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Translating Freud: Psychoanalysis in the Popular Jewish Press with Naomi Seidman

Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025

4:30 p.m.

Communications Building 120

Guest lecturer Naomi Seidman will take us inside “the Freud craze” to explore the impact Freud’s work had on Eastern European Jews.

Global History and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab

Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

Navyug Gill explores the peasant and laborer as noval political subjects forged in the meeting between colonialism and struggles over culture and capital within Panjabi society.

The Columbia: Where the Internet Live

Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025

7:30 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 130

Part of the History Lecture Series: River Histories. An artery of indigenous commerce, a nexus of the fur trade, a power source for war work, and a water source for industrial-scale agriculture, the mighty Columbia is now home to one of the world’s most notable concentrations of data centers. These enormous facilities, owned and operated by the world’s largest technology companies, are the physical backbone that make cloud computing, social networking, and AI possible.

Confucianism, Virtue Ethics and the Science of Perception

Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025

4 p.m.

Communications Building 202

In this more technical colloquium, Edward Slingerland will review some of the academic and scientific controversies the project required him to navigate.

Stice Feminist Lecture of Social Justice: “Fighting Fascism with Intersex Justice,” presented by Sean Saifa Wall

Monday, Feb. 10, 2025

3 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 225

Join Dr. Sean Saifa Wall in a conversation that asks questions, speaks truths, and offers a way forward through these recent years.

Vali Dakhani and Early Rekhtah Networks: Sharing Poetry’s Pleasures

Friday, Feb. 7, 2025

11:30 a.m.

Communications Building 202

Purnima Dhavan and Heidi Pauwels reexamine the emergence of Rekhtah (now called Urdu) as a literary and poetic language in the eighteenth century.

Linguistics Department Colloquium: Michael McAuliffe from Amazon

Friday, Feb. 7, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Hitchcock Hall 320

Department of Linguistics’ 2025 Colloquium series with Michael McAuliffe from Amazon.

The Role of Art and Journalism in Society

Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025

6:30 p.m.

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream

Join multimedia investigative journalist and artist, Wesaam Al-Badry for a conversation exploring how artists maintain a profound grasp on truth. Mr. Al-Badry will challenge us to answer questions about the role artists play in reimagining journalism as a medium of genuine critical reflection and societal truth, among others.

Rio Grande: Boundaries and Borderlands

Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025

7:30 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 130

Part of the History Lecture Series: River Histories. The power of the Rio Grande derived from its capacity to inspire reflection on the proper boundaries between peoples, nations, and races—boundaries negotiated in words but also through violence. Mexicans, Europeans, and Americans all found in the Rio a place to envision the outline of a new global order.

The Social Shift: Content Creators, New Voices, and the Future of News

Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025

5:30 p.m.

Kane Hall, Livestream, Room 225

Explore how content creators’ work brings new voices and perspectives to journalism, their evolving relationships with traditional media, and what drives their passion.