Upcoming Events

“What We Talk About When We Talk About Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans)” Book Launch
Monday, October 29, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm at HUB 145, UW Campus
Professor Naomi Sokoloff will discuss her new collection of essays on Hebrew in America and around the world, co-edited with Professor Nancy Berg.
“Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual” Book Launch
Tuesday, November 13, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm at HUB 334, UW Campus
Professor Daniel Bessner will discuss his new biography of influential 20th-century defense analyst Hans Speier.
Towards a Sustainable Population Policy in Israel: New Axioms for a Crowded Planet
Tuesday, November 27, 11:00 am - 12:20 pm at Thomson 317 on the UW Campus
Professor Alon Tal will discuss population issues in Israel through the lens of ecology in this lunchtime talk.

Our Events

Author Gary Shteyngart shares tales from the world of hedge fund management and Trump's America that informed his new novel "Lake Success."

Author Gary Shteyngart, in conversation with Professor Sasha Senderovich, shares stories from his memoir "Little Failure."

Denise Grollmus2018-09-05T12:19:35+00:00June 11th, 2018|0 Comments

Novelist Gary Shteyngart's Soviet-inflected humor is more relevant than ever in Trump's America.

The Stroum Center brings world-class speakers and performers to the UW
Stroum Center events are offered to students and the public free of charge
Our frequent programming partners on campus include the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Departments of Philosophy, History, and Near Eastern Languages & Civilization (NELC), among others

Our annual marquee events, the Stroum Lectures, began in the 1970s and are still going strong
The Stroum Center frequently partners to support events happening in the Seattle community, such as the Seattle Jewish Film Festival and Hillel’s Sephardic Hanukkah
Examples of recent innovative program series: Hebrew and the Humanities Symposium and the Spinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference