During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities听to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the UW, and greater community, together online.听
Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All UW faculty, staff, and students have access to听.听
Sacred Breath: Indigenous Writing and Storytelling
May 7, 6:30 – 8:00 PM听| Zoom Event
This event features writer and poet听Sara Marie Ortiz听(Acoma Pueblo) and听Gene Tagaban听(Cherokee, Tlingit, Filipino).
Storytelling offers a spiritual connection, a sharing of sacred breath. Literature, similarly, preserves human experience and ideals. Both forms are durable and transmit power that teaches us how to live. Both storytelling and reading aloud can impact audiences through the power of presence, allowing for the experience of the transfer of sacred breath as audiences are immersed in the experience of being inside stories and works of literature.
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Silent Reading Party
May 6 and 13,听 6:00 PM | Online Streaming
Department of Dance Music Director Paul Moore has taken a lead role in the Stranger’s reading parties, as their resident musician. Moore plays exquisitely soft piano music for you and everyone else in the party鈥攅verything from Erik Satie to Radiohead to Duke Ellington. Take a look at actor and SNL alum Julia Sweeney‘s (BA, International Studies, ’82) , where she praises Moore’s work . . . twice!
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Quick Talk:听The 2015 Hungarian Drama 鈥淪on of Saul鈥� and a New Chapter in Films About the Holocaust
May听5, 4:00 PM | Zoom
The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies invites听Dr.听Richard Block, professor of Germanics at the 乱伦社区, for a 20-minute 鈥渜uick talk,鈥� to explore how听L谩szl贸 Nemes鈥檚 Son of Saul responds to the challenges put forth some two decades earlier by Claude Lanzmann鈥檚 Shoah. Specifically, Block will discuss how Son of Saul defies Lanzmann鈥檚 dismissal of any attempt to represent the Shoah and offers instead 鈥渁 biographical fable.鈥�
The talk will be followed by a Q&A session, with questions submitted via www.slido.com and moderated by a staff member.
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Outsider interpretations of open scientific data and their impact on policy
May 6, 4:00 – 5:00 PM |
Throughout the science-policymaking landscape, ‘open’ has become a ubiquitous buzzword. After decades of political work to make open access the de jure standard for publicly-funded science, alongside the growing visibility of open and citizen science initiatives, open data is poised as the next big step in ‘opening up’ and accelerating science. Major initiatives such as the European Open Science Cloud, tied to a policy objective clearly aiming to ‘democratize’ science thoroughly, forecast a potential policy landscape of compulsorily open publicly-funded research data in the near future. In this talk听Luis Reyes-Galindo, independent scholar in Mexico,听will argue that in order to understand the possible benefits (and drawbacks) of such open data initiatives, a deeper reflection is needed on what ought to be regarded as unambiguously legitimate interpretations of scientific data.
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Labor On-line: Virtual seminar Series, Spring 2020
Tuesdays at 1:15 PM and Wednesdays at 6:00 PM
This Spring,听Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies听hosts two weekly online seminars with a wide range of labor scholars and activists. These sessions are free and open to the public.
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This week’s听听seminar:
Hosted by the听UW Tacoma Labor Solidarity Project
May 6 – Labor Wars of the Pacific Northwest
6:00 PM | Zoom:听
Presented by:听David Jepsen, Educator, Historian, Author, Film Maker
Upcoming听听seminar:
Hosted by Labor Studies faculty at UW Bothell
May 12 –听Social Movement Unionism from the Grassroots
1:30 PM | Zoom:听
Presented by: Dan Berger, Professor, UW Bothell
Meany Center Curtain Speeches
Ongoing | Meany Center and
Meany Center Executive and Artistic Director Michelle Witt prepares short curtain speeches from her home piano bench to introduce artists on the night they would have performed at Meany Hall鈥檚 Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater. In addition to the speech, in the video description there鈥檚 a list of links to online content by and about the artists, for viewers to explore:
Past Curtain Speeches: 听听听听听
- March 24 鈥�
- March 26 鈥�
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- April 23 鈥�
- April 29 鈥�
Upcoming Curtain Speeches:
- May 2 – Third Coast Percussion with S茅rgio & Clarice Assad
- May 7 鈥� Step Afrika!
- May 18 – David Finckel & Wu Han with Philip Setzer
#BurkeFromHome Trivia Night: Now starting at 7pm
Every Friday, 7:00 PM听触听Virtual Event
Join the Burke Museum online on Fridays at 7 PM for #BurkeFromHome Trivia. The popular Burke Trivia Night is back鈥攖his time online to practice social distancing while having loads of fun! Get your nerd on with natural history and culture-themed trivia.
BYOB, snacks, and slippers!
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Staying home? Here’s what to watch
Ongoing | Your favorite streaming service
Looking for ways to stay entertained while staying at home?听If you’ve already binged all the shows in your Netflix queue, fear not. Faculty in the Department of Cinema & Media Studies听have gathered television and film recommendations to fit every mood.
Looking for more?
Check out UWAA’s Stronger Together web page for听more digital engagement opportunities.