The interdisciplinary STSS community at UW is both unfunded and robust. This fall meeting brings together faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and staff who are curious about and committed to the critical, cultural, historical, and philosophical study of science and...
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Please join us in celebration of the 25 th anniversary of the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. Over the past quarter century, the Simpson Center has established itself as an internationally recognized model for leading-edge humanities research. Its...
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...
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...
Join us for a talk with Mark Letteney on his new book: Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration, by Mark Letteney and Matthew D. C. Larsen. This book examines spaces, practices, and ideologies of incarceration in the ancient Mediterranean basin from 300 BCE to 600...
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...
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...
Join us for a talk with Paris Papamichos Chronakis on his new book: The Business of Transition – Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule. How did the cosmopolitan bourgeoisie of the Eastern Mediterranean navigate the transition...