Passages–Tracing Routes to the FutureThis year, the Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Native Art (BHC) is celebrating our 20th Anniversary! Join us for a symposium featuring contemporary Northwest Native artists who have experienced the impact of BHC...
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Join Us for QueerCrip Co-Lab, a dynamic and supportive workshop designed to foster inclusivity, community building, and resource sharing among queer and disabled individuals. This workship is thoughtfully structured to balance focused quiet time with engaging community activities ensuring an...
“Watching Cherdonna Shinatra crash into A Doll’s House was the first time I ever had fun watching A Doll’s House” (Gemma Wilson*) Come witness a conversation between dancer/choreographer and drag performance artist Jody Kuehner (Cherdonna Shinatra) and artist and dramaturg...
Prof. Aria Fani discusses the dynamic and interconnected ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves through literature. Contrary to the presumption that literary nationalism in the Global South emerged through contact with Europe alone, Reading Across Borders demonstrates...
Carving the Divine (2019, 99 min.) is a documentary film that offers a rare look into a 1400-year-old Buddhist woodcarving tradition and the practitioners struggling to preserve its legacy in a rapidly changing Japan. Master Koun Seki, the former apprentice of renowned...
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington is pleased to host the 4th Sound Systems of Latin America (SSLA 4).SSLA4 brings together scholars to study the sound systems of indigenous languages in Central and South America—regions rich in...
On Sunday, November 10, 2024 join the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies as we recognize the work of our students and faculty and share our agenda for the year, from the Labor Archives of Washington to the Building a...
Registration Required URL: https://simpsoncenter.org/form/rsvp-nov12-poetry-llmsIn this working lunch, Melanie Walsh (Information School) and Anna Preus (English) will share their work on an ongoing project focused on the ability of Large Language Models to evaluate and produce poems in a range of...
This presentation explores the historical characterization of older people as a problematical population with its roots in populationist and Malthusian discourses, pension and retirement policy, and the industrial organization of capitalist labor. It builds to a discussion of an 'apocalyptic'...