Labor Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, September 1, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Film screening: 'The Point Men' with Yim Soon-rye, Korean filmmaker and director
Special guest award winning filmmaker Yim Soon-rye will be at the University of Washington for the screening of The Point Men (Korean: 교섭 2023) followed by Q&A. The Point Men is a story about a diplomat and a National Intelligence Service (NIS) agent who struggle and risk their lives on foreign soil to save Korean hostages that have been abducted in Afghanistan. The film is based on true events. Then, the following evening join SIFF as they screening another Yim film, also followed by Q&A with the director. Film title TBD.
, Yim Soon-rye (Korean: 임순례) is the most prolific female South Korean film director and screenwriter. She is one of the few leading female auteurs of Korean New Wave cinema. Her feature film debut Three Friends (1996), explores Korean masculinity and marginalization through the lives of three young men who have difficulty adjusting to the social system. It won the NETPAC Award at the 6th Pusan International Film Festival. Since then her films have ranged from fiction to documentaries and…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Alder Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: Accommodation requests related to disability or health condition should be made at least ten days ahead of event date. Contact UWCKS@uw.edu. Event Types: Screenings. Target Audience: Free and open to the public. Space is limited. Please register.
Thursday, October 2, 2025, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
'Reading Law: Legal Knowledge and the Making of Justice in Chosŏn Korea' with Jungwon Kim, Columbia University
This talk examines how legal knowledge shaped the making of justice in Chosŏn Korea, focusing on the pivotal role of legal officers in judicial practice. Unlike Confucian scholar-officials, the state cultivated specialists who passed examinations and were dispatched to assist local governors, marking a distinct form of legal expertise. Drawing on rich archival materials—including law books, trial reports, and state evaluations—the talk shows how the state both relied on specialized expertise and persistently sought to constrain and regulate it within the bounds of justice and political order. Reconstructing how legal specialists trained and operated, it reveals the intricacies of law in Chosŏn society and how evolving expertise and legal literacy shaped judicial decisions at the local level while informing broader conceptions of justice. Jungwon Kim is the King Sejong Assistant Professor of Korean Studies at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the gender and legal history of premodern Korea, with…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: Thomson Hall 317. Accessibility Contact: Accommodation requests related to disability or health condition should be made at least ten days ahead of event date. Contact UWCKS@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Free and open to the public.
Thursday, October 9, 2025, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM.
Symposium | Gender, Translation, and the Short Form in the Eurasian Periodical
October 10: 9am - 2pm (tentative)
October 11: 9am - 2pm (tentative)
Literary modernity did not always appear in book form, but as a periodical! Throughout the 20th century, literary and cultural production across much of Central, Western, and South Asia reached readers through the pages of periodicals. These periodicals–newspapers, magazines, and journals–housed a variety of literary forms ranging from serialized novels, to poetry, to short stories, alongside advertisements, comics, and photography. This symposium features emerging literary scholarship that investigates short form fiction as it appears in the rhizomatic 20th century periodical, and its intersections with translation and gender. How does fiction move across and between languages in 20th century periodical cultures of Eurasia? What does an explicit and intentional consideration of gender in these translingual (and frequently transnational, or transhistorical) literary movements illuminate? In exploring such questions, this symposium…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: 317. Accessibility Contact: learna@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Workshops.
Friday, October 10, 2025, 9:00 AM – Saturday, October 11, 2025, 2:00 PM.
Veterans Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Tuesday, November 11, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Thanksgiving Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Thursday, November 27, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Native American Heritage Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, November 28, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu.