Book Talk: ‘Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China’ by He Wenkai
Monday, Jan. 29, 2024
3:30 p.m.
Thomson Hall 317
Join the China Studies Program for a book talk with Wenkai He, author of Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China.
Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia 1942-1962
Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024
3:30 p.m.
Thomson Hall 317
Drawing on materials from India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, London, and Singapore, Kalyani Ramnath, University of Georgia, narrates how former migrants battled legal requirements to revive prewar circulations.
The Cooking Gene: Tracing My African American Story Through Food
Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024
6:30 p.m.
Town Hall Seattle, Livestream
Blogger, culinary historian and food writer, of African American and Jewish descent Michael W. Twitty, will spend the evening tracing his family’s Southern roots through food. He will use historic interpretation, interviews with contemporary voices in food that led him back to his family’s origins in West and Central Africa.
The in person lecture is sold out. Tickets are still available to attend virtually.
In this History Lecture Series, Professor Devin Naar takes a look at how Seattle became home to one of the largest communities in the United States of Jews from the Muslim world. Part of the History lecture series: Seattle and the Salish Sea: Building and Belonging.
War in the Middle East Lecture Series: Hope and Despair in Israel/Palestine
Monday, Jan. 22, 2024
7 p.m.
Kane Hall, Room 130
Join the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies for a talk and discussion featuring Mira Sucharov and Omar M. Dajani on the war in Gaza and responses worldwide.
Book talk: ‘Ghosts in the Neighborhood: Why Japan is Haunted by its Past and Germany is Not’ by Walter Hatch
Monday, Jan. 22, 2024
3:30 p.m.
Thomson Hall 317
Join Walter Hatch, an affiliate faculty at the Japan Studies Program, for a special book talk. Hatch will looks at ways Germany and Japan reconciled with countries post WWII.