March 27, 12:30 – 1:30 pm | 听Husky Union Building

Join the Jackson School of International Studies for a talk with Lieutenant Colonel Aaron Hamilton, a 91爆料 U.S. Army War College Fellow 2023-2024. Lieutenant Colonel Aaron Hamilton will be joined by Nadine Fabbi, 91爆料 Director, Canadian Studies Center and Arctic and International Relations, and Chair, Arctic Studies Minor, at the 91爆料.

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March 27, 3:30 – 4:20 pm | Kincaid Hall or Zoom

March 27, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Communication Building

The Communication Department invites Ashleigh Greene Wade, assistant professor of Media Studies and African American Studies at the University of Virginia, to discuss: “Where Can We Be? Black Girls (Re)Creating Space through Digital Practice.”

Through this lecture, Wade will answer the question of how Black girls can carve out spaces for themselves within sociocultural contexts that encourage their silence and erasure. Wade shows how Black girls deploy digital content creation as a way to (re)structure their spatial realities, thereby expanding places where they can simply be.

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March 27, 5:00 – 9:00 pm | 听Kane Hall

Join the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI) in partnership with the Center for Korea Studies (CKS) for a two-part panel series that examines trilateral cooperation in several key areas. Bringing together experts from all three countries, the two panels will explore, respectively, trilateral security cooperation in regard to North Korea and the broader Indo-Pacific region as well as trilateral cooperation on economic security, emerging technologies, and development finance.

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March 27, 7:00 – 8:30 pm | Kane Hall

Can an early modern religious Hebrew poet remain relevant to contemporary audiences? Join the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies to hear from Professor Edwin Seroussi why Rabbi Najara鈥檚 poetry of hope and redemption has persisted in synagogues, in Jewish homes, and on Israeli pop stages to this very day.

March 28, 7:00 – 8:30 pm | Kane Hall

鈥淩uins鈥� are the remnants of past civilizations that modern people objectify, manipulate, reproduce, reconstruct, and sell as artifacts. As sites of remembrance, 鈥渞uins鈥� are also visual constructions of the past that can be visited and experienced in the present.

Drawing on his forthcoming book, Sonic Ruins of Modernity: Judeo-Spanish Folksongs Today, musicologist Edwin Seroussi will examine the 鈥渞uinization鈥� of a repertoire of Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) folksongs, transmitted by Sephardic Jews.

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March 28, 7:30 pm | 听Meany Hall

The Calder Quartet joins choreographer and Deaf advocate Antoine Hunter for an imaginative and joyful collaboration of chamber music and dance. Developed by the Quartet and Hunter, and featuring dancers Hunter and Zahna Simon,听The Mind’s Ear听draws inspiration from the collaboration between Merce Cunningham and John Cage, as well as the musical interchange between Julius Eastman and Cage. The program also offers a poignant insight into Beethoven’s Quartet No. 13, written when his deafness had a profound impact on his life and work.

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March 29, 12:30 – 1:30 pm | Denny Hall

The Department of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures invites Busra Demirkol, PhD student studying Near and Middle Eastern Studies, to give a lecture for the Turkish & Ottoman Studies Program Talk series.

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March 29, 3:30 – 5:30 pm | 听Livestream

Arthur Obst, Allen Thompson, Emma Maris are invited to speak at the Department of Philosophy’s colloquium.

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March 29, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

Acclaimed new music group the Mivos Quartet, dubbed by the Chicago Reader as 鈥渙ne of America鈥檚 most daring and ferocious new-music ensembles,鈥� will perform works by Jo毛l-Fran莽ois Durand and other 91爆料 faculty composers in this guest artist performance.

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March 30 – July 28 | Henry Art Gallery 听

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October 2, 7:30pm | Meany Hall

91爆料 faculty brass instructors and Seattle Symphony members David Gordon (trumpet), John DiCesare (tuba), John Turman (French horn), and Eden Garza (trombone) are joined by colleague Alexander White (trumpet) in this concert of works by several composers.

$10 – $20 Tickets |

October 5, 7:30pm | Meany Hall

Award-winning pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason is in great demand internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. Currently Kanneh-Mason is Artist in Residence with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Her Meany debut performance features an eclectic program including Fanny Mendelssohn鈥檚 Easter Sonata, lost for 150 years and then attributed to her brother Felix, before finally being recognized as hers.

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October 5, 6:00 – 7:00pm | Henry Art Gallery

Join Elisheba Johnson, a curator, poet, public artist and consultant, for a discussion on “How Nina Simone and Jean-Michel Basquiat Taught Me How to Use Art for Resistance”. For six years Johnson worked at the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture on capacity building initiatives and racial equity in public art. Johnson was a member of the Americans for the Arts Emerging Leaders Network advisory council and has won four Americans for the Arts Public Art Year in Review Awards for her work. She currently co-manages Wa Na Wari, a Black art center that uses the arts to build community and resist displacement.

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October 6, 1:00 – 5:30pm | , Kane Hall

South Korea and the United States have invested 70 years forging an alliance which defines geopolitics in Asia. Join as two panels of experts review and interpret the future of US-SK relations and decipher Korea鈥檚 role between its greatest democratic ally and its largest economic partner. The forum will feature former diplomats and academics to provide critical perspectives from each side of the alliance.

October 6, 7:30pm |听Meany Center

The Turtle Island Quartet has honored the lineage of musical traditions performed in North America, both past and present. Most recently, they have forged a new direction as an original music ensemble with Island Prayers, an ambitious, multi-composer piece. This evening-length work celebrates the range of influences within the rich cultural spectrum of the continent known as 鈥淭urtle Island.鈥� The new music by award-winning composers bring a unique combination of jazz, American roots, Indigenous and folkloric styles to its premiere at Meany Center.

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Beginning October 13 | Readers鈥� Choice: 鈥淕ilead鈥� by Marilynne Robinson, Online

Marilynne Robinson, 鈥�77, is one of the world鈥檚 premiere fiction writers. In 2023, the 91爆料 awarded her the Alumni Summa Laude Dignata Award 鈥� the highest award an alum can earn. In this Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, an Iowan preacher with a terminal illness writes a letter to his young child, chronicling his own life and that of his forefathers. This tender, meditative tale explores the accumulation of wisdom and the precious bonds between fathers and sons.

Free | More info

October 13, 1:30 鈥� 2:50pm | 听Zoom

As the first ethnography of its kind, Weighing the Future examines the implications of ongoing pregnancy trials in the U.S. and United Kingdom, illuminating how processes of scientific knowledge production are linked to racism, capitalism, surveillance, and environmental reproduction. This groundbreaking book makes the case that science, and how we translate it, is a reproductive project that requires feminist vigilance. Instead of fixating on a future at risk, this book brings attention to the present at stake.

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