Early Periods Faculty Lightning Talk Roundtable
Early time periods meet and greet at the Simpson Center hosted by the English Department's Rhema Hokama, with colleagues across Asian L&L, classics, MELC, and the European literatures gathering for a lighting talk roundtable to jumpstart the convo, which will then open up more informally to ideas for initiatives, collaboration, and research for everyone who wants to attend. This event will take place on Mon, Nov 9 from 3:30 to 5 pm at the Simpson Center seminar room CMU 202.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: CMU 202. Accessibility Contact: Rhema Hokama, rhema@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Monday, November 9, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Global Antiquities & Early Modernisms Lightning Talks
RSVP Required.
Join us for an informal meet-and-greet and lightning talk roundtable featuring scholars from across the University of Washington and Washington state whose research engages the ancient, medieval, and early modern worlds.
Designed to spark conversation and new collaborations across disciplines, regions, and traditional period boundaries, the event will feature short presentations on current and emerging research in literature, history, religion, performance, material texts, and cultural exchange. Topics range from Sanskrit court and temple poetry, Roman slavery and emotional labor, Dante and the manuscript roots of print culture, and medieval German and Yiddish literature to premodern Scandinavia in global perspective, shipboard Shakespeare, classical reception, and East Asia in the Renaissance world.
Featuring scholars from Asian Languages & Literature, Classics, English, French & Italian Studies, German Studies, Scandinavian Studies, and Central Washington University, the roundtable will…
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.