During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities听to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the UW, and the greater community, together online.听
Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All UW faculty, staff, and students have access to听.听
The Henry Art Gallery: Exhibitions on view through April
Ongoing |
The Henry Art Gallery, located on the UW campus, is internationally recognized for bold and challenging exhibitions, for pushing the boundaries of contemporary art and culture, and for being the first to premiere new works by established and emerging artists. Through individual experiences with art, it inspires visitors to upend their expectations and discover surprising connections.
Admission to the Henry Art Gallery is free until June, and it is open Saturdays and Sundays, 10 AM – 5 PM. Check out exhibitions that are closing soon:
- Illustration Injustice: The Power of Print & We Own Our Words: Through May 9
- Bambitchell: Bugs & Beasts Before the Law: Through May 9
- Plural Possibilities & the Female Body: Through May 9
- A Dialogue Between Jean-Fran莽ois Millet and Jeanne Dunning: Through May 30
Free |
It Takes A Village with Dr. Cornel West
April 29, 6:00 PM |
Join NAAM, in partnership with UW Communication, UW Race & Equity Initiative, UW Department of Philosophy, and Seattle University Office of Diversity & Inclusion, for an evening with Dr. Cornel West discussing “Critical Thinking and the Cultivation of Your True Self”.
Nationally-renowned public intellectual and award-winning author Dr. Cornel West, professor of Harvard University, will join Dr. Ralina Joseph, NAAM鈥檚 scholar-in-residence, for a riveting discussion as part of the “It Takes a Village” series.
This event will also feature performances from award winning multi-instrumentalist, composer, community activist, social entrepreneur, and educator, Ben Hunter.
Free |
Talking Gender in the E.U.: Anti-Gender Politics and Right Wing Populism in Poland
April 27, 12:00 – 1:00 PM |听
Join听El偶bieta Korolczuk, Associate Professor at The School of Historical and Contemporary Studies,听S枚dert枚rn University, Sweden听for a discussion on anti-gender politics and right wing populism in Poland.
This lecture series is organized by the Center for West European Studies and the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence with support from the Lee and Stuart Scheingold European Studies Fund, the EU Erasmus+ Program, the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, and the Center for Global Studies.听
Next in the series:
- May 13, 12:00 – 1:00 PM: Gender in the European Parliament
Free |
From ‘Permit Patty’ to ‘Karen’: Black Rearticulations of Racial Humor
April 28, 3:30 – 5:00 PM |
In the third COM Spring colloquium sponsored by the Department of Communication,听Dr. Raven Maragh-Lloyd will discuss two related case studies to explore how Black publics online have shifted racial humor as a resistance strategy to respond to white femininity and its deployment of the police state.
To understand how Black publics use their online networks to respond to white femininity and the police state, Dr. Maragh-Lloyd conducted a textual analysis from a collected sample of 1,000 tweets and Instagram posts with the hashtags #PermitPatty and #Karen between June and September 2020. Ultimately, she argues that these resistance strategies rearticulate the vestiges of innocence that the U.S. has conferred on white women, often at the expense of Black individuals, and particularly children. This rearticulation of innocence forces cultural conversations about Black bodies as historically criminalized and places Black people鈥揵oth the living and the dead鈥揳t the helm of their own stories on and offline.
Free |
2020-2021 WISIR Series: Teaching the Movement: Reflections on Protests, Abolition, and Radical Scholarship
April 30, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |听
As part of the听2020-2021 WISIR Series:听Contemporary Race & Politics in the United States, this panel will reflect upon the racial justice struggles of the last year and what is necessary to shift the balance of power in favor of movements.听Moderator Megan Ming Francis (Associate Professor of Political Science, 天美影视传媒) and panelists Amna Akbar (Associate Professor of Law, The Ohio State University), Nikkita Oliver (Community Organizer, Educator, and Attorney), and听Barbara Ransby (Professor of History, Gender and Women鈥檚 Studies, and African American Studies, University of Illinois Chicago)听will also consider how their teaching and research practices have shifted in ways to encourage collective action and challenge power.
Free |
Global Literatures & Global Literacies: Teaching Texts, Old and New
April 30, 1:30 – 4:30 PM |听
“Global Literatures & Global Literacies: Teaching Texts, Old and New” is a symposium to advance thinking about the current and future teaching of literature, as well as a new literature major, at UW.听It is also an opportunity for networking and collaboration among faculty members whose teaching emphasizes trans-national, trans-regional, trans-historical, and/or trans-cultural orientations. Organized by听Naomi Sokoloff (Professor, Near Eastern Languages & Civilation), Gordana Crnkovi膰 (Professor, Slavic Languages & Literature), and Gary Handwerk (Professor, Comparative History of Ideas), the symposium is open to all and will be hosted on Zoom.
The event is co-sponsored by Asian Languages & Literature, Cinema & Media Studies, Classics, Comparative History of Ideas, English, French & Italian Studies, Germanics, Near Eastern Languages & Civilization, Scandinavian Studies, Slavic Languages & Literatures, and Spanish & Portuguese Studies.
Free |
Looking for more?
Check out UWAA’s Stronger Together web page for听more digital engagement opportunities.