December 15, 2022
Start the brand new yr with lectures, performances, exhibitions and more!
Highlights of exhibition:
Until January 8 | every part was beautiful, and nothing hurt., Henry Art Gallery (Free admission for UW students, faculty and staff)
Until April 16 | Body Language: Reawakening Cultural Tattooing of the Northwest, Burke Museum (Free admission for UW students, faculty and staff)
January 10, 7:30 PM |Viral Justice: How We Grow The World We Want, Kane Hall
On this talk, Ruha Benjamin introduces a microvision of change — a way of the on a regular basis ways persons are working to combat unjust systems and construct alternatives to the oppressive establishment. Born of a stubborn hopefulness and grounded in social evaluation, she offers a realistic and poetic approach to fostering a more just and joyful world.
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January 11, 6:30 PM | Katz Distinguished Lecture: The End of a Global Model: Prospects for the Norht American Public University, 2020-2050, HUB 332
Christopher Newfield is Director of Research on the Independent Social Research Foundation (London) and President of the Modern Language Association. He was Distinguished Professor of Literature and American Studies on the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he taught for thirty years. His areas of research are critical university studies, literary criticism, quantification studies, innovation studies, the mental and social effects of the humanities, and U.S. cultural history before the Civil War and after World War II.
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January 18, 4 – 5:30 PM | Going Public Podcast Launch Party, CMU 202
Join us to rejoice the launch of Going Public, a podcast dedicated to exploring public scholarship and publicly-engaged teaching within the humanities. Since 2015, two successive Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded grant initiatives under the name “Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching Recent Publics” have supported public scholars on the University of Washington. The episodes of Going Public consist of interviews with Mellon-supported public scholars after they’ve launched their projects or taught their public-facing seminars.
This listening party and reception will feature clips of the podcast, the story of its development, and a lightning presentation of the Reimagining the PhD digital archive of doctoral student projects and graduate seminar syllabi.
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January 18, 6:30 PM | Democracy and the 2022 Midterm Elections, Part II, Kane Hall
Join UW Professor Jacob Grumbach for the second and final lecture on the 2022 midterm elections. On this talk, he’ll address the election results in addition to ways we are able to protect and improve American democracy through reforming the Structure, updating election laws, and revitalizing the labor movement.
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January 20 – 22 | UW Dance Presents, Meany Hall
Made possible by the Kawasaki Guest Artist Fund, undergraduate students will perform an excerpt of Dancing Spirit (2009) an ode to Emeritus Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Judith Jamison, by award winning choreographer and artistic director of EVIDENCE Ronald K. Brown.
This system can even include a tryptic of short contemporary dance works staged by Rachael Lincoln that features an excerpt from the highly praised an attic an exit (2006). Recent works will likely be presented by faculty Alana Isiguen, guest choreographer Nia-Amina Minor who was named certainly one of Dance Magazine’s 25 Artists to Watch, and a dance film installation by Juliet McMains.
$10-22 tickets | Tickets and more info.
January 18 – February 15, 7:30 PM |History Lecture Series: Medieval Made Modern, Kane Hall
The medieval period has all the time occupied a paradoxical position in our cultural memory. An age of fantasy unimaginably distant from historical reality, additionally it is an era onto which writers and artists—and now moviemakers and gamers—have long projected their fears and desires. Why do cultures remake certain figures from the past—but not others–in their very own image?
Join Professor Emerita Robin Stacey for this five-lecture series where she looks at this time’s relationship with the past through the lens of the making and remaking of vital historical figures—some real, some fictional, and a few the creatures of myth.
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January 21, 8 PM |Holland Andrews, Meany Hall
Produced in partnership with Bill T. Jones and Recent York Live Arts
Co-presented with On the Boards
Performance artist, vocalist, clarinetist and composer Holland Andrews explores healing and freedom in a solo program of unique multilayered musical soundscapes. Through abstract operatic and prolonged vocal techniques, coupled with a dynamic range of sonic influences, Andrews expresses the chaos and oppression of our times. Their work is a wealthy aesthetic journey of profound creative balance, showing us what it means to create revolution, unlearn destructive patterns and — ultimately — transform the world around us.
$10 – 28 tickets | Tickets and more info.
January 24, 7:30 PM |Behzod Abduraimov, Meany Hall
Since winning the London International Piano Competition in 2009, Behzod Abduraimov’s passionate and virtuosic performances have dazzled audiences all over the world. His “prodigious technique and rhapsodic flair” (The Recent York Times) have defined his profession as a recording artist, recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with major orchestras worldwide. The Tashkent, Uzbekistan native presents a program specifically crafted for his Meany debut, featuring Uzbek composer Dilorom Saidaminova, together with works by Florence Price, Robert Schumann and Modest Mussorgsky.
$48- 60 tickets | Tickets and more info.
School of Music Live shows 
January 23 | Concerto Competition: Piano/Keyboard, Brechemin Auditorium
January 25 | Faculty Concert: Tekla Cunningham, violin: H.I.F. von Biber: Mystery Sonatas , Meany Hall
January 28 – 29 | Opera Workshop: Haydn, Philemon und Baucis, Meany Hall
January 31 | Concerto Competition: Woodwinds, Brass, Percussion, Brechemin Auditorium
Tag(s): Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of American Ethnic Studies • Department of Anthropology • Department of Dance • Department of English • Department of History • Department of Political Science • Henry Art Gallery • Meany Center for the Performing Arts • School of Music • Simpson Center for the Humanities • UW Graduate School
