May 30, 2024
ArtSci Roundup: Design Show, Grandmothering While Black Book Celebration, Astrobiology Careers Panel and more
This week, check out graduating Design students’ works at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, attend the Astrobiology Program’s careers panel, enjoy an evening of conversation at the Grandmothering While Black book celebration, and more.
June 5 – 21, ÌýJacob Lawrence Gallery
The Division of Design presents the work of the graduating Bachelor of Design (BDes) students from Industrial Design, Interaction Design, and Visual Communication Design.
Free |
June 5, 12:30 pm | ÌýNorth Allen Library Lobby 
Students of the UW School of Music perform in this lunchtime concert series co-hosted by UW Music and UW Libraries.
Free |
June 6, 12:00 pm | Physics/Astronomy Auditorium
As part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the 91ÊÓƵ Astrobiology Program, the Astrobiology Program will be hosting an Astrobiology Careers Panel. Learn about the wide range of careers one can have as an astrobiologist.
Free |
June 6, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Thomson Hall
The South Asia Center invites Sumangala Damodaran for a talk that goes in depth to describe how the repertoires created during the period from the mid-1980s in India has influenced her research. Damodaran hopes to show how understanding performance in the present, combined with the experience of the performers and audiences, can be an important route to traveling back into and interpreting the past.
Free | Ìý
June 6, 4:30 – 6:30 pm | Communications Building
Join the Department of American Ethnic Studies for an evening of conversation and celebration around LaShawnDa Pittman’s book Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First-Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival.
Sociologist LaShawnDa L. Pittman, Associate Professor, American Ethnic Studies, explores the complex lives of Black grandmothers raising their grandchildren in skipped-generation households (consisting only of grandparents and grandchildren). She prioritizes the voices of Black grandmothers through in-depth interviews and ethnographic research at various sites—doctor’s visits, welfare offices, school and daycare center appointments, caseworker meetings, and more.
Free |
Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Kathrine Braseth (kbraseth@uw.edu).
