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CMS Faculty Meeting

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: HUB 238. Accessibility Contact: groening@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Target Audience: CMS Faculty. Friday, February 6, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.

Works in Progress: "Intermedial Promotion and the Monetization of Film History in Disney and Cirque Du Soleil"

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Campus room: Allen Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: groening@uw.edu. Event Types: Conferences. Target Audience: CMS Faculty, CMS Graduate Students. Friday, February 6, 2026, 3:00 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.

Trivia and Games Night

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Oak Hall (OAK). Campus room: Denny Room. Accessibility Contact: groening@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Target Audience: CMS majors, faculty, graduate students. Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM.

Workshop: Paul Vierthaler, "Fine-Tuning Language Models for Humanities Research"

Paul Vierthaler will provide a hands-on workshop introducing how to fine-tune language models and how such approaches may be leveraged in the humanities, in particular in Chinese Studies. Fine-tuning language models consists of adapting pretrained models to specialized tasks instead of training models from scratch, hence using far less data and computing power. This workshop builds on experiments Vierthaler has been conducting in leveraging the fundamentally distinct linguistic registers of fiction and memorials to fine-tune language models that can flexibly identify memorial-like language across hundreds of novels. Paul Vierthaler (Assistant Professor, Princeton University) is a scholar of late Imperial Chinese literature and print history. His current research primarily focuses on historical narratives written in unofficial and fictive genres (e.g. novels, dramas, and unofficial histories). He is also a specialist in the digital humanities, particularly as they apply to Chinese Studies (including natural… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: Communications 202. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Event sponsors: Simpson Center for the Humanities. simpsoncenter.org, schadmin@uw.edu, 206-543-3920. Tateuchi East Asia Library (TEAL) Digital Scholarship Series; Department of Asian Languages & Literature; China Studies Program; Textual & Digital Studies Program; Data Science Minor. Thursday, February 12, 2026, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM.

CMS Faculty Meeting

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: HUB 238. Accessibility Contact: groening@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Target Audience: CMS Faculty. Friday, March 6, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.

Works in Progress

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Campus room: Allen Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: groening@uw.edu. Event Types: Conferences. Target Audience: CMS Faculty, CMS Graduate Students. Friday, March 13, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.

Crisis Alarm: Conversation Across Asian Cinema and Media

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: COM 202 and 204. Accessibility Contact: msiu2@uw.edu. Event Types: Conferences. Monday, March 16, 2026, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.

CMS Faculty Meeting

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Campus room: TBD. Accessibility Contact: groening@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Target Audience: CMS Faculty. Friday, April 3, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM.

Admitted Student Day

Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: groening@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Special Events. Saturday, April 4, 2026.

Screening of "Vulveeta" with filmmakers

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Campus room: Allen Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: groening@uw.edu. Event Types: Screenings. Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.