January 23, 2025
ArtSci Roundup: February 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 February.
Featured Events: Topics in Social Change
February 26 | A Scheme to Forget, a Demand to Remember: The Century-Long Battle Over the Memory of the Tulsa Race Massacre (American Ethnic Studies)
Week of February 3
February 4, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm | A Shattered Country: Burma/Myanmar Four Years After the 2021 Military Coup d’Etat (Center for Southeast Asia and its Diasporas)
In February 2021, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing led a military coup that ousted Myanmar’s democratically elected government, headed by State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party had won a historic landslide in the November 2020 elections. Since late 2023, the Myanmar military has suffered one unprecedented battlefield humiliation after another, as it faces the nationwide uprising of hundreds of armed, anti-state groups committed to a revolution to remove the army from political power for the first time in history.Free
February 4, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Hopkins Faculty Award Lecture in Chemistry: Prof. Daniel Gamelin (Department of Chemistry)
The Amazing Lives of Defects in Crystals
Professor Daniel Gamelin — Department of Chemistry, University of Washington
Recipient of the Paul Hopkins Faculty Award
In the spirit of the Hopkins Award, this talk will explore a few historical examples and our group’s research of defects in inorganic materials used to express interesting and (sometimes) impactful physical properties. It will illustrate the role of basic science in driving the development of next-generation technologies.
February 5, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm | The Social Shift: Content Creators, New Voices, and the Future of News (Department of Communication)
February 6, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm | Wessam Al-Badry: The Role of Art and Journalism in Society (School of Art + Art History + Design)
There exists a pervasive illusion that journalism embodies truth and objectivity, yet it is fundamentally entrenched in a Eurocentric perspective that has long exacerbated social polarization. What ideological forces underpin this medium, enabling it to perpetuate such divisions?February 7, 7:30 pm | UW Symphony Orchestra with Carrie Shaw, Frederick Reece (School of Music)
David Alexander Rahbee leads the UW Symphony in “With Love, from Scotland,” a program of works by Thea Musgrave, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, and Felix Mendelssohn. With faculty guests Carrie Shaw, soprano, and Frederick Reece, narrator.
Additional Events
February 3 | Prompt Engineering & Interacting with AI (Simpson Center for the Humanities)
Week of February 10
February 10, 3:30 pm – 6:00 pm | Stice Feminist Lecture of Social Justice: “Fighting Fascism with Intersex Justice,” presented by Sean Saifa Wall (Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies)
Join Dr. Sean Saifa Wall in a conversation that asks questions, speaks truths, and offers a way forward through these troubled times.
February 11, 6:30 pm | Katz Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities – Learning to See: Literature, Moral Perception, and Early Confucian Virtue Ethics (Simpson Center for the Humanities)
In the Analects, Confucius compares someone who has not adequately studied the classic Book of Odes to a person standing with their face to a wall—unable to see, unable to act. In this talk, Edward Slingerland, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Distinguished University Scholar, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, unpacks scattered and vague references in the Analects to construct a coherent account of how the Book of Odes was used in early Confucianism as a tool for virtue ethical self-cultivation, as well as how the Analects itself, as a piece of literature, was meant to help train moral-perceptual expertise.
February 12, 7:30 pm | DXARTS Winter Concert (Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media)
Join DXARTS for their quarterly concert showcasing talents across the department.
February 13, 7:30 pm| Opening Night: The Winter’s Tale (School of Drama)
The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare centers on King Leontes of Sicily, who becomes irrationally jealous and falsely accuses his best friend and his wife, Hermione, of infidelity. Tragedy immediately befalls his family and the kingdom. Sixteen years later, Leontes’ lost daughter Perdita, falls in love with Florizel, the Prince of Bohemia. Leontes repents, and a “miracle” is revealed leading to reconciliation and renewed relationships.
Tickets: $10 – $20
February 13 through April 18 | artists & poets (School of Art + Art History + Design)
Working to emulate the interdisciplinary artistic environment Jacob Lawrence experienced in his formative years, this exhibition explores a legacy of collaboration between artists and poets. artists & poets is a part of the re-grounding of the Jacob Lawrence Gallery in its mission of education, experimentation, and social justice. The show and space of the gallery will be split into two parts. The Cauleen Smith’s Wanda Coleman Songbook will function as the contemporary example of this great legacy of exchange between artists and poets. The other half of the exhibition will focus on Dudley Randall’s Broadside Press which began in Detroit in 1966 and will pull from archives to capture the press’s history and output.
Additional Events
Week of February 17
February 21, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm | Univerity of Washington International Security Colloquium: “International Financial Institutions and the Promotion of Autocratic Resilience” (Department of Political Science)
Christina Schneider – “International Financial Institutions and the Promotion of Autocratic Resilience”
February 21 | Self-Destructive Policy Seeking and Self-Benefiting Shirking, with Ko Maeda, University of North Texas (East Asia Center)
Politicians and political parties make promises during electoral campaigns. However, achieving a policy goal can sometimes hurt them electorally, and a party can be better off not pursuing what its supporters want. This study empirically demonstrates that Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has been gaining an electoral advantage by not achieving its stated goal of revising the constitution.February 21, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm | Disparities in Disconnections: Utility Access in the Age of Climate Change (Department of Political Science)
February 21, 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Diana Behler Memorial Lecture: From the Grimms’ Wonder Tales to AI: Wells, Hedges, Automata, Screens (German Studies)
Prof. Dorothee Ostmeier will deliver a lecture in honor of beloved UW Prof. Diana Behler.
In literary Romanticism to AI tales, portals mediate change between concrete and virtual, human and non-human realities. This lecture straddles the fringes of reality shifts in the Brothers Grimm and ETA Hoffmann’s tales, inserting literary German discourses on the imaginary into the vibrant questions asked by anthropologists and cultural critics, and engineers of digital virtuality. All diversely investigate possible futures beyond our anthropocentric minds and psyche.
February 22, 4:00 pm | UWAA Movie Night: Singles (University of Washington Alumni Association)
Additional Events
Week of February 24
February 24, 6:00 – 7:00 pm | An Evening with Krzysztof Siwczyk (Slavic Languages & Literatures)
Please join us on Monday, February 24, at 6:00 pm, for a reading and a conversation with an award-winning Polish poet Krzysztof Siwczyk, and his translator Prof. Piotr Florczyk, moderated by Prof. Agnieszka Jeżyk.
February 26, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Weston and Sheila Borden Endowed Lecture in Theoretical Chemistry: Prof. Abraham Nitzan (Department of Chemistry)
Weston and Sheila Borden Endowed Lecture in Theoretical Chemistry
Professor Abraham Nitzan – Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Host: David Masiello
February 27, 6:00 – 7:00 pm | Tanya Sheehan: Public Art, Public Health – Jacob Lawrence and the Murals of Harlem Hospital (School of Art + Art History + Design)
Free
Additional Events
Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Kathrine Braseth (kbraseth@uw.edu).
