1 – 2 pm or 2 – 3 pm Cost: Free with Admission Living Voices combines live theatrical performances with archival film, turning history into a moving personal journey. This performance will take place in the Joshua Green Foundation Theater on MOHAI’s...
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“Asia” happens anytime, anywhere and applies to everyone. This provocative proclamation was made by founding editors Tina Chen and Eric Hayot of Verge: Studies in Global Asias in their inaugural editorial of the pathbreaking journal in 2015. Since then, the...
Title: Misinformation: Why is it a problem? Abstract: Why can’t people just realize when something is false and then not believe it? I will discuss the cognitive mechanisms that make exposure to misinformation problematic, even when people should realize it is...
Since 2017, the Libraries and the eScience Institute have partnered to offer the successful Going Public Symposium--an interdisciplinary, tri-campus event designed to build skills in translating and communicating research findings to wider audiences and co-creating knowledge with community partners. For...
Maxine Savage's dissertation, "North Adjacent: Race, Sex, and the Spatiotemporality of Borealism" resists exoticizing discourses of the Arctic and sub-Arctic North that undergird conceptions of the Nordic as always already white, normatively masculine, and heterosexual. In examining the "North," Maxine...
Turkic and Central Eurasian Studies Seminar: Language Oppression in Tibet Professor Gerald Roche, La Trobe University Australia Thousands of language communities around the world today face an uncertain future, with estimates suggesting that half the world’s languages will no longer...
This lunchtime workshop invites critical considerations of intellectual property rights (IPR), particularly from the perspective of those historically on the losing side of the IPR regime. To begin the discussion, Minh-Ha T. Pham will draw on case studies from her recent...
This talk critiques the place of post-abolition controls over free Black people in the United States (e.g. Jim Crow laws, convict leasing, debt peonage, violent displacement and alienation of property) in both scholarship and methods of teaching Brazilian race and...
The Simpson Center for the Humanities invites current graduate students at the masters and doctoral levels to a meet-and-greet event to make connections across the many departments and disciplines of the humanities and social sciences at the University of Washington...