Shraddha Kumbhojkar | The Truth-seekers Society: Caste and Gender in the Satyashodhak Samaj in Nineteenth-Century India
Free and open to all. At the Jackson School, opportunities and events are open to all eligible persons regardless of race, sex or other identity. Reception to follow in THO 317. Keywords: Phule, Mukta Salave, Dhondiram Kumbhar, Tarabai Shinde, Satyashodhak Samaj, Caste, Gender, 19th Century, Maharashtra
About the talk
The American example of the end of Slavery inspired a number of social movements in India. Satyashodhak Samaj was one of them. It was a socio-cultural sect established in 1874 by Jotirao Phule and others, with a view to create a society based on the ideals of equality and justice. Engaging with the writings of Jotirao Phule, Mukta Salve, Dhondiram Kumbhar and Tarabai Shinde, the talk will try to connect the issues of discrimination based on caste and gender in the late nineteenth century Maharashtra and explore the ways in which the Satyashodhak Samaj offered to mitigate the challenges posed by the unequal social structure.
About the speaker
Shraddha Kumbhojkar is a Professor of History…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: THO 317. Accessibility Contact: sascuw@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
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.
Bathsheba Demuth - Salmon Heads and Beaver Laws: On the Intersections of Environmental History and Legal Practice
Dr. Bathsheba Demuth presents the 2026 Inaugural Linda Nash Memorial Lecture.
Flowing from northwestern Canada and across Alaska, the Yukon River watershed connects human and ecological communities from the ocean to North America's highest mountains. Drawing on archival research, fieldwork, Indigenous legal theory, and the natural sciences, this talk examines how Indigenous, imperial, and nation-state legal traditions made law with, for, and about the Yukon River over the past two centuries—from seeing law in the actions of salmon to using laws to shape human relations with beavers. In doing so, it offers an argument for how environmental history can widen the scope of the social in ways critical to our understanding of what law is, and who it is for, in an era of climate change and species loss.
Bathsheba Demuth is a writer and environmental historian focused on the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. In addition to her prize-winning book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: HUB 340. Accessibility Contact: histmain@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, October 12, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
Latinx Studies Community Gathering/Meet & Greet
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Join us on October 14 at Arepa Venezuela Kitchen for a second meet and greet bringing together faculty and graduate students with research interests in Latinx/e Studies. The event is an opportunity to connect across departments, campuses, and institutions, share research interests, and build community with scholars working in related fields. Come enjoy good food, conversation, and an opportunity to expand your network with others engaged in Latinx/e Studies and related research. .
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, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
Arepa Venezuela Kitchen, 4500 9th Ave NE Seattle WA 98105.
Katz Distinguished Lecture: Eve Tuck
Register to attend. Advance registration is full but you can join our waitlist. If a seat opens, you will receive an email with a registration link. There will also be a stand-by line at the event. Any unfilled seats will be made available to the stand-by line at 6:25 on a first come, first-seated basis, along with 150 standing room and bleacher seats.
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…
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.
Katz Colloquium: A Roundtable on Pedagogy with Eve Tuck
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This roundtable conversation will feature Indigenous scholars and educators sharing insights and practices for relational place-based pedagogies.
Presentation Titles: Anthony Craig and Chelsea Craig, “huyadadcəɫ: Our way of Life. An elder's guidance to align our work to our tribal lifeways inspires us to live and lead as educators in ways that will please our ancestors”
Emma Elliott, “Relational Sovereignty in a Warming World: Indigenous Land-Based Learning for Healing and Climate Education”
Eve Tuck “Land Education Dreambook”
Speaker Bios:
Chelsea Craig, Ed.D. is a citizen of the Tulalip Tribes and currently serves as principal of Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary.
Anthony Craig, Ed.D. is a citizen of Yakama Nation and is a professor of practice at the University of Washington, College of Education.
Emma Kwulasulwut Elliott (Cowichan…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, humanities@uw.edu. Event Types: Not Specified.
Friday, October 16, 2026, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
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Horn of Africa - Building Bridges: UW, the Ethiopian Community, and Global Impact
“Building Bridges” invites UW students, faculty, staff, and community members to learn about local non-profit organizations focused on Ethiopian communities in King County and Ethiopia. Featuring Sofia Benalfew (Ethiopian Community in Seattle) and Ellenore Angelidis (Open Hearts Big Dreams Fund), this will be the first community building event for Phase II of the Horn of Africa Initiative; a year-long project that seeks to promote teaching and research on the Horn of Africa region and its global Diaspora communities.
Sophia Benalfew is the Executive Director of the Ethiopian Community in Seattle (ECS). Prior to ECS, Sophia held leadership roles at Oxfam America and CARE, contributing to global development initiatives across multiple regions.
Ellenore Angelelidis is the Founder/Volunteer Executive Director of Open Hearts Big Dreams Fund, a 501(3)(c) focused on increasing educational opportunities for children in her daughter’s birth country, Ethiopia. Ellenore previously worked as an executive for…
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
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The Simpson Center for the Humanities invites current graduate students at the master's and doctoral levels to a morning meet-and-greet event to make connections across the many departments and disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, and arts at the University of Washington. The Simpson Center offers UW scholars varied opportunities for intellectual community, professional development, and financial support that advance crossdisciplinary understanding, collaboration, and research.
Brief remarks and an introduction to Simpson Center programming will begin at 10:30am.
Stop by to learn more about our fellowships, events, and graduate research clusters, and to talk about shared interests over a cup of coffee or tea with colleagues beyond your program. All graduate students are welcome.
Questions? Contact Rachel Arteaga, Simpson Center Associate Director, at rarteaga@uw.edu. To stay updated on Simpson Center events and opportunities, subscribe to our email newsletter.
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
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This event will highlight the innovative work of the Simpson Center’s 2026 Digital & Data Humanities Summer Fellowship recipients. The eight funded projects span a variety of disciplines and technological approaches – ranging from the use of tactile recording to capture the hand movements of artists, to an online community dictionary for the endangered Mixtec language of Mexico, to large-scale analysis of religious nationalist Facebook posts in the country of Georgia.
The principal researchers for each project will discuss how they’ve applied technology over the course of the summer to help answer their research questions and expand their public impact.
This showcase will be of interest to anyone involved in digital humanities at the university, offering a dynamic snapshot into the breadth and creativity of the work being done here. The event may be of particular value to faculty and graduate students who are considering applying for the Digital & Data Humanities Summer Fellowship in 202…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: 214. 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.
Daniel R. Smith (Swinomish): Artist Talk on "Spot Reservation" Public Art Project
Free artist talk by Daniel R. Smith (Swinomish) to accompany Spot Reservation, Smith’s newest participatory public art project, which he describes as an “Indigenous, celebratory occupation of the University of Washington.” Taking place the day before Halloween, Friday, October 30, from 11:00am – 3:00pm, the project transforms the lower level of the Padelford Parking Garage into an unexpected gathering place centered around participatory art making in a tiny forest, or “nanoforest,” of native plants growing from industrial oil barrels.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Intellectual House (INT). Accessibility Contact: Indigenous Arts Sawyer Seminar, indigenousarts@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, October 26, 2026, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM.
For more info visit simpsoncenter.org. In/Humanizing Generative AI in Place and Space: A Roundtable Conversation
Register to attend. In/Humanizing Generative AI in Place and Space: A Roundtable Conversation brings together faculty, staff, and graduate students across the University of Washington to examine how generative AI reshapes questions of intelligence, authorship, equity, belonging, and humanness. Grounded in Liberatory Landscape Literacies, the roundtable connects humanities, urban studies, education, writing pedagogy, philosophy, and computational design. We ask how place-based learning can support ethical engagement with technologies operating across physical, linguistic, and digital environments. Rather than framing GenAI as either savior or threat, we consider how computational systems of reasoning compare with human cognition, reproduce or challenge inequities, and might support more democratic forms of AI literacy.
The conversation will engage an abridged recording by Davide Fucci, Assistant Professor of Software Engineering at the Blekinge Institute of Technology, whose research explores empirical…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Tabitha Espina, tespina@uw.edu. Event Types: Not Specified.
Thursday, October 29, 2026, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
Jane Russell Commons at UW Tacoma (1918 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98402).
"Spot Reservation" Public Art Project by Daniel R. Smith (Swinomish)
Spot Reservation, Swinomish artist Daniel R. Smith’s newest participatory public art project, is a free event he describes as an “Indigenous, celebratory occupation of the University of Washington.” Taking place the day before Halloween, Friday, October 30, from 11:00am – 3:00pm, the project transforms the lower level of the Padelford Parking Garage into an unexpected gathering place centered around participatory art making in a tiny forest, or “nanoforest,” of native plants growing from industrial oil barrels. Featuring photo portraits with costumes and wearable taxidermy in a tiny post-apocalyptic forest, fry bread tacos, live birds of prey demonstrations, and an open mic; all free and open to the public.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Padelford Garage Level N21; 4110 NE Mason Rd, Seattle, WA 98105. Accessibility Contact: Indigenous Arts Sawyer Seminar, indigenousarts@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Special Events. Exhibits.
Friday, October 30, 2026, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit simpsoncenter.org. Environmental, Indigenous, and Pacific Northwest Studies Meet & Greet
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 206. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, humanities@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Friday, November 6, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 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.
Lecture: Joy Connolly
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Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 120. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, humanities@uw.edu. Event Types: Not Specified.
Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:15 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, November 20, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.