. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled "Pan-Somali Dreams: Ethiopia, Greater Somalia, and the Somali Nationalist Imagination."
Made possible by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. This event is free and open to the public . Accommodation requests related to a disability or health condition should be made by October 29, 2026 to the Simpson Center, 206.543.3920, schadmin@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, humanities@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, November 12, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Zoom, Link TBA.