How Taiwanese Can Help 應援台灣：海外公民行動指南
How can a revolutionary spirit translate into modern resilience for Taiwan? Join Lan Shi-bo—CEO of the Memorial Foundation of 228 and Curator of the Su Beng Memorial Museum—as he explores the enduring legacy of the legendary activist Su Beng. Moving beyond historical reflection, this session addresses a vital question for today’s world: How can the global diaspora serve as a critical extension of Taiwan’s strength in times of crisis?
The highlight of this talk is the introduction of the "Standing with Taiwan: An Overseas Civic Action Guide". Developed as a strategic roadmap for international advocacy, this guide empowers overseas citizens to move beyond anxiety and take decisive, organized action.
Speaker: Lan Shi-bo | Director, Su Beng Memorial Museum / Executive Director, Memorial Foundation of 228
當時代的巨輪前進，革命者的身影雖已遠去，但其留下的精神遺產依然指引著後人 。本次講座特別邀請二二八事件紀念基金會執行長、史明文物館館長藍士博擔綱主講 。
士博將從史明傳奇的革命生涯出發，帶領我們回顧《台灣人四百年史》中蘊含的堅持與理想 。講座更將進一步探討當代台灣的關鍵課題：在危機時刻，海外公民如何成為台灣實力的延伸？透過「應援台灣：海外公民行動指南」，我們將學習如何盤點資源、連結社群，並以專業技能發揮國際影響力…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Taiwan Studies (taiwanst@uw.edu). Event Types: Information Sessions. Meetings. Special Events.
Friday, March 27, 2026, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
North Bellevue Community Center (Craft Room) - 4063 148th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA 98007.
For more info visit www.zeffy.com. “I’d Do Anything to Survive” — Life Stories of Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples in the Interstices of Authoritarian Rule 「拚命地活下去」－威權縫隙中的臺灣原住民族生命故事
The impacts of White Terror linger across society today. During the White Terror era, authoritarian rule stripped human rights from all locals, including Indigenous elites, with traumas burdening subsequent generations.
This panel discussion with a special documentary screening Panana explores Indigenous life stories from the White Terror era and the enduring effects of authoritarian rule.
Moderator: Ohay Angah | PAFATIS
Panelists: Lin Hui-Nien | Studies of Indigenous Cultural Development, National Pingtung University, Taiwan , Na Suphok (Lan Shih-Po) | Memorial Foundation of 228, Taiwan, 白色恐怖的影響至今仍存在在社會各個角落，卻仍有許多人對這段歷史所知不多，許多悲劇的細節尚未浮出水面，或已被當局刻意湮滅。這些故事並不限於漢人家庭，原住民族部落同樣深受其害，他們的後代也持續被政府監視、受異樣眼光看待…。本次座談與《傳奇女伶 高菊花》紀錄片影音記錄的放映，從白色恐怖時期的原住民族生命故事探討威權統治的深遠效應。
主持人：Ohay Angah | PAFATIS 享想原流原住民族倡議聯盟
與談人： 林慧年 副教授｜國立屏東大學文化發展學士學位學程原住民專班 , 藍士博 執行長｜二二八事件紀念基金會.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Burke Memorial-Washington State Museum (BRK). Campus room: Burke Museum (East Classroom). Accessibility Contact: Taiwan Studies (taiwanst@uw.edu). Event Types: Information Sessions. Meetings. Special Events. Academics. Conferences. Lectures/Seminars. Screenings.
Saturday, March 28, 2026, 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit www.zeffy.com. Taiwan’s Scars, Redress, and Identity: Reflections on the 228 Incident 臺灣的傷痕、平反與認同：從二二八事件談起
In this keynote lecture, Na Suphok (Lan Shih-po), Director of the Memorial Foundation of 228, examines the lasting impact of the February 28 Incident (1947) and its role in shaping Taiwan’s historical memory, identity, and pursuit of justice. Reflecting on erased, silenced, and rediscovered histories, the lecture explores how collective memory is formed across generations and why confronting difficult pasts remains essential to democratic life.
Through archival insight and personal stories, the speaker invites audiences to consider the ongoing work of remembrance, responsibility, and reconciliation in Taiwan today.
Speaker: Lan Shi-bo | Executive Director, Memorial Foundation of 228 / Curator, Su Beng Memorial Museum
本場專題演講將由二二八事件紀念基金會董事長藍士博（Na Suphok）主講，探討1947年二二八事件的深遠影響，以及其如何形塑台灣的歷史記憶、身份認同與對正義的追求。透過對被刪除、被壓抑與重新發現的歷史的反思，二二八事件紀念基金會藍士博執行長將帶領聽眾思考集體記憶如何在世代之間被建構與傳承，以及正視艱難歷史為何對民主社會至關重要。
透過檔案研究與真實生命故事的分享，藍執行長將邀請聽眾一同思考台灣當代持續進行的記憶保存、責任承擔與社會和解的工作。
主講人：藍士博｜二二八事件紀念基金會執行長／史明文物館館長.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Taiwan Studies (taiwanst@uw.edu). Event Types: Information Sessions. Meetings. Special Events. Lectures/Seminars.
Sunday, March 29, 2026, 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
OCAC in Seattle - 1008 140th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA 98005.
For more info visit events.ticketleap.com. [Exhibition Tour] Seeing Beyond the Island — A Lens into the 228 Sites《島內之外鏡行事 — 二二八遺址展》導覽
Seeing Beyond the Island: A Lens into the 228 Sites explores locations across Taiwan connected to the February 28 Incident and its aftermath. Through photographs and historical context, the tour reveals how ordinary streets and public spaces carry layered histories of violence, memory, and resilience. Led by Na Suphok (Lan Shih-po) and Chiu Tzu-chia of the Memorial Foundation of 228, this tour invites visitors to reflect on how memory is embedded in place—and why preserving these stories remains essential today.
Speakers: Lan Shi-bo | Executive Director, Memorial Foundation of 228 / Curator, Su Beng Memorial Museum , Chiu Tzu-Chia | Specialist, Memorial Foundation of 228, 《島內之外鏡行事─二二八遺址展》聚焦台灣各地與二二八事件及其後續發展相關的歷史場址，透過影像與歷史脈絡的呈現，揭示日常街道與公共空間如何承載著層層交織的暴力、記憶與韌性。本次導覽將由二二八事件紀念基金會藍士博執行長與邱子嘉專員帶領，邀請觀眾思考記憶如何深植於空間之中，以及為何保存與傳承這些故事在當代仍至關重要。
主講人： 藍士博 ｜二二八事件紀念基金會執行長／史明文物館館長 , 邱子佳 ｜二二八事件紀念基金會專員.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Campus room: Allen Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: Taiwan Studies (taiwanst@uw.edu). Event Types: Information Sessions. Meetings. Special Events. Lectures/Seminars. Academics. Exhibits.
Monday, March 30, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit events.ticketleap.com. Political Theory Colloquium: Elisabeth Anker, "Little Sovereigns: Personal Power in the Twilight of Neoliberalism"
RSVP required: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeVBeRtWplt-ic634gMJ7Ugr-8ERKB-iQt6xV7V0GdXTbMuxQ/viewform
This event follows a workshop format and we ask that attendees read the work in advance. Please RSVP using the form or email saepfel@uw.edu to request a copy.
"Little Sovereigns" examines the rise in violent expressions of individual power. Different people -- from "forgotten men" to lawmakers to tech moguls -- are aspiring to personal sovereignty by declaring supremacy over others. Gun owners carry military-grade weapons in public, teens post rage-bait on social media claiming power to kill immigrants, billionaire tech elites create new cities and space colonies where they escape democracy and reign as gods, and MMA fighters hyperbolically perform brutal supremacy over other bodies. “Little Sovereigns” examines why personal assertions of violent control are gaining popularity, and suggests that many individuals, up against ruthless political and economic systems that offer no compelling pa…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: Gowen 1A, The Olson Room. Accessibility Contact: UW Political Science, polisci@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Workshops. Target Audience: Anyone interested in engaging with new and in-progress works in political theory.
Tuesday, March 31, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit docs.google.com. Cindy Anh Nguyen | Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam
Libraries in French colonial Vietnam functioned as symbols of Western modernity and infrastructures of colonial knowledge. Yet Vietnamese readers pursued alternative uses of the library that exceeded imperial intentions. Bibliotactics examines the Hanoi and Saigon state libraries in colonial and postcolonial Vietnam, uncovering the emergence of a colonial public who reimagined the political meaning and social space of the library through public critique and day-to-day practice. Comprising government bureaucrats, library personnel, journalists, and everyday library readers, this colonial public debated the role of libraries as educational resource, civilizing instrument, and literary heritage. Moving beyond procolonial or anticolonial nationalism framings, Bibliotactics advances a relational theory of power that centers public reading culture contextualized within the library infrastructure of the colonial information order. As the first comprehensive history of the colonial and national library in Asia, this…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Campus room: Petersen Room. Accessibility Contact: csead@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Free and open to the public.
Thursday, April 2, 2026, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM.
THE MUSIC OF STRANGERS: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silkroad Ensemble
The Grammy-nominated documentary The Music of Strangers, follows members of the Ensemble as they gather in locations across the world, exploring the ways art can both preserve traditions and shape cultural evolution. Blending performance footage, personal interviews, and archival film, Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville and producer Caitrin Rogers focus on the personal journeys of a small group of Silkroad Ensemble mainstays — Kinan Azmeh (Syria), Kayhan Kalhor (Iran), Yo-Yo Ma (France/United States), Wu Man (China), and Cristina Pato (Spain) — to chronicle passion, talent, and sacrifice. Through these moving individual stories, the filmmakers paint a vivid portrait of a bold musical experiment and a global search for the ties that bind. Curriculum Guide, Registration Link.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Room 120 Lecture Hall. Accessibility Contact: ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Screenings.
Tuesday, April 7, 2026, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
UW Communications Building, Room 120 Lecture Hall: 4109 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA 98195.
For more info visit docs.google.com. Before Black Feminisms: Tracing Black Women’s Intellectual History from Santo Domingo to the Atlantic World
Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Studying Black feminist impulses, scholars of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies have long explored the proto-Black Feminist impulses in Phillis Wheatley's poetry, Harriet Tubman's activism, and Sojourner Truth's lectures. Yet African and African descendant women have navigated the crossroads of race, gender, and justice long before the 18th century. This talk traces Black Feminist Thought back to the early modern Atlantic. The first recorded Black woman of the Americas is a shadowy figure known only as La Negra del Hospital, or the Black woman of the hospital. She established the first colonial-era public healing site in the island colony of Santo Domingo before the first enslaved Africans arrived in the hemisphere in 1502. Before Black Feminisms, La Negra was interrupting injustice through her care work and women-conscious healing in an Indigenous stronghold, actively resisting the Spanish conquest. By studying La Negra del Hospital, this talk will…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/tFVftGpFSHakAb2JlDqxkA. Accessibility Contact: sameerai@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
Online via Zoom.
Vulveeta: Film Screening and Q&A with Filmmaker Maria Breaux
Grrrilda Beausoleil is turning 50.
All she wants is a reunion with her 1990s riot grrrl band—the one she abandoned just as they were about to make it big.
With a scrappy film crew documenting the journey, she navigates old wounds, new-age platitudes, and a San Francisco transformed by tech and displacement.
The band must decide whether they can trust Grrrilda again—and whether their DIY roots of wheat paste, stickers, and zines can still build community in a digital age.
Dubbed “SPINAL TAP with BIPOC and queers” by the Chicago Reader, the film is a hilarious improvised mockumentary that treats comedy as activism.
At its heart, the production centers LGBTQ community building across generations—reconciling past and present, passing the mic, and finding solidarity through creativity.
Read Maria Breaux’s Femme Fatales profile.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Campus room: Allen Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: gwss@uw.edu. Event Types: Screenings.
Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM.
Media, Power, and Democracy in South Asia
What does democracy look like from below? This talk will look at how ordinary lives are reshaped by surveillance, majoritarianism, and corporate-political nexus in South Asia. Exploring media influence, gendered surveillance, majoritarian and casteist politics, the struggles of urban poor workers and the slow erosion of democratic rights in contemporary South Asia through Neha Dixit’s The Many Lives of Syeda X, this talk explores how journalism can recover erased histories, expose routine violence, and hold power to account.
About the speaker
Neha Dixit is an independent journalist and author based in New Delhi. For over two decades, she has reported on politics, gender, labour, and social justice in South Asia, producing investigative, narrative, and long-form journalism for Al Jazeera, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Caravan, The Wire, and others.
Her work has exposed extrajudicial killings, hate crimes, human trafficking, unethical clinical trials, and sectarian majoritarian violence. She has…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: HUB 214. Accessibility Contact: sascuw@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Free and open to the public.
Friday, April 10, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Literary Translator Lecture: Tiffany Tsao, "Beyond Novelty and Exoticism: Taking the Long View in Translating Indonesian Literature "
Tiffany Tsao will discuss the challenges of translating Indonesian literature in the context of a publishing industry that has tended to value Indonesian works more for their “Indonesianness” than their literary value. Catering to a readership interested specifically in the history, culture, and living conditions of Indonesia has some near-term benefits, but does this approach do Indonesian writing a disservice over the long term? She will discuss, more specifically, how this state of affairs has shaped the decisions she has made as a translator – from the works she has chosen to translate, to her approach to the translation process itself.
Tiffany Tsao’s translations of Indonesian literature have received the PEN Translation Prize, the Republic of Consciousness Prize, and a longlisting for the International Booker Prize. She is also the author of The Majesties (2018) and But Won’t I Miss Me (2026), and Deputy Editor at the Sydney Review of Books.
*author photo by Joy Mei En Lai
Generously made possible by…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: 332. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, humanities@uw.edu, 206.543.3920. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM.
Literary Translator Colloquium: Tiffany Tsao, "The Art of Reviewing Translations"
RSVP Required: https://simpsoncenter.org/form/tsao-colloquium
The past several years have seen an increase in the literary world’s appetite and appreciation for translated works. But what progress has been made when it comes to reviewing translations as translations? Speaking from both her current position as Deputy Editor at the Sydney Review of Books and as a literary translator who follows with great interest how translations are reviewed, Tiffany Tsao will discuss various patterns (and pitfalls) that reviewers of translated works tend to fall into, and share some ideas for how a reviewer might better engage with a translator’s labor and the “translatedness” of a text. Tiffany Tsao’s translations of Indonesian literature have received the PEN Translation Prize, the Republic of Consciousness Prize, and a longlisting for the International Booker Prize. She is also the author of The Majesties (2018) and But Won’t I Miss Me (2026), and Deputy Editor at the Sydney Review of Books.
*author photo by Joy Mei…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 202. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, humanities@uw.edu, 206.543.3920. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, April 16, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit simpsoncenter.org. Keynote Speech | Phillips OBrien | European Strategy and the Ukraine War
Join us for the Keynote Speech of the 32nd Annual REECAS Northwest, an official regional conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). Phillips OBrien will give a lecture on European Strategy and the Ukraine War, a look at how Europe has reacted strategically to the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The Keynote Speech is open to the public, and light refreshments will be provided.
Professor Phillips O’Brien is the Chair of Strategic Studies and Head of the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. He has published widely on issues of conflict, politics, war and strategy in the 20th and 21st centuries. Amongst his books are: How the War was Won: Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and The Second Most Powerful Man in the World: The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, FDR’s Chief of Staff, (Penguin/Random House 2015). He has also published multiple articles in major journals including Foreign…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: HUB 250. Accessibility Contact: cereas@uw.edu. Event Types: Conferences. Target Audience: Open to public. Registration required.
Thursday, April 16, 2026, 6:15 PM – 7:30 PM.
TEAL Digital Scholarship Series 2025-26: When NLP Meets Korean Language Education
The Tateuchi East Asia Library (TEAL) is proud to present the 2025-2026 TEAL Digital Scholarship Series, a dynamic program showcasing cutting-edge research by scholars in the fields of Chinese, Japanese and Korean studies. This series highlights how innovative digital tools and methodologies are transforming East Asian scholarship, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue, and broadening the impact of research within and beyond academia. When NLP Meets Korean Language Education, Dr. Sanghoun Song, Associate Professor, Korea University, Abstract:
As K-culture such as K-pop and K-drama continues to gain worldwide popularity, Korean has emerged as one of the most widely studied foreign languages across many countries. Meanwhile, Natural Language Processing has advanced rapidly, with AI-powered solutions achieving remarkable success in diverse fields. Yet these two developments have not fully converged. Leveraging NLP techniques can offer significant benefits for foreign language teaching and learning, particularly…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: Tateuchi East Asia Library (Gowen 3rd) Seminar Room. Accessibility Contact: hkyi@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Workshops.
Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Public Lecture - Uncertain Empire: Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism
Join us for a talk on Elizabeth E. Imber’s award-winning new book: Uncertain Empire: Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism
Following the British conquest of Ottoman Palestine, Jews across the British Empire—from Jerusalem to Johannesburg, London to Calcutta—found themselves at the heart of global Jewish political discourse. As these intellectuals, politicians, activists, and communal elites navigated shifting political landscapes, some envisioned Palestine as a British dominion, leveraging imperial power for Jewish state-building, while others fostered ties with anticolonial movements, contemplating independent national aspirations. This talk will explore this intricate interplay between British imperialism, Zionism, and anticolonial movements from the 1917 British conquest of Palestine to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. In doing so, it will show how the British Empire’s fate became central to Zionist and broader Jewish political thought during a time marked by profound…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 120. Accessibility Contact: jewishst@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Target Audience: Open to public. Registration Required.
Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM.
Research and Relationality in the Peruvian Amazon
Free and open to all. At the Jackson School, opportunities and events are open to all eligible persons regardless of race, sex or other identity.
THIS IS A HYBRID EVENT.
ZOOM REGISTRATION HERE: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/jQSegZVzQFu9Sq-3hhRivg
IN-PERSON LOCATION: HUB 145
This panel features talks on conducting research in the Peruvian Amazon by Justin Perez (UCSC) and Amanda Smith (UCSC). Perez will present “Queer Emergent: Scandalous Stories from the Twilight of AIDS in Peru.” Amidst growing enthusiasm over the 2010s around the possibility of ending AIDS as a threat to global public by 2030, communities of gay men and transgender women in Peru’s Amazonian region paradoxically experienced an intensifying epidemic at the same time. Queer Emergent is an ethnography that explores how they experienced this contradiction. In Peru, efforts to “end AIDS” brought demands that communities denounce homo- and trans-phobic discrimination, embrace egalitarian sexual practices, and re-orient social…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/jQSegZVzQFu9Sq-3hhRivg. Campus room: HUB 145. Accessibility Contact: lasuw@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, April 28, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Katz Distinguished Lecture: Stephanie LeMenager
Free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:00 pm. Seats open until filled.Accommodation requests related to a disability or health condition should be made by April 14 to the Simpson Center, 206.543.3920, humanities@uw.edu.
This talk considers the role of fiction as a form of resistant truth telling in an era of lies, bullish*t, propaganda, GenAI fakes and conspiracy theory, and in the shadow of climate crisis. In our media atmosphere filled with falsehoods, fiction becomes a means of capturing messy realities unassimilable to propaganda. Moreover, the flexibility of fictional imagination allows for social responses to radical uncertainties, via new genres of storytelling that call climate-change publics into being. In this talk, we'll consider stories of megafire.
Stephanie LeMenager's work on climate change and the humanities has been featured in The New York Times, ClimateWire, Science Friday, NPR, the CBC, and other public venues. She is Barbara and Carlisle Moore Professor of English and Professor of…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: 220. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center, 206.543.3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, April 28, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
CSEAD Student Conference
The Spring 2026 CSEAD Student Conference will feature a keynote presentation and panels by current UW undergraduate and graduate students across a wide range of topics and disciplines in Southeast Asian studies.
Panel 1: Colonial legacies and contemporary discourses on Southeast Asian environments
Will Burnham (he/him) – Southeast Asian Studies, Marine and Environmental Affairs
Andri Fernanda (he/him) – Asian Languages and Literature
Rangga Rasyid (he/him) – Southeast Asian Studies
Panel 2: Past, present, future: Nationalisms and national identities in Southeast Asia
Eden Quah (she/her) – Southeast Asian Studies
Imam Subkhan – Anthropology
Bintang Sasmita Wicaksana – Learning Sciences and Human Development
Panel 3: The sights and sounds of Southeast Asia
MinhYen Do (any pronouns) – Southeast Asian Studies
Rayne Mescallado (they/them) – Ethnomusicology
Caitlin O’Malley (she/her) – Southeast Asian Studies
Kelly Van Acker (she/her) – History
Keynote presentation: Kathleen Gutierrez | The B-Sides of Unmaking…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: THO 317. Accessibility Contact: csead@uw.edu. Event Types: Conferences. Target Audience: Free and open to the public.
Friday, May 1, 2026, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
Public Lecture | Have You Heard? Black Buddhism Through the Lens of Tina Turner | Dr. Ralph H. Craig III
Join us for an afternoon lecture on May 4th in HUB 250 featuring Dr. Ralph H. Craig III on Black Buddhism Through the Lens of Tina Turner. A light reception will be provided.
Tina Turner's (1939–2023) successful recording career and electrifying stage performances earned her the moniker of “Queen of Rock and Roll.” At the same time, Turner was perhaps one of the most famous Black Buddhist celebrities. In this talk, I will highlight the ways that Turner's Buddhist practice combined her Afro-Protestant upbringing, the trans-Atlantic flow of metaphysical religious ideas, and SGI Nichiren Buddhism. The talk will show how Turner's combinatory religious sensibilities are indicative of trends in Black Buddhism.
, Ralph H. Craig III is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Whitman College. He is an interdisciplinary scholar of religion whose research focuses on South Asian Buddhism and American Buddhism. His first book, Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner (Eerdmans Publishing, 2023),…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: HUB 250. Accessibility Contact: relig@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Target Audience: Open to public. Registration required.
Monday, May 4, 2026, 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
CAMP LECTURE | “Against the North as well as the South, Abraham Lincoln as well as Jefferson Davis”: The Civil Wars of Lucy Broaddus, Frederick Douglass, and Franz Sigel | Angela Zimmerman, George Washington University
“If we fight, we must fight against the North as well as the South, Abraham Lincoln as well as Jefferson Davis,” Frederick Douglass declared in May 1861, just a few weeks after the Civil War began. His statement suggests a very different Civil War than the we usually hear about, centered on Abraham Lincoln: a war for the Union giving way to a tentative emancipation within the bounds of the law, the constitution, and private property. Occluded in such conventional narratives are struggles over white supremacy, the extent of Black freedom, capitalism, and patriotic nationalism. We get an entirely different war – not just a different interpretation of that war -- if we center radical perspectives that aimed for freedoms anathema to Union and Confederacy alike. In this talk I will look at the Civil War as it was understood by Lucy Broaddus, a woman born into slavery in Missouri in 1862, Frederick Douglass, and Franz Sigel, a communist German refugee who served as a general in the Union Army. Each presents a…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: histmain@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, May 6, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
Spring EU Democracy & Security Symposium - From Monarchies to Constitutional Democracies
Join us for our Spring EU Democracy & Security Symposium - From Monarchies to Constitutional Democracies.
We'll hear presentations and discussions with the following experts. Drinks and cookies will be served. Raymond Jonas (UW History Dept), “France’s Five Republics and what they tell us about how republics are born and how they die” , Terje Leiren (Emeritus, UW Scandinavian Studies), "From Royal Absolutism to Parliamentary Government: Political Transition in Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden)." , James Felak (UW History Dept), "The Perils of a Problematic Constitution: the Cases of Interwar Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.”.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: 238. Accessibility Contact: cereas@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Target Audience: Open to public.
Thursday, May 7, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Public Lecture | Artemis Leontis | Secrecy, Stutter, and Care: Eva Palmer’s Hidden Letters
Join us for an afternoon with scholar Artemis Leontis from the University of Michigan.
Hidden for decades in a locked cabinet at the Center for Asia Minor Studies in Athens, Eva Palmer Sikelianos’s love letters (1900-1910)—personal, creative, and revealing networks of desire and kinship—challenge expectations about what belongs in Greece’s archival record.
These scattered, stuttering papers sat uneasily within an institute dedicated to Orthodox Christian refugee history, raising new questions about whose lives and stories find a place in official memory.
What happens when a collection resists straightforward histories—when archiving itself becomes an act of negotiation, improvisation, and listening for what’s unsaid? What can these fragments teach us about the possibilities of cultural memory, and how listening to stutters and silences might open new ways of understanding the past?
In this talk, Leontis explores the process of archiving Palmer’s collection: the hurdles, improvisations, and acts of care…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Campus room: Peterson Room. Accessibility Contact: hellenic@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Target Audience: Open to public. Registration required.
Friday, May 8, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
Stroum Lectures 2026 with Rafael Neis: Did ‘Men’ and ‘Women’ Always Exist? What the Talmud Can Tell Us
Join us for the first lecture of the UW's annual Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies. This year the series features University of Michigan scholar and artist Rafael Neis. Register Here. Registration Required. Lecture 1: Did ‘Men’ and ‘Women’ Always Exist? What the Talmud Can Tell Us
We often assume that the categories “man” and “woman” are timeless and self-evident. But what if they aren’t? In this talk, Professor Rafael Neis invites us to explore a surprising question: did “men” and “women,” as fixed and stable categories, always exist in the way we imagine them today? Turning to the Talmud, Neis shows how the rabbis wrestled with bodies, identity, and social roles in ways that don’t always fit neatly into modern assumptions. By setting aside what we think we already know about gender, we can discover fresh and unexpected ways of reading these ancient texts—and gain insight into how the rabbis themselves understood human difference. Along the way, Neis opens up intriguing new perspectives on rabbinic…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: Kane 225, Walker-Ames Room. Accessibility Contact: jewishst@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Target Audience: Open to public. Registration required.
Tuesday, May 12, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Stroum Lectures 2026 with Rafael Neis: Monsters, Hybrids, and Holy Images - Rethinking Bodies in Ancient Jewish Art
Join us for the first lecture of UW's annual Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies. This year the series features University of Michigan scholar and artist Rafael Neis. Registration link coming soon. Read about the first lecture here. Lecture 2. Monsters, Hybrids, and Holy Images: Rethinking Bodies in Ancient Jewish Art
Walk through the ancient world and you would have been surrounded by images of all kinds of beings—human figures, animals, hybrids, and creatures that blur the line between the familiar and the fantastic. These images appeared everywhere: in streets and homes, bathhouses and synagogues, public buildings and sacred spaces. In this talk, Professor Rafael Neis explores a handful of striking examples from ancient Jewish art and asks what happens when we look at them with fresh eyes. Instead of sorting these figures into modern boxes about “human,” “animal,” “male,” or “female,” Neis invites us to step back and see how ancient artists and communities imagined bodies more broadly. By letting go of…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: HUB 214. Accessibility Contact: jewishst@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Target Audience: Open to public. Registration required.
Thursday, May 14, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
Will green capitalism save us from the climate crisis? "Clean" technologies and renewable energy are certainly growing sites of capitalist investment, with government policies playing a key role in making these sectors profitable. But the supply chains that produce the technologies pose vexing dilemmas for the energy transition. These dilemmas are most dramatic at the extractive frontiers of green capitalism: where the natural resources needed to manufacture electric vehicles and build windmills are extracted. In this talk, Thea Riofrancos (Providence College) will unpack these challenges through the lens of lithium, a so-called "critical mineral" essential for its role in decarbonizing one of the most polluting sectors: transportation.
With forecasters predicting an enormous surge in lithium demand, exceeding existing supplies, Global North governments and downstream firms scramble to "secure" lithium, resulting in a new state-corporate alliance and the return of vertical integration. Meanwhile, Global Sou…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Campus room: Petersen Room. Accessibility Contact: lasuw@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, May 19, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Public Lecture - The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders
Join us in welcoming visiting author and scholar Jacob Daniels, discussing his new book, The Jews of Edirne: The End of the Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders.
At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Edirne was a bustling center linking Istanbul to Ottoman Europe. It was also the capital of Edirne Province—among the most religiously diverse regions of the Ottoman Empire. But by 1923, the city had become a Turkish border town, and the province had lost much of its non-Muslim population. With this book, Jacob Daniels explores how one of the world's largest Sephardi communities dealt with the encroachment of modern borders.
Jacob Daniels is Assistant Professor of Instruction and Assistant Director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in History at Stanford University in 2022.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: HUB 145. Accessibility Contact: jewishst@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Target Audience: Open to public. Registration required.
Tuesday, May 19, 2026, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM.