Seattle Turkish Film Festival & University of Washington Turkish & Ottoman Studies present...Turkish Cinema through an artist's lens: Zuhal Olcay. In Conversation with UW Professor Melike Yücel-Koç.Register here or see Web link below. Join us for an extraordinary evening celebrating the art and...
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Comparison Controversies: Historical Analogy and the Politics of Holocaust Memory Why do we turn to the past in order to confront the crises of the present? Michael Rothberg approaches this question from the perspective of “comparison controversies,” which occur when...
Registration requested: bit.ly/michael-rothberg What does it mean for individuals and institutions to be ‘implicated’ in past violence? This is an urgent question across nations and continents, but it has a particular force in Germany. In recent years, the German public sphere...
What does it mean to commemorate a genocide? This is the overarching question governing this academic panel as its presenters ruminate over the mass killings that transpired in Indonesia between 1965 and 1966 which saw an estimated deaths of at...
Working from poet Tan Lin’s idea of “general feelings”—the notion that emotions are not our own (individually held or private) but shared as a kind of communal recipe— Chloë Bass will discuss the production of artistic work in the contemporary...
A series to prepare for the UW Symphony performance of Healing Heart of the First People of This Land (February 2026)Open to the public – doors open at 10:30am for coffee & pastriesFeaturing10/9 łuutiis Charlotte Coté (Nuu-chah-nulth) with Dian Million...
The Tateuchi East Asia Library (TEAL) is proud to present the 2025-2026 TEAL Digital Scholarship Series, a dynamic program showcasing cutting-edge research by scholars in the fields of Chinese, Japanese and Korean studies. This series highlights how innovative digital tools...
UW MELC Lecturer Dr. Lillian McCabe's talk is entitled "Translating Enchantment: Journeys of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s (d. 1210) Book of the Hidden Secret"The Book of the Hidden Secret was an immensely popular text of theoretical and practical magic written by the famed Muslim...
College football, with its prestige, drama, media, and money, is a core feature of the sporting landscape in the US. However, the promises of an “amateur” system that offers a “free” education contradict the reality. Based on long-term ethnographic research...