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Join us for a free livestream talk and discussion on  The US, India and the World as part of our Trump in the World 2.0 Winter Lecture Series on the international impact of the second Trump presidency.  RSVP here for...
Join us for a special Welcome and Research Presentation with 2025-26 UW Fulbright Canada Special Foundation Fellow, Clinton Westman. Coffee and pastries will be provided. Canada’s energy industry, like many other sectors in the country’s economy, is at a strategic inflection...
 The Poetic Way of Xie Lingyun : Literary Expression and the Natural World (University Press 2025).During the dark centuries between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the golden age of reunified China under the Tang and Song dynasties...
UW Ethnomusicology, Department of American Indian Studies, and the UW Symphony collaborate with Lushootseed Research’s Healing Heart Project in presenting this special community event. Following a free screening of the documentary film The Healing Heart of Lushootseed, the UW Symphony (David Alexander Rahbee...
The production and promotion of so-called "AI" technology involves dehumanization on many fronts: the computational metaphor valorizes one kind of cognitive activity as “intelligence,” devaluing many other aspects of human experience while taking an isolating, individualistic view of agency, ignoring...
The Tateuchi East Asia Library (TEAL) is proud to present the 2025-2026 TEAL Digital Scholarship Series, a dynamic program showcasing cutting-edge research by scholars in the fields of Chinese, Japanese and Korean studies. This series highlights how innovative digital tools...
Please join us for a conversation- and creativity-centered gathering celebrating the book launch of Navigating Academia as a Transnational Scholar from the Global South: Treasuring All the Knowledges. Date: February 11, 2026 Time: 3:30–5:00 PM (panel discussion followed by a...
In  Ghost Nation: the Story of Taiwan and its Struggle for Survival, Chris Horton compares Beijing's claim that Taiwan has been Chinese territory "since time immemorial" with Taiwan's actual history. Several different groups have controlled some or all of Taiwan...
Paul Vierthaler will provide a hands-on workshop introducing how to fine-tune language models and how such approaches may be leveraged in the humanities, in particular in Chinese Studies. Fine-tuning language models consists of adapting pretrained models to specialized tasks instead...