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...
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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...
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...
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...
Fashion brands from Louis Vuitton to Levi’s are using artificial intelligence (AI) -generated fashion models on their websites and in their ad campaigns. These synthetic models are created from data scraped from the internet and, in some cases, from the...
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...
Exploring the history and politics of the Philippine Refugee Processing Center in Morong, Bataan, this talk considers the Filipino English teacher as a critical figure in the U.S.-Philippine program for refugee rehabilitation. Recruited as an ideal figure of instruction and...
Sliding Scale $0-$50. The University of Washington is home to one of the earliest Black Student Unions in the country. Learn the strategies for cross-cultural organizing that led to their success and how this can be applied to liberation struggles...
Join us for to celebrate LaShawnDa Pittman's book Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First-Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival (UC Press, 2023). Sociologist LaShawnDa L. Pittman, Associate Professor, American Ethnic Studies, explores the complex lives of Black grandmothers raising their...