Serge Gregory is a Russian cultural historian and the author of The Sirens of the Hotel Louvre: An Actress, A Writer, and the Creative Life in the Silver Age of Chekhov (2025). His previous book, Antosha & Levitasha: The Shared...
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If natural selection is “the survival of the fittest”, and being fittest means having more offspring, then survival of the fittest is just the survival of those that survive. In this talk, Abrams explains how evolutionary biology avoids this puzzling...
"Acts of Seeing, Ways of Knowing refracts the 19th and 20th century history of India through reception of the first two ‘mass’ forms of visual culture, photography and posters (those with the capacity to produce multiple copies). India’s responses to...
A series to prepare for the UW Symphony performance of Healing Heart of the First People of This Land (February 2026)Open to the public – doors open at 10:30am for coffee & pastriesFeaturing10/9 łuutiis Charlotte Coté (Nuu-chah-nulth) with Dian Million...
RSVP Encouraged: bit.ly/dhmg The Simpson Center invites current UW faculty, students, and staff working in the digital and data humanities, broadly defined, to a fall meet-and-greet to make connections and learn about upcoming events, workshops, and ongoing projects. RSVP encouraged. Refreshments...
This event brings together colleagues and students for a collective celebration of the ghazal, a poetic form that has flourished in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu, and many other languages. Each participant will read one of their favorite ghazals in its...
It goes without saying that the horse rears his majestic head at the very heart of Trojan mythology, but as we seek to sharpen our understanding of the complex semiotic communication encoded into the hippological component of this culturally essential...
Join us for Ladino Day 2025, featuring speakers Rina Benmayor, Dalia Kandiyoti, Devin Naar, and Isaac Alhadeff for a conversation on “Sephardic Homelands: Spanish and Portuguese Citizenship and the Question of Belonging Today.” The program will be followed by a modest reception...
This workshop, led by Laura Luna Castillo (UW, DX Arts), merges computational linguistics and creative experimentation. We will use Python’s Natural Language Toolkit (NTLK) to analyze, deconstruct and algorithmically expand text corpora in a Dadaist spirit. Participants will be guided...