October 3, 2024
ArtSci Roundup: Democracy Discussions series, Ellison Lecture, Faculty Recital and more
This week, head to Kane Hall for a Conversation on Race, Gender, & Democracy, attend the fall Ellison Lecture featuring the chief foreign-affairs correspondent of The Wall Street Journal, check out a faculty recital, and more.
October 7, 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Biology Seminar | Bears in Bathtubs: How Behavior and Life History Shape Predator Responses to Global Change, Hitchcock Hall
In this talk, biology professor Briana Abrahms will describe how an understanding of animal behavior and life history provides a valuable lens for linking environmental processes to ecological patterns. Professor Abrahms will examine how animals make decisions in the face of such environmental changes and the consequences of those decisions for individuals, populations, ecological communities, and—importantly—interactions with people.
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October 8 – November 7 | Democracy in Focus lecture series
Every Tuesday leading up to the 2024 election, UW faculty members will share their expertise through a public lecture on an election-related topic. The series spans UW partners, including the College of Arts & Sciences, the Evans School, the School of Law, and the Information School, with support from the Office of the Provost.
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October 8, 7:30 pm | Faculty Recital: Rachel Lee Priday, Fluid Dynamics, Meany Hall
Violinist Rachel Lee Priday celebrates the release of her solo debut album, Fluid Dynamics, with a live multi-media world premiere performance. The result of a unique collaboration between ocean scientist Dr. Georgy Manucharyan of the UW School of Oceanography and Rachel Lee Priday, Fluid Dynamics combines videos of fluid motion experiments with new commissions from leading young American composers.
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October 9, 7:30 pm | Kris Davis Trio, featuring Robert Hurst & Johnathan Blake, Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse Theater
Join the UW Jazz Studies program for a show by the Kris Davis Trio—Grammy-winning pianist/composer Kris Davis, bassist Robert Hurst, and drummer Johnathan Blake—performing in support of Davis’s new album Run the Gauntlet. Students from the Jazz Studies program will open the show.
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October 9, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Book Talk: Immigration is an Indigenous Issue, Communications Building
In conversation with Diana Flores Ruíz (Cinema & Media Studies) and Vanessa Freije (Jackson School of International Studies), co-authors Mike Wilson and Tony Lucero (Comparative History of Ideas) discuss their new book, What Side Are You On?: A Tohono O’odham Life across Borders. In this collaborative memoir, Wilson and Lucero examine the lessons that emerge from one Indigenous man’s journey through environmental injustice, military service in Central America, struggles with Christianity, filmmaking, and human rights activism along the US-Mexico borderlands.
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October 10, 6:00 7:30 pm | ELLISON LECTURE | Yaroslav Trofimov – Our Enemies will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence (Wall Street Journal Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent), Husky Union Building
Join the Jackson School of International Studies for the fall Ellison Lecture, featuring Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign-affairs correspondent of The Wall Street Journal and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. In this authoritative account, he traces the war’s decisive moments to show how Ukraine and its allies have turned the tide against Russia, one of the world’s great military powers, in a modern-day battle of David and Goliath.
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October 10, 6:30 pm | Peter Shor (MIT): UW Public Lecture in Quantum Science and Engineering, Kane Hall
The UW QuantumX Institute will invite MIT Morss Professor of Applied Mathematics Peter Shor to Kane Hall for a Public Lecture on his research. Peter’s research interests have mainly been in theoretical computer science: He formerly worked on algorithms, computational geometry, and combinatorics and currently works on quantum computing.
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October 10 – 13 | Catalyst, Chamber Dance Company, Meany Hall
Head to Meany Hall for the UW Department of Dance hosted Chamber Dance Company concert. With original and repurposed scores ranging from shredding guitar riffs to mellifluous piano, the choreographers physicalize themes of agitation and tenderness, distance and extreme closeness, nostalgia, and futurism. Set on a cast of extraordinary performers, these six new dances share the dynamism and virtuosity for which the Chamber Dance Company is renowned.
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October 14, 6:30 – 8:00 pm | The 2024 Election: A Conversation on Race, Gender, & Democracy featuring Dr. Christina Greer, Kane Hall
The Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality and Race (WISIR) in conjunction with the Department of Political Science welcomes award-winning scholar and NPR co-host Professor Christina Greer to the stage with UW Professor Megan Francis for a discussion on race, gender and democracy in the context of the elections.
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Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Kathrine Braseth (kbraseth@uw.edu).
