April 22, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Thomson Hall

The Jackson School of International Studies invites Research Scholar Kim Brandt, Columbia University, to discuss the significance of the Hiroshima Maidens.

“Hiroshima Maidens” loosely translates to “genbaku otome”, a phrase used to refer to young women who were scarred by injuries during the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ten years later, 25 such women were flown to New York to undergo extensive reconstructive surgery. The “Maidens” received wide publicity in the U.S. and Japan, where the story resonated with growing anxiety about nuclear weapons, public fascination with new forms of beauty culture, and the potential of postwar technology.

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April 23 – May 3 | Jacob Lawrence Gallery

April 24, 4:00 – 5:30 pm | Communications Building

April 24 – May 28 | Allen Library North Lobby

In partnership with the��, the 91���� Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program welcomes everyone to celebrate Taiwan’s pop music through the “Music, Island, Stories: Taiwan Calling!” pop-up exhibition on the 91���� campus.

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April 25, 3:00 – 4:30 pm | Husky Union Building

Join The Jackson School of International Studies for Modern Abortion Around the World, a panel discussion on the history of abortion in Bolivia, China, Kenya, South Asia, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands over the past 60 years, and��what those histories reveal about technopolitical developments, reproductive governance, and transnational social movements.

April 25, 5:30 – 7:00 pm | Kane Hall

The 2024 Griffith and Patricia Way Lecture will interrogate two sets of fourteenth-century hell paintings owned by the temples Gokurakuji in Hyōgo Prefecture and Konkaikōmyōji in Kyoto, which both posit the possibility of early escape from the infernal realms, albeit in seemingly contradictory ways. This talk will uncover the ways people in premodern Japan transformed hell from a place solely retributive in nature into one that had liberating powers.

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April 25, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

The 91���� Wind Ensemble, led by Director Timothy Salzman, and Symphonic Band, led by Director Shaun Day, present “Spotlight,” performing music by Nancy Galbraith, Michael Daugherty, Henk Badings, and others. This performance features winners of the 2024 Winds Concerto Competition: Devin Foster (tuba), Kelly Hou (harp), and Cole Henslee (tuba).

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April 26, 12:00 – 1:30 pm | Suzzallo Library

Guest speaker Dr. Melvin Rogers, professor of political science at Brown University, is invited to speak about “The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought.”

Free |

April 26, 3:30 pm | Denny Hall or Online via Zoom

The Department of Classics invites Glynnis Fawkes, cartoonist and archaeological illustrator, who will analyze the way a cartoonist adapts history. Fawkes will specifically look into Eric H. Cline’s 1177BC: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed? to describe the process of interpreting Cline’s text in comic, an exercise where Fawkes repeatedly asks: how might she tell this story visually, and how can she put Eric’s words into the mouths of characters involved in the story?

Free |

April 26, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | ��Smith Hall

Dr. Keston K Perry, who researches race, reparations, and climate change for the University of California, Los Angeles Department of African American Studies, is invited to speak for the Geography Colloquium on “Beyond Repair? The Crisis of Ecological Imperialism and Reparative Ecologies in the Caribbean.”

Free |

April 26, 7:30 pm | ��Meany Hall

David Alexander Rahbee conducts the 91���� Symphony and winners of the 91���� Concerto Competition—Kai-En Cheng, violin; Rachel Reyes, flute; and Ella Kalinichenko, piano—in a program including winning concerto excerpts. This performance will feature a 91���� student composition by graduate student Yonatan Ron, Silvestre Revueltas’s Sensemayá, and Overture to Le roi d’Ys,��by��Éduard Lalo. ����

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April 27, 7:30 pm | ��Meany Hall

Renowned bassist Todd Sickafoose headlines this special performance as a part of the 2024 Improvised Music Project Festival (IMPFEST). Sickafoose will be performing sets with 91���� Jazz Studies students and 91���� faculty Cuong Vu, trumpet, Ted Poor, drums, and Steve Rodby, bass.

Free |

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April 11, 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Online via Zoom

This talk introduces the double-helix metaphor that describes the relationship between those that wish to explore sexual orientation, identity and those that oppose them.

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April 11, 12:00 – 1:30 pm | Gowen Hall

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April 11, 7:00 – 8:30 pm | Thomson Hall

Artist and researcher Efrat Yerday will draw upon the work of several contemporary visual artists and the works of younger artists, to illustrate the challenges faced by Ethiopian Jewish artists in Israel today.

Yerday will discuss how Israeli artists of Ethiopian descent often feel forced to choose one side of their identity in their lives and work, along with the diverse strategies these artists use to navigate these challenges.

April 12, 9:30 am – 5:30 pm | ��Kane Hall

The Benjamin Rabinowitz Symposium in Medical Ethics on Race, Health, and Justice brings together students, faculty, researchers, and members of the public to discuss racial disparities in population health and health care, and the broader social, political, economic, and historical structures in which they occur.

Free |��

April 12, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

91���� piano students perform concerto movements with Tacoma-based chamber orchestra Northwest Sinfonietta led by conductor David Alexander Rahbee.

The Northwest Sinfonietta is the premiere, professional chamber orchestra in the Puget Sound area. As an ensemble of 34 musicians, the Sinfonietta (meaning ‘little symphony’ in Italian), is smaller than a symphony orchestra and flexible in size, able to fit in any size ‘chamber.

April 13 & 14 | Alaska Airlines Arena

The 53rd Annual Spring Powwow will be hosted by First Nations @ 91���� at the Alaska Airlines Arena, Edmundson Pavilion. This is a student organized event that strives to create a healing space for visitors and vendors at the event.

Free |

April 13, 3:00 – 4:00 pm | Henry Art Gallery

Take time to slow down, reflect, and listen to the affirming and compassionate messages of the Crocosmic Tarot, a genderless deck which uses abstract imagery to connect with intuition and the body.

For one hour each month through June on select Saturdays, tarot decks and instructions will be available for visitors to use during their visit to , a current Henry Art Gallery exhibition of colored light, poetic prompts, and sculpture to guide visitors on a journey of transformation.

Free |

April 13, 8:00 pm | Meany Hall

MacArthur Fellow and Grammy Award-winning mandolinist, singer, songwriter Chris Thile is a founding member of the critically acclaimed bands Punch Brothers and Nickel Creek. He was the host of public radio favorite��Live from Here with Chris Thile��(formerly known as��A Prairie Home Companion).

He returns to Meany with a solo concert inspired by��Laysongs — his first truly solo album: just Thile, his voice, and mandolin.

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April 3, 12:30 pm | ��North Allen Library Lobby

Students of the 91���� School of Music perform in this lunchtime concert series co-hosted by 91���� Music and 91���� Libraries.

Free |

April 3, 12:30 – 1:30 pm | ��Husky Union Building

Join the Jackson School of International Studies for a talk featuring Colonel Nate Strohm, 91���� US Army War College Fellow 2023-2024 on the evolution and future of Security Force Assistance Brigades in the military. This talk will be followed by a discussion with Colonel Nate Strohm.

Colonel Nathan “Nate” Strohm is a career logistician who has served in multiple tactical logistics units, brigade combat teams, command positions, and in strategic staff positions on both the Army Staff and the Joint Staff.

April 3, 3:30 – 4:20 pm | ��Kincaid Hall or Zoom

The Department of Psychology invites Associate Professor Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez from the University of Rochester to speak about his research on understanding the brain mechanisms underlying discrimination of threat, safety, and reward within a context.

Suarez-Jimenez’s research specifically focuses on developing and validating innovative virtual reality (VR) tasks to study brain mechanisms of complex behavior.

Free |��

April 3, 5:00 – 7:00 pm | Jacob Lawrence Gallery

The Jacob Lawrence Gallery presents the Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency exhibition featuring the 2024 resident artist Simon Benjamin. A Bolt from the Blue is an exhibition curated as a living space of temporal contemplation that continues Simon Benjamin’s research of the sea and coastal areas as connected sites of colonial legacy. Through video installation, painting, sculpture, and photography we are immersed in the artist’s visual, sound, and material vocabularies on relational community histories alongside objects of inquiry.

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April 3, 7:00 – 8:30 pm | ��Kane Hall

The Department of Asian Languages and Literature invites professor Zev Handel to explain how the building blocks of the Chinese script were adapted to represent the words and sounds of Japanese via their transformation into the scripts known as kanji and kana.

Through this lecture, the audience will learn the similarities and differences between the Chinese writing and alphabetic writing, what happened to Chinese-character writing in Korea and Vietnam, and why today Japanese is the only one of these languages that still uses Chinese characters in its writing.

April 4 – 26 | DXARTS Gallery

Time and Time Again is a collaborative installation by artists Leo Nuñez and Juan Pampin. The work is a playful exploration of the cyclical and catastrophic aspects of the Argentine economy. Organized into four interrelated pieces, the installation invites visitors to immerse themselves in a chaotic world of data-driven flashbacks, monetary bicycle rides, and circular financial ruins.

Free |

April 5, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Smith Hall

The Department of Geography invites Charlotte Coté, professor in the Department of American Indian Studies, to speak at this Geography Colloquium.

In her new book, A Drum in One Hand, A Sockeye in the Other, Coté shares many stories from her personal life and stories shared with her about Tseshaht and Northwest Coast Indigenous food traditions. Through these stories, Dr. Coté wants readers to understand why her community of Tseshaht, and Indigenous peoples worldwide, are revitalizing their foodways and reconnecting with their haʔum, cultural food, by enacting food sovereignty.

Free |

April 5, 1:30 – 3:00 pm | Gowen Hall

Associate Professor Sheena Chestnut Greitens at the University of Texas, Austin, will speak on internal security and Chinese grand strategy for this 91���� International Security Colloquium.

Free |

April 6, 3:00 – 4:30 pm | Henry Art Gallery

Inspired by the process of regeneration and rebirth embodied in��Raúl de Nieves: A window to the see, a spirit star chiming in the wind of wonder…, currently on view at the Henry Art Gallery, the gallery will conjure the power and possibilities of imminent failure in an experimental combination of poetry craft talk, courageous conversation, community freestyle, improv music, and facilitated dialogue.

Free |

April 6, 8:00 pm | Meany Hall

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December 11, 7:00 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

The School of Music presents a degree recital from Chiao-Yu Wu. Wu is a Taiwanese pianist in her second year of Doctor of Musical Art in Piano Performance at the 91����. She will perform Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Op. 18 and Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor Op.37 with pianists Cicy Lee and Ian Huh.

Free |

December 15 – 17 | Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center

The Native Art Market, located at the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, showcases authentic and unique work by a wide variety of Native artists and makers. Through items such as clothing, jewelry, woodworking, drums, art prints, and more, the market is a great opportunity to learn more about the Indigenous people living in Washington. The Native Art Market is a component of United Indians of All Tribes Foundation’s many programs and services dedicated to uplifting Native peoples’ in the Puget Sound region and beyond.

Free |

December 16, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

What happens when artists/activists from wildly different backgrounds and musical worlds unite around the fight for racial justice? And what if they link their original songs together by sampling and quoting a piece of classical music that’s almost 300 years old? Riffing on Handel’s masterpiece, Messiah, these musicians transform an ancient tale of a savior into an urgent call to action. The way the musicians frame it, anyone can be the Many Messiahs who build a better world together, starting now.

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December 16, 7:00 – 10:00 pm | ��Burke Museum

An evening of Salish Sea trivia, salmon-safe beer, crafts, advocacy, and snacks. Pints for Puget Sound is a 21+ party in partnership with Braided River, Washington Conservation Action, and Washington Wild. Roam the galleries at night and have a chance to check out the Burke Museum’s special exhibit, We Are Puget Sound, before it closes at the end of the year.

We Are Puget Sound highlights people working to protect and restore this region. This special exhibit brings their stories to life with stunning photography, new insights, and the Burke Museum’s expansive collections.

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“Ways of Knowing” Podcast: Episode 8

“Ways of Knowing” is an eight-episode podcast connecting humanities research with current events and issues. In this final episode, Maya Angela Smith, associate professor of French at the 91����, introduces translation studies through the lens of the song Ne Me Quitte Pas. Originally recorded by Jacques Brel — a French-speaking Belgian man — the song has been covered multiple times, including by American artist Nina Simone. Smith discusses how the artists “bring different identity markers” to the piece, so each version of the same song highlights distinct political, social, and cultural narratives.

This season featured faculty from the 91���� College of Arts & Sciences as they explore race, immigration, history, the natural world—even comic books. Each episode analyzed a work, or an idea, and provides additional resources for learning more.

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Dec. 3, 10 a.m. | Zoom

Join author Elizabeth Graver in conversation with Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies Devin E. Naar for a discussion of “Kantika,” a moving, multi-generational saga inspired by Graver’s grandmother. Rebecca Baruch Levy (née Cohen) was born into a Sephardic Jewish family from Istanbul in the early 20th century, and her kaleidoscopic journey takes her to Barcelona, Havana, and ultimately New York, exploring themes of displacement, endurance, and family as home.

Free |

Dec. 5, 4 – 5:30 pm |Thomson Hall

In this talk hosted by the Department of Anthropology and Center for Southeast Asia & its Diasporas, Joss Whittaker, graduate student in the Department of Anthropology will recount his time living in the Aru Islands with photographs and stories. When Joss Whittaker went to the Aru Islands for archaeological research, things did not go as planned: the research ran into obstacles that ranged from amusing to hair-raising, the camera broke, and much of the film was ruined. Nonetheless, thanks to the support of local allies, in a seven-month stay Joss found fascinating details about past and present in a community that built massive monuments, fought the Dutch East India Company at its peak power, and traded luxuries to remote places. The events around this research won’t make it into a scholarly paper, but they are worth recounting.

Free |

School of Music Concerts

December 3, 3:00pm |�� Brechemin Auditorium

December 4, 7:30pm | Meany Hall

December 4, 7:30pm | ��Meany Hall

December 5, 7:30pm |�� Brechemin Auditorium

December 6, 12:30pm | North Allen Library Lobby

December 6, 7:30pm | ��Meany Hall

December 7, 7:30pm |��, University Congregational Church

December 7, 7:30pm | Meany Hall

December 7, 7:30pm |����Brechemin Auditorium

December 8, 7:30pm | Meany Hall

October – November | “Ways of Knowing” Podcast: Episode 7

“Ways of Knowing” is an eight-episode podcast connecting humanities research with current events and issues. In this week’s episode, Chadwick Allen, professor of English and American Indian studies, at the 91����, explains how the Octagon Earthworks is actually a gigantic clock designed using substantial astronomical knowledge. Allen traces the past, present, and future of mound earthworks, which he describes as feats of astronomy, engineering, and coordinated labor.

This season features faculty from the 91���� College of Arts & Sciences as they explore race, immigration, history, the natural world—even comic books. Each episode analyzes a work, or an idea, and provides additional resources for learning more.

More info

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

November 7, 4:30 – 6:00pm | Communications Building

This presentation by Sharon Stein asks how universities can navigate the complexity of confronting the colonial foundations of higher education and enabling different futures. This discussion approaches reparations as a potentially regenerative process of enacting material redistribution and restitution, (re)building relationships grounded in respect and reciprocity, and repurposing our institutions to be more relevant and responsible.

Free |

November 7, 6:00 – 8:00pm | ��Kane Hall

The Pandemics – COVID 19 and the worldwide racial reckoning – forever changed how people work, live, go to school, and interact as a community. Come listen to a recorded dialogues about the pandemics, and engage in dialogue with the 91���� community. Together the session will remember and honor each individual’s lived pandemics experiences.

Free |��

November 8, 7:00 – 8:30pm | ��Burke Museum

Join the Burke Museum to celebrate Spirit Whales & Sloth Tales: Fossils of Washington State, by Elizabeth A. Nesbitt, Burke curator emerita of invertebrate and micropaleontology, and David B. Williams, Seattle-based author, naturalist, and historian.

From primitive horses on the Columbia Plateau to giant bird tracks near Bellingham, fossils across Washington state are filled with clues of past life on Earth. With abundant and well-exposed rock layers, the state has both old and “young” fossils, from Ice Age mammals dating only 12,000 years old back to marine invertebrates more than 500 million years old.

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November 8, 7:30pm | Meany Hall

Seattle favorite Garrick Ohlsson has established himself as a pianist of masterful interpretive and technical skill. He commands an enormous repertoire ranging over the entire piano literature. He brings a full program of Chopin, Schubert, and Beethoven, along with an evocative work by Ursula Mamlok. Ohlsson’s brilliant stage presence and easy connection to audiences amplifies his well-earned reputation for bringing piano masterpieces to life with virtuosic firepower and resonant interpretations.

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November 8 | National First-Generation College Celebration

The 91���� proudly supports the experiences of first-generation students. For the sixth-straight year, the 91���� Bothell, Seattle and Tacoma campuses are joining colleges and universities throughout the nation to participate in the on November 8.

Led by the Council for Opportunity in Education (COE) and the NASPA Center for First-Generation Student Success, the day is intended to celebrate the success and presence of first-generation college students, faculty, and staff on campuses across the country.

Free | More info

November 9, 6:00 – 8:00pm |

Different disciplines, cultures, and individuals have distinct approaches to gathering information, interpreting it, and forming beliefs. This begs the question: “How do we know things and where else should we be looking for answers?”

91���� Honors’ annual Global Challenges/Interdisciplinary Answers conversation, led by Polly Olsen (Yakama), director of DEI & Decolonization and tribal liaison at the Burke Museum; Tony Lucero, Professor and Chair in the Department of Comparative History of Ideas; and Katie Davis, Associate Professor in the iSchool, consider questions cultivated by students in the University Honors Program. This conversation will be moderated by Samantha-Lynn Martinez, a rising junior marine biology major.

Free |

November 12, 11:00am – 12:00pm | Burke Museum

Burke Museum education partner Hindi Time Kids has planned an exciting all-ages event to teach visitors about the meaning and traditions of Diwali, a South Asian annual festival of lights celebrated in many parts of the world. The word ‘Diwali’ derives from Sanskrit language and means “a row of lights.” Diwali is a time for gathering with loved ones, celebrating life, and enjoying the illumination of lights.

Free |��

November 12, 1:30 – 2:30pm | ��Henry Art Gallery

Meet curator Nina Bozicnik for a tour of Sophia Al-Maria: Not My Bag. Born in Tacoma, Washington and now based in London, Al-Maria is a Qatari-American artist, writer, and filmmaker. Not My Bag brings together, her recent trilogy of films. In this exhibition, Al-Maria interrogates histories of colonial authority in contemporary culture. During the tour, Bozicnik will share insights into the concepts, ideas, and artworks within the exhibition as well as take time for questions and conversation.

Free |

October – November | “Ways of Knowing” Podcast: Episode 4

“Ways of Knowing” is an eight-episode podcast connecting humanities research with current events and issues. This week’s episode is with Louisa Mackenzie, associate professor of Comparative History of Ideas at the 91����, will describe how human’s view of nature has evolved over decades, from fear to appreciation.

This season features faculty from the 91���� College of Arts & Sciences as they explore race, immigration, history, the natural world—even comic books. Each episode analyzes a work, or an idea, and provides additional resources for learning more.

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October 25, 7:30pm | Meany Hall��

Join the Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) as they host a Fall Concert with the Henry Art Gallery, Mini Mart City Park, Method Gallery, Gallery 4Culture, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Georgetown Steam Plant, and Meany Hall at the 91����. This experimental arts festival will feature technology driven art on ritual, entropy, and storm.

Free |

October 27, 8:00pm | Meany Hall

Combining the manual art of shadow puppetry with projected animation, Song of the North tells the courageous tale of Manijeh, a heroine from ancient Persia. Manijeh must use all her strengths and talents to rescue her beloved Bijan from a dangerous predicament of her own making and help prevent a war. This love story, adapted from the Book of Kings (Shahnameh), employs a cast of 500 handmade puppets and a talented ensemble of nine actors and puppeteers to create a spectacular multimedia experience.

$10 – $69 Tickets |

October 27, 11:30am – 1:00pm | Gowen Hall

This talk will show how woodblock printing techniques, first developed by Buddhists, provided a technology that could give a broad number of people access to the written word.

Yuhua Wang, Professor of Government at Harvard University, argues that state formation depends not only on military competition but also on the supply of ideas and techniques in a society. These ideas can sometimes come from unexpected areas before being adopted by those in power.

Free |

October 27, 2:30pm | Jones Playhouse

Join the 91���� Department of Dance to hear research presentations by second year MFA candidates in dance.

Free |

October 28, 7:30pm | Meany Hall

Enjoy the latest installment of an ongoing series created by artistic director Naeim Rahmani. The program includes commissioned works by Iranian composers living outside of Iran and Seattle-based composers with strong ties to the 91���� Composition Program: Huck Hodge, Joël-François Durand, Jeff Bowen, and Yigit Kölat.

$10 – $20 Tickets |

October – November | “Ways of Knowing” Podcast: Episode 2

“Ways of Knowing” is an eight-episode podcast connecting humanities research with current events and issues. This weeks episode is a Close Reading with Charles LaPorte of “Dover Beach,” a poem by 19th century British writer Matthew Arnold. The poem can be read as both a romantic lament and, as many scholars have concluded, a dark, existential commentary on the loss of religious faith.

This season features faculty from the 91���� College of Arts & Sciences as they explore race, immigration, history, the natural world – even comic books. Each episode analyzes a work, or an idea, and provides additional resources for learning more.

Free | More info

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June 8, 3:30 – 5:30pm | 2023 Awards of Excellence recipients, Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater in Meany Hall

Honor outstanding alumni, faculty, staff, students and retirees who contribute to the richness and diversity of our University community. The president and provost will host a one-hour ceremony, followed by a reception with hors d’oeuvres, desserts and a chance to connect and celebrate with the 91���� community.

Free | More info

June 7 – 14, 10am – 5pm | Jacob Lawrence Gallery

A graduation exhibition for students receiving Bachelor of Design (BDes) degrees.

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June 10 | Graduation

Huskies from around the world will once again take the field at Husky Stadium to celebrate their accomplishments in front of 40,000 proud family members, friends and guests. President Cauce and the leadership of the University will be there to confer degrees as each graduates makes that once-in-a-lifetime walk across the 4,000-square-foot stage, adorned with life-size replicas of the four ionic columns that graced the Territorial University over 160 years ago.

Free | More info and registration

Through June 25 | ��Henry Art Gallery North Galleries

The Henry Art Gallery will present the 91����’s School of Art + Art History + Design Master of Fine Arts and Master of Design thesis exhibition. Throughout their programs, fine arts and design students work with advisers and other artists to develop advanced techniques, expand concepts, discuss critical issues, and emerge with a vision and direction for their own work. Henry staff conduct two studio visits and work closely with the students to facilitate their projects and prepare them for exhibition at the museum. A digital publication is produced in conjunction with the exhibition to highlight the students’ artistic endeavors and the Henry’s commitment to this exciting and important step in the students’ development as practicing artists and designers.

Free |

Through July 29 | Reader’s Choice: “The Overstory” by Richard Powers, Online

August 11-16 | 91���� Converge Jakarta 2023

Summer Programming from the Burke Museum & Henry Art Gallery

June 23, 7:00 PM | Kane Hall

Being one of the largest animals to ever roam the earth has its upsides. Too big for most other animals to hunt, Sauropods could also reach food other dinosaurs could only view longingly. But being that big can also be a pain in the neck, especially when that neck is more than 25 feet long and weighs a couple tons. Learn about all this and more at the Burke Museum’s annual Dino Lecture, now bigger than ever.

Join University of Michigan Paleontologist Dr. Jeff Wilson Mantilla for a trip 200 million years back in time to learn how these long-necked dinosaurs got so big in the first place and the adaptations that allowed them to thrive. Hear stories about field work in India, Brazil, and Jordan, where Dr. Wilson Mantilla excavates some seriously big bones in search of evolutionary clues.

Free |

Through July 9 | Henry Art Gallery

Jones’s Altared States project, which was originally produced by CalArts Center for New Performance, with New York Live Arts, and commissioned by The Public Theater, with support from NEFA. Exploring the meeting places between the material and the numinous which have always served as contemplative sites among most world cultures through a range of artistic forms, ALTAREDSTATES invites participants into intentional relationship with unseen interwoven forces that shape our lived realities, including waves of history, culture, cosmology, and Soul.

Free |

Through August 27 | Henry Art Gallery

Known for her exuberant abstractions, Sarah Cain (b. 1979, Albany, NY) often extends her practice beyond the canvas into installation, site-specific painting, stained glass, and furniture. Her work draws from sources as disparate as Abstract Expressionism, graffiti, and pop music, and incorporates materials as diverse as sand, feathers, jewelry, crystals, and fabric. At the Henry, the artist has created an immersive architectural intervention in dialogue with the double-height architecture of the museum’s East Gallery.

Free |

Through December 31 | , Burke Museum

Experience the wonder of Puget Sound through the unique wildlife and living cultures that call the Salish Sea home. From Southern resident orcas and Chinook salmon to community gardens and the annual Canoe Journey, build a deeper connection with a region teeming with life. Hear from the scientists, tribal members, and community advocates working to conserve and heal the Salish Sea, because the choices we make today will determine the future of this region.

We Are Puget Sound highlights people working to protect and restore this region. This special exhibit brings their stories to life with stunning photography, new insights, and the Burke Museum’s expansive collections.

Cost of Admission / Free to 91���� students, faculty and staff |

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

Many people are aware of plastic pollution in the oceans. Photos of turtles or seabirds entangled in plastic garbage first went viral in the 1990s, and the is now the focus of highly publicized cleanup efforts.

Less recognized is how marine plastic waste affects human populations, and the unequal burden on different communities. A report, “,” outlines the current situation and attempts to address the problem.

“We all benefit from plastics, but some people are paying more of the external costs in terms of the environmental damage, well-being issues and just horrendous scenes that they must live with in places they call home,” said project leader , a 91���� professor of practice in marine and environmental affairs and director of The Nippon Foundation .

Increasingly, the greenhouse gases causing climate change are seen as an issue in which some countries produce most of the pollution while other countries or groups are more at risk from the long-term consequences. Plastic pollution, this report argues, is a similar issue for coastal communities.

The report, published in late November, includes 31 authors from nine countries. It incorporates case studies and analyses from around the world as well as larger, overarching recommendations for change.

The authors conclude that coastal communities most affected by marine plastic pollution should be better represented in drafting potential solutions. A free, virtual event in March will bring together stakeholders from around the world to draw up a road map for an equity-focused path to address marine plastics.

The Ocean Nexus Center was founded in 2019 as a 10-year initiative based in 91���� EarthLab that includes more than 20 member universities and organizations around the world. Its mission is to bring together equity and justice in the oceans on a global scale.

The recently published report covers topics such as:

• A call to replace the term “plastic litter” with “plastic pollution.” The word “litter” frames the issue on a small scale that can be addressed with better waste collection, disposal or recycling, rather than broader industry-wide changes to production.
• A discussion of the rise in plastic waste during the COVID-19 pandemic, through masks, gloves, face shields and a resurgence of single-use and individually wrapped products.
• Chapters that provide place-based case studies, including interviews with local residents about their experiences with marine plastics. Locations include a fishing community in Ghana, coastal mangrove forests in Ecuador, and an island in southern Japan that includes both tourists and residents.
• Two analyses of waste cleanup programs — Washington state’s and the program in the Netherlands.
• A section with multiple authors focused on the island of Aotearoa, New Zealand. Maori perspectives have been disregarded in efforts to address marine plastic pollution, authors write, despite the greater impact and importance of marine environments for Maori people’s livelihood and culture.
• A review of international rules for plastic waste disposal — a patchwork of regulations including the Basel Convention, a nonbinding agreement that the U.S. has not signed.
• A critique of Coca-Cola Co.’s “ as an example of industry-backed solutions to marine plastic pollution that focus on individual consumers, rather than bigger, more permanent solutions that could reduce plastic waste.

“Coca-Cola is the world’s biggest producer of plastic waste, and it serves as a case study of how multinational corporations engage in waste reduction and corporate social responsibility,” said lead author , a 91���� postdoctoral researcher in marine and environmental affairs who wrote the analysis of Coca-Cola’s initiative.

“As we highlight in the report, one of the key actions we see as imperative for addressing marine plastic pollution is refocusing the problem as one of plastics production, rather than as an issue of waste management,” Vandenberg said.

, a Seattle-based artist, created digital watercolor paintings that appear throughout the document. The report is funded by The Nippon Foundation and is intended to be an accessible, comprehensive summary of the issue that can be read by policymakers, educators and other audiences, Ota said.

The March event will bring together audiences to implement the report’s main recommendations. Visit The Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center to find forthcoming event details.

For more information, contact Ocean Nexus marketing and communications lead Ariel Wang at arielyw@uw.edu, Ota at yota1@uw.edu or Vandenberg at jvandenb@uw.edu (note: Vandenberg is currently a visiting scholar at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands, on Central European Time).

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���� 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���� 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 – 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.

Free | More info

October 18, 6 PM | , online

Rena Priest (Lhaq’temish Nation), the Washington State Poet Laureate, has received numerous awards for her writing, including an American Book Award for her debut poetry collection, “Patriarchy Blues.” Priest will share a reading followed by a conversation with 91���� 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, ’93, both from the 91���� 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—it 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’s 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����.

(in person or Zoom).

October 20, 11 AM: Annual President’s 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����’s 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 “givens,” 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 “Oh!” in ​BIG FIVE-OH! and continues to morph its way thrillingly into audiences’ hearts and minds. The celebration includes signature works, from vintage classics to their trendsetting innovations in shadow play.

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

91���� Student: $10 91���� 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���� Students in Section A. Limit of one 91���� Student ticket per valid Husky ID.

October 20, 2:30 PM | , HUB��

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’s war and the importance of diplomacy at this critical time.

Free |

October 20, 6 PM | , Alder Hall Auditorium��

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:��

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

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

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