October 2022

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Sept.-Dec. & Feb.-Jun.

Send your updates with faculty, staff, student, and alumni news at any time to Karen Bystrom

Next Deadline

November 4

Message from the Dean

Dear Arts & Sciences Community Members,

Maybe you have noticed the energy on campus, in the bustling about of people that hasn’t been here the past two years or in reconnecting with a colleague outside of a Zoom square. I felt it first at our Convocation, then even more dramatically at the Student Activities fair, when the quad was packed with students making connections with each other. The college and the whole university are more fully back in person in a way that wasn’t true last year (just take a look at the events below and you’ll see!).

The back and forth of being in person, then remote and back was stressful. Even when classes were in person, almost all other activities remained remote to protect the classroom. Being back much more fully in person is exciting and reinvigorating for me, even as it is taking some getting used to.

This fall, many more of the activities outside of classroom are back in person, reconnecting us more deeply than we have in two and a half years. Even with the anxiety associated with any change, I have found it to give me a sense of connection that I almost forgot I used to feel. I hope you are regaining those connections and that energy.

You can certainly see that energy continuing in the accomplishments of our faculty, staff, students, and alumni below. Check those out, congratulate and reconnect with someone you know, and don’t forget to check out Fall Preview Day, the Student Assistantship application process and other funding opportunities noted below.

Shared Governance

David V. Powers, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Seattle University

Faculty

Ken Allan, PhD, Associate Professor, Art History, and Charles M. Tung, PhD, Professor, English, co-organized a seminar, “Survival is Insufficient: Infrastructures of Preservation and Transmission,” at the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) Conference at UCLA, Sept 15-18, 2022.  Allan’s paper, “Radio/Aether: Wallace Berman’s Verifax Collages and LIFE Magazine as a ‘Medium’ for the Sixties,” considered the artist's use of the magazine as an archive and the emergence of information theory during the postmodern turn in the arts. Tung’s paper, “Critical University Studies in Deep Time,” focused on contemporary representations of educational institutions and scenes of learning against a backdrop of seed banks, survivalist libraries, and bunkers.  Allan serves on the ASAP board as Secretary.

P. Sven Arvidson, PhD, Professor and Director of Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies, published "Reverent Awe and the Field of Consciousness" in the peer-reviewed philosophy journal Human Studies.

Dominic CodyKramers, MFA, Associate Teaching Professor, Performing Arts and Arts Leadership, is designing sound for Seattle Shakespeare Company's production of Shakespeare's Macbeth, featuring the acting and music talents of Dean Powers' son, Hersh. The play opens October 28 and runs thru November 20.

Serena Cosgrove, PhD, Associate Professor, International Studies, and her co-editors, Wendi Bellanger, PhD, and Irina Carlota Silber, PhD, are happy to share the news that their book, Higher Education, State Repression, and Neoliberal Reform in Nicaragua: Reflections from a University under Fire, has just been published by Routledge. This innovative volume makes a key contribution to debates around the role of the university as a space of resistance by highlighting the liberatory practices undertaken to oppose dual pressures of state repression and neoliberal reform at the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) in Nicaragua. With a range of contributors from Nicaragua and Central Americanist scholars in the U.S., including the editors, one of the chapters was authored by Andrew Gorvetzian, who graduated in 2015 from Seattle University with a double major in International Studies and Spanish.

Elizabeth Dale, PhD, Associate Professor, Nonprofit Leadership, co-authored an article with Nicole Plastino, MNPL ’20. Dale, E. J., & Plastino, N. J. (2022). Giving With Pride: Considering Participatory Grantmaking in an Anti-Racist, LGBTQ+ Community Foundation. The Foundation Review, 14(1). 

Amelia Seraphia Derr, MSW, PhD, Associate Professor, Social Work, will present a paper at The Council on Social Work Education Annual Conference in Anaheim on November 12, “Educating for Self and Community Care: Sustaining Students in their Social (Justice) Work.”

Fade Eadah, PhD, Assistant Professor, Psychology, had an article, “Teaching Agents to Understand Teamwork: Evaluating and Predicting Collective Intelligence as a Latent Variable via Hidden Markov Models,” accepted for Computers in Human Behavior, a top multidisciplinary journal in Psychology. The article shows a new method for predicting future behavior in teamwork based on past behavior, which will allow for AI to (eventually) appropriately time interventions.

Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, PhD, Professor, Modern Languages and Women Gender, and Sexuality Studies, delivered the Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month Keynote Address for the EKU Chautauqua Lecture Series at Eastern Kentucky University.

Janet Hayatshahi, MFA, Assistant Professor, Performing Arts and Arts Leadership, was interviewed by American Theatre for “Zharia O’Neal Is Sound Theatre’s First William S. Yellow Robe Playwright.”

Jacqueline Helfgott, PhD, Professor, Criminal Justice and Director, Crime & Justice Research Center, was interviewed for “Las Vegas Murders on Mass Shootings’ Anniversary is Coincidence, Experts Say.”

Audrey Hudgins, EdD, Clinical Associate Professor, Matteo Ricci Institute, with Seattle University student, Cullin Egge, and a colleague and student from Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, Guillermo Yrizar and Metztli Chavez, presented “Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL): A Tool for Global Citizenship” at the 2022 American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Conference on Global Learning. She has been invited to write a chapter called "Global experiential learning: (De)Constructing Housing Justice in Tijuana, Mexico" to be included in the book, Critical Innovations in Global Development Studies Pedagogy.

Kira Mauseth, PhD, Senior Instructor, Psychology, appeared in “Hundreds of thousands of kids with mental health needs aren't receiving necessary help,” an interview that appeared nationally and on KOMO 4. Also, as co-lead of the Behavioral Health Strike Team for the Washington State Department of Health, talks about her work in with the Northwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center in “Training and Supporting Healthcare Leadership during the COVID Pandemic”, published in the latest issue of Elevate, a publication of the Public Health Learning Network.

James Miles, MFA, Assistant Professor, Performing Arts and Arts Leadership, presented “It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop” with Dr Jason Rawls from Ohio University, emcee/teacher Vinson ‘Wordsworth’ Johnson, and emcee/teaching artist John ‘Lil Sci’ Robinson at the Teach Better Conference in Akron, OH, October 14 and 15.

Quinton Morris, DMA, Associate Professor, Violin, will be honored as a recipient of the distinguished “Pathfinder Award” by the Puget Sound Association of Phi Beta Kappa. This award reflects the imagery on the distinguished Phi Beta Kappa key, a hand pointing to the stars and is given to those individuals who "encourage others to seek new worlds to discover, pathways to explore, and untouched destinations to reach. The people, businesses, and institutions honored do something to broaden peoples' interests in active intellectual accomplishments; they reach beyond ordinary routine, beyond the regular requirement of their lives and jobs, in order to break new intellectual ground and/or inspire others to do so”. Morris is being honored for his scholarship and community work as an educator and youth advocate through his work with his nonprofit organization, Key to Change. Morris will receive the distinguished award on November 17.

Patrick Schoettmer, PhD, Associate Teaching Professor, Political Science, was interviewed for “Senate candidates spar over coffee, crime in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood,” on KOMO 4.

Kirsten Moana Thompson, PhD, Professor and Director, Film Studies, and Theiline Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair (2022-24), delivered a keynote address “The Doors of Perception: Scintillating Light and Stuttering, Starburst Animation” at the Conference on Color, Bern Lichtspiel Kinemathek, Switzerland, September 25-28, 2022. She published" Introduction to Animation and Advertising", Malcolm Cook and Kirsten Moana Thompson, Handbook Animation Studies, (In German) eds. Franziska Bruckner, Julia Eckel, Maike Reinerth, and Erwin Feyersinger. Springer, (forthcoming) 2022. She also presented the conference paper, “Indigeneity, Corporate and alt right Appropriations: Fantasies of the Pacific, from Moana to Aquaman, New Zealand Studies Association (NZSA), Marseille, France, July 5-8, 2022.

Charles M. Tung, PhD, Professor and Chair, English, published a chapter, “Clocks: Modernist Heterochrony and the Contemporary Big Clock,” in "The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology," edited by Alex Goody and Ian Whittington. In this piece, Tung argues:  “When powered by modernist clockwork, the big clock of human civilization and the time of the planet – the clock that seems to preside over scenes of an ultimate fate, an absolute break and temporal reset, and even over omega-point fantasies of the death of time itself – ticks in a most peculiar way. The enlarged order of modernism’s clocks reveals not only that time is elapsing differently in different reference frames, but also that the present and the experience afforded by it are shot through unevenly with a variety of temporal rates and scales.”

Mariela López Velarde, Assistant Professor, PhD, Spanish, Modern Languages and Cultures, was an invited speaker at the series of conferences entitled The future of internationalization in Jesuit Universities. It was a forum organized by AUSJAL (Asociación de Universidades confiadas a la Compañía de Jesús de América Latina/ Association of Universities Entrusted to the Society of Jesus in Latin America) dedicated to the discussion and dialogue about the integration of the international dimension of the work done in Jesuit universities around the world.

Casey Watkins, PhD, CSCS, Assistant Teaching Professor, Kinesiology, published a new paper. Watkins, C.M., McGuigan, M.R., Gill, N.D., Downes, P., Storey, A. “Dose response of horizontal plyometrics.” Journal of Australian Strength & Conditioning. 30(03):5-13. 2022.

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Staff

Verna McKinnon-Hipps, Senior Administrative Assistant, Communication and Media, published a new fantasy novel, "The Bastard Sorceress." The heroine is Sabine Fable, a social outcast surviving in a world where magic is currency.

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Alumni

A flurry of news from MFA in Arts Leadership alumni:

Two alumni joined the staff of ArtsWA. Adetola (Ade) Abatan, MFA ’22, Project Manager for the Art in Public Places (AIPP) team and Ashley Marshall, MFA ’21, Administrative Assistant with the Grants to Organizations team.

Jackson Cooper, MFA ’22, is profiled in Southern Theatre magazine as one of six rising leaders in “The Future of Fundraising.” He was also appointed by Seattle City Council to serve as a Commissioner for Seattle's LGBTQ Commission.

Danielle McClune, MFA ’21, was appointed to the Seattle Arts Commission.

Courtney Brunell, MPA ’14, is the new City Administrator in Buckley, Washington.

Debra Entenman, BA, Political Science ’03, 47th District Representative, recently talked with students in Professor Zachary Wood’s urban public policy class.

Cyrus Fiene, BA, Business, Music minor, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, was profiled in Seattle Agent Magazine.

Hailey Spencer, BA, English and Creative Writing ’17, published her first book of poetry, “Stories for When the Wolves Arrive.” About her time with us in the English Department, Hailey writes:  "When I transferred to Seattle U in 2015 as a Junior, I wasn’t sure I’d actually finish my degree. Very few people knew how much I was struggling at the time, but my mental health had taken a downturn in my sophomore year of college and was slow to recover. I am not exaggerating when I say that my first quarter in the SU English Department was the first time in months that I saw a clear path forward that felt right to me. I am writing this on the train to Portland for the launch of my debut poetry collection. I would not be here now if I hadn’t been there, seven years ago. I think of my time at Seattle University with so much love towards all of the faculty that took the time to care for me and guide me."

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Students

Brian Bledsoe, Master of Arts in Criminal Justice candidate and Seattle Police Department Micro-Community Policing Research Team Analyst, is featured in a "Western Society of Criminology Student Spotlight" in the Fall 2022 issue of Western Criminologist.

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Announcements

Student Assistantships: October 31 Deadline

The College of Arts & Sciences funds a number of student assistantships every year. We plan to offer seven assistantships this year, for 53 work hours each (students may work in-person or remotely, in keeping with University protocols and the needs of your project).

These assistantships are intended to support faculty scholarship and creative work. If you would like to be considered for one of these assistantships, please submit, in electronic form, the following:

  • One to two-page description of the proposed scholarly work or creative project.
  • A description of the specific responsibilities of the student research assistant in one page or less. Also state the learning opportunities for the student.
  • A notation of the number of student research assistantships you may have received in the past three academic years.

Applications will be assessed by a faculty committee (past recipients of these assistantships) using the following criteria:

  • Equitable distribution of student assistantships among faculty.
  • Potential of the work to lead to a peer-reviewed publication or presentation of work (e.g., the quality of the project design, evidence of prior preparation, having a publisher or presentation venue in mind).
  • Learning opportunities for the student assistant.

Please send your application to Sonora Jha and cc: Kate Reynolds by 5 p.m. on Monday, October 31.

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Pathways to Professional Formation

Mentors needed for LinkUp 2023

Tuesday, January 24, 2023, 4:30-6 p.m., STCN 160

Register here.

Please share with your alums. We are looking for mentors to participate in our speed mentoring event. LinkUp is designed to be casual, informal, and approachable for students and for alumni or friends of the College of Arts and Sciences.  This annual event encourages students majoring in social sciences and humanities to explore career pathways and learn from alumni and friends of the College.

You can also encourage your students to attend from 4 to 6 p.m.; they can register at the same link.

If you have any questions, reach out to Amy Lonn-O’Brien.

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Recruitment and Retention

Fall Preview Day: Saturday, Oct. 29

The event will be in person, with faculty and students meeting with prospective students and their families during the Academic Department Fair. The fair will run from 10:35-11:05 a.m. in the Student Center. Kate Elias requested the names of those representing programs and departments last Friday; talk to her with any questions. Information is available here.

Registration for Winter Quarter is only three days this Fall Quarter: November 15-17

The Office of Registrar will notify students when the day and time they are eligible to register is listed on MySeattleU.

Faculty Advisors are able to email all of their advisees through mySeattleU. Simply go to the Educational Planning button and at the top, next to the search bar for the name or ID, there is a mailing icon with "Email All My Advisees." Click on this and their emails will be copied. Remember to bcc: email your advisees to meet FERPA regulations.

All students who began in Spring Quarter, Summer Quarter, or Fall Quarter of 2022 must have their plans approved in MySeattleU prior to registering for Winter Quarter. 

Reminder regarding students you are concerned about: please use Redhawk SOAR and CARE team, both of these systems alert a team of staff to follow-up on your concern provide support in a coordinated way. It is never too early or too late to send an alert when supporting SeattleU students. 

Why might you send a student alert? 

  • A student is struggling in your course
  • A student might benefit from additional support or outreach 
  • A student is encountering challenges that you are not equipped to respond to
  • A student has disclosed that they may be considering leaving SU 
  • To share any of this information with their advisor 

What happens after an alert is sent? 

The SU Student Persistence Team is notified, and members of the team triage the referral to the appropriate office. Among others, the offices include: 

  • School/College Advising Centers
  • Learning Assistance Programs 
  • Dean of Students
  • Career Engagement 
  • Disability Services  

College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Advisor Resources

The Arts and Sciences Advising Center has created a Sharepoint site to provide immediate access to new and updated advising information when you need it. Advising related updates will be posted regularly and you can follow the site by selecting the star next to the page title and you will be notified when new information is added. This site also includes live links to forms, policies, educational planning materials, and documents that all advisors need. All faculty and staff should have access; if you don't, contact Kate Elias.

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Funding Opportunities

SU Summer Faculty Fellowships: Deadline, November 1

The Office of Sponsored Projects and the Faculty Fellowship Committee are pleased to announce that proposals will now be accepted for the 2023 Summer Faculty Fellowship! The Summer Faculty Fellowship (SFF) is for full-time tenure-track, tenured faculty and full-time librarians who are involved in an active program of scholarship. The fellowship amount is $7,100 total, paid in the summer 2023 pay periods. 

New NEH Opportunity, Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities: Deadline February 2, 2023

The Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (DOT) program supports humanistic research that examines the relationship between technology and society. NEH is particularly interested in projects that examine current social and cultural issues that are significantly shaped by technology. Technology has had an enormous impact on modern society, affecting how we work, communicate, learn, engage in the political process, and live. The relationship between technology and culture continues to have dramatic impacts, both positive and negative, on our health, the environment, our social interactions, our government, cultural and educational institutions, the arts, and nearly all other aspects of life.

The program supports projects led by individual researchers (up to $75K) and by collaborative teams (up to $150K).

NEH Institutes for Higher Education Faculty: Deadline (anticipated): February 1, 2023

NEH-funded institutes are professional development programs that convene higher education faculty from across the nation to deepen and enrich their understanding of significant topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching.

Maximum award amount - up to $235,000

Fall Quarter OSP Events

OSP Community Luncheon, Thursday, October 13, noon – 2 p.m., Stuart T. Rolfe Community Room (ADAL)

Whether you are a PI on a grant, have submitted grant proposals, or are simply interested in celebrating the sponsored projects at SU, you are invited to join the OSP for our new quarterly lunch series! This fall, we'll be highlighting and celebrating the growth and success of sponsored projects over the 2021-22 academic year. This is a fun, informal event - stop by whenever you can, for as long as your able! Please RSVP here to ensure we have enough (but not too much) food.

Lightning Talks: 2022 Summer Faculty Fellows, Thursday, October 27, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., via Zoom

Please join us for Fall Quarter’s Lightning Talks to learn more about your colleagues’ Summer Faculty Fellowship-funded projects and make inter-disciplinary connections!  Please RSVP here to ensure you receive the Zoom link.

College of Arts and Sciences participants include Alexandra Adame, Serena Cosgrove, Julie Crow, Brittany Heintz Walters, Alexander Johnston, and Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa.

Getting Started with GrantForward Pop-up, Tuesday, November 15, 2022, 12:30 – 1 p.m., via Zoom

Stop by this quarter's OSP Pop-up event to get started with GrantForward, a funding search database subscription service available to the SU community. After a brief tour of GrantForward’s many features, OSP staff will be available in this hands-on session to assist you with setting up and optimizing your researcher profile, creating saved searches, and/or setting alerts. Whether you are just getting started or would like to reserve dedicated time to spend with GrantForward, all are welcome to join for any portion of this event that suits your schedule. 

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Of Gifts and Gratitude

Celebrating Gifts to the College of Arts and Sciences

With immense gratitude, we thank our faculty and staff partners for inspiring investment in your work and students. You are incredibly thoughtful stewards of our donors’ generosity.  

Here are a few highlights of gifts that came into the college from the first quarter of the fiscal year: 

  • Jean Merlino’s university support included generous gifts to the Talevich Fund in Communication and Media and the Dean’s Fund for Excellence in the College of Arts and Sciences. 
  • The Psychology Department has benefitted from a wonderful gift from the living trust of an alumna and a renewed five-year pledge from the Riverstyx Foundation. 
  • Dr. and Mrs. Scott, benefactors of SU Arts, contributed $10,000 to support the continued use of the Lee Center for the Arts. 
  • Nonprofit Leadership received generous scholarship support from an anonymous donor.
  • The Paul Milan Scholarship and other programs across campus will have Seattle U Gives challenge opportunities, thanks to alumnus Brian Dougherty. 

As a reminder, if your department receives a donation, please make sure to route the gift to University Advancement, attn: Josh Marron, in the Advancement and Alumni Building.  You can also drop physical donations into the secured box outside of Advancement Services in Admin 305B. Please include any additional information you have regarding uses for the donation. We will be sure to process the gift and send the donors their acknowledgement and receipt.  This is the most efficient way to have it show up in your gift accounts. Thank you!

Save the Date

Seattle U Gives returns on Thursday, March 2, 2023. Katie Chapman and Josh Marron will be in touch soon.

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Events

What Next?: The Dobbs Decision and Life After Roe vs. Wade
A series of lunchtime conversations, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.

  • October 18, STCN 160: Sital Kalantry, JD, Associate Dean for International and Graduate Programs and Associate Professor of Law, Theresa Earenfight, PhD, Professor, History and Director, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
  • November 8, STCN 160: Maria Tedesco, PhD, Assistant Teaching Professor, Matteo Ricci Institute, Michael Jaycox, PhD, Associate Professor, Theology and Religious Studies, Beatrice Lawrence, PhD, Associate Professor, Theology and Religious Studies
  • November 29, Casey Commons: Nova Robinson, PhD, Associate Professor, International Studies and History, Dean Spade, JD, Patricia Wismer Professorship for Gender and Diversity Studies and Professor of Law

More information to come. Sponsored by Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Both Sides Now
Hedreen Gallery
October 20, 2022 – January 5, 2023; Artist Talk, 4 p.m., Friday October 21; Opening Celebration, 5-8 p.m., Friday October 21
In specific explorations of identity, Tara Tamaribuchi, Rodrigo Valenzuela and Samantha Wall bring a broader American story to life. A young country created through colonization, perimeters and immigration, Both Sides Now is a story touching every family. Generation after generation, we re-negotiate who belongs and who does not. What does it look like, to be split between cultures, sharing yourself between worlds? These evocative works create tangible realities of emotional complexities. Through their art, Tamaribuchi, Valenzuela, and Wall touch upon the elusive sense of belonging in the immigrant experience; integral to the sense of self and yet unprescribed by a singular homeland. Learn more here.

Anxiety Overload: Coping with the Pandemic, Public Safety, and Declining Women’s Rights
October 20, 6:30-8 p.m., Pigott Auditorium
Dr. Vin Gupta, public health physician, professor, health policy expert; incoming Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz; and Seattle City Councilmember Sara Nelson, who has taught women's studies classes at the University of Washington, talk about managing anxiety and other difficulties in stressful times. Dr. Larry Hubbell and Joni Balter moderate the first of the Institute of Public Service “Conversations” for 2022-23. Free. Register here.

Distinguished Visiting Writer: Claudia Castro Luna, Poetry & Performance
ADAL, Stuart Rolfe Room
An afternoon of music and poetry with the Creative Writing Program's 2022 Distinguished Visiting Writer. Free and open to the public. Meet Claudia Castro Luna here.

To a Place of Time, Held Within Four Walls: Artist Talk with Alexander Mouton
October 26, 6 p.m., Photographic Center NW, 900 12th Avenue
In 2013, 2016, and 2019, Alexander Mouton, MFA, Chair and Associate Professor, Art, Art History, and Design, drove through Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Latvia photographing historical sites where Stalin and Hitler’s murderous policies marked the land and architectural remnants of the subsequent Soviet occupations. On Wednesday, October 26 he will be presenting this work at PCNW which he developed into a limited-edition archive of thirteen different, related photo books, To A Place of Time, Held Within Four Walls. Each photo book explores the unique possibilities of combining and juxtaposing images and texts according to its particular structure. How can new historical perspectives on the synergy between Hitler and Stalin’s terror resonate in the contemporary moment? With the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the 2021 US Capitol attack, this question is more pertinent now than ever. Free with RSVP.

18th Psychology for the Other Conference 2022: Transcendence and La Petite Bonté: Miracles of Mercy in Therapy and Everyday Life
November 4-6, multiple locations
Student presentations: November 4, 6-9 p.m., STCN 160, free
Conference: November 5, 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. and November 6, 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., SINE 200
Keynote address by Dr. Marie Baird, Duquesne University: Who Gets to Have a Face? A Levinasian Analysis of The Face in Society and Politics. More information and registration here.

Celebrating Laughter, Love, and Levity: A Campus Cabaret
Previews: November 8 and 9, 7:30 p.m.; Performances: November 10 -13, 17-20, 7:30 p.m.
John and Susan Eshelman Stage, Lee Center for the Arts
Join Seattle University Theatre Department in celebrating collective joy and communal storytelling through live performance. This production will feature talent from across the campus and all SU students, faculty, and staff are welcome to audition.

Strong Capacities, Stable Borders: State Formation through Emulation in East Asia
November 15, 4 p.m. reception, 4:30 – 6 p.m. lecture, Harding 142
The 2022 Peter L. Lee Endowed Lecture in East Asian Culture and Civilization features  a presentation by Chin-Hao Huang about his recently published book with David Kang, “State Formation through Emulation: The East Asian Model” (Cambridge University Press, 2022).  Neither war nor preparations for war were the cause or effect of state formation in historical East Asia. Instead, emulation of China—the hegemon with a civilizational influence—drove the rapid formation of centralized, bureaucratically administered, territorial governments in Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, all of which occurred a thousand years earlier than Europe. Furthermore, East Asian countries engaged in state-building not to spur conflict or to suppress revolt. In fact, war was relatively rare and there was no balance of power system with regular existential threats—the longevity of the East Asian dynasties is evidence of both the peacefulness of their neighborhood and their internal stability. Huang and Kang challenge the assumption that the European experience with war and state-making was universal. More importantly, we broaden the scope of state formation in East Asia beyond the study of China itself and show how countries in the region interacted and learned from each other and China to develop strong capacities and stable borders. Free, register here.

Sharon Cumberland Book Launch: Found in a Letter 1959: A Memoir In Poems
November 17, 4-6 p.m., Chardin 142
Seattle U's own Professor Emerita Dr. Sharon Cumberland shares her poetry and process from her new book. Free and open to the public. Meet Sharon Cumberland here.

Seattle University Choirs Holiday Choral Concert
December 2, 8 p.m., Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Avenue
Seattle University Chorale, Chamber Singers and University Singers are thrilled to present our first in-person holiday concert since 2019. Join us for a joyous evening featuring seasonal celebration in word and song, including an audience sing-a-long and candlelit carols. Ticket information to come.

Winter Production: Student Directing Scenes
Preview: February 22; Performances: February 23-26. March 2-5
John and Susan Eshelman Stage, Lee Center for the Arts
Work by student directors under the mentorship of new Directing Faculty, Associate Teaching Professor Brennan Murphy.

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College and Academic Calendar

College of Arts and Sciences

  • All College Meeting: Tuesday, October 18, 12:30-1:30, Casey Commons

Academic Calendar

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Graduate Program Information Sessions and Open Houses