Mini-Conference: Trans Literatures: What Do We Read and How Do We Read?
You are very warmly invited to our mini conference on
Trans Literatures: What Do We Read and How Do We Read?
hosted by the Diversity and Equity Committee of the German Studies Department at the University of Washington
When? November 16, 2026 at 3-4:30 PM, Where? Denny Hall 359, What? This event features a variety of graduate students who study trans literature at UW and beyond. Most of the work presented was developed during last spring’s seminar on What is Trans Literature? Narrative Form and Trans Embodiment (German 592/German 495A) with Dr. Rafael Balling. Come and learn about exciting research on fictional texts that deal with transness, join the critical discussion of how we read these texts and why they matter.
Presentations:
Sophia Aepfelbacher (Department of Political Science, UW):
From Identity to Obligation: Vulnerability, Interdependence, and T4T
Sloan Emrick (English Literature and Culture, UW):
“I Don't Ever Want That Problem to Ever Go Away”: League Discrimination as Genre in…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Denny Hall (DEN). Campus room: 359. Accessibility Contact: Department of German Studies, uwgerman@uw.edu. Event Types: Conferences. Academics. Diversity Equity Inclusion.
Monday, November 16, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
Kaffeestunde
Jeden Dienstag
Practice your German!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Denny Hall (DEN). Campus room: 359. Accessibility Contact: Department of German Studies, uwgerman@uw.edu. Event Types: Student Activities.
Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM.
German Club
Come meet fellow students who are interested in German and have fun playing games, eating snacks, and practicing German together!
Students at UW with all levels of German knowledge are welcome.
Be sure to bring your Husky Card, as you’ll need to scan it to enter Denny Hall.
Bis dann!
The German Club at UW
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Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Denny Hall (DEN). Campus room: 359. Accessibility Contact: Department of German Studies, uwgerman@uw.edu. Event Types: Student Activities.
Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
Monday Lecture Series: Elizabeth Nijdam (UBC), "Storytelling and Climate Literacy: Radical Imaginings from Fairy Tales to Today"
Despite humanity’s role in the ongoing climate crisis and, thus, its responsibility to identify climate solutions, scholarship on environmental change reveals a persistent failure to identify pathways to sustainable futures. Unexpectedly, research on climate planning links this incapacity to identify pathways toward more sustainable and just futures to a “crisis of imagination” (Kumar et al. 1), positioning a breakdown of human creativity at the core of our lack of collective understanding and absence of collective action in the midst of our present realities (Moore & Milkoreit 1). This creative crisis not only relates to the general comprehension of “the significant risks posed by global environmental challenges, especially their long-term impacts on every aspect of communities, cultures, and societies around the world” (Moore & Milkoreit 1; Milkoreit, 2017), but it also relates to a distinct lack of the sociological imagination—"the ability to see the social structures that are continuously recreating and r…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Denny Hall (DEN). Campus room: 359. Accessibility Contact: Department of German Studies, uwgerman@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, November 23, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
Kaffeestunde
Jeden Dienstag
Practice your German!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Denny Hall (DEN). Campus room: 359. Accessibility Contact: Department of German Studies, uwgerman@uw.edu. Event Types: Student Activities.
Tuesday, November 24, 2026, 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM.
German Club
Come meet fellow students who are interested in German and have fun playing games, eating snacks, and practicing German together!
Students at UW with all levels of German knowledge are welcome.
Be sure to bring your Husky Card, as you’ll need to scan it to enter Denny Hall.
Bis dann!
The German Club at UW
Follow us on Instagram @germanclubatuw to keep up with everything German Club!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Denny Hall (DEN). Campus room: 359. Accessibility Contact: Department of German Studies, uwgerman@uw.edu. Event Types: Student Activities.
Tuesday, November 24, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
Pedagogies and Practices of Relational Memory in the Classroom and Beyond
Join UW’s Relational Memory Studies research cluster for a panel discussion by UW faculty of their pedagogies and practices of relational memory in the classroom and beyond. Panelists will briefly introduce a course or module on relational memory as a way to open a forum on teaching cultural memory relationally. A light lunch will be provided.
Panelists:
Jason Groves, Department of German Studies
Liora Halperin, Department of History and Jackson School of International Studies
Linh Thủy Nguyễn, Department of Ethnic Studies
Alys Weinbaum, Department of English.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Denny 359. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, humanities@uw.edu, 206.543.3920. Event Types: Not Specified.
Monday, November 30, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM.
Kaffeestunde
Jeden Dienstag
Practice your German!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Denny Hall (DEN). Campus room: 359. Accessibility Contact: Department of German Studies, uwgerman@uw.edu. Event Types: Student Activities.
Tuesday, December 1, 2026, 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM.
German Club
Come meet fellow students who are interested in German and have fun playing games, eating snacks, and practicing German together!
Students at UW with all levels of German knowledge are welcome.
Be sure to bring your Husky Card, as you’ll need to scan it to enter Denny Hall.
Bis dann!
The German Club at UW
Follow us on Instagram @germanclubatuw to keep up with everything German Club!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Denny Hall (DEN). Campus room: 359. Accessibility Contact: Department of German Studies, uwgerman@uw.edu. Event Types: Student Activities.
Tuesday, December 1, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
German Studies Faculty Meeting
TBD.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Denny Hall (DEN). Campus room: 359. Accessibility Contact: Department of German Studies, uwgerman@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Meetings.
Monday, December 7, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
Kaffeestunde
Jeden Dienstag
Practice your German!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Denny Hall (DEN). Campus room: 359. Accessibility Contact: Department of German Studies, uwgerman@uw.edu. Event Types: Student Activities.
Tuesday, December 8, 2026, 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM.
German Club
Come meet fellow students who are interested in German and have fun playing games, eating snacks, and practicing German together!
Students at UW with all levels of German knowledge are welcome.
Be sure to bring your Husky Card, as you’ll need to scan it to enter Denny Hall.
Bis dann!
The German Club at UW
Follow us on Instagram @germanclubatuw to keep up with everything German Club!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Denny Hall (DEN). Campus room: 359. Accessibility Contact: Department of German Studies, uwgerman@uw.edu. Event Types: Student Activities.
Tuesday, December 8, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
German Studies Faculty Meeting
TBD.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: 359. Accessibility Contact: Department of German Studies, uwgerman@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Meetings. Target Audience: Faculty.
Monday, January 25, 2027, 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM.
German Studies Faculty Meeting
TBD.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Denny Hall (DEN). Campus room: 359. Accessibility Contact: Department of German Studies, uwgerman@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Meetings. Target Audience: Faculty.
Monday, February 8, 2027, 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM.