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October 13, 2020

ArtSci Roundup: Beyond Guilt Trips, Washin Kai: Rakugo by Katsura Sunshine, Protests for the Soul of a Nation, and More

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World October 20, 4:00 PM | Online via Zoom Join author and Professor of English and Comparative History…

October 7, 2020

蘑菇视频 books in brief: Children’s books on STEM professionals, a courageous personal memoir 鈥� and 蘑菇视频 Press looks back at 100

New books by 蘑菇视频 faculty members include children’s works profiling STEM researchers and a personal memoir of an immigrant’s journey to freedom. Also, 蘑菇视频 Press remembers a century of publishing, and a book on British colonialism is honored.

October 6, 2020

ArtSci Roundup: From Ally to Antiracist, Re/Frame: Abandoned, and more

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Curating in Conversation October 13, 6:00 PM | Online via Zoom Marking the one year anniversary of the opening of the New Burke and Northwest Native…

September 29, 2020

ArtSci Roundup: Velvet Sweatshops and Algorithmic Cruelty, Social Movements & Racial Justice, the Vice Presidential Debate Preview, and More

Margaret O'Mara's history of Silicon Valley was published in July by Penguin Press.

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Velvet Sweatshops and Algorithmic Cruelty: Labor in the Global Tech Economy October 6, 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM | Online via Zoom As the tech economy…

September 22, 2020

ArtSci Roundup: Community and Solidarity on the Frontlines, Election 2020, and More

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Community and Solidarity on the Frontlines: A Case Study of Seattle, WA September 30, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Online via Zoom and YouTube This…

August 10, 2020

ArtSci Roundup: Re/frame Series, Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair, #BurkeFromHome Trivia Night, and More

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Re/frame: Still Life August 20, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM and 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM | Online Join Ann Poulson, the Henry Art Gallery‘s Associate…

August 6, 2020

ArtSci Roundup: Kim Van Someren at J. Rinehard Gallery, 蘑菇视频 Alumni Book Club, Dance Graduate Symposium, and more

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Kim Van Someren: The Slate of Line View at your leisure, through Sept 12 | Online Celebrate School of Art + Art History + Design Instructional…

July 28, 2020

ArtSci Roundup: “The Last Stargazers” Book Launch, VoiceThreads, and More

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Astronomer Emily Levesque: The Last Stargazers Book Launch聽 August 3, 7:00-8:30 PM | Online 蘑菇视频 professor Emily Levesque discusses her new books at (online)…

July 20, 2020

ArtSci Roundup: Virtual Author Event, Drop-In Meditation Session, and More

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Virtual Author Event: BJ Cummings, Cecile Hansen And Lynda Mapes Discuss The River That Made Seattle July 27, 7:00-8:00 PM | Online In this event sponsored…

June 29, 2020

ArtSci Roundup: Drop-in meditation session, Jacob Lawrence Vimeo channel, and more

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Drop-in Session: Mindfulness of Sounds July 6, 6:00 – 7:00 PM | Zoom This session, hosted by the聽Center for Child and Family Well-Being and led by…

June 24, 2020

ArtSci Roundup: Drop-in Meditation Session, Meany Center Virtual Programming, and more

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Drop-in Session: An Embodied Practice: Working with Our Intentions June 29, 6:00 – 7:00 PM | Zoom This session, hosted by the聽Center for Child and Family…

June 18, 2020

ArtSci Roundup: Meany Center sets the stage, Henry Art Gallery’s Viewpoints closes soon, and more

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Drop-in Session: Cultivating Gratitude in Challenging Time June 22, 6:00 – 7:00 PM | Zoom Noticing what we are grateful for and cultivating practices of gratitude…

May 27, 2020

ArtSci Roundup: Pandemic Then (and Now), 蘑菇视频 Bothell 2020 MFA Spring Festival, and more

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽   Pandemic Then (and Now): COVID-19 through the Lens of the 1918 Influenza Crisis June 2, 2:30 – 3:30 PM | Online via Zoom History Department聽Professor…

May 19, 2020

ArtSci Roundup: Former Prime Minister of Italy Talk, Pandemic Urbanism Symposium, and more

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and the greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Former Prime Minister of Italy Talk May 28, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM | YouTube streaming Join us for a virtual event addressing the European response…

May 6, 2020

Faculty/staff honors: Distinguished contributions to Asian studies, social equity award, Swedish physical geography honor, new Cascade Public Media director

Recent honors to 蘑菇视频 faculty and staff have come from the Association of Asian Studies, the American Society of Public Administration, the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography and Cascade Public Media.

May 1, 2020

ArtSci Roundup: Storytelling with Indigenous Writers, Meany Center Curtain Talks, Stroum Center Quick Talk, and more

Michelle Witt, executive/artistic director for the Meany Center for the Performing Arts. Story is about visiting Step Afrika! dance troup and the celebration of 100 years since 蘑菇视频-related artist Jacob Lawrence was born.

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Sacred Breath: Indigenous Writing and Storytelling May 7, 6:30 – 8:00 PM聽| Zoom Event This event features writer and poet聽Sara Marie Ortiz聽(Acoma Pueblo) and聽Gene Tagaban聽(Cherokee, Tlingit, Filipino)….

April 29, 2020

蘑菇视频 books in brief: Chinese funerary biographies, skin lighteners through history, NYC neighborhood gentrification study, Arthurian verse-novel in translation

Recent notable books by 蘑菇视频 faculty members look at gentrification and inequity in a New York neighborhood, skin lighteners though history, female agency in Arthurian legend and biographical epitaphs in China across many centuries.

April 15, 2020

ArtSci Roundup: Earth Day with the Department of History, Ask Your Farmer, and more

collage of art events and portraits

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Earth Day 50th Anniversary: Gaia Has a Fever April 22, 2:00 PM聽| Livestream Join the Department of History, College of the Environment聽and 蘑菇视频 Earth Day in celebrating…

April 8, 2020

ArtSci Roundup: Lecture with IVA Professor Whitney Lynn, In Plain Sight Screening, Childhood Bilingualism Talk, and more

collage of various art works and portraits

During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities聽to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 蘑菇视频, and greater community, together online.聽 Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 蘑菇视频 faculty, staff, and students have access to聽Zoom Pro via 蘑菇视频-IT.聽 Earth Day 50th Anniversary: Gaia Has a Fever April 22, 2:00 PM聽| Livestream Join the Department of History, College of the Environment聽and 蘑菇视频 Earth Day in celebrating…

October 29, 2019

蘑菇视频 book notes: Political scientist Megan Ming Francis to edit new series on race, ethnicity, politics

Megan Ming Francis, 蘑菇视频 political science professor, who will edit a new book series on race, ethnicity and politics

蘑菇视频 political scientist Megan Ming Francis says there is a dearth of academic book series being published on topics of race, ethnicity and politics. Now, she will start to change that. An associate professor of political science, Francis will be the editor of a new series of books from Cambridge University Press called Cambridge Elements in Race, Ethnicity and Politics. Francis, on leave and at Harvard for the 2019-2020 school year, answered a few questions about the new…

July 11, 2019

National attention, praise for new Silicon Valley history ‘The Code’ by 蘑菇视频 historian Margaret O’Mara

Margaret O'Mara's history of Silicon Valley was published in July by Penguin Press.

Her sweeping new book about the history of Silicon Valley has 蘑菇视频 history professor Margaret O’Mara on a busy national book tour this summer. The book, “The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America,” was published this month by Penguin Press and is receiving many positive reviews.

May 29, 2019

Arts蘑菇视频 Roundup: You Are Not Invited, world premier of ‘Lynch: A History’ at SIFF, last week to see ‘Nina Simone: Four Women’, Edgar Arceneaux’s Library of Black Lies, and ‘The Learned Ladies’, and more!

Photo: Free Sheep Foundation, Bridge Motel, 2007 Photo by Dan Hawkins

This week in the arts, visit one of the School of Art + Art History + Design exhibitions, attend the premier of “Lynch: A History’” – an official selection in SIFF’s documentary competition, see “Nina Simone: Four Women” at the Seattle Rep., and more! You Are Not Invited: A Critical Survey of Seattle Art History May 30, 6 to 8 PM | Jacob Lawrence Gallery This lecture is presented by Emily Pothast: In 1953, Morris Graves sent out cards reading…

January 22, 2019

蘑菇视频 books in brief: Healthy travel, Hebrew in America, principals supporting teachers and more

  Recent notable books by 蘑菇视频 faculty members explore the importance of Hebrew to modern America, remember the 1919 Seattle General Strike and look at issues in education, among other topics. Practical advice for healthy travel, near or far A new book by Dr. Christopher Sanford offers simple, practical recommendations for those traveling near or far, short or long term, for work or recreation, to “destinations ranging from rural areas to large cities, in both developing and industrialized…

October 16, 2018

Once there were camps: New book by 蘑菇视频 historian Jordanna Bailkin remembers Britain’s ‘forgotten’ 20th-century refugee camps

Today, Britain is not known as a land of camps, but through much of the 20th century 鈥� from after World War I to the 1980s 鈥� 聽the country was home to dozens of refugee camps housing thousands of Belgians, Jews, Basques, Poles, Hungarians, Anglo-Egyptians, Ugandan Asians and Vietnamese. As 蘑菇视频 history professor Jordanna Bailkin writes in her latest book, these camps “were never only for refugees.” They shared such spaces with “Britons who had been displaced by…

October 8, 2018

Race, empire, agency explored in 蘑菇视频 history professor’s book ‘Risky Shores: Savagery and Colonialism in the Western Pacific’

A new book by 蘑菇视频 history professor George Behlmer seeks to improve understanding of the British colonial era by “reconsidering the conduct of islanders and the English-speaking strangers who encountered them.”

September 18, 2018

蘑菇视频 historian Margaret O’Mara discusses famous 1968 computer mouse ‘demo’ 鈥� and the start of Silicon Valley 鈥� for new podcast by The Conversation

Margaret O'Mara, 蘑菇视频 professor of history, is interviewed for a podcast by The Conversation

Margaret O’Mara, 蘑菇视频 professor of history, explores the impact of a December 1968 computer presentation that came to be called “the mother of all demos” in an essay and podcast from the news website The Conversation.

April 1, 2016

Interdisciplinary conference April 8 to study sights, sounds of ‘difference’

What do scholars and academics mean when they talk about “difference”? The 蘑菇视频 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.

January 28, 2016

Iowa caucuses: Expectations can trump votes, but will Trump meet expectations?

CNN News announces Mike Huckabee the winner of the 2008 Republican Iowa caucus. But winning Iowa does not always lead to the nomination, which that year went to Sen. John McCain.

In the Iowa caucuses, expectations are nearly as important as votes and front-runners must watch their backs, say 蘑菇视频 professors who are closely watching this year’s presidential race. The 2016 Iowa caucuses will be held Monday, Feb. 1, pitting Democratic leader Hillary Clinton against Sen. Bernie Sanders and Gov. Martin O’Malley and Republican mogul and mouth Donald Trump against Sen. Ted Cruz among a lineup of largely ineffective opponents. We asked political scientists Mark A. Smith and John…

January 6, 2016

Politics, pioneers and ‘pandemonium’: 2016 History Lecture Series digs into Seattle history

The 2016 History Lecture Series, "Excavating Seattle's Histories: People, Politics, Place" will be held Wednesday evenings from Jan. 13 to Feb. 3, with an additional panel discussion, "The Future of Seattle" on Feb. 10.

Seattle’s past 鈥� from its earliest years to the turn of the 21st century 鈥� will be the topic of the Winter 2016 History Lecture Series, “Excavating Seattle’s Histories: People, Politics, Place,” running Wednesdays from Jan. 13 to Feb 3, with an additional panel discussion on Feb. 10.

December 14, 2015

History meets geography: James Gregory’s collaborative digital project tracks key 20th century social movements

蘑菇视频 historian James Gregory’s new collaborative digital project, “Mapping American Social Movements through the 20th Century” uses data visualization and interactive maps to depict the progress of various social movements — with more to come.