窪蹋勛圖厙 Events Archive

Virtual Book Talk and Discussion: Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend

Wednesday, Apr. 12, 2023

5 p.m.

Livestream

Join the 窪蹋勛圖厙’s Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies for an evening with author Robert Cherny, labor journalist E. Tammy Kim, and ILWU activist Zack Pattin.

Martin Nekola – War in Ukraine: Impact on the Czech Republic, and on Europe

Wednesday, Apr. 12, 2023

3:30 p.m.

Thompson Hall 317

The lecture will focus on the current political developments in Europe after Russias invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Griffith and Patricia Way Lecture with Phillip Y. Lipscy: Stagnation or Renewal? Japans Energy and Climate Change Policy

Wednesday, Apr. 12, 2023

7 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room Walker-Ames Room

Join us for a special lecture event with Phillip Lipscy as he walks us through Japan’s response to climate change.

Groheim Talk | Remembering a Forgotten War: The Vietnamese State, War Veterans, and the Commemoration of the Sino-Vietnamese War (19791989)

Tuesday, Apr. 11, 2023

3:30 p.m.

Thompson Hall 317

Martin Groheim is a professor in the History Dept. of Seoul National University, Korea, and is currently on a one-year research sabbatical at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC.

Kai Sina: The Plural Self: Thomas Mann, America, and Democracy

Friday, Apr. 7, 2023

1:30 p.m.

Denny Hall 359

In 1922, Thomas Mann delivered his speech On the German Republic, in which he for the first time publicly declared his support for democracy.

A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa

Thursday, Apr. 6, 2023

3:30 p.m.

Communications 202

A Ritual Geology tells the untold history of one of the worlds oldest indigenous gold mining industries: Francophone West Africas orpaillage.

The Womens Liberation Movement in Seattle; Book Talk with Barbara Winslow

Thursday, Apr. 6, 2023

3:30 p.m.

Communications 120

Barbara Winslow tells the story of the radical womens liberation movement in Seattle during the 1960s and 1970s from the perspective of its founding members.

Symposium | Energy Security in Europe: Current and Future Challenges

Tuesday, Apr. 4, 2023

9 a.m.

Livestream

This symposium will showcase cutting-edge research on where the European Union is headed on energy security and what the U.S. and the EU can learn from each other.

Sarah Zaides Rosen on Tevyes Ottoman Daughter

Monday, Apr. 3, 2023

4 p.m.

Livestream

Historian and Stroum Center for Jewish Studies Assistant Director Sarah Zaides Rosen will trace the story of 19th- and 20th-century Russian Jews.

Ukraine and Russia: A Conversation with Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch

Thursday, Mar. 30, 2023

7:30 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 120

A discussion featuring former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, also author of “Lessons from the Edge,” with veteran Moscow correspondent Carol J. Williams (窪蹋勛圖厙 ’77).