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...
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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...
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...
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...
Dr. Mohammad Rafi (UC Irvine)"Muslims in Germany: A Permanent Threat to German National Identity?"This paper traces how Islam has been construed as a threat to German national identity and its declared values. It explores how Muslims are perceived to be a danger...
How do we reckon with histories of power, exclusion, and erasure in work with physical and digital archives? This panel explores decolonial approaches in book history and the digital humanities through discussions of projects focused on mapping South Asia’s Adivasi...
“When an elder dies, a library burns.” This African proverb emphasizes the irreplaceable role of elders as guardians and transmitters of knowledge, culture, and wisdom. Black grandmothers, as living "libraries," carry and preserve vital stories and cultural inheritances—such as material possessions, traditions...
In her last work, the posthumously published Life of the Mind, Hannah Arendt develops a phenomenology of the activities that make up mental life, specifically thinking and willing (the section on judging remained largely unwritten). In order to elucidate thinking...