In this talk, Dr. Hafsa Kanjwal discusses her book Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation, which received the 2025 Bernard S. Cohn Prize for First Book in South Asia (Association for Asian Studies). The book interrogates how Kashmir was made “integral” to...
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In just half a century, Taiwan transformed from an agricultural colony into an economic power, spurred by efforts of the authoritarian Republic of China government in land reform, farmers associations, and improved crop varieties. Yet overlooked is how Taiwan brought...
Twenty-first-century climate change poems mourn the dying and possible death of the planet. In this colloquium, Jahan Ramazani will discuss his recent article, “Elegies for the Planet,” on how ecocriticism on the poetics of climate change can help develop and...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is impacting all areas of academia. Scholars are utilizing AI in every component of research, including the collection, synthesis, analysis, and visualization of data; drafting of articles; and “peer” review of final submissions. The field of Holocaust...
Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently been top of mind for many in higher education, and UW has hosted a variety of great talks and events centered on LLMs and teaching. The Teaching With LLMs Hackathon picks up where those...
In this workshop, Golden M. Owens will discuss how the late-nineteenth/early twentieth-century introduction and promotion of laborsaving products and technologies influenced and altered popular perceptions and articulations of domestic work and domestic workers. Examining how this work, once largely performed...
Please join us for a screening and discussion of "How I Learned to Fly" ("Leto kada sam naučila da letim") with Director Radivoje Andrić on Wednesday, May 21.Watch the trailer here.The University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in...
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged. Doors expected to open at 4:40pm.In recent years, attitudes in the United States toward the Palestinian cause have shifted dramatically. Although Palestinians have long been demonized in U.S...
The Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington hosts an annual literary and storytelling series. Sacred Breath features Indigenous writers and storytellers sharing their craft at the beautiful wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House on the UW Seattle campus. Storytelling offers a spiritual...