2 p.m.
Join the Burke Museum for a film screening of On Our Terms, plus a conversation with co-producer Aaron McCanna and Tory Johnston, a musician, scholar and KEXP DJ, on decolonization and communicating ideas through music.
Noon
UW Colloquium in Political Theory: Dr. Emma Rodman, “The Idea of Equality in America”
3:30 p.m.
In Island Tinkerers, Honghong Tinn tells the critical history of how hobbyists and enthusiasts in Taiwan helped transform the country with their hands-on engagement with computers.
4 p.m.
Written by Tyler Kirk, After the Gulag: A History of Memory in Russia’s Far North, shares the stories of prisoners’ experiences in the Soviet Union.
6 p.m.
Join poet Natalie Diaz and artist A.K. Burns for an evening of poetry and conversation that explores the significance of land, water, and language across their practices. Held in conjunction with Burns鈥檚 exhibition What is Perverse is Liquid, this program is inspired by the role of creative connection and relationship to artistic life and imagination. Diaz is a Pulitzer-Prize winning Mojave poet and author of Postcolonial Love Poem, a poetry collection that has been a source of artistic affinity and inspiration for Burns鈥檚 work. At the Henry, Diaz will offer a reading from the collection alongside a presentation by Burns. A conversation in response to each other鈥檚 work will follow, and will be moderated by writer and UW Bothell creative writing professor Ching-In Chen.
This program is co-presented with the UW Bothell MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics program. Funding support provided by the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and the UW Bothell Labor Colloquium.
Noon
This presentation compares two late nineteenth-century feminist speculative fictions that engage with, reclaim, and reinterpret post-Darwinian scientific discourses.
6:30 p.m.
Join us for a conversation with San Francisco State University (emerita) activist and educator, Margo Okazawa- Rey for a conversation that will explore how generations of feminist and other radical and visionary movements, activists, artists, musicians, journalists, academics are facing 鈥渕onsters鈥� – the state and civil society leaders of the globalized culture of killing are threatening the very survival of the planet.
1:30 p.m.
Quebec author Juliana L茅veill茅-Trudel will talk about her novel, Nirliit, followed by a discussion.
Noon
Please join UAW 4121, APALA, and the UW Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies for a UW-specific 鈥楰now Your Rights & Responsibilities鈥� training to protect immigrants.
3:30 p.m.
Communications colloquium by Jeffrey Bennett, this talk examines how the insurance industry rhetorically redlined those they situated at high risk of HIV infection in the 1980s and 90s.