Op-eds for Academics (ONLINE) is a hands-on workshop hosted by Society + Technology at UW and the Center for an Informed Public designed to help you translate your research into compelling public commentary. Academic research is deeply relevant to pressing issues...
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Over the past five centuries, empires have used partition and division to justify and advance colonialialism. We can see that ongoing history of colonial rule and racial violence exploding around the world today—from Palestine to Minnesota and beyond. How might...
Join us for a free livestream talk and discussion on global issues and U.S. foreign policy as part of our Trump in the World 2.0 Winter Lecture Series on the international impact of the second Trump presidency. RSVP here for...
We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming Sexuality & Queer Studies lecture featuring Petrus Liu. Professor Liu will be presenting on 'The Value Turn in Queer Theory.' Please find the event details below: Description: In recent years, queer...
Please join the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in celebrating a new book edited and translated by SCJS faculty member Sasha Senderovich, In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union.The short fiction collected...
In this talk, Resurrecting the Black Body, Sutherland examines the consequences of digitally raising the dead. Attending to the violent deaths of Black Americans–and the records that document them–from slavery through the present, Sutherland explores media evidence, digital acts of...
We are living through a time of crisis: the crisis of humanity vis-à-vis political violence and technological advancement, the crisis of the environment under accumulation, urbanization, and capitalism, the crisis of cinema in the age of digital, censorship, piracy, and...
What can one neighborhood reveal about the making of a modern nation? This talk deciphers the unexpected significance of Xita, a half-square-mile quarter in Shenyang, in Northeast China. It shows that over nearly four centuries, Xita has been shaped and...
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...