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FILM SCREENING | Chaityabhumi | Screening and Q&A with Director Somnath Waghamare
Chaityabhumi: Documentary Film Screening and Q&A with Director Somnath Waghamare, Register | Campus map | Visitor parking info
Join the South Asia Center for a screening of the documentary film Chaityabhumi (trailer) and a discussion with director Somnath Waghamare.
For the Dalit movement in India, one of the significant and important places is Chaityabhumi in Mumbai. The Dalit movement in Maharashtra has had a continuous and unbroken presence for 100 years now. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s anti-caste and Dalit human rights movement began in this land. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar himself stayed in Mumbai for most of his life, and when he died on December 6, 1956, his last rites were done near the sea at Dadar. His followers later built Chaityabhumi at that spot.
Every year 1 to 6 December, millions of Dalit-Bahujan across the nation visit this place and pay tribute to their revolutionary leader. But the city’s media and elite Mumbaikars only show disdain for this peaceful event. This documentary film will bring to…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Campus room: Allen Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: sascuw@uw.edu. Event Types: Screenings. Special Events. Target Audience: Free and open to the public. Registration advised.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
AIA Seattle Urban Design Forum
External Events
Join AIA Seattle’s Urban Design Forum for a monthly look at our plans and goals as a committee, taking place every fourth Wednesday at 12pm.
We’ll be looking at questions such as: What is a suburb? How do we renovate suburban development to be more sustainable? How are the region and the city urbanizing? How should they be? Who is moving into the city? Who is being displaced? Can gentrification be inclusive and equitable? How is technology transforming mobility? How is city housing policy manipulating the private market? What will the new waterfront look like without the Viaduct?
Anyone with thoughts regarding topics, speakers or a particular curiosity regarding urban design in our region is welcome to join us and weigh in on the focus for the upcoming forums in 2023. Also feel free to reach us via our social media handles below.
Event interval: Ongoing event. Online Meeting Link: https://aiaseattle.org/event/committee-meeting-urban-design-forum-4/2024-02-28/. Accessibility Contact: 206.448.4938. Event Types: Information Sessions. Meetings.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM.
Zoom- link is here:
https://aiaseattle.org/event/committee-meeting-urban-design-forum-4/2024-02-28/.
For more info visit aiaseattle.org. DEI strategies and successes with Dr. Yvette Pearson
Faculty, staff, and students who serve on department and college diversity counciles are welcome to join us for this session. Dr. Yvette E. Pearson is recognized globally for nearly 30 years of contributions to engineering education. This will be an opportunity to meet with Dr. Pearson, talk about her work, and to discuss strategies for building more inclusive and equitable academic environments.
Campus location: Paul G. Allen Center For Computer Science & Engineering (CSE). Campus room: CSE 691, Gates Commons. Accessibility Contact: Carrie Sturts Dossick. CBE Categories: Architecture. Construction Management. Landscape Architecture. Real Estate. Research. Urban Design & Planning. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
CSE 691, Gates Commons.
"Just Sustainabilities" in Policy, Planning and Practice
Sustainability, though a widely used word, is often inadequate when applied in practice. Its fullest meaning varies across geographies, ethnicities, cultures, and economic realities. Prof. Julian Agyeman’s pioneering work teases apart such nuances to clarify how we might pursue “just sustainabilities” or more fair and equitable approaches to address uncertain futures. On April 24, 2024, Prof Agyeman will expand on these ideas, working from the big picture down to what professionals and students can do at the local level to positively impact desired outcomes. This lecture is hosted by The University of Washington’s College of Built Environments and Department of Urban Design and Planning (UDP). It is organized by the Department’s Professionals Council’s Planning Lecture Committee. Julian will outline the concept of just sustainabilities as a response to the ‘equity deficit’ of much sustainability thinking and practice. He will explore his contention that who can belong in our cities will ultimately…
Campus location: Architecture Hall (ARC). Campus room: 147. Accessibility Contact: Edith Olguin. CBE Categories: Urban Design & Planning. Landscape Architecture. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM.
OpenThePaths 2024 Mini-Conference- "The Rides Not Taken."
Free. An Open Data and Transportation Equity Conference
The University of Washington’s Transportation Data Equity Initiative (TDEI) will host the 5th annual Open The Paths conference from April 25-26, 2024. This is a two-day mini-conference focusing on multimodal, accessibility-first open transportation data and mapping. This year we will focus on ‘The Rides Not Taken’ and the disparate traveler experiences that challenge public transit incentives.
The conference highlights continued work of the TDEI, partners and developers working on transportation data collection and data standardization, with a particular focus on information relating to sidewalks, transit centers and paratransit services. Further, this conference aims to advance TDEI work through collaboration and informed discussion with community partners.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE2). Online Meeting Link: https://transitequity.cs.washington.edu/?page_id=1546. Accessibility Contact: Olivia Quesada, oliviagq00@gmail.com. Event Types: Academics. Conferences. Diversity Equity Inclusion. Information Sessions. Lectures/Seminars. Special Events. Student Activities. Workshops.
Thursday, April 25, 2024 – Friday, April 26, 2024.
For more info visit transitequity.cs.washington.edu. Creating a Sustainable Campus: Decarbonizing our Energy System
External Events
Creating a Sustainable Campus: Decarbonizing our Energy System
Speaker: Dave Woodson, Executive Director of Campus Energy, Utilities and Operations
Register for Zoom link
Learn how the UW is working to transition our campus energy system away from fossil fuels.
This is part of UW Sustainability's "Creating a Sustainable Campus" webinar series highlighting sustainability work happening across the university. These talks will be recorded and videos posted to the series website after the events.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArc-mrqTMsGNByWr1P6rjm0_4uOdJFiEBd. Accessibility Contact: sustainability@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Information Sessions.
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
Zoom.
For more info visit sustainability.uw.edu. Climate Justice Conversations and Connections
Free breakfast & lunch. Networking opportunities with UW faculty and staff. Stay for as long as you can.
EarthLab presents an inclusive gathering focused on climate justice and community building. Across the Seattle, Bothell, and Tacoma campuses, University of Washington students actively engage in vital discussions about climate change and its profound implications for social justice. Now, we invite UW undergraduates from all campuses to unite for a transformative half-day event at the Husky Union Building.
This free event is a platform for grassroots conversations to build a stronger climate community, where student voices take center stage. Through facilitated discussions grounded in principles of social justice and equity, we aim to ignite excitement and optimism for concrete next steps towards collective climate action at UW.
Join us to connect with peers and faculty, to exchange ideas, and to be empowered to drive meaningful change.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: HUB 334. Accessibility Contact: Allie Long. Event Types: Special Events. Target Audience: UW undergrad students across the tri-campus.
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit forms.office.com. Jackson School of International Studies - Panel: Global Abortion Around the World
Join us for a panel discussion on the history of abortion in Bolivia, China, Kenya, South Asia, and the US-Mexico Borderlands over the past sixty years, and what those histories reveal about technopolitical developments, reproductive governance, and transnational social movements. This event is free and open to the public.
Panelists: Natalie (Tasha) Kimball is Associate Professor of History and the Coordinator of the Master’s Program in History at the College of Staten Island, and affiliated faculty at the Graduate Center, both within the City University of New York. They are the author of An Open Secret: The History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Modern Bolivia (2020).
Sarah Mellors Rodriguez is Associate Professor of East Asian History at Missouri State University, and author of Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021 (2023).
Lina-Maria Murillo is Assistant Professor in the departments of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies, History, and Latina/o/x Studies…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: 214. Accessibility Contact: Monique Thormann (jsiscom@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Special Events.
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
2024 design exCHANGE Exhibit
The 2024 design exCHANGE exhibit is an annual exhibition of unbuilt projects by local Seattle architecture firms. The projects showcased are located in the Pacific Northwest region and all around the world.
The exhibit is free and open to the public.
Event Interval: Ongoing event. Campus location: Gould Hall (GLD). Accessibility Contact: Shanna Sukol. CBE Categories: Architecture. Event Types: Exhibits. Target Audience: Students, faculty, staff, and professional community.
Friday, April 26, 2024 – Thursday, May 9, 2024.
Gould Court
3950 University Way NE
Seattle 98105.
Seattle Black Film Festival at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute
The 21st annual Seattle Black Film Festival is only just beginning! Running this year at two locations, the historic Langston Hughes Performing Art Institute and Washington Hall in the Central District.
Featuring…
- Sundance 2024 Audience Award Winner film "Daughters".
- Films by Northwest Film Forum’s Netsanet Tjirongo; "Savi the Cat" and "Vanishing Seattle: Queer the Land"
- An Artist Spotlight of Justin Emeka and the west coast premier of his film "Biological" featuring local rap artist Rell Be Free.
- A Filmmaker's Brunch at Simply Soulful.
- And the first ever Sudanese film at the Cannes Film festival, "Goodbye Julia".
And so much more! Available online and in-person. $20-$120.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://www.langstonseattle.org/sbff/. Accessibility Contact: (206) 323-7067 or info@langstonseattle.org. Event Types: Academics. Diversity Equity Inclusion. Exhibits. Performances. Screenings. Special Events.
Friday, April 26, 2024 – Sunday, April 28, 2024.
Virtual and in-person at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute,
104 17th Ave S Seattle, WA 98144.
For more info visit www.langstonseattle.org. Resilience Hackathon
The UW Resilience Hackathon will focus on designing adaptable cities capable of responding flexibly to a range of disruptions - from pandemics to earthquakes to heat waves - affecting our natural and urban environments, mobility and accessibility, infrastructure, technology, and public health. Join us as we bring together stakeholders from the City of Seattle, the University of Washington, and community partners, each contributing their unique expertise to developing new and groundbreaking approaches to pressing urban problems. Together, we aim to strengthen the efficiency and resilience of our city to better prepare for future disruptions.
Register
Made possible by the NSF LEAP-HI Award #2053373 for Re-Engineering for Adaptable Lives and Businesses".
Campus location: UW Tower. Accessibility Contact: babsp@uw.edu. CBE Categories: Architecture. Construction Management. Landscape Architecture. Real Estate. Research. Urban Design & Planning. Event Types: Workshops.
Friday, April 26, 2024, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit events.uw.edu. 2024 DEI Forum: Achieving Equity Together: Navigating Challenges While Empowering Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education
Achieving Equity Together: Navigating Challenges While Empowering Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Forum, April 30-May 1, 2024
Forum held virtually
The DEI Forum offers a warm and inclusive virtual space where people from diverse backgrounds can unite to exchange ideas, foster connections, and jointly advance efforts towards anti-racism and social justice. Embracing an intersectional perspective, we honor and celebrate the diversity of identity, encompassing elements such as race, ability, age, gender, sexual orientation, language, socioeconomic status, and religion. Whether you’re just beginning your DEI journey or have been actively engaged for years, there’s something for everyone to learn and contribute to at the DEI Forum.
The theme of this year’s DEI Forum, “Achieving Equity Together: Navigating Challenges While Empowering Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education,” highlights the significance of working collaboratively to tackle the complexities and…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: psoboard@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Conferences. Lectures/Seminars. Information Sessions. Special Events. Workshops.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Northwest Nature and Health Symposium
Nature and Health illuminates the connections between nature and human health and well-being. We work with the community and decision makers to translate our findings into programs and policies that promote equitable engagement with nature.
Each year, we host a symposium to bring together researchers, community members, and decision makers to learn about new discoveries, discuss new policies and programs, and advance partnerships. Early bird registration ends on April 1. Registration closes on April 27, and there will be no day-of registration.
Our symposia are: Led by our core values of equity and justice , An opportunity to cultivate your network , Filled with inspiring seminars and panels from leading experts, Our 2024 symposium features, 8 expert speakers, 1 community panel, and a student poster session.
Featured Speakers Carlos Andres Gallegos-Riofrio, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Institute for Agroecology, The University of Vermont
, Phil Levin, PhD
Director, National Nature Assessment…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Intellectual House (INT). Accessibility Contact: natureandhealth@uw.edu. Event Types: Conferences. Diversity Equity Inclusion. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, May 1, 2024, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit events.uw.edu. 2024 DEI Forum: Achieving Equity Together: Navigating Challenges While Empowering Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education
Achieving Equity Together: Navigating Challenges While Empowering Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Forum, April 30-May 1, 2024
Forum held virtually
The DEI Forum offers a warm and inclusive virtual space where people from diverse backgrounds can unite to exchange ideas, foster connections, and jointly advance efforts towards anti-racism and social justice. Embracing an intersectional perspective, we honor and celebrate the diversity of identity, encompassing elements such as race, ability, age, gender, sexual orientation, language, socioeconomic status, and religion. Whether you’re just beginning your DEI journey or have been actively engaged for years, there’s something for everyone to learn and contribute to at the DEI Forum.
The theme of this year’s DEI Forum, “Achieving Equity Together: Navigating Challenges While Empowering Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education,” highlights the significance of working collaboratively to tackle the complexities and…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: psoboard@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Conferences. Lectures/Seminars. Information Sessions. Special Events. Workshops.
Wednesday, May 1, 2024, 9:00 AM – Thursday, May 2, 2024, 2:00 PM.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. An Evening with Margaret Cho
External Events
Comedian and five-time GRAMMY and EMMY nominee, Margaret Cho will join us for a moderated discussion about her career highs and lows as well as share her thoughts around activism in the current political climate.
Registration opens March 13, 2023.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Office of Public Lectures at lectures@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, May 1, 2024, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
Town Hall Seattle.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Engineering Discovery Days
Engineering Discovery Days is Back, May 2 and 3, 2024
At Engineering Discovery Days, students and faculty from all UW engineering departments share their work with students, teachers, families and the community. Both days are oriented toward 4th through 8th grade students and feature hands-on activities that demonstrate the exciting work of engineers. We hope you will join us for hands-on fun and learning.
The two-day event is free and open to everyone. Registration is required for all who plan to participate.
Please visit the Discovery Days page to learn more and to be notified when registration opens.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Rainier Vista (LNDMK-3). Accessibility Contact: Please contact Disability Services Office (DSO), dso@uw.edu, if you have questions on accommodations. Event Types: Exhibits. Special Events. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uwdiscoverydays.
Thursday, May 2, 2024, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit www.engr.washington.edu. Arts and Cultural Strategies in Urban Planning
External Events
The second in a monthly series of public webinars that focuses on the edge of innovation in urban planning and policy. This series openly critiques this current iteration of urban planning in the hopes of proposing new theories, strategies, and concepts that help us arrive at an iteration of the field where we all belong.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://belonging.berkeley.edu/reimagining-urban-planning-state-practice. Accessibility Contact: 510-642-3326. Event Types: Academics. Conferences. Diversity Equity Inclusion. Lectures/Seminars. Special Events. Student Activities.
Thursday, May 2, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
For more info visit belonging.berkeley.edu. Engineering Discovery Days
Engineering Discovery Days is Back, May 2 and 3, 2024
At Engineering Discovery Days, students and faculty from all UW engineering departments share their work with students, teachers, families and the community. Both days are oriented toward 4th through 8th grade students and feature hands-on activities that demonstrate the exciting work of engineers. We hope you will join us for hands-on fun and learning.
The two-day event is free and open to everyone. Registration is required for all who plan to participate.
Please visit the Discovery Days page to learn more and to be notified when registration opens.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Rainier Vista (LNDMK-3). Accessibility Contact: Please contact Disability Services Office (DSO), dso@uw.edu, if you have questions on accommodations. Event Types: Exhibits. Special Events. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uwdiscoverydays.
Friday, May 3, 2024, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit www.engr.washington.edu. Living Breath of wəłəbʔaltxʷ Day 1
We are happy to announce Valerie Segrest as the Keynote Speaker for our 12th annual “Living Breath of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ” Indigenous Foods Symposium on May 3-4, 2024!
Valerie Segrest (MS) is an enrolled member of the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe working as a Native Nutrition Educator and is the Co-Founder of Tahoma Peak Solutions. She has dedicated her work in the field of Native American Nutrition towards the efforts of the food sovereignty movement rooted in education, awareness and overcoming barriers to accessing traditional foods for tribal communities throughout North America. Valerie aims to inspire and enlighten others about the importance of a nutrient-dense diet through a culturally appropriate, common sense approach to eating.
You can now register for our 2024 symposium and for Valerie's keynote presentation here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-living-breath-of-wbaltxw-indigenous-foods-symposium-tickets-839080862447?fbclid=IwAR0Q285AyZSddDZ1tGMgKuj92084L1QHAxpb98_bIVHvmgTs1eUZMcZ4h_E Our event will be…
Event interval: Ongoing event. Campus location: Intellectual House (INT). Campus room: wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Gathering Hall. Accessibility Contact: Tia Yazzie: tyazzie@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Conferences.
Friday, May 3, 2024, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
CSDE Seminar - Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequality - Colin Gordon
Speaker: Colin Gordon, History, University of Iowa
Abstract: Drawing on a unique record of property restrictions excavated from local property records in five Midwestern counties, this research documents the prevalence of private property restriction in the era before zoning and building codes were widely employed and before federal redlining sanctioned the segregation of American cities and suburbs. This record of private restriction—documented and mapped to the parcel level in Greater Minneapolis, Greater St. Louis, and two Iowa counties—reveals the racial segregation process both on the ground, in the strategic deployment of restrictions throughout transitional central city neighborhoods and suburbs, and in the broader social and legal construction of racial categories and racial boundaries. Enforcement of private racial restrictions was held unconstitutional in 1948, and such agreements were prohibited outright in 1968. But their premises and assumptions, and the segregation they had accomplished, were…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iMgDg5ZTRu2xamsPjTDhbg. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, May 3, 2024, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Creating a Sustainable Campus: Green Building Standards
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Creating a Sustainable Campus: Green Building Standards
Speaker: Lisa Dulude, UW Sustainability
Register for Zoom link
Learn about the UW's new sustainability standards for new construction and renovations.
This is part of UW Sustainability's "Creating a Sustainable Campus" webinar series highlighting sustainability work happening across the university. These talks will be recorded and videos posted to the series website after the events.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEudeuurDwoHdMPA7DpnyN0KDcrtnuCaBB6. Accessibility Contact: sustainability@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Information Sessions.
Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Zoom.
For more info visit sustainability.uw.edu. Chelina Odbert: Journey Towards Justice in the Public Realm
(Reception to precede from 5:30-6:30p in the Architecture Hall main lobby.)
CHELINA ODBERT, UW Landscape Architecture PAC Spring Lecture, Journey Towards Justice in the Public Realm
Focused on making the public realm more equitable and just, Kounkuey Design Initiative (KDI) is a non-profit design and community development organization that works in disinvested places around the world, collaborating with communities that have been excluded, harmed, or marginalized by traditional modes of planning and design.
In this lecture, Chelina Odbert, the co-founder and CEO of KDI, will explore her path from design school to the inception of a global, mission-driven planning and design practice. Through a series of KDI projects, she will demonstrate how planning and design can and should be tools of equity, justice, and inclusion.
Chelina Odbert believes in the power of community-engaged design to advance racial, environmental, and economic equity in neighborhoods and cities. As Founding Principal and CEO of…
Campus location: Architecture Hall (ARC). Campus room: ARC 147 Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: vnL2@uw.edu. CBE Categories: Landscape Architecture. Architecture. Urban Design & Planning. Construction Management. Real Estate. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: students, faculty/staff, professionals, community.
Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit www.kounkuey.org. Partnership in an Unequal World: Institutional Transformation Workshop
UW faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend a virtual spring workshop series sponsored by the UW Office of Global Affairs that will explore what it means to have mindful teaching, collaboration and program building in an unequal world.
Workshop 3 on May 14 from 12:30-1:30 PM will focus on Institutional Transformation and will address the prompt, “How do you leverage the resources and navigate the structures of the University in building more equitable partnerships.”
The workshops will engage participants in hands-on-activities and lively discussions about how to navigate issues of reciprocity and structural inequality and how to meaningfully collaborate with international partners.
Participants are encouraged to attend all three workshops, though any level of participation is welcome!
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwodOqtrjgiGdZvjArIMmPJxeDDc3LppiRX#/registration. Accessibility Contact: elizfair@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: UW faculty, UW staff, UW students.
Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
Steven Pinker: Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
External Events
Today, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding—and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. Why do we find ourselves flooded with fake news, medical quackery, conspiracy theorizing, and “post-truth” rhetoric? It can’t be that humans are just an irrational species — cavemen out of time saddled with biases, fallacies, and illusions. After all, we discovered the laws of nature, lengthened and enriched our lives, and discovered the benchmarks for rationality itself. Instead, we think in ways that are sensible in the low-tech contexts in which we spend most of our lives, but fail to take advantage of the powerful tools of reasoning our best thinkers have discovered over the millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, correlation and causation, and optimal ways to update beliefs and commit to choices individually and with others. Also, the rational pursuit of self-interest, sectarian solidarity, and uplifting mythology by individuals can add up to crippling irrationality in a socie…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Office of Public Lectures at lectures@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
Town Hall Seattle.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. AIA Seattle Urban Design Forum
External Events
Join AIA Seattle’s Urban Design Forum for a monthly look at our plans and goals as a committee, taking place every fourth Wednesday at 12pm.
We’ll be looking at questions such as: What is a suburb? How do we renovate suburban development to be more sustainable? How are the region and the city urbanizing? How should they be? Who is moving into the city? Who is being displaced? Can gentrification be inclusive and equitable? How is technology transforming mobility? How is city housing policy manipulating the private market? What will the new waterfront look like without the Viaduct?
Anyone with thoughts regarding topics, speakers or a particular curiosity regarding urban design in our region is welcome to join us and weigh in on the focus for the upcoming forums in 2023. Also feel free to reach us via our social media handles below.
Event interval: Ongoing event. Online Meeting Link: https://aiaseattle.org/event/committee-meeting-urban-design-forum-4/2024-02-28/. Accessibility Contact: 206.448.4938. Event Types: Information Sessions. Meetings.
Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM.
Zoom- link is here:
https://aiaseattle.org/event/committee-meeting-urban-design-forum-4/2024-02-28/.
For more info visit aiaseattle.org. State of Sustainability at UW
External Events
State of Sustainability at UW, Register for Zoom link
Learn about sustainability efforts across the University of Washington and what is planned for the future.
This is part of UW Sustainability's "Creating a Sustainable Campus" webinar series highlighting sustainability work happening across the university. These talks will be recorded and videos posted to the series website after the events.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rce2qpj4pGdX7PKZeGNhAl-lUZ9BAdWFS. Accessibility Contact: sustainability@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Information Sessions.
Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Zoom.
For more info visit sustainability.uw.edu. CBE Community of Practice Climate Solutions Symposium
Join the College of Built Environments for our inaugural Community of Practice Climate Solutions Symposium, where students, faculty, and other experts will engage in exciting discussions about climate research, teaching, and learning initiatives currently underway.
The poster session begins at 4:30P in Gould Court.
The reception begins at 5P in Gould Court.
The lecture will begin at 6P in Gould 322.
Please submit a poster for the symposium! Poster submissions are due May 8, 2024. Posters should be formatted using the Climate Solutions template. Click here for more details.
RSVP for the reception and evening lecture, featuring Don Davies and Joan Crooks of Davies-Crooks Associates.
Accessibility Contact: Melissa Hamasaki. CBE Categories: Research. Event Types: Conferences. Lectures/Seminars. Information Sessions. Workshops.
Thursday, May 23, 2024, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
Gould Court.
For more info visit events.uw.edu. Urban Studies Annual Lecture Series: 'Racial Capitalism and the (Re)Making of Urban Spaces
Join the School of Urban Studies for our Annual Lecture Series. Special guest speaker Dr. Prentiss Dantzler of the University of Toronto presents 'Racial Capitalism and the (Re)Making of Urban Spaces'
Urban scholars have long argued that capitalism and racism have a symbolic relationship realized in the built environment. Yet, few have extended their analysis beyond lower levels of scale to a broader political economy of place. In describing the urban political economy, Dr. Dantzler employs racial capitalism as a theoretical intervention to explore the particular plight of African Americans and their quest to claim property and land for themselves. By situating racism and capitalism as interlocking systems of dispossession and displacement, the "housing question' is brought into perspective.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: UW Tacoma Milgard Hall (MLG). Campus room: Milgard Hall 110 | 1950 South C St. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Academics. Accessibility Contact: uwturban@uw.edu | 253-692-5880.
Thursday, May 23, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM.
For more info visit www.tacoma.uw.edu. LECTURE: Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - Clean Water and Sanitation
Join us for a lecture by Jeffrey Walters, Assistant Professor, School of Engineering & Technology at the University of Washington on United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation.
The lecture will include an overview of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6, relevant case studies, and programs in the Seattle region that are working towards the realization of this goal.
The lecture is part of a one credit General Studies Course that is being offered by the Office of Global Affairs and Population Health Initiative. The seminar introduces students to the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals, research at the University of Washington aligned with those goals, and the role the goals play in improving population health, societies, and the environment, both locally and globally.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Condon Hall (CDH). Campus room: 139. Accessibility Contact: yweng@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: UW faculty, UW staff, UW students.
Tuesday, May 28, 2024, 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM.
Embodiment and Urban Planning
The third in a series called Reimagining Planning, public webinars that focus on the edge of innovation in urban planning and policy. Traditionally Urban Planning has had a long legacy of harming communities of color, developing and implementing racist policies, and destruction of the built environment. This series openly critiques this current iteration of urban planning in the hopes of proposing new theories, strategies, and concepts that help us arrive at an iteration of the field where we all belong. We are interested in helping foster meaningful conversations among urban planners hungry for more and to engage with new audiences that have always been curious about urban planning but may not know what exactly do urban planners do.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://belonging.berkeley.edu/reimagining-urban-planning-state-practice. Campus room: webinar. Accessibility Contact: 510-642-3326. Event Types: Academics. Conferences. Diversity Equity Inclusion. Lectures/Seminars. Special Events. Student Activities. Workshops.
Thursday, June 13, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
For more info visit belonging.berkeley.edu. RECLAIMING NARRATIVES – INDIVIDUAL REAL AND UNTOLD STORIES OF TACOMA
Join facilitator Kellie Richardson for this series of free workshops that will allow our community to explore lost, hidden, and untold stories and experiences in an individual, familial, group, and societal context.
Each 90-minute workshop will feature discussion and art-based activities that explore a monthly theme. April’s theme is “Individual,” May’s theme is “Home,” and June’s theme is “Resilience.”
Workshops do not need to be attended in sequence; individuals can opt to attend one or all. In addition, participants will be encouraged to make connections between the workshop theme and the exhibitions and resources at the Washington State History Museum.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: 1-888-238-4373. Event Types: Academics. Diversity Equity Inclusion. Lectures/Seminars. Special Events. Workshops.
Thursday, June 20, 2024, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM.
Washington State History Museum
1911 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, WA 98402.
For more info visit www.washingtonhistory.org. AIA Seattle Urban Design Forum
External Events
Join AIA Seattle’s Urban Design Forum for a monthly look at our plans and goals as a committee, taking place every fourth Wednesday at 12pm.
We’ll be looking at questions such as: What is a suburb? How do we renovate suburban development to be more sustainable? How are the region and the city urbanizing? How should they be? Who is moving into the city? Who is being displaced? Can gentrification be inclusive and equitable? How is technology transforming mobility? How is city housing policy manipulating the private market? What will the new waterfront look like without the Viaduct?
Anyone with thoughts regarding topics, speakers or a particular curiosity regarding urban design in our region is welcome to join us and weigh in on the focus for the upcoming forums in 2023. Also feel free to reach us via our social media handles below.
Event interval: Ongoing event. Online Meeting Link: https://aiaseattle.org/event/committee-meeting-urban-design-forum-4/2024-02-28/. Accessibility Contact: 206.448.4938. Event Types: Information Sessions. Meetings.
Wednesday, June 26, 2024, 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM.
Zoom- link is here:
https://aiaseattle.org/event/committee-meeting-urban-design-forum-4/2024-02-28/.
For more info visit aiaseattle.org.