This summer, University of Washington professors Jessica Bissett Perea, Tony Lucero, and Ben Gardner sat around the Simpson Center seminar table for a moment of collective awe. “It’s already happening,” Gardner said of a meeting...

"Black Digital Studies in the Age of Technofascism" emerged as a crossdisciplinary research cluster intent on exploring the relationship between race and technology. In the era of AI bias, attacks on DEI, and enormously powerful...

In late April, the Simpson Center sponsored a Fire Humanities panel at the University of Washington's Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. The panel featured five scholars discussing their work researching fire and smoke...