Simpson Center for the Humanities at UW

10/15/2026

TONIGHT: Eve Tuck (Unangax̂), Professor of Indigenous Studies at New York University, will give her Katz Distinguished Lecture "Visiting Writing, Keeping Writing" on writing as a relational practice. As part of her talk, she will be joined by UW professor Dian Million (Tanana Athabascan) to discuss writing as one way we attend to our many relations of care and responsibility to communities, to lands and waters, and to one another.

Thursday, October 15
6:30 - 8:00 pm
wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House

Advance lecture registration is full; we encourage those not registered to arrive early to claim one of the 150 walk-in spots (standing room and bleacher seats).

10/05/2026

We are pleased to begin autumn quarter with a variety of lectures, meet & greets, and other events:

- Association for Latin American Art Triennial Conference
- Latinx Studies meet & greet
- Eve Tuck Katz Distinguished lecture
- Building Bridges, Horn of Africa event
- Grad student coffee hour
- Digital & Data Humanities showcase
- Dean Daryl Maeda lecture
- In/Humanizing AI roundtable conversation

Visit the link in our bio for event details, including registration information. We hope to see you in October!

09/18/2026

Through the 2026 Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities (SIAH), undergraduate students from and across the had an incredibly unique opportunity to conduct on-the-ground research during the World Cup in Seattle.

Students were challenged with navigating the fast pace of fieldwork while also taking the time and space to analyze, interpret, and tell public-facing stories through their final projects.

Read more about the impacts and outcomes of this effort:

https://simpsoncenter.org/article/researching-seattles-world-cup-through-humanities

10/15/2024

Symposium: From Film Festivals to Songbooks

Centered around a private collection of film memorabilia accumulated over five decades of travel through South Asian film festivals, this symposium features invited scholars who reflect on the collection’s research value for South Asian film history, film archives, and visual culture. The symposium is accompanied by an exhibition of the memorabilia in the Allen Library North Lobby and takes place October 24-25.

RSVP encouraged.: https://bit.ly/RSVPIndianCinema

10/10/2024

Simpson Center for the Humanities, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, the Latinx Faculty & Staff Association, the department of Comparative History of Ideas, and the Seattle Latino Film Festival.

09/18/2024

Join us on Monday, September 23 at 9:00 am (Smith Room, Suzzallo Library) for a symposium that will engage Indigenous concerns around land and environment through a series of roundtables grounded in Coast Salish territories.

More info: https://bit.ly/GroundingRelations

05/07/2024

04/03/2024

PANEL | Join us Thursday, April 25 for Modern Abortion Around the World, featuring Lina-Maria Murillo, Mytheli Sreenivas, Lynn M. Thomas, Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, and Natalie Kimball.

3:00-4:30 p.m. in-person at Husky Union Building rm 214. Free and open to the public.

Details: bit.ly/3IFwyv1

Co-sponsors:
African Studies Program / JSIS / University of Washington
China Studies University of Washington
University of Washington College of Arts & Sciences
Simpson Center for the Humanities at UW
UW Department of History
Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Washington
South Asia Center UW

04/01/2024

01/16/2024

Please join us this Friday, January 19, from 11:30am to 1:00pm for a Translation Studies Hub colloquium featuring two presentations:
“Erasure in Efficient Translations: Locating Gender in Bengali Rhetorical Practice” with Sylvia Nasreen Chowdhury (UW English Department) and "The Perilous World of Afghan Fixers" with Aria Fani (UW Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures - MELC) and Reza Pedram

More info: http://tinyurl.com/uwxl8