Treasuring All the Knowledges: Writing Abundance in Academia
Please join us for a conversation- and creativity-centered gathering celebrating the book launch of Navigating Academia as a Transnational Scholar from the Global South: Treasuring All the Knowledges. Date: February 11, 2026
Time: 3:30–5:00 PM (panel discussion followed by a reception)
Location: Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center (ECC)
Room: Unity Suite
This edited collection brings together the voices of 16 women and non-binary scholars who began their postgraduate journeys as non-elite international students and (un)documented migrants in countries positioned as economically more powerful than their places of origin. Inspired by the book’s creative and relational approach to knowledge, this event will also open a collective space for poetry and storytelling. Participants are invited to write and share short poetic or narrative reflections that speak to their own experiences of abundance, survival, care, and knowledge-making within academic spaces.
Panelists: Roxana Chiappa, Assistant Professor at…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center (ECC). Campus room: ECC Unity Suite. Accessibility Contact: GWSS, gwss@uw.edu, 206-593-6900. Event Types: Special Events. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Presidents' Day
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No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, February 16, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Primary: Alma Thomas, Sisterhood and the Revolutionary Quality of Light with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Based on Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ forthcoming book of poetic indexes, this interactive poetic lecture explores the life, teaching, and artwork of color theorist Alma Thomas. Engaging themes of audience, intimacy, abstract expressionist art, and the dynamic relationship between Black women’s creativity and the process of being Earth, the lecture invites participants into a rhythmic dialogue of form, meaning, and presence.
About the Speaker:
Alexis Pauline Gumbs (author, poet) is a Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all life. She/they are the author of several transformative books, including Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde and the award-winning Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. As the co-founder of the Mobile Homecoming Trust, she/they help steward an intergenerational, experiential living library celebrating Black LGBTQ brilliance.
Registration Open!
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: The University is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education, and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodations, contact the UW Disability Services Office at least 10 days in advance at 206-543-6450 (voice), 206-543-6452 (TTY), 206-685-7264 (fax), or dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, March 4, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
Seattle Town Hall & Livestream.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Symposium | Partition & Solidarity : Anticolonial Struggles in the Colonial Present
Join us on this one-day symposium where scholars and activists will gather to engage in conversations about anticolonial struggles of the past and the present. We will organize sessions devoted to specific moments and movements, but our overriding objective will be to find unexpected convergences and critical insights to advance ongoing struggles against empire. Over the past five centuries, empires have used partition and division to justify and advance colonialism. We can see that ongoing history of colonial rule and racial violence exploding around the world today—from Palestine to Minnesota and beyond.
How might we forge diasporic imaginaries and solidarity movements to contest that colonial world order toward collective liberation?
In anticipation of the conference, the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies is hosting a reading group focused on the book by Adam Hanieh - Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (Verso, 2024).
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Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: HUB Lyceum. Accessibility Contact: hbcls@uw.edu. Event Types: Conferences.
Friday, March 6, 2026, 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM.
Duke Feminist Theory Workshop
The Feminist Theory Workshop (FTW) has, since its first gathering in 2007, promoted diverse dialogue among scholars of feminist theory and fostered a vibrant intellectual community. To that end, the workshop brings together internationally recognized keynote speakers and emerging young scholars to engage in lively and focused debate.
Following last year's hybrid structure, this year’s FTW will be held in person at Duke University on March 20 and 21, 2026. Remote participants will have the opportunity to watch keynote lectures, pose questions, and participate in remote breakout seminars. FTW is proud to continue offering this event with no registration fees, making it accessible to anyone who can attend. However, health, space, labor, and financial considerations require limiting both remote and in-person registration.
, The Feminist Theory Workshop (FTW), which is in its nineteenth year, offers a unique opportunity for internationally recognized faculty and young scholars to engage in sustained dialogue…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: GSFS@duke.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Special Events.
Friday, March 20, 2026 – Saturday, March 21, 2026.
Duke University Penn Pavilion.
For more info visit readymag.website.