2025 Fall NACAC National College Fair Seattle: Meet the College of Arts & Sciences
Welcoming prospective undergraduate students and their families to learn about studying in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: collegefairs@nacacnet.org. Event Types: Academics. Conferences. Exhibits. Information Sessions. Special Events. Target Audience: Prospective Undergraduate Students and Families.
Friday, October 17, 2025, 9:00 AM – Saturday, October 18, 2025, 4:00 PM.
For more info visit www.nacacattend.org. Visiting Artist Lecture: Jacob Todd Broussard
Division of Art
Join us for a lecture from visiting artist Jacob Todd Broussard. Broussard received his BFA in Painting from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2014 and his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art in 2019. He’s shown work in various exhibitions across Louisiana, New York, California, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, the Netherlands, Italy, and Canada. Most recent solo exhibitions include Wolfgang Gallery in Atlanta, Towards Gallery in Toronto, Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston, The Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette, Rivalry Projects in Buffalo, Play/Ground in Buffalo, and PEEP Gallery in Philadelphia. He was a 2020/21 Drawing Center Viewing Program participant and a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant for three consecutive years. His work has been reviewed in Elephant Magazine, Cornelia Magazine and Burnaway. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, Bunker Projects, The League Residency at Vyt, and more.…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Art Building (ART). Campus room: Art 227/229. Accessibility Contact: vamack@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Special Events. Target Audience: Free + Open to the public.
Friday, October 17, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
The Big Read: Keynote Conversation with David J. Staley
This year’s featured author is David J. Staley, professor of history at The Ohio State University and author of Alternative Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education. In his work, Staley challenges us to reimagine higher education not as a fixed institution but as a space of continual transformation. What if students were required to major in three disparate subjects? What if universities placed play at the center of learning, or designed curricula around broad cognitive skills rather than departments? Through bold “What if?” questions, Staley opens the door to radical and inspiring visions for the university of the future.
Professor Staley will be in conversation with UW College of Arts & Sciences Dean Dianne Harris. Together, they will explore how higher education might evolve and what possibilities lie ahead for universities like ours. This conversation connects directly to the College’s Rethinking the Academy initiative, inviting our community to think big-picture about the futu…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Accessibility Contact: Greta Essig. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Special Events. Target Audience: UW students, faculty, and staff.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit artsci.washington.edu. Graduate Student Coffee & Conversation at the Simpson Center
Outside the School
The Simpson Center for the Humanities invites current graduate students at the masters and doctoral levels to a morning meet-and-greet event to make connections across the many departments and disciplines of the humanities and social sciences at the University of Washington. The Simpson Center offers UW scholars varied opportunities for intellectual community, professional development, and financial support that advance crossdisciplinary understanding, collaboration, and research. Stop by to learn more about our fellowships, events, and graduate research clusters, and to talk about shared interests over a cup of coffee or tea with colleagues beyond your department.
All graduate students are welcome.
Questions? Contact Rachel Arteaga, Simpson Center Associate Director, at rarteaga@uw.edu. To stay updated on Simpson Center events and opportunities, subscribe to our email newsletter.
Free and open to UW graduate students. Accommodation requests related to a disability or health condition should be made by…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 202. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center, 206.543.3920, humanities@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Student Activities. Target Audience: UW Graduate Students.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
How to Bring a Pop-Up to Life: Integrating Actuation and Animation
Division of Art History
Join artist and paper engineer Shawn Sheehy for a hands-on workshop exploring the art and mechanics of pop-up design. Participants will learn foundational paper engineering techniques to cut, fold, and construct dynamic structures that spring to life. No experience necessary; all materials are provided. Leave with your own handmade pop-up cards and the skills to keep experimenting at home!
Please RSVP to help us prepare materials.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Architecture Hall (ARC). Campus room: 160. Accessibility Contact: Juliet Sperling at jsperl@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Student Activities. Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: UW students.
Thursday, October 23, 2025, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
Meet Me at the Henry
Outside the School
As part of UW Family Weekend, join the Henry Art Gallery for Meet Me at the Henry—a twice-a-year celebration of contemporary art and ideas. Explore new exhibitions, catch captivating performances, get hands-on with an all-ages art-making workshop and museum bingo, and discover rarely seen works from the Henry’s collection. Start or finish your visit with tasty refreshments in the café!
All-Day Activities: Art Bingo | Collection Study Center Open | Food + Drink in the Café
Drop-In Knot Tying Workshop with Ahmoy Lau
Sessions: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM and 2:00-4:00 PM
Location: Education Studio
Dance Performance by Akoiya Harris
Session: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Location: Lower Level Galleries
Sound Activation by Susie Kozawa
Session: 2:00 – 3:00 PM
Location: Upper Level Galleries
This event is free and open to all. Bring your friends and family!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Henry Art Gallery and Allen Center for The Visual Arts (HAG). Accessibility Contact: Visit henryart.org/visit/accessibility. Event Types: Special Events. Student Activities.
Saturday, October 25, 2025, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
For more info visit henryart.org. Liberation Book Club: Art and Activism
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Our question to consider: How can we begin to think about using an art practice to meet the moment?
This program is part of the Liberation Book Club at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery. This year-long program series hopes to honor our commitment to social justice and to gather our community to think about the work of liberation through shared texts, art, film, music, conversation, and workshops. Unlike your traditional book club all the reading and study happens together, so no need to prepare. Join us monthly as we approach the topic of liberation from a number of perspectives. We look forward to being in community with you.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Art Building (ART). Campus room: Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Accessibility Contact: jacoblawrencegallery@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events.
Tuesday, October 28, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
Latinx Studies Meet & Greet
Outside the School
RSVP required: bit.ly/LatinxUW
Are you a faculty member or graduate student who is interested in Latinx Studies? If so, please join us for a meet and greet at the Simpson Center.
Though there are many graduate students and faculty working in Latinx Studies across UW and in the Seattle area, we are often siloed in separate departments. The aim of this gathering is for us to get to know one another and build community across departments and campuses. This is an informal event and will feature light refreshments from a local Latinx-owned caterer. All are welcome–if you are interested in Latinx Studies, we hope to see you there!
Organized by: Alexandria Ramos (Assistant Professor, English, UW), Angélica Amezcua (Assistant Professor, Spanish & Portuguese Studies, UW).
This event is free and open to all grad students and faculty, at any UW campus or other local college or university, with research interests in Latinx Studies.
Questions? Email Alexandria Ramos (anramos@uw.edu) or Angélica Amezcua (aamezcua@uw.e…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 204. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Not Specified.
Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
The Veil Is Thin Here - Halloween Zine Workshop
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Join us for a zine workshop brought to you by the rising 2nd year MFA cohort! Together we will discuss the veil within the exhibition along with learning how to make a zine of your own! All materials will be provided and everyone is welcome to attend.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Art Building (ART). Campus room: Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Accessibility Contact: jacoblawrencegallery@uw.edu. Event Types: Student Activities. Workshops. Target Audience: students, faculty, general public.
Thursday, October 30, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
Katz Distinguished Lecture: Michael Rothberg, "Comparison Controversies: Historical Analogy and the Politics of Holocaust Memory"
Outside the School
Comparison Controversies: Historical Analogy and the Politics of Holocaust Memory, Why do we turn to the past in order to confront the crises of the present? Michael Rothberg approaches this question from the perspective of “comparison controversies,” which occur when impassioned public debates emerge from provocative historical comparisons. Since October 7, 2023, political speeches, protests, magazine articles, and social media posts have generated controversy by connecting recent events in Israel and Gaza to the Holocaust. In this talk, Rothberg will consider post-October 7 examples in relation to a larger context of comparison controversies and a longer trajectory of Holocaust memory to reflect more generally on the possibilities and pitfalls of historical analogy. Michael Rothberg (1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies and Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles) researches the social and cultural implications of political violence and its…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: 210. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center, 206.543.3920, humanities@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
Ghost Stories: An Embodied Reading with Putsata Reang
Outside the School
What stories does grief tell?
What does it mean to speak to ghosts?
How can art and stories be a conduit to other realms?
In conjunction with the exhibition Spirit House, the Henry presents a two-part series of readings by local authors exploring ghosts, familial histories, and the porousness between life and death. This program is developed in collaboration with Derek Dizon of A Resting Place, a grief and loss cultural resource center in Seattle’s Chinatown International District.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Henry Art Gallery and Allen Center for The Visual Arts (HAG). Accessibility Contact: henryart.org/visit/accessibility. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Special Events.
Saturday, November 8, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM.
For more info visit henryart.org. Digital & Data Humanities Meet & Greet
Outside the School
RSVP Encouraged: bit.ly/dhmg
The Simpson Center invites current UW faculty, students, and staff working in the digital and data humanities, broadly defined, to a fall meet-and-greet to make connections and learn about upcoming events, workshops, and ongoing projects. RSVP encouraged. Refreshments provided. Featured Projects & Resources, Black Digital Studies in the Age of Techno-Fascism, Cultural Analytics Praxis, Digital Humanities Reading & Research Cluster, Graduate Certificate in Textual and Digital Studies, Humanities Data Lab , Minor in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, Society + Technology at UW, Free and open to UW faculty, students, and staff; RSVP encouraged. Accommodation requests related to a disability or health condition should be made by November 4, 2025 to the Simpson Center, 206.543.3920, schadmin@uw.edu.
Generously made possible by the Digital Humanities Commons Endowed Fund.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 204 (enter through CMU 206). Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW Faculty, Students, & Staff.
Friday, November 14, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Liberation Book Club: Community Care and Harm Reduction
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Our question to consider: How can we center care in the work we do? What skills do we need to develop?
Join us for a Narcan training workshop followed by a pizza party and conversation around community care, harm reduction, and accessibility.
This program is part of the Liberation Book Club at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery. This year-long program series hopes to honor our commitment to social justice and to gather our community to think about the work of liberation through shared texts, art, film, music, conversation, and workshops. Unlike your traditional book club all the reading and study happens together, so no need to prepare. Join us monthly as we approach the topic of liberation from a number of perspectives. We look forward to being in community with you.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Art Building (ART). Campus room: Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Accessibility Contact: jacoblawrencegallery@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
Panel: Pathways to Faculty Positions in Two-Year Colleges
Outside the School
This panel will feature the voices of two-year college faculty from the Seattle District Colleges who will describe their paths to these teaching-intensive institutions and offer advice to graduate students who are considering community college careers. Panelists will discuss effective approaches to the job search and application materials, the classroom experience, service expectations, and the unique rewards of working in this critically important part of the higher education sector. Panelist remarks will be followed by Q&A with the audience.
Panelists
Deepa Bhandaru, PhD (Humanities, North Seattle College)
Cristóbal A. Borges, PhD (History, North Seattle College)
Steph Hankinson, PhD (Humanities, Drama, & English, South Seattle College)
Free and open to graduate students. Accommodation requests related to a disability or health condition should be made by November 9 to the Simpson Center: 206.543.3920, schadmin@uw.edu.
Generously made possible by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center Endowment for the…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Campus room: Allen Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Liberation Book Club: Protest Music
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Our question to consider: What is the soundtrack to liberation?
This program is part of the Liberation Book Club at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery. This year-long program series hopes to honor our commitment to social justice and to gather our community to think about the work of liberation through shared texts, art, film, music, conversation, and workshops. Unlike your traditional book club all the reading and study happens together, so no need to prepare. Join us monthly as we approach the topic of liberation from a number of perspectives. We look forward to being in community with you.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Art Building (ART). Campus room: Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Accessibility Contact: jacoblawrencegallery@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
2026 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Event interval: Ongoing event. Campus location: Art Building (ART). Campus room: Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Accessibility Contact: jacoblawrencegallery@uw.edu. Event Types: Exhibits. Diversity Equity Inclusion.
Monday, January 5, 2026 – Saturday, January 31, 2026.
Liberation Book Club: Liberation as an Intergenerational Project
Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Our question to consider: How can we bring together emerging, established, and elder leaders in the conversation around liberation?
Join us for dinner and conversation.
This program is part of the Liberation Book Club at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery. This year-long program series hopes to honor our commitment to social justice and to gather our community to think about the work of liberation through shared texts, art, film, music, conversation, and workshops. Unlike your traditional book club all the reading and study happens together, so no need to prepare. Join us monthly as we approach the topic of liberation from a number of perspectives. We look forward to being in community with you.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Art Building (ART). Campus room: Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Accessibility Contact: jacoblawrencegallery@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events.
Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM.