Writing@UW: An Asset-Based Approach to Working With Multilingual Student Writing
UW Global Month
Learn about strategies and resources that support effective academic writing, particularly for international and multilingual (I/M) students.
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The University is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education, and employment for individuals with disabilities. If you need disability accommodations, please reach out to the UW Disability Services Office (DSO): dso@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98405121061. Accessibility Contact: teaching@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, March 19, 2025, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
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For more info visit teaching.washington.edu. 228 Memorial Screening & Director Q&A: "In Search of a Mixed Identity" with Co-directors Ming-zheng HUANG & Chen-Hui LIEN
UW Global Month
In partnership with the Taiwanese Association of Greater Seattle and Seed Kite Foundation, the UW Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program welcomes you to our 228 Memorial Screening & Director Q&A: In Search of a Mixed Identity with Co-directors Ming-zheng HUANG & Chen-Hui LIEN!
About the Film
In Taiwan, at the heart of Tainan City, there is a park and a road named after Thng Tek-chiong, though most local citizens don't know who he is.
Thng Tek-chiong was born in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period. His father, a Japanese policeman, died when Thng was eight during an armed confrontation between the locals and the authorities. Following in his father's footsteps, he joined the police force before becoming a lawyer. After World War II, he forgot the lesson taught by his father’s history and died in the February 28 incident, a conflict that erupted amid the transition of political power in Taiwan. As a half-Taiwanese, half-Japanese man, Thng witnessed the injustices of colonization and spent his life…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Taiwan Studies (taiwanst@uw.edu). Event Types: Screenings. Special Events. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/19s6o2WFKY/.
Saturday, March 22, 2025, 2:30 PM – 5:30 PM.
Lincoln Square Cinemas
700 Bellevue Way NE #310
Bellevue, WA 98004, USA.
GETSEA Simulcast | Hot Stuff: Exposing Indonesia's Geothermal Dreams
UW Global Month
"Hot Stuff: Exposing Indonesia's Geothermal Dreams" is an AIFIS film award winning documentary and part of a trio of Indonesian films that delve into energy policies in Indonesia, corporate ties to those policies, and their detrimental effects on local environments and populations.
Director Dandhy Laksono and Producer Cypri Dale will join GETSEA live from the University of Michigan’s Center for Southeast Asia Studies as 20 universities from across North America connect via Zoom to watch Hot Stuff simultaneously, followed by a discussion about the film, energy policy in Indonesia, and the new Prabowo Subianto administration’s response to local grassroots movements in the country.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: THO 317. Accessibility Contact: csead@uw.edu. Event Types: Screenings. Target Audience: Free and open to the public. Registration advised.
Monday, March 31, 2025, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
The Big Read: Keynote Conversation with Heather Cox Richardson
UW Global Month
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Accessibility Contact: Greta Essig. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Academics. Special Events. Student Activities. Target Audience: UW students, faculty, and staff.
Monday, April 7, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit artsci.washington.edu. LUNCHTIME WORKSHOP | Mujeres en puestos de elección pública a nivel municipal: madres, esposas y ciudadanas
UW Global Month
Professor Liliana Castañeda (University of Guadalajara) will present her paper on women and electoral office at the municipal level in the Mexican state of Jalisco. This workshop forms part of an ongoing series, Dangerous Subjects, hosted by Latin American and Caribbean Studies, which is oriented around providing constructive feedback for works in progress. This event will be conducted in Spanish and the paper will be pre-circulated. Please RSVP to vfreije@uw.edu to confirm attendance. .
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 202. Accessibility Contact: Katie Sandler, ksandl@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Workshops.
Friday, April 11, 2025, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
Translation Beyond English - Between Persian & Italian
UW Global Month
With Domenic Ingenito, UCLA.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Denny Hall (DEN). Campus room: 359. Accessibility Contact: ariafani@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
2025 Farhat J. Ziadeh Distinguished Lecture in Arab and Islamic Studies
UW Global Month
"The Past Continuous: Recurrence and Renewal in Modern Palestinian Poetry"
Presented by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
In January of 2024, in the third month of the genocide in Gaza, I began a project in collaboration with Open Books: A Poem Emporium, the Poetry-only bookstore in Seattle. I would select one book of Palestinian poetry each month and write a flash essay about my selection to send to their subscribers. What followed was a year-long immersion in modern Palestinian poetry as many of the themes of the works I read were thrown into high relief by the horrific events unfolding in Gaza and the West Bank.
I am interested in the themes of recurrence and renewal in modern Palestinian poetry. The lecture will explore these themes and offer a meditation on the vitality of literature and how it shapes our consciousness, our reading of history, and maps possibilities for the future.
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. Her most recent book, Something About Living (University of Akron, 2024),…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: Walker Ames Room. Accessibility Contact: selims@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Academics.
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
Designing Group Work that Reflects the Needs of International Learners
UW Global Month
In this interactive workshop, faculty from a variety of disciplines will share strategies for designing group work that reflects the needs of international learners.
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The University is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education, and employment for individuals with disabilities. If you need disability accommodations, please reach out to the UW Disability Services Office (DSO): dso@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/94144162213. Accessibility Contact: teaching@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Thursday, April 24, 2025, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
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For more info visit teaching.washington.edu. Apr 24 - [Roundtable Discussion] 228: From Atrocity to Transitional Justice in Taiwan
UW Global Month
The 228 Incident—the violent suppression of anti-government protests on February 28, 1947, by the Nationalist government—marked the beginning of decades of martial law in Taiwan, a period known as the White Terror. This pivotal event continues to shape discussions on transitional justice, social memory, and democratization.
This roundtable explores the historical significance of the 228 Incident and examines how cultural productions, institutions, academia, and education contribute to representing and remembering both lived histories and collective memories. By analyzing the ways in which historical trauma is documented, taught, and memorialized, the discussion will shed light on the broader role of cultural engagement, academic scholarship, and educational practices in Taiwan’s ongoing process of transitional justice.
SPEAKERS
Sylvia Li-chun Lin, formerly Associate Professor of Chinese at the University of Notre Dame, is currently a free-lance translator. In her previous incarnation, she conducted…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: HUB 340. Accessibility Contact: Taiwan Studies (taiwanst@uw.edu). Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Meetings. Special Events.
Thursday, April 24, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit www.ticketleap.events. Walter G. Andrews Memorial Lecture | Occasions for Poetry: Politics, Literature, and Imagination Among the Early Modern Ottomans
UW Global Month
After the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, Ottoman elites at the imperial court turned to poetry to craft distinctive modes of expression to articulate their own place within the Ottoman sultanate.
In this talk, Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano will discuss his new book, Occasions for Poetry: Politics, Literature, and Imagination Among the Early Modern Ottomans (Penn Press, 2025), where he explores how scholars and bureaucrats interacted with each other through poetic imagery, revealing how literary language affected bureaucratic practice. Poetry was not only an artistic activity, but also a means to advance or save one’s own political or bureaucratic career. For the Ottoman elite, poetry was more than a creative activity or a flattering description of Ottoman power and expansion; it was a vehicle to shape and mold their social reality. The language and genres created and used by these early modern Ottomans would define both a literary tradition and the shape of imperial politics and power for almost six centuries…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: Walker Ames Room. Accessibility Contact: selims@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, April 24, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
FILM SCREENING|Displacement and Resistance: The Story of Masafer Yatta
UW Global Month
This event is free and open to the public.
Join us for a screening of No Other Land (2024) which documents the forced displacement of Masafer Yatta, a Palestinian community, through the lens of activist Basel Adra and journalist Yuval Abraham. Basel and Yuval's collaboration reveals the injustices of Israel's settler-colonial occupation and stark inequalities between their lives. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Professor Liora Halperin (History), Dr. Lubna Alzaroo (Program on the Environment & CHID), and students Hanady Shaqur and Hannah Gallagher.
Liora Halperin is a historian at the University of Washington specializing in Jewish history, nationalism, and Jewish-Arab relations in Israel/Palestine.
Dr. Lubna Alzaroo is a lecturer in the University of Washington's Program on the Environment, specializing in issues at the intersection of environmental justice, education, and inequities in access to environmental resources
Hanady Shaqur is a Palestinian/Mexican-American…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: 214. Accessibility Contact: Katie Sandler, ksandl@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Screenings.
Friday, April 25, 2025, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
Fostering Growth Mindset and a Sense of Belonging
UW Global Month
Join a panel of faculty for a discussion of an initiative, piloted at UW Tacoma, that promotes a growth mindset and increases students’ sense of belonging in the classroom.
The University is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education, and employment for individuals with disabilities. This event will include live-captioning services. If you need additional disability accommodations, please reach out to the UW Disability Services Office (DSO). When contacting DSO at dso@uw.edu, please share the event details listed in the event registration form.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/93022944395. Accessibility Contact: teaching@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Zoom.
Demystifying Alternative Grading
UW Global Month
Learn how alternative grading systems can foster learning and increase student motivation.
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The University is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education, and employment for individuals with disabilities. If you need disability accommodations, please reach out to the UW Disability Services Office (DSO): dso@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/96087401209. Accessibility Contact: teaching@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Thursday, May 22, 2025, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Zoom.
For more info visit teaching.washington.edu. BOOK LAUNCH | “To Stand with Palestine: Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the United States” by Dr. Karam Dana
UW Global Month
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged. Doors expected to open at 4:40pm.
In recent years, attitudes in the United States toward the Palestinian cause have shifted dramatically. Although Palestinians have long been demonized in U.S. media and politics, their struggle, often portrayed as illegitimate, is now increasingly supported by emergent progressive voices challenging the status quo on Israel and Palestine. What accounts for this change and its evolution? This book explores how Palestinian identity is strengthened by the absence of a defined home nation and how a coalition rooted in exile continues to resist and advocate for a distant homeland. It examines the social, political, economic, and technological forces that have amplified Palestinian voices globally, particularly in the United States, fostering new forms of activism and solidarity.
Dr. Karam Dana is Professor of Middle East Studies and the Alyson McGregor Distinguished Professor of Excellence & Transformative…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: 110. Accessibility Contact: Katie Sandler, ksandl@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, May 22, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:45 PM.
Lecture | Militant Mothers of Kurdistan: Mothering the Dead and Care Beyond Life
UW Global Month
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: Katie Sandler, ksandl@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, June 2, 2025, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.