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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
From corpora available for purchase to natural language processing models, to out-of-the-box tools for text analysis, scholars working with English enjoy many advantages. The comparatively limited market for digitized corpora with reasonable metadata in languages other than English means that...
Réjane Sénac is the Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Sciences Po in Paris. Her research explores the dynamics of inequality and discrimination (feminism, racism...
Nearly fifty years after the end of the war in Vietnam, American children of Vietnamese refugees continue to process the meanings of the war and its consequences through creative work. Analyzing social science studies, policy, and the art, film, music...