Come curious. Leave inspired.

While February might be just 28 days, the 91爆料 offers an exciting lineup of more than 40 in-person and online events. From thought-provoking art and music to conversations on culture, history, and science, the 91爆料 community invites you to explore, learn, and connect across disciplines throughout the University. In addition, take a look ahead at what’s happening in March.

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ArtSci On Your Own Time

Recorded Lectures: 听(History)
Incarceration is a hotly debated topic in the United States, a country that has one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world. Looking at the practice from a historical perspective, what can incarceration teach us about who we were and who we are now? What might histories of incarceration, and the histories of those who have been incarcerated, tell us about power dynamics, belonging, exclusion, struggle, and hope across societies in the past and present? The 2026 History Lecture Series explores the practice of incarceration, tracing its change over time from antiquity to our modern world. Following the lectures, the recordings will be available online.

Podcast: (School of Drama)
A lively and opinionated cultural history of the Broadway Musical that tells the extraordinary story of how Immigrants, Jews, Queers, African-Americans and other outcasts invented the Broadway Musical, and how they changed America in the process.In Season One, host David Armstrong traces the evolution of American Musical Theater from its birth at the dawn of the 20th Century, through its mid-century 鈥淕olden Age鈥�, and right up to its current 21st Century renaissance; and also explore how musicals have reflected and shaped our world — especially in regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, and equality. Free.

Exhibition: (Henry Art Gallery)
Primarily featuring works from the Henry collection created in the twenty-first century, Figure/Ground reflects a period in which hard-won civil rights and claims to self-determination have been eroded across the US, disproportionately affecting Black, Brown, LGBTQ+, and other marginalized communities. Free.

Book Club: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones (91爆料 Alumni)
Stephen Graham Jones is the NYT bestselling author of more than forty novels, collections, novellas and comic books. He is a professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder, and an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana. Free.

Recorded Lectures:
Featuring selected lectures from 1996 to today, 91爆料 Graduate School’s Office of Public Lectures YouTube features an incredible lineup of artists, scientists, researchers, and more!

Week of February 2

January 29鈥揊ebruary 8 | (School of Drama)
In this new translation of Chekhov鈥檚 鈥漵erious comedy of human contradictions鈥�, a group of artists and dreamers meet in the countryside and wrestle with the costs of ambition, unspoken longings, and the harsh realities of artistic pursuits. Set against a backdrop of love, passionate aspirations, and the search for meaning,听The Seagull听captures the fierce hopes and quiet heartbreaks of an artistic career.听 Directed by MFA Student Sebasti谩n Bravo Montenegro.

Online – February 2 | 听(Jackson School of International Studies)
Presented by Radhika Govindrajan, Director, South Asia Center and Associate Professor, Anthropology, 91爆料; Sunila Kale
Professor, South Asia and International Studies 91爆料; and Milan Vaishnav, Senior Fellow and Director, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Trump in the World 2.0 is an online series of talks and discussions featuring guest speakers and faculty exploring global perspectives on a second Trump administration. Free.

February 3 | (Asian Languages & Literature)
This is a unique opportunity to learn from 91爆料 Professor Zev Handel and get a peek into a linguistic history that has shaped the world. Like the book, this talk will be accessible to everyone鈥攔egardless of whether you have any knowledge of Chinese characters or East Asian languages. Free.

February 3 | (Jackson School of International Studies)
A Welcome & Research Presentation with 2025-26 91爆料 Fulbright Canada Special Foundation Fellow, Clinton Westman. Free.

February 4 |
(History)
This lecture explores the evidence for ancient incarceration in vignettes: reading letters that prisoners wrote on papyrus, investigating spaces where they were held, and analyzing depictions of captives in monuments, law courts, and homes. Roman evidence does not model a just society, but it does offer a mirror where we can see modern practices of incarceration in a new light, asking which aspects of contemporary prisons are unique to modernity, and which reflect longer histories. The 2026 History Lecture Series presents “Power & Punishment – Histories of Incarceration,” exploring the practice of incarceration, tracing its change over time from antiquity to our modern world. Following the lectures, the recordings will be available online. Free.

February 4 | (School of Art + Art History + Design)
Death is a fundamental first step toward rebirth鈥攂ut this transition can feel daunting without a compassionate guide. In The Book of Zero, our 2026 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident indira allegra presents a multimedia, meditative experience shaped by their research into doula work, death care, and the cyclical nature of bodies and environments. Free.

February 4 | (School of Music)
A free lunchtime performance featuring 91爆料 School of Music students in the North Allen Library lobby. Presented in partnership with 91爆料 Libraries. Free.

Online option – February 5 | 2026 University Faculty Lecture – A breath of fresh air: The science and policy saving lives from America鈥檚 deadliest cancer
Lung cancer kills nearly 125,000 Americans each year 鈥� more than breast, colon, and prostate cancers combined. 91爆料 Department of Surgery Professor and Chair Dr. Douglas Wood is out to change that and will discuss the many ways he and his colleagues are raising lung cancer awareness, increasing access to early detection, and ultimately, working to change lung cancer victims to lung cancer survivors. Free.

February 5 | 听(Asian Languages & Literature)
During the dark centuries between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the golden age of reunified China under the Tang and Song dynasties (618鈥�1279), the shi poetic form embraced new themes and structure. Using biography, social history, and literary analysis, Ping Wang demonstrates how the shi form came to dominate classical Chinese poetry, making possible the works of the great poets of later dynasties and influencing literary development in Korea and Japan. Free.

February 6 | (Jackson School of International Studies)
Since the early 2000s, literary scholarship has read Hebrew and Arabic literatures together to find moments of transgression or trespass, challenging logics of partition. In Static Forms: Writing the Present in the Modern Middle East, Shir Alon develops an alternative model for reading Arabic and Hebrew literatures, as two literary systems sharing a remarkably similar narrative of modernization and developing parallel literary forms to address it. In this talk, Alon will discuss the potential of a paradigm grounded in formal and affective analysis for new understandings of transnational modernism, Middle Eastern literatures, and comparative literary studies at large. She will also explore the limits of this approach, when parallel readings of Hebrew and Arabic literatures obfuscate rather than clarify the conditions of the present. Free.

February 6 | 听(Music and American Indian Studies)
91爆料 Ethnomusicology, Department of American Indian Studies, and the 91爆料 Symphony collaborate with Lushootseed Research鈥檚 Healing Heart Project in presenting this special community event. Following a free screening of the documentary film The Healing Heart of Lushootseed, the 91爆料 Symphony (David Alexander Rahbee, director) and soprano Adia S. Bowen (tsi s蕯uyu蕯a色) perform Bruce Ruddell鈥檚 50-minute symphony Healing Heart of the First People of This Land. This powerful work was commissioned by Upper Skagit elder Vi Hilbert (taq史拧蓹blu) shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks as a vehicle for, in Hilbert鈥檚 words, 鈥渂ringing healing to a sick world.鈥� Premiered by The Seattle Symphony in 2006, the piece draws inspiration from two sacred Coast Salish songs Hilbert had entrusted to the composer and features a number of percussion instruments native to this region. The performance features soloist and Indigenous soprano Adia S. Bowen (tsi s蕯uyu蕯a色), a 91爆料 alumna who graduated in June 2025 with degrees in Voice Performance and American Indian Studies. Free.

February 6 | (Psychology)
Whether you鈥檙e married, dating, or flying solo, Dr. Nicole McNichols has some sex advice for you. And you may want to pay attention because McNichols is not only the professor of 91爆料鈥檚 most sought-after class in its history, she鈥檚 one of social media鈥檚 most popular educators on the topic of sex. Pulling from her book, You Could Be Having Better Sex, McNichols shares the latest data that shows good sex is one of the most powerful and effective sources of joy.

Week of February 9

Online – February 9 | 听(Jackson School of International Studies)
Presented by Re艧at Kasaba, Professor, International Studies, 91爆料 and G枚n眉l Tol, Director, Turkish Program, Middle East Institute. Trump in the World 2.0 is an online series of talks and discussions featuring guest speakers and faculty exploring global perspectives on a second Trump administration. Free.

February 10 | 听(Simpson Center for the Humanities)
The production and promotion of so-called “AI” technology involves dehumanization on many fronts: the computational metaphor valorizes one kind of cognitive activity as 鈥渋ntelligence,鈥� devaluing many other aspects of human experience while taking an isolating, individualistic view of agency, ignoring the importance of communities and webs of relationships. Meanwhile, the purpose of humans is framed as being labelers of data or interchangeable machine components. Data collected about people is understood as “ground truth” even while it lies about those people, especially marginalized people. In this talk, Bender will explore these processes of dehumanization and the vital role that the humanities have in resisting these trends by painting a deeper and richer picture of what it is to be human. Free.

February 10 | (QuantumX)
Dr. Krysta Svore is Vice President of Applied Research for Quantum Computing at NVIDIA, joining the company after 19 years at Microsoft, where she served as Technical Fellow and VP of Advanced Quantum Development and pioneered reliable quantum computing through the co鈥慸esign of hardware, software, and error correction. She began her career developing machine learning methods for web search before founding Microsoft鈥檚 quantum computing software, algorithms, and architecture program. Free.

February 11 | 听(Chemistry, Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, and Bioengineering)
Explore how cutting-edge research is driving material innovation in the built environment. Faculty whose work spans chemistry, engineering, and architecture examine how living systems can be integrated into material design to address pressing challenges related to sustainability, resilience, and the future of construction. Free.

February 11 | (History)
This lecture explores the wide variety of carceral practices in medieval Europe and examines how the recovery of Roman law and the concept of the state in the twelfth century began to transform those practices. Following the lectures, the recordings will be available online. Free.

February 11 | (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)
Navigating Academia as a Transnational Scholar from the Global South: Treasuring All the Knowledges brings together the voices of 16 women and non-binary scholars who began their postgraduate journeys as non-elite international students and (un)documented migrants in countries positioned as economically more powerful than their places of origin. Inspired by the book鈥檚 creative and relational approach to knowledge, this event will also open a collective space for poetry and storytelling. Participants are invited to write and share short poetic or narrative reflections that speak to their own experiences of abundance, survival, care, and knowledge-making within academic spaces. Free.

February 12 | (Sociology)
The future will be old; Europe, the Americas and Asia will soon have the oldest populations ever known to humanity. Can we cope? It will require major changes in the way we think about youth, women, immigration, and globalization to avoid disaster. Free.

February 12 | 听(Jackson School of International Studies)
In Ghost Nation: the Story of Taiwan and its Struggle for Survival, Chris Horton compares Beijing’s claim that Taiwan has been Chinese territory “since time immemorial” with Taiwan’s actual history. Several different groups have controlled some or all of Taiwan over the last 400 years — the Dutch, Spanish, Tungning, Manchu, Japanese, Chinese, and now, Taiwanese. By looking at those who have ruled Taiwan, Horton also tells the story of the Taiwanese people, highlighting their intergenerational quest for self-determination — and the existential threat posed by an expansionist Chinese Communist Party. Free.

February 12 | (Simpson Center for the Humanities)
Athletes with ancestral ties to the Pacific Islands are dominant fixtures in some of the world鈥檚 most visible sports and over several generations have produced a modern sports diaspora. Tracing Samoan transnational and diasporic movement along divergent colonial pathways, this talk examines the relationship between embodied experiences of racialization and the emergence of Pacific sports excellence in three settler colonial countries (United States, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Australia). It then considers what recent efforts to mobilize Indigenous practice inside and outside sport tell us about the uses and importance of culture in contemporary sport. Free.

February 12 | 听(School of Music)
Faculty pianist Robin McCabe joins forces with guest artist Maria Larionoff in an evening of high octane duos for violin and piano. On the launch pad: Stravinsky鈥檚 Suite Italienne, Beethoven鈥檚 Sonata in G major, Opus 96, and Faure鈥檚 impassioned Sonata in A Major.

Online – February 13 | 2026 Provost’s Town Hall
Join 91爆料 Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Tricia Serio as she discusses the state of the University from an academic perspective and the singular role that public research universities 鈥� and the 91爆料 in particular 鈥� play in our society. Featured speakers include Jodi Sandfort, dean of the Evans School, and Sarah Cusworth Walker, research professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Ted Poor, associate professor in the School of Music, will introduce the provost.

February 13 | (Open Scholarship Commons)
Douglass Day is an annual transcribe-a-thon program that marks the birth of Frederick Douglass. Each year, sites across the country gather thousands of people to help create new & freely available resources for learning about Black history. A transcribe-a-thon is an event in which a group of people work together to transcribe a collection of digitized historical materials. The primary goal of a transcribe-a-thon is to make the materials more easily accessible, but these events also serve to promote awareness of parts of Black history 鈥� and especially Black women鈥檚 history 鈥� that remain too-little-known. Free.

February 14 | (Meany Center for the Performing Arts)
Celebrate Valentine鈥檚 Day with 8x Grammy nominee and NAACP Image Award winner The Baylor Project 鈥� featuring vocalist Jean Baylor and drummer Marcus Baylor. Steeped in the heart of jazz, with dynamic performances that are soulful to the core, their musical roots are deeply planted in gospel, blues and R&B. Their eclectic sound and infectious chemistry provide the perfect backdrop for a memorable evening filled with vibrant, spiritual, feel-good music.

Week of February 16

February 17 | (School of Art + Art History + Design)
Our question to consider: what does the work of indira allegra offer us when thinking about the project of liberation? This program is part of the year-long Liberation Book Club series exploring liberation through shared texts, art, film, music, and workshops. Free.

February 18 | (History)
In 1942, the U.S. government incarcerated more than 120,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps based on the racist argument that they were likely 鈥渄isloyal鈥� to the United States. In the ensuing years of World War II, though, the U.S. government simultaneously sought to demonstrate the 鈥渓oyalty鈥� of Japanese Americans to American democracy. By placing U.S. wartime policies and Japanese American responses in different historical contexts, this lecture will interrogate the meanings of loyalty, democracy, and national security鈥攄uring World War II and in our own time. Following the lectures, the recordings will be available online. Free.

February 18 | (Digital Arts & Experimental Media)
DXARTS presents an evening of 3D music, featuring recent work and world premieres by current staff and graduate students. Free.

February 18 & 19 | & (School of Music)
91爆料 Jazz Studies students perform in small combos over two consecutive nights of original tunes, homage to the greats of jazz, and experiments in composing and arranging. Directed by Cuong Vu, Ted Poor, John-Carlos Perea, and Steve Rodby.听Free.

February 19 | 听(Henry Art Gallery)
Poet, musician, and scholar Rasheena Fountain presents Speculative Land Blues, a blues guitar, poetry, and DJ set. Developed in collaboration with Adeerya Johnson, Associate Curator at the Museum of Pop Culture, the Henry presents Speculative Landscapes. Free.

February 19 | (Burke Museum)
Read the book ahead of time, or join to learn more about the selection. The February book is Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales: Fossils of Washington State by Elizabeth A. Nesbitt and David B. Williams. Free.

February 19 | (Jackson School of International Studies)
John Johnson is a recently retired Senior Foreign Service Officer whose career included leadership roles in Brussels, Afghanistan, and with the U.S. Mission to NATO. Since joining the State Department in 2002, he has served in Europe, Asia, and Washington, D.C., earning multiple awards for his service. A Seattle native and 91爆料 graduate, John speaks several languages and lives with his family in the Pacific Northwest. Free.

February 20 | 听(Political Science)
The Center for Environmental Politics hosts Amanda Stronza, professor in Texas A&M University Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology, and co-founder of the Applied Biodiversity Science Program. Free.

February 21 | 听(Meany Center for the Performing Arts)
yMusic 鈥� named for Generation Y 鈥� is a genre-leading American chamber ensemble renowned for its innovative and collaborative spirit. yMusic has a unique mission: to work on both sides of the classical/popular music divide, without sacrificing rigor, virtuosity, charisma or style.

Week of February 23

Online – February 23 | 听(Jackson School of International Studies)
Presented by Ambassador Michelle Gavin who is currently Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign Relations. Trump in the World 2.0 is an online series of talks and discussions featuring guest speakers and faculty exploring global perspectives on a second Trump administration. Free.

February 23 | 听(Asian Languages & Literature)
91爆料 Asian L&L and the Seattle International Film Festival co-host an award winning filmmaker Ash Mayfair at the SIFF Cinema Uptown for the screening of Skin of Youth (2025). A Q&A moderated by Assistant Professor Ungsan Kim will follow the screening.

February 23 | 听(School of Music)
91爆料 music students perform music from the Baroque era under the direction of Tekla Cunningham. Free.

February 24 | (Meany Center for the Performing Arts)
Join us for a feature documentary that traces the remarkable history and legacy of one of the most important works of art to come out of the age of AIDS 鈥揷horeographer Bill T. Jones鈥檚 tour de force ballet 鈥淒-Man in the Waters.鈥� There will be a post-screening discussion with Bill T. Jones and Berette S Macaulay. Free.

February 24 | 听(Jackson School of International Studies)
Can political elites shape public opinion by influencing the tone of news coverage, even when they cannot dictate what gets covered? This study addresses that question using text analysis of more than five million Japanese news articles from 2004鈥�2024, showing that rising negativity in legacy media closely corresponds with declines in cabinet approval. A newly compiled dataset of prime ministers鈥� daily schedules further reveals that periods of intensified elite engagement with journalists coincide with less negative coverage. Together, these findings suggest that incumbents may still temper media tone through proactive outreach, though this influence appears to weaken in the age of fragmented, digital media. Free.

February 25 | (History)
Prison is more than a place of punishment. It is also an archive. Yet the official story found in sentencing reports and conduct reviews is only part of the story. Incarcerated people generate a parallel counter-archive of resistance and transformation. The Washington Prison History Project is a multimedia digital effort to document this counter-archive at a local level. Across a series of publications, programs, and protests, incarcerated people have shown prison to be a central feature in the development of Washington State and the country. An examination of this archive tells a different history of our state鈥攁nd its possible futures. Following the lectures, the recordings will be available online. Free.

February 25 | (American Indian Studies)
Featuring Oscar Hokea(Cherokee Nation and Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma). Storytelling offers a spiritual connection, a sharing of sacred breath. Literature, similarly, preserves human experience and ideals. Both forms are durable and transmit power that teaches us how to live. Both storytelling and reading aloud can impact audiences through the power of presence, allowing for the experience of the transfer of sacred breath as audiences are immersed in the experience of being inside stories and works of literature.听Free.

Online option – February 25 | The Office of Public Lectures presents: America鈥檚 Character and the Rule of Law with George Conway III听(Public Lectures)
This talk will explore the idea that the endurance of the rule of law in the United States relies not solely on the provisions of the Constitution鈥攊ts structural framework, the institutions it established, or the rights it enshrines鈥攂ut fundamentally on the character of its citizens. Qualities such as public-spiritedness, tolerance, moderation, empathy, mutual respect, a sense of fair play, and, ultimately, intelligence, honor, and decency form the foundation of constitutional democracy. Free.

February 26 | (School of Art + Art History + Design)
In this talk, Rachael Z. DeLue will share insights from her current research and teaching on the relationship between art and science in nineteenth-century Europe and North America, focusing on a suite of extraordinary chromolithographs created in the 1880s by the astronomer and illustrator 脡tienne-Leopold Trouvelot. Based on his work at the Harvard Observatory and the United States Naval Observatory, the chromolithographs represent the cross-pollination of art and science in an attempt to generate knowledge about astronomical phenomena that eluded perception and resisted visualization. Prof. DeLue will consider Trouvelot鈥檚 prints in relation to other such attempts on the part of fine artists and scientific illustrators to picture the celestial sphere at a time when technology was limited and space travel was still the stuff of science fiction.鈥�Free.

February 26 | 听(Stroum Center for Jewish Studies)
In this talk, Paris Papamichos Chronakis discuss his new book, The Business of Transition 鈥� Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule, and shows how the Jewish and Greek merchants of Salonica (present-day Thessaloniki) skillfully managed the tumultuous shift from Ottoman to Greek rule amidst rising ethnic tensions and heightened class conflict. Bringing their once powerful voices back into the historical narrative, he traces their entangled trajectories as businessmen, community members, and civic leaders to illustrate how the self-reinvention of a Jewish-led bourgeoisie made a city Greek. Salonica鈥檚 merchants were present in their own鈥攁nd their city鈥檚鈥攔emaking. Free.

February 26 | 听(Simpson Center for the Humanities)
Taiwan is a unique site of innovation in disability rights. Despite being barred from becoming a States Party to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) according to the diplomatic exclusion faced by Taiwan, it has become a model for the localization of the CRPD through its use “domestic review mechanisms.” Furthermore, Taiwan demonstrates the ways in which fundamental divides within human rights discourse, such as Western individualism and East Asian familialism, can be bridged using strategic adaptation that reimagine disability rights as a post-colonial hybrid. Free.

February 26 – March 1 | (Dance)
Presenting seven original student-choreographed works. This platform gives students the opportunity to express their creative voices through choreography and costume design, as well as collaborating with lighting designers and mentors.

February 26 – 28 | (Meany Center for the Performing Arts)
Thirty years after its historic premiere, the groundbreaking dance theater work by Bill T. Jones returns to the stage. Still/Here shatters boundaries between the personal and the political, exemplifying a form of dance theater that is uniquely American. At the heart of the piece are 鈥渟urvival workshops鈥� Jones conducted with people living with life-threatening illnesses.

ArtSci Roundup goes monthly!

The ArtSci Roundup is your guide to connecting with the 91爆料鈥攚hether in person, on campus, or on your couch.

Previously shared on a quarterly basis, those who sign up for the Roundup email will receive them monthly, delivering timely updates and engaging content wherever you are. Check the roundup regularly, as events are added throughout the month. Make sure to check out the ArtSci On Your Own Time section for everything from podcasts to videos to exhibitions that can be enjoyed when it works for you!

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

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

Joff Hanauer Honors Lecture Series:听U.S. Foreign Policy and American Policing

February 23, 5:00 – 6:00 PM |听

Daniel Bessner, Associate Professor in the Jackson School of International Studies and听Joff Hanauer Honors Professor of Western Civilization听invites us to learn more about the history and interconnectedness of our politics and the experiences of people across the planet.

Join a robust discussion about the profound linkages between American actions abroad (invasions, bombing, counterinsurgencies) and American domestic policing.

Contemporary Environmental Issues In Taiwan:听Understanding the Politics of Climate Change in Taiwan: from Global, National, to Local

February 23, 5:00 PM |听

The Taiwan Studies Program presents an upcoming four-part lecture series focused on Contemporary Environmental Issues in Taiwan. All talks will start at 5pm Pacific Time and be publicly available for viewing and participation.

On February 23rd, join听Professor Chung-En Liu of the听National Taiwan University for a discussion on the politics of climate change in Taiwan.

Next in the series:

• February 25, 5:00 PM: Public Opinion and Behavior towards Climate Change in Taiwan
• March 2, 5:00 PM: Climate Change Disaster and Governance in Taiwan
• March 4, 5:00 PM: Taiwan鈥檚 Food and Agriculture: History, Environment, and Challenges

Global Perspectives on Restorative Justice & Race: Conversation with Fania Davis

February 24, 5:30 – 6:45 PM |听

In this extraordinary moment of unrest and uncertainty, join the Office of Global Affairs for a conversation with civil-rights activist听Fania Davis听as she makes the case for the importance of global engagement in the non-western world. This special discussion, moderated by听Professor of Comparative History and Ideas听Dr.听Anu Taranath, will examine how restorative justice, equity and indigeneity can offer a path forward in healing and unifying our nation.

2021 Biamp PDX Jazz Festival presents: Ted Poor feat. Cuong Vu

February 25, 8:00 PM |听

Ted Poor, Assistant Professor of drums, and听Seattle-based drummer whose adventurous, soulful playing has vaulted him to the stages of some of today鈥檚 most vital artists. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Ted has toured and recorded with such renowned artists as听Paul Simon, Bill Frisell, Pat Metheny, Blake Mills, Cuong Vu,听Madison Cunningham and Gabriel Kahane.

For this special听Duo听presentation, Poor will be joined by trumpeter and Chair of Jazz Studies听Cuong Vu听who has performed with听Pat Metheny, Laurie Anderson听and听David Bowie.

Free |

Looking for more?

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

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

Lessons (Not) Learned From the Holocaust | “A Reply to Screamers”: How Americans Responded to the Holocaust听

November 10, 4:00 PM |

Round Table Discussion 2: What Documents Constrain, Narrate, or Liberate Subjecthood?

November 11, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM |

Katz Lecture: Abderrahmane Sissako, “In Conversation: African Worlds / World Films”

November 12, 12:00 PM |

Global Challenges Discussion

Book Talk: State Formation in China and Taiwan with Julia Strauss

Looking for more?

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

Scandinavian 30: Money can鈥檛 buy you HYGGE听Presented by听Kristian N忙sby

From the Collection: Peruvian Textiles

Jennifer Stager: Color, Vision, and Variegation

May 10, 3:30 pm | Denny 259

, faculty member at John Hopkins University (Ph.D. Berkeley), specializes in the art and architecture of the ancient Mediterranean and its afterlives. Her areas of focus include questions of color, materiality, and vision in the ancient Mediterranean world, the afterlives of antiquity, and the intersections of gender, race, and class in the production and study of art and architecture. Reception to follow the lecture.

Free |

Music of Today: International Experimental Music Ensemble

SAM Talks: Peacock in the Desert Discussion

October 18, 7:00 pm | Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Avenue, Seattle

Dr. Karni Singh Jasol, Director of the Mehrangarh Museum Trust, Jodhpur, and Dr. Sonal Khullar, Associate Professor of Art History at 91爆料, discuss the themes and works on view in the new Seattle Art Museum exhibition,听.

Free with RSVP.

EARSHOT JAZZ FESTIVAL & 91爆料 SCHOOL OF MUSIC:

Cuong Vu and Indigo Mist featuring George Garzone

October 22, 8:00 pm | The Royal Room, 5000 Rainier Ave S., Seattle

Indigo Mist has become a vehicle for the musical musings of a group of forward reaching artists with tendencies towards experimentation. Having crossed paths over the years as University of Washington music faculty, the group is currently comprised of 91爆料 faculty Richard Karpen, Cuong Vu, Juan Pampin, Ted Poor, and 15 time Grammy winner, bassist/producer Steve Rodby. Invited into the fold is world renown tenor saxophone master/improviser George Garzone.

$10 tickets for students.

Incident at Vichy

Previews October 20 & 23rd, Opening October 24, Closing November 4听 | Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse

91爆料 School of Drama’s season opener is a production that the New York Times considered “one of the most important plays of our time” in 1964. The questions at the heart of this story鈥攁bout evil, complicity, self-preservation, and the death of human decency鈥攁re perhaps more resonant now than at any time since that first production. Guest Director Kelly Kitchens, who is well-known to local audiences for her work at Seattle Shakespeare Company and Seattle Public Theater, among others, directs an all-male cast.

$10 tickets for students.

Chamber Dance Company

$10 tickets for 91爆料 students.

Exhibition: 10 脡迟耻诲别蝉 for Summer

Closing October 13 | Jacob Lawrence Gallery

The Jacob Lawrence Gallery presents an exhibition of work created over the summer months by ten second year MFA students.

Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin

October 17, 7:30 pm | Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater

Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin’s unrivaled combination听of musicianship and technique has earned him legendary status as a pianist and accolades for his ability to shine both in the exploration of unfamiliar music as well as beloved classic repertoire. Alex Ross, long-time music critic for听The New Yorker,听counts Mr. Hamelin’s hands “among the wonders of the musical world” when he performs favorites by Chopin alongside lyrical works by Bach, Feinberg, Weissenberg and Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

$10 tickets for 91爆料 students when you show your Husky ID in advance at the or on the night of the show at the Box Office at Meany Hall.

The School of Music also has a busy week, presenting the Voice Divisional Recital as well as Jazz Innovations and an evening of music from Zimbabwe with visiting artists Paul Mataruse and Clair Jones.

MFA Dance Concert
May 13-17 |听Meany Studio Theater
The Dance Program’s world-class MFA candidates have created original choreography for this concert, working with highly trained dance students. Always exceedingly imaginative and thought-provoking, the MFA Dance Concert is a perfect way to end the Dance Program鈥檚 concert season.

Pilobolus
May 14-16听|听Meany Hall
Named after a barnyard fungus that propels its spores with extraordinary speed, accuracy and strength, the dance company Pilobolus returns to Seattle for its eighth 91爆料 World Series appearance. Through diverse collaborations, the company breaks down barriers between disciplines and challenges the way we think about dance. Pilobolus maintains its own singular style and enjoys a fervent and ever-expanding following. .

Voice Divisional Recital
7:30 p.m., May 18听|听Brechemin Auditorium
91爆料 voice students perform their Spring Quarter recital.

Angela Hewitt
7:30听p.m., May 18 |听Meany Hall
One of the world鈥檚 leading pianists, Hewitt regularly appears in recital and with major orchestras throughout Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Her performances and recordings of Bach have drawn particular praise, distinguishing her as one of the composer鈥檚 foremost interpreters of our time. She was named Artist of the Year at the 2006 Gramophone Awards.

Rhiannon Giddens听
8 p.m., May 20 | Meany Hall
A founding member of the Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, Rhiannon Giddens headlines a national tour featuring music from her new album 鈥淭omorrow is My Turn.鈥� Reviving, interpreting, and recasting traditional music as diverse as gospel, folk, and bluegrass, she creates an intimate evening of rich, soulful music backed by the revamped and expanded Carolina Chocolate Drops. The program will feature songs made famous by female icons of American music, from country queens Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton to Odetta and Nina Simone. .

Jazz Innovations Part I and II
7:30 p.m., May 20-21 | Brechemin Auditorium
Student jazz ensembles pay homage to the icons of jazz and break new ground with original progressive jazz compositions. .

Ethnomusicology Visiting Artists Concert: Claire Jones and Paul Mataruse
7:30 p.m., May 21 | Meany Hall
Ethnomusicology visiting artists Paul Mataruse (performing with Northwest marimba band Ruzivio) and Claire Jones (performing with the Mahonyera Mbira Ensemble) are joined by students in this evening of music from Zimbabwe.

“I’ve been talking to Bill about this since I joined the faculty in 2007,” says Cuong Vu, head of jazz studies.听 “For us 鈥� for Richard Karpen [director of the School of Music] and me 鈥� this was a no-brainer. Although Bill travels a lot and his time in Seattle is likely to be small initially, with a faculty appointment [as affiliate professor of music] he’ll be more likely to come to the 91爆料. He’ll become more conscious of what we’re doing and is more likely to become a part of it.”

Frisell’s home is in Seattle, but most of his time is spent on the road. His shows him crisscrossing the country over the next few months, playing mostly with his Big Sur Quintet, whose was recorded earlier this year.听 Frisell’s musical energy is prodigious: He has released 10 albums over the past 2陆 years. Critics have called him “the most eclectic and creative musician around.” His notes collaborators ranging from Burt Bacharach to Elvis Costello and the Brazilian singer-songwriter Vinicius Centuaria.

Frisell’s music has its roots in the improvisatory nature of jazz, but his sources of inspiration come from a broad spectrum.听 A New York Times article noted, “It is hard to find a more fruitful meditation on American music than in the compositions of guitarist Bill Frisell. Mixing rock and country with jazz and blues, he’s found what connects us: improvisation and a sense of play. Unlike other pastichists, who tend to duck passion, Mr. Frisell plays up the pleasure in the music and also takes on an often-avoided subject, tenderness.”

Frisell, 62, is looking forward to working more with students.听 “Every day with my music now I don’t feel any different than I did when I was 12 years old. Music is an infinite thing. We all struggle to move ahead and find out what to do. I learn by playing and talking about the music, and I will get as much from the students as they might get from me. Someone asks me a good question and I re-evaluate 鈥� it helps me focus on the problems I’m having on my musical journey. It’s not like I’m teaching: we’re all in the same boat.

“I’ve lived in Seattle since 1989, but I travel so much. This opportunity will help me develop deeper connections in town. I see a growing community of musicians here; even those who move away are coming back.听 With Cuong’s leadership and Richard’s vision, with the Caf茅 Racer sessions, they’re creating a stronger web of connections. It helps brings different scenes together. Those convergences are exciting.”

Vu has known Frisell for over a decade. “I’m a huge fan of his music. He was an important voice in my musical upbringing.听 To have someone of that caliber just walking through our halls will cause people to gravitate to him.

“As time goes by, my hope is for him to have a more regular position on the faculty. But for now, when he’s in town and he thinks, ‘I want to play,’ he’ll think of the 91爆料 as a place to develop ideas. This is how music happens in the real world.”

Frisell will be performing at Meany Hall with his Big Sur Quintet as part of the . Good seats are still available.

Photo credit: M Levin/U Photographers