Join the Open Scholarship Commons in welcoming UW scholars Kentrell Owens & Inyoung Cheong for a wide-ranging discussion about the many overlaps between personal privacy, algorithms, and the evolving legal frameworks they operate within. Mr. Owens is a PhD candidate...
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Over the last five decades, Black women have been one of the fastest-growing segments of the global prison population, thanks to policies that criminalize women for what they do to survive interpersonal and state violence. At select sites, however, women...
This event introduces the latest research on South Vietnamese politics, culture, and society, offering a fresh way to understand the young republic and the people who built it. Unlike the conventional scholarship, these works study South Vietnam in its own...
More than ten highland ethnic groups reside in north Thailand. These groups include some one million people. Generally referred to as “hill tribes,” these groups have long been perceived as primitive and dangerous others. Since the late 1950s, the Thai...
A hands-on performing ethnography workshop during which participants will practice core skills of observation, writing, and devising innovative ways of sharing their work. Immediately before this workshop, there will be an optional lunch in CMU 202 from 12:30 – 2pm. At...
University of Washington faculty are engaged in a broad array of research and collaboration relating to India. On May 10th the UW South Asia Center and UW Office of Global Affairs are gathering to showcase their work. Come hear lightning...
Turkic and Central Eurasian Studies Seminar: Analysis of modern Kazakh conversation Prof. Gulnara Boribayeva, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan Modern spoken Kazakh diverges significantly from formal definitions of the Kazakh language. The presenter will delve into the distinct differences between...
The last film in our series Diversity and Inclusion in Japanese Society is 'Rage' (2016) is the award winning and highly acclaimed film by director/writers Sang-li Lee and Shūichi Yoshida. It tells the tale of a grisly unsolved murder linking three...
Technology ethicist and interaction designer, Cennydd Bowles, comes to the University of Washington for a guest lecture. After a range of embarrassing and sometimes dangerous slip-ups, technology companies have been quick to defend themselves. These impacts weren’t intentional, they argue...