February 22, 2024
ArtSci Roundup: War in the Middle East Lecture Series, Dance Majors Concert, Borden Lecture in Theoretical Chemistry, and more
This week, attend the War in the Middle East Lecture Series, check out the Dance Majors Concert, listen to the Weston and Sheila Borden Endowed Lecture in Theoretical Chemistry, and more.
February 26, 7:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium
The UW Baroque Ensemble, led by director Tekla Cunningham, will perform works by Telemann and Couperin, including two of Telemann’s Paris quartets, the orchestral suite La Bizarre听and Fran莽ois Couperin’s L’apoth茅ose de Corelli.
Free |
February 27, 2:00 pm | 听Brechemin Auditorium
Student chamber groups, coached by UW Strings faculty, will perform an end-of-quarter recital.
February 27, 5:00 – 6:20 pm | Architecture Hall
Join the Jackson School of International Studies for a talk and discussion on Israel-Hamas: Will this be the Last War? The lecture features Daniel C. Kurtzer, retired Ambassador to Egypt and Israel and Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton University.
This event is part of听War in the Middle East, a series of talks and discussions on the aftermath of October 7, the war in Gaza, and responses worldwide.
Recordings of past lectures are available on the .
Free |
February 27, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall
The UW Concert, Campus, and Symphonic Bands will present “Winds of the World,鈥� performing music by Percy Grainger, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Samuel Barber, Jan Van der Roost, Yasuhide Ito, John Mackey, and others.
Free |
February 28, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm | Parrington Hall
The Department of Sociology invites Dr. LaTonya Trotter, Associate Professor in the Department of Bioethics and Humanities, to explore what it means to be a nurse in terms of crafting a nursing a career and balancing competing obligations in the pursuit of being “a good nurse.”
Free |
February 28, 4:00 – 5:00 pm | 听Johnson Hall
Professor Gred Voth is invited to the Weston and Sheila Borden Endowed Lecture in Theoretical Chemistry to speak about “Overcoming the Multiscale Challenge for Biomolecular Systems.”
Free |
February 29, 2:00 – 4:30 pm | 听Denny Hall
The Department of German Studies is hosting a film screening of The Nasty Girl for the Winter Film Series. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, it mischievously tells the story of a young woman who sets out to research the altruism of her Bavarian town and the Catholic Church during the war, and ends up deeply confused by what she finds out.
Free |
February 29 – March 3 | 听Meany Hall
The annual Dance Majors Concert will present 6 student-choreographed works in the styles of contemporary ballet, hip-hop, and modern dance. Exploring themes of femininity, self discovery, love, and forgiveness, the students conceive their own visions and then collaborate with lighting and costume designers to bring their pieces to life onstage. Come and experience the premieres of these creative original works.
Tickets |
February 29, 7:00 – 8:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium
Join the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies for an enriching evening of songs and historical insights as Dr. Sumangala Damodaran, Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence and Stice Lecturer, takes the stage. Drawing upon extensive research on the Indian People鈥檚 Theatre Association, a progressive group of artists integral to the anti-colonial struggle, she will present a musical journey with annotations.
Free |
February 29, 12:00 – 2:00 pm | Savery听Hall 
Professor Elizabeth Korver-Glenn is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on racial inequality within the urban community. Professor Korver-Glenn studies how contemporary cities and markets reproduce racial inequality as well as how public policy maintains or can mitigate such inequality. To date, her research has focused on urban housing and rental markets using qualitative research methods.
Free |
March 1, 12:00 – 1:30 pm | Gowen Hall
Join the Department of Political Science for the Duck Family Colloquium Series with Patricia Bromley, Associate Professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, on “Higher Education and Sustainability.”
Free |
March 1, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall 
In the first half of this program, the Chamber Singers (Geoffrey Boers, director) and singers from the UW Opera Workshop perform听Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s听Les arts florissants.听In the second half of the program, the Chamber Singers and听University Chorale (Giselle Wyers, director) present 鈥淪catter, Gather,鈥� a听celebration of choral music traditions of the Pacific Rim听and beyond.
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March 2, 3:00 pm | Meany Hall
The Campus Philharmonia will present its Winter Quarter concert. Daren Weissfisch and Ryan Farris conduct.
Free |
March 2, 7:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium 
The UW Composition Program presents听a concert of works听by UW student and alumni composers.
Free |
Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Kathrine Braseth (kbraseth@uw.edu).
