RSVP required: docs.google.com…This event follows a workshop format and we ask that attendees read the work in advance. Please RSVP using the form or email saepfel@uw.edu to request a copy."Little Sovereigns" examines the rise in violent expressions of individual power...
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Libraries in French colonial Vietnam functioned as symbols of Western modernity and infrastructures of colonial knowledge. Yet Vietnamese readers pursued alternative uses of the library that exceeded imperial intentions. Bibliotactics examines the Hanoi and Saigon state libraries in colonial and postcolonial Vietnam...
The Grammy-nominated documentary The Music of Strangers, follows members of the Ensemble as they gather in locations across the world, exploring the ways art can both preserve traditions and shape cultural evolution. Blending performance footage, personal interviews, and archival film...
Grrrilda Beausoleil is turning 50.All she wants is a reunion with her 1990s riot grrrl band—the one she abandoned just as they were about to make it big.With a scrappy film crew documenting the journey, she navigates old wounds, new-age...
Free and open to the public. Registration required.Studying Black feminist impulses, scholars of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies have long explored the proto-Black Feminist impulses in Phillis Wheatley's poetry, Harriet Tubman's activism, and Sojourner Truth's lectures. Yet African and African...
What does democracy look like from below? This talk will look at how ordinary lives are reshaped by surveillance, majoritarianism, and corporate-political nexus in South Asia. Exploring media influence, gendered surveillance, majoritarian and casteist politics, the struggles of urban poor...
Tiffany Tsao will discuss the challenges of translating Indonesian literature in the context of a publishing industry that has tended to value Indonesian works more for their “Indonesianness” than their literary value. Catering to a readership interested specifically in the...
Join us for the Keynote Speech of the 32nd Annual REECAS Northwest, an official regional conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). Phillips OBrien will give a lecture on European Strategy and the Ukraine War, a look...