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Feb 3, 2025

Prompt Engineering & Interacting with AI

Feb 7, 2025

Vali Dakhani and Early Rekhtah Networks: Sharing Poetry’s Pleasures

Vali Dakhani and Early Rekhtah Networks: Sharing Poetry’s Pleasures (2025) by Purnima Dhavan and Heidi Pauwels reexamines the emergence of Rekhtah (now called Urdu) as a literary and poetic language in the eighteenth century. They reframe the history of Urdu...

Feb 11, 2025

Katz Distinguished Lecture by Edward Slingerland: "Learning to See: Literature, Moral Perception and Early Confucian Virtue Ethics"

In the Analects, Confucius compares someone who has not adequately studied the classic Book of Odes to a person standing with their face to a wall—unable to see, unable to act. This talk unpacks scattered and vague references in the...

Feb 12, 2025

Edward Slingerland, "Confucianism, Virtue Ethics and the Science of Perception"

In this more technical colloquium talk to support the Katz Distinguished Lecture on “learning to see” in the Analects, Edward Slingerland will review some of the academic and scientific controversies the project required him to navigate. How deeply does cognition...

Feb 20, 2025

FILM SCREENING |"My Imaginary Country"

Join Affiliate Lecturer Livia Lima and Professor Andrés Barría for a screening of Patricio Guzmán's 2019 documentary, "My Imaginary Country (Mi país imaginario)." This film follows the massive protests that erupted in Santiago, Chile, in 2019 and resulted in a new constituent assembly. The...

Feb 21, 2025

Diana Behler Memorial Lecture: Dorothee Ostmeier (U Oregon): From the Grimms’ Wonder Tales to AI: Wells, Hedges, Automata, Screens. How to connect the dots?

Prof. Dorothee Ostmeier will deliver a lecture in honor of beloved UW Prof. Diana Behler. In literary Romanticism to AI tales, portals, called heterotopias by Foucault, mediate change between concrete and virtual, human and non-human realities. This lecture straddles the fringes...

Feb 26, 2025

Tateuchi East Asia Library Digital Scholarship Series

The Tateuchi East Asia Library (TEAL) is proud to present the 2025 TEAL Digital Scholarship Series, a dynamic program showcasing cutting-edge research by faculty in the fields of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese (CJKT) studies. This series highlights how innovative...

Mar 6, 2025

Tateuchi East Asia Library Digital Scholarship Series

Apr 14, 2025

Tateuchi East Asia Library Digital Scholarship Series

The Tateuchi East Asia Library (TEAL) is proud to present the 2025 TEAL Digital Scholarship Series , a dynamic program showcasing cutting-edge research by faculty in the fields of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese (CJKT) studies. This series highlights how...