Spot Reservation, Swinomish artist Daniel R. Smith’s newest participatory public art project, is a free event he describes as an “Indigenous, celebratory occupation of the University of Washington.” Taking place Thursday, November 5, from 11:00am – 3:00pm, the project transforms...
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In these gatherings for plein air drawing, participants look to the sky and give themselves over to the fluid flows of clouds. Mushkin will provide simple but specific drawing instructions at locations chosen for their connection to nuclear histories at...
Registration recommended.The Simpson Center invites current UW faculty, students, and staff working in the fields of environmental studies, Indigenous studies, and Pacific Northwest studies to a fall meet & greet to make connections and learn about upcoming events, workshops, and...
RSVP Required.Join us for an informal meet-and-greet and lightning talk roundtable featuring scholars from across the University of Washington and Washington state whose research engages the ancient, medieval, and early modern worlds.Designed to spark conversation and new collaborations across disciplines...
Aron Aji cannot recall a time when he was not translating. Growing up in Turkey among Ladino, Hebrew, and French used at home and then, from elementary school on, in Turkish—and studying in English later—he learned to move between languages...
Please join us for the 2026–2027 TEAL Digital Scholarship Series featuring guest speaker Jeffrey Thrasen from the University of Chicago. Jeffrey Tharsen 康森傑Associate Director of TechnologyDivision of the Arts & HumanitiesUniversity of Chicago New Methods in Computational Sinology: From Digital...
Registration required. Safia Aidid is an interdisciplinary historian of modern Africa and Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the African Studies Centre at University of Toronto. She holds a PhD from Harvard University. Her research addresses anticolonial nationalism...
Registration recommended.We humanists are hoping for, and many of us are fighting for, a new day in the United States when the production and circulation of knowledge are understood as keystones of democracy and of human thriving – and thus...
Renowned medieval manuscript scholar Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis, Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America and adjunct faculty at Simmons University's School of Library and Information Science, will present on medieval manuscripts preserved in collections throughout the Emerald City.Dr...