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 June.
ArtSci on the Go
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Zev J. Handel, “Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese”聽()
Black Composers Project engages the School of Music faculty and students ()
Ladino Day Interview with Leigh Bardugo & MELC Professor Canan Bolel ()
Back to School Podcast 聽with Liz Copland ()
Featured Podcast: “Ways of Knowing” (College of Arts & Sciences)
This podcast highlights how studies of the humanities can reflect everyday life. Through a partnership between and the 91爆料, each episode features a faculty member from the 91爆料 College of Arts & Sciences, who discusses the work that inspires them and suggests resources to learn more about the topic.
Episode 1: Digital Humanities with assistant professor of English and data science, Anna Preus.
Episode 2: Paratext with associate professor of French, Richard Watts.
Episode 3: Ge’ez with聽associate professor of Middle Eastern languages and cultures, Hamza Zafer.
Closing Exhibits
Week of June 2
Monday, June 2, 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: Daniel Bessner; Anne H.H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Associate Professor in American Foreign Policy at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
Monday, June 2, 5:00 – 7:00 pm | (Jackson School)
This talk discusses the unconventional forms of care that emerge out of Kurdish resistance in Turkey, where mothering becomes a powerful response against necropolitical state violence. By centering the stories of two Kurdish mothers who had to care for their dead children and mother beyond life under the violent state of emergency regime declared in 2015; the talk examines how Kurdish mothers 鈥渞escue the dead鈥� (Antoon, 2021) from the necropolitical state and create their necropolitical power through a radical embrace of death and decoupling of mothering from the corporeal link between the mother and the child.
Monday, June 2, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | (The Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies)
Why do some protests in autocracies attract popular participation while others do not? Masaaki Higashijima’s, University of Tokyo, paper argues that when opposition elites and the masses have divergent motivations for protesting, anti-regime mobilization struggles to gain momentum. Moreover, this weak elite-mass linkage is further exacerbated when autocrats selectively repress protests led by opposition elites while making concessions to those organized by ordinary citizens.
Tuesday, June 3, 5:00 – 6:30 pm | (Communications)
A conversation with local public media leaders about current challenges–including federal funding cuts–and pathways forward for sustaining public service journalism.
Speakers include:
Rob Dunlop, President and CEO, Cascade PBS
David Fischer, President and General Manager, KNKX
Tina Pamintuan, incoming President and CEO, KUOW
Matthew Powers, Professor and Co-Director, Center for Journalism, Media and Democracy
Wednesday, June 4, 3:30 – 4:30 pm | (Psychology)
Cognitive biases 鈥� such as attentional biases toward aversive cues, distorted expectations of negative events, and biased interpretations of ambiguity 鈥� are central features of many forms of psychopathology. Gaining a deeper understanding of the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying these biases is crucial for advancing theoretical models and clinical interventions.
In this talk, Prof. Hadas Okon-Singer will present a series of studies exploring emotional biases in both healthy individuals and participants diagnosed with social anxiety, major depressive disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder.
Wednesday, June 4, 12:30 – 1:30 pm | (Center for Statistics & Social Sciences)
Many statistical analyses, in both observational data and randomized control trials, ask: how does the outcome of interest vary with combinations of observable covariates? How do various drug combinations affect health outcomes, or how does technology adoption depend on incentives and demographics? Tyler McCormick’s, Professor, Statistics & Sociology, 91爆料, goal is to partition this factorial space into “pools” of covariate combinations where the outcome differs across the pools (but not within a pool).
Friday, June 6, 7:30 pm | (School of Music)
David Alexander Rahbee leads the 91爆料 Symphony in a program of concerto excerpts by York Bowen, Keiko Abe, and Camille Saint-Sa毛ns, performed with winners of the 2024-25 School of Music Concerto Competitions: Flora Cummings, viola; Kaisho Barnhill, marimba; and Sandy Huang, piano. Also on the program, works by Mikhail Glinka, Richard Wagner, and Giuseppe Verdi.
Saturday, June 7 & Sunday, June 8, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm | (Burke Museum)
Stewart Wong will share knowledge and personal experiences about working with Broussonetia Papyrifera. He will talk about the history, uses, and cultivation of the paper mulberry plant. In addition, Stewart plans on dyeing, drawing on, and printing kapa. Stewart will have printed information and material samples to supplement the talk.
Saturday, June 7, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | On Our Terms with Wakulima USA (Burke Museum)
Join the Burke Museum for a short screening from “,” plus a conversation with co-producer Aaron McCanna and Wakulima USA’s David Bulindah and Maura Kizito about food sovereignty and community building.
Additional Events
June 2 | (Music)
June 2 | (Asian Languages & Literature)
June 2 – June 6 | (Astronomy)
June 3 | (Music)
June 4 | (Music)
June 4 | (Psychology)
June 5 | (Music)
June 5 | (Speech & Hearing)
June 5 | (Labor Studies)
June 5 | (Art + Art History + Design)
June 6 | (Dance)
June 6 | (Geography)
June 7 | (Music)
Week of June 9
Wednesday, June 11 to Friday, June 27 | (Jacob Lawrence Gallery)
At the end of the spring quarter, the academic year culminates in comprehensive exhibitions of design work created by graduating students. The 91爆料 Design Show 2025, showcasing the capstone projects of graduating BDes students, will be held from June 11 to June 27 in the Jacob Lawrence Gallery.
Additional Events
June 11 | (Henry Art Gallery)
June 11 | (Art + Art History + Design)
June 12 & June 13 | (DXARTS)
June 13 | (Art + Art History + Design)
Events for the week of June 23
June 24 | (Information Sessions)
June 25 | (Information Sessions)
June 26 | (Information Sessions)
June 27 | (Information Sessions)
Commencement
June marks the end of many College of Arts & Sciences students’ undergraduate experience. Interested in attending a graduation ceremony? Click here to find information on ceremonies across campus.
Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Kathrine Braseth (kbraseth@uw.edu).