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This lunchtime workshop invites critical considerations of intellectual property rights (IPR), particularly from the perspective of those historically on the losing side of the IPR regime. To begin the discussion, Minh-Ha T. Pham will draw on case studies from her recent...
This talk critiques the place of post-abolition controls over free Black people in the United States (e.g. Jim Crow laws, convict leasing, debt peonage, violent displacement and alienation of property) in both scholarship and methods of teaching Brazilian race and...
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...
Join us for the book launch of Displacing Kinship ! 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...
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...
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...
Matriarch: Portraits of Indigenous Women in the Pacific Northwest Fighting for our Collective Future Opening Reception Thursday, May 16, 2024, 6:00 PM FREE Join us for the first exhibition at our new Museum Store Community Gallery. The exhibition Matriarch: Portraits of Indigenous...