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Prominent Japanese Artist Denied Entry to US for UW Art Conference

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Artist and curator Fram Kitagawa has been denied a visa to speak at the University of Washington, allegedly due to his involvement in student protests in the 1960s. His keynote will go on as planned, with conference organizers reading his address, "...

Environmental Historian Christof Mauch Discusses Sustainability Lessons from the Past

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Environmental history demands that we grapple with new questions, a renowned German scholar argues in a Katz Distinguished Lecture on December 2.

New Hanauer Professor and Fellows Study “Melting Port” Cities and Culture-Spanning Art

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Galya Diment (Slavic Languages & Literatures) leads six Hanauer Fellows in examining how cultural mixing shapes art in three port cities of the early 20th century.

Humanitarian Jihad and the Problem with Essentializing Islam (Video)

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Kashmiri militants tell UW anthropologist Cabeiri Robinson why they put down weapons and picked up shovels after a devastating earthquake.

Introducing Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

A new program forges innovative forms of scholarship and teaching beyond traditional academic circles, supported by a four-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Mapping American Radicalism with Historian James Gregory (Video)

Friday, July 31, 2015

Social movements like Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter operate outside of electoral politics, a phenomenon Gregory is mapping through a groundbreaking digital project.

Postcolonial Animal Studies: Redefining What Lives Matter (Video)

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

María Elena García leads a research cluster reconsidering our relationships with non-human lives, following a conviction that violence toward any life is violence toward all.