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During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunitiesÌýto connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, and the greater community, together online.Ìý

Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ faculty, staff, and students have access toÌý.Ìý


Sacred Breath: Indigenous Writing and Storytelling Series

May 17, 6:00 – 7:15 PM |Ìý

The Department of American Indian StudiesÌýhosts an annual literary and storytelling series.ÌýSacred BreathÌýfeatures Indigenous writers and storytellers atÌýwÇ�É«Ç�bÊ”altxÊ· – Intellectual HouseÌýon the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Seattle campus. Storytelling offers a spiritual connection, a sharing of sacred breath. Literature, similarly, preserves human experience and ideals. Both forms are durable and transmit power that teaches us how to live. Both storytelling and reading aloud can impact audiences through the power of presence, allowing for the experience of the transfer of sacred breath as audiences are immersed in the experience of being inside stories and works of literature.

Free |


A new Measure: the Revolutionary Quantum Reform of the Metric System

May 18, 6:00 PM |Ìý

Scientists must rely on a system of units to provide a quantitative description of our universe. The International System of Units (the SI, or Metric system) starts with seven base units from which all measurable properties of objects and phenomena can be expressed. The universal and international character of science strives for the standards that define the units—necessary for the effective scientific communication that underpins the longstanding and continued success of science—to be unambiguous, precise, constant and accessible to everyone.

On May 20, 2019, World Metrology Day, the international metrology communityÌýadopted revolutionary changes to the SIÌýwherein all of the base units of measure are defined by fixing the valuesÌýof constants of nature. The SI is now firmly based on quantum methods of measurement. The talk, sponsored by the Department of Physics and presented by William D. Phillips, 1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics, will explain why we needed suchÌýreform and how we achieved it.

Free |


Art and Political Activism:ÌýA Conversation from Peru

May 18, 4:00 PM |

Visual artists Jorge Miyagui and Mauricio Delgado, and visual anthropologist Karen Bernedo Morales, will share their experiences in executing award-winning public art interventions that include Art for Memory (Asociación Cultural Museo Itinerante Arte por la Memoria) and the Muralist Brigade (La Brigada Muralista). They will help us understand the role that art has played in moments of political instability, mass protest, and COVID. Discussing recent events in Peru, they will also describe how a visual internationalism informs their political activism and creative work.

Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and co-sponsored by Comparative History of Ideas, African Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Jackson School of International Studies, School of Art + Art History + Design, School of Drama, Geography, and Photo/Media.

Free |


Stephanie M.H. Camp Lecture | Tiya Miles (Harvard), “A Tattered Dress�: Materiality and Memory in the Lives of Enslaved Women
May 19, 3:30 – 5:00 PM |

This talk, sponsored by the Department of History and Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Libraries and presented byÌýTiya Miles,ÌýProfessor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard University, will highlight artifacts of Black women’s material culture to consider ways that objects can help us recover experiential aspects of the gendered Black past. Together, we will unpack Ashley’s Sack, the gift of an enslaved mother to her daughter in antebellum Charleston, in an effort to gain special access to Black women’s cultures of care and strategies of memory keeping. The sack contained several objects, including a hand-me-down dress. By applying the trailblazing findings of the historian Stephanie M. H. Camp, we will explore the meanings of adornment, dignity, and survival.

Free |


E.U. Democracy Forum:ÌýPhillip Ayoub – Pride amid Prejudice: The Impact of the First Pride in Sarajevo
May 20, 12:00 – 1:15 PM |Ìý

Democracy cannot be taken for granted — not in Europe, not anywhere. With this series of talks by experts on European politics and society we want to encourage discussion about the future of democracy in the European Union, its member states, and the neighborhood. Phillip Ayoub, Associate Professor, Occidental CollegeÌýwill present the final lecture in theÌýE.U. Democracy Forum.

This lecture series is organized by the Center for West European Studies and the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence with support from the Lee and Stuart Scheingold European Studies Fund, the EU Erasmus+ Program, the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, and the Center for Global Studies.

Free |


Without Enhancements: Sexual Violence in the Everyday Lives of Asian American Women
May 21, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM |

Join Erin Khuê Ninh, whoÌýwrites about the model minority as racialization and subject formation, for this talk sponsored by theÌýSoutheast Asia Center,ÌýDepartment of American Ethnic Studies, andÌýJapan Studies Program.

Free |

 


Asian American Women Rising: NOT the Model Minority
May 22, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM |

Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with host Velma Veloria, Former WA Rep and Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Honors Scholar-in Residence,ÌýDoanÌýDiane Hoang Dy, Wing Luke Museum,ÌýConnie So, teaching professor of American Ethnic Studies and OCA-GS,ÌýSutapa Basu, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Women’s Center,ÌýTianna Andresen, a student in American Ethnic Studies, andÌýAretha Basu, City of Seattle.

Free |


Looking for more?

Check out Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµAA’s Stronger Together web page forÌýmore digital engagement opportunities.