October 17, 1:30 PM | , Brechemin Auditorium, School of Music Building

Making his Seattle Opera debut in the role of King Marke in Tristan und Isolde, internationally acclaimed bass and recent GRAMMY winner Morris Robinson visits the 91爆料 to share his story as a professional opera singer and his insights into the challenges of performing Wagner in the 21st century.

Free |

October 18, 7:30 PM| 91爆料 Public Lectures – Reckoning with Race: Fluidity, Invention, and Reality with Ann Morning, Kane Hall

The notion that race is a social construct, rather than an objective physical reality, is widely accepted 鈥� except in areas that include biomedical research, debates about transracial identities, and sports. In this talk, Ann Morning will dissect the reasons we hold firmly to the 18th-century understanding of race in these domains.

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October 18, 6 PM | , online

Rena Priest (Lhaq鈥檛emish Nation), the Washington State Poet Laureate, has received numerous awards for her writing, including an American Book Award for her debut poetry collection, 鈥淧atriarchy Blues.鈥� Priest will share a reading followed by a conversation with 91爆料 Ta(oma professor Danica Miller (Puyallup), with an opportunity for audience questions afterward. The emcee for the event will be Annie Downey and the discussion moderator will be Anne Jenner, 鈥�93, both from the 91爆料 Libraries.

Free |

October 19, 7 PM | , Kane Hall

How and why did haiku come about? Why are haiku so short? Why do they include precisely 17 syllables in a 5-7-5 arrangement? This talk, which presumes no knowledge of Japan or the Japanese language, will answer these questions and more. In an engaging overview of this fascinating topic, Professor Paul Atkins will discuss the origins of haiku in medieval Japan, introduce the major classic poets, and explore the ways in which haiku is linked to other forms of Japanese literature and art. Haiku is not just a poetic genre鈥攊t is a way of looking at the world and, for many people, a way of life. This talk will be followed by a moderated roundtable discussion between Professor Paul Atkins, and haiku poets Scott Oki and Mitsuko Miller.

Free |

, online

What did it mean to be a Jewish minority in an Arab-Islamic society? How did Judaism shape Islam and vice versa? What is the future of Jewish-Arab relations?

Today, Jews and Arabs sometimes seem to be entrenched in a timeless conflict. But for centuries, over 90% of the world鈥檚 Jews lived, worked, and thrived (or sometimes floundered) in the Arab

Near East.

In four talks from scholars drawing on their original research, this series will explore interactions between Jews and Arabs across fifteen hundred years of history.

• October 19, 4 PM | Lecture 1. Arabian Judaism and Early Islam
• October 26, 4 PM | Lecture 2. The Jews of Medieval Baghdad in the Abbasid Era
• November 2, 3 PM | Lecture 3. Jews and Muslims in Colonial Algeria: Between Intimacy and Resentment
• November 10, 3 PM | Coffeehouses, Parks, and Neighborhoods: Jews and Muslims
  in 20th-Century Cairo

Free |

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 91爆料.

(in person or Zoom).

October 20, 11 AM: Annual President鈥檚 Address, Henry Art Gallery Auditorium and online

Join President Ana Mari Cauce for her annual address to learn about her vision for the year ahead and the 91爆料鈥檚 critical role in accelerating change for the public good through education, innovation, discovery and collaboration. Questions can be submitted in advance and during the event to presofuw@uw.edu.

Free | RSVP

October 20 – 22: , Meany Hall

For 50 years, Pilobolus has tested the limits of human physicality with choreography that changed the look of modern dance. Now for this anniversary celebration, Pilobolus questions its own 鈥済ivens,鈥� turns its traditions sideways, and brings its past into the future. As fresh and vibrant as ever, this feisty, shape-shifting arts organism puts the 鈥淥h!鈥� in 鈥婤IG FIVE-OH! and continues to morph its way thrillingly into audiences鈥� hearts and minds. The celebration includes signature works, from vintage classics to their trendsetting innovations in shadow play.

91爆料 Faculty, 91爆料 Staff, 91爆料 Retirees and 91爆料 Alumni Association (91爆料AA): 10% off regular-priced single tickets, subject to availability. A valid 91爆料 ID (e.g. Husky card or 91爆料AA card) is required; limit of one ticket per valid ID.

91爆料 Student: $10 91爆料 Student Tickets are available in Section B for most Meany Center visiting artist performances. A discount of 20% off regular-priced single tickets is available to 91爆料 Students in Section A. Limit of one 91爆料 Student ticket per valid Husky ID.

October 20, 2:30 PM | , HUB听

Ploughshares Fund President Emma Belcher in conversation with Jackson School faculty Christopher Jones and Scott Montgomery on the current state of nuclear threats within the confines of the escalating crisis in Ukraine. Together they will explore the geopolitical impacts of Russia鈥檚 war and the importance of diplomacy at this critical time.

Free |

October 20, 6 PM | , Alder Hall Auditorium听

Dr. Ali Mokdad will explore the drivers of health disparities in the United States among racial/ethnic groups. Dr. Mokdad will discuss the extent to which these patterns vary geographically at the local scale and how they are not well understood. He will address the urgent need to address the shared underlying factors driving these widespread disparities and the path forward to improve population health in the US.

Free |

Highlights of current and upcoming exhibitions:听

Until October 29 |, SOIL Art Gallery (Pioneer Square)

November 6 – April 16 | , Burke Museum听(Free admission for 91爆料 students, faculty and staff)

Until January 8 | , Henry Art Gallery (Free admission for 91爆料 students, faculty and staff)

Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91爆料 faculty, staff, and students have access to听.听

The Henry Art Gallery: Exhibitions on view through April

Ongoing |

The Henry Art Gallery, located on the 91爆料 campus, is internationally recognized for bold and challenging exhibitions, for pushing the boundaries of contemporary art and culture, and for being the first to premiere new works by established and emerging artists. Through individual experiences with art, it inspires visitors to upend their expectations and discover surprising connections.

Admission to the Henry Art Gallery is free until June, and it is open Saturdays and Sundays, 10 AM – 5 PM. Check out exhibitions that are closing soon:

• Illustration Injustice: The Power of Print & We Own Our Words: Through May 9
• Bambitchell: Bugs & Beasts Before the Law: Through May 9
• Plural Possibilities & the Female Body: Through May 9
• A Dialogue Between Jean-Fran莽ois Millet and Jeanne Dunning: Through May 30

It Takes A Village with Dr. Cornel West

April 29, 6:00 PM |

Join NAAM, in partnership with 91爆料 Communication, 91爆料 Race & Equity Initiative, 91爆料 Department of Philosophy, and Seattle University Office of Diversity & Inclusion, for an evening with Dr. Cornel West discussing “Critical Thinking and the Cultivation of Your True Self”.

Nationally-renowned public intellectual and award-winning author Dr. Cornel West, professor of Harvard University, will join Dr. Ralina Joseph, NAAM鈥檚 scholar-in-residence, for a riveting discussion as part of the “It Takes a Village” series.

This event will also feature performances from award winning multi-instrumentalist, composer, community activist, social entrepreneur, and educator, Ben Hunter.

From ‘Permit Patty’ to ‘Karen’: Black Rearticulations of Racial Humor

April 28, 3:30 – 5:00 PM |

In the third COM Spring colloquium sponsored by the Department of Communication,听Dr. Raven Maragh-Lloyd will discuss two related case studies to explore how Black publics online have shifted racial humor as a resistance strategy to respond to white femininity and its deployment of the police state.

To understand how Black publics use their online networks to respond to white femininity and the police state, Dr. Maragh-Lloyd conducted a textual analysis from a collected sample of 1,000 tweets and Instagram posts with the hashtags #PermitPatty and #Karen between June and September 2020. Ultimately, she argues that these resistance strategies rearticulate the vestiges of innocence that the U.S. has conferred on white women, often at the expense of Black individuals, and particularly children. This rearticulation of innocence forces cultural conversations about Black bodies as historically criminalized and places Black people鈥揵oth the living and the dead鈥揳t the helm of their own stories on and offline.

2020-2021 WISIR Series: Teaching the Movement: Reflections on Protests, Abolition, and Radical Scholarship

April 30, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |听

Global Literatures & Global Literacies: Teaching Texts, Old and New

April 30, 1:30 – 4:30 PM |听

“Global Literatures & Global Literacies: Teaching Texts, Old and New” is a symposium to advance thinking about the current and future teaching of literature, as well as a new literature major, at 91爆料.听It is also an opportunity for networking and collaboration among faculty members whose teaching emphasizes trans-national, trans-regional, trans-historical, and/or trans-cultural orientations. Organized by听Naomi Sokoloff (Professor, Near Eastern Languages & Civilation), Gordana Crnkovi膰 (Professor, Slavic Languages & Literature), and Gary Handwerk (Professor, Comparative History of Ideas), the symposium is open to all and will be hosted on Zoom.

The event is co-sponsored by Asian Languages & Literature, Cinema & Media Studies, Classics, Comparative History of Ideas, English, French & Italian Studies, Germanics, Near Eastern Languages & Civilization, Scandinavian Studies, Slavic Languages & Literatures, and Spanish & Portuguese Studies.

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Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91爆料 faculty, staff, and students have access to听.听

Fighting Visibility: Unpaid Gendered & Racialized Labor for the UFC

March 31, 3:30 – 5:00 PM |听

Live Webinar: Mellon Sawyer Seminars 鈥淗umanitarianisms鈥� Series: Sinan Antoon

April 1, 3:30 – 4:45 PM |听

This webinar is the first of three on 鈥淩ethinking the Human,” part of the Simpson Center for the Humanities’ Humanitarianism Sawyer Seminar series.

Material and discursive resources and energies are dedicated (insufficiently and unequally) to rescue the living from harm, and to tend to their wounds. But what of the dead? What can we, the living, learn from the rituals and traditions of tending to the dead and to their wounds? Beyond the corporeal, encounters with the ghosts and memories of the dead raise crucial political questions about the ways in which humans inhabit this world. Al-Ma鈥檃rri cautioned us a millennium ago to 鈥渢read gently, for the soil of this earth is made of these corpses.鈥� This talk, delivered by poet听Sinan Antoon and听Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization听Selim S. Kuru will summon al-Ma鈥檃rri鈥檚 ghost, among others, to address these questions.

BOOK TALK | Anand Yang, “Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia”

April 1, 3:30 – 5:00 PM |听

Free |

Beverly Guy-Sheftall 鈥� Say Her Name: The Urgency of Black Feminism Now

April 5, 6:30 PM |听Online听

Black feminist discourse and activism have been significant interventions in a variety of social justice movements in the U.S. since the 19th century, though this has not always been acknowledged. In the aftermath of reforms catalyzed by the Black Lives Matter Movement, a queer black feminist project, Beverly Guy-Sheftall鈥檚 talk will reflect upon the transformations in civil society, academe, electoral politics, the criminal justice system, and other spaces that have occurred over the past year as a result of recent protests around systemic racism and other issues. Sponsored by the听Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, the Department of English, and the Department of American Ethnic Studies.

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Jewish Questions Podcast

Jewish Questions听is the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies鈥� podcast on issues that matter now in Jewish life, politics, history and culture 鈥� from a scholarly perspective.

This season, hosts听Associate Professor of History听Laurie Marhoefer听and听Director of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies听Noam Pianko听talk with faculty experts from the 91爆料 about anti-Semitism: what it is, its long history, and how to push back against it today.

Jewish Questions comes out weekly on Wednesdays. This season鈥檚 five episodes will look at the causes and consequences of anti-Semitism across history, from medieval Spain to Nazi Germany to the United States in the 20th century.

Free |

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Protest, Race and Citizenship across African Worlds:听Ethiopia in Theory, Theory as Memoir

March 17, 12:00 – 1:30 PM |听

Bambitchell: Dolphins, ships and other vessels

March 18, 12:00 – 1:30 PM |听

In this performance reading, hosted by the Henry Art Gallery, artist duo Bambitchell continue their exploration of the legal frameworks that govern non-human animals and objects, moving from the territorial jurisdictions explored in their film听听(2019), to the legal realm of the sea.听Dolphins, ships and other vessels听is a polyvocal narrative that spans bodies of water. Stretching from Te Moana-o-Raukawa, to the South China Sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and the Clyde and Kaniatarowanenneh Rivers, the narrative traces the disappearance and reappearance of a dolphin, the reincarnations of ships, and the embodiments of Jinn鈥攁s vessels, mammals, water, myth, and law.

Illustrating Injustice: The Power of Print

Through May 9 |听

Free |

Jacob Lawrence:听The American Struggle

Through May 23 |听

Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle听questions the stories we鈥檝e been told by amplifying narratives that have been systematically overlooked from America鈥檚 history. This exhibition reunites Lawrence鈥檚 revolutionary 30-panel series听Struggle: From the History of the American People听(1954鈥�56) for the first time since 1958, and Seattle Art Museum will be its only West Coast venue. These modernist paintings chronicle pivotal moments from the American Revolution through to westward expansion and feature Black, female, and Native protagonists as well as the founders of the United States.听Lawrence interprets the democratic debates that defined the early nation and echoed into the civil rights movements during which he was painting the听Struggle听series. Works by contemporary artists Derrick Adams, Bethany Collins, and Hank Willis Thomas engage themes of democracy, justice, truth, and the politics of inclusion to show that the struggle for expansive representation in America continues.

$7.00 – $10.00 |

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Join the 91爆料 community as we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life and legacy; honor the work of generations of everyday activists; and rededicate ourselves to creating a just and equitable future for all. In 2021, the celebrations will look a bit different-but there are still ways to reflect on the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; learn about racial justice movements; engage in democracy and more!

Protest, Race and Citizenship across African Worlds:听Whose Struggle for What? Sexual Minorities and Social Movements in Africa

January 22, 12:00 – 1:30 PM |听

Have popular political protests in Tunisia, Ethiopia, and Sudan in the past decade allowed sexual minorities to imagine cultivating a world beyond the violence and injustices to which they have been subjected?听Serawit听Debele,听postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in G枚ttingen, Germany, will explore this topic in this talk sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and African Studies Program.

Next in the series:

• February 3: Reconstruction, Reconsidered: Belonging and Urban Contestation In Mogadishu’s ‘Building Boom’
• February 10:听Rethinking Israeli Citizenship: The Case of Ethiopian Jews
• March 3: Policing Somali Refugees: Somali Refugee Resistance to State Violence

Free |

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Beyond Economic Mobility: Can Higher Education Advance Racial Equity?

January 7, 5:30 – 6:30 PM | Online

TEAL Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies: The Deep Fake of Place | Tateuchi Research Methods Workshop Series

January 7, 3:30 – 5:00 PM |

Protest, Race and Citizenship across African Worlds

January 20 – March 17 |

Join us in conversation with emerging scholars tracing Horn of Africa connections to today鈥檚 global trends in popular politics, racial formation, and new forms of belonging.

This series is sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and African Studies Program, in partnership with the Center for Global Studies, Comparative History of Ideas, Near Eastern Languages & Civilization and Simpson Center for the Humanities at the 91爆料 and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation.听

Upcoming events in the series:

• Whose Struggle for What? Sexual Minorities and Social Movements in Africa: January 20, 12 – 1:30 PM
• Reconstruction, Reconsidered: Belonging and Urban Contestation In Mogadishu’s ‘Building Boom’: February 3, 12 – 1:30 PM
• Rethinking Israeli Citizenship: The Case of Ethiopian Jews: February 10, 9 – 10:30 AM

2020-2021 WISIR Series:听Contemporary Race & Politics in the United States

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