April 4, 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Thomson Hall and Zoom

As the European Union and member states create swiftly changing policies affecting clean energy initiatives, their energy decisions show significant variability. Recent events emphasize both the need for and the challenges to establishing a unified approach to securing supply for EU states and for improving energy independence within the EU. As emerging technology revolutionizes energy markets, it has never been more important for European countries to synchronize their standards on protecting critical energy infrastructure, including electric grids, Smart Grids, gas pipeline sensors and wind and solar technologies.

This symposium will showcase cutting-edge research on where the European Union is headed on energy security and what the U.S. and the EU can learn from each other.

Free |

April 6, 11:00 AM & 2:00 PM | Burke Museum

April is Arab American Heritage Month. Marhaba or مرحبا is ‘hello’ in Arabic. All are welcome on this passport journey through the Burke Museum to learn more about how Arab inventions and research have helped shape American and Washingtonian lives.

Free |

April 6, 7:30 PM | Meany Hall

Pianists Robin and Rachelle McCabe return to the Meany stage to perform Brahms’s magisterial two piano arrangement of his F minor quintet as well as music by Ravel and Prokofiev in this spirited display of sisterly chemistry.

Robin McCabe was selected by Seattle Magazine as one of 17 current and past ����Ӱ�Ӵ�ý professors who have had an impact on life in the Pacific Northwest. In 2005, to celebrate its 100th year as an institution, The Juilliard School selected McCabe as one of 100 alumni from 20,000 currently living to be profiled in its centenary publication recognizing distinction and accomplishments in the international world of music, dance, and theater. Today she is a highly- sought teacher at the ����Ӱ�Ӵ�ý, with students from around the world seeking admission to her studio.

$10 – $20 Tickets |

April 6, 3:30 – 5:00 PM |��Communications Building

Barbara Winslow, a UW alum and campus activist, tells the story of the radical women’s liberation movement in Seattle during the 1960s and 1970s from the perspective of its founding members. In this preview of her book Revolutionary Feminists, she brings the voices and visions of those she calls the movement’s “ecstatic utopians” to life, charting their short-term successes and lasting achievements. Despite these achievements, she also critiques the failure of its White members to listen to Black, Latina, Indigenous, and AAPI feminist activists. Reflecting on the movement’s accomplishments and shortcomings, Winslow offers a model for contemporary feminist activism.

Barbara Winslow received a BA, MA, and PhD from the UW Department of History, helped found the UW Women Studies Program, taught a course at the UW called Political Theories of Feminism, and was a revolutionary feminist activist at UW and in Seattle.

Free |

April 6, 4:00 – 6:30 PM | Intellectual House

Celebrate the publication of Cherokee Earth Dwellers: Stories and Teachings of the Natural World with Christopher B. Teuton, professor and chair of the Department of American Indian Studies, joined by contributors Larry Shade and MaryBeth Timothy.

This book presents teachings about the body, mind, spirit, and wellness that have been shared for generations. From clouds to birds, oceans to quarks, this expansive Cherokee view of nature reveals a living, communicative world and humanity’s role within it.

Free |

April 7, 7:30 PM | Meany Hall

Selected from 689 applicants from 44 countries, composer Chris Trapani was awarded the Barlow commission for a new song cycle to be premiered by an elite quartet of sopranos, including the UW’s own Carrie Shaw. Hear the premiere of this major contribution to American art song, alongside works by living composers from around the world in her program “The Weight of Sweetness: Songs for All the Senses.” Shaw is joined onstage by faculty colleagues Bonnie Whiting, percussion; Cristina Valdés, piano; and Andrew Romanick, piano and vocoder.

$10 – $20 Tickets|

April 11, 7:30 PM | Meany Hall

After their stunning sweep at the Banff International String Quartet Competition, the Dover Quartet has rapidly become one of the most in-demand ensembles in the world. Known for expressive interpretations and a deep musical connection, the Grammy-nominated group has been honored with an Avery Fisher Career Grant and awards from Chamber Music America and Lincoln Center. In addition, they are Ensemble in Residence at their alma mater, the renowned Curtis Institute of Music.

Their much-anticipated performance includes music by Amy Beach, Antonín Dvořák and George Walker. The Dover Quartet appears by arrangement with the Curtis Institute of Music, where it serves as the Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in Residence.

$43 Tickets |

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Christina Fiig: Gender Policies in a Context of (Quasi) Permanent Crisis

May 17, 12:00 PM |

Join the Center for West European Studies and the Jean Monnet EU Center to continue the Talking Gender in the EU Lecture Series, with Christina Fiig on “EU Gender Policies in a Context of (Quasi) Permanent Crisis,”

Free |

MFA Dance Concert

May 18 – May 22 |

Treat yourself to a live in-person performance with original choreography created by our world-class MFA in dance candidates and performed by our undergraduate students! The Department of Dance graduate students, all of whom have had no less than eight years of professional dance experience, work with selected undergraduate students to compose six conceptually and aesthetically diverse works. This year’s MFA candidates include artists who have worked with some of the world’s most distinguished dance groups, touring nationally and internationally, including but not limited to BANDALOOP, Dance Art Group (DAG), The Límon Dance Company, Martha Graham Dance Company, Merce Cunningham Trust, Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater, and 10 Hairy Legs.��

$10 |

Online Symposium – Dismantling the Body

May 18-19 |

Free |

Monica De La Torre’s, Feminista Frequencies, Book Talk & Celebration

May 18, 3:30 PM |

Resistance through Resilience:CCDE 7th��Annual Conference��

May 18-19 |

Human trafficking is the second most profitable underground industry – after drugs – in the world. Around the globe, its yearly earnings are $35 billion to $37 billion and it’s estimated that at least 1 million people are trafficked each year.

“When you talk about human trafficking, right away people assume it’s about sex. But the experience we’re having in other communities of color is that it’s not only about sex but about labor,” said , who leads the anti-human trafficking at the ����Ӱ�Ӵ�ý’s along with the center’s executive director, .

The center will host a public Jan. 11-12 to take a fresh look at human trafficking and its root causes. The other organizers hope the event will lead to some solutions, such as legislation aimed at eliminating human trafficking. They point to poverty and international trade policies as starting points to eradicating the trade.

“In our state, we continue to lead in progress and awareness,” Veloria said. “The issue now is prevention, which we can begin to address if we look at some of the root causes.”

The conference – co-sponsored by the UW School of Law and Seattle University School of Law – comes a decade after the Washington Legislature passed House Bill 1175, making the state the first to criminalize human trafficking. Since then 47 other states have instituted similar legislation.

Veloria is a former state representative and author of HB 1175, which was drafted in 2001 during the last anti-trafficking conference convened by the UW Women’s Center. At that time, human trafficking concerns focused on the mail-order bride business in the wake of of brides living in the Seattle area being exploited and murdered.

These days, human trafficking touches more trades and is no longer “just about women being prostituted,” Veloria said. Most trafficked laborers become domestic servants. Construction, agriculture and hospitality businesses like nail salons and restaurants are other magnets for human trafficking.

Victims, usually women and children, typically don’t know what they’re getting into. They may enter the trade willingly or are sold into it by their families. Female victims tend to be desperate for employment and come from an economically troubled country where women hold lower social status.

Rarely are they aware of the nature of the work. For instance, an individual might bring a niece to help take care of an aunt, but then the niece becomes an unpaid domestic servant.

Or traffickers, calling themselves employment brokers, tell the victim that they have legitimate work for her abroad as a waitress, dancer or secretary. But the worker ends up as domestic servant, in a sweatshop or in the sex trade. She’s then indebted to the traffickers to pay back their fees for smuggling her into the country. The fees are often in the tens of thousands of dollars.

“It’s not a choice,” Basu said. “It’s forced migration when lack of economic opportunities leave individuals faced with starving and are forced to leave home to survive. No one wants to leave their home and family.”

Traffickers take away workers’ passports and identification, leaving victims afraid to go to the authorities and vulnerable in a country where they rarely can speak the native language.

“The only person the victim knows is the trafficker and they know they’re here illegally – they fear deportation and feel threatened, they fear their family at home will be killed if they leave,” Basu said.

The problem is particularly difficult in Washington, a state in which one in five jobs is a trade and where entering the state is made easier with an international airport, ports and a border with Canada.

“Globalization has made international borders increasingly porous, and the scale of human trafficking has proliferated,” Basu said. “And even though trafficking is now recognized as a human rights issue, other dimensions of the trade – such as public health, labor rights, immigration law and criminal justice – are still not given enough attention.”

These issues will be addressed at the Jan. 11-12 public conference; “Human Trafficking in the Era of Globalization: Forced Labor, Involuntary Servitude and Corporate & Civic Responsibility.” Researchers, lawmakers, human rights advocates, experts in international corporate policies, law enforcement officials and others will participate. The and are online.

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For more information, contact Basu at 206-685-1090 or sbasu@uw.edu or Veloria at 206-685-1090 or rosete80@gmail.com.