Liina-Ly Roos, associate professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, presents her book The Not-Quite Child: Colonial Histories, Racialization, and Swedish Exceptionalism, examining Swedish depictions of childhood that expose the country's colonial past and racial hierarchies. She’ll be joined by UW professor Olivia...
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Is Zionism a movement of national liberation or a story of colonialism and dispossession? Most public debate insists it has to be one or the other. This talk makes the case that it's both, and that treating it as an...
“Building Bridges” invites UW students, faculty, staff, and community members to learn about local non-profit organizations focused on Ethiopian communities in King County and Ethiopia. Featuring Sofia Benalfew (Ethiopian Community in Seattle) and Ellenore Angelidis (Open Hearts Big Dreams Fund)...
Register to attend.The Simpson Center for the Humanities invites current graduate students at the master's and doctoral levels to a morning meet-and-greet event to make connections across the many departments and disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, and arts at...
RSVP Requested.This event will highlight the innovative work of the Simpson Center’s 2026 Digital & Data Humanities Summer Fellowship recipients. The eight funded projects span a variety of disciplines and technological approaches – ranging from the use of tactile recording...
Free artist talk by Daniel R. Smith (Swinomish) to accompany Spot Reservation, Smith’s newest participatory public art project, which he describes as an “Indigenous, celebratory occupation of the University of Washington.” Taking place the day before Halloween, Friday, October 30...
When people talk about quantum computing, the focus is usually on a small set of well-known applications. But an equally interesting question is whether we’re asking the right questions in the first place. What kinds of problems might benefit from...
Registration required.How did the martial artist and actor Bruce Lee vault to global stardom? In this lecture, Daryl Joji Maeda describes how transpacific contacts and migrations created the world in which a singular individual encountered, absorbed, and synthesized multiple philosophical...
Register to attend. In/Humanizing Generative AI in Place and Space: A Roundtable Conversation brings together faculty, staff, and graduate students across the University of Washington to examine how generative AI reshapes questions of intelligence, authorship, equity, belonging, and humanness. Grounded...