Small combos perform original music and arrangements of jazz standards, modern classics, and deep cuts from the popular music repertoire over two consecutive nights of performance.

May 30, 5:00 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

May 30, 7:00 – 9:00 pm | RailSpur

The School of Art + Art History + Design presents Another Day at The Orifice: 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition running from May 28 through June 9 at RailSpur (Top Floor). Another Day at The Orifice features the cumulative thesis work of eight graduates receiving a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photo/Media, Painting + Drawing, and 3D4M: ceramics + glass + sculpture.

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May 31, 2:30 pm | Communications Building

Join the Department of Classics’ undergraduate senior essay symposium. The symposium will be joined by senior essays and senior thesis writers for an informal discussion of their research in a round table format.

Free |

May 31, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

Geoffrey Boers leads this year-end program by the ����Ӱ�Ӵ�ý Symphony, led by David Alexander Rahbee, and combined UW Choirs.���� ��

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June 1, 7:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

The UW Composition program presents a year-end concert��of works by undergraduate composers.

Free |

June 2, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm | Burke Museum

Hear about groundbreaking research from Burke and UW scientists, enjoy hundreds of specimens from the Burke’s collection, and celebrate all things fossilized with fossil digs, ancient animal identification, microfossil sorting, crafts, and more.

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June 2, 3:00 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

Cello students of Sarah Rommel perform��a year-end studio recital.

Free |

April 22, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Thomson Hall

The Jackson School of International Studies invites Research Scholar Kim Brandt, Columbia University, to discuss the significance of the Hiroshima Maidens.

“Hiroshima Maidens” loosely translates to “genbaku otome”, a phrase used to refer to young women who were scarred by injuries during the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ten years later, 25 such women were flown to New York to undergo extensive reconstructive surgery. The “Maidens” received wide publicity in the U.S. and Japan, where the story resonated with growing anxiety about nuclear weapons, public fascination with new forms of beauty culture, and the potential of postwar technology.

Free |

April 23 – May 3 | Jacob Lawrence Gallery

April 24, 4:00 – 5:30 pm | Communications Building

April 24 – May 28 | Allen Library North Lobby

In partnership with the��, the UW Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program welcomes everyone to celebrate Taiwan’s pop music through the “Music, Island, Stories: Taiwan Calling!” pop-up exhibition on the UW campus.

Free |��

April 25, 3:00 – 4:30 pm | Husky Union Building

Join The Jackson School of International Studies for Modern Abortion Around the World, a panel discussion on the history of abortion in Bolivia, China, Kenya, South Asia, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands over the past 60 years, and��what those histories reveal about technopolitical developments, reproductive governance, and transnational social movements.

April 25, 5:30 – 7:00 pm | Kane Hall

The 2024 Griffith and Patricia Way Lecture will interrogate two sets of fourteenth-century hell paintings owned by the temples Gokurakuji in Hyōgo Prefecture and Konkaikōmyōji in Kyoto, which both posit the possibility of early escape from the infernal realms, albeit in seemingly contradictory ways. This talk will uncover the ways people in premodern Japan transformed hell from a place solely retributive in nature into one that had liberating powers.

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April 25, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

The UW Wind Ensemble, led by Director Timothy Salzman, and Symphonic Band, led by Director Shaun Day, present “Spotlight,” performing music by Nancy Galbraith, Michael Daugherty, Henk Badings, and others. This performance features winners of the 2024 Winds Concerto Competition: Devin Foster (tuba), Kelly Hou (harp), and Cole Henslee (tuba).

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April 26, 12:00 – 1:30 pm | Suzzallo Library

Guest speaker Dr. Melvin Rogers, professor of political science at Brown University, is invited to speak about “The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought.”

Free |

April 26, 3:30 pm | Denny Hall or Online via Zoom

The Department of Classics invites Glynnis Fawkes, cartoonist and archaeological illustrator, who will analyze the way a cartoonist adapts history. Fawkes will specifically look into Eric H. Cline’s 1177BC: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed? to describe the process of interpreting Cline’s text in comic, an exercise where Fawkes repeatedly asks: how might she tell this story visually, and how can she put Eric’s words into the mouths of characters involved in the story?

Free |

April 26, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | ��Smith Hall

Dr. Keston K Perry, who researches race, reparations, and climate change for the University of California, Los Angeles Department of African American Studies, is invited to speak for the Geography Colloquium on “Beyond Repair? The Crisis of Ecological Imperialism and Reparative Ecologies in the Caribbean.”

Free |

April 26, 7:30 pm | ��Meany Hall

David Alexander Rahbee conducts the UW Symphony and winners of the UW Concerto Competition—Kai-En Cheng, violin; Rachel Reyes, flute; and Ella Kalinichenko, piano—in a program including winning concerto excerpts. This performance will feature a UW student composition by graduate student Yonatan Ron, Silvestre Revueltas’s Sensemayá, and Overture to Le roi d’Ys,��by��Éduard Lalo. ����

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April 27, 7:30 pm | ��Meany Hall

Renowned bassist Todd Sickafoose headlines this special performance as a part of the 2024 Improvised Music Project Festival (IMPFEST). Sickafoose will be performing sets with UW Jazz Studies students and UW faculty Cuong Vu, trumpet, Ted Poor, drums, and Steve Rodby, bass.

Free |

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