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Mt. Koya – Kukai’s Gravitational Force in Japan’s History

Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024

3 p.m.

Communications 120

Join the Department of Asian Languages & Literature for Washin Kai Conversations featuring Ven. Taijo Imanaka, Seattle Koyasan Temple.

Prison Abolition, Ancient Incarceration, and the Mirror of the Past

Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024

2 p.m.

TBD

Talk on Prison Abolition, Ancient Incarceration, and the Mirror of the Past by Mark Letteny.

The Cooking Gene: Tracing My African American Story Through Food

Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream

Blogger, culinary historian and food writer, of African American and Jewish descent Michael W. Twitty, will spend the evening tracing his family’s Southern roots through food. He will use historic interpretation, interviews with contemporary voices in food that led him back to his family’s origins in West and Central Africa.

The in person lecture is sold out. Tickets are still available to attend virtually.

Mediterranean Imprints and Erasures in Seattle

Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024

7 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 130

In this History Lecture Series, Professor Devin Naar takes a look at how Seattle became home to one of the largest communities in the United States of Jews from the Muslim world. Part of the History lecture series: Seattle and the Salish Sea: Building and Belonging.

War in the Middle East Lecture Series: Hope and Despair in Israel/Palestine

Monday, Jan. 22, 2024

7 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 130

Join the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies for a talk and discussion featuring Mira Sucharov and Omar M. Dajani on the war in Gaza and responses worldwide.

Book talk: ‘Ghosts in the Neighborhood: Why Japan is Haunted by its Past and Germany is Not’ by Walter Hatch

Monday, Jan. 22, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

Join Walter Hatch, an affiliate faculty at the Japan Studies Program, for a special book talk. Hatch will looks at ways Germany and Japan reconciled with countries post WWII.

Translating For and Against Empire

Friday, Jan. 19, 2024

11:30 a.m.

Communications Bldg 202

Join the Translation Studies Hub for two presentations by bilingual poet and artist Sylvia Nasreen Chowdhury, Aria Fani and Reza Pedram.

Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics

Friday, Jan. 19, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Gowen 1A

Join the Department of History for a talk with Laura Jakli, Asistant Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, and Jessica Sciarone, graduate student.

Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America

Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024

3 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

Adrian De Leon follows the people of Northern Luzon across space and time, advancing a new vision of the United States’s Pacific empire

Disability Justice: Centering Intersectionality and Liberation

Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream

Patty Berne, Cofounder and Executive Artistic Director of Sins Invalid, will discuss the importance of intersectionaligty in disability justice and the need to address how diverse systems of oppression reinforce each other. Ms. Berne will be joining us remotely for this moderated conversation.