Geography Career Support Workshops
Join recent graduates and students nearing graduation for a series of career support workshops this spring! If you are seeking support for your job applications, we are here for you. This is an informal, drop-in space for mutual support and we'll guide our conversations based on your needs!
Career Support on the following Tuesdays: April 23 , May 7 , May 21 , June 4.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: 409. Accessibility Contact: Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students.
Thursday, April 23, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Geography Major Information Session
Join us virtually via Zoom to learn about opportunities and resources in the Department of Geography and how to declare the major! This information session will discuss the general geography major and the geography data science option.
Register for this session!
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students.
Thursday, April 23, 2026, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Online via Zoom.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Geography Colloquium: Gabi Kirk, Cal Poly Humboldt
Cultivating Sustainable Sovereignty: Palestinian Agrarian Lives in Transnational Focus
Palestinian agro-ecological and food systems have changed due to settler colonialism over time, and Palestinians’ agricultural practices and relationships—their food sovereignty efforts—serve their struggles for cultural and political sovereignty. Furthermore, the struggle for Palestinian food sovereignty has turned global, and has been shaped by both transnational placemaking networks of solidarity and the booms and busts of global capital.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: 304. Accessibility Contact: Erin McElroy, erinmcel@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students. Graduate Students. Faculty. Staff. Alumni.
Friday, April 24, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Geography New Student Orientation (participation required to declare the geography major)
Understand requirements in the geography major, including the data science option, plus get help with next quarter's registration! Students who attend this orientation session will complete the major declaration process. In order to attend, students must follow instructions to Declare the Major in Geography.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: SMI 415C. Accessibility Contact: Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Academics. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students.
Tuesday, April 28, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Geography New Student Orientation (participation required to declare the geography major)
Understand requirements in the geography major, including the data science option, plus get help with next quarter's registration! Students who attend this orientation session will complete the major declaration process. In order to attend, students must follow instructions to Declare the Major in Geography and then register for the orientation session.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Academics. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students.
Thursday, April 30, 2026, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM.
Online via Zoom.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Fire Humanities | Panel Discussion and Storytelling
Registration required.
Doors open at 6pm, light refreshments served
What does it mean to live well as wildfire and smoke season becomes more a part of life in the Pacific Northwest and many other places around the world?
As much as we focus on preparedness and reducing materials that fuel wildfires, we must also reckon with the human dimensions of fire, which shape how we interact with it. “Fire Humanities” is a book project and an emerging field of study that draws on the humanities and arts to center stories, representations, collaborations, and values that promote adaptation, resilience, and justice as we adapt to a world with more fire.
This program will feature a panel discussion with five contributors to the book, who will share their approaches to this emerging field of research. After the panel, you’ll be invited to share your stories of fire and smoke with each other, speak with the panelists, and participate in hands-on activities connected to the Fire Humanities project.
This event is free and…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Burke Memorial-Washington State Museum (BRK). Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, humanities@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, April 30, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit www.burkemuseum.org. Geography Career Support Workshops
Join recent graduates and students nearing graduation for a series of career support workshops this spring! If you are seeking support for your job applications, we are here for you. This is an informal, drop-in space for mutual support and we'll guide our conversations based on your needs!
Career Support on the following Tuesdays: April 23 , May 7 , May 21 , June 4.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: 409. Accessibility Contact: Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students.
Thursday, May 7, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Geography Colloquium: Jessi Quizar, University of Washington Tacoma
Settler Colonialism, Anti-Blackness, and Policing for Land Transfer in Detroit
This talk focuses on the example of a gentrifying Detroit to examine ways that policing has long been used as a tool towards white-settler occupation of land. The talk will consider two Detroit police programs—the Greenlight Surveillance Program and Operation Restore Order—that emerged in the context of massive transfer of land in the city from Black to white hands from 2010-2025. It examines these as rooted in both anti-Black legacies of militarized policing and settler legacies of militarized policing, which have been wielded to displace, remove, and make places hostile for ‘undesirable’ people, to then prepare those places for resettlement.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: 304. Accessibility Contact: Erin McElroy, erinmcel@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students. Graduate Students. Faculty. Staff. Alumni.
Friday, May 15, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Geography Career Support Workshops
Join recent graduates and students nearing graduation for a series of career support workshops this spring! If you are seeking support for your job applications, we are here for you. This is an informal, drop-in space for mutual support and we'll guide our conversations based on your needs!
Career Support on the following Tuesdays: April 23 , May 7 , May 21 , June 4.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: 409. Accessibility Contact: Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students.
Thursday, May 21, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Memorial 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: Spring. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, May 25, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Indigenous Studies Research Symposium
Join us at the Annual Spring Indigenous Studies Research Symposium. Hear from graduate and undergraduate students and Indigenous Knowledge Families as they present their original research in the field of Indigenous Studies.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Intellectual House (INT). Campus room: Gathering Hall. Accessibility Contact: dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Special Events. Conferences.
Friday, May 29, 2026, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Geography Career Support Workshops
Join recent graduates and students nearing graduation for a series of career support workshops this spring! If you are seeking support for your job applications, we are here for you. This is an informal, drop-in space for mutual support and we'll guide our conversations based on your needs!
Career Support on the following Tuesdays: April 23 , May 7 , May 21 , June 4.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: 409. Accessibility Contact: Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students.
Thursday, June 4, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Geography Undergraduate Research Symposium
Each year, the Department of Geography features outstanding undergraduate research projects in the Geography Undergraduate Research Symposium. We look forward to welcoming our student participants as well as audience members from our department community!
Registration coming soon!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: 409. Accessibility Contact: Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Special Events. Student Activities.
Friday, June 5, 2026, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
For more info visit geography.washington.edu. Geography Undergraduate Research Symposium
Each year, the Department of Geography features outstanding undergraduate research projects in the Geography Undergraduate Research Symposium. We look forward to welcoming our student participants as well as audience members from our department community!
Registration coming soon!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: 404. Accessibility Contact: Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Special Events. Student Activities.
Friday, June 5, 2026, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit geography.washington.edu. Juneteenth
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Summer. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, June 19, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Independence Day (Observed)
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Summer. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, July 3, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu.