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.

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

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 ��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����, each episode features a faculty member from the 91���� 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��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 “rescue the dead” (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 — such as attentional biases toward aversive cues, distorted expectations of negative events, and biased interpretations of ambiguity — 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����, 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���� Symphony in a program of concerto excerpts by York Bowen, Keiko Abe, and Camille Saint-Saëns, 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���� 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.

January 18 – February 15, 7:30 PM |, Kane Hall

The medieval period has always occupied a paradoxical position in our cultural memory. An age of fantasy unimaginably distant from historical reality, it is also an era onto which writers and artists—and now moviemakers and gamers—have long projected their fears and desires. Why do cultures remake certain figures from the past—but not others–in their own image?

Join Professor Emerita Robin Stacey for this five-lecture series where she looks at the present’s relationship with the past through the lens of the making and remaking of important historical figures—some real, some fictional, and some the creatures of myth.

Free |

New Exhibition: , Henry Art Gallery

February 3, 7 – 9 pm |

Thick as Mud explores how mud animates relationships between people and place, with works by an international roster of artists. Across multiple geographies and a range of aesthetic approaches—from figurative clay sculpture to audio recordings of the swamp—these artists engage mud as a material or subject that shapes personal and collective histories, memory, and imagination.

Free |

February 1, 7 – 9 PM | , Music Building – Brechemin Auditorium

A selection of 12 poems by poets from Latin America, Spain, US Hispanics and a Sephardic poet from Greece, set to music and sung by renowned Spanish musician and ethnomusicologist Paco Díez, and translated and read in English by Tony Geist.

Sponsored by Spanish & Portuguese Studies, the Dean of Arts, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the President of 91����, and the Cervantes Institute.

Free |

February 3, 7:30 PM | , Meany Hall

David Alexander Rahbee leads the University Symphony in a program of music by Debussy, Dukas, Ligeti, Reynaldo Hahn, and Haydn. With faculty artist Carrie Shaw, coloratura soprano on Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre, from Le Grand Macabre.

$10 tickets |

February 4 and 5 | , Henry Art Gallery Auditorium

Attend a film screening curated by DIS Collective as the final programming of Donna Huanca: MAGMA SLIT, which closes Sunday, February 5. The screening is also held in conjunction with the opening weekend of the Thick as Mud.

DIS is a New York-based collective composed of Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, and David Toro. Its cultural interventions are manifest across a range of media and platforms, from site-specific museum and gallery exhibitions to ongoing online projects. Across its various endeavors, DIS explores the tension between popular culture and institutional critique, while facilitating projects for the most public and democratic of all forums—the Internet. DIS has recently shown work at Frieze Art Fair, New Museum Triennial, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, MoMA, and more.

Free |

School of Music Concerts

January 31 | , Brechemin Auditorium

February 3 | , Brechemin Auditorium

PLAN AHEAD:

February 8 |

February 9 – 11 |

February 11 |

Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Lauren Zondag (zondagld@uw.edu).

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

Maysoon Zayid – Survival of the Unfittest

October 26, 6:30 PM | Meany Performing Arts Center

Join comedian, disability advocate, and author Maysoon Zayid for “Survival of the Unfittest.” This one-hour talk will tackle everything from diversity to cats named Beyonce through Maysoon’s humorous lens.

Maysoon is a graduate of and a Guest Comedian in Residence at Arizona State University. She is a Princeton University Arts Fellow for 2021-23 and will begin two years of teaching and community collaboration in September. Maysoon is the co-founder/co-executive producer of the New York Arab American Comedy Festival and The Muslim Funny Fest.�� She was a full-time On Air Contributor to��Countdown with Keith Olbermann��and a columnist for The Daily Beast. She has most recently appeared on Oprah Winfrey Networks��In Deep Shift, 60 Minutes, and��ABC News. Maysoon had the most viewed TED Talk of 2014 and was named 1 of 100 Women of 2015 by BBC.

Free | Register & More info

Working, Together: “Troublesome Questions” Organizing in Higher Ed

October 27, 6:00 – 7:30 PM��|

BOOK TALK: Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry

October 28, 4:00 PM |

Join the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies and author James Steinhoff as we discuss his recent book, “Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).

The book argues that Marxist theory is essential for understanding the contemporary industrialization of the form of artificial intelligence (AI) called machine learning. It includes a political economic history of AI, tracking how it went from a fringe research interest for a handful of scientists in the 1950s to a centerpiece of cybernetic capital fifty years later. It also includes a political economic study of the scale, scope and dynamics of the contemporary AI industry as well as a labour process analysis of commercial machine learning software production, based on interviews with workers and management in AI companies around the world, ranging from tiny startups to giant technology firms.

Free |

Anne Gould Hauberg Artist Images Series featuring Juan Alonso-Rodríguez

October 28, 4:30 PM |��Online

Tony Geist, On Translating Poetry: Treading the Line between the Excessively Literal and the Excessively Liberal

October 29, 12:30 – 2:00 PM��| Online

Looking for more?

Check out 91����AA’s Stronger Together web page for��more digital engagement opportunities.

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

The Henry Art Gallery: Exhibitions on view through April

Ongoing |

The Henry Art Gallery, located on the 91���� 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-François 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���� Communication, 91���� Race & Equity Initiative, 91���� 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’s 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,��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–both the living and the dead–at 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 |��

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

April 30, 1:30 – 4:30 PM |��

“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����.��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��Naomi Sokoloff (Professor, Near Eastern Languages & Civilation), Gordana Crnković (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.

Looking for more?

Check out 91����AA’s Stronger Together web page for��more digital engagement opportunities.

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

Set in Motion: A Public Art Exhibition

December 2020 – February 2021 | Throughout Seattle

Drop-in Meditation Session: Atención Plena y Compasión Para Cerrar el Año

December 21, 6:00 – 7:00 PM |

Public Opinion and Polls in the 2020 Presidential Election

Recorded event |

While polls and public opinion research are essential components of a healthy democracy, they also have come under attack in recent years, particularly for “miscalling” various elections. In October, the Department of Communication hosted a virtual conversation with Kate Kenski (University of Arizona) and Lydia Saad (Gallup) to discuss polling and public opinion today – and their implications for the health of American politics beyond 2020. The event was organized by the 91����’s Center for Journalism, Media and Democracy.

Crossing North Podcast

Looking for more?

Check out 91����AA’s Stronger Together web page for��more digital engagement opportunities.

Gómez-Bravo is a professor in the . Her book “Comida y cultura en el mundo hispánico” — “” — was published in October by Equinox Publishing.

The book is designed to serve advanced high school students and those taking third- and fourth-year Spanish at the university level. It’s the first such textbook to use food as the starting point from which to help students learn the language and acquire cultural literacy.

Gómez-Bravo, who has taught Spanish for years and has led study-abroad student tours to Spain, said the book’s inspiration flowed from both of those experiences.

“Teaching culture through the lens of food enables the discussion of many different topics in the classroom,” she said, “from literature and social and cultural issues to the environment, religion and politics.

“Food is a common interest that all students share and understand is an important part of any culture. The book allows them to learn more about all of these important topics while discovering the world around them in ways that they find surprising and engaging.”

Each chapter has a reading on a key topic — Aztec food practices, for instance — followed by shorter sections covering “concepts or artifacts” related to the main topic. All chapters include color photographs, literary texts and suggestions of video, audio and web links where students can learn more.

The chapter titles show a wide diversity of topics: “Dietary Laws and Religious persecution,” “Movie Food: Cultural Identities,” “Chocolate and the Aztec World,” “Central America and the Mayan Contributions,” “Cooking and Intercultural Relationships,” “Carnivores and Vegetarians,” “Gastronomic Maps: Spain” and more.

This is the third book by Gómez-Bravo; her first two were about another specialty of hers — the study of 15^th century poetry.

An accomplished cook in her own right, Gómez-Bravo said in a 2012 departmental that she owns hundreds of cookbooks. She said when she moved to the 91���� from Purdue University in 2012 she got rid of many books, “but all the cookbooks came with me. You never get rid of a cookbook.”

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For more information, contact Gómez-Bravo at 206-685-1426 or agbravo@uw.edu.

, professor and former chair of the 91����’s , has been awarded one of Spain’s highest civil honors.

In a ceremony April 16 in Brechemin Auditorium on the 91���� campus, Geist was admitted into the with his nomination to the first-class title of Caballeros de la Gran Cruz de Oficial, or Knights of the Officer’s Cross. The honor is conferred on those who have given exceptional service to the benefit of Spain.

The award was bestowed on Geist by Spain’s Honorary Consul in Washington state, Luis Fernando Esteban, and the event included a concert by Grammy Award-winning pianist .

Geist said his “enduring love affair” with Spain began with his first visit there as a junior from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Since then, he has devoted his professional life to studying and teaching the language, literature, history and culture of Spain.

“The award recognizes the richness and beauty of Spanish literature and culture and its importance in the United States,” Geist said. “I am honored to have contributed to its presence in this country and on the 91���� campus.”

He has published a dozen books, including “La poética de la Generación del 27 y las Revistas Literarias” (1980), “Cartografía Poética” (2004) and “El Canon Abierto” (2015), as well as roughly 100 articles.

His other work includes a 2002 and book, “They Still Draw Pictures: Children’s Drawings from the Spanish Civil War to Kosovo,” and a 2001 photo essay and 2006 documentary about the , as well as its first as its first public monument in the U.S., on the 91���� campus, in 1998. In 2015 he curated an exhibit of the Basque exile painter Miguel Marina.

Geist also established and is executive director of the 91����’s , which has hosted programs from 15 departments or units involving more than 600 students.

Read a 2014 at the Spanish and Portuguese studies website.