February 20, 2025
ArtSci Roundup: March 2025
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 March.
Closing Exhibits
Overexposures: Photographs from the Henry Collection [Installation view, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. 2024]. Photo: Jueqian Fang.
March 1 | Overexposures: Photographs from the Henry Collection (Henry Art Gallery)
March 1 | Body Language: Recent Acquisitions in the Henry Collection (Henry Art Gallery)
March 31 | Exploring East Asia’s Cultural Heritage Through Illustrated Works (China Studies)
March, the Month of Music
Join the School of Music for a full month of melodious events.
March 3 | Campus and Concert Bands: Passages
March 4 | Modern Music Ensemble
March 7 | Chamber Singers and University Chorale: The Promise of Living
March 8 | Campus Philharmonia Orchestras
March 8 | Composition Studio
March 10 | Studio Jazz Ensemble and Modern Band
March 11 | Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band: Transformation
March 12 | Seattle Modern Orchestra, Tribute: Joël-François Durand
March 14 | UW Symphony Orchestra with UW Choirs
March 14 | CD Release Celebration: Melia Watras, the almond tree duos
Week of March 3
March 6, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm | Postwar Vietnam and Cambodia: Society, Culture, and Diaspora Communities in Seattle (Department of Asian Language & Literature)
Spring 2025 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Second Indochina War, also known as the Vietnam War. This milestone invites scholars, artists, authors, community leaders, and UW students to reflect on the transformations, challenges, and developments in Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Southeast Asian diaspora in Greater Seattle since April 1975.
March 6, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm | Book Talk: ‘Island Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan’s Computing Industry’ (Jackson School)
How did Taiwan, a former Japanese colony and the last fortress of the defeated Chinese Nationalists, ascend to such heights in high-tech manufacturing? In Island Tinkerers, Honghong Tinn tells the critical history of how hobbyists and enthusiasts in Taiwan, including engineers, technologists, technocrats, computer users, and engineers-turned-entrepreneurs, helped transform the country with their hands-on engagement with computers.
March 7, 7:30 pm and March 8, 10 am – 3:00 pm | Sacred Breath: Indigenous Writing and Storytelling Series (American Indian Studies)
The Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington hosts an annual literary and storytelling series. Sacred Breath features Indigenous writers and storytellers sharing their craft at the beautiful wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House on the UW Seattle campus. Storytelling offers a spiritual connection; a sharing of sacred breath. Literature, similarly, preserves human experience and ideals. Both forms are durable and transmit power that teaches us how to live. Both storytelling and reading aloud can impact audiences through the power of presence, allowing for the experience of the transfer of sacred breath as audiences are immersed in the experience of being inside stories and works of literature.
Additional Events
March 2 | Departmental Outing: Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at Seattle Opera (German Studies)
March 3 | Campus and Concert Bands: Passages (Music)
March 3 | The Future of Immigration Justice (Comparative History of Ideas)
March 4 | Modern Music Ensemble (Music)
March 4 | Transnational Feminist Non-aligned Movement for Genuine Security and a Culture of Life (Public Lectures)
March 4 | Nirliit, a conversation with Quebec author Juliana Léveillé-Trudel (Jackson School)
March 6 | UW Colloquium in Political Theory: Dr. Emma Rodman, “The Idea of Equality in America” (Political Science)
March 6 | The Memory of GULAG in the Russian North | Tyler Kirk, University of Alaska, Fairbanks (History)
March 7 | University of Washington International Security Colloquium (UWISC): “Ideology and Regime Security in Chinese Foreign Policy” (Political Science)
March 7 | Film Screening: “How I Learned to Fly” (“Leto kada sam naučila da letim”) with Director Radivoje Andrić (Slavic Language & Literature)
March 7 | Chamber Singers and University Chorale: The Promise of Living (Music)
March 8 | Campus Philharmonia Orchestras (Music)
March 8 | Josh Faught: Sanctuary (Henry Art Gallery)
Week of March 10
March 11 to March 15 | Late, A Cowboy Song (School of Drama)
It is a play for all the lady cowboys of heart and mind who ride outside the city limits of convention.
Audience members may see more vigorous artistic risk-taking in these Lab productions. From their first year to graduation, the Lab is a space for our student artists to practice their craft.
Written by Sarah Ruhl / Directed by Nick O’Leary
March 11, 9:30 am – 8:30 pm | Stroum Center for Jewish Studies 50th Anniversary Celebration (Stroum Center for Jewish Students)
You are invited to join past and present SCJS faculty and students as they spend the day marking the fostering of five decades of meaningful and insightful discussions on diverse Jewish experiences.
We have a full day of events planned, starting with a series of daytime panels highlighting SCJS’s key accomplishments and ending with an evening discussion titled “Today’s campus conflicts and the future of Jewish Studies.”
RSVP – Morning panels: “50 years of impact on campus and beyond”
RSVP – Evening talk: “Today’s campus conflicts and the future of Jewish Studies”
March 15, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm | Spring Open House (Henry Art Gallery)
Spring into art at the Henry! Join the Henry for the Spring Open House, a day filled with vibrant activities, hands-on artmaking, and engaging programs that bring contemporary art and ideas to life. Whether you’re an art enthusiast or simply curious, there’s something for everyone to enjoy.
Additional Events
March 10 | Studio Jazz Ensemble and Modern Band (Music)
March 11 | Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band: Transformation (Music)
March 12 | Guest Orchestra Concert: Seattle Modern Orchestra, Tribute: Joël-François Durand (Music)
March 13 | Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust (History)
March 14 | UW Symphony Orchestra with UW Choirs (Music)
March 14 | CD Release Celebration: Melia Watras, the almond tree duos (Music)
Week of March 17
March 18, 7:30 pm | Jeremy Denk – Virtuoso Bach: The Complete Keyboard Partitas (Meany Center)
One of America’s foremost pianists, Jeremy Denk’s creative blend of virtuosic dexterity and colorful imagination has earned him praise as “an artist you want to hear no matter what he performs” (The New York Times). A winner of both the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and the Avery Fisher Prize, his bestselling memoir, Every Good Boy Does Fine, showcases his original and insightful writing about music. Denk’s recital features Bach’s Six Partitas for Keyboard, known for being as technically difficult as they are beautiful.
Week of March 24
March 28, 7:30 pm | Silkroad Ensemble: Uplifted Voices (Meany Center for the Performing Arts)
Grammy Award-winning musical ensemble Silkroad’s Uplifted Voices brings together a stellar lineup of performer-composers from the Silkroad Ensemble in a series of pieces that highlight each artist’s musical storytelling. These compositions, often inspired by their homeland, ancestors, community, and family, represent previously under-recognized voices from around the world, offering a fresh perspective on the history and migration of music.
Week of March 31
March 31, 5:00 pm – 6:20 pm | Trump in the World 2.0 Lecture Series: Introduction (Jackson School)
Danny Hoffman, Director of the Jackson School of International Studies
Join JSIS for Trump in the World 2.0, a series of talks and discussions on the international impact of the second Trump presidency. Faculty and guest speaker presentations will explore how different regions and global issues are affected by the policies of the Trump administration. The series is moderated by Danny Hoffman, Director of the Jackson School of International Studies, and Stanley D. Golub Chair of International Studies.
Mondays, 5-6:20 p.m. from March 31 to June 2, 2025 | in-person 2 credit/no credit course for UW students Free for the public via live stream only.
The first lecture is only open to students. Public lectures begin Monday, April 7.
Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Kathrine Braseth (kbraseth@uw.edu).
