UW News
Stephanie Smallwood
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.
September 26, 2013
History lecture series to explore slavery in making of America
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The UW history department will review America’s history of slavery from four different angles in its annual lecture series, which begins on Oct. 23.