DH Colloquium - Introduction to The Black Grandmother Archive
“When an elder dies, a library burns.” This African proverb emphasizes the irreplaceable role of elders as guardians and transmitters of knowledge, culture, and wisdom. Black grandmothers, as living "libraries," carry and preserve vital stories and cultural inheritances—such as material possessions, traditions, rituals, and language—that have shaped the matriarchal legacies and cultural identity of African-descended peoples. The Black Grandmother Archive and The Black Grandmother Worldmaking Library intervene in the fields of archiving and preservation by offering publicly accessible, digitally preserved websites for user-generated narratives. They also reshape the discourse around Black culture and history by centering Black grandmothers as knowledge producers. Their stories set the historical record straight, providing invaluable insight into Black experiences and cultural traditions.
These digital humanities projects digitize the stories and cultural inheritances of Black grandmothers, counteracting the…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/97058853009. Campus room: Smith Hall, Room 320. Accessibility Contact: ejred@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Information Sessions.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
GWSS Spring Colloquium: "Homocapitalism in the ‘Gay Capital of Africa’: Interrogating South African Sexual Exceptionalism," Presented by Shelley Pryde
Presenter: Shelley Pryde, PhD student, GWSS
Moderator: Reggie Kent, PhD student, English
South Africa enjoys an international reputation as an LGBTQ+ -friendly nation, undergirded by its status as the only African state that has thus far legalized same-sex marriage. While the 1996 constitution provides legal protections to LGBTQ+ South Africans, there remains a disparity between ‘rights on paper’ and lived realities of stigma and violence, which disproportionately affect poor, black, and trans citizens. In light of these contradictions, Shelley Pryde examines South African sexual exceptionalism through the lens of homocapitalism. She traces points of transnational politico-economic interaction to unpack their significance to the post-transition nation-building project: and thereby also, to the fracturing of queer subject formation along race and class lines. Ultimately, she argues that South African sexual exceptionalism is predicated on a colonial and apartheid amnesia that 'blackwashes' homophobia, and…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Campus room: PDL B110 G. Accessibility Contact: GWSS, gwss@uw.edu, 206-593-6900. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Work in Progress: Approaches to Global Literary Studies
The Program in Global Literary Studies is presenting faculty from across UW Humanities departments in a series of lightning talks. Speakers (allotted no longer than 4 minutes each!) will focus on their current literature-related projects or on emerging trends in their fields. Access the program here. All are welcome! Open to the public.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Campus room: Allen Library North, 4th Floor, Room 485. Accessibility Contact: Isabelle Schlegel, slavoffice@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, May 29, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM.
Lecture | Militant Mothers of Kurdistan: Mothering the Dead and Care Beyond Life
This event is free and open to the public.
This talk discusses the unconventional forms of care that emerge out of Kurdish resistance in Turkey, where mothering becomes a powerful response against necropolitical state violence. By centering the stories of two Kurdish mothers who had to care for their dead children and mother beyond life under the violent state of emergency regime declared in 2015; the talk examines the ways in which Kurdish mothers “rescue the dead” (Antoon, 2021) from the necropolitical state and create their own necropolitical power through a radical embrace of death and decoupling of mothering from the corporeal link between the mother and the child. It is a critical intervention into conventional humanitarian care frameworks that prioritize human survival and calls for a re-imagination of humanitarianism as something that extends to the non-human and the dead and for the discovery of sites where humanitarian care is not passively received but is politically reconstructed as a site of…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: 337. Accessibility Contact: jsisevents@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, June 2, 2025, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
GWSS Graduation Celebration
The University of Washington Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies invites you to join us to celebrate our graduates of the 2024-2025 school year! We will honor the accomplishments of our wonderful graduates with presentations by students and faculty.
Registration is open until Sunday, May 25 at 11:59pm. Complete the survey now!
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Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: Lyceum. Accessibility Contact: gwssadvs@uw.edu. Event Types: Ceremonies. Special Events. Student Activities.
Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
Juneteenth
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Summer. Event Types: Academics.
Thursday, June 19, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Independence 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: Summer. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, July 4, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. 3rd International Summit on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
We are excited to announce that Spectrum Conferences will be hosting the 3rd International Summit on Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering (ISCSEE2025) from July 21-23, 2025, in the beautiful city of Frankfurt, Germany. Following the resounding success of the second series held in March 2024 in Florence, Italy which featured a fabulous lineup of speakers. Building on this momentum, ISCSEE2025 promises to be even more exceptional. Bringing together experts from around the world, this event will delve into the most pressing issues in Civil, Structural and Environmental. Join us for the latest advancements in Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering, where we will showcase cutting-edge research, innovative practices, and transformative ideas. We eagerly anticipate welcoming you to Germany for this inspiring congress in 2025!
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Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: 1107 Ne 45th Street (University District Building) (UDB). Online Meeting Link: https://civilsummit.com/registration. Accessibility Contact: 8977002668. Event Types: Academics. Conferences. Exhibits. Meetings. Workshops.
Monday, July 21, 2025 – Wednesday, July 23, 2025.
For more info visit civilsummit.com.