Start the new year with lectures, performances, and more!
January 18, 6:30 PM | Democracy and the 2022 Midterm Elections, Part II, Kane Hall
Join UW Professor Jacob Grumbach for the second and final lecture on the 2022 midterm elections. In this talk, he will address the election results as well as ways we can protect and improve American democracy through reforming the Constitution, updating election laws, and revitalizing the labor movement.
Free | More info.
January 19, 3:30 PM | (Bard College), Hybrid 
This lecture will analyze how the recent communication policy reforms ensured controlling the media systems with a background of the recent rise of an authoritarian regime. Fahmidul Haq will investigate and talk about how the mainstream media, digital platforms as well as film industry of Bangladesh are directly or indirectly under surveillance and censorship. The discussion will also include how people鈥檚 constitutional right to express their opinions is muzzled by the government.
Free |
January 20 – 22 | , Meany Hall
Made possible by the Kawasaki Guest Artist Fund, undergraduate students will perform an excerpt of聽Dancing Spirit聽(2009) an ode to Emeritus Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Judith Jamison,聽by award winning choreographer and artistic director of EVIDENCE Ronald K. Brown.
The program will also include a聽tryptic of short contemporary dance works staged by Rachael Lincoln聽that includes an excerpt from the highly praised聽an attic an exit聽(2006).聽New works will be presented by faculty聽Alana Isiguen, guest choreographer聽Nia-Amina Minor who was named one of聽Dance Magazine鈥檚 25 Artists to Watch,聽and聽a dance film installation by聽Juliet McMains.
$10-22 tickets |
January 18 – February 15, 7:30 PM |, Kane Hall
The medieval period has always occupied a paradoxical position in our cultural memory. An age of fantasy unimaginably distant from historical reality, it is also an era onto which writers and artists鈥攁nd now moviemakers and gamers鈥攈ave long projected their fears and desires. Why do cultures remake certain figures from the past鈥攂ut not others–in their own image?
Join Professor Emerita Robin Stacey for this five-lecture series where she looks at the present鈥檚 relationship with the past through the lens of the making and remaking of important historical figures鈥攕ome real, some fictional, and some the creatures of myth.
Free |
January 21, 8 PM | , Kane Hall
Five scientists turn into slammers for one night as they compete with each other to bring you the clearest and most entertaining explanation of a topic in physics. Each has only 10 minutes to wow you with secrets and subtleties of nature that took them their entire careers to discover. That’s it – 10 minutes. No fuss, no intellectual fog, and absolutely no unexplained jargon. Instead, you get good old-fashioned entertainment and a solid foundation in physical science, or the slammers haven’t done their jobs. The participants will be the judges to determine which slammer will go home with the top prize.
Free/optional donation |
January 21, 8 PM |, Meany Hall
Produced in partnership with Bill T. Jones and New York Live Arts
Co-presented with On the Boards
Performance artist, vocalist, clarinetist and composer Holland Andrews explores healing and freedom in a solo program of unique multilayered musical soundscapes. Through abstract operatic and extended vocal techniques, coupled with a dynamic range of sonic influences, Andrews expresses the chaos and oppression of our times. Their work is a rich aesthetic journey of profound creative balance, showing us what it聽means to create revolution, unlearn destructive patterns and 鈥� ultimately 鈥� transform the world around us.
$10 – 28 tickets |
January 24, 7:30 PM |, Meany Hall
Since winning the London International Piano Competition in 2009, Behzod Abduraimov鈥檚 passionate and virtuosic performances have dazzled audiences around the world. His 鈥減rodigious technique and rhapsodic flair鈥� (The New York Times) have defined his career as a recording artist, recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with major orchestras worldwide. The Tashkent, Uzbekistan native presents a program specifically crafted for his Meany debut, featuring Uzbek composer Dilorom Saidaminova, along with works by Florence Price, Robert Schumann and Modest Mussorgsky.
$48- 60 tickets |
School of Music Concerts 
January 23 | ,聽Brechemin Auditorium
January 25 |,聽Meany Hall
January 28 – 29 | , Meany Hall
January 31 | , Brechemin Auditorium
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