UW professor, translator, and writer José Alaniz visits the store to discuss his latest book, Comics of the Anthropocene: Graphic Narrative at the End of Nature, the first full-length monograph to explore how US comics artists have depicted environmental destruction, mass extinctions...
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Join us for a free livestream talk and discussion on The European Partnership in Trade and Security as part of our Trump in the World 2.0 Winter Lecture Series on the international impact of the second Trump presidency. RSVP here...
Free and open to the public. Registration required.In this talk, Dr. Reginold Royston will discuss technology and role of Pan-Africanism in the fields of international development, diaspora and politics in Ghana and beyond. Royston's new book Pan-African Futurism examines the state of...
The Vashon Land Trust is proud to present a reading in celebration of the release of The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders (Paloma Press, 2025), a Poets for Science anthology, edited by Luisa...
Elliot Bay Books is proud to present a reading in celebration of the release of The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders (Paloma Press, 2025), a Poets for Science anthology, edited by Luisa A...
Please join the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies as we celebrate the recent publication of faculty member Mark Letteney's new book: Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration, co-authored by Matthew D. C. Larsen. This book examines spaces, practices, and ideologies of incarceration in the ancient...
Join us for a talk on Miriam Udel's new book: Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature, hosted by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. Around the turn of the twentieth century, a group of Yiddish-speaking educators, authors, and cultural leaders...
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...
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...