In this work-in-progress, Juan Llamas-Rodriguez (Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania) investigates the complexity and opacity of immigration policy and bureaucracy as game-like structures. Llamas-Rodriguez analyzes The Green Card Game, a browser-based game that simulates the avenues available to achieve permanent residence status...
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Free and open to the public. The Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest is pleased to welcome back to campus Coll Thrush, with his new book Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific A provocative retelling...
Free and open to the public. Registration required.In April 2023, fighting broke out in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces. In the ongoing conflict, thousands have been killed, millions displaced, and millions more require urgent...
Join us for a conversation between novelist and artist Gerardo Sámano Córdova and UW professors María Elena García (CHID) and Vanessa Freije (JSIS/History), centered around Sámano Córdova's recent novel, Monstrilio. The discussion will touch on major themes of the book...
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...
This talk reflects on years of archival research into the childhood and teenage writings of Black science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler. Growing up in the segregated landscape of Pasadena, California, young Octavia loved horses—her first “aliens”—which shaped her understanding...
Free and open to the public. Registration advised.Please join the South Asia Center and Tasveer Film Festival for a screening and discussion of Farming the Revolution (1hr 45min, India, 2024, Nishtha Jain). Director Nishtha Jain will be in attendance to answer...
October 10: 9am - 3pmOctober 11: 10:30am - 1pmLiterary modernity did not always appear in book form, but as a periodical! Throughout the 20th century, literary and cultural production across much of Central, Western, and South Asia reached readers through...
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...