Let’s get spooky! On Halloween Eve, we would like to invite you to a book promotion and panel discussion for "Slavic Horror Across Media: Cursed Zones," published by Manchester University Press in June 2025. The editor Agnieszka Jeżyk, author José...
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Comparison Controversies: Historical Analogy and the Politics of Holocaust Memory Why do we turn to the past in order to confront the crises of the present? Michael Rothberg approaches this question from the perspective of “comparison controversies,” which occur when...
This event brings together colleagues and students for a collective celebration of the ghazal, a poetic form that has flourished in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu, and many other languages. Each participant will read one of their favorite ghazals in its...
Since its inception in 2013, Ladino Day at the University of Washington has become a hallmark of campus and virtual programming where community members, students, faculty, and scholars come together to discuss the past, present, and future of Ladino.Join us for Ladino...
From a distance nearly all of us misunderstand pilgrimage. Influenced by movies, memoirs, and travel influencers we tend to think of the practice as a personal reboot, a self-imposed extended, sweaty therapy session that leads to the authentic and better...
Wetlandia is a symposium that attempts to systematically rethink the wetland as an analytic constituted by far more than nature. Often located at ocean/river/land boundaries, wetlands serve as homes to a rich collection of flora, fauna, and people. Salt, sand dunes, mangroves...
Emily M. Bender is a Professor of Linguistics and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Computer Science and the Information School at the University of Washington, where she has been on the faculty since 2003. Her research interests include...
Stephanie LeMenager's work on climate change and the humanities has been featured in The New York Times, ClimateWire, Science Friday, NPR, the CBC, and other public venues. She is Barbara and Carlisle Moore Professor of English and Professor of Environmental...