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...
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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...
If natural selection is “the survival of the fittest”, and being fittest means having more offspring, then survival of the fittest is just the survival of those that survive. In this talk, Abrams explains how evolutionary biology avoids this puzzling...
This event brings together colleagues and students for a collective celebration of the ghazal, a poetic form that has flourished in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu, and many other languages. Each participant will read one of their favorite ghazals in its...
Join us for Ladino Day 2025, featuring speakers Rina Benmayor, Dalia Kandiyoti, Devin Naar, and Isaac Alhadeff for a conversation on “Sephardic Homelands: Spanish and Portuguese Citizenship and the Question of Belonging Today.” The program will be followed by a modest reception...
This workshop, led by Laura Luna Castillo (UW, DX Arts), merges computational linguistics and creative experimentation. We will use Python’s Natural Language Toolkit (NTLK) to analyze, deconstruct and algorithmically expand text corpora in a Dadaist spirit. Participants will be guided...
This panel will feature the voices of two-year college faculty from the Seattle District Colleges who will describe their paths to these teaching-intensive institutions and offer advice to graduate students who are considering community college careers. Panelists will discuss effective...
TOWARDS THE NEW CHAPTER OF US-ROK PARTNERSHIP AND KOREA’S SMART POWERA lecture by Ms. Eunji Seo, Consul-General of the Republic of Korea in SeattleThe US-ROK relationship has evolved from a military alliance forged during the Korean War into a comprehensive...
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...