May 16 – 17, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM | , HUB Street/Lyceum/Lawn

Free |

May 16, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM | ��Communications Building

Join the UW Translation Studies Hub for two short talks and conversation:

“Against Translation as Metaphor: Sultanic Languages of Sovereignty in Late 19^th Century Morocco”
Sam Kigar (Islamic Studies, Department of Religion, University of Puget Sound) challenges a scholarly tradition of describing religions as languages that can be translated into one another. He examines the translation of two letters by Sultan Hassan I (r. 1873-1894) about his journeys to the Sūs region of southern Morocco. The Sultan was not translating forms of Islamic sovereignty into “foreign” territorial terms, instead, he was participating in the territorialization of the Sūs.

“Decentering French to re-center Wolof: Translation as a Nationalist Performance in Boubacar Boris Diop’s Work”
Rokiatou Soumaré (French and Francophone Studies, University of Puget Sound) proposes that Senegalese novelist Boubacar Boris Diop positions himself in his work as a nationalist linguistic activist by writing in Wolof instead of French, Senegal’s lingua franca. For Diop, translating these essential pieces initiated an ambitious political project that aligns with his nationalistic views, and his rejection of French hegemony.

Free |

May 17, 7:30 PM | Meany Hall

This project was born from a collaboration between Abigail Jara (choreographer and dancer) and Juan Pampin (sound artist and composer). The work was created during a residency of MUSSE DC at the Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) at the UW Seattle campus in April 2022.

The performance is an exploration of the territory based on sound maps. The use of sensors enables the performers to carry out a space-time reconfiguration of the forest based on its sounds, which has the body as its axis, and movement and time as its organizing principle. In turn, the performers are part of an audiovisual ecosystem in which their bodies are captured by infrared cameras – similar to those used by scientists to investigate the presence of animals in the forest.

In each section of the work, the performers explore this interactive audiovisual space based on certain concepts related to the forest, such as the animal, the arborescent, the vegetal, the aviary, and the spectral.

Free |

May 17 – May 21 | ,��Meany Hall

Join the Department of Dance for their first-ever concert in the round. Six premieres by current graduate students, including one film, explore topics from Artificial Intelligence to the concept of Yin and Yang.

$10 Tickets |

May 17, 7:30 – 9:00 PM | ��Kane Hall

The Frontiers of Physics Lecture Series brings renowned scientists to the UW to offer free lectures on exciting advances in physics with the goal of fostering an appreciation of science and technology in our community. This spring the Department of Physics is honored to welcome 2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Kip Thorne.

Free |

May 18, 4:00 – 5:30 PM | ��Communications Building

This lecture series and colloquium advance crucial conversations on world language and literature study on the UW Seattle campus through an interdisciplinary, multi-departmental speaker series focused on issues of race, identity, colonialism, and migration within a broad European context. These approaches to national literatures offer effective frameworks for undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty to grasp the intersectional complexity of power configurations in literary and visual cultures.

Free |

May 18, 7:30 PM | Meany Hall

Indian Classical vocalist, educator, and composer, Srivani Jade��presents “Ritu Chakra: Ragas of the Six Seasons of North India” in��the��culminating��recital of her artist residency at the UW School of Music. She��is accompanied by Deepashri Joglekar (Harmonium), Ravi Albright (Tabla), Suchitra Iyer (Vocal Saath), and Tanpura. Her UW students present a short opening act of Ragas and bandish compositions they learned during the quarter.

Srivani Jade identifies deeply with the Khayal and Thumri traditions of North India, and devotional repertoire from the Bhakti movement. Her performances have received critical acclaim in the 2014 Sawai Gandharva Festival and 2016 Earshot Jazz Festival, and she has many albums, film and musical scores to her credit.

$10 – $20 Tickets |

May 18, 7:30 PM | Kane Hall

Christopher Ozubko is a Canadian-American designer, educator, and former Director of the School of Art + Art History + Design at the ����Ӱ�Ӵ�ý. He completed his BFA at the University of Alberta, and his MFA at the renowned Cranbrook Academy of Art, then under the direction of Katherine and Michael McCoy. After his appointment to the Design faculty at the UW in 1981, Ozubko established his own atelier in Seattle, Studio Ozubko, which garnered numerous regional, national, and international design awards.

Ozubko’s poster designs are in the collections of the George Pompidou Museum, Paris; the US Library of Congress; the Museum of Applied Art, Helsinki; Dansk Plakatmuseum, Arhus, Denmark; and IPT Toyama, Japan.

As an educator, Ozubko developed and led the UW summer “Design in Rome” program for more than a decade, which exposed students to photography, history, epigraphy, traditional craft, and industrial technology.

Free |

May 18, 7:30 PM | Husky Union Building

Come to the Husky Union Building and listen to Yevgenia Albats, Distinguished Journalist in Residence, Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, talk about Putin’s Wars. The speech is followed by a public Q&A.

Yevgenia Albats is a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, author, and radio host. She has been Political Editor and then Editor-in-Chief and CEO of The New Times, a Moscow-based, Russian language independent political weekly, since 2007. On February 28, 2022, Vladimir Putin blocked its website, just days after Russia invaded Ukraine. Despite that, Albats continues to run the newtimes.ru, and she kept reporting from Russia until she had to leave the country in the last week of August 2022 after she was fined for her coverage of the war with Ukraine and pronounced a foreign agent. She graduated from Moscow State University and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. Additionally, she was a full-time professor at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics.

Free with Registration |

May 19, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Undergraduate Research Symposium, Kane Hall

The Undergraduate Research Symposium is an opportunity for undergraduates to present what they have learned through their research experiences to a larger audience. It is also a space for students, faculty, and the community to discuss cutting-edge research. This event is held on UW’s campus and is open to all students, faculty, and community members to attend.

The event includes poster, visual arts and design, performing arts, and oral presentations by students from all academic disciplines and all three UW campuses, plus invited student presenters from peer institutions.

Free |

May 19, 5:00 – 6:30 PM | , Livestream

Join together with students – past and present – to celebrate and commemorate the 55th Anniversary of the Black Student Union (BSU).

This panel conversation is an opportunity for our campus community to hear from BSU founding members��James P. Garrett, Larry Gossett, Kathleen Haley, Carl Miller, and Leathia Stallworth-Krasucki, who demanded changes in how the UW served students of color. From their 1968 occupation of the UW administration building (now Gerberding Hall), to the myriad ways they have been leading voices in justice and equity over the years, these visionary leaders have shaped this university and our greater community.

The panel will be moderated by UW alum and��former Black Student Union leader��Dr. Marc Arsell Robinson, Assistant Professor of History from California State University, San Bernardino.

Registration for in-person attendance is��at capacity��and is only open for the livestream.

Free |

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The annual ����Ӱ�Ӵ�ý Fitness Day returns as an in-person event on Monday, May 23. This year’s Fitness Day includes a fundraising and registration goal for Be The Match, the nation’s largest registry of bone marrow donors.

Fitness Day is a unique, campuswide workout to celebrate movement. The Seattle campus will host the event on the field at Husky Stadium, where participants will gather from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. and complete a circuit workout with 20 stations led by expert coaches from UW Athletics and community partners. Workout stations will include strength training, cardio bursts, active recovery and yoga. All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to participate. Participants will receive a free, performance tech T-shirt.

From 3:30 to 5 p.m., the festivities move to Red Square for “Get in the Game,” a joint effort with Be The Match intended to increase awareness of its marrow and stem-cell donor registry and encourage students to sign up for the registry. UW athletes will lead the peer-to-peer education effort with Football, Men’s Basketball, Women’s Basketball, Men’s Soccer, Women’s Soccer, Cheer and Dance, and Track teams participating.

Alexes Harris, UW professor of sociology, is leading the push to increase the registry at the event. Six years ago, Harris was diagnosed with a form of leukemia that required a bone marrow transplant but couldn’t find a match on the registry.

“Be The Match couldn’t find me a match because people of color are underrepresented on the registry and ancestry matters when matching,” said Harris, who added that she was fortunate to enter a clinical��trial at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and had a cord blood transplant that saved her life.��“I work with Be The Match in the name of people who did not find a match and were not able to live.”

The goal is to raise $5,000 and sign up 500 new registry members. Participants are invited to make a $5 suggested donation when registering for UW Fitness Day.

“After years of not being able to gather in person due to the pandemic, I am thrilled to see employees and students come together in community once again,” said Mindy Kornberg, UW vice president for Human Resources. “UW employees across campus and our medical centers work extraordinarily hard and this event is the epitome of centering employee well-being at work.”

Fitness Day events are also being held Monday at Harborview Medical Center, UW Bothell and UW Tacoma. More information on all UW Fitness Day events at every location can be found on .

For more information, contact Victor Balta at balta@uw.edu.

Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All UW faculty, staff, and students have access to��.��

Strange Coupling 2020 Exhibition Launch

Indigenous Speaker Series: Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson
August 26, noon – 1:00 PM | Online

Beyond Guilt Trips: Navigating Identity, Social Justice, and Travel

August 26, 2:00 – 3:30 PM |

This workshop led by Dr. Anu Taranath features her timely and compelling book, Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World. Featured in Oprah Magazine’s “26 Best Travel Books of All Times,” and a Finalist for three book awards, Mindful Magazine has written, “Enlivened by her travel stories—at once tense, challenging, and brightly beautiful— Taranath’s book may become required reading for those who wander, and those who want to.”

Free |

Looking for more?

Check out UWAA’s Stronger Together web page for��more digital engagement opportunities.

The ����Ӱ�Ӵ�ý typically offers a broad schedule of health and fitness classes for the community. But with COVID-19 prompting closures of campuses and work spaces, gyms like the IMA Building also found themselves empty with in-person activities canceled.

“I knew we had to do something,” said Jeff Palmer, fitness manager for UW Recreation. “I wanted to make sure everyone was getting an awesome, fun workout.”

Now, Palmer is teaching several virtual classes a week, part of UW Recreation’s effort to make its activities accessible while people are physically distancing during the pandemic.

Danny Arguetty, UW Recreation’s mindfulness manager, also shifted from training new instructors to teaching virtual classes on meditation and yoga. Zumba instructor Karen Cornelio is leading free dance exercise classes in addition to other fitness and mindfulness sessions offered by , an group that promotes wellness within the UW community.

They say that in addition to the positive benefits of exercise, the live virtual classes have helped participants create some structure and community in their lives.

“People are really craving that, at a time when things are out of control,” Palmer said. He said he’s also found a new audience of people who already felt uncomfortable going to gyms or who needed to be home anyway.

If you are not able to join a live class, many are archived in this The videos are open to the public, so anyone can view them.

“Virtual programming has just really, really taken off. We’re definitely going to continue virtual training even when we return to the IMA,” Palmer said.

Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All UW faculty, staff, and students have access to��.��

Earth Day 50th Anniversary: Gaia Has a Fever

April 22, 2:00 PM��| Livestream

Join the Department of History, College of the Environment��and UW Earth Day in celebrating the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.��Dr. Jennifer Thomson will give a talk��untangling the history of oil corporations, climate justice, and environmental��governance. Beginning with physicist James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis, she’ll discuss the involvement of oil corporations in climate research, and explore a truly��liberatory environmental politics.

Free, please register for access��|��

COURSE:��Introduction to Basic Plant Morphology – Learning the Parts of the Plant

April 22 and April 23, 6:00 – 7:00 PM | Online Classroom

Celebrate Earth Day by expanding your plant vocabulary!��David Giblin, Collections Manager of the UW Herbarium,��teaches this two-part class. Learning the basic vegetative and reproductive parts of vascular plants that we know from our gardens, kitchens, and walks in nature, provides an opportunity to improve plant identification skills.

This class is offered online. Viewing instructions will be sent before the start of the class.

Cost is $20��|��Register & More Info

After the Blast The Ecological Recovery of Mount St. Helens: Webinar with Dr. Eric Wagner

April 22, 10:00 – 11:30 AM | Zoom Webinar

In anticipation of the 40th Anniversary of the major Mount St. Helens eruption, UW Libraries and UW Press are proud to host a zoom webinar featuring Eric Wagner, Ph.D., author of After the Blast: The Ecological Recovery of Mount St. Helens.

Since it’s eruption in 1980,��Mount St. Helens has been surprising ecologists and in After the Blast,��Wagner takes readers on a fascinating journey through the blast area and beyond. From fireweed to elk, the plants and animals forest scientists saw would not just change how ecologists approached the eruption and its landscape, but also prompt them to think in new ways about how life responds in the face of seemingly total devastation.

Free, please register for access��|��Register & More Info

Ask Your Farmer!

April 23, 11:00 AM |

The UW Farm is still producing food, but under restricted operations and without the usual dedicated crew of student volunteers. Farm manager Perry Acworth will host this Instagram Live session, showing the work that’s happening on the UW Farm and answering questions about the Farm and our food systems. If anyone has questions on how they can grow food for themselves, this is your moment!

Livestream takes place on and will begin at 11 AM.

Free��|��More Info

Virtual Poetry Café for Poetry Month

Month of April | Online engagement

Since launching in April 1996,��National Poetry Month��has given people an annual occasion to celebrate the importance of poets and poetry in our culture. This April feels like an especially great time to explore the power of poetry and how it can be used to craft connection and celebrate the things that mean most to us!

Join Whole U this April for a virtual��UW Poetry Caf�to share the poems we love, write some of our own, and connect with our wider community over the written word.��To help get your creativity flowing, The Whole U devised UW-themed poetry prompts to try on your own or with colleagues and friends.

Pick the prompt that resonates most with you then share your favorite poems or original compositions with us by sending them to��wholeu@uw.edu��or by tagging them��#UWPoetryMonth��on social media.

Free��|

Crossing North Podcast

Ongoing | Online

Crossing North��is a podcast about Nordic and Baltic society and culture. Episodes feature interviews with authors, performers, and leaders from Scandinavia and the Baltic, as well as discussions with faculty in the Scandinavian Studies Department and Baltic Studies Program.

In the most recent episode, released April 15, Colin Gioia Connors interviews author Nora Ikstena and��assistant professor Liina-Ly Roos. Learn why Ikstena’s novel��Soviet Milk about Soviet-occupied Latvia was so popular that libraries had to create a special loan policy for the book.

Missing the Henry? View the online collection!

Ongoing |��

From photography to textiles, the Henry Art Gallery’s permanent collection contains more than 27,00 objects from around the world.�� The collection originated with the gift of nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings donated to the ����Ӱ�Ӵ�ý by��Horace C. Henry��in 1926. It has grown over the years through acquisitions from exhibitions and through the generosity of art collectors, artists, and donors.

Luckily for those looking to reconnect with art while working remote, the Henry has an extensive��the online collection database. Learn more and .

Looking for more ways to engage? The Henry is also sharing content across their social media platforms daily!

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#BurkeFromHome Trivia Night

Every Friday, 8:00 PM��|��Virtual Event

Join the Burke Museum online on Fridays at 8 PM for #BurkeFromHome Trivia. The popular Burke Trivia Night is back—this time online to practice social distancing while having loads of fun! Get your nerd on with natural history and culture-themed trivia.

BYOB, snacks, and slippers! Check out for a preview!

Free, please register for access��|

Staying home? Here’s what to watch

Ongoing | Your favorite streaming service

Looking for ways to stay entertained while staying at home?��If you’ve already binged all the shows in your Netflix queue, fear not. Faculty in the Department of Cinema & Media Studies��have gathered television and film recommendations to fit every mood.

Looking for more?

Check out UWAA’s Stronger Together web page for��more digital engagement opportunities.

And I’m not a gym person. I like to believe that my hobbies – gardening, yoga, walking the dog, hiking – keep me from slumping into the couch potato category.

But I like free stuff (doesn’t everybody?) and my body could use some toning after I had a baby last summer. So I signed up for the Jan. 24 workout.

It was the kickoff event for The Whole U, which is a larger campus initiative to make it easier for UW faculty and staff to access the university’s health, arts, culture, science, athletics and other resources and to connect with people with similar interests.

Ahead of time, I read Marti Young’s on how to dress and watched the demonstrating some of the basic exercises.

More or less appropriately dressed and ready to feel the burn, I arrived at Dempsey Indoor Practice Facility and faced a key decision: which kettlebell weight to choose? Five, 10 or 15 pounds? I know 18 pounds, my son’s weight, gets heavy very quickly. So the 15-pound option was out for me. Five pounds seemed too light. I snagged a 10-pounder.

I looked around at the crowd spread across the indoor field. The Whole U staff expected 1,000 workout participants, and the count I heard was 1,100 in Dempsey, plus another 100 each at the Tacoma and Bothell campuses, who were tuned in via the Internet.

“Not to brag, but when this is done I’m going to be a world record holder,” tweeted , using the event’s designated hashtag #wholeukettles.

Indeed, we were there to make history. In six to eight weeks we’ll know whether UW set the Guinness World Record for the largest kettlebell workout.

Kettlebells work multiple muscle groups, said Lauren Updyke, assistant director of The Whole U program and a personal trainer. They burn “300 calories in 15 minutes, and we’re going to be doing a 30-minute workout,” she said from the stage.

That’s 600 calories. A couple of ladies near me high-fived.

“Take the time to connect with each other and use the great facilities at UW,” Michael Young, UW president, told the crowd as he gave some remarks about The Whole U. “What you do for this university is what makes it great.”

He introduced his wife, Marti Young, as our volunteer coach. She started with some safety pointers: “Baby-sit your grip” and “watch your neighbor.” We practiced our cheer, she says “BELL” and we say “YEAH.”

The 30-minute clock started ticking down, and we got to it with exercises like the swing, around the world, squats and single-arm presses.

I found the hitchhiker maneuver particularly challenging, especially when using my non-dominant left hand. I noticed a couple of bells take a short tumble when people lost their grip while switching hands during the figure eight move.

With another “Bell, yeah” Marti combined the moves and led us through a brief routine. The 30-minute clock wound down to zero and “Eye of the Tiger” played on the sound system.

“It wasn’t too bad,” said Brianna Blaser, a counselling services coordinator at UW’s DO-IT Center, after the workout ended. Blaser, who is 27 weeks pregnant, had chosen a 10-pound bell.

From her vantage point on a one-foot riser, UW Athletics’ event manager Krista Rammelsberg thought the workout went well, too. “Kettlebells have been around for a while but are gaining popularity now,” she said. The workout is “easy on your own or with a group,” she added.

The big question is: Will I lift my bell again? Definitely! For reasons other than to dust around it? I hope so! It was a fun workout, and that’s coming from someone who doesn’t really like to exercise.

And burning 300 calories in 15 minutes? That’s something a new parent like me could work into her schedule. So at least for starters, I’ll commit to doing another kettlebell workout over the weekend, and take it from there.

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��See UW Kettlebell event photos below from Mary Levin, UW photographer.