UW Events Archive

From Forest Farm to Sawmill Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State

Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Allen Library Peterson Room

Shuxuan Zhou situates firsthand accounts of labor and resistance in wood processing within the context of postrevolutionary socialist reforms through China鈥檚 economic development.

Panel Discussion – Translating Persian Literature: Problems and Prospects

Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024

5:30 p.m.

3 Pike Street #307

UW MELC Persian and Iranian Studies Presents: The Inaugural Cycle of the Iraj Khademi Residency in Persian Literature.

Sacred Breath: Indigenous Writing and Storytelling Series

Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024

6 p.m.

Livestream, w菨色菨b蕯altx史 鈥 Intellectual House

Sacred Breath features Indigenous writers and storytellers sharing their craft at the beautiful w菨色菨b蕯altx史 Intellectual House on the UW Seattle campus.

Stephen Katz, “From Demography to Kinship: The Crisis of Population Aging”

Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Communications Building 202

This presentation considers moving beyond population itself and its demographic crisis models of reproduction, drawing on radical concepts of kin and kinship.

Distinguished Alumni Lecture with Professor Michael Fanselow, Ph.D., UCLA

Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Hans Rosling Center 155

Using experimental rodent models I will describe how defensive behavior is organized into 3 distinct modes that fall along a continuum related to the proximity of threat.

Motherland by Shahzoda Samarqandi

Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024

7 p.m.

Thirdplace Books, 6504 20th Ave NE

Book Launch – Motherland by Shahzoda Samarqandi, translated by Shelley Fairweather-Vega

The Role of Public Universities

Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024

6 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 120

Join UW Honors鈥 10th annual Global Challenges/Interdisciplinary Thinking event, where our whole community considers big, knotty topics in conversation with UW professors.

Democracy Discussions: The 2024 Election: What Just Happened and What Happens Next?

Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024

5 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 210

Discussion with UW Department of Political Science faculty following the election, what happened, and what it means for the future.

Trust on the Ballot: Voting in Washington

Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024

7:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream

Join three Washington Secretaries of State to discuss the history and evolution of voting in WA; from the various systems in place to the complex climate we now operate in.

Film Screening: ‘Carving the Divine: Buddhist Sculptors of Japan’, with filmmaker Yujiro Seki

Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024

4:30 p.m.

Livestream

Attendees will receive the link to view the film and then rejoin our Zoom meeting for discussion and Q/A with the filmmaker moderated by Professor Miriam Chusid, UW Art History.