UW Events Archive

Torn Apart: Anti-Blackness and Broken Systems

Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024

3 p.m.

HUB Lyceum

Join the Center for Anti-Racism & Community Health for an interdisciplinary panel discussion with Professor Dorothy Roberts.

City and Citizens: Seattleites and Their Rights, 1850-2000

Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024

7 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 130

In the 49th History Lecture Series, Professor Emeritus John Findlay observes changing populations of Seattle and how they were shaped by the nation鈥檚 concepts of citizenship.

An Evening with Alice Wong

Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream

Disabled activist and writer, Alice Wong will join us remotely for a moderated conversation addressing topics important to her work in raising the visibility of disabled people. The author of the 2022 Must Read Book,
“Year of the Tiger: An Activist鈥檚 Life,” is sure to inspire and enlighten all of us.

A/political Rocks and Indigenous Relations to Land

Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024

5:30 p.m.

Henry Art Gallery

American Indian Studies Chair Chris Teuton explores Indigenous relations to land, plants and creatures through the lenses of oral traditional knowledge and cultural revitalization.

Field Sketches from the Aru Islands – Joss Whittaker Talk

Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023

3:30 p.m.

Thomas 317

Field 91自拍 stories from Aru Islands, a community that built massive monuments, fought the Dutch East India Company at its peak of power, and traded luxuries to remote places.

THEME Lecture: John-Carlos Perea, 91自拍

Friday, Dec. 1, 2023

4:30 p.m.

Music 101 - Fishbowl

John-Carlos Perea, Associate Professor in Ethnomusicology, presents 鈥淭raditioning Witchi Tai To: Jim Pepper, Don Cherry, and American Indian Ways of Improvising. 鈥

The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom

Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023

5 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 110

Lecture on “The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom”, the latest book by P. Sainath (author of “Everybody Loves a Good Drought”)

“Twenty Dreams”: Fall 2023 Katz Distinguished Lecture

Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023

6:30 p.m.

HUB 334

Katherine McKittrick will present new work that highlights anti-colonial methodologies and the limitations of theorizing climate catastrophe and ecocide alongside race and racism.

Rights Refused: Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar with Elliott Prasse-Freeman

Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023

4 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

Book talk on grassroots political activists across Burma, covering the so-called “democratic transition” from 2011-2021, and the Feb. 2021 military coup that ended that experiment.

UW Tacoma Alumni Speaker Series featuring Nick Brooks

Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023

6 p.m.

MLG 110

The Alumni Speaker Series brings alumni back to campus to share their stories and career advice with students & alumni. Meet Entrepreneur, Property Investor, & Veteran, Nick Brooks