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A series to prepare for the UW Symphony performance of Healing Heart of the First People of This Land (February 2026)Open to the public – doors open at 10:30am for coffee & pastriesFeaturing10/9 łuutiis Charlotte Coté (Nuu-chah-nulth) with Dian Million...
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...
Join us for Ladino Day 2025, featuring speakers Rina Benmayor, Dalia Kandiyoti, Devin Naar, and Isaac Alhadeff for a conversation on  “Sephardic Homelands: Spanish and Portuguese Citizenship and the Question of Belonging Today.” The program will be followed by a modest reception...
This workshop, led by Laura Luna Castillo (UW, DX Arts), merges computational linguistics and creative experimentation. We will use Python’s Natural Language Toolkit (NTLK) to analyze, deconstruct and algorithmically expand text corpora in a Dadaist spirit. Participants will be guided...
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...
A series to prepare for the UW Symphony performance of Healing Heart of the First People of This Land (February 2026)Open to the public – doors open at 10:30am for coffee & pastriesFeaturing10/9 łuutiis Charlotte Coté (Nuu-chah-nulth) with Dian Million...
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...