Computing With Classics is a three-workshop series exploring how computing has affected classical scholarship. In this first workshop, we will examine commonly-used digital libraries and databases, their histories, their structures, and their uses.
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We hope you will join us for our 13th annual “Living Breath of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ” Indigenous Foods Symposium on May 2nd & 3rd 2025, hosted by the UW’s American Indian Studies Department and the Na’ah Illahee Fund. We are happy to share that...
In The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. Investigating historical legal and property claims, she argues that regimes of expropriation—rather than merit or good...
A conversation with Hang Tu, Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies, National University of SingaporeHow does emotion shape the landscape of public intellectual debate? In Sentimental Republic, Hang Tu proposes emotion as a new critical framework to approach a post-Mao cultural...
Data visualization best practices and tools do not always discuss accessibility, which can exclude many groups of people. This workshop will review ways to make your visualizations more accessible. We will work through a visualization together and add features to...
Sawad Hussain will highlight how she has courted authors and editors, and then played guardian and censor – sometimes against her better judgments – in order to bring literary works from Arabic into English. She will discuss the roles and...
In an interview for the humanities magazine Callaloo, Etheridge Knight described the goal of the poetry he wrote while incarcerated as a method of meditating on "the subject of oppression." While critics have often argued that Knight renders that subject...
Not So Simple! Translating Young Adult Literature as Resistance and Entertainment with Sawad Hussain
There is a common misconception in literary publishing that books for children and young adults are “simple” and are, therefore, easy to translate. But translating literature for younger people is not simple at all. How does the process of “curating”...
Brandon Som, the 2025 Roethke Reader, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2024 for Tripas: Poems. He is the author of Babel’s Moon (Tupelo, 2011), winner of a Snowbound Chapbook Award, and The Tribute Horse (Nightboat, 2014), winner of a Nightboat Poetry Prize...