This week, enjoy the First Wednesday Concert Series in Allen Library, be awed by Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Concert with Shoji Kameda, attend book talks, and more.
March 4, 2:30 – 4:30 pm | 听Denny Hall
Graduate students in the Department of German Studies have invited Georgetown University Professor, Huaping Lu-Adler, author of Kant, Race, and Racism: Views from Somewhere (Oxford, 2023) to give a talk entitled: “Know Your Place, Know Your Calling: Geography, Race, and Kant鈥檚 ‘World-Citizen’鈥�
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March 4, 3:30 – 4:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium
The Department of History continues the History Colloquium Series with Dan Berger, Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies at the 黑料吃瓜网 Bothell. Professor Berger will present their paper 鈥淲hat We Talk 黑料吃瓜网 When We Talk 黑料吃瓜网 Prison.鈥� Professor Mark Letteney, Assistant Professor at the Department of History, will serve as the respondent for the paper.
March 4, 4:00 – 5:00 pm | Johnson Hall
The Department of Chemistry invites Professor Jeffrey R. Long, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, to speak at the George H. Cady Endowed Lecture in Organic Chemistry.
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March 5, 7:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium
Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Shoji Kameda leads a performance of traditional and modern taiko music. The concert features his 黑料吃瓜网 students, members of 黑料吃瓜网 Taiko Kai, and special guests from the Seattle Taiko Community.
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March 5, 7:30 pm |听 Meany听Hall 
The 黑料吃瓜网 Modern Music Ensemble, led by Director Cristina Vald茅s, performs works by Yi臒it Kolat, Ania Vu, Evis Sammoutis, Chen Yi, and George Crumb. The program includes the world premiere of Spomenik I, led by 黑料吃瓜网 faculty composer Yi臒it Kolat.
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March 6, 12:30 pm | 听North Allen Library Lobby
Sarah Rommel, Artist-in-Residence and cello faculty at the 黑料吃瓜网, leads her students to perform in this lunchtime concert series co-hosted by 黑料吃瓜网 Music and 黑料吃瓜网 Libraries.
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The 黑料吃瓜网 South Asia Center invites Yashica Dutt, a leading anti-caste expert, journalist, and the award-winning author of the non-fiction memoir, Coming Out as Dalit,听to give a book talk. Raw and affecting,听Coming Out as Dalit听brings a new audience of readers into a crucial conversation about embracing Dalit identity, offering a way to change the way people think about caste in their own communities and beyond.
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March 6, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | 听Thomson Hall
The 黑料吃瓜网 Taiwan Studies Program welcomes Professor Niki Alsford to discuss his newest book entitled Taiwan Lives: A Social and Political History. Published by the 黑料吃瓜网 Press as the first book in the听Taiwan and the World听book series supported by 黑料吃瓜网-TSP,听Taiwan Lives听traces Taiwan鈥檚 complex history through the lens of colonial influences from Austronesian expansion to the economic and democratic polity it is today.
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March 6, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall
The Studio Jazz Ensemble performs big band arrangements and repertory selections. The Modern听Band performs innovative arrangements of jazz standards, selections from the outer limits of the听genre, and new original compositions.
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March 7, 3:30- 5:00 pm | 听Communications Building
John Quincy Adams sailed from Boston to St. Petersburg in 1809, to begin his service as the first United States ambassador to Russia. The trip took him 80 days. This summer, along with two friends, Willard Sunderland followed his route in his own 32-foot sailboat.
Along the way, Sunderland learned something new both about the beginnings of the U.S.-Russian relationship and the connections between John Quincy’s world and our own. Learn about their trips and how a sea voyage can be an archive for seeing history differently.
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March 7, 7:30 pm | 听Meany Hall 
The 黑料吃瓜网 Wind Ensemble, led by Director Timothy Salzman, performs music prepared for the group’s upcoming tour of South Korea. The program includes George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (Robin McCabe playing piano); Franz Doppler: Andante et Rondo (Donna Shin and Grace Jun playing the flutes), and others. The series will also be accompanied by Eun Ju Vivianna Oh, soprano, and graduate conductors Shaun Day, Roger Wu Fu, and David Stewart.
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March 7 – 16, 2:00 or 7:30 pm | Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse
In Vanity Fair, Becky, orphaned and disadvantaged, is cunning and ambitious, while Amelia, born into privilege, is well-intentioned but naive. As they each strive to secure love, success, and stability in the patriarchy of early 19th-century London they face many obstacles to their dreams.
This thrilling, highly theatrical play explores the flexibility of our morals when faced with the harsh realities of our lives. As their parallel stories unfold, the audience is forced to confront our own hypocrisy and the complexities of a world that often rewards those who break the rules.
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March 8, 1:30 – 3:00 pm | Gowen Hall
Rochelle Layla Terman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, will be speaking at the 黑料吃瓜网ISC on “Auditing Localized Google Search Results for Human Rights.” Professor Terman will be accompanied by 黑料吃瓜网 political science PhD student, Bobby Maxwell.
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March 8, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Allen Library
The Canadian Studies Center will host an exciting talk featuring His Excellency Whit Fraser. In his book True North Rising, Fraser delivers a smart, touching, and astute living history of five decades that transformed the North, a span he witnessed first as a longtime CBC reporter and then through his friendships and his work with Dene and Inuit activists and leaders.
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March 8, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall
David Alexander Rahbee conducts the 黑料吃瓜网 Symphony in a program of music by Eugene d鈥橝lbert, W.A. Mozart, Alexander Borodin, and Igor Stravinsky. The performance will be joined by guest conductor Sunny Xia from the Seattle Symphony and faculty bassoonist Paul Rafanelli.
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March 9, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall 
Pianist H茅l猫ne Grimaud is a deeply passionate and committed musical artist whose pianistic accomplishments play a central role in her life. A committed wildlife conservationist, compassionate human rights activist and writer, it is through her thoughtful pianism that Grimaud most deeply touches the emotions of audiences. For this recital, she performs a moving program of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms.
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Through March 10 | ,听Burke Museum 
Join the Burke Museum for kid and family-friendly activities. Each floor will have self-directed activities and a unique theme.
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