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...
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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...
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...
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.The University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services, programs...
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...
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...