UW Events Archive

An Evening with Tina Campt

Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle

Tina Campt’s lecture will present new work from her forthcoming book, Art in a Time of Sorrow, which explores the relationship between grief, loss, and black contemporary art.

Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire

Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Thomas Hall 217

This talk explores how leading South Asian Muslim thinkers imagined and contested the boundaries of Hindu-Muslim friendship from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.

Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire

Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

SherAli Tareen, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin & Marshall College, will engage some key fragments from his book: “Perilous Intimacies.”

Homes for Some: Seattle’s History of Housing and Racial Exclusion

Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024

7 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 130

Professor James Gregory will talk about Seattle’s history that prevented people of certain racial and religious backgrounds from buying, renting, or occupying homes.

Book Talk: One China, Many Taiwans with Ian Rowen

Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Livestream, Thomson Hall 317

Professor Ian Rowen (National Taiwan Normal University) will join in-person to discuss his new monograph, One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism.

Translation Studies Hub Colloquium

Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024

11:30 a.m.

Communications Building 202

The Translation Studies Hub serves as a platform for discussion about the theories, histories, and practice of translation at UW and in the broader Seattle community.

War in the Middle East Lecture: The ‘New Elites’ of X: Identifying the Most Influential Accounts Engaged in Hamas/Israel Discourse

Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024

5 p.m.

Architecture Hall 147

Kate Starbird, Mert Bayar and Mike Caulfield, UW Center for an Informed Public, give a talk on the war in Gaza and responses worldwide.

Hopkins Faculty Award Lecture in Chemistry: Prof. Daniel Gamelin

Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024

4 p.m.

TBD

Prof. Gamelin was selected for this award for his outstanding contributions to education, service missions, and to 91×ÔÅÄ in the inorganic and physical chemistry of materials

Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics – Suparna Chaudhry, Lewis and Clark College

Friday, Feb. 2, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Gowen Hall 1A

Join Suparna Chaudhry, Assistant Professor in the Department of International Affairs at Lewis and Clark College, and Ji Hyeon Chung, political science graduate for a talk.

UW Tacoma Alumni Speaker Series featuring Desmond Trufant

Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024

6 p.m.

William W. Philip Hall

Desmond Trufant, UW Husky Football Legend, Philanthropist, Businessman, Tacoma KidZ, Investor, and Former NFL Player will speak while interviewed by a student/recent grad at UWT.