Katz Distinguished Lecture: Eve Tuck, “Visiting Writing, Keeping Writing”

Writing is a relational practice. Like teaching, writing is central to our lives as educators, artists, and university workers. And as with teaching, we rarely engage one another on what we are doing when we are writing. As such, writing can be underestimated as a practice and overlooked as a form of relation. Writing can be a way of knowing, a visitation, a keeping, and a keeping away. Following her lecture, Eve Tuck will be joined by UW professor Dian Million (Tanana Athabascan) for a conversation on writing as one way we attend to our many relations of care and responsibility to communities, to lands and waters, and to one another.

Eve Tuck (Unangax̂) is James Weldon Johnson Professor of Indigenous Studies at Steinhardt and Gallatin, New York University. An enrolled member of the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island, Alaska, Tuck grew up outside of her community in Pennsylvania and New York City. Tuck was the founding director of the Tkaronto CIRCLE Lab, which is now The Visiting Lab in Lenapehoking. Under Tuck’s leadership, the lab released the Collaborative Indigenous Research Digital Garden, and the Land Education Dreambook. At NYU, she is the Founding Director of the Center for Collaborative Indigenous Research with Communities and Lands.

Free and open to the public. Register to attend. Accommodation requests related to a disability or health condition should be made by October 4, 2026 to the Simpson Center, 206-543-3920, humanities@uw.edu.