Summer Husky Social: LGBTQIA+ Gathering
GWSS Chair and Professor Amanda Swarr will be in attendance at this casual summer get-together hosted by the UW Alumni Association and the Q Center. The event brings together LGBTQIA+ Husky Alumni and extends a special welcome to all alumni and friends. Stoup Brewing is a family-friendly spot dedicated to bringing people together, one pint at a time. Doors open at 5 p.m. and Q Center Director Brennon Ham will say a few words at 5:30 p.m.
Registration Required.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: uwalumni@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events.
Thursday, August 28, 2025, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
Stoup Brewing.
Book Reading: "Boyhood Reimagined: Stories of Queer Moms Raising Sons," with Gail Marlene Schwartz, Lalita du Perron, June BlueSpruce, & Taylor Farley
Editors and contributors of Boyhood Reimagined: Stories of Queer Moms Raising Sons visit the store, in partnership with the Queer Power Alliance. Editor and contributor Gail Marlene Schwartz, contributor Lalita du Perron, contributor June BlueSpruce, and Executive Director of Queer Power Alliance Taylor Farley will be reading from and discussing their book and its connections to Seattle’s queer communities.
Queer Power Alliance envisions a world where LGBTQIA+ communities thrive with dignity, respect, and equality. We build collective power for LGBTQIA+ liberation by cultivating grassroots leadership that advocates, educates, and organizes. Collectively, we are disrupting systems of oppression and demanding housing, economic, racial, and gender justice for LGBTQIA+ communities.
Registration is not required, but helps us anticipate audience size. If you'd like to RSVP, please do so here!
Copies of Boyhood Reimagined will be available for purchase at the event.
About Boyhood Reimagined
A family with two…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: 206-624-6600. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, August 28, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Elliot Bay Book Company.
For more info visit www.elliottbaybook.com. Labor 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: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, September 1, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Film screening: 'The Point Men' with Yim Soon-rye, Korean filmmaker and director
Special guest award winning filmmaker Yim Soon-rye will be at the University of Washington for the screening of The Point Men (Korean: 교섭 2023) followed by Q&A. The Point Men is a story about a diplomat and a National Intelligence Service (NIS) agent who struggle and risk their lives on foreign soil to save Korean hostages that have been abducted in Afghanistan. The film is based on true events. Then, the following evening join SIFF as they screening another Yim film, also followed by Q&A with the director. Film title TBD.
, Yim Soon-rye (Korean: 임순례) is the most prolific female South Korean film director and screenwriter. She is one of the few leading female auteurs of Korean New Wave cinema. Her feature film debut Three Friends (1996), explores Korean masculinity and marginalization through the lives of three young men who have difficulty adjusting to the social system. It won the NETPAC Award at the 6th Pusan International Film Festival. Since then her films have ranged from fiction to documentaries and…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Alder Auditorium. 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: Screenings. Target Audience: Free and open to the public. Space is limited. Please register.
Thursday, October 2, 2025, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
'Reading Law: Legal Knowledge and the Making of Justice in Chosŏn Korea' with Jungwon Kim, Columbia University
This talk examines how legal knowledge shaped the making of justice in Chosŏn Korea, focusing on the pivotal role of legal officers in judicial practice. Unlike Confucian scholar-officials, the state cultivated specialists who passed examinations and were dispatched to assist local governors, marking a distinct form of legal expertise. Drawing on rich archival materials—including law books, trial reports, and state evaluations—the talk shows how the state both relied on specialized expertise and persistently sought to constrain and regulate it within the bounds of justice and political order. Reconstructing how legal specialists trained and operated, it reveals the intricacies of law in Chosŏn society and how evolving expertise and legal literacy shaped judicial decisions at the local level while informing broader conceptions of justice. Jungwon Kim is the King Sejong Assistant Professor of Korean Studies at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the gender and legal history of premodern Korea, with…
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.
Thursday, October 9, 2025, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM.
Symposium | Gender, Translation, and the Short Form in the Eurasian Periodical
October 10: 9am - 2pm (tentative)
October 11: 9am - 2pm (tentative)
Literary modernity did not always appear in book form, but as a periodical! Throughout the 20th century, literary and cultural production across much of Central, Western, and South Asia reached readers through the pages of periodicals. These periodicals–newspapers, magazines, and journals–housed a variety of literary forms ranging from serialized novels, to poetry, to short stories, alongside advertisements, comics, and photography. This symposium features emerging literary scholarship that investigates short form fiction as it appears in the rhizomatic 20th century periodical, and its intersections with translation and gender. How does fiction move across and between languages in 20th century periodical cultures of Eurasia? What does an explicit and intentional consideration of gender in these translingual (and frequently transnational, or transhistorical) literary movements illuminate? In exploring such questions, this symposium…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: 317. Accessibility Contact: learna@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Workshops.
Friday, October 10, 2025, 9:00 AM – Saturday, October 11, 2025, 2:00 PM.
Veterans 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: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Tuesday, November 11, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu.