Career Exploration Workshops
This series takes place on Tuesdays, October 13-December 1. Students are welcome to drop-in and will benefit most from attending all workshops consistently.
Reflect on past experiences and identify your skills and strengths to find your path forward in geography. Alum networking and career exploration activities help students develop resilience and build community while making connections between college and career.
Learning Goals:Understand how the study of geography is beneficial to your academic and professional goals. Create meaningful connections with fellow students, alumni, faculty and staff in the Department of Geography. Envision a pathway from college to career. Identify strategies for accomplishing your goals. Unit 1: What Is a Career?
In this unit, we will start the course by becoming familiar with what is meant by “career,” and approaches to prepare for career possibilities. We will also begin to get to know each other and set up expectations for the rest of the quarter.
Unit 2: What…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: 415C. Accessibility Contact: Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students.
Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM.
Sacred Breath: Indigenous Writing and Storytelling Series
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Thursday, November 19th, 5:00-7:30pm at wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House
The Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington hosts an annual literary and storytelling series. Sacred Breath features Indigenous writers and storytellers sharing their craft at the beautiful wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House on the UW Seattle campus. Storytelling offers a spiritual connection, a sharing of sacred breath. Literature, similarly, preserves human experience and ideals. Both forms are durable and transmit power that teaches us how to live. Both storytelling and reading aloud can impact audiences through the power of presence, allowing for the experience of the transfer of sacred breath as audiences are immersed in the experience of being inside stories and works of literature.
Free and open to the public. Doors open at 4:30pm with light refreshments. Event begins at 5pm with readings from Simon Ortiz and Sara Marie Ortiz, followed by audience Q&A. Event is free, but reservations are…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Intellectual House (INT). Campus room: Gathering Hall. Accessibility Contact: jedge18@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Performances. Special Events. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AIS.department.
Thursday, November 19, 2026, 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM.
For more info visit events.uw.edu. Smith Hall Pizza Party: Geographers in Practice
Join us in Smith Hall to watch the online Geographers in Practice panel discussion! Meet up with students, faculty and staff in the Department of Geography for pizza & snacks - and get ready to submit your questions to our alum panelists during the audience Q&A!
Find more information about Geographers in Practice and sign up now to request your pizza preferences!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: 411. Accessibility Contact: Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Screenings. Special Events. Student Activities. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students. Graduate Students. Faculty. Staff.
Thursday, November 19, 2026, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
Geographers in Practice
Join the Department of Geography community for our annual event featuring three alumni sharing their experiences as geographers in practice! From inspiration to impact, these stories highlight their ongoing professional activities, public service and activism.
This event is virtual via Zoom and registration is required. Register Now! Geographers in Practice Panel Discussion Archive.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students. Graduate Students. Alumni. Faculty. Staff.
Thursday, November 19, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM.
Online via Zoom.
For more info visit events.uw.edu. GEOGRAPHY COLLOQUIUM: Dr. Sofia Zaragocin
Decolonial Feminist Geographies in Praxis: Galápagos and the Latin American Pacific
This talk explores what decolonial feminist geography looks like in praxis from the Galápagos Islands. Drawing on collaborative work with feminist and gender-diverse groups, I bring island feminism into conversation with Latin American feminist political ecology to examine and challenge patriarchal forms of conservation. I focus particularly on community peer review as a feminist practice that questions who produces, validates, and circulates knowledge about islands and conservation. Through feminist organizing and collaborative knowledge production in Galápagos, I consider how decolonial feminist geographical praxis can unsettle dominant conservation practices and contribute to feminist geographies of the Latin American Pacific.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: SMI 304. Accessibility Contact: lohata@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students. Graduate Students. Faculty.
Friday, November 20, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 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: 2026. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Thursday, November 26, 2026.
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: 2026. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, November 27, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Career Exploration Workshops
This series takes place on Tuesdays, October 13-December 1. Students are welcome to drop-in and will benefit most from attending all workshops consistently.
Reflect on past experiences and identify your skills and strengths to find your path forward in geography. Alum networking and career exploration activities help students develop resilience and build community while making connections between college and career.
Learning Goals:Understand how the study of geography is beneficial to your academic and professional goals. Create meaningful connections with fellow students, alumni, faculty and staff in the Department of Geography. Envision a pathway from college to career. Identify strategies for accomplishing your goals. Unit 1: What Is a Career?
In this unit, we will start the course by becoming familiar with what is meant by “career,” and approaches to prepare for career possibilities. We will also begin to get to know each other and set up expectations for the rest of the quarter.
Unit 2: What…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: 415C. Accessibility Contact: Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students.
Tuesday, December 1, 2026, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM.
Career Exploration Workshops
This series takes place on Tuesdays, October 13-December 1. Students are welcome to drop-in and will benefit most from attending all workshops consistently.
Reflect on past experiences and identify your skills and strengths to find your path forward in geography. Alum networking and career exploration activities help students develop resilience and build community while making connections between college and career.
Learning Goals:Understand how the study of geography is beneficial to your academic and professional goals. Create meaningful connections with fellow students, alumni, faculty and staff in the Department of Geography. Envision a pathway from college to career. Identify strategies for accomplishing your goals. Unit 1: What Is a Career?
In this unit, we will start the course by becoming familiar with what is meant by “career,” and approaches to prepare for career possibilities. We will also begin to get to know each other and set up expectations for the rest of the quarter.
Unit 2: What…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: 415C. Accessibility Contact: Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students.
Tuesday, December 8, 2026, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM.
Christmas Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2027. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, December 25, 2026.
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: 2027. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, January 1, 2027.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. 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: 2027. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, January 18, 2027.
For more info visit www.washington.edu.