FIS Faculty Meeting
Agenda:
Announcements, Update regarding office staffing and language cohort , Updates from Humanities Chairs and Directors Meeting and from CAS Chairs and Directors Meeting , Update about 10-year Review and department response, Executive Session.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Campus room: PDL C-242. Accessibility Contact: frenital@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings.
Friday, November 14, 2025, 1:30 PM – 2:30 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. Target Audience: UW Faculty, Students, & Staff.
Friday, November 14, 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 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.
French Language Association of UW (FLA) Meeting
The French Language Assocation (FLA) of UW, the only student-led French club on campus, is holding weekly meetings during fall quarter on Tuesdays from 5:30-6:30pm in THO 335. Join the FLA for French language practice and immersion in all things French culture!
For updates, follow the FLA on Instagram @uw.fla.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: Thomson Hall 335. Accessibility Contact: Sariah Burdett, frenital@uw.edu. Event Types: Student Activities.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM.
Tavola Italiana
Join FIS for the Tavola Italiana!
Featuring games in Italian, snacks, and tea, students can gather to practice Italian with an Italian instructor and meet students with similar interests.
Offered every Wednesday during fall quarter in PDL C-242 (the FIS conference room). If you have any questions or need help navigating Padelford Hall, please email frenital@uw.edu!
Event interval: Ongoing event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Campus room: PDL C-242 (FIS Conference Room). Accessibility Contact: frenital@uw.edu, Sariah Burdett. Event Types: Student Activities.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:20 PM.
UW Italian Club Meeting
The UW Italian Club is holding meetings every Wednesday during fall quarter! Join the student-led club for all things Italian; language practice, Italian culture discussions, food, games, and more.
To stay up to date, follow the UW Italian Club on Instagram @uwital.
Event interval: Ongoing event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: SMI 131. Accessibility Contact: Sariah Burdett, frenital@uw.edu. Event Types: Student Activities.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 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.
French Language Association of UW (FLA) Meeting
The French Language Assocation (FLA) of UW, the only student-led French club on campus, is holding weekly meetings during fall quarter on Tuesdays from 5:30-6:30pm in THO 335. Join the FLA for French language practice and immersion in all things French culture!
For updates, follow the FLA on Instagram @uw.fla.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: Thomson Hall 335. Accessibility Contact: Sariah Burdett, frenital@uw.edu. Event Types: Student Activities.
Tuesday, November 25, 2025, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM.
Tavola Italiana
Join FIS for the Tavola Italiana!
Featuring games in Italian, snacks, and tea, students can gather to practice Italian with an Italian instructor and meet students with similar interests.
Offered every Wednesday during fall quarter in PDL C-242 (the FIS conference room). If you have any questions or need help navigating Padelford Hall, please email frenital@uw.edu!
Event interval: Ongoing event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Campus room: PDL C-242 (FIS Conference Room). Accessibility Contact: frenital@uw.edu, Sariah Burdett. Event Types: Student Activities.
Wednesday, November 26, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:20 PM.
UW Italian Club Meeting
The UW Italian Club is holding meetings every Wednesday during fall quarter! Join the student-led club for all things Italian; language practice, Italian culture discussions, food, games, and more.
To stay up to date, follow the UW Italian Club on Instagram @uwital.
Event interval: Ongoing event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: SMI 131. Accessibility Contact: Sariah Burdett, frenital@uw.edu. Event Types: Student Activities.
Wednesday, November 26, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
French Language Association of UW (FLA) Meeting
The French Language Assocation (FLA) of UW, the only student-led French club on campus, is holding weekly meetings during fall quarter on Tuesdays from 5:30-6:30pm in THO 335. Join the FLA for French language practice and immersion in all things French culture!
For updates, follow the FLA on Instagram @uw.fla.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: Thomson Hall 335. Accessibility Contact: Sariah Burdett, frenital@uw.edu. Event Types: Student Activities.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM.
Tavola Italiana
Join FIS for the Tavola Italiana!
Featuring games in Italian, snacks, and tea, students can gather to practice Italian with an Italian instructor and meet students with similar interests.
Offered every Wednesday during fall quarter in PDL C-242 (the FIS conference room). If you have any questions or need help navigating Padelford Hall, please email frenital@uw.edu!
Event interval: Ongoing event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Campus room: PDL C-242 (FIS Conference Room). Accessibility Contact: frenital@uw.edu, Sariah Burdett. Event Types: Student Activities.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:20 PM.
UW Italian Club Meeting
The UW Italian Club is holding meetings every Wednesday during fall quarter! Join the student-led club for all things Italian; language practice, Italian culture discussions, food, games, and more.
To stay up to date, follow the UW Italian Club on Instagram @uwital.
Event interval: Ongoing event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: SMI 131. Accessibility Contact: Sariah Burdett, frenital@uw.edu. Event Types: Student Activities.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
FIS Faculty Meeting
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Campus room: PDL C-242. Accessibility Contact: frenital@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings.
Friday, December 5, 2025, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM.
Tavola Italiana
Join FIS for the Tavola Italiana!
Featuring games in Italian, snacks, and tea, students can gather to practice Italian with an Italian instructor and meet students with similar interests.
Offered every Wednesday during fall quarter in PDL C-242 (the FIS conference room). If you have any questions or need help navigating Padelford Hall, please email frenital@uw.edu!
Event interval: Ongoing event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Campus room: PDL C-242 (FIS Conference Room). Accessibility Contact: frenital@uw.edu, Sariah Burdett. Event Types: Student Activities.
Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:20 PM.