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...
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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...
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...
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...
Data visualization best practices and tools do not always discuss accessibility, which can exclude many groups of people. This workshop will review ways to make your visualizations more accessible. We will work through a visualization together and add features to...
History leaves behind many nameless individuals. What should we do when we recover a name, but that name leads to nothing more than an archival trace or a pictured body? From a name, how do we reconstruct an authentic historical...
Presenter: Saad Khan, GWSS Ph.D. Candidate Moderator: Marielle Marcaida, GWSS Ph.D. Candidate “Nascent moves” investigates the materiality of modes of coming together and collectivizing for pleasure, sociality, and political achievement in the LGBTQ activist scene in Bangladesh. In this colloquium...
Please join us for a reception after the event from 4:30-6:00 in CMU 202/204. Join us for this Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies panel that brings together Washington state legal professionals to discuss the variety of ways in which they work...
COM Colloquium by Debra Hawhee, "Extinction Art, Climate Rhetoric, and the Work of Finding Presence"
Extinction Art, Climate Rhetoric, and the Work of Finding Presence Debra Hawhee, Pennsylvania State University To galvanize action in response to the climate crisis, it is insufficient to present findings; the task at hand is, rather, to find presence. Such...