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First Book Manuscript Panel: Diana Flores Ruiz

Details TBA. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 202. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, humanities@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Event sponsors: Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Department of Cinema & Media Studies. Friday, October 9, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.

Katz Distinguished Lecture: Eve Tuck

Writing is a relational practice. Like teaching, writing is central to our lives as educators, artists, and university workers. And like teaching, we rarely engage one another on what we are doing when we are writing. As such, writing can be underestimated as a practice, and overlooked as a form of relation. Writing can be a way of knowing, a visitation, a keeping, and a keeping away. Following her lecture, Eve Tuck will be joined by UW professor Dian Million (Tanana Athabascan) for a conversation on writing as one way we attend to our many relations of care and responsibility to communities, to lands and waters, and to one another. Eve Tuck (Unangax̂) is James Weldon Johnson Professor of Indigenous Studies at Steinhardt and Gallatin, New York University. An enrolled member of the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island, Alaska, Tuck grew up outside of her community in Pennsylvania and New York City. Tuck was the founding director of the Tkaronto CIRCLE Lab, which is now The Visiting Lab in Lenapehoking. Under… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Intellectual House (INT). Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, humanities@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Event sponsors: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, humanities@uw.edu. Thursday, October 15, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.

Horn of Africa - Building Bridges: UW, the Ethiopian Community, and Global Impact

Details TBA. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 202. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, humanities@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Event sponsors: Simpson Center for the Humanities, the African Studies Center, and the Department of History. Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.

Digital & Data Humanities Showcase

Details TBA. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 202. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206.543.3920, humanities@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Event sponsors: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206.543.3920, humanities@uw.edu. Target Audience: Open to UW Faculty, Students, and Staff. Friday, October 23, 2026, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.