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Current Speakers 2021-2023

Arts & Literature

The Ancient Art of Madhubani Painting

Deepti Agrawal

This is the End: How Movies Prepared Us for the Pandemic

Robert Horton

Humanity in Print: Literature and Human Rights

Richard Middleton-Kaplan

Telling Your Story: A Personal Essay Workshop

Kristen Millares Young

The Art of Rebellion: Social Justice and Chicana/Chicano Visual Arts

Jake Prendez

Writing as Self-Love

Chelsey Richardson

A Nicer Kind of Murder: The Evolution of Crime Fiction

Matthew Sullivan

An Appetite for Film: Food in the Movies

John Trafton

History

The River That Made Seattle

BJ Cummings

Whiskey and Wiretaps: The Northwest's Rumrunning King

Steve Edmiston

Understanding Israel

Nancy Koppelman

Hidden Histories: The South Vietnamese Side of the Vietnam War

Julie Pham

American Democracy’s Indigenous Roots and Future

Fern Naomi Renville

How Audio Technology Changed the World

Ross Reynolds

Double Crossed: The American Missionary Spies of World War II

Matthew Avery Sutton

Will the 2020s Roar like the 1920s?

William Woodward

Life & Culture

Drag Culture: Beyond Entertainment

Ceasar Hart

What I Learned from My #MeToo Journey

Lauri Hennessey

Redefining Protest through Music

Ben Hunter and Joe Seamons

Hip-Hop and It Don’t Stop

King Khazm

Umoja (Unity): Sustaining African Cultural Arts

Afua Kouyaté

Fighting for Love: Strong Women in Onscreen Romances

Allison Palumbo

The Samurai Code: How Bushido Changes Lives

Lori Tsugawa Whaley

Public Policy

Life After Prison: The Prison-to-School Pipeline

Omari Amili

Diamonds in the Rough: The Gentrification of Rural Washington

Jennifer Sherman

All the Rage: How American Politics Boiled Over

Steven Stehr

Race & Identity

One Second of Hate: A Story of Forgiveness

Rais Bhuiyan

How Latina/Latino Representation Can Improve Democracy

Maria Chávez

Biased Code: Technology and Human Rights

Clyde Ford

What Laughter Tells Us: Asian Americans, Comedy, and Belonging

Michelle Liu

Science

Why Deny Science?

Michael Goldsby

Should We Build “Better” Humans?

Bill Kabasenche

Atomic Washington: Our Nuclear Past, Present, and Future

Steve Olson

After the Blast: Mount St. Helens 40 Years Later

Eric Wagner
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        • Rais Bhuiyan
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        • BJ Cummings
        • Steve Edmiston
        • Clyde Ford
        • Michael Goldsby
        • Ceasar Hart
        • Lauri Hennessey
        • Robert Horton
        • Ben Hunter and Joe Seamons
        • Bill Kabasenche
        • King Khazm
        • Nancy Koppelman
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        • Michelle Liu
        • Richard Middleton-Kaplan
        • Kristen Millares Young
        • Steve Olson
        • Allison Palumbo
        • Julie Pham
        • Jake Prendez
        • Fern Naomi Renville
        • Ross Reynolds
        • Chelsey Richardson
        • Jennifer Sherman
        • Steven Stehr
        • Matthew Sullivan
        • Matthew Avery Sutton
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Humanities Washington opens minds and bridges divides by creating spaces to explore different perspectives.

"As human beings, we look for common experiences and want to share our experiences—that’s what writing is all about. You tell someone a story and they try to relate that to their own lives—there's a communal experience. We're trying to puzzle out the meaning of the world around us—that’s what the humanities is all about."

Garth Stein

Author, The Art of Racing in the Rain

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