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Early Fall 2026 CHID/JSIS Ecuador Information Session

Learn more about the Early Fall 2026 CHID/JSIS Ecuador program, "Land and Native Knowledge: Agroecology in the Andes and Amazon" This program aims to observe, describe, and analyze agri-food systems based on ancestral knowledge, agroecology and food sovereignty, as well as the resilience that these systems provide in the face of global and local challenges. The program will be based on field visits to different farmers in Andean and Amazonian locations in Ecuador to learn from their traditional farming practices and resilience strategies. https://studyabroad.washington.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=12337. Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/96478425001?pwd=7b3pPRaxyDASrmvQZDbr6EKYSMauGJ.1. Campus room: Password: 332142. Accessibility Contact: lenan22@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Monday, February 2, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.

Information Session: Early Fall 2026 CHID Ghana, "Global Service Learning and the Politics of Help"

Learn more about the Early Fall 2026 CHID Ghana program, "Global Service Learning and the Politics of Help."This program seeks to shift the discourse in a small way by offering students service-learning opportunities in Ghana that are deeply embedded in conversations on identity, power, privilege, access, race, gender, and global ethics. In partnership with two well-established NGOs in Accra, Ghana, this program offers field experience focused on public health, human rights, gender equity, and education. UW students will collaborate with local community members, gain experience in rural contexts, better understand process-oriented ways of change, and consider what social change looks like through different people's eyes. For more information and to open an application, visit https://studyabroad.washington.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=11821. Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/8261550894. Accessibility Contact: lenan22@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Monday, February 2, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.

CHID RSO Meeting

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Campus room: PDL C101. Accessibility Contact: lenan22@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Wednesday, February 4, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.

Information Session: Autumn 2026 CHID Paris study abroad program

Learn more about the Autumn 2026 "CHID Paris: An Imagined Cityscape" program. Co-sponsored by the Department of Landscape Architecture, this program offers students a chance to explore this modern “invention of nature” from three different perspectives—historical-scientific, urban sustainability-public health, and literary-artistic. Each class will focus on a different segment of this trajectory, the late 18th/early 19th century, the later 19th century, and the early to mid-20th century. All three classes will include exploration of Paris’s urban-natural landscapes, its gardens, its museums, and its architecture, as well as literary and visual representations of the shifting imagination of nature. For more information, visit https://studyabroad.washington.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=10484. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Accessibility Contact: lenan22@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Friday, February 6, 2026, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM.

Katz Distinguished Lecture: Emily M. Bender, "Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of "AI": The View from the Humanities"

The production and promotion of so-called "AI" technology involves dehumanization on many fronts: the computational metaphor valorizes one kind of cognitive activity as “intelligence,” devaluing many other aspects of human experience while taking an isolating, individualistic view of agency, ignoring the importance of communities and webs of relationships. Meanwhile, the purpose of humans is framed as being labelers of data or interchangeable machine components. Data collected about people is understood as "ground truth" even while it lies about those people, especially marginalized people. In this talk, Bender will explore these processes of dehumanization and the vital role that the humanities have in resisting these trends by painting a deeper and richer picture of what it is to be human. Emily M. Bender is the Thomas L. and Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Professor in Linguistics and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Computer Science and the Information School at the University of Washington, where she has… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: 210. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center, 206.543.3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.

CHID RSO Meeting

Lecture: Lisa Uperesa, "Embodied Racialization, Mobility, and Cultural Expression: Tracing the Roots of the Modern Polynesian Sports Diaspora"

Athletes with ancestral ties to the Pacific Islands are dominant fixtures in some of the world’s most visible sports and over several generations have produced a modern sports diaspora. Tracing Samoan transnational and diasporic movement along divergent colonial pathways, this talk examines the relationship between embodied experiences of racialization and the emergence of Pacific sports excellence in three settler colonial countries (United States, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Australia). It then considers what recent efforts to mobilize Indigenous practice inside and outside sport tell us about the uses and importance of culture in contemporary sport. Lisa Uperesa (Associate Professor, Asian American Studies, UCLA) works with Pacific communities to understand movement and mobility, and how they shape lives, identities, families, cultures, and futures. Her past research focused on the rise of American football in Samoan communities and the navigation of sport as both labor and tautua (service). Current researc… Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Communications 120. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Event sponsors: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206.543.3920, humanities@uw.edu New Collaborations in Critical Sports Studies, Global Sports Lab, UW Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (UWB) Jackson School of International Studies Diversity Committee. Thursday, February 12, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.

CHID Faculty Meeting

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Campus room: C101. Accessibility Contact: lenan22@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, February 13, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.

Presidents' 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, February 16, 2026. For more info visit www.washington.edu.

CHID RSO Meeting

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Campus room: PDL C101. Accessibility Contact: lenan22@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Wednesday, March 4, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.

CHID RSO Meeting

Digital/Data Humanities Lecture: Tonia Sutherland, "Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife"

In this talk, Resurrecting the Black Body, Sutherland examines the consequences of digitally raising the dead. Attending to the violent deaths of Black Americans–and the records that document them–from slavery through the present, Sutherland explores media evidence, digital acts of remembering, and the rights and desires of humans to be forgotten. Tonia Sutherland is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Development in the School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife (University of California Press, 2023). In addition to being the Founder and Director of PENDULUM and The Black Memory Collective. She also serves as Co-Director of the Community Archives Lab at UCLA and Co-Founder and Co-Director of AfterLab at the University of Washington Information School. Event made possible by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. This event is free and open to the… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Henry Art Gallery (HAG). Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Event sponsors: Simpson Center for the Humanities, simpsoncenter.org, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu Co-sponsored by The Henry Art Gallery and Black Digital Studies in the Age of Techno-Fascism. Thursday, March 12, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM.

Instruction Ends - Winter 2026

Dates of Instruction Instruction ends. Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics. Friday, March 13, 2026. For more info visit www.washington.edu.

Final Examinations - Winter 2026

Dates of Instruction Week of final examinations for winter quarter. Event interval: Ongoing event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics. Saturday, March 14, 2026 – Friday, March 20, 2026. For more info visit www.washington.edu.

CHID RSO Meeting

CHID Faculty Meeting

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Campus room: C101. Accessibility Contact: lenan22@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, March 20, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.

Quarter Break - Spring 2026

Dates of Instruction Break between winter and spring quarters. Event interval: Ongoing event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Spring. Event Types: Academics. Saturday, March 21, 2026 – Sunday, March 29, 2026. For more info visit www.washington.edu.

Instruction Begins - Spring 2026

Dates of Instruction Instruction begins. Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Spring. Event Types: Academics. Monday, March 30, 2026. For more info visit www.washington.edu.

Literary Translator Lecture: Tiffany Tsao, "Beyond Novelty and Exoticism: Taking the Long View in Translating Indonesian Literature "

Tiffany Tsao will discuss the challenges of translating Indonesian literature in the context of a publishing industry that has tended to value Indonesian works more for their “Indonesianness” than their literary value. Catering to a readership interested specifically in the history, culture, and living conditions of Indonesia has some near-term benefits, but does this approach do Indonesian writing a disservice over the long term? She will discuss, more specifically, how this state of affairs has shaped the decisions she has made as a translator – from the works she has chosen to translate, to her approach to the translation process itself. Tiffany Tsao’s translations of Indonesian literature have received the PEN Translation Prize, the Republic of Consciousness Prize, and a longlisting for the International Booker Prize. She is also the author of The Majesties (2018) and But Won’t I Miss Me (2026), and Deputy Editor at the Sydney Review of Books. *author photo by Joy Mei En Lai Generously made possible by… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: 332. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, humanities@uw.edu, 206.543.3920. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Event sponsors: Sponsored by Lee Scheingold; Simpson Center for the Humanities; UW’s Translation Studies Hub; the Department of Asian Languages & Literature; Jackson School of International Studies; Center for Southeast Asia and its Diasporas; Third Place Books. Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM.

Literary Translator Colloquium: Tiffany Tsao, "The Art of Reviewing Translations"

RSVP Required: https://simpsoncenter.org/form/tsao-colloquium The past several years have seen an increase in the literary world’s appetite and appreciation for translated works. But what progress has been made when it comes to reviewing translations as translations? Speaking from both her current position as Deputy Editor at the Sydney Review of Books and as a literary translator who follows with great interest how translations are reviewed, Tiffany Tsao will discuss various patterns (and pitfalls) that reviewers of translated works tend to fall into, and share some ideas for how a reviewer might better engage with a translator’s labor and the “translatedness” of a text. Tiffany Tsao’s translations of Indonesian literature have received the PEN Translation Prize, the Republic of Consciousness Prize, and a longlisting for the International Booker Prize. She is also the author of The Majesties (2018) and But Won’t I Miss Me (2026), and Deputy Editor at the Sydney Review of Books. *author photo by Joy Mei… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 202. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, humanities@uw.edu, 206.543.3920. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Event sponsors: Sponsored by Lee Scheingold; Simpson Center for the Humanities; UW’s Translation Studies Hub; the Department of Asian Languages & Literature; Jackson School of International Studies; Center for Southeast Asia and its Diasporas. Thursday, April 16, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM. For more info visit simpsoncenter.org.

CHID Faculty Meeting

Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: lenan22@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, April 17, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.