ϳԹ Events Archive

State of Trust: Washington’s Political Climate and Voter Priorities

Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024

5 p.m.

Livestream

Panelists offer insights into what these findings reveal about November’s elections, the state of democracy and the future political climate in Washington state.

Frontiers of Physics | The Mystery of Dark Matter in the Universe

Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024

7:30 a.m.

Kane Hall, Room 130

In this talk Katherine Freese will provide an overview of this cosmic cocktail, including the evidence for the existence of dark matter in galaxies

A Discussion of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024

Monday, Oct. 21, 2024

3:30 p.m.

Livestream, Bagley 261

An annual review of the newly-awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which will be announced on October 9, 2024. We will select a speaker based on the topic of the prize. Details TBA.

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: Now and Then

Monday, Oct. 21, 2024

3 p.m.

Allen Auditorium

“Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: Now and Then” delves deep into critical themes of liberty, equality, fraternity, social justice, exclusion, and marginalised representation.

Physics Colloquia: The Quantum Universe

Monday, Oct. 21, 2024

4 p.m.

PAA A-102

Slava Mukhanov discusses the recent progress in cosmology.

An Evening with Raymond “Boots” Riley

Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024

6:30 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 130

Spend an evening with film director and writer Raymond “Boots” Riley, of “Sorry to Bother You,” and “I’m a Virgo,” fame and ϳԹ Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies, Dr. Golden M. Owens, for a conversation on making movies, rapping, storytelling, and activism.
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Confronting Control: A Conversation with A.K. Burns, Lucy Kim, and Tala Madani moderated by Berette Macaulay

Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024

2 p.m.

Henry Art Gallery

This panel brings together three of the Henry’s current artists, whose work challenges and redefines notions of power, control, and agency through contemporary art.

ϳԹ Artist Book Talk and Q&A: When to Pick a Pomegranate by Yasmeen Abedifard

Friday, Oct. 18, 2024

1 p.m.

Denny 211

Iranian American artist, Yasmeen Abedifard, offers a book talk and Q&A session about her newly published comic collection: When to Pick a Pomegranate (pub. Silver Sprocket 2024).

Poetry in Translation for the Wretched of Academia

Friday, Oct. 18, 2024

11:30 a.m.

Communications Building 202

Wendy Call (she/ella) will speak to us about translating poetry written in Mexican languages. Hamza Ahmad shares his translations and what he feels affects audiences.

| “Are we the story or merely a character in it?” Laal Singh Chaddha’s Narration of the Ordinary in the Time of Hindutva Neoliberalism

Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024

3 p.m.

Thomson Hall 317

In a lecture on the Hindi film Laal Singh Chaddha, Madhavi Murty, UC Santa Cruz explores how film is deliberately negating the forms in which Hindu nationalism and Indian capitalism come together.