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
Sacred Breath: Indigenous Writing and Storytelling Series
May 17, 6:00 – 7:15 PM |听
The Department of American Indian Studies听hosts an annual literary and storytelling series.听Sacred Breath听features Indigenous writers and storytellers at听w菨色菨b蕯altx史 – Intellectual House听on the 天美影视传媒 Seattle campus. Storytelling offers a spiritual connection, a sharing of sacred breath. Literature, similarly, preserves human experience and ideals. Both forms are durable and transmit power that teaches us how to live. Both storytelling and reading aloud can impact audiences through the power of presence, allowing for the experience of the transfer of sacred breath as audiences are immersed in the experience of being inside stories and works of literature.
Free |
A new Measure: the Revolutionary Quantum Reform of the Metric System
May 18, 6:00 PM |听
Scientists must rely on a system of units to provide a quantitative description of our universe. The International System of Units (the SI, or Metric system) starts with seven base units from which all measurable properties of objects and phenomena can be expressed. The universal and international character of science strives for the standards that define the units鈥攏ecessary for the effective scientific communication that underpins the longstanding and continued success of science鈥攖o be unambiguous, precise, constant and accessible to everyone.
On May 20, 2019, World Metrology Day, the international metrology community听adopted revolutionary changes to the SI听wherein all of the base units of measure are defined by fixing the values听of constants of nature. The SI is now firmly based on quantum methods of measurement. The talk, sponsored by the Department of Physics and presented by William D. Phillips, 1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics, will explain why we needed such听reform and how we achieved it.
Free |
Art and Political Activism:听A Conversation from Peru
May 18, 4:00 PM |
Visual artists Jorge Miyagui and Mauricio Delgado, and visual anthropologist Karen Bernedo Morales, will share their experiences in executing award-winning public art interventions that include Art for Memory (Asociaci贸n Cultural Museo Itinerante Arte por la Memoria) and the Muralist Brigade (La Brigada Muralista). They will help us understand the role that art has played in moments of political instability, mass protest, and COVID. Discussing recent events in Peru, they will also describe how a visual internationalism informs their political activism and creative work.
Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and co-sponsored by Comparative History of Ideas, African Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Jackson School of International Studies, School of Art + Art History + Design, School of Drama, Geography, and Photo/Media.
Free |
Stephanie M.H. Camp Lecture | Tiya Miles (Harvard), 鈥淎 Tattered Dress鈥�: Materiality and Memory in the Lives of Enslaved Women
May 19, 3:30 – 5:00 PM |
Free |
E.U. Democracy Forum:听Phillip Ayoub – Pride amid Prejudice: The Impact of the First Pride in Sarajevo
May 20, 12:00 – 1:15 PM |听
Democracy cannot be taken for granted — not in Europe, not anywhere. With this series of talks by experts on European politics and society we want to encourage discussion about the future of democracy in the European Union, its member states, and the neighborhood. Phillip Ayoub, Associate Professor, Occidental College听will present the final lecture in the听E.U. Democracy Forum.
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.
Free |
Without Enhancements: Sexual Violence in the Everyday Lives of Asian American Women
May 21, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
Free |
Asian American Women Rising: NOT the Model Minority
May 22, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM |
Free |
Looking for more?
Check out UWAA’s Stronger Together web page for听more digital engagement opportunities.