UW Events Archive

A Spotlight on Rumors: Illuminating How Influence and Improvisation Shape Online Conversations

Monday, Feb. 24, 2025

5:30 p.m.

Livestream, HUB North Ballroom

Join UW Professor Kate Starbird for a discussion about her work understanding how online rumors, misinformation and disinformation are created and shared during times of crisis 鈥 shining a light on the roles everyone plays on social media and beyond.

Disparities in Disconnections: Utility Access in the Age of Climate Change

Friday, Feb. 21, 2025

Noon

Gowen Hall 1A, The Olson Room

Lecture from David Konisky, Indiana University Bloomington, about utility access in the age of climate change

Diana Behler Memorial Lecture: DorotFrom the Grimms鈥 Wonder Tales to AI: Wells, Hedges, Automata, Screens. How to connect the dots?

Friday, Feb. 21, 2025

2:30 p.m.

Denny 359

Prof. Dorothee Ostmeier, University of Oregon, will deliver a lecture in honor of beloved UW Professor Diana Behler.

Self-Destructive Policy Seeking and Self-Benefiting Shirking, with Ko Maeda, University of North Texas

Friday, Feb. 21, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Thomson Hall

This study empirically shows that Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has been gaining an electoral advantage by not achieving its stated goal of revising the constitution

FILM SCREENING |”My Imaginary Country”

Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025

5:30 p.m.

Allen Library Auditorium

Join Livia Lima and Andr茅s Barr铆a for a screening of Patricio Guzm谩n’s 2019 documentary, “My Imaginary Country (Mi pa铆s imaginario).”

Translating Freud: Psychoanalysis in the Popular Jewish Press with Naomi Seidman

Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025

4:30 p.m.

Communications Building 120

Guest lecturer Naomi Seidman will take us inside 鈥渢he Freud craze鈥 to explore the impact Freud鈥檚 work had on Eastern European Jews.

Global History and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab

Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

Navyug Gill explores the peasant and laborer as noval political subjects forged in the meeting between colonialism and struggles over culture and capital within Panjabi society.

The Columbia: Where the Internet Live

Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025

7:30 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 130

Part of the History Lecture Series: River Histories. An artery of indigenous commerce, a nexus of the fur trade, a power source for war work, and a water source for industrial-scale agriculture, the mighty Columbia is now home to one of the world鈥檚 most notable concentrations of data centers. These enormous facilities, owned and operated by the world鈥檚 largest technology companies, are the physical backbone that make cloud computing, social networking, and AI possible.

Confucianism, Virtue Ethics and the Science of Perception

Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025

4 p.m.

Communications Building 202

In this more technical colloquium, Edward Slingerland will review some of the academic and scientific controversies the project required him to navigate.

Stice Feminist Lecture of Social Justice: “Fighting Fascism with Intersex Justice,” presented by Sean Saifa Wall

Monday, Feb. 10, 2025

3 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 225

Join Dr. Sean Saifa Wall in a conversation that asks questions, speaks truths, and offers a way forward through these recent years.