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The Many Names of Anonymity: Rethinking Export Art

May 14, 2024 6:30 pm

Kane Hall (Room 210)

FreeAvailableOpen

This lecture introduces the Chinese painters of the global maritime trade, based in the port of Guangzhou (Canton), circa 1700-1850.
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ASEAN Matters with Ambassador Michael Michalak

May 14, 2024 3:30 pm

Thomson 317

FreeAvailableOpen

Ambassador Mike Michalak will explain ASEAN and why it is an increasingly important partner for US economics and trade, as well as for the growth of the Indo-Pacific region.
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Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

May 14, 2024 6:30 pm

Town Hall Seattle, Livestream (Hybrid)

FreeAvailableRecordedOpen CART Captioning

Join experimental psychologist Steven Pinker for an enlightening conversation about rationality and the importance of using critical thinking, logic, and causation and correlation as it relates to modern society.

Registration opens March 13, 2024.

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Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India

May 17, 2024 3:30 pm

Thomson Hall 317

FreeAvailableOpen

Oza follows the social life of rape in rural northwest India to reveal how rape is not only a violation of the body but a language through which a range of issues are contested.
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Yannick Wey, “Alpine Vibes” – Callings and Echoes of the Alps A Performance-Lecture on Swiss Alphorn Music

May 17, 2024 5:00 pm

Communications Building 120

FreeAvailableOpen

A simple musical instrument of the Alpine shepherds, the alphorn became a source of fascination for travelers in the 19th century.
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Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production

May 23, 2024 5:00 pm

Hans Rosling Center for Population Health 101

FreeAvailableOpen

This lecture examines how representations of Vietnamese refugee families show not simply the lived experiences of war, but the day to day experiences of racism and marginalization
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The Authoritarian Politics of Rehabilitation

May 24, 2024 3:30 pm

Thomson Hall 317

FreeAvailableOpen

This talk considers the Filipino English teacher as a critical figure in the U.S.-Philippine program for refugee rehabilitation.

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