UW News
LeiLani Nishime
April 1, 2016
Interdisciplinary conference April 8 to study sights, sounds of ‘difference’
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What do scholars and academics mean when they talk about “difference”? The University of Washington Simpson Center for the Humanities and Center for Communication, Difference & Equity will hold an interdisciplinary daylong conference April 8 to study such questions, focusing in particular on how difference looks and sounds.