December 19, 2024
ArtSci Roundup: January 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 January.
Featured: Global Connections
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Through January | Teamsters, Turtles, and Beyond: The Legacy of the Seattle WTO Protests — MOHAI exhibit (History)
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January 9 | Global Sport Lab: What Worlds Does Soccer Imagine? (Jackson School)
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January 15 | Autopsy of an Election: What We Lost, What We Won, and How to Fight for the Future (UW Public Lectures)
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January 16 | Stice Feminist Lecture of Social Justice: “Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition,” presented by Silky Shah (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)
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January 20 | UW Public Lectures: Quetzal
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January 22 | An Evening with Martha Gonzalez (GWSS PhD ’13) (UW Public Lectures)
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January 22 – February 12 | History Lecture Series | River Histories (History)
Week of January 6
January 9, 4:00 – 5:30 pm | Global Sport Lab: What Worlds Does Soccer Imagine? (Jackson School)
Soccer offers at once a global language and a powerful crystallization of local and national community. Using a wide range of examples from the history of soccer, this talk reflects on how the sport both mirrors the world in which we live and offers us glimpses of other possibilities based on relation and solidarity across boundaries and borders.
Free
January 11, 2:00 – 2:45 pm | Meet the Curator of A.K. Burns: What is Perverse is Liquid (Henry Art Gallery)
An engaging conversation with Senior Curator Nina Bozicnik and explore A.K. Burns’s latest exhibition, What is Perverse is Liquid. Learn more about the intersections of landscapes, human bodies, and water across the exhibition. Bozicnik will lead a guided tour through the exhibition, exploring themes of transformation, collectivity, and relationality.
Free
Additional Events
January 8 | First Wednesday Concert Series: Students of the UW School of Music (School of Music)
Through January 12 | Exhibition | Time and Traditions (Burke Museum)
Week of January 13
January 15, 6:30 pm | Autopsy of an Election: What We Lost, What We Won, and How to Fight for the Future (Political Science & Law, Societies, and Justice)
The past year of political upheaval has thrust into the spotlight long-simmering debates about the vulnerable nature of democracy, the perils of money, and the malleability of the rule of law. Ahead of the presidential inauguration, Dr. Megan Ming Francis will reflect on the lessons of the 2024 election and point to possibilities to reimagine a more just future.
Free
January 16, 4:00 – 6:00 pm | Stice Feminist Lecture of Social Justice | “Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition” (Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies)
In this lecture, Silky Shah frames US immigration policy and its relationship to mass incarceration. Incorporating historical and legal analyses of the last forty years, she shows how the prison-industrial complex and immigration enforcement are intertwined systems of repression.
Free
January 17 – 19 | UW Dance Presents Concert (Dance)
Experience the dynamic synergy of youthful energy and seasoned artistry at the UW Dance Presents concert, which features new works by Dance faculty. This year’s program promises a rich tapestry of contemporary dance, mesmerizing techniques of video mapping, evocative play with light and shadow, whimsical characters that evoke childlike wonder, and the vibrant rhythms of Amapiano from South Africa.
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Additional Events
January 14 | LECTURE | Why Palestine Studies Now? (Jackson School)
January 15 | Psychology Edwards Colloquium with Efrén O. Pérez, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Political Science & Psychology, UCLA (Psychology)
January 17 | Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld, University of California (Political Science)
Week of January 20
January 20, 6:30 – 7:45 pm | UW Public Lectures: Quetzal (UW Public Lectures)
An evening of community-inspired music with the relentlessly innovative, bilingual, Chicano Grammy award-winning rock band Quetzal. Celebrate the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and usher in the next US Presidential administration with a band that narrates the social, cultural, and political stories of humanity.
Free
January 22, 6:30 – 7:30 pm | An Evening with Martha Gonzalez (GWSS PhD ’13) (UW Public Lectures)
Welcome back UW alumna (GWSS PhD, ’13), Chicana artivista, musician, feminist music theorist and Associate Professor in the Intercollegiate Department of Chicana/o Latina/o Studies at Scripps/Claremont College, Dr. Martha Gonzalez. Together take a lyrical journey filled with her creative ideas and thoughts on art as activism.
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January 22, 7:30 – 9:00 pm | History Lecture Series | River of the Gods: The Nile and Ancient Egypt (History)
Flowing more than 4,000 miles from the highland lakes of East Africa to the Mediterranean, the Nile is Africa’s longest river. Ancient Egyptians honored the river as a god, building temples along its banks and revering the animals nourished by its waters. This lecture examines how the Nile’s geography and ecology underpinned the development of Ancient Egypt.
Free
January 23 – 25, 8:00 pm | Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (Meany Center)
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo returns with beloved gems from across its repertoire. Affectionately known as the Trocks, the all-male company dances en travesti with razor-sharp wit and breathtaking pointe work, performing polished parodies of pieces that span the classical ballet canon. Revered by ballet aficionados as well as by those who don’t know a plié from a jeté
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Additional Events
Week of January 27
January 27, 4:00 – 5:30 pm | Rana Jaleel: Making Authoritarian Sex (Simpson Center)
In this talk, Rana M. Jaleel considers Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization’s failure to require a rape or incest exception in states that would otherwise ban or restrict access to abortions. The talk asks what queer/trans of color explorations of sex and value can contribute to the meanings of reproductive justice and global racial capitalism.
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January 29, 7:30 pm | Guest Pianist Recital: Gil Kalish (School of Music)
The School of Music presents a recital by pianist Gil Kalish, professor of music and head of performance activities at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He performs works by J.S. Bach and Charles Ives, including Ives’s Sonata No. 1.
Free
January 31 & February 1, 7:30 pm | Kodō One Earth Tour 2025: Warabe (Meany Center)
Let your soul dance to the rhythm of life! Celebrating more than 40 years, Kodō returns to North America with One Earth Tour 2025: Warabe, a thrilling performance that revisits the ensemble’s early repertoire — lending simple forms of taiko expression that highlight its unique sound, resonance, and physicality.Tickets for Purchase
Additional Events
January 27 | Together in Translation: Rewriting Virginity in Feminist Solidarity (Jackson School)
January 30 | Collaborative Book Celebration: The Yoga of Power (Simpson Center)
Through February 2 | Exhibition | Lucy Kim: Mutant Optics (Henry Art Gallery)
Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Kathrine Braseth (kbraseth@uw.edu).
