The Stroum Center is turning 50 years old and Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi’s Zakhor isn’t far behind! Please join us for the first SCJS 50th Anniversary event of the year: A Tribute to Zakhor Rachel B. Gross , an expert on...
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Abstract Contemporary clinical trials selectively draw on epigenetics to connect behavioral choices made by pregnant people, such as diet and exercise, to health risks for future generations. As the first ethnography of its kind, Weighing the Future examines the sociopolitical...
This event is part of the AI, Creativity, and the Humanities project. UW Professor Emily M. Bender is one of the leading voices in both public and academic conversations about large language models (LLMs). In this discussion with Anna Preus...
The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Graduate Research Cluster is hosting a conversation with Julia Quinn, author of the Bridgerton series, in conjunction with UW Libraries on October 19th at 5:00pm in the Petersen Room of the Allen Library. Space is...
Join the Translation Studies Hub for a lunchtime colloquium: Despite playing a significant role in practices ranging from colonial natural history to anticolonial ecopoetics, translation often goes unremarked in scholarship and curricula on cultural histories of the environment. Jason Groves...
This talk outlines a techno-feminist media theory oriented towards breaking with the current patriarchal techno-logic. Sarah Sharma will show how alt-right understandings of gender and alt-right formulations of technology share an ambivalent and fraught relationship concerned with the submission of...
Join the Reimagining Datafication: Critical & Feminist Agendas working group for a salon organized around a chapter working draft from Sarah Sharma’s book. Titled “The Mechanical Mom,” the chapter discusses how the mundane technologies (smartphones, fitbits, AI companions, chatbots, water...
In partnership with the Canadian Studies Center (Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies), we are hosting Linda Dayan Frimer , a Jewish artist with Eastern European roots from Vancouver, Canada whose art focuses on the dignity and preservation of...
The Written Word and the Development of the State in China and Europe Yuhua Wang, Professor Department of Government Harvard University State formation depends not only on demand-side factors, such as military competition, but also, fundamentally, on the supply of ideas...