October 24, 2024
ArtSci Roundup: November 2024
From campus to wherever you call home, we welcome you to learn from and connect with the College of Arts & Sciences community through public events spanning the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. We hope to see you this November.
Election & Democracy Events
November 7 | Trust on the Ballot: Voting in Washington
Shortly after the General Election, three Washington Secretaries of State discuss the history and evolution of voting in our state—from the various systems in place to the complex and polarized climate we now operate in. If you missed the event, check out the TVW recording here.
November 12 | Democracy Discussions Series | The 2024 Election: What Just Happened? What Happens Next?
After the 2024 election, hear from Jessica Beyer (Jackson School of International Studies), Victor Menaldo (Political Science), and Scott Lemieux (Political Science) for a discussion on what happened and what happens next as part of the Democracy Discussions Series.
December 3 | Katz Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities: James N. Gregory
In this talk, James Gregory, professor of history at the UW, will explore the history of West Coast radicalism and factors that have made it influential beyond what is common in other regions, including those with blue state traditions.
Week of October 28
October 29, 6:00 – 8:00 pm | Shared Tools Exhibition & Opening Reception (School of Art + Art History + Design)
The Jacob Lawrence Gallery’s Shared Tools exhibition begins to unravel Lawrence’s interest in hand tools and the work of builders, and what role the community might have in building the future of the gallery. Shared Tools is the first of a series of exhibitions that pulls inspiration from the life and legacy of Jacob Lawrence.
Free
October 29, 4:30 – 6:00 pm | ONLINE OPTION Were the Ancient Greeks Responsible for Antisemitism? (Department of Classics)
Professor Erich Gruen (UC Berkeley) will address the age-old issue of the roots of antisemitism in antiquity and the degree it may have arisen in the Jewish experience in the Greek and Hellenistic worlds. This event is co-sponsored by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of Classics.
Free
October 31, 7:30 pm | Halloween Organ Concert (School of Music)
Dr. Stephen Price is joined by students, colleagues, and friends of the UW Organ Studies program in this concert of spooky organ classics and Halloween fun.
Free
November 1, 7:30 pm | UW Symphony Orchestra with Bonnie Whiting (School of Music)
David Alexander Rahbee leads the UW Symphony in a program of works by Ludwig van Beethoven and Akira Ifukube. With Percussion Studies Chair Bonnie Whiting, marimba.
November 2 – 10 | The Caucasian Chalk Circle (School of Drama)
THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE is a parable inspired by the Chinese play CHALK CIRCLE. Written at the close of World War II, the story is set in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia, and retells the tale of an abandoned child whose custody is contested by his caretaker and his biological mother. In this production, a group of modern-day actors come together with real questions about justice, what is fair, and how to do right when it seems impossible.
Additional Events
October 29 | Discussion with Dr. Maya Smith for ‘Reclaiming Venus: The Many Lives of Alvenia Bridges’ (French & Italian Studies)
Beginning November 1 | Exhibit Opening | Overexposures: Photographs from the Henry Collection (Henry Art Gallery)
Beginning November 1 | Exhibit Opening | Body Language: Recent Acquisitions in the Henry Collection (Henry Art Gallery)
November 1 | CSDE Seminar – Measuring and Modeling the Impact of Partisanship Differences in Health Behaviors on COVID-19 Disease Spread (CSDE)
November 2 | Bill Holm Center 20th Anniversary Symposium (School of Art + Art History + Design)
Week of November 4
November 4, 4:00 – 6:00 pm | Ibsen in Drag: A conversation with Cherdonna Shinatra (Jody Kuehner) and Maggie L. Rogers (Scandinavian Studies)
Witness a conversation between dancer/choreographer and drag performance artist Jody Kuehner (Cherdonna Shinatra) and artist and dramaturg Maggie L. Rogers. The conversation will focus particularly on Kuehner and Rogers’ 2017 production, Cherdonna’s A Doll’s House, staged in collaboration with the Washington Ensemble Theater on Capitol Hill.
Free
November 7, 7:30 – 9:00 pm | ONLINE OPTION Trust on the Ballot: Voting in Washington (College of Arts & Sciences and Evans School)
Join three Washington Secretaries of State as they discuss the history and evolution of voting in our state—from the various systems in place to the complex and polarized climate we now operate in. Current Secretary of State Steve Hobbs joins former Secretaries of State Kim Wyman and Sam Reed for a panel discussion convened by the University of Washington’s College of Arts & Sciences and the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance.
If you missed the event, check out the TVW recording here.
Free
November 7 & 8, 7:30 pm | DXARTS Fall Concert: Fictions in Fugue (Digital Arts and Experimental Media)
Fictions in Fugue is an interdisciplinary collaboration by new media artists/performers who come together to activate Meany Theater as a space in fugue and fragmentation. Combining interactive storytelling, Extended Reality technologies and Machine Learning experiments, a series of embodied narratives emerge throughout the evening.
Free
November 10, 4:00 pm | Guest Artist Concert: Zhao-Rong “Peter” Chen, flute (School of Music)
The School of Music joins with the Seattle Flute Society (SFS) for its Flute Celebration Day, featuring Professor Zhao Rong Peter Chen, School of Music alumnus and faculty member at China Conservatory of Music and other highly regarded institutions throughout China. His performance is followed by additional performances from the Seattle Flute Society Flute Choir and other SFS members.
Free
Additional Events
November 6 | Providing the pieces to the puzzle: Translating population, mortality burden, and effectiveness to potential impact of mass drug administration of antibiotics on child mortality Overexposures: Photographs from the Henry Collection (Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences)
November 7 | ONLINE From Film Festivals to Songbooks: A Conversation with Lyle Pearson (Simpson Center)
November 7 | Workshop session: Exploring East Asia’s Cultural Heritage Through Illustrated Works (Asian Languages & Literature)
Week of November 11
November 12, 5:00 – 6:30 pm | Democracy Discussions Series | The 2024 Election: What Just Happened? What Happens Next? (Political Science)
Department of Political Science and the Political Economy Forum are hosting a post-election faculty roundtable moderated by Professors James Long, Jessica Beyer (Jackson School), Victor Menaldo (Political Science), and Scott Lemieux (Political Science) one week after the election on what we know so far and what to expect next.
Free
November 13, 6:00 – 8:00 pm | The Role of Public Research Universities (Law, Societies & Justice)
Join UW Honors’ annual Global Challenges—Interdisciplinary Thinking event as they bring Tony Lucero (Indigenous studies and critical university studies), Megan McCloskey (international human rights law and disability rights), and Ed Taylor (leadership, social justice and critical race theory in education) together with Interdisciplinary Honors student moderator, Jaya Field, to discuss the many purposes of public research universities like the UW in our world today.
Free
November 13, 7:00 – 8:30 pm | ONLINE OPTION Distinguished Alumni Lecture with Professor Michael Fanselow, Ph.D., UCLA (Psychology) 
Learn about a neurobiological perspective on anxiety, fear, and panic as adaptive and maladaptive behavior. Michael S. Fanselow, a professor in the Department of Psychology at UCLA, will describe how defensive behavior is organized into 3 distinct modes that fall along a continuum related to the proximity of threat, known as the predatory imminence continuum.
Free
November 14, 5:30 – 7:00 pm | ONLINE OPTION Sacred Breath: Indigenous Writing and Storytelling Series (American Indian Studies)
Join the Department of American Indian Studies for the annual literary and storytelling series Sacred Breath, this year featuring Richard Van Camp and Roger Fernandes. Indigenous writers and storytellers share their craft at the beautiful wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House.
Free
November 14, 7:30 pm | Jazz Innovations II (School of Music)
UW Jazz Studies students perform in small combos over two consecutive nights of original tunes, a homage to the greats of jazz, and experiments in composing and arranging.
Free
Additional Events
November 12 | Faculty Recital: Stephen Price, organ (School of Music)
November 13 | SCREENING: Fish War (Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest)
November 13 | From Demography to Kinship: The Crisis of Population Aging (Simpson Center)
November 13 | Book Launch – Motherland by Shahzoda Samarqandi, translated by Shelley Fairweather-Vega (Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures)
November 14 | Writing Self, Writing War: Workshop by Asef Soltanzadeh (Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures)
November 14 | Old Norse Ecocriticism: The Case of a Driftwood Assassin’ – Lecture with Dr. Timothy Bourns (Scandinavian Studies)
November 14 | Image, Technology, Ideology: New Directions in Media Studies (Simpson Center)
November 15 | Hybrid War in Europe: A Northern Dimension (Jackson School)
Week of November 18
November 18, 7:30 pm | Faculty Recital: Craig Sheppard, Fauré Piano Quartets (School of Music)
Pianist Craig Sheppard is joined by Rachel Lee Priday, violin; Noah Geller, viola; and Efe Baltacigil, cello, in performing Gabriel Fauré Piano Quartet #1 in C minor, Opus 15; and Piano Quartet #2 in G minor, Opus 45.
November 20, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | BOOK EVENT: “From Forest Farm to Sawmill Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State,” with Shuxuan Zhou (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)
Centering on oral histories in Fujian, Shuxuan Zhou situates firsthand accounts of labor and resistance in forestry and wood processing within the larger context of postrevolutionary socialist reforms through China’s rapid economic development after the 1990s. This book opens a conversation among the fields of gender studies, labor studies, and environmental studies.
Free
November 20, 3:30 – 4:30 pm | ONLINE OPTION A Discussion of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 (Department of Chemistry)
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry celebrates groundbreaking achievements in computational biology, awarded to David Baker from the UW. Professors Mike Gelb and Jesse Zalatan from the Department of Chemistry will introduce and set the stage for a brief presentation by Nobel Laureate David Baker. The talk will be followed by a moderated Q&A session.
Free
November 22, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | LECTURE | Voice, Video, and Vernacular: Digital Media and the Politics of Cultural Regions (South Asia Center and Department of Communication)
Taking stock of the centrality of streaming video and other forms of social media entertainment in Indian public culture, this lecture focuses on the enduring significance of linguistic and cultural regions. This lecture will explore the range of imaginations and understandings of regional languages, cultures, and caste politics that media companies mobilize in their quest for audiences and markets.
Free
November 23, 5:00 pm | “Bad River” Screening & Panel (UWAA)
Head to the wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House for a special screening of “Bad River,” the critically acclaimed new documentary film. “Bad River” chronicles the efforts of the Bad River Band’s ongoing fight for sovereignty. Stay after the screening for an in-depth discussion of Indigenous water rights, Indigenous health, and Native sovereignty.
Free
Additional Events
November 19 | Voice Division Recital (School of Music)
November 21 | Geographers in Practice (Geography)
November 21 | Campus and Concert Bands: Colors in Motion (School of Music)
November 22 | Richard Block, “After the Skies Have Fallen: Kafka, Chicken Little, and the Big Lie” | Friday Lecture Series (German Studies)
November 22 | Passage to Seattle Trilogy | Wong Family Saga, 1852-2023 (American Ethnic Studies)
November 23 | Campus Philharmonia Orchestras (School of Music)
November 23 | Lei Lā’ī Workshop in the Artist Studio (Burke Museum)
November 24 | Fossile Finders | Flight and Feathers (Burke Museum)
Week of November 25
November 30, 2:00 – 3:00 pm | Meet the Curator of Overexposures: Photographs from the Henry Collection (Henry Art Gallery)
Visit the Henry for an illuminating tour of two exhibitions, Overexposures: Photographs from the Henry Collection and Recent Acquisitions in the Henry Collection with Em Chan, curator of Overexposures and the Henry’s Curatorial Assistant. During the tour, Chan will guide visitors through a selection of photographs and artworks from the collection.
Free
December 2, 6:30 pm | UW Gospel Choir (School of Music)
Phyllis Byrdwell leads the 100-voice Gospel Choir in songs of praise, jubilation, and other expressions from the Gospel tradition. Phyllis is the director of the UW Gospel Choir, was inducted into the Washington Music Educators Association’s Hall of Fame in 2002, and serves on the Seattle Symphony Board of Directors.
December 3, 6:30 pm | Katz Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities: James N. Gregory | Left Coast Rising: The Making of a Regional Political Tradition (Simpson Center)
How did the West Coast become the “Left Coast” and what does that mean for American politics? The term “Left Coast” has further underlined the significance of progressive and radical movements in the political systems and reputations of these states. In this talk, Gregory explores the history of West Coast radicalism and factors that have made it influential beyond what is common in other regions, including those with blue state traditions.
Free
Additional Events
November 25 | Nobel Colloquium: De novo protein design (Physics)
November 25 | Concerto Competition: Keyboard (School of Music)
November 26 | Chamber Music Showcase (School of Music)
November 26 | Percussion Ensemble (School of Music)
December 2 | Studio Jazz Ensemble and Modern Band (School of Music)
December 2 | The Sam Dubal Memorial Lecture on Racial Justice in Medical Anthropology and Global Health (Department of Anthropology)
December 3 | Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Concert: Miguel Ballumbrosio, Afro-Peruvian Music and Dance (School of Music)
December 3 | Israeli Chamber Project with Hila Baggio, Soprano (Meany Center)
Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Kathrine Braseth (kbraseth@uw.edu).
