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Information Session: CHID Prague Spring 2026 study abroad program

Learn more about the Spring 2026 CHID Prague study abroad program, "History, Memory, and Human Rights in Central Europe." The CHID Prague Program, which is one of the oldest study abroad programs at UW (since 1996), offers UW students a unique and specific study abroad opportunity not available elsewhere at UW. The CHID Prague Program is all about immersing yourself in Prague and the other great Central European cities – Vienna, Krakow, Budapest and Berlin, where we will go on 4- or 5-day trips each – in order to develop a complex understanding of the dynamic historical, cultural, and political life of Central Europe as a whole. The program itself is strongly anchored in the philosophy of CHID: it combines academically rigorous seminar-style courses, international field trips aimed at provoking personal reflection and exploration, and cultural events that transform our program into a living community. We focus on key issues that resonate well beyond Central Europe: the tragedy of the Holocaust, the nature and… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/my/nickbarr?pwd=WmIzc2h1L3ljaXpDaUIxMnFpcHVRQT09. Campus room: Padelford C-101. Accessibility Contact: lenan22@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Monday, October 20, 2025, 2:30 PM – 3:30 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. Event sponsors: Simpson Center, 206.543.3920, humanities@uw.edu. Target Audience: UW Graduate Students. Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.

Information Session: Spring Break 2026 CHID Netherlands, "Tolerance, Identity, and Difference in Amsterdam"

Learn more about the Spring Break 2026 CHID Netherlands program, "Tolerance, Identity, and Difference in Amsterdam."  Russell Shorto has called Amsterdam “the world’s most liberal city,” and indeed, the Netherlands is well known for its “tolerant” approaches to drug enforcement, legalized sex work, and gay rights. However, recent events have brought this self-congratulatory attitude into question. In debates over the supposed crises of immigration and multiculturalism, public commentators from across the political spectrum have argued for the limits of tolerance and the need to defend Dutch national identity against intolerant views, especially those allegedly associated with Islam. Large segments of the Dutch populace—and prominent politicians—have expressed fear, revulsion, and anger towards Dutch Muslims, whether recent immigrants or the children or grandchildren of so-called “guest workers” from Morocco and Turkey who helped power the Netherlands’s economic recovery after World War II. Following pre-dep… Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/my/nickbarr?pwd=WmIzc2h1L3ljaXpDaUIxMnFpcHVRQT09. Campus room: Padelford C101. Accessibility Contact: lenan22@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.

Information Session: Spring Break CHID Mexico City, "LGBTQ Communities, Public Health, and Migration in Mexico"

Interested in learning about Mexican LGBTQ activists, organizations, and change-makers? For two weeks, we will learn from our community partners about how a country’s history shapes its LGBTQ communities and what activism and social justice mean to different people. Questions we will engage include: What can we learn from the challenges and successes of LGBTQ communities in Mexico’s capital as people work to mobilize and create change throughout the country? How does the contemporary landscape of migration affect identity issues in Mexico? How do LGBTQ rights intersect with other areas of human rights in the country such as environmental justice, rural issues, women’s rights, access to education, etc.? Our time abroad will consist of active discussions, field excursions, site visits and creative writing opportunities.  For more information and to open an application, visithttps://studyabroad.washington.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=11445. Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/s/94204815788. Accessibility Contact: lenan22@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Thursday, October 23, 2025, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.

Information Session: CHID Prague Spring 2026 study abroad program

Learn more about the Spring 2026 CHID Prague study abroad program, "History, Memory, and Human Rights in Central Europe." The CHID Prague Program, which is one of the oldest study abroad programs at UW (since 1996), offers UW students a unique and specific study abroad opportunity not available elsewhere at UW. The CHID Prague Program is all about immersing yourself in Prague and the other great Central European cities – Vienna, Krakow, Budapest and Berlin, where we will go on 4- or 5-day trips each – in order to develop a complex understanding of the dynamic historical, cultural, and political life of Central Europe as a whole. The program itself is strongly anchored in the philosophy of CHID: it combines academically rigorous seminar-style courses, international field trips aimed at provoking personal reflection and exploration, and cultural events that transform our program into a living community. We focus on key issues that resonate well beyond Central Europe: the tragedy of the Holocaust, the nature and… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/my/nickbarr?pwd=WmIzc2h1L3ljaXpDaUIxMnFpcHVRQT09. Campus room: Padelford C-101. Accessibility Contact: lenan22@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Tuesday, October 28, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

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. Event sponsors: Simpson Center for the Humanities. Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 5:00 PM – 7:00 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. Event sponsors: Simpson Center for the Humanities, https://simpsoncenter.org/, 206.543.3920, humanities@uw.edu. Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 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. Event sponsors: Simpson Center for the Humanities. Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:30 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. Event sponsors: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu. 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. Event sponsors: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu Co-sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies; Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell; and the UW Global Sport Lab. Friday, November 7, 2025, 10:30 AM – 11:50 AM.

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.

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. Event sponsors: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Thursday, November 13, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.

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. Event sponsors: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Target Audience: UW Faculty, Students, & Staff. Friday, November 14, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 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. Event sponsors: Simpson Center for the Humanities, simpsoncenter.com, schadmin@uw.edu, 206.543.3920. Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.

CHID Faculty Meeting

CHID Faculty Meeting  October 17, 2025  1pm-2:30pm Padelford C 101 Agenda 1. Toward the 2026 CHID Self-Study: A Conversation with Deans Harris and Reed (What is the place of CHID in the future of the College of Arts and Sciences?)  2. Announcements/ "House-keeping" Votes  3. Discussion of Diversity Committee Charter (attached) 4. Update and Discussion of "Shared Services". Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Campus room: C101. Accessibility Contact: mdina@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, November 21, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.

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.

Instruction Ends - Autumn 2025

Dates of Instruction Instruction ends. Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics. Friday, December 5, 2025. For more info visit www.washington.edu.

Final Examinations - Autumn 2025

Dates of Instruction Week of final examinations for autumn quarter. Event interval: Ongoing event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics. Saturday, December 6, 2025 – Friday, December 12, 2025. For more info visit www.washington.edu.

Quarter Break - Winter 2026

Dates of Instruction Break between autumn and winter quarters. Event interval: Ongoing event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics. Saturday, December 13, 2025 – Sunday, January 4, 2026. For more info visit www.washington.edu.

CHID Faculty Meeting

CHID Faculty Meeting  October 17, 2025  1pm-2:30pm Padelford C 101 Agenda 1. Toward the 2026 CHID Self-Study: A Conversation with Deans Harris and Reed (What is the place of CHID in the future of the College of Arts and Sciences?)  2. Announcements/ "House-keeping" Votes  3. Discussion of Diversity Committee Charter (attached) 4. Update and Discussion of "Shared Services". Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Campus room: C101. Accessibility Contact: mdina@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, December 19, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.

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.

Instruction Begins - Winter 2026

Dates of Instruction Instruction begins. Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics. Monday, January 5, 2026. For more info visit www.washington.edu.

CHID Faculty Meeting

CHID Faculty Meeting  October 17, 2025  1pm-2:30pm Padelford C 101 Agenda 1. Toward the 2026 CHID Self-Study: A Conversation with Deans Harris and Reed (What is the place of CHID in the future of the College of Arts and Sciences?)  2. Announcements/ "House-keeping" Votes  3. Discussion of Diversity Committee Charter (attached) 4. Update and Discussion of "Shared Services". Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Campus room: C101. Accessibility Contact: mdina@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Friday, January 16, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.