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ArtSci Roundup: February

Lauren Zondag — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:30:20 +0000

Come curious. Leave inspired.

While February might be just 28 days, the UW offers an exciting lineup of more than 40 in-person and online events. From thought-provoking art and music to conversations on culture, history, and science, the UW community invites you to explore, learn, and connect across disciplines throughout the University. In addition, take a look ahead at what’s happening in March.

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ArtSci On Your Own Time

Recorded Lectures: ��(History)
Incarceration is a hotly debated topic in the United States, a country that has one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world. Looking at the practice from a historical perspective, what can incarceration teach us about who we were and who we are now? What might histories of incarceration, and the histories of those who have been incarcerated, tell us about power dynamics, belonging, exclusion, struggle, and hope across societies in the past and present? The 2026 History Lecture Series explores the practice of incarceration, tracing its change over time from antiquity to our modern world. Following the lectures, the recordings will be available online.

Podcast: (School of Drama)
A lively and opinionated cultural history of the Broadway Musical that tells the extraordinary story of how Immigrants, Jews, Queers, African-Americans and other outcasts invented the Broadway Musical, and how they changed America in the process.In Season One, host David Armstrong traces the evolution of American Musical Theater from its birth at the dawn of the 20th Century, through its mid-century “Golden Age”, and right up to its current 21st Century renaissance; and also explore how musicals have reflected and shaped our world — especially in regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, and equality. Free.

Exhibition: (Henry Art Gallery)
Primarily featuring works from the Henry collection created in the twenty-first century, Figure/Ground reflects a period in which hard-won civil rights and claims to self-determination have been eroded across the US, disproportionately affecting Black, Brown, LGBTQ+, and other marginalized communities. Free.

Book Club: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones (UW Alumni)
Stephen Graham Jones is the NYT bestselling author of more than forty novels, collections, novellas and comic books. He is a professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder, and an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana. Free.

Recorded Lectures:
Featuring selected lectures from 1996 to today, UW Graduate School’s Office of Public Lectures YouTube features an incredible lineup of artists, scientists, researchers, and more!

Week of February 2

January 29–February 8 | (School of Drama)
In this new translation of Chekhov’s ”serious comedy of human contradictions”, a group of artists and dreamers meet in the countryside and wrestle with the costs of ambition, unspoken longings, and the harsh realities of artistic pursuits. Set against a backdrop of love, passionate aspirations, and the search for meaning,��The Seagull��captures the fierce hopes and quiet heartbreaks of an artistic career.�� Directed by MFA Student Sebastián Bravo Montenegro.

Online – February 2 | ��(Jackson School of International Studies)
Presented by Radhika Govindrajan, Director, South Asia Center and Associate Professor, Anthropology, ��Ƶ; Sunila Kale
Professor, South Asia and International Studies ��Ƶ; and Milan Vaishnav, Senior Fellow and Director, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Trump in the World 2.0 is an online series of talks and discussions featuring guest speakers and faculty exploring global perspectives on a second Trump administration. Free.

February 3 | (Asian Languages & Literature)
This is a unique opportunity to learn from UW Professor Zev Handel and get a peek into a linguistic history that has shaped the world. Like the book, this talk will be accessible to everyone—regardless of whether you have any knowledge of Chinese characters or East Asian languages. Free.

February 3 | (Jackson School of International Studies)
A Welcome & Research Presentation with 2025-26 UW Fulbright Canada Special Foundation Fellow, Clinton Westman. Free.

February 4 |
(History)
This lecture explores the evidence for ancient incarceration in vignettes: reading letters that prisoners wrote on papyrus, investigating spaces where they were held, and analyzing depictions of captives in monuments, law courts, and homes. Roman evidence does not model a just society, but it does offer a mirror where we can see modern practices of incarceration in a new light, asking which aspects of contemporary prisons are unique to modernity, and which reflect longer histories. The 2026 History Lecture Series presents “Power & Punishment – Histories of Incarceration,” exploring the practice of incarceration, tracing its change over time from antiquity to our modern world. Following the lectures, the recordings will be available online. Free.

February 4 | (School of Art + Art History + Design)
Death is a fundamental first step toward rebirth—but this transition can feel daunting without a compassionate guide. In The Book of Zero, our 2026 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident indira allegra presents a multimedia, meditative experience shaped by their research into doula work, death care, and the cyclical nature of bodies and environments. Free.

February 4 | (School of Music)
A free lunchtime performance featuring UW School of Music students in the North Allen Library lobby. Presented in partnership with UW Libraries. Free.

Online option – February 5 | 2026 University Faculty Lecture – A breath of fresh air: The science and policy saving lives from America’s deadliest cancer
Lung cancer kills nearly 125,000 Americans each year — more than breast, colon, and prostate cancers combined. UW Department of Surgery Professor and Chair Dr. Douglas Wood is out to change that and will discuss the many ways he and his colleagues are raising lung cancer awareness, increasing access to early detection, and ultimately, working to change lung cancer victims to lung cancer survivors. Free.

February 5 | ��(Asian Languages & Literature)
During the dark centuries between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the golden age of reunified China under the Tang and Song dynasties (618–1279), the shi poetic form embraced new themes and structure. Using biography, social history, and literary analysis, Ping Wang demonstrates how the shi form came to dominate classical Chinese poetry, making possible the works of the great poets of later dynasties and influencing literary development in Korea and Japan. Free.

February 6 | (Jackson School of International Studies)
Since the early 2000s, literary scholarship has read Hebrew and Arabic literatures together to find moments of transgression or trespass, challenging logics of partition. In Static Forms: Writing the Present in the Modern Middle East, Shir Alon develops an alternative model for reading Arabic and Hebrew literatures, as two literary systems sharing a remarkably similar narrative of modernization and developing parallel literary forms to address it. In this talk, Alon will discuss the potential of a paradigm grounded in formal and affective analysis for new understandings of transnational modernism, Middle Eastern literatures, and comparative literary studies at large. She will also explore the limits of this approach, when parallel readings of Hebrew and Arabic literatures obfuscate rather than clarify the conditions of the present. Free.

February 6 | ��(Music and American Indian Studies)
UW Ethnomusicology, Department of American Indian Studies, and the UW Symphony collaborate with Lushootseed Research’s Healing Heart Project in presenting this special community event. Following a free screening of the documentary film The Healing Heart of Lushootseed, the UW Symphony (David Alexander Rahbee, director) and soprano Adia S. Bowen (tsi sʔuyuʔaɫ) perform Bruce Ruddell’s 50-minute symphony Healing Heart of the First People of This Land. This powerful work was commissioned by Upper Skagit elder Vi Hilbert (taqʷšəblu) shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks as a vehicle for, in Hilbert’s words, “bringing healing to a sick world.” Premiered by The Seattle Symphony in 2006, the piece draws inspiration from two sacred Coast Salish songs Hilbert had entrusted to the composer and features a number of percussion instruments native to this region. The performance features soloist and Indigenous soprano Adia S. Bowen (tsi sʔuyuʔaɫ), a UW alumna who graduated in June 2025 with degrees in Voice Performance and American Indian Studies. Free.

February 6 | (Psychology)
Whether you’re married, dating, or flying solo, Dr. Nicole McNichols has some sex advice for you. And you may want to pay attention because McNichols is not only the professor of ��Ƶ’s most sought-after class in its history, she’s one of social media’s most popular educators on the topic of sex. Pulling from her book, You Could Be Having Better Sex, McNichols shares the latest data that shows good sex is one of the most powerful and effective sources of joy.

Week of February 9

Online – February 9 | ��(Jackson School of International Studies)
Presented by Reşat Kasaba, Professor, International Studies, ��Ƶ and Gönül Tol, Director, Turkish Program, Middle East Institute. Trump in the World 2.0 is an online series of talks and discussions featuring guest speakers and faculty exploring global perspectives on a second Trump administration. Free.

February 10 | ��(Simpson Center for the Humanities)
The production and promotion of so-called “AI” technology involves dehumanization on many fronts: the computational metaphor valorizes one kind of cognitive activity as “intelligence,” devaluing many other aspects of human experience while taking an isolating, individualistic view of agency, ignoring the importance of communities and webs of relationships. Meanwhile, the purpose of humans is framed as being labelers of data or interchangeable machine components. Data collected about people is understood as “ground truth” even while it lies about those people, especially marginalized people. In this talk, Bender will explore these processes of dehumanization and the vital role that the humanities have in resisting these trends by painting a deeper and richer picture of what it is to be human. Free.

February 10 | (QuantumX)
Dr. Krysta Svore is Vice President of Applied Research for Quantum Computing at NVIDIA, joining the company after 19 years at Microsoft, where she served as Technical Fellow and VP of Advanced Quantum Development and pioneered reliable quantum computing through the co‑design of hardware, software, and error correction. She began her career developing machine learning methods for web search before founding Microsoft’s quantum computing software, algorithms, and architecture program. Free.

February 11 | ��(Chemistry, Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, and Bioengineering)
Explore how cutting-edge research is driving material innovation in the built environment. Faculty whose work spans chemistry, engineering, and architecture examine how living systems can be integrated into material design to address pressing challenges related to sustainability, resilience, and the future of construction. Free.

February 11 | (History)
This lecture explores the wide variety of carceral practices in medieval Europe and examines how the recovery of Roman law and the concept of the state in the twelfth century began to transform those practices. Following the lectures, the recordings will be available online. Free.

February 11 | (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)
Navigating Academia as a Transnational Scholar from the Global South: Treasuring All the Knowledges brings together the voices of 16 women and non-binary scholars who began their postgraduate journeys as non-elite international students and (un)documented migrants in countries positioned as economically more powerful than their places of origin. Inspired by the book’s creative and relational approach to knowledge, this event will also open a collective space for poetry and storytelling. Participants are invited to write and share short poetic or narrative reflections that speak to their own experiences of abundance, survival, care, and knowledge-making within academic spaces. Free.

February 12 | (Sociology)
The future will be old; Europe, the Americas and Asia will soon have the oldest populations ever known to humanity. Can we cope? It will require major changes in the way we think about youth, women, immigration, and globalization to avoid disaster. Free.

February 12 | ��(Jackson School of International Studies)
In Ghost Nation: the Story of Taiwan and its Struggle for Survival, Chris Horton compares Beijing’s claim that Taiwan has been Chinese territory “since time immemorial” with Taiwan’s actual history. Several different groups have controlled some or all of Taiwan over the last 400 years — the Dutch, Spanish, Tungning, Manchu, Japanese, Chinese, and now, Taiwanese. By looking at those who have ruled Taiwan, Horton also tells the story of the Taiwanese people, highlighting their intergenerational quest for self-determination — and the existential threat posed by an expansionist Chinese Communist Party. Free.

February 12 | (Simpson Center for the Humanities)
Athletes with ancestral ties to the Pacific Islands are dominant fixtures in some of the world’s most visible sports and over several generations have produced a modern sports diaspora. Tracing Samoan transnational and diasporic movement along divergent colonial pathways, this talk examines the relationship between embodied experiences of racialization and the emergence of Pacific sports excellence in three settler colonial countries (United States, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Australia). It then considers what recent efforts to mobilize Indigenous practice inside and outside sport tell us about the uses and importance of culture in contemporary sport. Free.

February 12 | ��(School of Music)
Faculty pianist Robin McCabe joins forces with guest artist Maria Larionoff in an evening of high octane duos for violin and piano. On the launch pad: Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne, Beethoven’s Sonata in G major, Opus 96, and Faure’s impassioned Sonata in A Major.

Online – February 13 | 2026 Provost’s Town Hall
Join UW Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Tricia Serio as she discusses the state of the University from an academic perspective and the singular role that public research universities — and the UW in particular — play in our society. Featured speakers include Jodi Sandfort, dean of the Evans School, and Sarah Cusworth Walker, research professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Ted Poor, associate professor in the School of Music, will introduce the provost.

February 13 | (Open Scholarship Commons)
Douglass Day is an annual transcribe-a-thon program that marks the birth of Frederick Douglass. Each year, sites across the country gather thousands of people to help create new & freely available resources for learning about Black history. A transcribe-a-thon is an event in which a group of people work together to transcribe a collection of digitized historical materials. The primary goal of a transcribe-a-thon is to make the materials more easily accessible, but these events also serve to promote awareness of parts of Black history – and especially Black women’s history – that remain too-little-known. Free.

February 14 | (Meany Center for the Performing Arts)
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with 8x Grammy nominee and NAACP Image Award winner The Baylor Project — featuring vocalist Jean Baylor and drummer Marcus Baylor. Steeped in the heart of jazz, with dynamic performances that are soulful to the core, their musical roots are deeply planted in gospel, blues and R&B. Their eclectic sound and infectious chemistry provide the perfect backdrop for a memorable evening filled with vibrant, spiritual, feel-good music.

Week of February 16

February 17 | (School of Art + Art History + Design)
Our question to consider: what does the work of indira allegra offer us when thinking about the project of liberation? This program is part of the year-long Liberation Book Club series exploring liberation through shared texts, art, film, music, and workshops. Free.

February 18 | (History)
In 1942, the U.S. government incarcerated more than 120,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps based on the racist argument that they were likely “disloyal” to the United States. In the ensuing years of World War II, though, the U.S. government simultaneously sought to demonstrate the “loyalty” of Japanese Americans to American democracy. By placing U.S. wartime policies and Japanese American responses in different historical contexts, this lecture will interrogate the meanings of loyalty, democracy, and national security—during World War II and in our own time. Following the lectures, the recordings will be available online. Free.

February 18 | (Digital Arts & Experimental Media)
DXARTS presents an evening of 3D music, featuring recent work and world premieres by current staff and graduate students. Free.

February 18 & 19 | & (School of Music)
UW Jazz Studies students perform in small combos over two consecutive nights of original tunes, homage to the greats of jazz, and experiments in composing and arranging. Directed by Cuong Vu, Ted Poor, John-Carlos Perea, and Steve Rodby.��Free.

February 19 | ��(Henry Art Gallery)
Poet, musician, and scholar Rasheena Fountain presents Speculative Land Blues, a blues guitar, poetry, and DJ set. Developed in collaboration with Adeerya Johnson, Associate Curator at the Museum of Pop Culture, the Henry presents Speculative Landscapes. Free.

February 19 | (Burke Museum)
Read the book ahead of time, or join to learn more about the selection. The February book is Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales: Fossils of Washington State by Elizabeth A. Nesbitt and David B. Williams. Free.

February 19 | (Jackson School of International Studies)
John Johnson is a recently retired Senior Foreign Service Officer whose career included leadership roles in Brussels, Afghanistan, and with the U.S. Mission to NATO. Since joining the State Department in 2002, he has served in Europe, Asia, and Washington, D.C., earning multiple awards for his service. A Seattle native and UW graduate, John speaks several languages and lives with his family in the Pacific Northwest. Free.

February 20 | ��(Political Science)
The Center for Environmental Politics hosts Amanda Stronza, professor in Texas A&M University Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology, and co-founder of the Applied Biodiversity Science Program. Free.

February 21 | ��(Meany Center for the Performing Arts)
yMusic — named for Generation Y — is a genre-leading American chamber ensemble renowned for its innovative and collaborative spirit. yMusic has a unique mission: to work on both sides of the classical/popular music divide, without sacrificing rigor, virtuosity, charisma or style.

Week of February 23

Online – February 23 | ��(Jackson School of International Studies)
Presented by Ambassador Michelle Gavin who is currently Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign Relations. Trump in the World 2.0 is an online series of talks and discussions featuring guest speakers and faculty exploring global perspectives on a second Trump administration. Free.

February 23 | ��(Asian Languages & Literature)
UW Asian L&L and the Seattle International Film Festival co-host an award winning filmmaker Ash Mayfair at the SIFF Cinema Uptown for the screening of Skin of Youth (2025). A Q&A moderated by Assistant Professor Ungsan Kim will follow the screening.

February 23 | ��(School of Music)
UW music students perform music from the Baroque era under the direction of Tekla Cunningham. Free.

February 24 | (Meany Center for the Performing Arts)
Join us for a feature documentary that traces the remarkable history and legacy of one of the most important works of art to come out of the age of AIDS –choreographer Bill T. Jones’s tour de force ballet “D-Man in the Waters.” There will be a post-screening discussion with Bill T. Jones and Berette S Macaulay. Free.

February 24 | ��(Jackson School of International Studies)
Can political elites shape public opinion by influencing the tone of news coverage, even when they cannot dictate what gets covered? This study addresses that question using text analysis of more than five million Japanese news articles from 2004–2024, showing that rising negativity in legacy media closely corresponds with declines in cabinet approval. A newly compiled dataset of prime ministers’ daily schedules further reveals that periods of intensified elite engagement with journalists coincide with less negative coverage. Together, these findings suggest that incumbents may still temper media tone through proactive outreach, though this influence appears to weaken in the age of fragmented, digital media. Free.

February 25 | (History)
Prison is more than a place of punishment. It is also an archive. Yet the official story found in sentencing reports and conduct reviews is only part of the story. Incarcerated people generate a parallel counter-archive of resistance and transformation. The Washington Prison History Project is a multimedia digital effort to document this counter-archive at a local level. Across a series of publications, programs, and protests, incarcerated people have shown prison to be a central feature in the development of Washington State and the country. An examination of this archive tells a different history of our state—and its possible futures. Following the lectures, the recordings will be available online. Free.

February 25 | (American Indian Studies)
Featuring Oscar Hokea(Cherokee Nation and Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma). Storytelling offers a spiritual connection, a sharing of sacred breath. Literature, similarly, preserves human experience and ideals. Both forms are durable and transmit power that teaches us how to live. Both storytelling and reading aloud can impact audiences through the power of presence, allowing for the experience of the transfer of sacred breath as audiences are immersed in the experience of being inside stories and works of literature.��Free.

Online option – February 25 | The Office of Public Lectures presents: America’s Character and the Rule of Law with George Conway III��(Public Lectures)
This talk will explore the idea that the endurance of the rule of law in the United States relies not solely on the provisions of the Constitution—its structural framework, the institutions it established, or the rights it enshrines—but fundamentally on the character of its citizens. Qualities such as public-spiritedness, tolerance, moderation, empathy, mutual respect, a sense of fair play, and, ultimately, intelligence, honor, and decency form the foundation of constitutional democracy. Free.

February 26 | (School of Art + Art History + Design)
In this talk, Rachael Z. DeLue will share insights from her current research and teaching on the relationship between art and science in nineteenth-century Europe and North America, focusing on a suite of extraordinary chromolithographs created in the 1880s by the astronomer and illustrator Étienne-Leopold Trouvelot. Based on his work at the Harvard Observatory and the United States Naval Observatory, the chromolithographs represent the cross-pollination of art and science in an attempt to generate knowledge about astronomical phenomena that eluded perception and resisted visualization. Prof. DeLue will consider Trouvelot’s prints in relation to other such attempts on the part of fine artists and scientific illustrators to picture the celestial sphere at a time when technology was limited and space travel was still the stuff of science fiction. Free.

February 26 | ��(Stroum Center for Jewish Studies)
In this talk, Paris Papamichos Chronakis discuss his new book, The Business of Transition – Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule, and shows how the Jewish and Greek merchants of Salonica (present-day Thessaloniki) skillfully managed the tumultuous shift from Ottoman to Greek rule amidst rising ethnic tensions and heightened class conflict. Bringing their once powerful voices back into the historical narrative, he traces their entangled trajectories as businessmen, community members, and civic leaders to illustrate how the self-reinvention of a Jewish-led bourgeoisie made a city Greek. Salonica’s merchants were present in their own—and their city’s—remaking. Free.

February 26 | ��(Simpson Center for the Humanities)
Taiwan is a unique site of innovation in disability rights. Despite being barred from becoming a States Party to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) according to the diplomatic exclusion faced by Taiwan, it has become a model for the localization of the CRPD through its use “domestic review mechanisms.” Furthermore, Taiwan demonstrates the ways in which fundamental divides within human rights discourse, such as Western individualism and East Asian familialism, can be bridged using strategic adaptation that reimagine disability rights as a post-colonial hybrid. Free.

Photo by Michael B Maine

February 26 – March 1 | (Dance)
Presenting seven original student-choreographed works. This platform gives students the opportunity to express their creative voices through choreography and costume design, as well as collaborating with lighting designers and mentors.

February 26 – 28 | (Meany Center for the Performing Arts)
Thirty years after its historic premiere, the groundbreaking dance theater work by Bill T. Jones returns to the stage. Still/Here shatters boundaries between the personal and the political, exemplifying a form of dance theater that is uniquely American. At the heart of the piece are “survival workshops” Jones conducted with people living with life-threatening illnesses.

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ArtSci Roundup: November

Lauren Zondag — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:21:33 +0000

Come curious. Leave inspired.

We invite you to connect with us this November through a rich and varied schedule of more than 30 events, exhibitions, podcasts, and more. From chamber opera premieres and public lectures to Indigenous storytelling and poetry celebrations, there’s something to spark every curiosity. Expect boundary-pushing performances, thought-provoking dialogues on memory and identity, and cross-disciplinary collaborations—November is a celebration of bold ideas and creative energy.

As you plan for the end of the year, take a look at what’s coming up in the December ArtSci Roundup.

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ArtSci On Your Own Time

Closing November 8 | (Art + Art History + Design)
This Fall MFA exhibition at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery showcases emerging artists’ work. Free.

Closing January 11 | (Henry Art Gallery)
A thematic exploration of the work of thirty-four Asian American and Asian diasporic artists, Spirit House asks the question, what does it mean to speak to ghosts, inhabit haunted spaces, be reincarnated, or enter different dimensions?

Book Club:��“The Four Winds” by Kristin Hannah��(UW Alumni)
Readers’ Choice! Author (and UW alum – BA, Communication, ’83 ) Kristin Hannah highlights the struggles of the working poor during the Great Depression in this novel. Elsa is an awkward wallflower who is raising her two children on the family farm. As the Dust Bowl hits, she must choose between weathering the climate catastrophe in Texas or moving her family west to follow rumors of jobs in California.��Free.

Books, podcasts, etc: (��Ƶ Magazine)
This spring, 18,883 degrees were conferred upon graduates of all three UW campuses. We estimate there are just under 600,000 living alumni of the UW. And the UW supports or sustains 100,520 jobs, making it the fifth-largest employer in the state. No wonder we’re always hearing about new books, music, podcasts, and film projects from the UW community. Read on for a few recent accomplishments from ��Ƶ in the media.

Week of November 3

November 1 | (Meany Center for the Performing Arts)
A West Coast premiere of a chamber opera by composer Matthew Aucoin and director Peter Sellars, based on poems by Jorie Graham. The performance explores embodiment and identity in an age of transformation.

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Online Option – November 4 | Becoming a Birder (Graduate School Public Lectures)
This talk considers birding not only as a scientific and recreational practice but as a way of seeing and being—attuned to classification, memory, imagination, and care. Free.

November 4 | (Simpson Center for the Humanities)
A public lecture on the use—and misuse—of historical analogy in politics, focusing on Holocaust memory and the complexities of comparison in historical discourse. Free.

November 5 |(DXARTS)
Hum Under the Riverstone explores different forms of connection and dialogue that can unfold among various kinds of intelligences: human, natural, and machinic. The title of this project draws inspiration from Édouard Glissant and his concept of archipelagic thinking. Free.

November 5 | (Music)
A free lunchtime performance featuring UW School of Music students in the North Allen Library lobby. Presented in partnership with UW Libraries. Free.

Online Option – November 5 | (Jackson School)
What does it mean to commemorate a genocide? This is the overarching question governing this academic panel as its presenters ruminate over the mass killings that transpired in Indonesia between 1965 and 1966 which saw an estimated deaths of at least 500,000 alleged communists and their sympathizers, among others. Free.

November 6 – 16 | (Drama)
A new devised performance piece created under the direction of Adrienne Mackey with UW students, set in a dystopian workplace where employees inhabit modular rooms and confront disconnection, routine, and possibility.

November 6 | (Political Science)
Bart Wilson is the Kennedy Endowed Chair in Economics & Law and the director of the Smith Institute for Political Economy & Philosophy at Chapman University, and author of Humanomics (with Vernon Smith), The Property Species, and Meaningful Economics. Free.

November 6 | (American Indian Studies)
A series to prepare for the Film Screening & UW Symphony Performance: Healing Heart of the First People of This Land on February 6, 2026 ().��Free.

November 6 | (Henry Art Gallery)
Part artist talk, part lecture-performance, this presentation by artist Chloë Bass will use the lens of public art today to explore feelings as a type of knowledge. RSVP encouraged. Free.

November 6 | (Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture)
Part of Burke’s Free First Thursday series, the museum opens its collections spaces from 4:30 to 7:30 PM. Visitors can explore behind‑the-scenes labs and storage, and speak with researchers, staff, and volunteers about their work. Free.

November 6 | (Meany Center for the Performing Arts)
Renowned pianist Jon Kimura Parker returns to Meany with a dynamic solo program featuring Mozart, Beethoven’s Appassionata, Ravel’s Jeux d’Eau, and an Americana‑inflected selection including works by Chick Corea, John Adams, and Oscar Peterson.

November 7 | (American Ethnic Studies)
Celebrate the 55th anniversary of the Department of American Ethnic Studies (AES) and honor the 449 Japanese American UW students of 1941-42 whose education was interrupted and who were unjustly incarcerated during WWII. Pictures and memories will be shared from the families of The Long Journey Home honorees, followed by remarks from AES Chair Alexes Harris and faculty member Vince Schleitwiler. Free.

November 7 | (Political Science)
Megan Mullin, Faculty Director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, discusses how scientific expertise shapes public decisions in the aftermath of disaster, drawing on lessons from the 2025 Los Angeles fires. Hosted by the Center for Environmental Politics. Free.

November 7 | (Anthropology)
Anthropologist Tracie Canada draws from long-term ethnographic research to explore how Black college football players navigate and resist the structural harms of college athletics. Canada is the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and director of the HEARTS Lab. Free.

November 8 | (Henry Art Gallery)
As part of the Spirit House exhibition, this reading explores grief, memory, and the porous boundary between life and death through storytelling across cultures. Free.

November 8 | (Meany Center for the Performing Arts)
This special tribute celebrates Amadou’s musical legacy with Mariam’s iconic vocals, longtime band members, and new music from their forthcoming album L’Amour à la Folie. A legendary duo blending Malian blues with Afropop, disco, and rock influences.

Week of November 10

November 12 | ��(Drama)
In conjunction with the School’s upcoming production of OMMIA Break Room, this panel discussion centers on collaborative creation across multiple fields of study with notable faculty speakers from across the Seattle campus.

November 12 | ��(Honors)
As it becomes increasingly woven into our daily lives, public trust in science— or the lack thereof — matters more than ever. Join a dynamic conversation among UW Interdisciplinary Honors faculty whose scholarship and teaching engage natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities, as they explore what happens when scientific research and scholarship are misunderstood, mistrusted or misused. Free.

November 12 | (Jackson School of International Studies)
A panel discussion on the new edited volume Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in 21st-Century East Asia, exploring how scholars, artists, and activists respond to inequality, environmental degradation, and social disconnection across Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Featuring Andrea Arai, Jeff Hou, and James Lin. Free.

November 13 | (American Indian Studies)
Composer Bruce Ruddell, Musicians Adia tsi sʔuyuʔaɫ Bowen (Upper Skagit) and
Ben Workman Smith (Tolowa), Conductors Ryan Dudenbostel and David Rahbee, with John-Carlos Perea (Mescalero Apache/German/Irish/Chicano) as discussant. A series to prepare for the Film Screening & UW Symphony Performance: Healing Heart of the First People of This Land on February 6, 2026 ().��Free.

November 13 | (Simpson Center for the Humanities)
Philosopher Marshall Abrams challenges standard population-level views of evolution by emphasizing the unique role of individual organisms and their environments. Drawing from his book Evolution and the Machinery of Chance, Abrams explores how evolution unfolds within dynamic “population-environment systems.” Free.

November 13 – 14 | and (Music)
UW Jazz Studies students perform in small combos over two consecutive nights of original tunes, homage to the greats of jazz, and experiments in composing and arranging. Free.

November 14 | ��(Political Science)
PhD Student Ryan Reynolds presents, “Structurally Induced Anxiety and Anti‑War Voting: Military Social Networks and Presidential Elections.” Free.

November 14 | (Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures)
A multilingual poetry gathering celebrating the ghazal, a poetic form rooted in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu, and more. Participants will recite ghazals in their original languages with English translations, reflecting on sound, translation, and the form’s enduring vitality. Free.

November 16 | (Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture)
Explore ancient technologies, identify animal bones, sort shells, and enjoy a flintknapping (stone tool‑making) demonstration. Burke archaeologists and community partners present hands‑on activities and share stories about artifacts and historical practices. Free with museum admission; free for Burke members.

Online Option – November 16 | (Jackson School of International Studies)
The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies brings together scholars and community members to discuss the meaning and impact of Spanish and Portuguese citizenship offers to descendants of Sephardic Jews. Featuring Rina Benmayor, Dalia Kandiyoti, and Professor Devin E. Naar. In-person registration required. Free.

Week of November 17

November 18 | ��(Chemistry)
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recognizes the architects of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi. Professors Dianne Xiao and Doug Reed from the Department of Chemistry will introduce MOFs and discuss their importance.
November 18 | (Art + Art History + Design)
Join a Narcan training workshop followed by a pizza party and conversation focused on community care, harm reduction, and accessibility. Part of the year-long Liberation Book Club series exploring liberation through shared texts, art, film, music, and workshops. Free.

November 18 | (Music)
UW voice students of Thomas Harper and Carrie Shaw perform art songs and arias from the vocal repertoire. ��Free.

November 18 | (Jackson School)
Forty years after the US pulled out of South Vietnam, a Vietnamese martial arts master returns to the waters that claimed his wife and children during their escape in hopes of finding their grave. The screening will be followed by a virtual discussion with members of the GETSEA consortium. Free.

November 20 | (Henry Art Gallery)
Co-presented with the UW School of Art + Art History + Design, this conversation will address the role of historical research in DeVille’s object-based and performance practice, as well as her alchemical way of transforming found materials into psychically charged paintings, sculptures, and installations. Free.

November 20 | ��(American Indian Studies)
A series to prepare for the Film Screening & UW Symphony Performance: Healing Heart of the First People of This Land on February 6, 2026 ().��Free.

Online – November 20 | (Geography)
Alums share how their geography degrees have shaped careers in climate risk, procurement, and user experience design. Featuring Sadie Frank (CEO, N4EA), Nina Mesihovic (Enterprise Contracts Specialist, WA State), and Anirudh Ramanathan (Senior UX Researcher). Moderated by Professor Sarah Elwood. Free.

November 20 | (Jackson School of International Studies)
Historian Edward Wright-Ríos explores the enduring and evolving practice of pilgrimage among Mexican Catholics, challenging common misconceptions and revealing why this tradition remains vital in modern life. Free.

November 20 | (Music)
The Campus Band (conducted by Solomon Encina) and Concert Band (conducted by Yuman Wu) present their Fall Quarter concert at Meany Hall—Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater. The program features works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Steven Bryant, Clifton Williams, Richard Saucedo, Frank Ticheli, and others.

November 21 | (American Indian Studies)
As the days grow shorter, we gather in for a gathering with friends, family, and community to appreciate some long-form storytelling. Free.

November 21 | (Music)
The UW’s graduate-student-led choral ensembles—the University Singers, UW Glee, and Treble Choir—present an eclectic end-of-quarter concert.

November 21 | (Simpson Center for the Humanities)
This symposium brings together global wetland scholars to propose four analytical interventions in wetland studies, namely: rethinking the undisciplined wetland; post-colonial/settler politics of the wetland; shifting spatial geographies and temporalities of the wetland; and finally (counter) mapping the wetland. Free.

November 23 | (Music)

UW music students perform music from the Baroque era under the direction of Tekla Cunningham. Free.

November 24 | (Music)
The UW Studio Jazz Ensemble and Modern Band present a shared program featuring a mix of repertory selections, original compositions, and inspired arrangements. This performance offers a dynamic evening of jazz that highlights the talents of UW’s student musicians.

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ArtSci Roundup: May 2025

Arts & Sciences — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 03:01:34 +0000

From campus to wherever you call home, we welcome you to learn from and connect with the College of Arts & Sciences community through public events spanning the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. We hope to see you this May.

Innovation Month

April 30 | An Evening with Christine Sun Kim (Public Lecture)

May 1 | (Public Lecture)

May 3 | (Meany Center)

May 6 | (Chemistry)

May 13 | (Physics)

May 14 | (Dance)

May 14 | (Music)

May 15 | (Music)

May 16 | (Linguistics)

May 19 | (Linguistics)

May 21 | (DXARTS)

May 21 | (Chemistry)

May 27 | (Music)

ArtSci on the Go

Looking for more ways to get more out of Arts & Sciences? Check out these resources to take ArtSci wherever you go!

Zev J. Handel, “Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese”��()

“Ways of Knowing” Podcast (College of Arts & Sciences)

Black Composers Project engages the School of Music faculty and students ()

Ladino Day Interview with Leigh Bardugo & MELC Professor Canan Bolel ()

Week of April 28

Thursday, May 1, 6:30 – 7:30 pm | (Public Lecture)

Afrofuturism began as a concept coined by scholar Mark Dery in 1993. It was his way of grouping ideas regarding how Black people used the technology of stories to deal with racial oppression, disrupted history, and the challenge of moving into a positive future. In recent years, we have seen an explosion of interest from various fields around the critical making space that we call Afrofuturism.

In this lecture, John Jennings will explore the major themes in the Afrofuturism movement, track the timeline of its growth, and posit future possibilities around this vibrant and ever-changing way of seeing the world.

Friday, May 2 to Saturday, May 3 | (American Indian Studies)

This symposium brings people together to share knowledge on topics such as traditional foods, plants, and medicines; environmental and food justice; food sovereignty/security; health and wellness; and treaty rights. This event serves to foster dialogue and build collaborative networks as we, Native peoples, strive to sustain our cultural food practices and preserve our healthy relationships with the land, water, and all living things. Save the Date for this year’s event. The theme is: “Generational Food Sovereignty.”

Friday, May 2, 5:00 pm | ��(Burke Museum)

Join the Burke Museum for an exclusive tour of the Burke’s extensive collection of oversized items at our Sand Point facility, followed by a reception, dinner, and auction.

Additional Events

April 30 | An Evening with Christine Sun Kim (Public Lecture)

May 1 | (Music)

May 1 | (South Asia Center)

May 1 | (Simpson Center)

May 2 | (Music)

May 3 | (Meany Center)

Week of May 5

Monday, May 4, 5:00 – 6:20 pm | ONLINE ONLY ��(Jackson School)

Join the Jackson School for Trump in the World 2.0, a series of talks and discussions on the international impact of the second Trump presidency.

This week: Mark Ward, U.S. Foreign Service (ret.) and Instructor in the Department of History, Philosophy and Religion at Oregon State University.

Tuesday, May 6, 4:00 – 5:00 pm | (Department of Chemistry)

“Mosquitoes, earwax, and bird baths”
Professor David Hu – School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Tech
Host: Sarah Keller

Wednesday, May 7, 5:00 – 7:00 pm | ��(Department of Scandinavian Studies)

There is a common misconception in literary publishing that books for children and young adults are “simple” and are, therefore, easy to translate. But translating literature for younger people is not simple at all.

Join the panel of three distinguished translators—Sawad Hussain (Arabic), Shelley Fairweather-Vega (Russian and Uzbek), and Takami Nieda (Japanese)—for an engaging discussion of these issues.

Thursday, May 8, 6:00 – 7:30 pm | (Henry Art Gallery)

The Henry is excited to welcome distinguished artist Carmen Winant as the 2025 Monsen Photography Lecture speaker. This annual lecture brings key makers and thinkers in photographic practice to the Henry. Named after Drs. Elaine and Joseph Monsen, the series is designed to further knowledge about and appreciation for the art of photography.

Thursday, May 8, 11:30 am – 12:00 pm | ��(Department of English)

Theodore Roethke taught at the ��Ƶ from 1947 until his death in 1963. The Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Readings began in 1964 to honor his memory by bringing notable contemporary poets to the UW campus to give a reading of their works and, when possible, to meet with students enrolled in the department’s advanced poetry writing courses. The annual Roethke Readings, co-sponsored by the Department of English, the UW Graduate School, and the Theodore Roethke Memorial Fund Committee. This event is free and open to the public and regularly attracts large audiences of poetry lovers from around the Pacific Northwest.

Saturday, May 10, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm | (Burke Museum)

Hear about groundbreaking research from the Burke and UW scientists, enjoy hundreds of specimens from the Burke’s collection, and celebrate all things fossilized with fossil digs, ancient animal identification, microfossil sorting, crafts, and more!

Additional Events

May 5 | (Music)

May 6 | (Simpson Center)

May 7 | (Jackson School)

May 7 | (Music)

May 7 | (Scandinavian Studies)

May 8 | (Chemistry)

May 8 | (Meany Center)

May 8 | (Simpson Center)

May 9 | (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)

May 9 | (Political Science)

May 9 | (Classics)

May 9 | (German Studies)

May 10 | (Music)

Week of May 12

Monday, May 12, 5:00 – 6:20 pm | ONLINE ONLY (Jackson School)

Join the Jackson School for Trump in the World 2.0, a series of talks and discussions on the international impact of the second Trump presidency.

This week: Vanessa Freije, James D. Long, Tony Lucero, and Christopher Tounsel.

Tuesday, May 13, 7:30 pm | ��(Department of Physics)

When we think of engineering materials, we often picture solid blocks such as steel or plastic with fixed properties—soft, lightweight, or strong. In contrast, granular materials such as sand or rice flow and shear. What if a material could do both? Polycatenated Architected Materials (PAMs) are a new class of structures that bridge the gap between solids and fluids. Made of interlocked particles forming intricate 3D networks—akin to modern-day chainmail—PAMs can switch from flowing like granular matter to behaving as solid elastic materials. Join the Department of Physics to discover how the geometry and topology of PAMs are redefining what’s possible in material science and engineering.

May 13, 15, and 16 | ��(Department of Applied Mathematics)

The Frederic and Julia Wan Lecturer Prize aims to invite renowned mathematicians to visit the Department of Applied Mathematics. The lecturer delivers three lectures, ranging from technical talks to experts to expository talks. Additionally, the lecturer actively engages with members of the department and the broader UW community.

Tuesday, May 13, 4:00 pm:

Thursday, May 15, 4:00 pm:

Friday, May 16, 3:30 pm:��

Thursday, May 15, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm | ��(Jackson School)

Join us for a retrospective reflection on the future of African women and football, followed by a Q&A featuring guest speaker Martha Saavedra, faculty and associate director of the Center for African Studies at the University of California in Berkeley. This event is part of the Global Sport Lab initiative.

This event is free and open to all.

Additional Events

May 12 | (Classics)

May 12 | (Simpson Center)

May 12 | (Biology)

May 13 | (Simpson Center)

May 13 to May 23 | (Art + Art History + Design)

May 13 | (Meany Center)

May 14 | (Dance)

May 14 | (Music)

May 14 | (Jackson School)

May 14 | (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)

May 14| (CSSS)

May 14 | (Burke Museum)

May 15 | (Music)

May 15 | (Simpson Center)

May 15 | (Speech & Hearing)

May 16 | (Political Science)

May 16 | (Linguistics)

May 16 | Undergraduate Research Symposium (Undergraduate Academic Affairs)

May 16 | (Asian Languages & Literature)

May 16 | (Classics)

May 16 | (Statistics)

May 17 | (Meany Center)

May 17 | (Burke Museum)

May 17 | (Henry Art Gallery)

Week of May 19

Monday, May 18, 5:00 – 6:20 pm | ONLINE ONLY: (Jackson School)

Join the Jackson School for Trump in the World 2.0, a series of talks and discussions on the international impact of the second Trump presidency.

This week: Scott L. Montgomery.

Monday, May 19, 5:00 – 8:00 pm | ��(Asian Languages & Literature)

This lecture, Recipes for the Life Politics of Domesticity in Global Korea with Hyaeweol Choi, takes food as an entry for understanding gender history and culture in general, and the politics of domesticity in particular, by focusing specifically on the gendered history of street food in South Korea, exploring its evolution through the forces of war, poverty, industrialization, and nation-branding in the age of globalization.

Wednesday, May 21, 7:30 pm | (DXARTS)

Composer John Chowning is considered one of the pioneers of Computer Music. His contributions to this field, such as the invention of FM Digital Synthesis, had a strong cultural impact on the worlds of both classical and popular music. His invention allowed the production of one of the most popular digital synthesizers, the Yamaha DX7, which sold millions of units in the 1980s and was used by virtually every band from that era. Revenues from the licensing of this technology to Yamaha Corporation allowed Chowning to create the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University, one of the most important Computer Music research centers in the world.

Thursday, May 22, 7:30 pm | (American Indian Studies)

The Department of American Indian Studies at the UW hosts an annual literary and storytelling series. Sacred Breath features Indigenous writers and storytellers sharing their craft at the beautiful wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House on the UW Seattle campus. Storytelling offers a spiritual connection and a sharing of sacred breath. Literature, similarly, preserves human experience and ideals. Both forms are durable and transmit power that teaches us how to live. Both storytelling and reading aloud can impact audiences through the power of presence, allowing for the experience of the transfer of sacred breath as audiences are immersed in the experience of being inside stories and works of literature.

Thursday, May 22 to Sunday, June 1, Times Vary | ��(Drama)

THRIVE, OR WHAT YOU WILL��tells the story of Jeanne Baret, a gender-nonconforming 18th-century herb woman, who embarks on an 11-year voyage around the world disguised as a��(male)��botanist’s assistant.��The��first woman to circumnavigate the globe, Jeanne’s journey is depicted through a blend of historical fiction and contemporary issues. The play interrogates themes of “discovery,” survival, power, access, gender, and identity while highlighting the subjective nature of history and self. With a style that merges past and present, this epic tale is funny, gripping, poignant, and wild.

Additional Events

May 19 | (Music)

May 19 | (Linguistics)

May 19 | (Asian Languages & Literature)

May 19 | (Biology)

May 20 | (Music)

May 20 | (CHID)

May 21 | (Slavic Languages & Literatures)

May 21 | (CHID)

May 21 | (Chemistry)

May 21 | Judge Joel Ngugi (Public Lecture)

May 21 | (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)

May 21 | (CSSS)

May 21 | (Communication)

May 21 | (Statistics)

May 21 | (Simpson Center)

May 22 | (Music)

May 22 | (Jackson School)

May 22 | (Asian Languages & Literature)

May 23 | (Political Science)

May 23 | (Music)

May 23 | (Statistics)

May 23 | (Simpson Center)

May 24 – June 15 | (Art + Art History + Design)

May 25��| (Asian Languages & Literature)

Week of May 26

Thursday, May 29, 7:30 pm | (School of Music)

The University Singers, Treble Choir, and UW Glee Club present an eclectic program of music from around the world, folk tunes, and arrangements of popular music standards.

Thursday, May 29, 7:30 pm | (School of Music)

The UW Percussion Ensemble (Bonnie Whiting, director) and the UW Steelband (Gary Gibson, director) present an end-of-year percussion bash.

Additional Events

May 27 to June 6 | (Art + Art History + Design)

May 27 | (Music)

May 28 to May 30 | (Philosophy)

May 28 | (Jackson School)

May 28 | (History)

May 28 | (CSSS)

May 29 | (Indigenous Studies)

May 29 | (Simpson Center)

May 29 | (Philosophy)

May 30 | (Political Science)

May 30 | (Music)

May 30 | (China Studies)

May 30 | (Burke Museum)

Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Kathrine Braseth (kbraseth@uw.edu).

ArtSci Roundup: February 2025

Arts & Sciences — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:26:23 +0000

Featured Events: Topics in Social Change

February 4 | (Center for Southeast Asia and its Diasporas)

February 5 | (Communication)

February 6 |�� (Art + Art History + Design)

February 10 | (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)

February 19 | (Stroum Center for Jewish Students)

February 21 | (Political Science)

February 21 | (East Asia Center)

February 26 | (American Ethnic Studies)

Week of February 3

February 4, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm | (Center for Southeast Asia and its Diasporas)

In February 2021, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing led a military coup that ousted Myanmar’s democratically elected government, headed by State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party had won a historic landslide in the November 2020 elections.��Since late 2023, the Myanmar military has suffered one unprecedented battlefield humiliation after another, as it faces the nationwide uprising of hundreds of armed, anti-state groups committed to a revolution to remove the army from political power for the first time in history.

Join Associate Professor��Mary Callahan��as she explores the evolving crisis in Myanmar four years after the coup.

Free

February 4, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm |�� (Department of Chemistry)

The Amazing Lives of Defects in Crystals

Professor Daniel Gamelin — Department of Chemistry, ��Ƶ
Recipient of the Paul Hopkins Faculty Award

In the spirit of the Hopkins Award, this talk will explore a few historical examples and our group’s research of defects in inorganic materials used to express interesting and (sometimes) impactful physical properties. It will illustrate the role of basic science in driving the development of next-generation technologies.

February 5, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm | (Department of Communication)

Social media has reshaped how Americans consume news. As content creators rise as primary sources of information, they are overtaking traditional journalists for younger audiences. This shifting landscape brings critical questions: What does this mean for journalism? What does this mean for news consumers? How can we navigate news literacy in a digital world? And what role do these voices play in shaping the media ecosystem?

February 6, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm | (School of Art + Art History + Design)

There exists a pervasive illusion that journalism embodies truth and objectivity, yet it is fundamentally entrenched in a Eurocentric perspective that has long exacerbated social polarization. What ideological forces underpin this medium, enabling it to perpetuate such divisions?

February 7, 7:30 pm |�� (School of Music)

David Alexander Rahbee leads the UW Symphony in “With Love, from Scotland,” a program of works by Thea Musgrave, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, and Felix Mendelssohn. With faculty guests Carrie Shaw, soprano, and Frederick Reece, narrator.

Additional Events

February 3 | (Simpson Center for the Humanities)

February 5��| (School of Music)

February 5 | (Stroum Center for Jewish Students)

February 5 | (History)

February 6 | (Burke Museum)

February 7��| (School of Music)

February 7 | (Simpson Center for the Humanities)

February 7 | (Linguistics)

February 7 | (Burke Museum)

Week of February 10

February 10, 3:30 pm – 6:00 pm | (Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)

Recent years have seen the proliferation of cop cities, limits on free speech, and the gutting of governmental safety nets. In this context, trans and intersex people have been the casualties of a fascist agenda that seeks to outlaw abortion and to erase and further marginalize oppressed communities.

Join Dr. Sean Saifa Wall in a conversation that asks questions, speaks truths, and offers a way forward through these troubled times.

February 11, 6:30 pm | (Simpson Center for the Humanities)

In the��Analects, Confucius compares someone who has not adequately studied the classic��Book of Odes to a person standing with their face to a wall—unable to see, unable to act. In this talk, Edward Slingerland, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Distinguished University Scholar, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, unpacks scattered and vague references in the Analects��to construct a coherent account of how the Book of Odes��was used in early Confucianism as a tool for virtue ethical self-cultivation, as well as how the��Analects��itself, as a piece of literature, was meant to help train moral-perceptual expertise.

Free

February 12, 7:30 pm | (Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media)

Digital Arts and Experimental Media presents Daniel Peterson’s latest music composition, Into the Air, which explores the ephemeral nature of sound and the paradox of being. Inspired in part by Jorge Luis Borges’��Everything and Nothing, the 80-minute piece embodies both presence and absence, holding within it the traces of countless influences while remaining transient and��unimaginable; idiosyncratic and universal. The piece fuses Parmegiani’s��De Natura Sonorum��with Beethoven’s��Piano Sonata No. 32��through custom algorithms written in the audio programming language, SuperCollider.��The stereo piece will be diffused in real-time across 20 speakers.

February 13, 7:30 pm| (School of Drama)

The Winter’s Tale��by William Shakespeare centers on King Leontes of Sicily, who becomes irrationally jealous and falsely accuses��his best friend��and his wife, Hermione, of infidelity.��Tragedy��immediately��befalls his family and the kingdom. Sixteen years later,��Leontes’ lost daughter��Perdita, falls in love with��Florizel,��the Prince of Bohemia.��Leontes repents, and a “miracle” is revealed��leading to reconciliation and renewed relationships.��

: $10 – $20

February 13 through April 18 | (School of Art + Art History + Design)

Opening: Thursday, February 13

Working to emulate the interdisciplinary artistic environment Jacob Lawrence experienced in his formative years, this exhibition explores a legacy of collaboration between artists and poets.��artists & poets is a part of the re-grounding of the Jacob Lawrence Gallery in its mission of education, experimentation, and social justice. The show and space of the gallery will be split into two parts. The Cauleen Smith’s Wanda Coleman Songbook��will function as the contemporary example of this great legacy of exchange between artists and poets. The other half of the exhibition will focus on Dudley Randall’s��Broadside Presswhich began in Detroit in 1966 and will pull from archives to capture the press’s history and output.

Additional Events

February 12 | (Asian Language & Literature)

February 12 | (History)

February 13��| (South Asia Center)

February 14 | (School of Music)

February 14 | (Meany Center for Performing Arts)

February 14 | (Simpson Center)

Week of February 17

February 19, 4;30 pm – 6:00 pm��| (Stroum Center for Jewish Students)

Guest lecturer Naomi Seidman will take us inside�� “the Freud craze” to explore the impact Freud’s work had on Eastern European Jews.

The Austrian journalist Karl Kraus reportedly quipped, “Psychoanalysis is the disease of assimilated Jews; Eastern European Jews make do with diabetes.” And yet, Eastern European Jews were fascinated by Freud and psychoanalysis, flocking to lectures on the subject and following Freud’s life and career with curiosity and enthusiasm. This lecture will trace “the Freud craze” in the burgeoning Hebrew and Yiddish press of the interwar period when readers eagerly sought information about “the most famous Jew in the world,” and journalists and others were compelled to actively translate psychoanalytic terminology from German into Jewish languages.

February 21, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm��| (Department of Political Science)

Christina Schneider – “International Financial Institutions and the Promotion of Autocratic Resilience”

February 21 | (East Asia Center)

Politicians and political parties make promises during electoral campaigns. However, achieving a policy goal can sometimes hurt them electorally, and a party can be better off not pursuing what its supporters want. This study empirically demonstrates that Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has been gaining an electoral advantage by not achieving its stated goal of revising the constitution.

February 21, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm | (Department of Political Science)

Center for Environmental Politics: David Konisky, Indiana University Bloomington, “Disparities in Disconnections: Utility Access in the Age of Climate Change”

February 21, 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm | (German Studies)

Prof.��Dorothee Ostmeier��will deliver a lecture in honor of beloved UW Prof.��Diana Behler.

In literary Romanticism to AI tales, portals mediate change between concrete and virtual, human and non-human realities. This lecture straddles the fringes of reality shifts in the Brothers Grimm and ETA Hoffmann’s tales, inserting literary German discourses on the imaginary into the vibrant questions asked by anthropologists and cultural critics, and engineers of digital virtuality.�� All diversely investigate possible futures beyond our anthropocentric minds and psyche.

February 22, 4:00 pm | UWAA Movie Night: Singles (UW Alumni Association)

Get ready for a night of nostalgia, laughter, and love at this special screening of “Singles,” the classic rom-com set against the backdrop of Seattle’s iconic grunge scene. Filled with awkward first dates, unpredictable connections, and the kind of romantic chaos that only young adulthood can bring, this movie is the perfect blend of romantic misadventures and the energy of ’90s Seattle. SIFF Executive Director Tom Mara, ’88,��will introduce the film.

Additional Events

February 19��| (School of Music)

February 20 | (School of Music)

February 20��| (School of Music)

February 20 | (Jackson School)

February 21 | (Meany Center for Performing Arts)

February 22 | (Classics)

February 22 | (Center for Child & Family Wellbeing)

Week of February 24

February 24, 6:00 – 7:00 pm | (Slavic Languages & Literatures)

Please join us on Monday, February 24, at 6:00 pm, for a reading and a conversation with an award-winning Polish poet Krzysztof Siwczyk, and his translator Prof. Piotr Florczyk, moderated by Prof. Agnieszka Jeżyk.

February 26, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm��| (Department of Chemistry)

Weston and Sheila Borden Endowed Lecture in Theoretical Chemistry

Professor Abraham Nitzan��–��Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Host: David Masiello

February 27, 6:00 – 7:00 pm | (School of Art + Art History + Design)

Join us for this year’s Kollar Lecture in American Art featuring Colby College’s Tanya Sheehan. This talk explores how Black life could and could not be represented on the walls of Harlem Hospital by Jacob Lawrence in 1937, and how a commitment to the publicness of Black care took shape in Lawrence’s private images.

Free

Additional Events

February 24��| (School of Music)

February 24 | (University Faculty Lecture)

February 25 | (Meany Center for Performing Arts)

February 26 | Provost Town Hall (Provost Office)

February 27 through March 1 | (Meany Center for Performing Arts)

February 27 through March 2 |�� (Dance)

February 27 | Can the Subaltern Sweat? Race, Climate Change, and Inequality (Public Lectures)

February 28 | (Political Science)

February 28 | (Classics)

February 28��| (Linguistics)

February 28 | (German Studies)

Closing Exhibits

March 1 |

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ArtSci Roundup: November 2024

Arts & Sciences — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 23:43:48 +0000

Election & Democracy Events

November 7 |

Shortly after the General Election, three Washington Secretaries of State discuss the history and evolution of voting in our state—from the various systems in place to the complex and polarized climate we now operate in. If you missed the event, check out the TVW recording .

November 12 |

After the 2024 election, hear from Jessica Beyer (Jackson School of International Studies), Victor Menaldo (Political Science), and Scott Lemieux (Political Science) for a discussion on what happened and what happens next as part of the Democracy Discussions Series.

December 3 |

In this talk, James Gregory, professor of history at the UW, will explore the history of West Coast radicalism and factors that have made it influential beyond what is common in other regions, including those with blue state traditions.

Week of October 28

October 29, 6:00 – 8:00 pm | (School of Art + Art History + Design)

The Jacob Lawrence Gallery’s Shared Tools exhibition begins to unravel Lawrence’s interest in hand tools and the work of builders, and what role the community might have in building the future of the gallery. Shared Tools is the first of a series of exhibitions that pulls inspiration from the life and legacy of Jacob Lawrence.

Free

October 29, 4:30 – 6:00 pm | ONLINE OPTION (Department of Classics)

Professor Erich Gruen (UC Berkeley) will address the age-old issue of the roots of antisemitism in antiquity and the degree it may have arisen in the Jewish experience in the Greek and Hellenistic worlds. This event is co-sponsored by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of Classics.

Free

October 31, 7:30 pm | (School of Music)

Dr. Stephen Price is joined by students, colleagues, and friends of the UW Organ Studies program in this concert of spooky organ classics and Halloween fun.

Free

November 1, 7:30 pm | ��(School of Music)

David Alexander Rahbee leads the UW Symphony in a program of works by Ludwig van Beethoven and Akira Ifukube. With Percussion Studies Chair Bonnie Whiting, marimba.

November 2 – 10 | (School of Drama)

THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE is a parable inspired by the Chinese play CHALK CIRCLE. Written at the close of World War II, the story is set in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia, and retells the tale of an abandoned child whose custody is contested by his caretaker and his biological mother. In this production, a group of modern-day actors come together with real questions about justice, what is fair, and how to do right when it seems impossible.

Additional Events

October 29 |�� (French & Italian Studies)

Beginning November 1 | (Henry Art Gallery)

Beginning November 1 | ��(Henry Art Gallery)

November 1 | (CSDE)

November 2 | (School of Art + Art History + Design)

Week of November 4

November 4, 4:00 – 6:00 pm | ��(Scandinavian Studies)

Witness a conversation between dancer/choreographer and drag performance artist Jody Kuehner (Cherdonna Shinatra) and artist and dramaturg Maggie L. Rogers. The conversation will focus particularly on Kuehner and Rogers’ 2017 production, Cherdonna’s A Doll’s House, staged in collaboration with the Washington Ensemble Theater on Capitol Hill.

Free

November 7, 7:30 – 9:00 pm | ONLINE OPTION (College of Arts & Sciences and Evans School)

Join three Washington Secretaries of State as they discuss the history and evolution of voting in our state—from the various systems in place to the complex and polarized climate we now operate in. Current Secretary of State Steve Hobbs joins former Secretaries of State Kim Wyman and Sam Reed for a panel discussion convened by the ��Ƶ’s College of Arts & Sciences and the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance.

If you missed the event, check out the TVW recording .

Free

November 7 & 8, 7:30 pm | (Digital Arts and Experimental Media)

Fictions in Fugue is an interdisciplinary collaboration by new media artists/performers who come together to activate Meany Theater as a space in fugue and fragmentation. Combining interactive storytelling, Extended Reality technologies and Machine Learning experiments, a series of embodied narratives emerge throughout the evening.

Free

November 10, 4:00 pm | ��(School of Music)

The School of Music joins with the Seattle Flute Society (SFS) for its Flute Celebration Day, featuring Professor Zhao Rong Peter Chen, School of Music alumnus and faculty member at China Conservatory of Music and other highly regarded institutions throughout China. His performance is followed by additional performances from the Seattle Flute Society Flute Choir and other SFS members.

Free

Additional Events

November 6 | (Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences)

November 7 | ONLINE (Simpson Center)

November 7 |�� (Asian Languages & Literature)

Week of November 11

November 12, 5:00 – 6:30 pm | (Political Science)

Department of Political Science and the Political Economy Forum are hosting a post-election faculty roundtable moderated by Professors James Long, Jessica Beyer (Jackson School), Victor Menaldo (Political Science), and Scott Lemieux (Political Science) one week after the election on what we know so far and what to expect next.

Free

November 13, 6:00 – 8:00 pm | (Law, Societies & Justice)

Join UW Honors’ annual Global Challenges—Interdisciplinary Thinking event as they bring Tony Lucero (Indigenous studies and critical university studies), Megan McCloskey (international human rights law and disability rights), and Ed Taylor (leadership, social justice and critical race theory in education) together with Interdisciplinary Honors student moderator, Jaya Field, to discuss the many purposes of public research universities like the UW in our world today.

Free

November 13, 7:00 – 8:30 pm | ONLINE OPTION (Psychology)

Learn about a neurobiological perspective on anxiety, fear, and panic as adaptive and maladaptive behavior. Michael S. Fanselow,�� a professor in the Department of Psychology at UCLA, will describe how defensive behavior is organized into 3 distinct modes that fall along a continuum related to the proximity of threat, known as the predatory imminence continuum.

Free

November 14, 5:30 – 7:00 pm | ONLINE OPTION (American Indian Studies)

Join the Department of American Indian Studies for the annual literary and storytelling series Sacred Breath, this year featuring Richard Van Camp and Roger Fernandes. Indigenous writers and storytellers share their craft at the beautiful wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House.

Free

November 14, 7:30 pm | (School of Music)

UW Jazz Studies students perform in small combos over two consecutive nights of original tunes, a homage to the greats of jazz, and experiments in composing and arranging.

Free

Additional Events

November 12 | (School of Music)

November 13 | (Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest)

November 13 | ��(Simpson Center)

November 13 | (Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures)

November 14 | (Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures)

November 14 | (Scandinavian Studies)

November 14 | (Simpson Center)

November 15 | (Jackson School)

Week of November 18

November 18, 7:30 pm | (School of Music)

Pianist Craig Sheppard is joined by Rachel Lee Priday, violin; Noah Geller, viola; and Efe Baltacigil, cello, in performing Gabriel Fauré Piano Quartet #1 in C minor, Opus 15; and Piano Quartet #2 in G minor, Opus 45.

November 20, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)

Centering on oral histories in Fujian, Shuxuan Zhou situates firsthand accounts of labor and resistance in forestry and wood processing within the larger context of postrevolutionary socialist reforms through China’s rapid economic development after the 1990s. This book opens a conversation among the fields of gender studies, labor studies, and environmental studies.

Free

November 20, 3:30 – 4:30 pm | ONLINE OPTION (Department of Chemistry)

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry celebrates groundbreaking achievements in computational biology, awarded to David Baker from the UW. Professors Mike Gelb and Jesse Zalatan from the Department of Chemistry will introduce and set the stage for a brief presentation by Nobel Laureate David Baker. The talk will be followed by a moderated Q&A session.

Free

November 22, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | (South Asia Center and Department of Communication)

Taking stock of the centrality of streaming video and other forms of social media entertainment in Indian public culture, this lecture focuses on the enduring significance of linguistic and cultural regions. This lecture will explore the range of imaginations and understandings of regional languages, cultures, and caste politics that media companies mobilize in their quest for audiences and markets.

Free

November 23, 5:00 pm | “Bad River” Screening & Panel (UWAA)

Head to the wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House for a special screening of “Bad River,” the critically acclaimed new documentary film. “Bad River” chronicles the efforts of the Bad River Band’s ongoing fight for sovereignty. Stay after the screening for an in-depth discussion of Indigenous water rights, Indigenous health, and Native sovereignty.

Free

Additional Events

November 19 | (School of Music)

November 21 | (Geography)

November 21 | (School of Music)

November 22 | (German Studies)

November 22 | (American Ethnic Studies)

November 23 | (School of Music)

November 23��| (Burke Museum)

November 24��| (Burke Museum)

Week of November 25

November 30, 2:00 – 3:00 pm | (Henry Art Gallery)

Visit the Henry for an illuminating tour of two exhibitions, Overexposures: Photographs from the Henry Collection and Recent Acquisitions in the Henry Collection with Em Chan, curator of Overexposures and the Henry’s Curatorial Assistant. During the tour, Chan will guide visitors through a selection of photographs and artworks from the collection.

Free

December 2, 6:30 pm | (School of Music)

Phyllis Byrdwell leads the 100-voice Gospel Choir in songs of praise, jubilation, and other expressions from the Gospel tradition. Phyllis is the director of the UW Gospel Choir, was inducted into the Washington Music Educators Association’s Hall of Fame in 2002, and serves on the Seattle Symphony Board of Directors.

December 3, 6:30 pm | (Simpson Center)

How did the West Coast become the “Left Coast” and what does that mean for American politics? The term “Left Coast” has further underlined the significance of progressive and radical movements in the political systems and reputations of these states. In this talk, Gregory explores the history of West Coast radicalism and factors that have made it influential beyond what is common in other regions, including those with blue state traditions.

Free

Additional Events

November 25 | (Physics)

November 25 | (School of Music)

November 26 | (School of Music)

December 2 | (School of Music)

December 2 | (Department of Anthropology)

December 3 | ��(School of Music)

December 3 | (Meany Center)

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ArtSci Roundup: Katz Distinguished Lecture, DXARTS Spring Concert, MFA Dance Concert and more

Arts & Sciences — Thu, 09 May 2024 21:08:31 +0000

This week, attend the Katz Distinguished Lecture Series with Winnie Wong, check out the DXARTS Spring Concert, be wowed away from the MFA Dance Concert, and more.

May 13 – 17, UW Innovation Month

Innovation Month is a campus-wide celebration of the innovative work that happens everywhere at UW, every day, across disciplines. It highlights students and researchers who are entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, scientists, artists, and other leaders who are constantly imagining new heights in their fields. Join events to gain insights into the latest trends in academia and industry and build your network with others who share your passion and drive for impact.

Free | More info

May 13, 3:30 – 4:30 pm | Smith Hall or Online via Zoom

For this History Colloquium, Alika Bourgette, PhD Candidate, will present their paper “A Constellation of Care: Ka’ākaukukui Reef, Squattersville, and the Native Hawaiian Anti-Eviction Movement in Urbanizing Honolulu.” Professor James Gregory will serve as the respondent.

Free |

May 14, 11:30 am – 12:50 pm | ��Kincaid Hall

For the Psychology Cross-Area Clinical Seminar, Dr. John J. Curtin, professor of Psychology & Scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be giving a talk on “Smart Digital Therapeutics for Alcohol Use Disorder: Algorithms for Prediction and Adaptive Intervention.”

Free |

May 14, 6:30 pm | Kane Hall

For this Katz Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities, Associate Professor of Rhetoric at University of California, Berkeley, Winnie Wong, is invited to introduce 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.

Free |��

May 15, 3:00 – 4:20 pm | ��Electrical and Computer Engineering Building

Attend this Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies panel that brings together Washington state legal professionals to discuss the variety of ways in which they work in and with the law. Representing a range of demographic backgrounds and lived experiences, the panels will talk about the paths that brought them to careers in the law, as well as how they view their work in the current legal, social, and political moment.

Free |

May 15, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Communications Building

Debra Hawhee, Professor of English, Communication Arts and Sciences, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Pennsylvania State University, will give a lecture analyzing the extinction art of Andrea Bowers and Elizabeth Turk, two artists whose work finds presence in the face of species extinction. Bowers’ “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.

Free |

May 15, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

An evening of software performances and human-machine communions, drawing lines between the worlds of immersive sound, performing arts, and experimental extended reality. The familiar, the bearable chaos and illusions of��order unfold across technologically mediated hyper-realities, temporalities, and mnemonic worlds. Performances where interactions and reactions occur across choreographies and spatial arrangements, binding the virtual with the real in unexpected knots and impossible behaviors.

Free |

May 16, 2:30 – 3:30 pm | Kane Hall

UW faculty member Shirley J. Yee (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies department) will be in conversation with UW Women’s soccer coach Nicole Van Dyke, Courtney Gano (UW Softball ’16) and Amy Griffin (UW Women’s Soccer and Executive Director of the Seattle Reign Academy). This event is part of the Jackson School’s new Global Sport Lab.

Free |

May 16 – 19, 2:30 or 7:00 pm | Meany Hall

The UW MFA candidates in dance invite everyone to the premiere of eight diverse dance works, created for 70 undergraduate dancers. Join the Department of Dance for an evening of dance in styles drawn from contemporary modern, ballet, Chinese dance, hip-hop, street, and club dances, to explore themes about humanity, homogeneity, community, and support.

Learn about the program to support the development of educators in any dance form.

Tickets |

May 16, 12:00 – 1:30 pm | Gowen Hall

Becca Peach, a Political Science Ph.D. candidate, will lecture on “Replacing the Welfare State As We Know It: Neoliberal Welfare Policy & Development of the Religious Right’s Institutional Capacity Under Charitable Choice” for the Political Theory Colloquium.

Free |

May 16, 7:30 pm | Kane Hall

Join paleontologist Dr. Jingmai O’Connor for a trip back in time to learn how birds became birds and the adaptations that helped them thrive. Dr. O’Connor will share a new fossil discovery that tells more about the earliest birds and the dinosaurs they evolved from.

Free |

May 16, 5:00 – 7:30 pm | Husky Union Building

Join the UW Center for Human Rights for a very special 15th-anniversary edition of the annual Spring Symposium & Awards Celebration featuring stories from those deported through Boeing Field.

This year’s event features a storytelling project collaboration between UW students, immigrant rights group La Resistencia, and Hinton Publishing, showcasing stories of those held in deportation proceedings in Washington state.

Free |

May 16, 7:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

Students from the UW��piano studios perform works��from the piano repertoire.

Free |

May 16, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

Boka Kouyaté comes from a family of traditional music specialists in Guinea. A ��ó�� player, singer, and multi-instrumentalist, he is a well-known figure in both traditional culture and West African popular music.��He is joined by his UW students and special guests in this end-of-quarter performance.

Tickets |

May 17, 5:00 – 7:00 pm | ��Communications Building

Thanks to its soothing sound and the unique visual appearance of the instrument, alphorn music is enjoying growing popularity, interestingly also in the Seattle region. Dr. Yannick Wey and Co-presenter Gary Martin demonstrate historical and new alphorn music and get to the bottom of questions such as: What music can be played on a wind instrument that has no valves, finger holes, or keys? What function does the alphorn have in the rituals, customs, and traditions of the Alpine region? How is its musical history connected to the natural environment of the Alpine region and to the purely vocal call of the Swiss yodel? The themes will be richly illustrated with live music from four centuries.

Free |

May 17, 6:00 – 7:30 pm, Henry Art Gallery

The Henry Art Gallery will welcome Martine Gutierrez as the 2024 Monsen Photography Lecture speaker. This annual lecture brings key makers and thinkers in photographic practice to the Henry. Named after Drs. Elaine and Joseph Monsen, the series is designed to further knowledge about and appreciation for the art of photography.

Free |

May 17, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

Faculty pianist Marc Seales is joined by UW colleague Steve Rodby (bass) and special guests Thomas Marriott (trumpet)��and Moyes Lucas (drums) for this concert��of original tunes and unique arrangements of jazz and pop classics.

Tickets |

Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Kathrine Braseth (kbraseth@uw.edu).

ArtSci Roundup: Fall Concert with DXARTS, Dance Graduate Research Symposium and more

ArtsUW — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 22:46:45 +0000

This week, check out the Fall Concert hosted by DXARTS (Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media), attend the Dance Graduate Research Symposium, listen to guest composer concerts, and more.

October 25, 7:30pm | Meany Hall��

Join the Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) as they host a Fall Concert with the Henry Art Gallery, Mini Mart City Park, Method Gallery, Gallery 4Culture, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Georgetown Steam Plant, and Meany Hall at the UW. This experimental arts festival will feature technology driven art on ritual, entropy, and storm.

Free |

October 27, 8:00pm | Meany Hall

Combining the manual art of shadow puppetry with projected animation, Song of the North tells the courageous tale of Manijeh, a heroine from ancient Persia. Manijeh must use all her strengths and talents to rescue her beloved Bijan from a dangerous predicament of her own making and help prevent a war. This love story, adapted from the Book of Kings (Shahnameh), employs a cast of 500 handmade puppets and a talented ensemble of nine actors and puppeteers to create a spectacular multimedia experience.

$10 – $69 Tickets |

October 27, 11:30am – 1:00pm | Gowen Hall

This talk will show how woodblock printing techniques, first developed by Buddhists, provided a technology that could give a broad number of people access to the written word.

Yuhua Wang, Professor of Government at Harvard University, argues that state formation depends not only on military competition but also on the supply of ideas and techniques in a society. These ideas can sometimes come from unexpected areas before being adopted by those in power.

Free |

October 27, 2:30pm | Jones Playhouse

Join the UW Department of Dance to hear research presentations by second year MFA candidates in dance.

Free |

October 28, 7:30pm | Meany Hall

Enjoy the latest installment of an ongoing series created by artistic director Naeim Rahmani. The program includes commissioned works by Iranian composers living outside of Iran and Seattle-based composers with strong ties to the UW Composition Program: Huck Hodge, Joël-François Durand, Jeff Bowen, and Yigit Kölat.

$10 – $20 Tickets |

October – November | “Ways of Knowing” Podcast: Episode 2

“Ways of Knowing” is an eight-episode podcast connecting humanities research with current events and issues. This weeks episode is a Close Reading with Charles LaPorte of “Dover Beach,” a poem by 19th century British writer Matthew Arnold. The poem can be read as both a romantic lament and, as many scholars have concluded, a dark, existential commentary on the loss of religious faith.

This season features faculty from the UW College of Arts & Sciences as they explore race, immigration, history, the natural world – even comic books. Each episode analyzes a work, or an idea, and provides additional resources for learning more.

Free | More info

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ArtSci Roundup: Frontiers of Physics Lecture, Dance Concert, Undergrad Research Symposium and more

Arts & Sciences — Fri, 12 May 2023 19:31:17 +0000

This week, learn about the Warped Side of the universe, listen to Russian Journalist Yevgenia Albats speak about her experiences, tune into the “Reflections on the 1968 UW Black Student Union” event livestream and more.

May 16 – 17, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM | , HUB Street/Lyceum/Lawn

Free |

May 16, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM | ��Communications Building

Join the UW Translation Studies Hub for two short talks and conversation:

“Against Translation as Metaphor: Sultanic Languages of Sovereignty in Late 19^th Century Morocco”
Sam Kigar (Islamic Studies, Department of Religion, University of Puget Sound) challenges a scholarly tradition of describing religions as languages that can be translated into one another. He examines the translation of two letters by Sultan Hassan I (r. 1873-1894) about his journeys to the Sūs region of southern Morocco. The Sultan was not translating forms of Islamic sovereignty into “foreign” territorial terms, instead, he was participating in the territorialization of the Sūs.

“Decentering French to re-center Wolof: Translation as a Nationalist Performance in Boubacar Boris Diop’s Work”
Rokiatou Soumaré (French and Francophone Studies, University of Puget Sound) proposes that Senegalese novelist Boubacar Boris Diop positions himself in his work as a nationalist linguistic activist by writing in Wolof instead of French, Senegal’s lingua franca. For Diop, translating these essential pieces initiated an ambitious political project that aligns with his nationalistic views, and his rejection of French hegemony.

Free |

May 17, 7:30 PM | Meany Hall

This project was born from a collaboration between Abigail Jara (choreographer and dancer) and Juan Pampin (sound artist and composer). The work was created during a residency of MUSSE DC at the Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) at the UW Seattle campus in April 2022.

The performance is an exploration of the territory based on sound maps. The use of sensors enables the performers to carry out a space-time reconfiguration of the forest based on its sounds, which has the body as its axis, and movement and time as its organizing principle. In turn, the performers are part of an audiovisual ecosystem in which their bodies are captured by infrared cameras – similar to those used by scientists to investigate the presence of animals in the forest.

In each section of the work, the performers explore this interactive audiovisual space based on certain concepts related to the forest, such as the animal, the arborescent, the vegetal, the aviary, and the spectral.

Free |

May 17 – May 21 | ,��Meany Hall

Join the Department of Dance for their first-ever concert in the round. Six premieres by current graduate students, including one film, explore topics from Artificial Intelligence to the concept of Yin and Yang.

$10 Tickets |

May 17, 7:30 – 9:00 PM | ��Kane Hall

The Frontiers of Physics Lecture Series brings renowned scientists to the UW to offer free lectures on exciting advances in physics with the goal of fostering an appreciation of science and technology in our community. This spring the Department of Physics is honored to welcome 2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Kip Thorne.

When Kip Thorne embarked on his career as a physicist in the 1960s, there were hints that our universe might have a “warped side”: ��objects and phenomena such as black holes that are made from warped spacetime instead of from matter. Most of Kip’s half-century career has been devoted to converting those hints into clear understanding. He and his colleagues have explored the Warped Side through theory (using mathematics and computer simulations to probe what the laws of physics predict) and through astronomical observations (primarily with gravitational waves). In this lecture he will recount the history of those explorations, he will describe what we now know about the Warped Side, and he will speculate about the future.

Free |

May 18, 4:00 – 5:30 PM | ��Communications Building

This lecture series and colloquium advance crucial conversations on world language and literature study on the UW Seattle campus through an interdisciplinary, multi-departmental speaker series focused on issues of race, identity, colonialism, and migration within a broad European context. These approaches to national literatures offer effective frameworks for undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty to grasp the intersectional complexity of power configurations in literary and visual cultures.

Free |

May 18, 7:30 PM | Meany Hall

Indian Classical vocalist, educator, and composer, Srivani Jade��presents “Ritu Chakra: Ragas of the Six Seasons of North India” in��the��culminating��recital of her artist residency at the UW School of Music. She��is accompanied by Deepashri Joglekar (Harmonium), Ravi Albright (Tabla), Suchitra Iyer (Vocal Saath), and Tanpura. Her UW students present a short opening act of Ragas and bandish compositions they learned during the quarter.

Srivani Jade identifies deeply with the Khayal and Thumri traditions of North India, and devotional repertoire from the Bhakti movement. Her performances have received critical acclaim in the 2014 Sawai Gandharva Festival and 2016 Earshot Jazz Festival, and she has many albums, film and musical scores to her credit.

$10 – $20 Tickets |

May 18, 7:30 PM | Kane Hall

Christopher Ozubko is a Canadian-American designer, educator, and former Director of the School of Art + Art History + Design at the ��Ƶ. He completed his BFA at the University of Alberta, and his MFA at the renowned Cranbrook Academy of Art, then under the direction of Katherine and Michael McCoy. After his appointment to the Design faculty at the UW in 1981, Ozubko established his own atelier in Seattle, Studio Ozubko, which garnered numerous regional, national, and international design awards.

Ozubko’s poster designs are in the collections of the George Pompidou Museum, Paris; the US Library of Congress; the Museum of Applied Art, Helsinki; Dansk Plakatmuseum, Arhus, Denmark; and IPT Toyama, Japan.

As an educator, Ozubko developed and led the UW summer “Design in Rome” program for more than a decade, which exposed students to photography, history, epigraphy, traditional craft, and industrial technology.

Free |

May 18, 7:30 PM | Husky Union Building

Come to the Husky Union Building and listen to Yevgenia Albats, Distinguished Journalist in Residence, Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, talk about Putin’s Wars. The speech is followed by a public Q&A.

Yevgenia Albats is a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, author, and radio host. She has been Political Editor and then Editor-in-Chief and CEO of The New Times, a Moscow-based, Russian language independent political weekly, since 2007. On February 28, 2022, Vladimir Putin blocked its website, just days after Russia invaded Ukraine. Despite that, Albats continues to run the newtimes.ru, and she kept reporting from Russia until she had to leave the country in the last week of August 2022 after she was fined for her coverage of the war with Ukraine and pronounced a foreign agent. She graduated from Moscow State University and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. Additionally, she was a full-time professor at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics.

Free with Registration |

May 19, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Undergraduate Research Symposium, Kane Hall

The Undergraduate Research Symposium is an opportunity for undergraduates to present what they have learned through their research experiences to a larger audience. It is also a space for students, faculty, and the community to discuss cutting-edge research. This event is held on UW’s campus and is open to all students, faculty, and community members to attend.

The event includes poster, visual arts and design, performing arts, and oral presentations by students from all academic disciplines and all three UW campuses, plus invited student presenters from peer institutions.

Free |

Credits: Emile Pitre Collection, James Garrett, MOHAI, Steve Ludwig Photo: Credits: Emile Pitre Collection, James Garrett, MOHAI, Steve Ludwig

May 19, 5:00 – 6:30 PM | , Livestream

Join together with students – past and present – to celebrate and commemorate the 55th Anniversary of the Black Student Union (BSU).

This panel conversation is an opportunity for our campus community to hear from BSU founding members��James P. Garrett, Larry Gossett, Kathleen Haley, Carl Miller, and Leathia Stallworth-Krasucki, who demanded changes in how the UW served students of color. From their 1968 occupation of the UW administration building (now Gerberding Hall), to the myriad ways they have been leading voices in justice and equity over the years, these visionary leaders have shaped this university and our greater community.

The panel will be moderated by UW alum and��former Black Student Union leader��Dr. Marc Arsell Robinson, Assistant Professor of History from California State University, San Bernardino.

Registration for in-person attendance is��at capacity��and is only open for the livestream.

Free |

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ArtSci Roundup | On stage: The Oresteia, DXARTS Winter Concert, Jazz Innovations, and more

Lauren Zondag — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 23:39:57 +0000

Attend lectures, performances, and more!

February 22, 7:30 PM | Meany Hall

2023 marks the 75th year of musique concrète with the premiere of Pierre Schaeffer’s Cinq études de bruits (Five Studies of Noises), composed and premiered in 1948. In celebration, the Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) is pleased to host Annette Vande Gorne, who will present a program of recent work from the pioneers of this art of spatial sound crafted for an orchestra of loudspeakers.

Free |

Jazz Innovations, Brechemin Auditorium

Student jazz ensembles pay homage to the icons of jazz and break new ground with original progressive jazz compositions.

February 22, 7:30 PM |

Directors:

Steve Rodby | Steve Rodby is a Grammy Award-winning acoustic and electric bassist, audio and video editor and producer. He began studying classical orchestral bass at age 10, and quickly developed parallel interests in pop and jazz.

Cuong Vu | Cuong Vu is widely recognized by jazz critics as a leader of a generation of innovative musicians. A truly unique musical voice, Cuong has lent his trumpet playing to a wide range of artists such as Pat Metheny, Laurie Anderson, and David Bowie.

February 23, 7:30 PM |

Ted Poor | Ted Poor is a Seattle-based drummer whose adventurous, soulful playing has vaulted him to the stages of some of today’s most important musicians and placed him amongst those drummers most in demand. Ted is a member of the band of Los Angeles based singer/song-writer Andrew Bird; appearing on and touring the albums Are You Serious and My Finest Work Yet (Loma Vista/Concord).

Marc Seals | A noted pianist, composer and leading figure in the Northwest jazz scene, Marc Seales has shared stages with many of the great players of the last two decades. He has played with nearly every visiting jazz celebrity from Joe Henderson and Art Pepper to Benny Carter, Mark Murphy, and Bobby Hutcherson. With the late Don Lanphere he performed in such places as London, England; Kobe, Japan; The Hague in the Netherlands; and the North Sea Jazz Festival.

Free

February 22, 4 PM | , Johnson Hall / online

Todd Martínez, professor at Stanford University, will give a lecture titled “Discovering Chemistry and Photochemistry From First Principles Molecular Dynamics.” Novel computational architectures and methodologies are revolutionizing diverse areas ranging from video gaming to advertising and espionage. In this talk, he will discuss how these tools and ideas can be exploited in the context of theoretical and computational chemistry.

Free |

February 23, 3:30 PM | zoom

French-Algerian writer Leïla Sebbar’s early work has frequently been framed as a subversion of Orientalist representational practices and their lingering impact on social and cultural relations in postcolonial France. More recently, however, subsequent works by Sebbar focusing on former colonial spaces in North Africa have been criticized for perpetuating the very traditions of representation that her first novels sought to call into question and for failing to engage with contemporary issues. This talk traces how Sebbar’s persistent attention to the past has shaped her attempts to engage with France’s present and future since the mid-1990s in writings that range from the everyday to the speculative, with particular attention to her interventions in ongoing debates about national identity centered on Muslim women’s bodies.

Free |

February 23, 5:30 PM | , Architecture Hall room 147

The discipline of architecture has long taken a managerial stance toward an environment that is understood to be “outside,” underground, or in the air. How might we see this relationship differently? This talk revisits the book Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary alongside other recent research on resource geology and atmosphere, moving through several scales of climatic thought—from the planetary to the territorial to the community scale.

James Graham is an architect, historian, and assistant professor at the California College of the Arts. He is currently working on a research project on land, agriculture, and nationality during the Soviet Union’s First Five-Year Plan.

Free |

February 23 to March 5 | Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse

February 26 |

Aren’t we better than our worst crimes? Are we just going to go on trading blood endlessly back and forth? What is the sense of that? Aren’t we tired?

When King Agamemnon returns home from the Trojan War, he finds his wife Clytemnestra waiting to take her revenge for his slaughter of their innocent daughter Iphigenia. Violence begets violence and the cycle continues, cursing the house’s descendants. The community, haunted by the sins of the present and the past, must then decide how to cleanse the royal house and balance both the need for justice and the desire for absolution. In her stunning new adaptation of Aeschylus’ ancient Greek drama, celebrated playwright Ellen McLaughlin challenges us today to embrace our collective responsibility for compassion and mercy in the face of uncertainty, enmity, and discord.

An MFA thesis production.

$10-$20 tickets |

February 24,�� 7:30 PM |�� Meany Hall

UW piano students Tianhao Yao, Nicole Wang, Chiao-Yu Wu, Sandy Huang, and David Lin perform concerto works with special guest orchestra Philharmonia Northwest. Geoffrey Larson conducts.

$10-$20 tickets |

February 24, 3:30 PM | , Art 003 or zoom

The stewardship of artifacts from archaeological contexts is an increasingly complex practice. It demands not only an understanding of an artifact’s material properties but also engagement with complicated (and often contradictory) ethical frameworks. From the impact of the climate crisis on collections management practices to reckoning with the intertwined legacies of archaeology and colonialism, conservators of archaeological materials are often faced with challenging decisions for which there is no clear “right” answer. Conservators have increasingly acknowledged that our work is not neutral, and that our actions have the capacity to highlight – or obscure – aspects of an artifact’s biography. This lecture will present several case studies which address these issues, from the story-telling capabilities of materials science and conservation intervention to highly complicated negotiations between sustainability and access.

Anna Serotta is an Associate Conservator in the Department of Objects Conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where her primary focus is on the ancient Egyptian collection. In 2014-15, she held a prestigious Rome Prize fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, where she combined modern technologies such as RTI (reflectance transformation imaging) with hands-on practice under a master sculptor for her project “The Documentation, Analysis and Replication of Tool Marks on Ancient Stone Sculpture.” Her interests are broad, including the ethics of conservation and ancient techniques and technologies, among other specialties.

Free |

February 27, 5 – 6:30 PM |, Zoom

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of a computer or machine to mimic or replicate human-like thought processes and behaviors, such as learning and problem-solving. A recently released AI tool, ChatGPT, has been in the news because of its extraordinary ability to solve difficult coding problems and to answer questions in ways that are difficult to distinguish from human-generated responses. But AI is all around us, from the tools we use to search for movies or restaurants, to the cars we drive, to the factories that produce the products that we buy, to the warehouses that ship those products.

As with any technology, AI can serve constructive and destructive purposes. Autonomous drones can be used to deliver packages or missiles. Ultimately, society must ensure that AI is utilized responsibly and ethically. But what is at stake? How do we evaluate the tradeoffs? In this faculty panel, we will consider potential economic and political consequences of AI developments.

Free |

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ArtSci Roundup: Indigenous Peoples’ Day on-air, Chamber Dance Company, and more

Lauren Zondag — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 20:38:29 +0000

Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the UW community every week!

October 10: , on-air

Join KEXP, Nia Tero, and Amplifier for Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2022. With special on-air programming all day, and the “Thriving Peoples Thriving Places” installation opening in KEXP’s Gathering Space, with artwork featuring Indigenous women leaders who have made significant contributions to Indigenous rights and guardianship, and free posters while supplies last

Free |

October 11, 7:00 PM: , Elliott Bay Book Company

A dual book launch and conversation with history professors Moon-Ho Jung and Vicente Rafael. Moon-Ho Jung presents his book on Asian and Asian-American radicalism and the making of the US National Security state: Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State (University of California Press, 2022) and Vicente Rafael (History) presents his book on the recent president of the Filipines, The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte (Duke Univ. Press, 2022).

Free |

October 12, 3:30 PM: , online

Presented by: Dr. Ugo Edu, Assistant Professor of African American Studies at UCLA

This talk draws on different moments, fictitious and non-fictitious, to explore our commitments to the anti-racist work needed to move towards health equity. It asks for an interrogation of what is meant by “health” and how that definition or those definitions inform/s what can be envisioned as health equity. By asking whether we are sure we want health equity is to invite reflection on our commitments and willingness to sacrifice over performative gestures and statements that often contradict stated goals.

Free |

October 13, 3 PM:, Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (HRC)

A year in rural Nepal engaged in public health practice and clinical care launched Mary Anne Mercer’s career in global health. She will talk about Beyond the Next Village with Dr. Deepa Rao and respond to comments and questions from students.

Free |

October 13 – 16: , Meany Hall – Studio Theatre

Feature: Chamber Dance Company shifts focus, reimagines repertoire in return to stage, UW News

This year’s program, ()��performed in the intimate Meany Studio Theatre, celebrates��a broad sweep of��contemporary dance��styles. Guests from Seattle’s professional dance community join the��Chamber Dance Company to perform excerpts from Crystal Pite’s 10 Duets on a Theme of Rescue, and David Roussève’s haunting��and tender��work,��Stardust. Completing the program are��new works��created by second year MFA students, Gary Champi, and Jenn Pray, that will be performed by company members with guests from the Department of Dance.

Discounts available to UW employees and students |

Autumn Quarter:

The College of Arts & Sciences is launching its initiative by inviting students, faculty, and staff to join a campus-wide reading experience, followed by conversations about how we can enhance teaching and learning at the ��Ƶ.

(in person or Zoom).

October 14, 7:30 PM: , Meany Hall – Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater

Transcultural acoustic/electronic performance featuring Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello; Steve Rodby, bass; Richard Karpen, pianos and electronics; Juan Pampin, live electronics; Ted Poor, Drums/Percussion; Breana Tavaglione, autoharp and found sonic objects; Wei Yang, guzheng, flutes, and piano; Cuong Vu, trumpet. An evening of enigmatic musical exploration traversing and blurring genre boundaries.

Free |

October 14 – 16: Artist Visit: Donna Huanca, Henry Art Gallery��

Performance plays an integral role in the work of Berlin-based artist Donna Huanca. Join the Henry for a weekend of artist-activated programs in conjunction with Huanca’s large-scale, immersive installation . The artist will visit the museum for a conversation with Jazmina Figueroa preceding two days of durational performances by Parisjoy Jennings and Kim Thompson.

October 14, 6 PM:

October 15 – 16: