January 17, 3:30 pm | 听Husky Union Building and Online

Join the UW’s Taiwan Studies Program for a book discussion with Bonnie Glaser, co-author of U.S. – Taiwan Relations: Will China’s Challenge Lead to a Crisis? Glaser will address the rising Chinese military pressure and the intensifying gray-zone campaign tactics (economic coercion, disinformation, diplomatic pressure) that threaten Taiwan.

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January 17, 6:30 pm | Patty Berne: Disability Justice: Centering Intersectionality and Liberation, Town Hall Seattle and Online

Patty Berne, Cofounder and Executive Artistic Director of Sins Invalid, will discuss the importance of intersectionality in disability justice and the need to address how diverse systems of oppression reinforce each other. Ms. Berne鈥檚 work creates a framework and practice of disability justice, which centers the voices and experiences of disabled people who are often marginalized and oppressed in multiple ways.

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January 18 – 21, 2:00 pm & 7:30 pm听 |听Meany Hall

Join the UW Department of Dance for an evening of live dance performance created by UW Dance faculty and guest artists. This year鈥檚 concert will feature Waacking/Whacking choreography by Tracey Wong, a pillar in the PNW W*acking community, as well as Middle Eastern social dances rarely seen on the concert stage, by faculty choreographer Christine 艦ahin. The program will also include live music composed by Paul Matthew Moore and Gary Palmer in works by faculty choreographers Jennifer Salk and Alana Isiguen.

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January 18, 3:00 – 5:30 pm | 听Thomson Hall

The Center for Southeast Asia & Its Diasporas invites Adrian De Leon, writer, critic, and public historian, to speak about his vision of the United States’ Pacific empire that begins with the natives and migrants, who were at the heart of colonialism and its everyday undoing. De Leon traces “the Filipino” as a racial category emerging from the labor, subjugation, archiving, and resistance of native people.

Adrian De Leon is the 2023-2024 Jack and Nancy Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar in History at Simon Fraser University, and an Assistant Professor of US History at New York University.

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January 19 – 28, 2:00 pm or 7:30 pm |, Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse

A THICK DESCRIPTION OF HARRY SMITH, a proto-psychedelic medicine show, takes a wild ride through the life, work, and times of filmmaker, musicologist, painter, anthropologist, collector, occultist, and fabulist, Harry Everett Smith. Best known for editing the seminal Anthology of American Folk Music, Smith’s peculiar life is an emblem of American bohemian life in the 20th Century.

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January 19, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Gowen Hall

Join the Severyns Ravenholt Endowment at the UW for a talk with Laura Jakli, Asistant Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, and Jessica Sciarone, graduate student in the political science department at the 天美影视传媒.

Free |

听January 19, 7:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

Northwest jazz legend, Marc Seales, is joined by special guests for quarterly recitals of original tunes and arrangements of jazz and pop classics.

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January 20, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm |听Thomson Hall

The East Asia Center invites William Matsuzaki, of the All Saints鈥� Episcopal School, to host an interactive, reflective, and practical workshop to foster a more welcoming, respectful, and safe learning environments/classrooms.

In this workshop, participants will learn strategies for the classroom, and also examine their own thoughts and biases, to learn how to have more healthy conversations with students and colleagues about DEIA issues in order to find ways to make a positive impact within their own communities.

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Dec. 3, 10 a.m. | Zoom

Join author Elizabeth Graver in conversation with Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies Devin E. Naar for a discussion of 鈥淜antika,鈥� a moving, multi-generational saga inspired by Graver鈥檚 grandmother. Rebecca Baruch Levy (n茅e Cohen) was born into a Sephardic Jewish family from Istanbul in the early 20th century, and her kaleidoscopic journey takes her to Barcelona, Havana, and ultimately New York, exploring themes of displacement, endurance, and family as home.

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Dec. 5, 4 – 5:30 pm |Thomson Hall

In this talk hosted by the Department of Anthropology and Center for Southeast Asia & its Diasporas, Joss Whittaker, graduate student in the Department of Anthropology will recount his time living in the Aru Islands with photographs and stories. When Joss Whittaker went to the Aru Islands for archaeological research, things did not go as planned: the research ran into obstacles that ranged from amusing to hair-raising, the camera broke, and much of the film was ruined. Nonetheless, thanks to the support of local allies, in a seven-month stay Joss found fascinating details about past and present in a community that built massive monuments, fought the Dutch East India Company at its peak power, and traded luxuries to remote places. The events around this research won’t make it into a scholarly paper, but they are worth recounting.

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School of Music Concerts

December 3, 3:00pm |听 Brechemin Auditorium

December 4, 7:30pm | Meany Hall

December 4, 7:30pm | 听Meany Hall

December 5, 7:30pm |听 Brechemin Auditorium

December 6, 12:30pm | North Allen Library Lobby

December 6, 7:30pm | 听Meany Hall

December 7, 7:30pm |听, University Congregational Church

December 7, 7:30pm | Meany Hall

December 7, 7:30pm |听听Brechemin Auditorium

December 8, 7:30pm | Meany Hall

October – November | 鈥淲ays of Knowing鈥� Podcast: Episode 7

鈥淲ays of Knowing鈥� is an eight-episode podcast connecting humanities research with current events and issues. In this week’s episode, Chadwick Allen, professor of English and American Indian studies, at the UW, explains how the Octagon Earthworks is actually a gigantic clock designed using substantial astronomical knowledge. Allen traces the past, present, and future of mound earthworks, which he describes as feats of astronomy, engineering, and coordinated labor.

This season features faculty from the UW College of Arts & Sciences as they explore race, immigration, history, the natural world鈥攅ven comic books. Each episode analyzes a work, or an idea, and provides additional resources for learning more.

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November 19, 3:00pm | Brechemin Auditorium

Tekla Cunningham, Artist in Residence and Director for the UW Baroque Ensemble, leads the Baroque Ensemble to perform the “Baroque Pearls from Venice,” a program of works by Merula, Castello, Rosenm眉ller, Marini, Uccellini, as well as a fully improvised Passamezzo Antico in this听end-of-quarter concert.

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November 21, 4:00 – 6:00pm | Thomson Hall

In this book, Elliott Prasse-Freeman documents grassroots political activists who advocate for workers and peasants across Burma, covering not only the so-called “democratic transition” from 2011-2021, but also the February 2021 military coup that ended that experiment and the ongoing mass uprising against it.

Elliot Prasse-Freeman is the Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore.

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November 21, 4:00pm | 听Brechemin Auditorium

Students of Thomas Harper, Associate Professor of Voice, and Carrie Shaw, Artist In Residence for the Voice Program, perform works from the vocal repertoire.

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November 24 – 26, 10:00am – 7:00pm | 听Duwamish Longhouse & Cultural Center

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November 28, 7:30pm | Meany Hall

The UW Concert and Campus Bands, led by Roger Wu Fu and David Stewart, present “Sonic Luminescence,” performing music by Julie Giroux, Frank Ticheli, David Maslanka, Eric Whitacre, and others.

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November 29, 10:30am |听 Brechemin Auditorium听

Viola students of Melia Watras perform for renowned violist Atar Arad, longtime professor at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Arad will also give a talk, “A Tiger in the Room,” about dealing with stage fright.听

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November 29, 4:00pm | 听Brechemin Auditorium

The internationally esteemed concert pianist Garrick Ohlsson takes part in a public panel discussion during a three-day residency at the UW School of Music.

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November 29, 7:30 pm | 听Meany Hall

The UW Percussion Ensemble, led by Director Bonnie Whiting, explores early 1930s percussion repertoire in its program Ionisation, reimagining Edgard Var猫se’s iconic early percussion work with the Afrocubanismo pioneer Amadeo Rold谩n’s Ritmicas as well as music by James Tenney, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Nick Hubble.

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November 30, 5:00 – 6:30pm | Kane Hall

Join the South Asia Center for a discussion with acclaimed journalist P. Sainath, who will discuss his new book: The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom.听The book features millions of ordinary people living in India 鈥� farmers, laborers, homemakers, forest produce gatherers, artisans, and others 鈥� that stood up to the British. Dive deep into the difference between freedom and independence through the voices of these people in P. Sainath’s book.

P. Sainath is the Founder Editor of the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI), an outcome of his three decades-plus experience in journalism. PARI aims to report and record the two-thirds of India’s population that were hidden from corporate media.

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November 30, 6:30pm | 听Husky Union Building

Katherine McKittrick will present new work that highlights anti-colonial methodologies and addresses some limitations and possibilities of theorizing climate catastrophe and ecocide alongside race and racism. McKittrick鈥檚 thinking is propelled by methodological clues and analytical frames that tend to equate environmental toxicities with (degraded) blackness. McKittrick will also center pedagogy and draw attention to how black livingness is not a concept, per se, but a set of actions that teach people how to theorize the environs anew.

The Katz Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities Series recognizes scholars in the humanities and emphasizes the role of the humanities in liberal education.

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October – November | 鈥淲ays of Knowing鈥� Podcast: Episode 6

鈥淲ays of Knowing鈥� is an eight-episode podcast connecting humanities research with current events and issues. In this week’s episode, Diana Ru铆z discusses how the same images can be used on both sides of the same debate. In this case, pro- and anti-immigration. Ru铆z, assistant professor of cinema and media studies at the UW, describes how the photos evoked empathy and assistance for humanitarian organizations, but were also used to promote support for vigilante groups by inducing fear.

This season features faculty from the UW College of Arts & Sciences as they explore race, immigration, history, the natural world鈥攅ven comic books. Each episode analyzes a work, or an idea, and provides additional resources for learning more.

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Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Lauren Zondag (zondagld@uw.edu)