iSchool Research Symposium: Emil Lawrence
Title: Sovereign Consumers Aren’t Yet Free Readers
Abstract: The dominant conception of the freedom to read in US librarianship is one of non-interference, wherein free readers are sovereign consumers who face no intentional outside intervention in their choice of materials. I argue that this account fails to capture systemic threats that (a) limit and distort the options available to us and (b) do so absent any paternalistic or elitist intent to interfere in our choices. We can see an example of this in comparative titles or “comps,” a decision-making convention that reproduces racial inequality in trade publishing. Comp-based acquisitions corrode the freedom to read by setting background conditions against which certain literature becomes systematically inaccessible, unimaginable, or undesirable to us as readers. My critique suggests that securing readers’ freedom will require changes to the power relations that enable and constrain our choices in the first place.
Speaker Bio: Lawrence (he/him) w…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/94957984405. Accessibility Contact: jpd555@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Faculty, Staff, Students.
Monday, April 22, 2024, 12:30 PM – 1:20 PM.
Open Scholarship Commons Community Fellows Workshop Series: Accessibility of Online Data Visualizations
Online data visualizations are used widely by content creators to communicate information, enabling users to obtain summaries, recognize patterns, and explore oddities in data that may be challenging to determine from a data table. However, the defining visual nature of data visualizations makes these visualizations inaccessible to screen-reader users, significantly disenfranchising them from accessing online information (e.g. COVID-19 data). This workshop will facilitate an understanding of the challenges screen-reader users face with online data visualizations, identify ways to make online data visualizations accessible and understand the pros and cons of each, and share possible nuances and future avenues of thinking accessibility outside of the standard solutions.
The Open Scholarship Commons (OSC) Community Fellows Workshop Series is a paid fellowship opportunity for graduate students underrepresented in the field of open scholarship. The goal of this Fellowship is to lift up students as experts in…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons: Presentation Space. Accessibility Contact: vkern@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty, staff.
Monday, April 22, 2024, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
For more info visit www.lib.washington.edu. Book Talk with Miriam Stein: Thoughts on Contemporary Wisdom
Author and journalist Miriam Stein will join us to present on her newest book project, Weise Frauen.
Miriam Stein writes:
The modern idea of wisdom as a character trait hails from Berlin, developed by psychologist Paul Baltes at the Max-Planck-Institute in Berlin in the 1990s. Wisdom, argues Baltes, is more than just expertise and knowledge, but a complex paradigm of different characteristics. From Berlin, his applied wisdom studies has inspired a handful of academics from around the world to continue his work; applied wisdom is currently being researched at the University of Florida, Chicago and Klagenfurt in Austria. I am intrigued - because wisdom, once thought of as the highest form of the human intellect, has seemed to have disappeared from our daily lives. Why? Did ageism kill wisdom? Has the sage been removed by longevity experts and wellness-gurus? And, is there such a thing as „female wisdom“?
An aging German population needs to transform to face a challenging future. People in the second half of…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Denny Hall (DEN). Campus room: 359. Accessibility Contact: Department of German Studies, uwgerman@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Lectures/Seminars. Diversity Equity Inclusion.
Monday, April 22, 2024, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM.
'Genbaku Otome: Reconsidering the “Hiroshima Maidens”' with Kim Brandt, Columbia University
“Hiroshima Maidens” loosely translates genbaku otome, a phrase first used in early 1950s Japan to refer to young women who had been scarred by injuries received during the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Ten years later, 25 such women were flown to New York, where they underwent extensive reconstructive surgery. The “Maidens” received wide publicity in both the U.S. and Japan, where the story resonated with growing anxiety about nuclear weapons, along with public fascination with new forms of beauty culture and the seemingly limitless potential of postwar technology. This talk explores American, and especially Japanese, perspectives on the episode, to reconsider its significance within a broader international context.
Kim Brandt is Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. She specializes in twentieth-century Japanese history. Brandt’s publications include Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan (Duke University…
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 Ellen Eskenazi at japan@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, April 22, 2024, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Building Digital Collections Using Minimal Tech
This workshop explores the minimal technology or computing paradigm popularized in the digital humanities. It will use an open-source static-site generator called CollectionBuilder as an example of minimal tech and how it can be used to build online digital libraries, archives, and exhibits, especially for under-resourced organizations.
Requirements:
- No coding or programming background required
- a GitHub account (you may sign-up for free). This may be done before or during the workshop
- Examples of digital files (digital photo, video, PDF document, etc.). Sample files may also be provided during the workshop
- You may bring your laptop or share it with a buddy. Our laptop cart will also be available for use and you're encouraged to use it if you like.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Suzzallo Library: Open Scholarship Commons: Presentation Space. Accessibility Contact: pvperez1@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
Annual SQS Certificate Lecture: "Sick of it All: Care & Depathologization Activism in Trans Health," presented by Chris Hanssmann
Please join us for a reception after the event from 4:30-6:00 in CMU 202/204. Speaker: Chris Hanssmann, University of California, Davis
Respondent: Oliver Rollins, UW Seattle Ethnic Studies
Trans depathologization has often centered around the claim, “We’re trans, we’re not sick.” However, activists’ efforts to push back against psychiatric diagnoses are increasingly being identified as ableist in their work to distinguish trans wellness and sanity from “true” forms of mental pathology. Given these critiques, what’s useful now about thinking with depathologization?
Rather than focusing solely on disavowals of disability, this talk examines depathologization as a more expansive set of phenomena. Drawing on ethnographic and document-based research in New York City and Buenos Aires between 2012-2018, it analyzes varying strands of trans depathologization activism, their specific objectives, and their dispersed effects.
Centering the activist-advanced desire for “care without pathology” the talk examines how…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: CMU 120; Reception to follow, CMU 202/204. Accessibility Contact: gwss@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Special Events. Diversity Equity Inclusion.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
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.
Open Scholarship Commons Community Fellows Workshop Series: Best Practices for Sharing Qualitative Interview Data: wrestling with epistemological, curatorial, and ethical considerations
This workshop aims to help attendees working with interview data, or planning to conduct interviews, learn about ways to share their interview data whilst considering epistemological, curatorial, and ethical questions about sharing qualitative interview data with wider audiences.
The Open Scholarship Commons (OSC) Community Fellows Workshop Series is a paid fellowship opportunity for graduate students underrepresented in the field of open scholarship. The goal of this Fellowship is to lift up students as experts in this field and create opportunities for peer to peer learning by offering student-led workshops.
Equity is a core value of the UW Libraries Open Scholarship Commons, and this Fellowship, funded by the UW Diversity Council Diversity Seed Grant and the eScience Institute, aims to support the expertise and leadership of underrepresented students in the field of open scholarship. The Fellowship program is co-administered by the Libraries Open Scholarship Commons and the eScience Institute.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons: Presentation Space. Accessibility Contact: vkern@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: Students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
Archipelago of Resettlement, Intergenerational Remembrance and the Nguyễn Thái Bình Collection
10:30am-12:00pm
Archipelago of Resettlement: Theorizing Refugee-Indigenous Solidarities across the Refugee Settler Condition
Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi
From April to November 1975, the US military processed over 112,000 Vietnamese refugees on the unincorporated territory of Guam; from 1977 to 1979, the State of Israel granted asylum and citizenship to 366 non-Jewish Vietnamese refugees. In her book, Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine (University of California Press, 2022), Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi analyzes these two cases to theorize what she calls the refugee settler condition: the fraught positionality of refugee subjects whose resettlement in a settler colonial state is predicated on the unjust dispossession of an Indigenous population. In this talk, Gandhi will offer tools for imagining emergent forms of decolonial solidarity between refugee settlers and Indigenous peoples.
12:00pm-1:30pm: Lunch break
1:30pm-3:00pm
Refugee Grief:…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Campus room: 485 (Petersen Room). Accessibility Contact: jtran35@uw.edu. Event Types: Conferences. Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Open to all.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 10:30 AM – 5:45 PM.
Meet & Greet with Josefina Baez
Join us for a meet & greet with AfroLatina performance artist, poet, and educator Josefina Baez, founder of AyOmbe Theatre troupe (est. 1986). Come say hello and chat about the critical role of mentorship, art, and Womxn-led, working-class, Black diasporic spaces of collective, radical joy. Josefina is visiting the UW for an artist talk on April 25, co-sponsored by the Minoritarian Performance Research Cluster and The Simpson Center for the Humanities. Bring your own lunch, but light refreshments and snacks will be served!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Campus room: PDL B110 G. Accessibility Contact: gwss@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Special Events. Student Activities. Target Audience: Undergraduate & Graduate Students.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Living Quarters: Gender, Slavery, and Private Life in the Early Black Atlantic | Jennifer L. Morgan (NYU)
The 2024 Stephanie M.H. Camp Memorial Lecture by Jennifer L. Morgan (NYU) explores the connections between domestic space, the idea of privacy, and the presence of enslaved women in the early modern world. Drawing on court cases, legislation, and the growth of slavery, Morgan revisits questions of the public/private divide initially raised by an earlier generation of women's historians to consider the impact of slavery in the early modern period upon the development of racially marked notions of private life.
Jennifer L. Morgan is Professor of History in the department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University.
She is the author of the Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic (Duke University Press, 2021) which won the Mary Nickliss Prize in Women’s and/or Gender History from the Organization of American Historians and the Frederick Douglass Prize awarded by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 120. Accessibility Contact: ngrall@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
"MUSIC, ISLAND, STORIES: TAIWAN CALLING!" Public Roundtable & Reception
In partnership with the Taipei Music Center, the UW Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program welcomes you to an in-person public roundtable discussion and reception with Kay Huang (黃韻玲), Ma Shih-Fang (馬世芳), and Chen Te-Cheng (陳德政), in association with the "MUSIC, ISLAND, STORIES: TAIWAN CALLING!" pop-up exhibition (April 24-May 28) at the UW Allen Library North Lobby. Reception: 5:30 PM , Public Roundtable Discussion: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM , RSVP REQUIRED to attend the event: https://uwtaiwanstudies.ticketleap.com/music-island-stories, ------------------------------------------------------------------
MUSIC, ISLAND, STORIES: TAIWAN CALLING!
Public Roundtable Discussion & Reception: Our Song, Our Era
For over a hundred years, Taiwan has been telling stories through songs that sweep across the Chinese-speaking world and touch the hearts of billions. Whether in authoritarian times or the open-minded values of today, musicians and their songs have transcended generations and space, breaking through geo-political…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: Walker Ames Room (KNE 225). Accessibility Contact: Ian Oats (taiwanst@uw.edu). Event Types: Academics. Exhibits. Meetings. Lectures/Seminars. Special Events. Workshops.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM.
For more info visit jsis.washington.edu. Twine for Beginners: Interactive, Choose-Your-Path, NO CODE Storytelling Online Workshop
Can you type? Do you have access to a browser? Then you can make and share imaginative, branching stories in Twine, without knowing a word of code.
Twine is an open-source, free tool for telling interactive, non-linear, text-based stories/ games. It lends itself to fictional storytelling, to critiquing and challenging narratives, and to making new narratives of your own. It is an excellent platform for communal learning/ play and for public scholarship.
In this hour-long hands-on, online tutorial, you'll learn the basic mechanics of Twine: 1) how to create your first, simple story (we'll provide the text, so you can concentrate on the mechanics) by 2) creating scenes and 3) creating branching paths for differing outcomes; and 4) how to edit, save, and share your story. If there's time, we'll discuss basic styling.
Join us for Part II: Styling for Aesthetics & Meaning
This workshop will teach you how to add style and complexity to your basic story using CSS styling, game elements like timers and scores, and…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: mrunnels@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: Students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty, and staff.
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Independent Scholar-hood: Can it work for me?
Dr. Cynthia Greenlee is an intentionally independent scholar and award-winning journalist. During this lunchtime workshop with a dozen graduate students and post-doc fellows, she will talk about the challenges and rewards of being an unaffiliated scholar. There will be plenty of time to ask questions about directing your academic training into public-facing scholarship. Dr. Greenlee asks that you read her short article, “Acceptable Exclusions and Promiscuous Creativity: The Life of an Independent Scholar” (2020), in advance.
Cynthia Greenlee (PhD, Duke University) is deputy director of special series at The Guardian, lead editor of The Echoing Ida anthology of Black women and people writing on reproductive health, and a noted food writer who has been awarded the coveted James Beard Award.
Space is limited and registration is required.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 202. Accessibility Contact: Accommodation requests related to a disability or health condition should be made by April 10, 2024 to the Simpson Center 206.543.3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
PANEL | Modern 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 in-person 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…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: 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.
Wounds for Posterity: More-than-Human Experiences of War in Colombia
War is an experience wherein suffering extends beyond the people, provoking a form of collective harm that is embodied by the other-than-human beings and the sentient places that compose the traditional territories of Indigenous and Afro-Colombian peoples. Following the premise that war, just as everyday human life, is always a multispecies effort, I explore what justice means and how it can be achieved in regions where colonialism, state violence, and militarism entangle human and other-than-human lives in a shared vulnerability.
Daniel Ruiz-Serna is Faculty Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University. He works at the intersection of Indigenous ontologies, peace and conflict studies, and environmental justice. His book When Forests Run Amok. War and its Afterlives in Afro-Colombian Territories (Duke University Press) received the 2023 Julian Steward Award for the Best Book in Environmental Anthropology. He is the co-editor of Belicopedia (from Latin bellicus, meaning war; and Greek pai…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: 101. Accessibility Contact: Marthadina Russell, mdina@uw.edu, (206) 683-7991. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: UW faculty and students.
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM.
Josefina Baez, "Trilogy. Concert-ing. A ReadingFormance. An Offering"
Josefina Báez’s trilogy texts—Dominicanish, Levente no. YolayorkdominicanYork, and Comrade, Bliss ain’t playing—make their last appearance as a doula-ing act of beginnings and ends. As Báez’s farewell celebration to her main text trilogy, this is a performance highlighting voice and visuals from the artist’s journey in the form of repetitions, cacophonies, and silences, braiding the formats together. The end of this trilogy marks both an opening for new texts as well as the following performance, Vital Presence. Josefina Baez (Dominican Republic/USA) Celebrant. Creative expressions shared: Storyteller, ArteSana, performer, writer, theatre director, educator, devotee. Founder and director of Latinarte/Ay Ombe Theatre (April 1986). Creator of artistic/creative life process, Performance Autology© (creative process/live creating/creative life based on the autobiography of the doer in conscience; In life phases -youth, elderhood, illness and death). Joy is the vital element present in her narrative, practice…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Studio 267. Accessibility Contact: Accommodation requests related to a disability or health condition should be made by April 10, 2024 to the Simpson Center, 206.543.3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances.
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 5:30 PM – 6:45 PM.
The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought
Please join us for a book talk from Dr. Melvin Rogers (Brown University). He will be delivering a lecture on his book The Darkened Light of
Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought (Princeton U Press, 2023).
The Darkened Light of Faith provides a bold new account of African American political thought through the works and lives of individuals who built this vital tradition—a tradition that is urgently needed today.
The book reexamines how figures as diverse as David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Anna Julia Cooper, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, Billie Holiday, and James Baldwin thought about the politics, people, character, and culture of a society that so often dominated them. Sharing a light of faith darkened but not extinguished by the tragic legacy of slavery, they resisted the conclusion that America would always be committed to white supremacy. They believed that democracy is always in the process of becoming and that they could use it to reimagine society. But they also…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/91978971619. Campus room: Smith Room, Suzzallo (3rd floor). Accessibility Contact: Becca Peach. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Faculty, Students, & Community Members.
Friday, April 26, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit www.polisci.washington.edu. Digital History Colloquium - Is YouTube the New Frontier for Historians?
Please join us, either in-person or online, for the third presentation of the 2023-24 Digital History Colloquium Series.
YouTube has emerged as the most influential video platform globally, with Google statistics showing that 86% of US viewers use it to learn new skills and knowledge. History content ranks among the most popular on the platform, yet few YouTubers have formal training in history.
PhD Candidate David Ting-chieh Ou-yang produces a Chinese-language YouTube channel, which covers a wide range of historical events and has attracted over 50,000 subscribers. Drawing on his experience, he will explore why it is crucial for historians and scholars in adjacent fields to engage with YouTube history content, and how they can effectively do so using Adobe After Effects and other software tools
As always, the Digital History Colloquium offers a casual forum for the exchange of ideas, with sessions limited to one hour. So feel free to bring lunch, and come as you are!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98784730064. Campus room: Smith Hall, Room 320. Accessibility Contact: ejred@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Information Sessions.
Friday, April 26, 2024, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
An Afternoon with Senegalese Rap Artist Xuman!
Xuman, part of the duo that created the Journal Télévisé Rappé a wildly popular rapped news program in both French and Wolof, will talk about his work as an artist, political commentator, and climate activist in Senegal and the social-ecological solidarities that a visit like his to UW can create across racial, social, and geographical lines.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: CMU 120. Accessibility Contact: Maya Smith, mayass@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events.
Friday, April 26, 2024, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Noomi Rapace in Nordic Action
Noomi Rapace is a stellar exception: she is the only woman – to date – to star in Nordic action film. The heroines she plays must be globally recognizable, yet somehow also “Nordic.” What makes her films Nordic action, and what makes them Nordic action? What does the combination suggest for her performances???
Chris Holmlund loves movies! She has been president of SCMS (the Society for Cinema and Media Studies); now Professor Emerita, she continues to happily conduct research. For many years she taught film studies at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville – near Dollywood. Her books include Female Trouble (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2017) and Impossible Bodies (Routledge, 2002), and (as editor or co-editor) Action Cinema Since 2000 (Bloomsbury/BFI, 2024 – just out!), The Ultimate Stallone Reader (Wallflower/Columbia University Press, 2014), American Cinema of the 1990s (Rutgers University Press, 2008), Contemporary American Independent Film (Routledge, 2004) and Between the Sheets, In the Streets: Queer, Lesbian,…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: PACCAR Hall (PCAR). Campus room: PCAR 297. Accessibility Contact: Stacey Breitberg. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, April 26, 2024, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
Feminist Food Studies: What Women's Foodwork Reveals about Modern Spain
Rebecca Ingram will speak about her recent book, Women's Work: How Culinary Cultures Shaped Modern Spain. A reception will follow in CMU 204.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 120. Accessibility Contact: Leigh Ruben. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, April 29, 2024, 3:30 PM – 6:00 PM.
Anton Hur, "Translator Jetlag: Voice and the World We Build" |Translator's Lecture
What do we mean when we say a character or an author—or even a translator—has a “voice”? What is the difference between a work of prose that has a voice and one that doesn’t? And how do translators bring a “voice” to life? In this talk, Anton Hur will examine the idea of voice in literary translation. He will focus on the practice of “triangulation,” or the zeroing in on a narrative voice, and “translator jetlag,” or the tendency for translators to require periods of adjustment between book-length projects defined by different narrative voices.
Anton Hur is the author of Toward Eternity and No One Told Me Not To. He is a prolific translator of numerous books, including the bestseller by and about the Korean boy band BTS. His translation of Bora Chung’s Cursed Bunny was shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize and the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature.
Anton Hur's work will be available through Third Place Books, which has a comprehensive selection of Anton Hur’s translations…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: 332. Accessibility Contact: Accommodation requests related to a disability or health condition should be made by April 19 to the Simpson Center, 206.543.3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM.
LECTURE | Pax Americana: The Past, Present, and Prospects of the American World Order
Join us for a lecture and discussion with Daniel J. Sargent, an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley. This seminar is also part of the U.S. in the World Lecture Series.
This event is free and open to the public. About the speaker
Daniel J. Sargent is associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds appointments in the Department of History and the Goldman School of Public Policy and co-directs Berkeley’s Institute of International Studies. He is the author of A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s. He is writing an interpretive history of the American world order.
Questions? Email jyslin@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Campus room: Allen Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: jyslin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, May 1, 2024, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Anton Hur, "How Books Are Born: The Art of Pitching Translations"
Join literary translator, Anton Hur, and Translation Studies Hub in a colloquium on the art of pitching translation. In Hur’s own words, “Pitching is now, unfortunately, an essential part of being a working literary translator, but what is it and how does it work? I will deliver a short lecture based on my ‘Pitch Guide for Translators,’ walk through an actual pitch (PEN/Heim pitch for Cursed Bunny and/or Sublunary Editions pitch for Indeterminate Inflorescence), and have a discussion with participants about it all. There are always a million questions re: pitching but very few translators have done a lengthy seminar on the issue—this is a great and rare opportunity!”
Anton Hur is the author of Toward Eternity and No One Told Me Not To. He is a prolific translator of numerous books, including the bestseller by and about the Korean boy band BTS. His translation of Bora Chung’s Cursed Bunny was shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize and the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature.…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 202. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center, 206.543.3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, May 2, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
Open Scholarship Commons Community Fellows Workshop Series: Building Sustainable Digital Projects
This workshop uses CollectionBuilder to discuss issues on the Sustainability of Digital Projects, in particular, of Digital Collections such as Digital Libraries, Digital Archives, and Digital Exhibits. Participants will do hands-on activities on setting up their own websites through GitHub, describing their collections using Google Sheets, and personalizing their digital collections.
Bring your own device or use one of our laptops at the Open Scholarship Commons!
The Open Scholarship Commons (OSC) Community Fellows Workshop Series is a paid fellowship opportunity for graduate students underrepresented in the field of open scholarship. The goal of this Fellowship is to lift up students as experts in this field and create opportunities for peer to peer learning by offering student-led workshops.
Equity is a core value of the UW Libraries Open Scholarship Commons, and this Fellowship, funded by the UW Diversity Council Diversity Seed Grant and the eScience Institute, aims to support the expertise and…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons: Presentation Space. Accessibility Contact: vkern@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: Students, faculty, postdoctoral researchers, staff.
Thursday, May 2, 2024, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
For more info visit www.lib.washington.edu. LECTURE | Divya Cherian (Princeton University) | Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia
Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia
Lecture from Divya Cherian (Princeton University)
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What did it mean to be Hindu in pre-colonial India? Through a discussion of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in the eighteenth century, this presentation will show that an alliance between existing landed elites and a newly ascendant mercantile class remade the category “Hindu.” A key element of this new articulation of an early modern Hindu identity were vegetarianism and an embrace of non-harm (ahimsa). Based on extensive research into the administrative records of the region, this presentation will show how political mobilizations of the ethical ideal of non-harm as the pre-colonial era came to a close fashioned not just a new Hindu identity but also a more starkly defined “Untouchable.” This research challenges the projection of dyadic conceptions of Hindu and Muslim onto the pre-colonial past and…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: THO 317. Accessibility Contact: sascuw@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Free and open to the public. Registration advised.
Thursday, May 2, 2024, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
AI, Art, and Copyright
This roundtable brings together artists, legal experts, and cultural historians to discuss pressing issues related to art and intellectual property in the age of artificial intelligence.
Kelly McKernan (they/them) is an independent artist based in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. They create original watercolor and acryla gouache paintings for galleries, commissions, and their online store. Since early 2023, Kelly has been advocating for artists’ rights as part of the historic class action lawsuit Andersen et al vs Stability AI.
Geoffrey Turnovsky is Associate Professor of French at UW and co-director of the UW Textual Studies Program. He specializes in the cultural history of early modern France, emphasizing the history of print, authorship, reading, and copyright. His book, Reading Typographically: Immersed in Print in Early Modern France, will appear in June.
Takiyah Ward is a multidisciplinary, Seattle-born creative who has explored her talents in a number of ways over the years—from custom sneakers and…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Law 133. Accessibility Contact: Accommodation requests related to a disability or health condition should be made by April 17, 2024 to the Simpson Center, 206.543.3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, May 2, 2024, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
Open Scholarship Commons Community Fellows Workshop Series: Building Dynamic Websites with WordPress
This workshop will be tailored to empower participants, including those with minimal coding experience, to harness the potential of WordPress for creating versatile and dynamic websites. Participants will be guided through the fundamental aspects of WordPress, covering everything from setting up a WordPress site and creating engaging content to customizing themes, implementing essential plugins, ensuring responsiveness and accessibility, and optimizing websites for performance. The workshop's hands-on approach positions participants to excel in the ever-evolving digital landscape where WordPress skills are highly sought after for creating impactful online presences.
Bring your own device for the workshop or use one of our OSC laptops!
The Open Scholarship Commons (OSC) Community Fellows Workshop Series is a paid fellowship opportunity for graduate students underrepresented in the field of open scholarship. The goal of this Fellowship is to lift up students as experts in this field and create opportunities…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons: Presentation Space. Accessibility Contact: vkern@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: Students, faculty, postdoctoral researchers, staff.
Friday, May 3, 2024, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
For more info visit www.lib.washington.edu. TALK | Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics – Phillip Ayoub, University College London
Join us for a talk and discussion with Phillip Ayoub, Professor the Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy at University College London, and graduate student discussant Jana Foxe, University of Washington Political Science Department.
This event is free and open to the public.
Question? Contact srscp@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: 1A. Accessibility Contact: Kevin Swantek; kswantek@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Special Events.
Friday, May 3, 2024, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Building Digital Collections Using Minimal Tech
This workshop explores the minimal technology or computing paradigm popularized in the digital humanities. It will use an open-source static-site generator called CollectionBuilder as an example of minimal tech and how it can be used to build online digital libraries, archives, and exhibits, especially for under-resourced organizations.
Requirements:
- No coding or programming background required
- a GitHub account (you may sign-up for free). This may be done before or during the workshop
- Examples of digital files (digital photo, video, PDF document, etc.). Sample files may also be provided during the workshop
- You may bring your laptop or share it with a buddy. Our laptop cart will also be available for use and you're encouraged to use it if you like.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Suzzallo Library: Open Scholarship Commons: Presentation Space. Accessibility Contact: pvperez1@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
GWSS Spring Colloquium: "Writing At the Seams of the World: On Gender, Decoloniality, and Hong Kong Contemporary Art," presented by Christina Yuen Zi Chung
Presenter: Christina Yuen Zi Chung, GWSS Ph.D. Candidate
Respondent: Ananya Sikand, Department of Art + Art History + Design
Christina YZ Chung’s dissertation project, titled: “At the Seams of the World: Gender and Decoloniality in Hong Kong Contemporary Art” examines the overlooked relationship between gender and decoloniality in Hong Kong that is visualized through analyses of contemporary art. Countering the marginal status of gender-related discourse in Hong Kong, this project unearths its political centrality by relating gender to Hong Kong’s colonial conditions and articulates how contemporary art visualizes decolonial practices of being that illuminate alternative political horizons. On the occasion of this colloquium, Christina’s presentation of her dissertation project will interweave personal reflections on the journey of her research and dissertation writing, producing a reflexive discussion of the dissertation’s theoretical, analytical, and methodological content.
Image: Jaffa Lam, Sail…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Campus room: PDL B110 G. Accessibility Contact: gwss@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Academics.
Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
COM Colloquium by Angèle Christin, "Follow Me: Influencers, Platforms, and the Rise of the Follower Economy"
Follow Me: Influencers, Platforms, and the Rise of the Follower Economy, Angèle Christin, Stanford University, Zoom Link
Who are social media influencers, and how do their careers and revenues shape the kind of content we see online? I present an ethnographic study of content creators on social media platforms, which draws on cases ranging from vegan YouTubers to “dad” influencers and influencer marketers. Based on this material, I show how structural forces reproduce precarity as well as gender and racial inequality in social media careers, while also nudging influencers toward interpersonal “drama” and sometimes the production of problematic content. Moving beyond the case of influencers, I develop the concept of the "follower economy" to explain these transformations in how we communicate and present ourselves offline.
Angèle Christin is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and the faculty director of the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford University. She studies how algorithms…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/97894223914#success. Accessibility Contact: Megan Schoening, mbuxton7@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
The Republican Moment: New Perspectives on South Vietnam & the Vietnamese Diaspora
This event introduces the latest research on South Vietnamese politics, culture, and society, offering a fresh way to understand the young republic and the people who built it. Unlike the conventional scholarship, these works study South Vietnam in its own right—as a nation that grappled with long decades of war and the challenges of building a representative form of government. They examine how politicians, students, teachers, publishers, artists, religious leaders, businessmen and citizens from all walks of life built a highly intricate civil society and the legacies they left behind.
Speakers:
Tuan Hoang is Blanche E. Seaver Professor of Humanities and Teacher Education, and Associate Professor of Great Books at Pepperdine University. His research has focused on the intellectual and religious history in South Vietnam and the post-war diaspora, especially twentieth-century Vietnamese Catholicism. His research has been published in Journal of Vietnamese Studies, American Catholic Studies, and U.S.…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 202. Accessibility Contact: mwal7@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, May 9, 2024, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration and the Art of Transformation
Over the last five decades, Black women have been one of the fastest-growing segments of the global prison population, thanks to policies that criminalize women for what they do to survive interpersonal and state violence. At select sites, however, women have taken it upon themselves to grow and heal, and have turned to the arts – to theatre – to do the work. Drawing upon more than 10 years of ethnographic fieldwork, Lisa Biggs will discuss why women create theatre to nurture themselves behind bars, and how they use performance to upend the harmful policies that justify locking them away.
Lisa Biggs, Ph.D. (she/her), is a performance scholar, actor, and playwright, and the author of the award-winning book, The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation (Ohio State University Press, 2022). She serves as the John Atwater and Diana Nelson Assistant Professor of the Arts and Africana Studies at Brown University.
Registration is required: https://bit.ly/3VCtYh9.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 120. Accessibility Contact: Accommodation requests related to a disability or health condition should be made by April 24, 2024 to the Simpson Center, 206.543.3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, May 9, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM.
India Research Symposium and Reception
University of Washington faculty are engaged in a broad array of research and collaboration relating to India. On May 10th the UW South Asia Center and UW Office of Global Affairs are gathering to showcase their work. Come hear lightning talks on Indian painting, Bollywood films, Unicorn ventures, global health and more. Free and open to the UW community and members of the Seattle community.
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Friday, May 10, 2024
William H. Gates Hall (School of Law)
Symposium | 1:00-4:00 PM | Room 138
Opening remarks: Ana Mari Cauce, President of the University of Washington , Anita Ramasastry, Henry M. Jackson Endowed Professor of Law and Senior Advisor for Faculty Global Engagement, Office of Global Affairs , Radhika Govindrajan, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies and Director, South Asia Center, Presentations by faculty (exact schedule TBD): Nidhi Agrawal, Michael G. Foster Endowed Professor, Professor of Marketing, Foster School of Business , …
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: William H. Gates Hall (LAW). Campus room: Room 138. Accessibility Contact: sascuw@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Workshops. Target Audience: Free and open to the UW community and the public. Registration required.
Friday, May 10, 2024, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Turkic and Central Eurasian Studies Seminar: Analysis of modern Kazakh conversation
Turkic and Central Eurasian Studies Seminar: Analysis of modern Kazakh conversation
Prof. Gulnara Boribayeva,
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan
Modern spoken Kazakh diverges significantly from formal definitions of the Kazakh language. The presenter will delve into the distinct differences between modern spoken Kazakh and standard Kazakh, focusing particularly on the obstacles encountered by foreign learners. Drawing from recorded podcasts and conversations transcribed using Elan software, they will illuminate the nuances of contemporary Kazakh discourse.
Attendees can expect to gain insights into lexical, syntactic, and interactional changes, such as the integration of Russian words with Kazakh endings and the use of Russian expressions with Kazakh translations. Additionally, the presenter will discuss the implications of these findings for language learners and educators, offering practical strategies for navigating the complexities of modern Kazakh conversation. This exploration promises…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Denny Hall, Room 211. Accessibility Contact: tmawkan@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, May 10, 2024, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM.
Performing Ethnography workshop with Lisa Biggs
A hands-on performing ethnography workshop during which participants will practice core skills of observation, writing, and devising innovative ways of sharing their work. Immediately before this workshop, there will be an optional lunch in CMU 202 from 12:30 – 2pm. At 2:15pm, participants will be guided on a prompted reflective walk from CMU 202 to Meany 265. The workshop in Meany 265 will run from 2:30-4:00pm. Please RSVP. If you cannot attend the lunch, RSVP for only the workshop and you will receive the reflective prompt via email, Lisa Biggs, Ph.D. (she/her), is a performance scholar, actor, and playwright, and the author of the award-winning book, The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation (Ohio State University Press, 2022). She currently serves as the John Atwater and Diana Nelson Assistant Professor of the Arts and Africana Studies at Brown University.
Registration is required: https://bit.ly/3VCtYh9.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: 265. Accessibility Contact: Accommodation requests related to a disability or health condition should be made by April 24, 2024 to the Simpson Center, 206.543.3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Friday, May 10, 2024, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM.
Empowering the Margins: The Roles of NGOs among Ethnic Highlanders in Thailand
More than ten highland ethnic groups reside in north Thailand. These groups include
some one million people. Generally referred to as “hill tribes,” these groups have long been
perceived as primitive and dangerous others. Since the late 1950s, the Thai government
began launching development programs geared towards solving the “hill tribe problem.”
These top-down development programs have generally resulted in a situation where ethnic
highlanders have become Thai at the cost of losing their ethnic identities. In addition, many
ethnic highlanders continue to lack equal rights to citizenship, land ownership and
management, educational opportunities, and other basic infrastructures. More recently, ethnic
highlanders have developed their own grassroots movements to better address their situations
and empower themselves. Several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) initiated by both
outsiders and young ethnic leaders have played an important role in the development and
advancement of these grassroots movements. In…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: 317. Accessibility Contact: csead@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, May 10, 2024, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Film Screening: Rage (Private event - UW invite only)
The last film in our series Diversity and Inclusion in Japanese Society is 'Rage' (2016) is the award winning and highly acclaimed film by director/writers Sang-li Lee and Shūichi Yoshida. It tells the tale of a grisly unsolved murder linking three seemingly unrelated stories in three different Japanese cities.
NOTE: this film has sexual violence, nudity, and adult subject matter.
Japanese with English subtitles.
Screening followed by discussion led by Ungsan Kim, Assistant Professor of Asian Cinema in the Department of Asian Languages & Literature and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Washington. His research interests and specialization span across Korean cinema, inter-Asian cinema, contemporary Vietnamese and Chinese language cinema, queer cinema and media cultures of Asia, Asian horror cinema, experimental cinema, and documentary. He is currently at work on a monograph, Future Imperfect. The book traces a genealogy of critical and political…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: Thomson Hall 101. Accessibility Contact: Accommodation requests related to disability or health condition should be made at least ten days ahead of event date. Contact Ellen Eskenazi at japan@uw.edu. Event Types: Screenings. Target Audience: NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. UW ID required for entry. Seating limited to 30 maximum.
Monday, May 13, 2024, 4:30 PM – 6:45 PM.
Accessibility & Data Visualization Workshop (online)
Data visualization best practices and tools do not always discuss accessibility, which can exclude many groups of people. This workshop will review ways to make your visualizations more accessible. We will work through a visualization together and add features to make it more accessible. You are encouraged to follow along, but no active participation is necessary. Data visualization experience is not required, though some familiarity with accessing and using spreadsheet software may be helpful. This workshop will not be recorded.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Negeen Aghassibake. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: UW students, researchers, faculty.
Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Online.
Katz Distinguished Lecture by Winnie Wong, "The Many Names of Anonymity: Rethinking Export Art"
History leaves behind many nameless individuals. What should we do when we recover a name, but that name leads to nothing more than an archival trace or a pictured body? From a name, how do we reconstruct an authentic historical subject, a voice, a style? This lecture introduces the Chinese painters of the global maritime trade, based in the port of Guangzhou (Canton), circa 1700-1850. These painters produced thousands of artworks for European and American buyers, but even today their historical identities remain purely speculative. Examining the art market, historical archives, and collecting enterprise which have named and unnamed them, Wong explores artistic identity, anonymity and the rise of signature authorship in its global modern form. Winnie Wong is a historian of modern and contemporary art and visual culture, with a special interest in fakes, forgeries, frauds, copies, counterfeits, and other non-art challenges to authorship and originality. She is the author of Van Gogh on Demand: China and the…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: 210. Accessibility Contact: Accommodation requests related to a disability or health condition should be made by April 29, 2024 to the Simpson Center, schadmin@uw.edu, 206-543-3920. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
GWSS Spring Colloquium: “Nascent moves: Loss, Desire, and In/Visible LGBTQ Resistances in Bangladesh,” presented by Saad Khan
Presenter: Saad Khan, GWSS Ph.D. Candidate
Moderator: Marielle Marcaida, GWSS Ph.D. Candidate
“Nascent moves” investigates the materiality of modes of coming together and collectivizing for pleasure, sociality, and political achievement in the LGBTQ activist scene in Bangladesh. In this colloquium, Khan will introduce the main arguments of his dissertation around themes of archive, loss, desire, failure, and development, and share ethnographic vignettes, particularly focusing on his first chapter: Ephemeral archives ~ Lesbian, Gay, and Hijra publics. He asks: Why do people keep documents of their life as valued objects? How to analyze these valued objects? He builds on queer scholarship to think about research methodologies, the concept of ‘nascent’ and explore how value of queer archives comes from their claim to futurity in the face of violence and erasure. .
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Campus room: PDL B110 G. Accessibility Contact: gwss@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Academics.
Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
COM Colloquium by Debra Hawhee, "Extinction Art, Climate Rhetoric, and the Work of Finding Presence"
Extinction Art, Climate Rhetoric, and the Work of Finding Presence, Debra Hawhee, Pennsylvania State University
To galvanize action in response to the climate crisis, it is insufficient to present findings; the task at hand is, rather, to find presence. Such is one of the main claims of A Sense of Urgency: How the Climate Crisis is Changing Rhetoric. To extend that claim, and to further delineate the rhetorical potency of climate art, this talk will consider the extinction art of Andrea Bowers and Elizabeth Turk, two artists whose work finds presence in the face of species extinction. Bowers’s “Eco Grief Extinction Series” (acrylic paintings of birds and humans) and Turk’s “Tipping Point: Echoes of Extinction” (a set of sculptured bird vocalizations) meet extinction by foregrounding mood and silence respectively. They do so by—and help to theorize—the aesthetic and modal possibilities of mood and of silence, materializing presence in the context of decay, loss, and absence.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: CMU 126. Accessibility Contact: Megan Schoening, mbuxton7@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Digital History Colloquium - Using 3D Modeling in Historical Research
Please join us, either in-person or online, for the final presentation of the 2023-24 Digital History Colloquium Series.
Technology to create 3D facsimiles of real-world objects has been available for decades, and yet the workflow has only become widely accessible for non-specialists in the past five years.
Professor Mark Letteney has been in the vanguard of assessing the new opportunities that this changing technological landscape can provide. His presentation will introduce the methods of 3D modeling as used by historians and archaeologists, and discuss two broad categories of use for these digital assets: models as research process, and models as research product.
Examples will derive from Letteney's collaborative project on incarceration in the ancient Mediterranean world, but with emphasis placed on the broader applicability of these tools to research in history and associated fields.
As always, the Digital History Colloquium offers a casual forum for the exchange of ideas, with sessions limited to…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/99098844635. Campus room: Smith Hall, Room 320. Accessibility Contact: ejred@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Information Sessions.
Friday, May 17, 2024, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
Intermediate Twine Workshop: Styling for Aesthetics & Meaning
Once you've learned the basic mechanics of Twine, you'll want to dress up your game – for more enjoyable gameplay, but also to deliver meaning. In this follow-up session, you'll learn how to apply CSS basics within Twine, how to add counters, and how to insert audiovisual files. If you don't have a game already started, we'll provide a simple game to practice with.
Want to learn the basics? Join us on Thursday, April 25th at 11am for our Twine for Beginners: Interactive, Choose-Your-Path, NO CODE Storytelling Online Workshop.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: mrunnels@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: Students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty, and staff.
Friday, May 17, 2024, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
LECTURE | Rupal Oza (Hunter College) | Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India
Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India
Lecture from Rupal Oza (Hunter College)
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In Semiotics of Rape, Rupal Oza follows the social life of rape in rural northwest India to reveal how rape is not only a violation of the body but a language through which a range of issues—including caste and gender hierarchies, control over land and labor, and the shape of justice—are contested. Rather than focus on the laws governing rape, Oza closely examines rape charges to show how the victims and survivors of rape reclaim their autonomy by refusing to see themselves as defined entirely by the act of violation. Oza also shows how rape cases become arenas where bureaucrats, village council members, caste communities, and the police debate women’s sexual subjectivities and how those varied understandings impact the status and reputations of individuals and groups. In this way, rape gains meaning beyond the level of the survivor and victim to create a…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: THO 317. Accessibility Contact: sascuw@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Free and open to the public. Registration advised.
Friday, May 17, 2024, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Speculating Global Asias: A Roundtable
“Asia” happens anytime, anywhere and applies to everyone. This provocative proclamation was made by founding editors Tina Chen and Eric Hayot of Verge: Studies in Global Asias in their inaugural editorial of the pathbreaking journal in 2015. Since then, the concept of Global Asias has gained currency in academia including at the University of Washington where faculty are currently conceptualizing and planning for a university-wide initiative. Intimations of Global Asias has taken on myriad forms from the potential merging of Asian Studies with Asian American Studies to the study of intersections between different media forms known as intermediality. Join moderator Nazry Bahrawi (University of Washington) in a generative dialogue with Verge’s editor herself Tina Chen (Penn State University) and Sinophone scholar Brian Bernards (University of Southern California) as they articulate the spirit and future of Global Asias.
Tina Chen is Founding Editor of Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Associate Professor of…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 202. Accessibility Contact: Accommodation requests related to a disability or health condition should be made by May 3, 2024 to the Simpson Center, 206.543.3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, May 20, 2024, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
Going Public: OpEd Writing Workshop
Since 2017, the Libraries and the eScience Institute have partnered to offer the successful Going Public Symposium--an interdisciplinary, tri-campus event designed to build skills in translating and communicating research findings to wider audiences and co-creating knowledge with community partners. For this year’s Going Public event, we will focus on translating research into public opinion pieces for news organizations.
The Scholars Strategy Network (SSN) will lead a 90 minute, online workshop for anyone who wants to learn how to write and pitch compelling, research-based op-eds. Participants will learn how to craft a good lede, identify and incorporate timely news hooks, signal the author’s unique and relevant expertise, increase the likelihood of publication, and structure an op-ed for maximum impact. Participants will also have the opportunity to workshop specific ideas with SSN staff and fellow participants.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: vkern@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: UW Community.
Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM.
Intellectual Property and Its Discontents with Minh-Ha T. Pham
This lunchtime workshop invites critical considerations of intellectual property rights (IPR), particularly from the perspective of those historically on the losing side of the IPR regime. To begin the discussion, Minh-Ha T. Pham will draw on case studies from her recent book Why We Can't Have Nice Things (Duke University Press, 2022), which examines how social media has become the key battleground for regulating the meanings and value of fashion copies.
Minh-Ha T. Pham’s research focuses on the intersection of race, gender, class, and the fashion supply chain under global and informational capitalism. She’s the author of two books: Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet: Race, Gender, and the Work of Personal Style Blogging (Duke, 2015) and Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Social Media’s Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property (Duke, 2022).
Registration recommended: https://simpsoncenter.org/form/pham-salon-rsvp.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 202. Accessibility Contact: Accommodation requests related to a disability or health condition should be made by May 8, 2024 to the Simpson Center 206.543.3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
Turkic and Central Eurasian Studies Seminar: Language Oppression in Tibet
Turkic and Central Eurasian Studies Seminar: Language Oppression in Tibet
Professor Gerald Roche, La Trobe University Australia
Thousands of language communities around the world today face an uncertain future, with estimates suggesting that half the world’s languages will no longer be used by the end of the century. This talk will examine the broad global issue through a localized case study, the Manegacha speakers of the northeast Tibetan Plateau, in what is today the People’s Republic of China.
Currently, the Manegacha language is in the process of being replaced by Tibetan, which is itself a minoritized language within China under threat from the national language, Mandarin.
Drawing on extensive research in Tibet stretching back nearly two decades, this talk will discuss the complex political dynamics driving this situation in relation to state-building, nationalism, global civil society, and everyday violence. It will challenge conventional wisdom about Sino-Tibetan relations, and offer new insights i…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Denny Hall, Room 159. Accessibility Contact: tmawkan@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM.
The Problem of Post-Abolition in Brazil
This talk critiques the place of post-abolition controls over free Black people in the United States (e.g. Jim Crow laws, convict leasing, debt peonage, violent displacement and alienation of property) in both scholarship and methods of teaching Brazilian race and race relations. Rather than an absence of exploitive segregationist policies and legislation applied to free Afro-Brazilians, there were well-established patterns of Brazilian labor coercion and restrictions to citizenship, that were rooted in fifteenth century Portuguese crown policies that criminalized poverty to force Portugal’s free poor into service as soldiers of colonization, to both populate and defend its growing empire. Such methods were transferred to Brazil’s fast growing free Black population more than a century before abolition. In contrast to the post-Reconstruction United States, post-abolition Brazil saw little need for a new system of controls over free Afro-Brazilians.
Zachary Morgan is Associate Professor in the Department…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Campus room: Allen Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: Marthadina Russell, mdina@uw.edu, (206) 683-7991. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: UW faculty and students.
Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Graduate Student Meet & Greet
The Simpson Center for the Humanities invites current graduate students at the masters and doctoral levels to a meet-and-greet event to make connections across the many departments and disciplines of the humanities and social sciences at the University of Washington. The Simpson Center offers UW scholars varied opportunities for intellectual community, professional development, and financial support that advance crossdisciplinary understanding, collaboration, and research. Stop by to learn more about our fellowships, events, and graduate research clusters, and to talk about shared interests with colleagues beyond your department. All graduate students are welcome. Refreshments served. Questions? Contact Rachel Arteaga, Simpson Center Associate Director, at rarteaga@uw.edu. To stay updated on Simpson Center events and opportunities, subscribe to our email newsletter and follow us on social media. More information at simpsoncenter.org.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 204. Accessibility Contact: Accommodation requests related to a disability or health condition should be made by May 7, 2024 to the Simpson Center, 206.543.3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Not Specified.
Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
Artificial Intelligence and Fashion Models, or Business as Usual in the Global Fashion Supply Chain with Minh-Ha T. Pham
Fashion brands from Louis Vuitton to Levi’s are using artificial intelligence (AI) -generated fashion models on their websites and in their ad campaigns. These synthetic models are created from data scraped from the internet and, in some cases, from the biometric and visual data of individual human models. The technology is new but, as Minh-Ha T. Pham’s talk will explain, the conditions that make possible the use and expansion of AI-generated models are as old as the fashion supply chain itself. AI-generated models don’t mark a transformative shift in the fashion industry; they’re another example of global fashion’s long history of extractivism. As such, the answers for how to fight the automation of modeling work also lie in the long history of fashion workers’ struggles.
Minh-Ha T. Pham’s research focuses on the intersection of race, gender, class, and the fashion supply chain under global and informational capitalism. She’s the author of two books: Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet: Race, Gender, and…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 120. Accessibility Contact: Accommodation requests related to a disability or health condition should be made by May 8, 2024 to the Simpson Center 206.543.3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, May 23, 2024, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
Displacing Kinship Book Launch
Join us for the book launch of Displacing Kinship!
Nearly fifty years after the end of the war in Vietnam, American children of Vietnamese refugees continue to process the meanings of the war and its consequences through creative work. Analyzing social science studies, policy, and the art, film, music, and literature of Vietnamese Americans as cultural productions, Displacing Kinship examines how these representations of Vietnamese refugee families register not simply the lived experiences of war, but rather the day to day experiences of racism and marginalization.
Linh Thuy Nguyen, Assistant Professor of American Ethnic Studies will be joined in conversation with Josen Masangkay Diaz, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of San Diego and Gillian Harkins, Professor of English, UW. Light reception will follow.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (HRC). Campus room: 101. Accessibility Contact: dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Special Events. Target Audience: Public, Faculty, Students, Community.
Thursday, May 23, 2024, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production
Nearly fifty years after the end of the war in Vietnam, American children of Vietnamese refugees continue to process the meanings of the war and its consequences through creative work. Analyzing social science studies, policy, and the art, film, music, and literature of Vietnamese Americans as cultural productions, Displacing Kinship examines how these representations of Vietnamese refugee families register not simply the lived experiences of war, but rather the day to day experiences of racism and marginalization.
With author Linh Thủy Nguyễn, Assistant Professor, American Ethnic Studies in conversation with Josen Masangkay Diaz & Gillian Harkins.
Light reception to follow. Registration encouraged.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (HRC). Campus room: 101. Accessibility Contact: mwal7@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Special Events.
Thursday, May 23, 2024, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
The Authoritarian Politics of Rehabilitation
Exploring the history and politics of the Philippine Refugee Processing Center in Morong, Bataan, this talk considers the Filipino English teacher as a critical figure in the U.S.-Philippine program for refugee rehabilitation. Recruited as an ideal figure of instruction and rehabilitation, the teacher illuminates the intersections of colonial language instruction, state development, and international human rights discourse. The U.S.-based English language training journal Passage offers insight into the critical role that English language training played in the transformation of the refugee for eventual relocation. I analyze one piece published in that journal: an epistolary text by instructor Ruby Ibañez in which the teacher assumes the voice of the refugee student in ways that conform to and confound the proposed vertical relations of the processing center. This talk focuses on one chapter of Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship, the Racial Cold War, and Filipino America (Duke University Press, 2023),…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: 317. Accessibility Contact: mwal7@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, May 24, 2024, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Grandmothering While Black Book Celebration
Join us for to celebrate LaShawnDa Pittman's book Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First-Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival (UC Press, 2023).
Sociologist LaShawnDa L. Pittman, Associate Professor, American Ethnic Studies, explores the complex lives of Black grandmothers raising their grandchildren in skipped-generation households (consisting only of grandparents and grandchildren). She prioritizes the voices of Black grandmothers through in-depth interviews and ethnographic research at various sites—doctor's visits, welfare offices, school and day care center appointments, caseworker meetings, and more. Through careful examination, she explores the various forces that compel, constrain, and support Black grandmothers' caregiving.
Join us for an evening of conversation between Dr. Pittman and:
Scott Allard, Associate Dean for Research & Engagement; Daniel J. Evans Endowed Professor of Social Policy
Cynthia Green, Catholic Community Services and Catholic Housing Services
Heather Hill,…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 120. Accessibility Contact: dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Special Events. Target Audience: Public, Faculty, Students, Community.
Thursday, June 6, 2024, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM.