From campus to wherever you call home, we welcome you to learn from and connect with the College of Arts & Sciences community through public events spanning the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. We hope to see you this Summer.

ArtSci on the Go

Looking for more ways to get more out of Arts & Sciences? Check out these resources to take ArtSci wherever you go!

Zev J. Handel, “Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese”听()

Black Composers Project engages the School of Music faculty and students ()

Ladino Day Interview with Leigh Bardugo & MELC Professor Canan Bolel ()

Back to School Podcast 听with Liz Copland ()

Featured Podcast: “Ways of Knowing” (College of Arts & Sciences)

This podcast highlights how studies of the humanities can reflect everyday life. Through a partnership between and the 天美影视传媒, each episode features a faculty member from the UW College of Arts & Sciences, who discusses the work that inspires them and suggests resources to learn more about the topic.

Episode 1: Digital Humanities with Assistant Professor of English and Data Science, Anna Preus.

Episode 2: Paratext with Associate Professor of French, Richard Watts.

Episode 3: Ge’ez with Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Hamza Zafer.

with Associate Professor听of Law, Societies and Justice, and of International Studies, Stephen Meyers.

with Professor of Mathematics and of the Comparative History of Ideas, Jayadev Athreya.

with Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, Golden Marie Owens.

From the School of Music

External Event:

The student-run Improvised Music Project presents performances by a rotating cast of UW jazz studies students, faculty, and special guests every first and third Wednesday, 6 to 10 pm, at (1508 11th Ave, Seattle, WA).

Event Dates:

June 18
July 2
July 16
July 30
August 6
August 20

From the Burke Museum

| 10:00 am – 8:00 pm

Admission to the Burke Museum is FREE, and the museum is open until 8 p.m. on the first Thursday of every month. Large crowds are expected, 听in advance.

CLOSING EXHIBIT | – Final day Sunday, June 22

Learn about the diversity and significance of trees with our hands-on activities. Play the tree-themed Hidden Husky gallery hunt 鈥� spot the five hidden huskies in the galleries to earn a special sticker prize!

OPENING EXHIBIT | – Saturday, September 13, 2025 to Sunday, August 30, 2026

Woven听in听Wool: Resilience听in听Coast Salish Weaving听showcases both historical and contemporary woven items 鈥� from blankets and tunics to hoods and skirts. Journey through the seasonal cycle of weaving, from gathering materials and spinning wool to dyeing with natural ingredients and weaving intricate designs. Along the way, learn听firsthand from weavers and gain听insight听into the deep cultural and scientific knowledge embedded听in听every strand.

From the Henry Art Gallery

OPENING EXHIBIT | – Saturday, July 26, 2025 to Sunday, January 11, 2026

Through the work in the exhibition, contemporary artists connect fragmented family narratives shaped by war, migration, and generational trauma to broader global contexts, creating new narratives that transform their difficult origins. With these artists as guides,听Spirit House听invites you to commune with your ancestors, reflect on significant memories, and journey through time and space.

CLOSING EXHIBIT | – Final day Sunday, July 27

This exhibition highlights听Sanctuary听(2017), a monumental tapestry commissioned by Western Bridge for Seattle鈥檚 Saint Mark鈥檚 Cathedral and now part of the Henry鈥檚 collection.

CLOSING EXHIBIT | – Final days, August 2025

For Bass鈥檚 project, commissioned and organized by the Henry, a series of fourteen stone benches is placed throughout Seattle鈥檚 , with two additional sculptures residing outside the Henry itself. Each bench is engraved with its own inscription and a silhouetted image applied in light-responsive pigment. The project examines themes of cultivation and wildness, the laws we impose to control human bodies, hierarchy and proximity, and stones as memorials, boundaries, and legislative markers.

CLOSING EXHIBIT | – Final day Sunday, August 25

Be flat听is听Tala Madani’s debut solo exhibition in Washington State, featuring recent and newly commissioned works that explore the influence of symbols, language, and mark-making on power dynamics and individual agency.

CLOSING EXHIBIT | – Final day Thursday, September 25

This focused exhibition features works from听Passing On听(2022), a series of collaged newspaper obituaries of influential feminist activists and organizers. The clippings, presented with Winant鈥檚 handwritten annotations, reflect on a lineage of non-biological inheritance and how language shapes memory and history.

June 2025

Wednesday, June 18, 2:00 – 5:00 pm | 听(Burke Museum)

Ravenstail weaving skills have returned to the hands of Northwest Coastal People, but their historical robes are still in museum collections. Mentor weaver Ksm Lx’sg瘫a瘫n, Ruth Hallows, and apprentice weaver Jay Hallows work in tandem with more than twenty weavers to symbolically restore historical Ravenstail robes by reweaving them and bringing them home to dance in ceremony.

Thursday, June 19, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm | (Burke Museum)

BLUEs.Weave will present two interrelated demonstrations of explorative Black American music in honor of the holiday of Juneteenth.

The first demonstration will feature original music works, lyrics, and improvisations meditating on the various forms and aesthetics of celebration as they appear throughout the sonic lineage of Black American music.听The second demonstration will be a live, collaborative composition session where BLUEs.Weave, culminating in a piece and performance reflecting on the importance of Juneteenth and Black freedom.

Thursday, June 19, 7:00 – 8:00 pm | ONLINE ONLY: (Center for Child & Family Well-Being)

Join the Center for Child & Family Well-Being for their monthly Community Drop-In with Shayla Collins. A time of mindfulness, self-compassion, and common humanity. You spend so much of your time caring for others, join for a very informal hour (or whatever you can commit to) of practice for yourself.

Thursday, June 19, 10:30 am – 2:00 pm | (Center for Labor Studies)

Join ILWU Local 19 and APRI Seattle for their 6th Annual Juneteenth Waterfront Freedom Celebration. There will be live entertainment, food, drinks, and guest speakers.

ILWU Local 19
3440 East Marginal Way S.
Seattle, WA

Wednesday, June 25, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm | (Chemistry)

Join the Department of Chemistry for a lunch-and-learn workshop with an Introduction to Optical Photothermal Infrared (O-PTIR), which provides submicron IR, simultaneous Raman, and co-located fluorescence. It has been used for a wide range of application areas.

Thursday, June 26, 7:00 – 8:30 pm | (Astrobiology)

Join the Institute for Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics & Cosmology (DiRAC) for a special celebration marking a new chapter in astronomy. This milestone represents over two decades of dedication and collaboration from the global Rubin community. DiRAC is especially proud to honor the UW’s Rubin Team, whose leadership and involvement have been instrumental.

This is more than an astronomy event 鈥� it鈥檚 a celebration of human curiosity, collaboration, and imagination. Whether you鈥檙e a student, researcher, space enthusiast, or simply someone who looks up at the night sky in wonder, you鈥檙e invited to be a part of this historic moment.

Thursday, June 26, 3:30 – 6:30 pm | Summer Celebration | Live Jazz @ the UW Club (UW Alumni Association)

Join UW faculty, staff, and guests for an end-of-year afternoon of community and connection at the storied, scenic 天美影视传媒 Club. Enjoy live music performed by the Alliance of Improvisers, an ensemble composed of UW Jazz faculty, students, alumni musicians, and special guests.

This event is part of a series of community-building opportunities planned for the year ahead. As the University continues to assess and review future permanent directions for the building, the facility will remain closed for general use.

Wednesday, June 4 to Friday, July 4 | (Taiwan Studies)

This exhibition seeks to honor the memories of those who suffered and reflect on the lasting impact of the 228 Incident. Through archival photographs, personal testimonies, historical documents, and artistic interpretations, view a narrative of loss, resilience, and the ongoing pursuit of justice.

Information Sessions

June 24 |

June 25 |

June 26 |

June 27 |

June 30 |

July 2025

Wednesday, July 2, 12:30 pm | (School of Music)

Students of the UW School of Music perform in this听lunchtime concert series co-hosted听by UW Music and UW Libraries.

From campus to wherever you call home, we welcome you to learn from and connect with the College of Arts & Sciences community through public events spanning the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. We hope to see you this April.

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Worldwide Conversations

April 4 | (Political Science)

April 4 | (Political Science)

April 7 | (Jackson School)

April 8 | (Department of Asian Languages & Literature)

April 9 | (Political Science)

April 10 – April 11 | (Middle Easter Languages and Cultures)

April 10 – April 12 | (Jackson School)

April 11 | (Classics)

April 14 | (Jackson School)

April 14 | (Jackson School)

April 15 | (French & Italian)

April 21 | (Jackson School)

April 23 | (Astronomy)

April 24 | (Middle Easter Languages and Cultures)

April 28 | (Jackson School)

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ArtSci on the Go

Looking for more ways to get more out of Arts & Sciences? Check out these resources to take ArtSci wherever you go!

“Ways of Knowing” Podcast (College of Arts & Sciences)

Black Composers Project engages School of Music faculty, students ()

Ladino Day Interview with Leigh Bardugo & MELC professor Canan Bolel听()

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Week of March 31

Wednesday, April 2, 7 pm – 8 pm | (Department of Astronomy)

UWAB is excited to announce that we are hosting a public lecture series to celebrate the program’s 25th anniversary in April 2025! All talks will occur in Kane Hall (Room 120), with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. and lectures beginning at 7 p.m. Each event will feature an hour-long lecture and up to 45 minutes of Q&A with our speaker.

This week’s lecturer: Dr. Victoria Meadows, UW Astrobiology Program Director听Professor of Astronomy at the 天美影视传媒

s are required for both in-person and Zoom attendance

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Wednesday, April 2, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | (Department of English)

Poet and theologian, P谩draig 脫 Tuama鈥檚 work centers around themes of language, power, conflict, and religion. Working fluently on the page and in public, he is a compelling poet, skilled speaker, teacher, and group worker. He presents Poetry Unbound with On Being Studios. Following the lecture, there will be a book signing and reception.

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Friday, April 4, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | (Department of Political Science)

Join the 天美影视传媒 Department of Political Science for a UWISC featuring Ian Callison and his lecture “The Blame Game: Militias, civilians, and the States’ accountability-effectiveness Trade-off.”

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Friday, April 4, 7:30 pm | (School of Music)

The violin and piano duo鈥擬aya Bennardo (violin) and Karl Larson (piano)鈥攑erform works by recent Rome Prize winner (and School of Music alumnus) Anthony Vine and others.

The Bennardo-Larson Duo is an NYC/Stockholm-based contemporary classical duo committed to the performance and promotion of forward-thinking works for violin and piano. Their programming features the complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano by Charles Ives, Morton Feldman鈥檚 monumental 鈥楩or John Cage,鈥� and ‘a Wind’s Whisper,鈥� a program featuring works by John Cage, Michael Pisaro, Eva Maria Houben, and two commissions by Adrian Knight and Kristofer Svensson. In April of 2024, the duo will present the world premiere of two substantial new commissions by Anthony Vine and Maya Bennardo on the Bowerbird Series in Philadelphia, PA.

Beyond the concert stage, Bennardo and Larson are passionate educators, offering workshops in contemporary string and piano techniques for performers and composers.

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Friday, April 4, 12 pm – 1:30 pm | (Department of Political Science)

Brian Leung: Firm Lobbying and the Political Economy of US-China Trade

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Additional Events

April 1 | (Music)

April 2 | (Music)

April 3 – 5 | (Meany Center)

April 3 | (Applied Mathematics)

April 3 | (Jackson School)

April 4 | (Classics)

April 4 | (Mathematics)

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Week of April 7

Monday, April 7, 5 pm – 6:20 pm | (Jackson School)

Trump in the World 2.0, is a series of talks and discussions from March 31 to June 2 on the international impact of the second Trump presidency. Faculty and guest speaker presentations will explore how different regions and global issues are affected by the Trump administration’s policies.

This week’s speakers: David Bachman, Radhika Govindrajan, and James Lin.

Livestream only for the public. In-person for students only.

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Tuesday, April 8, 5:30 pm – 8 pm | (Asian Languages & Literature)

The听Omoro S艒shi听is an indigenous compilation of 1500 songs, poems, and prayers that extoll the golden age of the Ryukyu Islands. It offers insights absent from official histories that focus on great heroes. The collection sheds light on the Ryukyu’s semitropical flora and fauna, and by extension, the everyday life of the common people.

This presentation will be held by Professor Davinder Bhowmik and will introduce the main features of the Omoro S艒shi and pay particular attention to key aspects of the landscape that shaped traditional communal formations. It aims to consider whether the compilation reflects a history of the region as top-down (Yamato) or bottom-up (Ryukyu).

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Wednesday, April 9, 11:30 am – 12 pm | (Henry Art Gallery)

Join听Ashwini Sadekar, founder of the Conscious Creative Circle, in the听James Turrell Skyspace for a guided meditation to cultivate calm and presence through mind-body-breath connection. Immersed within the awe-inspiring interior of Turrell鈥檚 artwork, participants will enjoy a 20-minute guided meditation followed by a 10-minute small group reflection. All are welcome, no previous experience is required. Registration is encouraged.

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Wednesday, April 9, 7 pm – 8 pm | (Department of Astronomy)

UWAB is excited to announce that we are hosting a public lecture series to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the program in April 2025! ll talks will take place in Kane Hall (Room 120) with doors open at 6:30 pm, and lectures beginning at 7 pm. Each event will feature an hour-long lecture followed by up to 45 min of Q&A with our speaker.

This week’s lecturers: Dr. Giada Arney, UW Astrobiology Program Graduate 2016, NASA Research Scientist & Interim Project Scientist for Habitable Worlds Observatory, and Dr. Rika Anderson, UWAB Graduate 2013,听Associate Professor of Biology at Carleton College

s are required for both in-person and Zoom attendance

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Thursday, April 10 – Saturday, April 12 | (Jackson School)

REECAS Northwest听welcomes students, faculty, independent scholars, and language educators from the United States and abroad.听Established in 1994, REECAS Northwest is an annual event for scholars and students in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The interdisciplinary conference is organized by the 天美影视传媒鈥檚 Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies.

The conference hosts many panels on a variety of topics from a wide diversity of disciplines including political science, history, literature, linguistics, anthropology, culture, migration studies, gender studies, LGBTQ studies, film studies, and more.

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Additional Events

April 8 | (Meany Center)

April 9 | (Political Science)

April 10 | (Music)

April 10 | (Political Science)

April 10 | (Sociology)

April 10 – April 11 | (Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures) – ONLINE

April 11 | (Geography)

April 11 | (Music)

April 12 | (Meany Center)

April 12 | (Taiwan Studies)

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Week of April 14

Monday, April 14, 5 pm – 6:20 pm | (Jackson School)

Trump in the World 2.0, is a series of talks and discussions from March 31 to June 2 on the international impact of the second Trump presidency. Faculty and guest speaker presentations will explore how different regions and global issues are affected by the Trump administration’s policies.

This week’s speakers: Sabine Lang in conversation with U.S. Ambassadors (ret.) Jeff Hovenier and John Koenig

Livestream only for the public. In-person for students only.

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Wednesday, April 16 | (Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures)

This annual lectureship was established in honor of Farhat J. Ziadeh, whose contributions to the fields of Islamic law, Arabic language, and Islamic Studies are truly unparalleled.

The Ziadeh fund was formally endowed in 2001 and since that time, it has allowed MELC to strengthen its educational reach and showcase the most outstanding scholarship in Arab and Islamic Studies.

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Wednesday, April 16, 7 pm – 8 pm | (Department of Astronomy)

UWAB is excited to announce that we are hosting a public lecture series to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the program in April 2025! ll talks will take place in Kane Hall (Room 120) with doors open at 6:30 pm, and lectures beginning at 7 pm. Each event will feature an hour-long lecture followed by up to 45 min of Q&A with our speaker.

This week’s lecturer: Dr. Ken Williford, UW Astrobiology Program Graduate 2007,听Deputy Project Scientist for the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover

s are required for both in-person and Zoom attendance

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Friday, April 18, 12 pm – 1:30 pm | (Department of Political Science)

Emily Broad Leib is a Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, and Founding Director of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, the nation鈥檚 first law school clinic devoted to providing legal and policy solutions to the health, economic, and environmental challenges facing our food system. Working directly with clients and communities, Broad Leib champions community-led food system change, reduction in food waste, food access, food is medicine interventions and equity and sustainability in food production.

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Saturday, April 19 | (School of Art + Art History + Design)

Don’t miss your last chance to experience听artists & poets at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery!

Working to emulate the interdisciplinary artistic environment Jacob Lawrence experienced in his formative years, this exhibition explores a legacy of collaboration between artists and poets.听artists & poets听is a part of the re-grounding of the Jacob Lawrence Gallery in its mission of education, experimentation, and social justice.

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Additional Events

April 14 | (Jackson School)

April 14 | (Communication)

April 14 | (Simpson Center)

April 14 | (Jackson School)

April 15听| (Political Science)

April 15 | (Philosophy)

April 15 | (French & Italian)

April 16 | (Music)

April 17 | (Art + Art History + Design)

April 18 | (Political Science)

April 18 | (Music)

April 18 | (Simpson Center)

April 18 | (Linguistics)

April 18 | (Speech and Hearing Sciences)

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Week of April 21

Monday, April 21, 5 pm – 6:20 pm | (Jackson School)

Trump in the World 2.0, is a series of talks and discussions from March 31 to June 2 on the international impact of the second Trump presidency. Faculty and guest speaker presentations will explore how different regions and global issues are affected by the Trump administration’s policies.

This week’s speakers: Liora R. Halperin, Randa Tawil, and Re艧at Kasaba

Livestream only for the public. In-person for students only.

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Wednesday, April 23, 7 pm – 8 pm | 听(Department of Astronomy)

UWAB is excited to announce that we are hosting a public lecture series to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the program in April 2025! ll talks will take place in Kane Hall (Room 120) with doors open at 6:30 pm, and lectures beginning at 7 pm. Each event will feature an hour-long lecture followed by up to 45 min of Q&A with our speaker.

This week’s lecturer: Dr. Aomawa Shields, UW Astrobiology Program Graduate 2014, Clare Boothe Luce Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California Irvine

s are required for both in-person and Zoom attendance

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Wednesday, April 23, 7 pm – 9 pm | (Department of Psychology)

The 17th Annual Allen L. Edwards Psychology Lectures presents The Science of Altruism. This interdisciplinary panel brings together leading experts from psychology, anthropology, neuroscience, and animal behavior to explore the biological, cognitive, and social foundations of altruistic behaviors.

Moderated听by KUOW Host Bill Radke, the event features the following panelists:

• Abigail Marsh, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychology & Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, Georgetown University
• Kristen Hawkes, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor in Anthropology, University of Utah
• John M. Marzluff, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Wildlife Science, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, 天美影视传媒
• Andrew Meltzoff, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at the 天美影视传媒.

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Thursday, April 24, 6 pm – 7:30 pm | (Center for Child & Family Well-Being)

This听webinar听will include a panel of experts discussing parents鈥�,听迟别别苍蝉鈥�,听and preteens鈥�听digital technology and听social media use and its relation to mental health.听Panel members will be asked to discuss current patterns of social media use by parents and听youth, and share about听the potential for both positive and detrimental听effects of social media,听including听the role of technology and social media in supporting social connectedness and awareness, while also contributing to mental health challenges. Panelists will听suggest听approaches to social media use that incorporate mindfulness and听support听well-being.听

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Thursday, April 24, 7 pm – 8:30 pm | (Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures)

After the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, Ottoman elites at the imperial court turned to poetry to craft distinctive modes of expression to articulate their place within the Ottoman sultanate.

In this talk, Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano will discuss his new book, Occasions for Poetry: Politics, Literature, and Imagination Among the Early Modern Ottomans (Penn Press, 2025), where he explores how scholars and bureaucrats interacted with each other through poetic imagery, revealing how literary language affected bureaucratic practice.

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Friday, April 25, 7:30 pm | (School of Music)

The School of Music and the student-run Improvised Music Project present IMPFest, featuring UW Jazz Studies students and faculty performing with special guests: renowned guitarist Bill Frisell; saxophonist听Josh Johnson; and bassist (and School of Music alumnus)听Luke Bergman.

Seating is limited; please order tickets in advance.

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Additional Events

April 21 | (Political Science)

April 22 | (Music)

April 22 | (East Asia Center)

April 22 – April 26 | (Drama)

April 24 | (Music)

April 24 | (Taiwan Studies)

April 24| (Slavic Languages)

April 27 | (Henry Art Gallery)

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Week of April 28

Monday, April 28, 5 pm – 6:20 pm | (Jackson School)

Trump in the World 2.0, is a series of talks and discussions from March 31 to June 2 on the international impact of the second Trump presidency. Faculty and guest speaker presentations will explore how different regions and global issues are affected by the Trump administration’s policies.

This week’s speakers: Jessica L. Beyer and Scott Radnitz

Livestream only for the public. In-person for students only.

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Tuesday, April 29 – Friday, May 9 | (School of Art + Art History + Design)

Join the School of Art + Art History + Design in celebrating the work of this year’s students. There will be four student exhibits throughout the spring quarter!

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Wednesday, April 30, 4 pm – 5:30 pm | (Department of History)

In 鈥淟etters from the Ancestors,鈥� Prof. Connolly follows the experiences of four generations of his Caribbean family, offering an intimate view of the history of late capitalism in the Atlantic World. Under twentieth-century colonialism, he argues, working people developed uniquely gendered coping strategies for managing the precarities of racism and reputation. Even in post-colonial times, these strategies continue to govern how we relate to institutions, set our aspirations, and even narrate our own personal and political histories. More than just a tour through a single family鈥檚 experience, 鈥淟etter from the Ancestors” seeks to retain and advance our fluency in the history of colonized families. This history, Connolly suggests, seems all the more relevant today, in a nation and world of dwindling government protections for women and people of color.

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Wednesday, April 30, 5 pm – 6:30 pm | (Department of Political Science)

鈥淧opulist Power Plays: Erdogan鈥檚 Turkey, Trump鈥檚 USA, and the Future of Democracy,鈥� Garo Paylan, former Member of the Turkish Parliament, in conversation with UW Professor听Asli Cansunar.

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Additional Events

April 29 | (Mathematics)

April 29 | (Political Science)

April 30 | (China Studies Program)

April 30 | An Evening with Christine Sun Kim (Public Lectures)

April 30 | (Art + Art History + Design)

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Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Kathrine Braseth (kbraseth@uw.edu).

From campus to wherever you call home, we welcome you to learn from and connect with the College of Arts & Sciences community through public events spanning the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. We hope to see you this February.

February 4 | (Center for Southeast Asia and its Diasporas)

February 5 | (Communication)

February 6 |听 (Art + Art History + Design)

February 10 | (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)

February 19 | (Stroum Center for Jewish Students)

February 21 | (Political Science)

February 21 | (East Asia Center)

February 26 | (American Ethnic Studies)

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Week of February 3

February 4, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm | (Center for Southeast Asia and its Diasporas)

In February 2021, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing led a military coup that ousted Myanmar鈥檚 democratically elected government, headed by State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party had won a historic landslide in the November 2020 elections.听Since late 2023, the Myanmar military has suffered one unprecedented battlefield humiliation after another, as it faces the nationwide uprising of hundreds of armed, anti-state groups committed to a revolution to remove the army from political power for the first time in history.

Join Associate Professor听Mary Callahan听as she explores the evolving crisis in Myanmar four years after the coup.

Free

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February 4, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm |听 (Department of Chemistry)

The Amazing Lives of Defects in Crystals

Professor Daniel Gamelin — Department of Chemistry, 天美影视传媒
Recipient of the Paul Hopkins Faculty Award

In the spirit of the Hopkins Award, this talk will explore a few historical examples and our group’s research of defects in inorganic materials used to express interesting and (sometimes) impactful physical properties. It will illustrate the role of basic science in driving the development of next-generation technologies.

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February 5, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm | (Department of Communication)

Social media has reshaped how Americans consume news. As content creators rise as primary sources of information, they are overtaking traditional journalists for younger audiences. This shifting landscape brings critical questions: What does this mean for journalism? What does this mean for news consumers? How can we navigate news literacy in a digital world? And what role do these voices play in shaping the media ecosystem?

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February 6, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm | (School of Art + Art History + Design)

There exists a pervasive illusion that journalism embodies truth and objectivity, yet it is fundamentally entrenched in a Eurocentric perspective that has long exacerbated social polarization. What ideological forces underpin this medium, enabling it to perpetuate such divisions?

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February 7, 7:30 pm |听 (School of Music)

David Alexander Rahbee leads the UW Symphony in “With Love, from Scotland,” a program of works by Thea Musgrave, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, and Felix Mendelssohn. With faculty guests Carrie Shaw, soprano, and Frederick Reece, narrator.

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Additional Events

February 3 | (Simpson Center for the Humanities)

February 5听| (School of Music)

February 5 | (Stroum Center for Jewish Students)

February 5 | (History)

February 6 | (Burke Museum)

February 7听| (School of Music)

February 7 | (Simpson Center for the Humanities)

February 7 | (Linguistics)

February 7 | (Burke Museum)

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Week of February 10

February 10, 3:30 pm – 6:00 pm | (Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)

Recent years have seen the proliferation of cop cities, limits on free speech, and the gutting of governmental safety nets. In this context, trans and intersex people have been the casualties of a fascist agenda that seeks to outlaw abortion and to erase and further marginalize oppressed communities.

Join Dr. Sean Saifa Wall in a conversation that asks questions, speaks truths, and offers a way forward through these troubled times.

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February 11, 6:30 pm | (Simpson Center for the Humanities)

In the听Analects, Confucius compares someone who has not adequately studied the classic听Book of Odes to a person standing with their face to a wall鈥攗nable to see, unable to act. In this talk, Edward Slingerland, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Distinguished University Scholar, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, unpacks scattered and vague references in the Analects听to construct a coherent account of how the Book of Odes听was used in early Confucianism as a tool for virtue ethical self-cultivation, as well as how the听Analects听itself, as a piece of literature, was meant to help train moral-perceptual expertise.

Free

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February 12, 7:30 pm | (Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media)

Digital Arts and Experimental Media presents Daniel Peterson鈥檚 latest music composition, Into the Air, which explores the ephemeral nature of sound and the paradox of being. Inspired in part by Jorge Luis Borges’听Everything and Nothing, the 80-minute piece embodies both presence and absence, holding within it the traces of countless influences while remaining transient and听unimaginable; idiosyncratic and universal. The piece fuses Parmegiani’s听De Natura Sonorum听with Beethoven’s听Piano Sonata No. 32听through custom algorithms written in the audio programming language, SuperCollider.听The stereo piece will be diffused in real-time across 20 speakers.

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February 13, 7:30 pm| (School of Drama)

The Winter’s Tale听by William Shakespeare centers on King Leontes of Sicily, who becomes irrationally jealous and falsely accuses听his best friend听and his wife, Hermione, of infidelity.听Tragedy听immediately听befalls his family and the kingdom. Sixteen years later,听Leontes鈥� lost daughter听Perdita, falls in love with听Florizel,听the Prince of Bohemia.听Leontes repents, and a 鈥渕iracle鈥� is revealed听leading to reconciliation and renewed relationships.听听

: $10 – $20

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February 13 through April 18 | (School of Art + Art History + Design)

Opening: Thursday, February 13

Working to emulate the interdisciplinary artistic environment Jacob Lawrence experienced in his formative years, this exhibition explores a legacy of collaboration between artists and poets.听artists & poets is a part of the re-grounding of the Jacob Lawrence Gallery in its mission of education, experimentation, and social justice. The show and space of the gallery will be split into two parts. The Cauleen Smith鈥檚 Wanda Coleman Songbook听will function as the contemporary example of this great legacy of exchange between artists and poets. The other half of the exhibition will focus on Dudley Randall’s听Broadside Presswhich began in Detroit in 1966 and will pull from archives to capture the press’s history and output.

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Additional Events

February 12 | (Asian Language & Literature)

February 12 | (History)

February 13听| (South Asia Center)

February 14 | (School of Music)

February 14 | (Meany Center for Performing Arts)

February 14 | (Simpson Center)

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Week of February 17

February 19, 4;30 pm – 6:00 pm听| (Stroum Center for Jewish Students)

Guest lecturer Naomi Seidman will take us inside听 鈥渢he Freud craze鈥� to explore the impact Freud鈥檚 work had on Eastern European Jews.

The Austrian journalist Karl Kraus reportedly quipped, 鈥淧sychoanalysis is the disease of assimilated Jews; Eastern European Jews make do with diabetes.鈥� And yet, Eastern European Jews were fascinated by Freud and psychoanalysis, flocking to lectures on the subject and following Freud鈥檚 life and career with curiosity and enthusiasm. This lecture will trace 鈥渢he Freud craze鈥� in the burgeoning Hebrew and Yiddish press of the interwar period when readers eagerly sought information about 鈥渢he most famous Jew in the world,鈥� and journalists and others were compelled to actively translate psychoanalytic terminology from German into Jewish languages.

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February 21, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm听| (Department of Political Science)

Christina Schneider – 鈥淚nternational Financial Institutions and the Promotion of Autocratic Resilience鈥�

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February 21 | (East Asia Center)

Politicians and political parties make promises during electoral campaigns. However, achieving a policy goal can sometimes hurt them electorally, and a party can be better off not pursuing what its supporters want. This study empirically demonstrates that Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has been gaining an electoral advantage by not achieving its stated goal of revising the constitution.

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February 21, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm | (Department of Political Science)

Center for Environmental Politics: David Konisky, Indiana University Bloomington, 鈥淒isparities in Disconnections: Utility Access in the Age of Climate Change鈥�

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February 21, 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm | (German Studies)

Prof.听Dorothee Ostmeier听will deliver a lecture in honor of beloved UW Prof.听Diana Behler.

In literary Romanticism to AI tales, portals mediate change between concrete and virtual, human and non-human realities. This lecture straddles the fringes of reality shifts in the Brothers Grimm and ETA Hoffmann鈥檚 tales, inserting literary German discourses on the imaginary into the vibrant questions asked by anthropologists and cultural critics, and engineers of digital virtuality.听 All diversely investigate possible futures beyond our anthropocentric minds and psyche.

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February 22, 4:00 pm | UWAA Movie Night: Singles (UW Alumni Association)

Get ready for a night of nostalgia, laughter, and love at this special screening of 鈥淪ingles,鈥� the classic rom-com set against the backdrop of Seattle鈥檚 iconic grunge scene. Filled with awkward first dates, unpredictable connections, and the kind of romantic chaos that only young adulthood can bring, this movie is the perfect blend of romantic misadventures and the energy of 鈥�90s Seattle. SIFF Executive Director Tom Mara, 鈥�88,听will introduce the film.

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Additional Events

February 19听| (School of Music)

February 20 | (School of Music)

February 20听| (School of Music)

February 20 | (Jackson School)

February 21 | (Meany Center for Performing Arts)

February 22 | (Classics)

February 22 | (Center for Child & Family Wellbeing)

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Week of February 24

February 24, 6:00 – 7:00 pm | (Slavic Languages & Literatures)

Please join us on Monday, February 24, at 6:00 pm, for a reading and a conversation with an award-winning Polish poet Krzysztof Siwczyk, and his translator Prof. Piotr Florczyk, moderated by Prof. Agnieszka Je偶yk.

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February 26, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm听| (Department of Chemistry)

Weston and Sheila Borden Endowed Lecture in Theoretical Chemistry

Professor Abraham Nitzan听鈥撎鼶epartment of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Host: David Masiello

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February 27, 6:00 – 7:00 pm | (School of Art + Art History + Design)

Join us for this year鈥檚 Kollar Lecture in American Art featuring Colby College鈥檚 Tanya Sheehan. This talk explores how Black life could and could not be represented on the walls of Harlem Hospital by Jacob Lawrence in 1937, and how a commitment to the publicness of Black care took shape in Lawrence鈥檚 private images.

Free

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Additional Events

February 24听| (School of Music)

February 24 | (University Faculty Lecture)

February 25 | (Meany Center for Performing Arts)

February 26 | Provost Town Hall (Provost Office)

February 27 through March 1 | (Meany Center for Performing Arts)

February 27 through March 2 |听 (Dance)

February 27 | Can the Subaltern Sweat? Race, Climate Change, and Inequality (Public Lectures)

February 28 | (Political Science)

February 28 | (Classics)

February 28听| (Linguistics)

February 28 | (German Studies)

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Closing Exhibits

March 1 |

March 1 |

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Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Kathrine Braseth (kbraseth@uw.edu).

January 9, 7 PM |, Elliott Bay Book Company

天美影视传媒 Professors Bettina Judd and Dr. Dian Million gather in support of the former’s new book Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought (Northwestern University Press, December 2022). In the book, the poet, artist, and scholar Bettina Judd argues that Black women鈥檚 creative production is feminist knowledge production produced by registers of affect she calls 鈥渇eelin.鈥�

Free |

January 11, 6:30 PM |,听Zoom

Parenting can be challenging at the best of times, let alone parenting children through war or refugee contexts. Global conflicts entail many changes for children and their families, with the potential for acute and longer-term impact on well-being and mental health. What can we do to help? Effective parenting can act as a protective shield against the difficulties that children face in challenging times. Providing interventions that focus on building strengths in parenting practices can be protective and predict more positive outcomes for children. In this talk, a wide range of open access family skills resources will be shared. As all families can experience highly stressful times, whether it is illness, relationship breakdown or living through a global pandemic, these resources have universal importance and applicability. This talk will reflect on the diverse public health implications of availing family skills resources for the prevention of drug use, mental health, violence and several adverse health and social consequences.

Free |

January 12, 6 PM | University Book Store

University Book Store is proud to present Max Hunter for a conversation with Dr. Chandan Reddy about Dr. Hunter’s book听Speech Is My Hammer.

With听Speech Is My Hammer,听Max Hunter听draws on memoir and his own biography to call his readers to reimagine the meaning and power in literacy. Defining literacy as a spectrum of skills, abilities, attainments, and performances, Hunter focuses on dispelling literacy myths and discussing how Black male artists, entertainers, professors, and writers have described their own literacy narratives in self-conscious, ambivalent terms.

Free |

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 20 – 22 | , Meany Hall

Made possible by the Kawasaki Guest Artist Fund, undergraduate students will perform an excerpt of听Dancing Spirit听(2009) an ode to Emeritus Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Judith Jamison,听by award winning choreographer and artistic director of EVIDENCE Ronald K. Brown.

The program will also include a听tryptic of short contemporary dance works staged by Rachael Lincoln听that includes an excerpt from the highly praised听an attic an exit听(2006).听New works will be presented by faculty听Alana Isiguen, guest choreographer听Nia-Amina Minor who was named one of听Dance Magazine鈥檚 25 Artists to Watch,听and听a dance film installation by听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 |, 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听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 | ,听Brechemin Auditorium

January 25 |,听Meany Hall

January 28 – 29 | , Meany Hall

January 31 | , Brechemin Auditorium

There鈥檚 a mental health crisis on college campuses across the country.

Recent show that 53% of first-year students reported a substantial increase in mental and emotional exhaustion. Inside Higher Ed that 30% of students noted increased depression, 27% said they experienced greater loneliness and 20% felt more hopeless.

Traditionally, the intervention to help students was to send them to individual counseling. While that remains an important pillar of support, the 天美影视传媒 is broadening the way it provides help not just to students, but to faculty and staff as well. Using a broad toolbox of mindfulness, compassion and well-being centered programming, officials are trying to change campus culture, said , director of the and co-chair of the .

鈥淏y aligning and strengthening the work that we’re doing as a campus writ large, around supporting student mental health, we’re actually preventing some students from getting to a point where they need more serious intervention,鈥� she said. 鈥淲e can bolster the resilience of folks within the system at multiple levels and in doing so, support our entire community.鈥�

Research over the past several decades has shown that teaching social and emotional learning skills to K-12 students has promoted higher academic success and persistence to graduation. Extending that into higher education makes sense, officials say, catering to students鈥� emotional intelligence, better preparing them for a career and allowing them to be their whole selves.

Students at UW were arriving on campus with skills to succeed, but not to stumble and then rise, said Ed Taylor, vice provost and dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs.

鈥�When they actually got here and encountered situations where they might trip up or even fail, students were underprepared for that,鈥� Taylor said. 鈥淲hat students were saying 鈥� high on their list of things that concerned them 鈥� was their fear of failure and not being able to recover when they did encounter difficulties or challenges once they left home and came to college for the first time.鈥�

Facing uncertainty, let downs and even failure is part of the college experience.

鈥淭hey should be stepping into those challenges, especially here,鈥� Taylor said.

The Resilience Lab helps students 鈥� and now faculty and staff, too 鈥� do just that.

Founded by Anne Browning in 2015, the Resilience Lab originally was intended to help support and retain undergraduates by helping them cope with stressors, including failure. Then in 2019, Browning transitioned to become assistant dean for well-being at UW Medicine. That鈥檚 when now-director Kennedy came on board.

Officials decided to take a step back to view student well-being and mental health along a continuum, broadening the scope of the Resilience Lab to embrace faculty and staff as part of the mission.

Today, the Resilience Lab鈥檚 three-fold mission is to support UW students in becoming change-makers on campus and in their communities; provide students, staff and instructors with training and tools to build their self-awareness, respond to stress more effectively and cultivate compassion; and advocate for policies and systemic changes that promote a more resilient, compassionate and inclusive campus culture.

They do this through a growing variety of programs that includes research, community building, instruction and programming.

Resilience Lab programs focus on well-being

听(Resilient Attitudes and Living) is an initiative that promotes mental health and well-being by equipping participants with cognitive behavioral skills to manage emotions and cope with stressful situations, mindfulness skills to strengthen self-awareness, and practices to encourage compassion for themselves and others.听Be REAL was developed and evaluated by the UW鈥檚 Center for Child & Family Well-Being and, in partnership with the Resilience Lab, expanded to staff and students on all three UW campuses.

To date, most of the Be REAL skills groups and trainings have been open to the entire UW community, but moving forward the intention is to develop expertise within university units and departments. For example, several people in the College of Engineering went through the Be REAL program over the summer and the entire staff at the UW Alumni Association are scheduled for fall quarter, Kennedy said.

鈥淚t鈥檚 really encouraging to see these teams wanting to learn together and dive into this work together,鈥� she said.

Tyneshia Valdez, who works as the assistant to the chair in the Department of Astronomy, said that participating in Be REAL has helped her through the pandemic, return to work and in interactions with others.

鈥淚f I’m more graceful and less burnt out and I do things to make myself happy, I know that that will really trickle downstream,鈥� she said. 鈥淏e REAL is surprising. It鈥檚 free. It鈥檚 easy to do. You don鈥檛 have to bring a lot with you, just yourself, your authentic self.鈥�

In 2020, the Resilience Lab published an 87-page combining research, best practices and personal testimony tailored to support the whole student. The guidebook was distributed to all instructors, deans and chancellors and advising staff across the UW. Leaders convened a tri-campus community of practice where more than 40 instructors and staff across nearly 20 academic departments still meet monthly to exchange ideas and teaching strategies. A new community of practice started within the School of Medicine this fall across their five-state region.

鈥淲hat we鈥檙e doing is creating both a venue and a map 鈥� if you will 鈥� toward healing and compassion in our community,鈥� Dean Taylor said.

Partnering to 鈥榠nterrupt racism鈥�

In a new partnership, the听, led by , and the Resilience Lab are developing a new training and speaker series, 鈥淩esistance through Resilience,鈥澨齮hat focuses on the application of mindfulness and compassion-based practices to interrupt racism.

Prior to COVID-19, many people wanted to come together in community to talk about racism and combat microaggressions, but the months of isolation 鈥� combined with a national dialogue sparked by the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis 鈥� left the BIPOC community and other anti-racism activists feeling exhausted, said Joseph, who also is a professor of communication in the College of Arts & Sciences and associate dean for equity & justice and student affairs in the Graduate School.

鈥淧eople also needed to attend to the health of themselves and to their communities while still continuing to do the vitally important daily work of protesting racism,鈥� Joseph said.

Bringing together the Resilience Lab and the Center for Communication, Diversity and Equity will help lead to systemic change, leaders say.

鈥淲e’re really committed to addressing the systems of oppression and racism that exist, and to think critically about why we have a system that promotes so much stress,鈥� Kennedy said.

Fueled by a $15,000 from , a Diversity and Inclusion Seed Grant and Communication Department funding, the groups will focus on bringing mindfulness and compassion-based practices together to address racial exhaustion, nourish each other and confront everyday oppression.

鈥淭he mindfulness and stress-reduction skills Megan has taught me provide me personally with other strategies, and give a whole other set of tools to my students, my community members, people that I know and love and am connected to. These are ways to make their lives healthier,鈥� Joseph said. 鈥淭he CCDE鈥檚 new partnership with the Resilience Lab just gives me hope in this moment, and I think that that’s what we need to make it through right now and to continue garnering the strength to fight.鈥�

Sowing resilience through seed grants

In partnership with the听,听the Resilience Lab awards听听to support projects that cultivate resilience, compassion and sustainability at the UW. To date, over $118,000 has been disbursed to fund projects led by students, faculty and staff across all three campuses.

For example, UW Bothell Assistant Professor received a grant to support BIPOC students in sharing their personal stories during the pandemic. Chen had facilitated similar story circles prior to COVID-19, but had yet to bring them online. Chen worked with graduate students and undergraduates, and they came together in a safe, empathetic community to share challenges they鈥檇 faced through a difficult year.

鈥淚t was something different than what they got in their day-to-day in their classes,鈥� said Chen. 鈥淚t was a space of support, a chance to build community in a different way.鈥�

Chen, who participates in the monthly Resilience Lab community-of-practice meetings, continues to work with BIPOC students in telling their own stories as part of the larger project, 鈥淏reathing in a Time of Disaster.鈥� And, they鈥檙e implementing techniques in the classroom, like playing music or doing a grounding exercise to start class.

A path forward

The UW鈥檚 Resilience Lab also is part of the Flourishing Academic Network, an emergent consortium of research and teaching centers throughout North America. Together, the institutions are collaborating to explore innovative pathways that integrate academics and student affairs, with the overall goal of supporting student mindfulness and well-being.

This work has taken on new meaning during the pandemic, as students, staff and faculty were forced into months of being apart. Now, everyone is facing the stress of returning to a new normal.

鈥淲e don’t want to go back to business as usual but rather develop consciousness about how we鈥檙e returning to campus,鈥� Kennedy said. 鈥淪taff and students are turning to the Resilience Lab to learn some strategies for managing stress effectively.鈥�

That approach has made a world of difference for , a lecturer in Landscape Architecture who works at UW Friday Harbor Laboratories and is part of the cohort of faculty engaged in the Resilience Lab鈥檚 work.

鈥淭his work has been transformational in my ability and desire to stay in academia,鈥� Sullivan said.

She鈥檚 using a Resilience Lab seed grant to bring the compassion work to the College of Built Environments. She is also helping support compassion and mindfulness at Friday Harbor Labs and is participating in the cross-campus community of practice.

鈥淔aculty are empowered and supported to reflect on and make needed change in higher education, and in turn, model resilience culture in our lives, disciplines and to our colleagues and students,鈥� she said.听鈥淭he results have been substantial.鈥�

A strong culture of care and competence around these compassion issues is needed in all disciplines and is the backbone to a thriving听and resilient听university environment, she said.

鈥淭here is simply not enough vulnerability and compassion in higher education,鈥� Sullivan said. 鈥淲e are not robots. We can take the agency to change this culture听鈥� one interaction at a time. In fact, we already are.鈥�

For more information about the Resilience Lab, contact Kennedy at meganken@uw.edu.

A daily routine, adequate sleep and limited screen time were associated with better mental health of young people during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard University and the 天美影视传媒.

The , published Aug. 11 in the journal PLOS ONE, surveyed more than 200 Seattle-area children and teens before the onset of the pandemic, during the initial lockdown phase in spring 2020, and six months later, when schools in the area were still operating remotely.

The spread of COVID-19, economic hardships and social isolation, especially during the first several months of the pandemic, fomented stress, anxiety and depression among children and teens alike, the study found. Now, even as school is expected to resume in person this fall, the study鈥檚 findings highlight the stressors of pandemic life, within or outside of a remote learning environment. Top stressors for kids were exposure to seemingly frightening media coverage of the coronavirus; the extensive, and passive, use of screens 鈥� whether on phones, TVs or computers; and disrupted routines and sleep patterns.

Mitigating those stressors, researchers found, generally involved targeted strategies: establishing structured routines for daily life, including sleep; limiting news consumption and passive screen time; and simply getting out in nature.

鈥淭he biggest thing that we hope parents take from the study is that while youth mental health has been negatively impacted by the pandemic, there are some simple steps that families can take that may have a positive impact,鈥� said first author , a research associate at Harvard who previously was a postdoctoral researcher at the UW.

The study involved two groups of Seattle-area children ages 7 to 10 and teens ages 13 to 15, who were already participating in research on youth mental health and behavior prior to the pandemic. That ongoing research, for which UW co-author started following families when the children were 3 years old, provided the team with a baseline with which to evaluate the effects of different phases of the pandemic. About half of participants were female, and about one-third were youth of color.

For this study, both young people and their parents were surveyed through web-based questionnaires, responding to questions that researchers developed specifically for the pandemic 鈥� a unique event that carried its own stressors. For example, researchers asked about issues related to the young person鈥檚 physical environment, burdens on family health and finances, and social and academic stresses. The answers also helped researchers learn whether and how young people were internalizing stress 鈥� developing anxiety or depression 鈥� or externalizing it, which would manifest in changes in behavior.

The COVID-19 pandemic presented some unique experiences for youth and their families, said Lengua, a UW professor of psychology and director of the Center for Child and Family Well-Being.

鈥淩esearch from past disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina, and also from studying stressful things that happen for families, such as divorce, have highlighted the factors that contribute to youth mental health in these contexts,鈥� she said. 听For example, unstable housing and economic situations, stressful life events, increases in family conflict or in parental mental health problems, contribute to children鈥檚 responses to major stress. Those were also true during the pandemic.

鈥淏ut the pandemic included unique experiences, as well,鈥� said Lengua. 鈥淪tay-home orders resulted in families having a lot of time at home without opportunities for youth to connect with peers and other adults for social support. While families reported appreciating the additional time together, for youth, this also meant feeling isolated and lonely. Having healthy daily routines and adequate sleep were particularly important in this context.鈥�

Among the findings:

• The pandemic aggravated feelings of anxiety and depression in young people who had already experienced either or both
• Young people who had elevated stress levels during stay-at-home orders were also more likely to continue to experience stress six months later
• Teens were more likely to internalize their stresses than younger children
• 鈥淧assive鈥� screen time, which researchers defined as scrolling or watching videos or shows, compared with the potentially more interactive screen use during remote instruction or chatting with friends, was associated with higher stress

Researchers also surveyed participants about inexpensive and easy methods of alleviating anxiety. Not all of the potential stress buffers, such as physical activity and volunteering in the community, showed demonstrable effects, but others, such as sleep, structured routines and time in nature, were related to better mental health.

Exposure to news of the pandemic affected young people differently. Researchers noted, however, the importance of having honest, age-appropriate conversations with children and teens about crisis events such as the pandemic, answering their questions, and limiting exposure to sensationalized coverage.

鈥淭here was striking individual variation in how children and teens responded to the pandemic. We wanted to get under the hood of this variation to try to understand the vulnerabilities and resilience of different children. We also wanted to provide helpful tips to parents and teens,鈥� said co-author , a professor of psychology and co-director of the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS) at the UW.

鈥淭here may be other pandemics in the future, and we think that some of the discoveries we made this time around can help parents and teens,鈥� Meltzoff said. 鈥淭here is no book about 鈥榟ow to cope with a worldwide pandemic,鈥� but science can provide helpful information that people can use now, even while we continue to gather more data.鈥�

The study was funded by the Bezos Family Foundation, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of Mental Health.

Senior author on the study was Katie McLaughlin of Harvard and formerly of the UW. Additional co-authors were Makeda Mayes of I-LABS and Alexandra Rodman, Steven Kasparek and Malila Freeman of Harvard.

For more information, contact Lengua at liliana@uw.edu or Meltzoff at meltzoff@uw.edu.

This post contains material from Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite at Harvard University.

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Curating in Conversation: A Panel Series on Sharing Northwest Native Art and Art History with the Public

April 12, 7:00 – 8:30 PM |

In the second of a three-part series sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Canadian Studies Center, this panel discussion features Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, Curator of Northwest Native Art at the Burke Museum, in conversation with Tlingit artist and co-curator of the Northwest Native Art Gallery Alison Bremner and Karen Duffek, Curator of Contemporary Visual Arts & Pacific Northwest at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. The program will include an overview of Bremner鈥檚 work as an artist and curator followed by a larger discussion on the state of contemporary Northwest Coast art and the issues involved in ethical curation.

Drop-in Session: Meditation Inspired By Nature

April 12, 6:00 – 7:00 PM |听

Transcultural Approaches to Europe: A Conversation with Fatima El-Tayeb

April 13, 3:00 PM |听

In this lecture,听Professor of Literature and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego Fatima El-Tayeb and director of study abroad and part-time lecturer for the Comparative History of Ideas Department听Nicolaas Barr discuss how European identities are constructed through 鈥渞acial amnesia鈥� and how the concepts of whiteness, gender, and religion are mobilized in European politics. They might address questions such as: can you decolonize Europe? Why do white Europeans believe they are colorblind? What is the relationship between the so-called refugee crisis and Europe鈥檚 colonial legacy? How are religion, gender and sexuality connected to the rise of right-wing movements? What role do trans-community coalitions play in movements of resistance? Is a multi-religious Europe possible? What is queering ethnicity?

Borders and Blackness: Communicating Belonging and Grief

April 14, 3:30 – 5:00 PM |听

Free |

Changing Global Connections: New Formations of Identity, Place and Region:听Facing the New Geopolitics: China at the Poles

April 15, 4:30 – 6:00 PM |听

Join听Anne-Marie听Brady, professor of China Studies at the University of Canterbury, in conversation on how today鈥檚 changing geopolitics is creating new configurations across regions and in the field of international studies.听This talk explores international relations between China and the Arctic and is sponsored by the Jackson School for International Studies, the Center for Global Studies,听the Canadian Studies Center, the China Studies Program, and the East Asia Center.

Next in the series:

• April 29, 4:30 – 6:00 PM:听Indigenous Blackness in Am茅ricas: The Queer Politics of Self-Making Garifuna New York
• May 13, 9:30 – 11:00 AM:听How Emerging Technology is Changing International Security

Free |

American Christians and the Holy Land: Before, During and After Contemporary Pilgrimages to Israel/Palestine

April 15, 4:00 – 5:15 PM |听

Since the 1950s, millions of U.S. Christians have traveled to the Holy Land to visit the places where Jesus lived and died. Why do these pilgrims choose to journey halfway around the world? How do they react to what they encounter, and how do they understand the trip upon return?

Drawing on five years of ethnographic research with groups of pilgrims before, during, and after their trips, Dr. Hillary Kaell (McGill University) frames the experience as both ordinary 鈥� tied to participants鈥� everyday role as 鈥渞itual specialists,鈥� or religious practitioners 鈥� and extraordinary, since they travel far away from home, often for the first time.

This talk, sponsored by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, will examine the kind of Christian education and personal experiences that compel individuals to take the trip, and cover a few key examples of what they find once they arrive. Taking the rare step of following pilgrims after they return home, the talk will also examine whether the trip makes an impact in Christians鈥� lives over a longer term.

Free |

E.U. Democracy Forum:听Kristina Weissenbach – The Formation and Institutionalization of New Parties in EU Member States

April 15, 12:00 – 1:15 PM |听

Affiliate Professor for Political Science Kristina Weissenbach (Ph.D. Political Science, 2012, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) will present the third lecture in the E.U. Democracy Forum series. Sponsored by the Center for West European Studies and E.U. Center.

Next in the series:

• May 20, 12:00 – 1:15 PM:听Phillip Ayoub – Pride amid Prejudice: The Impact of the First Pride in Sarajevo

Free |

Seattle Art Museum Virtual Saturday University:听The Memory of the Ancients in Modern Iranian and Parsi Architecture

April 17, 10:00 – 11:30 AM |听

In 1822 six fire temples adorned the cityscapes of West India. By the end of the century, Parsis had augmented that number tenfold. Many of these structures were erected in what they dubbed the 鈥淧ersian Style,鈥� on floor plans described as 鈥渙pen.鈥� From the 1830s to the 1930s, the Persian Revival style evolved simultaneously and codependently in two different geo-cultures: the western coast of the Indian subcontinent, with large Parsi urban populations, as in Bombay and Surat, and the major cities of Qajar and Pahlavi Iran, in particular Shiraz and Tehran. These were interpretative 鈥渃opies鈥� of 鈥渙riginals,鈥� not necessarily of archeological sites but European and native fantastical travelogues as 鈥渁uthentic鈥� memories and national resilience.

This lecture will be presented by听Talinn Grigor,听professor and chair of the Art History Program in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of California, Davis. Co-sponsored by the South Asia Center.

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As experts nationwide point to a mental health crisis among teens and young adults, a pilot program teaching mindfulness and coping techniques to students at the 天美影视传媒 has helped lower stress and improve emotional well-being.

New studies by the psychology researchers who created the program find that the strategies, offered first in residence halls and later through classes and other organized campus groups, have provided participants with successful methods for coping with stress, managing their emotions and learning self-compassion.

Researchers say the results show the potential for preventive mental health services offered in an accessible, peer-group environment.

鈥淭his program is not a substitute for campus mental health services for students. But with a preventive program, our goal is to reduce general distress in college students and hopefully prevent need for increased or more intensive services,鈥� said , psychology professor and director of the at the UW.

Recent studies of the program鈥檚 rollout point to its success. Results from the program鈥檚 first year, when it was offered in 2017-2018 in residence halls on the UW鈥檚 Seattle campus, were published March 10 in . Results of its second year, provided during the 2019-2020 academic year by trained university staff in campus settings such as classes and student organizations, were published Feb. 12 in . Student participants reported significant improvements in their psychological well-being that lasted three months after the sessions ended.

During the pandemic 鈥� with millions of young people studying remotely 鈥� the importance of teen and college student mental health has grown. According to the CDC, between the ages of 18 and 24 has considered suicide in the past year, while separate studies of college students in recent months have found report serious distress.

But even before the pandemic, campuses nationwide were reporting , with college mental health directors noting need for services that . Academic demands, financial pressures, social tumult and, especially among first-year students, the transition to campus life all affect student mental health.

Against this backdrop, the authors decided to come up with a short intervention at the UW that would provide real-world coping strategies in an environment that students could access easily 鈥� without an appointment or any fee, in the casual atmosphere of a group, and where they already live, study or socialize. The program, called , or Resilient Attitudes and Living, combined traditional cognitive behavioral coping strategies 鈥� such as planning, positive reframing and acceptance 鈥� with mindfulness practices focused on regulating breathing, meditation and accessing feelings of compassion, tolerance and gratitude toward oneself and others. By having staff who are already working with student in various settings offer the program, it can potentially reach more students.

鈥淭he idea behind Be REAL was to have a new model to promote student well-being and mental health. Traditional counseling systems are unlikely to keep pace with demand, so we wanted to think of a program that could be delivered more broadly by nonclinical staff members,鈥� said , director of community programs and training for the Center for Child and Family Well-Being.

The first year, 208 students signed up for the program across three academic quarters. Facilitators trained in mindfulness techniques led six evening sessions at four residence halls. Among the more than 80% of students who attended the majority of the sessions, results from pre- and post-surveys showed significant improvements in mindfulness and self-compassion, greater resilience and lower stress. These findings held steady in a three-month follow-up survey of participants.

Those results led to the expansion of the program to other campus settings, with associated university staff 鈥� from the recreation department, for example, as well as those connected to student organizations 鈥� voluntarily trained in the Be REAL program. This approach aimed to reach additional students, particularly those from underrepresented groups, in spaces they already frequent. Of the 271 students who enrolled in Be REAL programming, 116 agreed to participate in the study; more than half were students of color.

Researchers found results that were similar to the residence hall study, especially regarding stress and emotional regulation. In their comments on post-study surveys, students reported using meditation and breathing techniques to help focus or calm down, and developing habits to handle stress.

The results raised other issues that researchers are exploring further, such as whether providing the lessons in a class that students take for credit creates more of a perceived burden 鈥� and thus, leaves less of an impact 鈥� than sessions in which students simply choose to participate.

A new, ongoing study is examining how about 100 university staff from all three UW campuses, trained in offering the program remotely, along with still more students, respond to the techniques for improving mental health. Those results may suggest opportunities for students and staff alike to benefit from the strategies in a range of environments, on any college campus, and to possibly change a campus culture around supporting student well-being. The Center for Child and Family Well-Being is collaborating with the UW Resilience Lab to expand the program and facilitator training to staff.

鈥淓xpanding Be REAL to promote staff well-being and training is important because their work, especially with the pandemic, can be stressful,鈥� Long said. 鈥淭hey鈥檝e even shared how the practices are shifting their interactions with children and loved ones at home. Our expansion of the program goes beyond individual well-being 鈥� it鈥檚 also about strengthening our community on campus.鈥�

Both published studies were funded by the Maritz Family Foundation. Max Halvorson, a doctoral student in the UW Department of Psychology, was a co-author of the study published in Anxiety, Stress & Coping. Co-authors of the study published in Frontiers in Psychiatry were , research coordinator for the Center for Child & Family Well-Being, and , director of the UW Resilience Lab.

For more information, contact Lengua at liliana@uw.edu or Long at rblong2@uw.edu.

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The Converso鈥檚 Return: Dalia Kandiyoti in Conversation with Devin E. Naar

January 14, 5:00 – 6:00 PM |

Critical Issues Lecture Series:听Skawennati

January 15, 12:00 PM |

Drop-in Session: Steadying the Heart & Mind with Yoga

January 11, 6:00 – 7:00 PM |

UWAA Events Calendar

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The听UW Alumni Association听events calendar is an excellent resource for finding upcoming events from entities all over the UW.听

Upcoming events on the calendar:

• : January 13, 4:00 – 5:00 PM
• : January 22, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
• Short Talks: Home: January 28,听6:30 PM

The Henry Art Gallery’s Virtual Collections

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Set in Motion: A Public Art Exhibition

December 2020 – February 2021 | Throughout Seattle

Drop-in Meditation Session: Atenci贸n Plena y Compasi贸n Para Cerrar el A帽o

December 21, 6:00 – 7:00 PM |

Public Opinion and Polls in the 2020 Presidential Election

Recorded event |

While polls and public opinion research are essential components of a healthy democracy, they also have come under attack in recent years, particularly for 鈥渕iscalling鈥� various elections. In October, the Department of Communication hosted a virtual conversation with Kate Kenski (University of Arizona) and Lydia Saad (Gallup) to discuss polling and public opinion today 鈥� and their implications for the health of American politics beyond 2020. The event was organized by the 天美影视传媒鈥檚 Center for Journalism, Media and Democracy.

Crossing North Podcast

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