January 26, 10:00 – 11:00 am | Zoom

91爆料 Textual Studies will host a virtual book talk event with Dr. Alexander Bubb on his latest book, Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf. There will be a featured presentation and Q&A session that follows.

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January 26, 12:30 – 1:30 pm | 听Denny Hall

The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invites Semih Tareen, the Seattle Turkish Film Festival Director, to give a talk on viruses, biotechnology, and horror movies.听

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January 29, 6:30 pm | 听Brechemin Auditorium

91爆料 keyboard performance students perform concerto movements for outside judges for a chance to perform with the 91爆料 Symphony.

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January 29, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | 听Thomson Hall

Sponsored by the 91爆料 Japan Studies Program, the China Studies Program is hosting book talk with Wenkai He, author of Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China.听

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January 30, 6:30 pm | Kane Hall

In this Katz Distinguished Lecture Series, Sasha Su-Ling Welland, Chair and Professor in the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, is invited to discuss “The Art of Living in the Nuclear Anthropocene.” This is a story of kinship, grief, and place that asks an impossible question. This lecture explores telling terrible stories in a way that centers relationally and compels those to seek repair instead of closure.

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January 30, 6:00 – 7:00 pm | Thomson Hall

The converging forces of climate change, migration, and shifting livelihoods have thrust Nepal’s farmers into precarious positions. Join the South Asia Center and the Nepal Studies Initiative for a case study on how Sanskriti Farms & Research Centre is responding through innovative and sustainable agricultural practices at a local scale while empowering the community.

Shree Krishna Dhital is the Executive Director of Sanskriti Farms & Research Centre and Phoolbari Homestay. He has over a decade of experience in tourism, community farming, and sustainable technological implementation.

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January 30, 5:00 – 6:20 pm | 听Husky Union Building

Karam Dana, Associate Professor at 91爆料 Bothell, will discuss “The Question of Palestine and the Evolution of Solidarity and Resistance in the U.S.” His research examines Palestinian political identity and the impact of Israeli occupation on Palestinian society. He also studies American Muslims, how they are racialized, and what affects their political participation in the U.S.

This event is part of War in the Middle East, a series of talks and discussions on the aftermath of October 7, the war in Gaza, and responses worldwide.

Recordings of each lecture will be made available on the . Watch or listen to the January 16, 2024, recording of .

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January 30, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

Faculty colleagues Rachel Lee Priday and Craig Sheppard present a blockbuster program, including the Faur茅 A Major Sonata and Bartok #1 and shorter works by Arvo P盲rt and Franz Schubert.

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January 31, 7:00 – 8:30 pm | 听Kane Hall

In this History Lecture Series, Professor Elena Campbell explores the multifaceted history of Seattle鈥檚 engagement with peoples from the Romanov Empire and the Soviet Union, including trade relations and commerce, Russian emigration, the 鈥淩ed Scare,鈥� Russian studies, and citizen diplomacy.

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February 1, 7:30 pm | 听Meany Hall

Lauded as 鈥渢echnically fearless with鈥n enormous, rich sound鈥� (La Scena Musicale), pianist Michelle Cann made her orchestral debut at age 14 and has since performed as a soloist with numerous prominent orchestras.

Cann鈥檚 Meany debut features a music program by luminaries of Chicago鈥檚 Black Renaissance, including Hazel Scott, Nora Holt, Irene Britton Smith, and others. A champion of Florence Price’s music, Cann also performs the composer鈥檚 Fantasies No. 1, 2,听and 4.

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February 2, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Gowen Hall

Join the Department of History and the Severyns Ravenholt Endowment at the 91爆料 for a conversation with Suparna Chaudhry, Assistant Professor in the Department of International Affairs at Lewis and Clark College, and Ji Hyeon Chung, graduate student in the Political Science Department at the 91爆料.

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February 2, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

David Alexander Rahbee conducts the 91爆料 Symphony and special guest Michelle Cann, piano, in a music program by Beethoven and Rachmaninoff. With acclaimed pianist Michelle Cann, performing Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, with the orchestra.

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February 2, 7:30 pm | 听Brechemin Auditorium

Guitar students of Michael Partington perform works for solo, duo, and group arrangements.

Michael Partington is one of the most engaging of the new generation of concert players. Praised by Classical Guitar Magazine for his 鈥渓yricism, intensity, and clear technical command,鈥� this award-winning British guitarist has performed internationally as a soloist and with an ensemble to unanimous critical praise.

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February 5, 7:00 pm | Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall

Carole Terry, renowned organist and former longtime 91爆料 professor of Organ Studies presents a lecture, “How the body works when playing piano, organ, or harpsichord.鈥�

This series is made possible with support from the Paul B. Fritts Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Organ.

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October 17, 7:30pm |听Kane Hall

Among the most striking everyday phenomena is the emergence of life from inanimate matter. William Bialek, professor at Princeton University, will explain how we know this everyday phenomena, which involved a quiet revolution in the ability to do physics experiments on living systems, in all their complexity.

A number of features of the living world hold a special fascination for physicists. On a dark night, eyes can count individual quanta of light. When we point to the source of a sound, we are measuring time differences of just a few millionths of a second. Even though each bird in a flock sees only a few neighbors, thousands of them can agree on a single direction and speed to fly. William will use these examples to show how these remarkable observations point toward deeper and perhaps more general theories, in the physics tradition.

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October 19, 11:30am – 1:00pm | , Communication Building

Join the Translation Studies Hub for a lunchtime colloquium. Despite playing a significant role, translation often goes unremarked in scholarship and curricula on cultural histories of the environment. Jason Groves will share possibilities for introducing translation to the environmental humanities classroom. Cristina S谩nchez-Mart铆n will describe the design and implementation of a community-based translation module in ENGL 370, 鈥淚ntroduction to English Language鈥� and how students approached English(es) as a situated language practice, learning what it means to tell collective stories of translation while dwelling in incomplete closures.

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October 19, 4:00 – 6:00pm | Hans Rosling Center

This author talk will bring attention to medical apartheid and how it heavily affects black and brown communities across the globe. Listen to prominent, multi award-winning, and independent health journalist Vidya Krishnan present an author talk followed by a Q&A titled Plagues, Philanthropies and the End of Imagination hosted by the School of Public Health, Department of Global Health and the South Asia Center.

Stay around for a reception following the event.

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October 19, 5:00 – 6:00pm | Allen Library

The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Graduate Research Cluster is hosting a conversation with Julia Quinn, author of the听Bridgerton series, in conjunction with 91爆料 Libraries.

Julia Quinn is a best-selling author of historical romance fiction whose novels have appeared on听The New York Times听Best Sellers List and have garnered world-wide popularity. Her听Bridgerton听series was adapted for Netflix in 2020, and has since graced the screens of audiences all over the world, being crowned one of the streaming platform鈥檚 most popular shows of all time.

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October 19, 7:30pm | Kane Hall

This lecture will reflect on the future of computing and the implications for science, business, and society, led by Dario Gil, IBM Senior Vice President and Director of Research.

Working at the intersection of information and biology, artificial intelligence advances and permeates through more applications affecting business and science. Powerful models are now emerging, enabling AI to create in new domains. Society is witnessing the growth of a new computing paradigm combining physics and information鈥攓uantum computing. Quantum computing has the potential to solve problems out of reach for even the most powerful supercomputers.

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October 20, 7:30pm | 听Brechemin Auditorium

Faculty guitarist Michael Partington celebrates the release of his eleventh solo CD, “Concoctions from the Kitchen,” dedicated to the music of American composer Bryan Johanson. Featuring pieces written during the last five years, including “The Illustrated Guitar,” “Oranges,” and “Sonatine-Cahier,” the program also includes some of Johanson’s popular Preludes. The composer will be in attendance, and will take audience questions during a post-concert Q&A.

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October 22, 10:00am – 3:00pm | 听Burke Museum

Celebrate International Archaeology Day with fun activities for all ages at the Burke Museum. Learn about ancient technologies, identify animal bones, sort shells, watch a flintknapping (stone tool making) demonstration, and more.

Find out more about archaeology techniques from Burke archaeologists and event partners as they share tabletop activities, and stories about artifacts and belongings.

Free – $22 tickets |

Beginning in October | 鈥淲ays of Knowing鈥� Podcast

鈥淲ays of Knowing鈥� is an eight-episode podcast connecting humanities research with current events and issues. This season features faculty from the 91爆料 College of Arts & Sciences as they explore race, immigration, history, the natural world 鈥� even comic books. Each episode analyzes a work, or an idea, and provides additional resources for learning more.

The podcast is a new collaboration between the The World According to Sound and the 91爆料.

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91爆料 Global Month celebrates our University鈥檚 global impact and community.听During the month of November, we highlight the connections and relationships the 91爆料 has all over the world and the impact of our University鈥檚 global engagement.

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

Converge: Virtual Series

Ongoing

Without borders, registration fees or the challenges of travel, last year’s “Convirtual” created a historic gathering of Huskies from every corner of the globe. This year, we’re building on that momentum and, in a series first, bringing together five host communities for a 91爆料 Converge like no other. The Indonesia, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore Huskies will each host events on leadership and the 91爆料 will host a final keynote address featuring 91爆料 President Ana Mari Cauce.听

Upcoming events:

• Leadership at the Crossroads of Gender and Culture – Hong Kong, November 5
• The Evolution of Event Technology – Japan, November 12
• Mental Resilience in the Transition to Endemic – Singapore, November 19
• Leading the 91爆料 Through Change, December 10

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Working, Together: “Intersectional Class Struggle: Theory and Practice

November 3, 6:00 – 7:30 PM听|

听Let’s Talk Pop Health, “Crowded Out: How GoFundMe Is Changing Health Care in the US” with Nora Kenworthy

November 3, 3:30 – 4:30 PM |

Crowdfunding for health care via sites like GoFundMe has become a ubiquitous part of many societies. As social safety nets falter and crises multiply, more and more Americans turn each year to help from what GoFundMe calls 鈥渢he giving layer of the internet.鈥� But what, exactly, do they find when they do so? Drawing on seven years of mixed-methods, collaborative research, Prof. Kenworthy will explore what we think we know, what we actually know, and what we need to know about crowdfunding as it increasingly shapes health equity, access to care, and social solidarities in the US.

Nora Kenworthy is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at the 91爆料 Bothell. Her research explores the impacts and politics of global health and charitable initiatives in communities. She is the author of听Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight Against AIDS in Lesotho听(2017, Vanderbilt University Press). Her more recent research examines the use of crowdfunding for healthcare expenses in the US and abroad, and its implications for health equity, financing, and politics.

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Conditional Citizens: On Belonging In America听

Hacking the Academy: Simpson Center Showcase

November 4, 1:00 – 2:00 PM听|

Afghanistan and Its Regional Relationships | A Round Table Discussion

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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

Joseph and Friends: A Svoboda Scavenger Hunt

April 19 – May 14 |

The Svoboda Diaries Project is an interdisciplinary digital humanities project dedicated to the preservation of a unique set of historical diaries. Joseph Svoboda, who traveled up and down the Tigris River as part of his work as a steamship purser for a British shipping company, kept detailed accounts of the persons he encountered, difficulties, and happenings around him. Today, the diaries survive a unique firsthand account of social, economic, and political life around the Tigris River from the mid- to late 19th century.

This quarter, we are excited to announce a four-week online contest,听Joseph and Friends: A Svoboda Scavenger Hunt:

• Contest dates: April 19, 2021 to May 14, 2021.
• Each week, there will be a new theme and set of questions posted on our website.
• Each question will have a different theme: archeology, medicine, shipping and trade, etc.
• By participating, you can enter a lottery to win a gift card!

Graduation Exhibition 1

April 20 – May 1 |

Each year the School of Art + Art History + Design proudly celebrates graduating Art students鈥攂oth undergraduate and graduate鈥攚ith a series of exhibitions.听

The Jacob Lawrence Gallery will feature the work of students graduating with a BA in Art as they celebrate their achievements and embark on the next step in their creative journey.

Missions and States: Saving or Serving Seafarers

April 19, 12:30 – 1:30 PM |听

Filming Ethnographic Textures: Representing the Atmospheric Politics of Peruvian Cultural Practices

April 20, 3:00 PM |听

Patricia Alvarez Astacio will discuss and screen her short films El Se帽or de los Milagros and Entretejido in this lecture sponsored by the听Simpson Center for the Humanities,听Comparative History of Ideas, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Jackson School of International Studies.

CJMD Spotlight: Public opinion in U.S. broadcast news

April 21, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM |听

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Talking Gender in the E.U.: Anti-Gender Politics and Right Wing Populism in Poland

April 27, 12:00 – 1:00 PM |听

Join听El偶bieta Korolczuk, Associate Professor at The School of Historical and Contemporary Studies,听S枚dert枚rn University, Sweden听for a discussion on anti-gender politics and right wing populism in Poland. This lecture series is organized by the Center for West European Studies and the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence with support from the Lee and Stuart Scheingold European Studies Fund, the EU Erasmus+ Program, the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, and the Center for Global Studies.听

Next in the series:

May 13, 12:00 – 1:00 PM: Gender in the European Parliament

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Humanitarianisms: Dean Spade & Cristian Capotescu

April 22, 3:30 PM |听

In this lecture, sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, Spade and Capotescu will address the Spring Quarter theme, 鈥淩ethinking the Human.”

Dean Spade will lecture on 鈥淢utual Aid: Radical Care in Crisis Conditions,” and how humanitarianism, saviorism, and charity have been extensively critiqued as logics that undergird and legitimize war, colonialism, racialized-gendered control, and extraction. How do people organizing immediate survival support for each other in the face of crisis work together to resist these methods and build practices of solidarity and collective self-determination?

Cristian Capotescu will discuss 鈥淓choes of the 鈥楴ew Soviet Man鈥�: Humanity and the Ethics of Giving in Late Socialism.鈥澨�In the late 1980s, for many citizens of the former socialist bloc practicing and living socialism involved helping the less fortunate, the sick, and the poor through acts of giving. Such volunteer work and private assistance often invoked moral claims of a better life based on an ethics of shared suffering, dependency, and radical equality. This talk traces how socialist giving opened the possibility for ordinary people to enact notions of shared humanity in alternative ways that frequently eluded capitalist, Western modernity.

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Ghetto: The History of a Word

April 22, 4:00 – 5:15 PM |听

Few words are as ideologically charged as 鈥済hetto.鈥� Its early uses centered on two cities: Venice, the site of the first ghetto in Europe, established in 1516; and Rome, where the ghetto endured until 1870, decades after it had been dismantled elsewhere.

Daniel B. Schwartz,听associate professor of history and the director of the Judaic Studies Program at George Washington University, will give this talk sponsored by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies.

Free |

adrienne maree brown + Prem Krishnamurthy

April 23, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM |听

Join an online conversation, to explore ways artists contribute to community and propel structural change.听Amidst this time of great loss, yet also change and possibility, what are emerging roles for artists and designers? How does an individual鈥檚 creative practice relate to collectivity, collaboration, and interdependency? How can design processes and organizing learn from each other? Krishnamurthy poses these questions and more, as he and brown discuss potential futures for art, community building, and mutual care, as well as essential tools for today鈥檚 artists and organizers. An audience Q&A follows their dialogue.听Presented in partnership by Cranbrook Art Museum, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, The Black Embodiments Studio, and School of Art + Art History + Design.

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Katarzyna Kobro Composing Space

April 24, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM |听

Join the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures and the 91爆料 Polish Studies Endowment Committee for a talk by Dr. Marek Wieczorek about Polish sculptor听Katarzyna Kobro.

Between 1925 and 1933, Polish sculptor Katarzyna Kobro made a series of groundbreaking abstract Spatial Compositions. 鈥楢s it becomes united with space,鈥� she wrote about these works, 鈥榯he new sculpture should be its most condensed and essential part.鈥� In this lecture we will trace the artist鈥檚 discovery that the 鈥榮implest and most appropriate鈥� solution to the question of the essence of sculpture was the 鈥榮haping of space鈥� itself.

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David Baker, Dayong Gao, Herbert Sauro named fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

91爆料 professors , and have been named fellows of the .

The three faculty members are among the institute’s , numbering 157 in all, chosen for their “distinguished and continuing achievements” in medical and biological engineering.

Called the AIMBE for short, the institute is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization. Its 2,000-member College of Fellows includes outstanding engineers, entrepreneurs and innovators in medical and biological engineering.

The organization advocates for the value of medical bioengineering in society. Its mission, which also drives advocacy initiatives, is to “recognize excellence, advance the public understanding and accelerate medical and biological innovation,” according to its website.

Baker is a professor of biochemistry and directs the . Gao is a professor of mechanical engineering and director of the . Sauro is a professor of bioengineering and director of the . All three have affiliate appointments in other departments as well.

Election to the institute’s College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to a medical and biological engineer; fellows include three Nobel Prize laureates and 18 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Science or National Medal of Technology and Innovation. The institute’s annual meeting, scheduled for March, was cancelled due to health concerns and the fellows were inducted remotely.

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Essay fondly remembers Ellis Goldberg, professor of political science

A researcher with the nonprofit has penned a remembrance and appreciation of , 91爆料 professor of political science, who September 20, 2019, at the age of 72.

Goldberg, a political economist and scholar of Middle East politics, was a longtime 91爆料 faculty member and former director of the Middle East Center in the Jackson School of International Studies. He also wrote a blog called “” that commented on Middle Eastern and U.S. politics.

He is remembered fondly on the Middle East research project’s website by , clinical assistant professor in Liberal Studies at New York University, in an essay titled “Ellis Goldberg, Egypt and a Reverence for Life.”

El-Ghobashy writes that Goldberg “loved Egypt and knew more about its history and political economy than anyone I know. 鈥� At a time when lives in Egypt are imperiled by deprivation, dictatorship and disease, as are so many lives across the globe, an intellectual sensibility grounded in a reverence for life is a gift and an exigency.”

With Goldberg’s death, El-Ghobashy writes, “we lost one of the most erudite, generous and original scholars of the modern Middle East and North Africa, a truly reflective mind 鈥�”听 .

There were remembrances of Goldberg from the and the as well.

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This 10-part series examines the ongoing impact of the 2016 election on countries and regions worldwide.听Each week, Jackson School faculty experts听will explore perspectives from Europe, Asia, Mexico, Russia and the Middle East as well as questions of climate change and historical context in the U.S. presidency.

“” lectures will be held from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Monday afternoons in room 110 of Kane Hall, and all are open to the public. Jackson School Director will be moderator for these events.

The schedule is as follows:

Oct. 2: Trump and the World 鈥� a Historical Perspective, with , assistant professor of international studies
Oct. 9: The Middle East and Israel, with , professor of international studies
Oct. 16: Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the Gulf, with , affiliate professor of international studies
Oct. 23: The US-Mexican Border, with , associate professor and chair of the
Oct. 30: India, with , associate professor, director of the
Nov. 6: China, with , professor of international studies
Nov. 13: The Korean Peninsula, with , professor of international studies
Nov. 20: The International Climate Regime, with , professor of international studies and director of the
Nov. 27: Russia, with , professor of history and international studies.
Dec. 4: Final panel discussion and round table.

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For more information about the series, contact the Jackson School at 206-543-6001 or jsisadv@uw.edu. Interested press may contact Monique Thormann, Jackson School director of communications, at 206-685-0578 or thormm@uw.edu.