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/JSIS Summer A 2026 Munich Study Abroad Information Session
Learn more about the Summer A 2026 CHID/JSIS Munich study abroad program, "Mad Kings and Monuments: Identity, Human Rights, and Reckoning in Germany."With a focus on Munich, the Bavarian region of Germany, and Berlin, this program offers place-based historical exploration of social, political, racial, religious, and cultural dimensions of German nation-building before and after the Holocaust. Famous for its picturesque mountains and castles, Bavaria has also been a crucible for wrenching social change, and has fostered nationalist domestic policy and world-views ranging from “Mad” King Ludwig to the Third Reich. Students will learn about the philosophy and practice of eugenics within the German historical context, while touring the actual sites where the policies originated and were put into practice. The program will conclude with a week-long tour of Berlin, where local and national identity through memorials will be explored, contextualized, and compared to memorials dedicated to the victims of National…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3196767735?pwd=TPXrbL8cMsYYbUXJlX7snVTYCqAnkP.1. Campus room: Meeting ID: 319 676 7735 Password: 2zecsY. Accessibility Contact: lenan22@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Friday, January 9, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 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, January 16, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
CHID/JSIS Summer A 2026 Munich Study Abroad Information Session
Learn more about the Summer A 2026 CHID/JSIS Munich study abroad program, "Mad Kings and Monuments: Identity, Human Rights, and Reckoning in Germany."With a focus on Munich, the Bavarian region of Germany, and Berlin, this program offers place-based historical exploration of social, political, racial, religious, and cultural dimensions of German nation-building before and after the Holocaust. Famous for its picturesque mountains and castles, Bavaria has also been a crucible for wrenching social change, and has fostered nationalist domestic policy and world-views ranging from “Mad” King Ludwig to the Third Reich. Students will learn about the philosophy and practice of eugenics within the German historical context, while touring the actual sites where the policies originated and were put into practice. The program will conclude with a week-long tour of Berlin, where local and national identity through memorials will be explored, contextualized, and compared to memorials dedicated to the victims of National…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3196767735?pwd=TPXrbL8cMsYYbUXJlX7snVTYCqAnkP.1. Campus room: Meeting ID: 319 676 7735 Password: 2zecsY. Accessibility Contact: lenan22@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Friday, January 16, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
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. CHID/JSIS Summer A 2026 Munich Study Abroad Information Session
Learn more about the Summer A 2026 CHID/JSIS Munich study abroad program, "Mad Kings and Monuments: Identity, Human Rights, and Reckoning in Germany."With a focus on Munich, the Bavarian region of Germany, and Berlin, this program offers place-based historical exploration of social, political, racial, religious, and cultural dimensions of German nation-building before and after the Holocaust. Famous for its picturesque mountains and castles, Bavaria has also been a crucible for wrenching social change, and has fostered nationalist domestic policy and world-views ranging from “Mad” King Ludwig to the Third Reich. Students will learn about the philosophy and practice of eugenics within the German historical context, while touring the actual sites where the policies originated and were put into practice. The program will conclude with a week-long tour of Berlin, where local and national identity through memorials will be explored, contextualized, and compared to memorials dedicated to the victims of National…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3196767735?pwd=TPXrbL8cMsYYbUXJlX7snVTYCqAnkP.1. Campus room: Meeting ID: 319 676 7735 Password: 2zecsY. Accessibility Contact: lenan22@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Monday, January 26, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 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 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. 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 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.