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Global Challenges/Interdisciplinary Answers (public)
November 7, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
FREE/PUBLIC EVENT
Global Challenges 2022
Let’s think together about the power of place and care.
Our annual public event draws from different stories and areas of knowledge to collaboratively consider a problem that’s keeping students up at night. Honors students, staff and faculty invite our broader community on campus and beyond to join our conversation on the power (and politics) of place.
With passionate speakers from public health, sociology, ethnic studies, geography, and history, we’ll explore how communities respond to systems and events that disrupt relationships to place (like colonialism, war, climate change, or global pandemics); explore how people and communities sustain themselves in the face of such displacements through creative adaptation and collective care; and find opportunities to honor the radical placemaking work of vulnerable communities and coalitions who are leading the way.
Monday, Nov. 7 @ 6:00 p.m. (PST), HUB Lyceum, UW Campus (livestream will also be available)
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About our speakers
Our speakers bring perspectives from decades of research, teaching, writing, activism and a range of meaningful experiences.
Martine Pierre-Louis (she/her), Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at Harborview Medical Center, has spent more than 20 years promoting health equity for patients from marginalized communities and fostering curiosity and cultural competence in clinical settings.
LaShawnDa Pittman (she/her), Associate Professor at UW in American Ethnic Studies and Sociology, addresses poverty that stems from families being funneled into criminal and juvenile justice systems and adapting to stratified labor markets, affordability crises and gentrification.
Megan Ybarra (she/her), Associate Professor at UW in Geography, American Indian Studies, GWSS, and Environmental Politics, proposes ideas of abolition geographies that center on community placemaking where no person and no land is disposable.
Stephanie Smallwood (she/her) is the director of UW Honors, Associate Professor at UW in History and Comparative History of Ideas (CHID), and Dio Richardson Endowed Professor in History. Dr. Smallwood brings perspective on the histories of slavery, race and colonialism in the early modern Atlantic world.
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Learn more about Honors’ Global Challenges series and check out past events.
Why does UW Honors convene interdisciplinary conversations with diverse faculty and community leaders? What’s the purpose of this series and who are some of the past speakers? Find answers to these and more questions on our series page.