UW Events Archive

Hope and Honor: Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust

Tuesday, Mar. 5, 2024

2 p.m.

TBD

Sociology Colloquium Professor Rachel L. Einwohner: 鈥淗ope and Honor: Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust.鈥

The Bound Steppe: Emancipation with Abolition in the Qing Empire | Sam H. Bass

Tuesday, Mar. 5, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Smith Hall 306

This talk examines how legal institutions of the Qing Empire unintentionally effected a gradual emancipation in the Mongolian frontier.

George H. Cady Endowed Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry: Prof. Jeff Long

Monday, Mar. 4, 2024

4 p.m.

Johnson Hall 102

Professor Jeff Long is invited to speak at the George H. Cady Endowed Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry.

Know Your Place, Know Your Calling: Geography, Race, and Kant鈥檚 ‘World-Citizen’

Monday, Mar. 4, 2024

2:30 p.m.

Denny Hall 359

The graduate students in German Studies invites Prof. Huaping Lu-Adler for a talk: “Know Your Place, Know Your Calling: Geography, Race, and Kant鈥檚 ‘World-Citizen’鈥

damnatio memoriae and Confederate statue destructions today

Saturday, Mar. 2, 2024

2 p.m.

Livestream, Denny Hall 112

In this lecture, Jennifer Trimble from Stanford University compares and contrasts recent statue destructions with ancient Roman practices of damnatio to understand both more fully.

Is the US a democracy or a republic?

Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream

Writer and scholar, Anand Gopal will draw from historical examples in his exploration of the rise and fall of American democracy in the context of historical thinking about what makes democracies flourish and provide suggestions for ways we can fix America鈥檚 democracy.

Weston and Sheila Borden Endowed Lecture in Theoretical Chemistry: Prof. Greg Voth

Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024

4 p.m.

TBA

Professor Gregory A. Voth will talk about advances in theoretical and computational methodology along with certain key applications.

Gendering Democratization in Croatia

Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024

Noon

Livestream

Leda Sutlovi膰, a PhD candidate and lecturer at the University of Vienna, will give a talk about long-term legacies of the women’s movement in Croatia.

Weston and Sheila Borden Endowed Lecture in Theoretical Chemistry: Prof. Greg Voth

Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024

4 p.m.

Johnson Hall 102

Professor Greg Voth is invited to speak for the Weston and Sheila Borden Endowed Lecture in Theoretical Chemistry.

War in the Middle East Lecture: Israel-Hamas: Will this be the Last War?

Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024

5 p.m.

Architecture Hall 147

Daniel C. Kurtzer, Ambassador (ret.) to Egypt and Israel and Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton University, gives a talk about the war in Gaza.