POSTED BY: ODED ORON A group of Jackson School undergraduate students together with Washington state’s Tulalip Tribes launched a new interactive digital story “Finding Common Ground in a World of Environmental Change” to over 50 UW students, faculty and local communities who gathered Monday evening at UW’s Intellectual House to learn more about environmental issues affecting the

Performing arts and music as a bridge for cultural understanding Article by Aleenah Ansari, Feb 27, 2017 On Saturday night, the stage of Meany Hall was full of Bollywood performers from UW Kahaani who shifted between Bharatanatyam, a classical dance form from South India, to a hip hop section featuring the Kanye West track “Mercy.” The audience

Article by Michael Kim Last Thursday, the Simpson Center for the Humanities hosted a talk given by Iruka Okeke, a professor of pharmaceutical microbiology at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. Johanna Crane, an adjunct assistant professor who studies global health sciences, introduced Okeke. Crane described the emphasis of Okeke’s last book on adequate diagnostics

“It seems that bi-cultural identities are just as common here as they are in the U.S.” Posted by Robyn Davis Center for Global Studies FLAS Fellow Henry Milander, an undergraduate student in Business, International Studies, and Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, used his FLAS fellowships to study Arabic in Amman, Jordan and Fez, Morocco in

Posted by ROBYN DAVIS Are humans necessarily a terrestrial species?  Hannah Bassett (Marine & Environmental Affairs) argues that humans are equally aquatic.  Hannah is a Global Studies and Southeast Asia FLAS fellow in Tagalog.  Read her article in the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs student blog, Currents, here. FLAS Fellowships are funded by the International

The importance of understanding the U.S. in the world “Immersing ourselves in foreign affairs is even more important today than it was a few months ago,” said Mr. John Hempelmann, president of the board at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation to over 100 UW students, faculty and members of the public gathered in Kane Hall

The United Arab Emirates: Power, Politics, and Policymaking (Routledge, December 2016) by Affiliate Professor Kristian Coates Ulrichsen charts the various processes of state formation and political and economic development that have enabled the UAE to emerge as a significant regional power and major player in the post Arab Spring reordering of Middle East and North African Politics, as

Posted by: MONIQUE THORMANN “Turkey is going through a difficult and quite significant change,” said Henri Barkey, a public policy expert, former U.S. government official and director of the middle east program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in D.C. to over 150 students, faculty and members of the public on the evening of

By Mary Kelleher, Contributing Writer The election of Donald Trump has prompted a variety of reactions throughout both the nation and the globe as a whole. For this reason, UW students, professors, alumni, and community members packed into Kane Hall to discuss the reactions to the new presidency and potential changes to expect in the

The 2016 UW Study Abroad Fair on November 8th saw a vibrant crowd as over 2000 students came to explore the diverse learning and funding opportunities offered at through UW to study overseas. A total of 109 exhibitors were presented at the fair, allowing students to interact with alumni of study abroad programs, UW advisers, and representatives