UW Events Archive

Sawad Hussain: Selling literature: What鈥檚 a translator got to do with it?

Thursday, May 8, 2025

11:30 a.m.

CMU 202

This seminar will examine the marketing tools that today鈥檚 translators are expected to master and whether these expectations are fair to begin with.

Digital Humanities Lecture: Ryan Cordell

Thursday, May 8, 2025

4 p.m.

CMU 120

Ryan Cordell – Bibliography & the Sociology of Large Language Models. Drawing on experiments from the Viral Texts project, study the relationship between bibliography and AI.

Not So Simple! Translating Young Adult Literature as Resistance and Entertainment with Sawad Hussain

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

5 p.m.

Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, 93 Pike Street #30

Join a panel of three distinguished translators -Sawad Hussain, Shelley Fairweather-Vega, and Takami Nieda – for an engaging discussion on translating literature for young people.

Finland: Scandinavian, Nordic, and Baltic Positioning by Sonya Amadae

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Allen Library Auditorium

This talk discusses Finland’s unique cultural heritage and its contemporary expression as a new NATO member and an important collaborator with the Nordic Defense Cooperation.

50 years of Danish Studies at the UW

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

4 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 225

Explore the origins, adaptations, and history of Hans Christian Andersen鈥檚 tale 鈥淭he Emperor鈥檚 New Clothes,鈥 framing it as a clever parable that questions political authority.

Paul C. Cross Endowed Lecture in Physical Chemistry: Prof. David Hu

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

4 p.m.

Guggenheim Hall 220

“Mosquitoes, earwax, and bird baths”
Professor David Hu – School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Tech
Host: Sarah Keller

A Delicate Symphony: Courtship, Guardianship, and (self-)Censorship in Translating from Arabic

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

4:30 p.m.

HUB 332

Sawad Hussain will highlight how she has courted authors and editors, and then played guardian and censor to bring literary works from Arabic into English.

Trump in the World 2.0 Lecture Series – U.S. Foreign Aid

Monday, May 5, 2025

5 p.m.

Livestream

A series of online talks and discussions on the international impact of the second Trump presidency featuring Jackson School and other UW faculty and guest speakers. Topic: Migration, featuring Mark Ward, U.S. Foreign Service (ret.); Instructor Oregon State University.

The AfroFuture Now

Thursday, May 1, 2025

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle

Join award-winning graphic novelist and all-around champion of Black culture, John Jennings for a conversation about the current history of Black speculation.

Splintered Intimacies: Work and Friendship in Karachi’s Service Economy

Thursday, May 1, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Denny 313

This talk will draw on ethnographic fieldwork to explore the social lives of low-wage women workers in Karachi, Pakistan.