Gaming the System: Open Access Week Game Corner
Join UW Libraries for a week-long series of events during international Open Access Week! We're covering a wide range of topics including gaming, publishing, analyzing government data sources and NIH Open Sharing Requirements. See the full schedule. What is Open Access information and Open Science? What does it mean for you as a student, researcher, or instructor?
Join the OSC in kicking off International Open Access Week by learning and playing games together! We will have tables set up with different board and party games that connect to and highlight the importance of sharing scientific knowledge and scholarly work freely and openly. Games featured include: Pandemic , Open Science Against Humanity , Decrypto , Publish or Perish , and more! Drop in and play 1:00-4:00pm on October 20 and learn more about this year’s Open Access Week at openaccessweek.org.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons. Accessibility Contact: vkern@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Monday, October 20, 2025, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Analytical Chemistry Seminar: Prof. Richard Zare
"How Did Life Begin on Early Earth?"
Professor Richard Zare - Department of Chemistry, Stanford University
Hosts: Bo Zhang and Daniel Chiu
When the Earth was first formed, it was too hot to support life as we know it. It cooled off and life began. How? The original gases on early Earth did not contain carbon-nitrogen (C-N) bonds, but these are needed to form amino acids, peptides, proteins, and nucleic acids such as RNA and DNA. How were they made? Since the landmark experiments by Miller and Urey, it has been proposed that lightning could play a crucial role in synthesizing life’s building blocks from abiotic molecules. Arguments have been offered against this hypothesis based on what is thought to be the composition of early Earth ‘s atmosphere, the fact that lightning is intermittent, and the reaction products might become too dispersed. We demonstrate that spraying room-temperature water droplets into a gas mixture containing nitrogen (N2), methane (CH4), carbon dioxide (CO2), and ammonia (NH3) leads…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Bagley Hall (BAG). Campus room: BAG 261. Accessibility Contact: chem59x@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, October 20, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
For more info visit chemistry.stanford.edu. Group Viewing of "Knowledge is Power: Who Owns It, Who Shares It, and Why Libraries Matter"
The UW Libraries Open Scholarship Commons invites you to a viewing of: Join the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Communication for our 4th annual panel celebrating International Open Access Week 2025.
Using this year’s theme, Who Owns Our Knowledge, as a backdrop, panelists will discuss what it means to their libraries’ mission and services. We will also explore how libraries help faculty and students understand their rights as authors and creators, and how they help them to retain ownership of their intellectual property. We will wrap-up by looking ahead at how each panelist envisions the future of libraries as stewards and promoters of knowledge ownership. A Q & A session will immediately follow.
This event is co-sponsored by the UAB Libraries and the Alabama Library Association Scholarly Communication Round Table.
In addition, please join UW Libraries for a week-long series of events during international Open Access Week! We're covering a wide range of topics…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons Collaboration Corner. Accessibility Contact: vkern@uw.edu. Event Types: Screenings. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 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
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.
Humanities Data Exploration Workshop Series: From Foundations to Practice Workshop One: An Introduction (In Person)
Join us for the opening workshop to explore the opportunities and challenges of working with humanities data and get an overview of what’s ahead.
The Humanities Data Exploration Workshop Series: From Foundations to Practice is designed for the data-curious in the humanities. Join this yearlong workshop series that builds your data skills step by step. Across quarterly sessions, participants move from basic concepts to applied practices in a supportive, hands-on environment. Tentative workshops include an introduction to humanities data, data management in the humanities, finding and creating data, text mining, mapping, and more.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons Presentation Space. Accessibility Contact: aubreyjw@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Humanities Data Exploration Workshop Series: From Foundations to Practice Workshop One: An Introduction (Zoom)
Join us for the opening workshop to explore the opportunities and challenges of working with humanities data and get an overview of what’s ahead.
The Humanities Data Exploration Workshop Series: From Foundations to Practice is designed for the data-curious in the humanities. Join this yearlong workshop series that builds your data skills step by step. Across quarterly sessions, participants move from basic concepts to applied practices in a supportive, hands-on environment. Tentative workshops include an introduction to humanities data, data management in the humanities, finding and creating data, text mining, mapping, and more.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: aubreyjw@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Publishing on the Cheap (In Person)
This event is part of UW Libraries week-long series of events during International Open Access Week! We're covering a wide range of topics including gaming, publishing, analyzing government data sources and NIH open sharing requirements. See the full UW Libraries OA Week schedule. Want to share your research with the world but can't afford expensive article processing charges (APCs)? You're not alone—and you have more options than you might think. Join us to discover cost-effective strategies for making your research openly available online.
In this practical workshop, you'll learn: How to leverage UW Libraries' agreements with some open access publishers for reduced or waived fees , Alternative ways to share your work openly, even when publishing in traditional subscription journals , Platforms for data sharing and digital scholarship that bypass the conventional journal system entirely, Whether you're a student, postdoc, or faculty member, you'll leave with actionable strategies to let you embrace open…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons, Presentation Space. Accessibility Contact: vkern@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Publishing on the Cheap (Zoom)
This event is part of UW Libraries week-long series of events during International Open Access Week! We're covering a wide range of topics including gaming, publishing, analyzing government data sources and NIH open sharing requirements. See the full UW Libraries OA Week schedule. Want to share your research with the world but can't afford expensive article processing charges (APCs)? You're not alone—and you have more options than you might think. Join us to discover cost-effective strategies for making your research openly available online. In this practical workshop, you'll learn: How to leverage UW Libraries' agreements with some open access publishers for reduced or waived fees , Alternative ways to share your work openly, even when publishing in traditional subscription journals , Platforms for data sharing and digital scholarship that bypass the conventional journal system entirely, Whether you're a student, postdoc, or faculty member, you'll leave with actionable strategies to let you embrace open…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: vkern@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Hyp J. Dauben, Jr. Endowed Lecture in Organic Chemistry: Prof. Wilfred van der Donk
Hyp J. Dauben, Jr. Endowed Lecture in Organic Chemistry
"Genome Mining for New Chemistry"
Professor Wilfred A. van der Donk - Department of Chemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Host: Lauren Rajakovich
The genome sequencing efforts of the past 20 years have revealed that ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) constitute a large class of peptide natural products. These molecules are produced in all three domains of life, their biosynthetic genes are ubiquitous in the currently sequenced genomes, and their structural diversity is vast. Furthermore, they are increasingly recognized for their involvement in fighting or causing human disease. This lecture will discuss the use of genome mining and synthetic biology for the discovery of new RiPPs that has also proven to be an excellent platform to discover new chemistry involved in their biosynthesis.1-3
(1) Nguyen, D. T.; Mitchell, D. A.; van der Donk, W. A. Genome mining for new…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Physics / Astronomy Auditorium (PAA). Online Meeting Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChT45EErfUqqah_8s62nJuw. Campus room: PAA A118. Accessibility Contact: chem59x@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit www.vanderdonk.scs.illinois.edu. 12th Korean Peninsula Forum - Republic of Korea-U.S. relations at the Crossroads: Changes and Continuity under Trump Administration
Republic of Korea-U.S. relations at the Crossroads: Changes and Continuity under Trump Administration
5:00 Doors open
5:30 Event starts
Panelist presentations to be followed by discussant commentaries
7 PM Event ends - Reception begins in Kane 225
Reception hosted by Seoul National University Panel 1: Security Relations, "Can the Trump-Lee alliance restart talks with North Korea?"
Philo Kim 김병로 Institute for Peace and Unification Studies, Seoul National University
"The Republic of Korea in the Age of Emergent Offensive Realism"
Greg Scalatoiu, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK)
Discussant: Bum Soo Kim 김범수 Institute for Peace and Unification Studies, Seoul National University
Discussant: David Bachman, UW Jackson School of International Studies, Panel 2: U.S.-Republic of Korean Economic Relations: The Impact of the Tariffs, "The Rise and Decline of 'Security with the US, Economy with China'(安美經中) in Korea"
Wanghwi Lee, Ajou University
"US-Korea Economic Relations After Free…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: Kane Hall 210 | reception to follow in Kane 225. Accessibility Contact: Accommodation requests related to disability or health condition should be made at least ten days ahead of event date. Contact UWCKS@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM.
Nature heals: The global movement for mental and physical health
Research shows that access to nature is essential for our mental and physical wellbeing. But just over a decade ago, that idea was far from common knowledge.
Join UW Environment for the 2025 Doug Walker Lecture & Reception, where former REI Co-op executive Marc Berejka will share reflections on how the global movement for nature and health was born, the lessons we’ve learned along the way, and how we can all play a part in helping our communities benefit from the healing power of the outdoors.
Ticket price includes access to our special pre-reception designed to spark meaningful connections across Seattle’s vibrant sustainability and environmental science community. Complimentary gourmet creations provided by Cameron Catering, consistently ranked among Seattle’s finest! Pre-reception starts at 5:30 PM.
About our speaker: Marc Berejka held leadership roles at REI Co-op for more than 13 years, most recently as divisional vice president for community advocacy and impact and president of the REI Cooperative…
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM.
Town Hall Seattle, The Forum.
For more info visit events.uw.edu. Healing Heart of Lushootseed Speaker Series
A series to prepare for the UW Symphony performance of Healing Heart of the First People of This Land (February 2026)
Open to the public – doors open at 10:30am for coffee & pastries
Featuring
10/9 łuutiis Charlotte Coté (Nuu-chah-nulth) with Dian Million (Tanana) as discussant.
10/16 Tami Hohn (Puyallup) with McKenna Sweet Dorman (Snoqualmie) as discussant
10/23 Laurel Sercombe with John Vallier as discussant
10/30 John LaPointe (Swinomish)
11/6 Jill tsisqʷux̌ʷaʔł LaPointe (Upper Skagit/Nooksack) with Janet Yoder
11/13 Composer Bruce Ruddell, Musicians Adia tsi sʔuyuʔaɫ Bowen (Upper Skagit) and
Ben Workman Smith (Tolowa), Conductors Ryan Dudenbostel and David Rahbee,
with John-Carlos Perea (Mescalero Apache/German/Irish/Chicano) as discussant
11/20 Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe (Upper Skagit/Nooksack)
For more information on this series: https://healingheartproject.org/
For more information on the Feb. 2026 performance: https://music.washington.edu/upcoming.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Intellectual House (INT). Campus room: Gathering Hall. Accessibility Contact: jbperea@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Performances. Target Audience: students, faculty. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1664BnEscg/.
Thursday, October 23, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
For more info visit healingheartproject.org. The People's Data Workshop: Accessing and Analyzing Government Data Sources (In Person)
This event is part of UW Libraries week-long series of events during International Open Access Week! We're covering a wide range of topics including gaming, publishing, analyzing government data sources and NIH open sharing requirements. See the full UW Libraries OA Week schedule. Unlock the wealth of information held in government datasets!
In celebration of the UW Libraries’ Annual Constitution Reading and as part of Open Access Week, this hands-on workshop explores the public records and datasets that help us understand government, policy, and civic life.
Learn how to find, access, and analyze federal and state government data to support research, projects, and decision-making. We’ll introduce tools for working with datasets and strategies for turning raw data into meaningful insights. No prior experience required, just curiosity and a desire to make data work for you.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons Presentation Space. Accessibility Contact: aubreyjw@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Thursday, October 23, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
The People's Data Workshop: Accessing and Analyzing Government Data Sources (Online)
This event is part of UW Libraries week-long series of events during International Open Access Week! We're covering a wide range of topics including gaming, publishing, analyzing government data sources and NIH open sharing requirements. See the full UW Libraries OA Week schedule. Unlock the wealth of information held in government datasets!
In celebration of the UW Libraries’ Annual Constitution Reading and as part of Open Access Week, this hands-on workshop explores the public records and datasets that help us understand government, policy, and civic life. Learn how to find, access, and analyze federal and state government data to support research, projects, and decision-making. We’ll introduce tools for working with datasets and strategies for turning raw data into meaningful insights. No prior experience required, just curiosity and a desire to make data work for you.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: aubreyjw@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Thursday, October 23, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Open Access Demystified
This event is part of UW Libraries week-long series of events during International Open Access Week! We're covering a wide range of topics including gaming, publishing, analyzing government data sources and NIH open sharing requirements. See the full UW Libraries OA Week schedule. Open access publishing promises to make research freely available to everyone—but the path forward isn't always clear. With multiple publishing models, varying costs, and concerns about predatory publishers, how do you make informed decisions about where and how to share your work?
This workshop will help you understand the open access landscape and empower you to choose publishing options that align with your values and career goals. Learn practical strategies for making your research more accessible while contributing to a fairer, more impactful scholarly communication system.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: ebedford@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Thursday, October 23, 2025, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Collaboration Studio: Welcome to Critical Gaming - Let's Play Open!
Attention Gamers, the Critical Gaming Collaboration Studio is recommencing for the 2025-2026 school year with a rush of new events! We welcome all Huskies to the Open Scholarship Commons, where we'll analyze and play video games from a scholarly perspective. This month, we’ll be connecting current and new members, discussing our summer projects, and exploring open-access games in celebration of Open Access Week. Our topic this month will be: "Let's Play Bubble Bobble: A Guide to Mechanics, Dynamics, and Aesthetics." Come on by and introduce yourself to our very own critical gaming community!
This event is part of UW Libraries week-long series of events during International Open Access Week! We're covering a wide range of topics including gaming, publishing, analyzing government data sources and NIH open sharing requirements. See the full UW Libraries OA Week schedule. .
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons Presentation Space. Accessibility Contact: aubreyjw@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Thursday, October 23, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM.
Emerging Scholars in Communication 2025 Info Session
The Emerging Scholars in Communication Program aims to expand access to graduate education for students, including those impacted by racism and its intersections. The four-week workshop series explores career pathways available to communication PhDs, the nuts and bolts of the application process, and how to flourish in graduate school as an underrepresented student. Participants will also meet current MA/PhD students and faculty to learn about their unique journeys and get answers to questions about everything from how to fund grad school to managing mental health.
Join us on October 23rd for an information session to learn more about the Emerging Scholars Program. Registration is required. .
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/MvZXkVsaQJ-53elWXLVogw#/registration. Accessibility Contact: comadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Thursday, October 23, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
How to Bring a Pop-Up to Life: Integrating Actuation and Animation
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.
Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Lecture presented by Dr. Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky - Beyond Status: Living Undocumented in Disruptive Times
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Reception: 5:00 PM | Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center
Lecture: 6:00 PM | Alder Hall Auditorium
Dr. Pinedo-Turnovsky’s lecture will be followed by a Q&A session.
Advance registration is required; space is limited. Please RSVP by October 19, 2025.
Registration includes a lecture reception with heavy hors d’oeuvres and beverages.
An undocumented immigration status can profoundly affect a person’s ability to access resources, achieve economic stability, and experience a sense of belonging. These impacts are deeply felt and far-reaching, with “undocumented” often obscuring the richness and depth of the lives led by millions of immigrants across the country.
Drawing on her research and community engagement, Dr. Pinedo-Turnovsky will explore how undocumented status is shaped by – and in turn shapes – a disruptive legal and political system. At the same time, she will examine how living with an undocumented status can be a source of mobilization, rights consciousness and…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center (ECC1). Campus room: Alder Hall Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: morac@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, October 23, 2025, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. GWSS RSO Quarterly Movie Night
Join the GWSS RSO for a mystery movie night! Vote here to help decide which spooky film - with feminist overtones - you'll be watching! Make sure to bring snacks and all of your friends! A brief discussion will follow the screening.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 130. Accessibility Contact: gwssadvs@uw.edu. Event Types: Screenings. Student Activities.
Thursday, October 23, 2025, 7:15 PM – 9:00 PM.
NIH Open Sharing Requirements: How to Navigate Your New Responsibilities
The National Institutes of Health now requires researchers to share publications and data from NIH-funded projects immediately upon publication. This workshop will guide you through these new mandates, including what must be shared, where to deposit your materials, and how to comply while protecting sensitive information. Whether you're writing a grant proposal or wrapping up a funded project, you'll learn practical steps to meet NIH requirements and avoid compliance issues. Bring your questions about data management plans, repository selection, and navigating publisher policies.
This event is part of UW Libraries week-long series of events during International Open Access Week! We're covering a wide range of topics including gaming, publishing, analyzing government data sources and NIH open sharing requirements. See the full UW Libraries OA Week schedule. .
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: ebedford@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Friday, October 24, 2025, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM.
College of Arts & Sciences Pop Up (Family Weekend)
Take a family photo with the College of Arts & Sciences! Stop by and say hello to college leadership, faculty and staff, celebrate your Husky family story, grab exclusive swag, and more.
At the UW, the College of Arts & Sciences is at the heart of it all — home to the broadest range of discovery, creativity and connection. Come learn about all we have to offer students and their families!
Stay connected with @UWArtSci on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn for the latest updates.
Event Accessibility
The University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services, programs and activities.
If you need an accommodation and haven’t yet requested it, please contact us at uwfw@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: uwfw@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events.
Friday, October 24, 2025, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. WISIR and PT Colloqium Present Dr. Shatema Threadcraft: "Black Femicide and Morrisonian Democracy"
Dr. Shatema Threadcraft, "Black Femicide and Morrisonian Democracy"
Vanderbilt University
Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A. Accessibility Contact: yvenegas@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, October 24, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit depts.washington.edu. "International Reactions to Proposing Peace Talks in Interstate War" Professor Jessica Weeks
Jessica Weeks
University of Wisconsin—Madison
Professor and H. Douglas Weaver Chair in Diplomacy and International Relations.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A, 1:30-3:00pm. Accessibility Contact: jihyeonc@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, October 24, 2025, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit sites.uw.edu. Chloë Bass: Soft Services - Field Trip
Join GWSS for a semi-formal visit to Soft Services, artist Chloë Bass’s sculptural series in Volunteer Park exploring care, memorial, and survival. Engaging the park’s history of AIDS activism and the ecological changes shaping it today, participants will reflect on how we practice care in times of crisis and recovery. The Field Trip will be guided by prompts developed by Bass and distributed through participating classes.
Students are also encouraged to attend the Student Workshop with Chloë Bass (November 4, HUB 307).
All Audio Guide developers are required to attend. RSVP Deadline: Tuesday, October 17, 2025.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: gwssadvs@uw.edu. Event Types: Student Activities. Exhibits. Special Events.
Friday, October 24, 2025, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM.
Volunteer Park.
UW Symphony with Cristina Valdés, piano
David Alexander Rahbee leads the UW Symphony in a program of music by Mieczyslaw Karlowicz and Sergei Prokofiev. Faculty violinist Rachel Lee Priday is featured soloist with the orchestra for Karlowicz's Violin Concerto in A major, op. 8.
Program
Mieczyslaw Karłowicz: Violin Concerto in A major, op.8
Prokofiev: Symphony No.5 in B-flat major, op.100
Tickets: $10.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Meany Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: (206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Friday, October 24, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Wind Ensemble Chamber Winds
Members of the UW Wind Ensemble (Erin Bodnar, director) perform music by Caroline Shaw, Richard Strauss, Robert Spittal, Emil Hartmann, Enrique Crespo and others.
FREE admission.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Music Building (MUS). Campus room: Brechemin Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: dos@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Sunday, October 26, 2025, 1:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Inorganic Chemistry Seminar: Prof. Raúl Hernández Sánchez
"Chemistry at interfaces: macrocyclic templates facilitating strong and weak interactions"
Assistant Professor Raúl Hernández Sánchez - Department of Chemistry, Rice University
Host: Dianne Xiao
Macrocyclic arene compounds have played a fundamental role in the development of supramolecular chemistry. Research on these systems have laid the foundations to explore and establish non-covalent interactions, e.g. hydrogen bonding, π···π stacking, C–H···π interactions. The Hernández Sánchez research group has taken the basic principles of macrocyclic arenes to design architectures enforcing metal–metal interactions towards the activation of small molecules, scaffolds capable of tubularly contorting aromatic systems, and frameworks able to bind anionic species for environmental remediation, all while retaining their intrinsic non-covalent interactions. In this seminar, Prof. Hernández Sánchez will discuss progress in each of these areas constantly crossing the boundaries between organic-inorganic synthesis and ma…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Bagley Hall (BAG). Campus room: BAG 260. Accessibility Contact: chem59x@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, October 28, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
For more info visit profiles.rice.edu. Liberation Book Club: Art and Activism
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.
Guest Pianist Recital: Santiago Rodriguez
The School of Music keyboard program presents a solo piano recital by Cuban-American pianist Santiago Rodriguez, head of the keyboard program at the Frost School of Music at Miami University.
FREE admission.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Music Building (MUS). Campus room: Brechemin Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: (206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Tuesday, October 28, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Psychology Edwards Lecture with Matt Smear, Associate Professor, Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon
Neurodiversifying Neuroscience, Matt Smear, Associate Professor, Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon
Biological variation is an inherent mechanism of life, supporting flexibility and resilience in an unpredictable world. In the brain, rich variation pervades gene expression, circuit development, neural coding, and cognition. Yet neuroscience has tended to idolize universals of function, treating variation as noise to be averaged away. In contrast, neurodiversifying neuroscience treats variation as a source of signal. Drawing on work across multiple domains of neuroscience, I will argue that neurodiversifying perspectives lay bare insights and opportunities hidden by normative traditions.
Faculty host: David Gire
These lectures are made possible by a generous endowment by Professor Allen L. Edwards.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kincaid Hall (KIN). Campus room: 102/108. Accessibility Contact: chairpsy@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Faculty, students, staff.
Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Guest Pianist Master Class: Santiago Rodriguez
Cuban-American pianist Santiago Rodriguez, head of the keyboard program at the Frost School of Music at Miami University, leads a master class with UW piano students.
FREE admission.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Music Building (MUS). Campus room: Brechemin Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: (206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 4:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Latinx Studies Meet & Greet
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.
Book Launch - Gilah Kletenik's "Sovereignty Disrupted: Spinoza and the Disparity of Reality"
Please join the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies as we celebrate the recent publication of Hazel D. Cole Fellow Gilah Kletenik’s new book, "Sovereignty Disrupted: Spinoza and the Disparity of Reality."
In it, Kletenik takes a dazzlingly fresh reading of Spinoza’s Ethics, thinking with Spinoza to present an alternative to dominant “Western” theories about the nature of reality, the promise of reason, and the status of humans.
Kletenik will be joined by Stroum Center Director Noam Pianko to discuss the book, share how Jewish philosophy can be applied in this moment, and answer questions. Light refreshments will be provided before the talk and the book will be available for purchase.
"It is rare to find a thorough and compelling reading of a great philosophical classic, Spinoza's Ethics, that upends some of the central presumptions about sovereignty that have populated standard readings for many years. Kletenik shows that sovereign rule functions neither as a political form nor as a model of conceptual maste…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: KNE 225. Accessibility Contact: jewishst@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Special Events. Target Audience: Free and open to the public. Registration Required.
Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM.
Healing Heart of Lushootseed Speaker Series
A series to prepare for the UW Symphony performance of Healing Heart of the First People of This Land (February 2026)
Open to the public – doors open at 10:30am for coffee & pastries
Featuring
10/9 łuutiis Charlotte Coté (Nuu-chah-nulth) with Dian Million (Tanana) as discussant.
10/16 Tami Hohn (Puyallup) with McKenna Sweet Dorman (Snoqualmie) as discussant
10/23 Laurel Sercombe with John Vallier as discussant
10/30 John LaPointe (Swinomish)
11/6 Jill tsisqʷux̌ʷaʔł LaPointe (Upper Skagit/Nooksack) with Janet Yoder
11/13 Composer Bruce Ruddell, Musicians Adia tsi sʔuyuʔaɫ Bowen (Upper Skagit) and
Ben Workman Smith (Tolowa), Conductors Ryan Dudenbostel and David Rahbee,
with John-Carlos Perea (Mescalero Apache/German/Irish/Chicano) as discussant
11/20 Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe (Upper Skagit/Nooksack)
For more information on this series: https://healingheartproject.org/
For more information on the Feb. 2026 performance: https://music.washington.edu/upcoming.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Intellectual House (INT). Campus room: Gathering Hall. Accessibility Contact: jbperea@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Performances. Target Audience: students, faculty. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1664BnEscg/.
Thursday, October 30, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
For more info visit healingheartproject.org. BOOK LAUNCH: Slavic Horror Across Media: Cursed Zones (MUP, 2025)
Let’s get spooky! On Halloween Eve, we would like to invite you to a book promotion and panel discussion for "Slavic Horror Across Media: Cursed Zones," published by Manchester University Press in June 2025. The editor Agnieszka Jeżyk, author José Alaniz, and scholar and writer Stevi Costa will talk about the publication and use it as a starting point for a broader discussion on the role of horror and horror studies in contemporary global culture. The event is open to the public. Coffee, cookies, and, most importantly, Halloween candy will be provided.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: The Slavic Department, slavoffice@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, October 30, 2025, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
TBD.
Global Innovation Exchange Fall Networking Event
The UW Global Innovation Exchange (GIX) invites you to our Fall Networking Event.
Join MS in Technology Innovation students and alumni, GIX Mentors, industry professionals and GIX faculty and staff for a networking event filled with conversation, relationship building and light refreshments.
The event’s centerpiece will be a riveting, facilitated fireside chat discussion with Josh Lee, a dynamic business and technology leader, entrepreneur, founder, investor and mentor.
An RSVP is required by Oct. 23.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: echert@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Student Activities. Target Audience: Any current UW students.
Thursday, October 30, 2025, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
12280 NE District Way, Bellevue WA 98005.
For more info visit zfrmz.com. The Veil Is Thin Here - Halloween Zine Workshop
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.
Long Table Conversation on “NonAligned Modernism”
Note room change: now Architecture Hall 250
The objective of this Long Table is to discuss NonAligned Modernism as a concept in contemporary academic discourse, particularly with respect to modern architecture, and its value as a critical ideology in the world today.
Moderator: Adair Rounthwaite (ArtHistory)
Table Conversationalists: Ken Oshima (HHF), Maristella Casciato (Getty), Martino
Stierli (MoMA), Swagato Chakravorty (The Henry), Vikram Prakash (HHF), Manish Chalana (HHF)
Introduction by Vikram Prakash (HHF/Architecture)
Short (6-8 minutes max.) presentations on relevant case studies and frameworks of
Conversation.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Architecture Hall (ARC). Campus room: 250. Accessibility Contact: vprakash@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Workshops.
Friday, October 31, 2025, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
Introduction to Podcasting Workshop
Click the Online Meeting Link above to register.
Curious about starting a podcast? Join us for Introduction to Podcasting at the UW Open Scholarship Commons! In this online workshop, you’ll create a podcast intro, share and listen to others' projects in a supportive environment, and learn practical tips for recording high-quality audio. Gain hands-on experience editing tracks in Audacity, and explore important topics like accessibility, preservation, open access, and digital safety. This workshop is part of the OSC Public Scholarship Lab.
In this online workshop, you will: Produce an introduction for your dream podcast or for an imaginary one. , Listen to the podcast introductions of others in the workshop in a kind, supportive, growth-mindset environment. , Learn some level-up tricks for getting good voice/sound recordings. , Practice editing 5+ tracks in the sound-editing software Audacity. , Learn about the importance of accessibility, preservation, open access, and digital safety. This workshop…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/aIhSXe-0QXG6EfyJ1OdhTQ#/registration. Accessibility Contact: aubreyjw@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Monday, November 3, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
Katz Distinguished Lecture: Michael Rothberg, "Comparison Controversies: Historical Analogy and the Politics of Holocaust Memory"
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.
First Wednesday Concert
Students of the UW School of Music perform in this lunchtime concert series co-hosted by UW Music and UW Libraries.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Event Types: Performances.
Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Truths and Narratives of Indonesia’s Tragedi 1965 | Hybrid Event
What does it mean to commemorate a genocide? This is the overarching question governing this academic panel as its presenters ruminate over the mass killings that transpired in Indonesia between 1965 and 1966 which saw an estimated deaths of at least 500,000 alleged communists and their sympathizers, among others. We will be gathering in-person with historian Baskara T. Wardaya (PRAKSIS Jesuit Center for Research and Advocacy), cultural theorist Rachmi Diyah Larasati (University of Minnesota Twin Cities) and literary scholar Sylvia Tiwon (University of California, Berkeley) joining us over Zoom to cast a critical eye on the deluge of truths and narratives that have emerged sixty years after the massacre. This panel is part of the University of Washington course ‘Decolonizing Authenticity in Southeast Asian Translation’ convened by Nazry Bahrawi, who will moderate the panel. Members of the public are welcome to attend. Please register below.
In-Person Reception, 3pm--Please register…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: 317. Accessibility Contact: csead@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: General.
Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Soft Services Workshop with Chloë Bass
Students are invited to a semi-formal workshop with Chloë Bass dedicated to reflecting on Soft Services and its themes of community, care, and resilience. Building from the Field Trip and Bass’s prompts, the session invites participants to think, write, and create through and around the work.
Participants should visit Soft Services—either during the Field Trip on Oct. 24 or independently—before attending the workshop. All Audio Guide developers are required to attend. RSVP Deadline: Tuesday, October 28, 2025,
The University of Washington is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: 206.543.6450/V, 206.543.6452/TTY, 206.685.7264 (FAX), or e-mail at dso@u.washington.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: HUB 307. Accessibility Contact: gwssadvs@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Student Activities. Special Events.
Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Katz Colloquium: Michael Rothberg, "Restitution, Repair, and Implication: Afterlives of Colonialism and the Holocaust in the Humboldt Forum"
Registration requested: bit.ly/michael-rothberg
What does it mean for individuals and institutions to be ‘implicated’ in past violence? This is an urgent question across nations and continents, but it has a particular force in Germany. In recent years, the German public sphere has been agitated by debates that concern the relationship between the Holocaust and colonialism, antisemitism and racism, and Holocaust memory and violence in Israel/Palestine. These debates have intersected with a longer-standing dispute about colonial legacies that has centered on the reconstruction of Berlin’s imperial palace and the creation of the Humboldt Forum. The Humboldt Forum debate involves the afterlives of colonial structures, stolen artifacts, and human remains. In this lecture, Michael Rothberg will address the stakes of these different debates. Much of the controversy about the relationship between the Holocaust and colonialism concerns the past, but Rothberg’s approach also foregrounds what it means to live in the…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 120. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
Healing Heart of Lushootseed Speaker Series
A series to prepare for the UW Symphony performance of Healing Heart of the First People of This Land (February 2026)
Open to the public – doors open at 10:30am for coffee & pastries
Featuring
10/9 łuutiis Charlotte Coté (Nuu-chah-nulth) with Dian Million (Tanana) as discussant.
10/16 Tami Hohn (Puyallup) with McKenna Sweet Dorman (Snoqualmie) as discussant
10/23 Laurel Sercombe with John Vallier as discussant
10/30 John LaPointe (Swinomish)
11/6 Jill tsisqʷux̌ʷaʔł LaPointe (Upper Skagit/Nooksack) with Janet Yoder
11/13 Composer Bruce Ruddell, Musicians Adia tsi sʔuyuʔaɫ Bowen (Upper Skagit) and
Ben Workman Smith (Tolowa), Conductors Ryan Dudenbostel and David Rahbee,
with John-Carlos Perea (Mescalero Apache/German/Irish/Chicano) as discussant
11/20 Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe (Upper Skagit/Nooksack)
For more information on this series: https://healingheartproject.org/
For more information on the Feb. 2026 performance: https://music.washington.edu/upcoming.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Intellectual House (INT). Campus room: Gathering Hall. Accessibility Contact: jbperea@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Performances. Target Audience: students, faculty. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1664BnEscg/.
Thursday, November 6, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
For more info visit healingheartproject.org. Economics Prospective Student Info Session
Students who study economics learn to decode the systems that are a part of our everyday lives using models and a variety of social and economic data to analyze how decisions are made, and how limited resources are made, traded, and used.
In this session, students will learn helpful information about the Department of Economics Undergraduate Program and its Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science majors. Students will also have an opportunity to meet with Department of Economics advisers, and get helpful tips on pursuing Economics as a major at the UW.
This session will be offered online, via Zoom, at the following link:Join Zoom Meeting
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Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98341973783. Accessibility Contact: econadv@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Thursday, November 6, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Swim Parallel to the Shore: A Lecture Performance by Chloë Bass
Working from poet Tan Lin’s idea of “general feelings”—the notion that emotions are not our own (individually held or private) but shared as a kind of communal recipe—Chloë Bass will discuss the production of artistic work in the contemporary public realm using two conceits:
First, what it means to think of objects through the scale of the human body, and thus as a stand-in for potential emotional action; and
Second, what happens when we consider the presentation of static artworks as a form of rehearsal, which in turn provokes the co-creation of a world.
Registration Required
This talk complements GWSS x Henry student engagements around Bass’s public art project Soft Services (Field Trip on Oct 24; Student Workshop on Nov 4).
Chloë Bass (b. 1984, New York, NY) is a multiform conceptual artist working in performance, situation, conversation, publication, and installation. Her work uses daily life as a site of deep research to address scales of intimacy: where patterns hold and break as group sizes…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Henry Art Gallery and Allen Center for The Visual Arts (HAG). Accessibility Contact: mailto:museumservices@henryart.org. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, November 6, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM.
"Ten Thousand Things" at the Wing Luke Museum
Registration required: bit.ly/ShinYuPai
Join curator Shin Yu Pai at the Wing Luke Museum’s Ten Thousand Things exhibit. The exhibit is an exploration of the objects that shape identities, histories, and cultural narratives. Inspired by her experience cataloging artifacts at the Wing Luke Museum as a Museology graduate student, Pai has long been fascinated by the way objects function as vessels of memory, meaning, and storytelling. This exhibition expands upon Pai’s acclaimed public radio podcast Ten Thousand Things. Through four seasons of storytelling, Pai has explored the intimate connections people have with everyday and extraordinary items—objects that hold deep personal significance, evoke generational ties, or serve as cultural touchstones.
Shin Yu Pai is an award-winning writer, photographer, podcast host and editor based in the Pacific Northwest. She is author of numerous collections of poetry, including No Neutral (Empty Bowl Press, 2023), and was Seattle’s 2023-2024 Civic Poet. Her literary papers…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Exhibits.
Friday, November 7, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
Wing Luke Museum, 719 S. King Street.
4th Sam Dubal Memorial Lecture: Tracie Canada, "How Black College Football Players Tackle their Everyday"
College football, with its prestige, drama, media, and money, is a core feature of the sporting landscape in the US. However, the promises of an “amateur” system that offers a “free” education contradict the reality. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Canada describes how this system particularly harms, disadvantages, and exploits the Black men who are demographically overrepresented on gridirons across the country. In this talk, she highlights how she engages multiple audiences in her ethnographic writing, which details how Black college football players tackle the systems that structure their everyday lives, and who helps them do it.
Tracie Canada is the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and director of the HEARTS (Health, Ethnography, and Race through Sports) Lab at Duke University. She is a Black feminist anthropologist and ethnographer whose research uses sport to theorize race, kinship and care, gender, and the performing body.
Co-sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Miller Hall (MLR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ibc1du9_TsmWfwb7nufUQw. Campus room: 301. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, November 7, 2025, 10:30 AM – 11:50 AM.
“Deploying Science in Post-Disaster Decision Making: Lessons from the 2025 Los Angeles Fires”
Megan Mullin
Faculty Director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation
Luskin Endowed Chair in Innovation and Sustainability
University of California, Los Angeles.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: Olsen Room (GWN 1A). Accessibility Contact: polisci@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, November 7, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
Translating Enchantment: Journeys of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s (d. 1210) Book of the Hidden Secret
UW MELC Lecturer Dr. Lillian McCabe's talk is entitled "Translating Enchantment: Journeys of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s (d. 1210) Book of the Hidden Secret"
The Book of the Hidden Secret was an immensely popular text of theoretical and practical magic written by the famed Muslim theologian and philosopher Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 1210).
This talk shows how this text was a site where an Islamic theory of comparative religion was developed, and explores what this work, and translations of it, can tell us about the relationship between religion and magic in Islamic thought, and between enchantment and disenchantment more broadly.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: 317. Accessibility Contact: limccabe@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, November 7, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
Veterans Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Tuesday, November 11, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. OSC Public Scholarship Lab: Publish & Protect Your Research in a Flash with Manifold (Online)
Learn how to create the world's fastest book using the Manifold digital book publishing platform! Manifold offers the opportunity to upload texts, seamlessly integrate images, media, and more into your text, and allows users to annotate texts within the platform. You'll come away from this workshop with a text of your choice (either your own or a sample text that will be provided) loaded into Manifold with images added to the text. This workshop includes a mix of lectures and hands-on time that you’ll spend learning to build your own digital book. This event is part of the OSC Public Scholarship Lab.
This event will be online via Zoom. Please register before the workshop to receive your Manifold account.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: aubreyjw@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
Book talk: "Spaces of Creative Resistance"
This lecture will explore and expand on the newly published “Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in 21st-Century East Asia.” Over the last two decades, social disconnection, increased income disparity, and new burdens have been placed on the young, women’s reproductive labor, and the environment in Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Bringing together a cross-regional interdisciplinary group of scholars, scholar activists, artists, and others, each chapter in the volume focuses on a different form of “creative resistance" in response to these issues.
SPEAKERS
Andrea Gevurtz Arai is a cultural anthropologist of Japan and East Asia and acting assistant professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. She is the editor of “and Editor of Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Project in East Asia.”
Jeff Hou is a professor of architecture at the National University of Singapore. He has worked on projects ranging from…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: Thomson Hall 317. Accessibility Contact: japan@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Free and open to the public.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Jazz Innovations, Part I
Small combos perform original music and arrangements of jazz standards, modern classics, and deep cuts from the popular music repertoire over two consecutive nights of performance.
FREE admission.
Event interval: Campus location: Music Building (MUS). Campus room: Brechemin Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: (206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Healing Heart of Lushootseed Speaker Series
A series to prepare for the UW Symphony performance of Healing Heart of the First People of This Land (February 2026)
Open to the public – doors open at 10:30am for coffee & pastries
Featuring
10/9 łuutiis Charlotte Coté (Nuu-chah-nulth) with Dian Million (Tanana) as discussant.
10/16 Tami Hohn (Puyallup) with McKenna Sweet Dorman (Snoqualmie) as discussant
10/23 Laurel Sercombe with John Vallier as discussant
10/30 John LaPointe (Swinomish)
11/6 Jill tsisqʷux̌ʷaʔł LaPointe (Upper Skagit/Nooksack) with Janet Yoder
11/13 Composer Bruce Ruddell, Musicians Adia tsi sʔuyuʔaɫ Bowen (Upper Skagit) and
Ben Workman Smith (Tolowa), Conductors Ryan Dudenbostel and David Rahbee,
with John-Carlos Perea (Mescalero Apache/German/Irish/Chicano) as discussant
11/20 Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe (Upper Skagit/Nooksack)
For more information on this series: https://healingheartproject.org/
For more information on the Feb. 2026 performance: https://music.washington.edu/upcoming.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Intellectual House (INT). Campus room: Gathering Hall. Accessibility Contact: jbperea@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Performances. Target Audience: students, faculty. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1664BnEscg/.
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
For more info visit healingheartproject.org. Fine-tuning LLMs on Custom Datasets (In Person)
In this interactive workshop, you will explore how LLMs work and practice fine-tuning a model on two custom datasets.
Through a guided demo using Python and Jupyter Notebooks, you will: Implement fine-tuning on a Llama 3 model with two examples: sentiment analysis of IMDB movie reviews and text summarization of biomedical papers. , Use techniques that enable training a 3 billion-parameter model in five minutes. , Learn how to scale fine-tuning using multi-node workflows on UW's Tillicum GPU cluster. , Identify when fine-tuning is appropriate compared to other methods. A free Google Colab account is recommended to run the workshop demos.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons Presentation Space. Accessibility Contact: jcols@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Fine-tuning LLMs on Custom Datasets (Online)
In this interactive workshop, you will explore how LLMs work and practice fine-tuning a model on two custom datasets.
Through a guided demo using Python and Jupyter Notebooks, you will: Implement fine-tuning on a Llama 3 model with two examples: sentiment analysis of IMDB movie reviews and text summarization of biomedical papers. , Use techniques that enable training a 3 billion-parameter model in five minutes. , Learn how to scale fine-tuning using multi-node workflows on UW's Tillicum GPU cluster. , Identify when fine-tuning is appropriate compared to other methods. A free Google Colab account is recommended to run the workshop demos.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: jcols@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Evo-Hub Lecture: Marshall Abrams, "The Uniqueness of Organisms in Evolution"
If natural selection is “the survival of the fittest” and being fittest means having more offspring, then survival of the fittest is just the survival of those that survive. In this talk, Abrams explains how evolutionary biology avoids this puzzling conclusion, and why research practices motivate the idea that evolution takes place in “population-environment systems”—complex analogs of dice-tossing. But traditional research practices have been criticized as focusing too much on populations, and not enough on each individual organism’s unique dance with its environment. Abrams argues that his approach allows us to see what is right about each perspective.
Marshall Abrams is a Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago. Abrams’ book Evolution and the Machinery of Chance is the basis of ongoing research
This event is free and open to the public. Accommodation requests related to a disability or health condition should be made by November…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 120. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
Jazz Innovations, Part II
Small combos perform original music and arrangements of jazz standards, modern classics, and deep cuts from the popular music repertoire over two consecutive nights of performance.
FREE admission.
Event interval: Campus location: Music Building (MUS). Campus room: Brechemin Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: (206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Psychology Social & Personality Edwards Seminar with Dr. Joseph D. Wellman, Associate Professor of Psychology & Director of Experimental Training, University of Mississippi
When Group Identities Intersect: Group Identification, Discrimination and Threat, Dr. Joseph D. Wellman, Associate Professor of Psychology & Director of Experimental Training, University of Mississippi
This talk presents findings from several lines of research examining how discrimination and threat shape group identification among individuals with intersecting identities. Three studies investigate how experiences of COVID-19 discrimination influence Asian Americans’ national and ethnic identification. Another study explores how the source of discrimination affects gay Black men’s identification with their sexual and racial groups. Finally, two studies examine how masculinity threat influences gay men’s identification with their gender and sexual identity groups. Together, these projects demonstrate how analyzing group identification across intersecting identities advances our understanding of identity processes and their social consequences.
Faculty hosts: Clara Wilkins & Cynthia Levine
These lectures…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kincaid Hall (KIN). Campus room: 102/108. Accessibility Contact: chairpsy@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Faculty, students, staff.
Friday, November 14, 2025, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
“Structurally Induced Anxiety and Anti-War Voting: Military Social Networks and Presidential Elections”
Ryan Reynolds, PhD student
University of Washington
“Structurally Induced Anxiety and Anti-War Voting: Military Social Networks and Presidential Elections”.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: Smith 40A, Smith Hall. Accessibility Contact: jihyeonc@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, November 14, 2025, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit sites.uw.edu. Digital & Data Humanities Meet & Greet
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.
Ghazal Celebration: Poetry Readings Across Languages
This event brings together colleagues and students for a collective celebration of the ghazal, a poetic form that has flourished in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu, and many other languages. Each participant will read one of their favorite ghazals in its original language, followed by a translation into English.
By foregrounding oral recitation and the experience of listening across languages, the gathering highlights the ghazal’s role as a transregional and transhistorical form of poetic expression. Together, we will reflect on the pleasures of sound, the challenges of translation, and the enduring vitality of the ghazal across literary traditions.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Denny Hall (DEN). Campus room: Denny 211. Accessibility Contact: ariafani@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, November 14, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Ladino Day 2025: Sephardic Homelands: Spanish and Portuguese Citizenship and the Question of Belonging Today
Join us for Ladino Day 2025, featuring speakers Rina Benmayor, Dalia Kandiyoti, Devin Naar, and Isaac Alhadeff for a conversation on “Sephardic Homelands: Spanish and Portuguese Citizenship and the Question of Belonging Today.” The program will be followed by a modest reception featuring Sephardic foods.
Event will be live-streamed. Registration is only required for in-person attendance. View the live-stream here.
This year’s program critically examines the significance of the decision of the Spanish and Portuguese governments–exactly ten years ago in 2015–to offer citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled five centuries ago. The discussion will situate Spain and Portugal’s offers within broader debates about the homelands that Sephardic Jews have claimed as their own over the generations, while also recognizing that millions of people in the world remain stateless today.
Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies and program Chair, Devin E. Naar, will host Professor Emerita Rina…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: Kane Hall 210. Accessibility Contact: jewishst@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Information Sessions. Special Events. Target Audience: Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Sunday, November 16, 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Analytical Chemistry Seminar: Prof. Jessica Ray
"Novel, polymer-imprinted activated carbon media for selective adsorption of PFAS in wastewater."
Assistant Professor Jessica Ray - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington
Host: Matthew Bush
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a class of over 9,000 different compounds with high thermal and chemical stability due to their C–F bonds. These toxic compounds have been used in many applications and in consumer-end products which has led to widespread dispersion in the environment—particularly in water sources. During water treatment, granular activated carbon is commonly used to separate PFAS from water. Granular activated carbons are sourced from coal and other materials, and thermally and chemically activated to generate a high surface area, high porosity adsorbent. However, granular activated carbon is a nonselective adsorbent with low removal efficiency for small PFAS. Furthermore, once the adsorbent is spent, it is either landfilled where loaded PFAS will be leac…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Bagley Hall (BAG). Campus room: BAG 261. Accessibility Contact: chem59x@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, November 17, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
For more info visit ray-aimslab.com. Going Public: Navigating Online and Professional Harassment Panel Discussion
Researchers who engage publicly often find themselves navigating new forms of visibility and vulnerability. This panel brings together experts whose work and lived experiences shed light on the realities of online and professional harassment in an increasingly adversarial environment.
Join Emma Spiro, Katherine Cross, and Kate Starbird for an hour-long roundtable discussion on how scholars can continue to do meaningful, public-facing work while protecting their well-being, supporting their communities, and sustaining trust in research. The discussion will be followed by a Q&A and a brief reception.
Hosted by the Open Scholarship Commons, this event is part of the Going Public series, which explores what it means to share research responsibly, safely, and authentically in the public sphere.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons Presentation Space. Accessibility Contact: aubreyjw@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Monday, November 17, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Film Screening and Discussion | Vietnamerica
Join the Center for Southeast Asia and Its Diasporas (CSEAD) and Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asia (GETSEA) for a simulcast screening of Vietnamerica. Forty years after the US pulled out of South Vietnam, a Vietnamese martial arts master returns to the waters that claimed his wife and children during their escape in hopes of finding their grave. The screening will be followed by a virtual discussion with members of the GETSEA consortium.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: 317. Accessibility Contact: csead@uw.edu. Event Types: Screenings.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Exquisite Corpus. A Practical Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Creative Expression
This workshop, led by Laura Luna Castillo (UW, DX Arts), merges computational linguistics and creative experimentation. We will use Python’s Natural Language Toolkit (NTLK) to analyze, deconstruct and algorithmically expand text corpora in a Dadaist spirit. Participants will be guided through hands-on code examples to learn techniques for data augmentation and synthetic data generation. We will explore grammatical patterns, linguistic visualizations and randomization as meaning-making tools that introduce surreal linguistic styles into a corpus, generating endless variations of source texts. This process provides insight into how Large Language Models learn and adapt to linguistic styles, albeit on a much larger scale. Time allowing, we will use our augmented corpus to fine-tune our own, rustic, language model. A laptop is required for this hands-on session.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons. Accessibility Contact: text@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: Faculty and students.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
A Discussion of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
"The History and New Frontiers of Metal–Organic Framework Chemistry"
Associate Professor Dianne Xiao and Assistant Professor Doug Reed - Department of Chemistry, University of Washington
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recognizes the architects of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi. Professors Dianne Xiao and Doug Reed from the Department of Chemistry will introduce MOFs and discuss their importance. Following this talk, we invite the audience to join in a moderated Q&A session.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Bagley Hall (BAG). Online Meeting Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChT45EErfUqqah_8s62nJuw. Campus room: BAG 131. Accessibility Contact: chem59x@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Non-experts with some some interest in or knowledge of chemistry.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit www.nobelprize.org. Voice Division Recital
UW voice students of Thomas Harper and Carrie Shaw perform art songs and arias from the vocal repertoire.
FREE admission.
Event interval: Campus location: Music Building (MUS). Campus room: Brechemin Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: (206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 4:00 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Liberation Book Club: Community Care and Harm Reduction
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.
OSC Public Scholarship Lab: Exploring Research and Teaching with Humap (In-Person)
Curious about new ways to visualize research? Join us for an introduction to Humap, a digital humanities platform designed to create interactive maps, timelines, and exhibits. Designed for academic use, Humap makes it easy to bring research and classroom projects to life, helping students and audiences engage with ideas in dynamic, visual ways. This hands-on workshop will introduce the platform’s core features and guide you in building your own projects.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons Presentation Space. Accessibility Contact: aubreyjw@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
OSC Public Scholarship Lab: Exploring Research and Teaching with Humap (Online)
Curious about new ways to visualize research? Join us for an introduction to Humap, a digital humanities platform designed to create interactive maps, timelines, and exhibits. Designed for academic use, Humap makes it easy to bring research and classroom projects to life, helping students and audiences engage with ideas in dynamic, visual ways. This hands-on workshop will introduce the platform’s core features and guide you in building your own projects.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: aubreyjw@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: UW students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and staff.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
Panel: Pathways to Faculty Positions in Two-Year Colleges
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.
Healing Heart of Lushootseed Speaker Series
A series to prepare for the UW Symphony performance of Healing Heart of the First People of This Land (February 2026)
Open to the public – doors open at 10:30am for coffee & pastries
Featuring
10/9 łuutiis Charlotte Coté (Nuu-chah-nulth) with Dian Million (Tanana) as discussant.
10/16 Tami Hohn (Puyallup) with McKenna Sweet Dorman (Snoqualmie) as discussant
10/23 Laurel Sercombe with John Vallier as discussant
10/30 John LaPointe (Swinomish)
11/6 Jill tsisqʷux̌ʷaʔł LaPointe (Upper Skagit/Nooksack) with Janet Yoder
11/13 Composer Bruce Ruddell, Musicians Adia tsi sʔuyuʔaɫ Bowen (Upper Skagit) and
Ben Workman Smith (Tolowa), Conductors Ryan Dudenbostel and David Rahbee,
with John-Carlos Perea (Mescalero Apache/German/Irish/Chicano) as discussant
11/20 Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe (Upper Skagit/Nooksack)
For more information on this series: https://healingheartproject.org/
For more information on the Feb. 2026 performance: https://music.washington.edu/upcoming.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Intellectual House (INT). Campus room: Gathering Hall. Accessibility Contact: jbperea@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Performances. Target Audience: students, faculty. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1664BnEscg/.
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
For more info visit healingheartproject.org. Economics Prospective Student Info Session
Students who study economics learn to decode the systems that are a part of our everyday lives using models and a variety of social and economic data to analyze how decisions are made, and how limited resources are made, traded, and used.
In this session, students will learn helpful information about the Department of Economics Undergraduate Program and its Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science majors. Students will also have an opportunity to meet with Department of Economics advisers, and get helpful tips on pursuing Economics as a major at the UW.
This session will be offered online, via Zoom, at the following link:Join Zoom Meeting
https://washington.zoom.us/j/92985892517
Meeting ID: 929 8589 2517
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Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/92985892517. Accessibility Contact: econadv@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Pilgrimage in Mexico: A Dynamic Tradition: a Talk by Edward Wright-Ríos
From a distance nearly all of us misunderstand pilgrimage. Influenced by movies, memoirs, and travel influencers we tend to think of the practice as a personal reboot, a self-imposed extended, sweaty therapy session that leads to the authentic and better self. Alternatively, we conjure notions of stoic devotees preserving ancient traditions. But in Mexico a small subset of Catholics numbering the millions embrace pilgrimage as a lifelong practice knit into the complexities of their hectic modern lives. Why and how do they sustain this mode to religious devotion at considerable cost and effort? Why does pilgrimage endure, and why is it experiencing something of a renaissance? Edward Wright-Rios (Professor of History, Vanderbilt University) will explore these questions in his talk.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 202. Accessibility Contact: jsisevents@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Geographers in Practice
Join the Department of Geography community for our annual event featuring three alumni sharing their experiences as geographers in practice! From inspiration to impact, these stories highlight their ongoing professional activities, public service and activism.
This event is virtual via Zoom and registration is required. Registration Coming Soon!
Geographers in Practice Panel Discussion Archive.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students. Graduate Students. Alumni. Faculty. Staff.
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM.
Online via Zoom.
Campus and Concert Bands
The Campus Band (Solomon Encina, conductor) and Concert Band (Yuman Wu, conductor) present their Fall Quarter concert.
$10 all tickets.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Meany Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Arts UW Ticket Office at 206-543-4880 or ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. RSVP to Lunch Workshop Series with Josh Sturman
Josh Sturman, UW PHD Student\
The paper and RSVP link will be circulated in advance.
Questions? Reach out to
yvenegas@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Online Meeting Link: https://depts.washington.edu/wisir/events/lunch-workshare-series/. Campus room: The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A. Accessibility Contact: yvenegas@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, November 21, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
Sacred Breath: Indigenous Writing and Storytelling Series
The Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington hosts an annual literary and storytelling series. Sacred Breath features Indigenous writers and storytellers sharing their craft at the beautiful wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House on the UW Seattle campus. Storytelling offers a spiritual connection, a sharing of sacred breath. Literature, similarly, preserves human experience and ideals. Both forms are durable and transmit power that teaches us how to live. Both storytelling and reading aloud can impact audiences through the power of presence, allowing for the experience of the transfer of sacred breath as audiences are immersed in the experience of being inside stories and works of literature.
As the days grow shorter, we gather in for a gathering with friends, family, and community to appreciate some long-form storytelling.
3:00pm Weaving Workshop
4:00pm Storytelling Session 1 with Roger Fernandes and youth storytellers
5:00pm Dinner served
6:00pm Storytelling Session 2 with a special…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Intellectual House (INT). Campus room: Gathering Hall. Accessibility Contact: jedge18@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Special Events.
Friday, November 21, 2025, 3:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit ais.washington.edu. UW Sings
The UW's graduate-student-led choral ensembles—the University Singers, UW Glee, and Treble Choir—present an eclectic end-of-quarter concert.
$10 all tickets.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Meany Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Arts UW Ticket Office at 206-543-4880 or ticket@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Friday, November 21, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Baroque Ensemble
UW music students perform music of the Baroque era under the direction of Tekla Cunningham.
FREE admission.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Music Building (MUS). Campus room: Brechemin Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: (206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Sunday, November 23, 2025, 3:00 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Studio Jazz Ensemble, Modern Band
The Studio Jazz Ensemble performs big band arrangements and repertory selections. The Modern Band performs innovative arrangements of jazz standards, selections from the outer limits of the genre, and new original compositions.
$10 all tickets.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Meany Studio Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: (206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Monday, November 24, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Thanksgiving Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Thursday, November 27, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Native American Heritage Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, November 28, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. UW Gospel Choir
Phyllis Byrdwell leads the UW gospel choir in songs of praise, jubilation, and other expressions of the Gospel tradition.
Tickets: $10.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Meany Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: (206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Monday, December 1, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Liberation Book Club: Protest Music
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.
Percussion Ensemble
The UW Percussion Ensemble (Bonnie Whiting, director) presents its Fall Quarter concert.
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Tickets: $10.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Gerlich Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: (206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. First Wednesday Concert
Students of the UW School of Music perform in this lunchtime concert series co-hosted by UW Music and UW Libraries.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Event Types: Performances.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Chamber Singers and University Chorale: "Courage and Creation"
University Chorale and Chamber Singers offer a concert in celebration of creativity, play, and bold ideas, while honoring the courageous forces that energize artistry, work and life.
$10 all tickets.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Gerlich Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: (206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Economics Prospective Student Info Session
Students who study economics learn to decode the systems that are a part of our everyday lives using models and a variety of social and economic data to analyze how decisions are made, and how limited resources are made, traded, and used.
In this session, students will learn helpful information about the Department of Economics Undergraduate Program and its Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science majors. Students will also have an opportunity to meet with Department of Economics advisers, and get helpful tips on pursuing Economics as a major at the UW.
This session will be offered online, via Zoom, at the following link:Join Zoom Meeting
https://washington.zoom.us/j/98341973783
Meeting ID: 983 4197 3783
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Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98341973783. Accessibility Contact: econadv@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Thursday, December 4, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Chamber Music Showcase
Students of John Popham present a chamber music showcase.
FREE admission.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Music Building (MUS). Campus room: Brechemin Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: (206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Thursday, December 4, 2025, 5:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Brechemin Piano Series
UW keyboard students perform music from the piano repertoire.
FREE admission.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Music Building (MUS). Campus room: Brechemin Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: dos@uw.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Thursday, December 4, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band: "A Carnival of Animals"
The Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band (Erin Bodnar, director) present "A Carnival of Animals," featuring music by Viet Cuong, Karel Husa, Ryan George, Holly Harrison, Robert Cichy, Jodie Blackshaw, Nubia Donjuan, and others.
Tickets: $10.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Meany Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: (206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Thursday, December 4, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. RSVP to Lunch Workshop Series with Dr. Noga Rotem
Dr. Noga Rotem, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington
Our Lunch Workshare Series (formerly known as our Brown Bag Series) consists of discussions of work in progress by University of Washington graduate students and faculty.
The paper and RSVP link will be circulated in advance.
Questions? Reach out to yvenegas@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A. Accessibility Contact: yvenegas@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, December 5, 2025, 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM.
For more info visit depts.washington.edu. UW Symphony: "Winter Sky"
David Alexander Rahbee and the UW Symphony present "Winter Sky," a program of music by Saariaho, Sibelius, Humperdinck, Tchaikovsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov.
Program, Kaija Saariaho: Ciel d’hiver (Winter Sky)
Sibelius: Symphony No.6 in D minor, op.104
Humperdinck: Prelude to Hänsel und Gretel
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Suite No.1, op.71a
Rimsky-Korsakov: Dance of the Tumblers from The Snow Maiden
Tickets: $10.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Meany Hall (MNY). Campus room: Meany Theater. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: (206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Friday, December 5, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Composition Studio
Emerging and established composers explore unconventional sonic landscapes in this concert of music by students, faculty, alumni, and guests of the UW Composition program.
FREE admission.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Music Building (MUS). Campus room: Brechemin Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: (206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Saturday, December 6, 2025, 7:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Modern Music Ensemble
The Modern Music Ensemble (Cristina Valdés, director) performs music from the mid-20th century and beyond, including world premieres of works by living composers.
Tickets: FREE.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Music Building (MUS). Campus room: Brechemin Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: (206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu. Event Types: Performances. Facebook: http://facebook.com/UWMusic.
Sunday, December 7, 2025, 4:00 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Emerging Scholars in Communication 2025 Information Session
The Emerging Scholars in Communication Program aims to expand access to graduate education for students, including those impacted by racism and its intersections. The four-week workshop series explores career pathways available to communication PhDs, the nuts and bolts of the application process, and how to flourish in graduate school as an underrepresented student. Participants will also meet current MA/PhD students and faculty to learn about their unique journeys and get answers to questions about everything from how to fund grad school to managing mental health.
Join us on December 11th for an information session to learn more about the Emerging Scholars Program. Registration is required. .
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/QD3tAOJSR7mdBau059WWBw#/registration. Accessibility Contact: comadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Thursday, December 11, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
Economics Prospective Student Info Session
Students who study economics learn to decode the systems that are a part of our everyday lives using models and a variety of social and economic data to analyze how decisions are made, and how limited resources are made, traded, and used.
In this session, students will learn helpful information about the Department of Economics Undergraduate Program and its Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science majors. Students will also have an opportunity to meet with Department of Economics advisers, and get helpful tips on pursuing Economics as a major at the UW.
This session will be offered online, via Zoom, at the following link:Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 929 8589 2517
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Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/92985892517. Accessibility Contact: econadv@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Thursday, December 18, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Christmas Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Thursday, December 25, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. New Year's Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Thursday, January 1, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Economics Prospective Student Info Session
Students who study economics learn to decode the systems that are a part of our everyday lives using models and a variety of social and economic data to analyze how decisions are made, and how limited resources are made, traded, and used.
In this session, students will learn helpful information about the Department of Economics Undergraduate Program and its Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science majors. Students will also have an opportunity to meet with Department of Economics advisers, and get helpful tips on pursuing Economics as a major at the UW.
This session will be offered online, via Zoom, at the following link:Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 983 4197 3783
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Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98341973783. Accessibility Contact: econadv@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Thursday, January 1, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. 2026 Jacob Lawrence Legacy Residency
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.
First Wednesday Concert
Students of the UW School of Music perform in this lunchtime concert series co-hosted by UW Music and UW Libraries.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Event Types: Performances.
Wednesday, January 7, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit music.washington.edu. Liberation Book Club: Liberation as an Intergenerational Project
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.
Economics Prospective Student Info Session
Students who study economics learn to decode the systems that are a part of our everyday lives using models and a variety of social and economic data to analyze how decisions are made, and how limited resources are made, traded, and used.
In this session, students will learn helpful information about the Department of Economics Undergraduate Program and its Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science majors. Students will also have an opportunity to meet with Department of Economics advisers, and get helpful tips on pursuing Economics as a major at the UW.
This session will be offered online, via Zoom, at the following link:Join Zoom Meeting
https://washington.zoom.us/j/92985892517
Meeting ID: 929 8589 2517
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Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/92985892517. Accessibility Contact: econadv@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Thursday, January 15, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, January 19, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu.