UW Events Archive

Public Media Under Pressure: Why It Matters & What Can Be Done

Tuesday, Jun. 3, 2025

5 p.m.

Mary Gates Hall 389

An engaging conversation with local public media leaders about current challenges–including federal funding cuts–and pathways forward for sustaining public service journalism.

Trump in the World 2.0 Lecture Series – The Long View

Monday, Jun. 2, 2025

5 p.m.

Livestream

A series of online talks and discussions on the international impact of the second Trump presidency featuring Jackson School and other UW faculty and guest speakers. Topic: The Long View featuring Professor Daniel Bessner, International Studies.

Social Protests and Electoral Authoritarianism in Kazakhstan

Monday, Jun. 2, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

In this talk, Masaaki Higashijima argues that anti-regime mobilization struggles to gain momentum when opposition elites and the masses have divergent motivations for protesting.

Militant Mothers of Kurdistan: Mothering the Dead and Care Beyond Life

Monday, Jun. 2, 2025

5 p.m.

HUB 337

This talk discusses the unconventional forms of care that arise out of Kurdish resistance in Turkey, where mothering becomes a strong response against necropolitical state violence.

黑料老司机 International Security Colloquium

Friday, May 30, 2025

1:30 p.m.

Smith Hall 40A

鈥淚nvocation of International Law and Regime Types鈥 with Jihyeon Bae

The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping with Joseph Torigian

Friday, May 30, 2025

1 p.m.

Gowen Hall M232

Join for a book talk with Joseph Torigian on “The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping.”

Political Life of Development Models in India

Friday, May 30, 2025

2:45 p.m.

Thomas Hall 317

This lecture unpacks the discursive aspects of competing development models in India, paying attention to the blurring of political rhetoric and knowledge production.

Jen Rose Smith: Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic Book Talk

Thursday, May 29, 2025

7 p.m.

Elliott Bay Book Company

Educator, geographer, and writer Jen Smith discusses her new book, Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic, with scholar Jessica Perea.

Theater and Theoria in Hannah Arendt鈥檚 Late Thought

Thursday, May 29, 2025

2:30 p.m.

Denny 359

Examine the role of theoria, theater, and theatricality by reading selected excerpts from the Life of the Mind and Lectures on Kant鈥檚 Political Philosophy.

Giant Leaps for Humankind: Outer Space & Intergenerational Ethics

Thursday, May 29, 2025

4 p.m.

HUB 214

Together with scholars and practitioners from ethics, policy, and industry, discuss humanity鈥檚 future in space from the perspective of intergenerational ethics and justice.