Geography Drop-In Advising
Do you have a quick question about your classes, registration, academic concerns or anything else that’s on your mind? You are very welcome to join us for Drop-In Advising on Zoom or In-Person in SMI 415! Please visit this Zoom link to access Drop-In Advising. One you log into the Zoom session, there will be a link to a Google Form you must complete to sign-in. If this time doesn’t work for you, you can request an advising appointment or email us at geogadv@uw.edu!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Online on Zoom or SMI 415. Accessibility Contact: For access needs accommodation, please contact Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Meetings. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students. Graduate Students.
Thursday, March 12, 2026, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Professional Development for Geographers
Join the Department of Geography Advising team for a series of professional development workshops to prepare for jobs and internships! In this series we'll cover the following topics and connect you with alum mentors to build your professional network. January 15: Networking & Setting Intentions , January 24: Geography Alum Mentorship Meetup (note this is a Saturday, 10:30 AM, on Zoom) , January 29: Finding Good Experiences , February 12: Telling Your Story - Elevator Pitch & Resumes , February 26: Telling Your Story - Cover Letters , March 12: Telling Your Story - Interviews.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: 415C. Accessibility Contact: Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students.
Thursday, March 12, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Digital Humanities Lecture: Tonia Sutherland, "Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife"
RSVP Recommended: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/resurrecting-the-black-body-race-and-the-digital-afterlife-tickets-1981903329209?aff=oddtdtcreator
In this talk, Resurrecting the Black Body, Sutherland examines the consequences of digitally raising the dead. Attending to the violent deaths of Black Americans–and the records that document them–from slavery through the present, Sutherland explores media evidence, digital acts of remembering, and the rights and desires of humans to be forgotten.
Tonia Sutherland is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Development in the School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife (University of California Press, 2023). In addition to being the Founder and Director of PENDULUM and The Black Memory Collective. She also serves as Co-Director of the Community Archives Lab at UCLA and Co-Founder and Co-Director of AfterLab at the University…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Henry Art Gallery (HAG). Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center for the Humanities, 206-543-3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, March 12, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM.
Geography Drop-In Advising
Do you have a quick question about your classes, registration, academic concerns or anything else that’s on your mind? You are very welcome to join us for Drop-In Advising on Zoom or In-Person in SMI 415! Please visit this Zoom link to access Drop-In Advising. One you log into the Zoom session, there will be a link to a Google Form you must complete to sign-in. If this time doesn’t work for you, you can request an advising appointment or email us at geogadv@uw.edu!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Online on Zoom or SMI 415. Accessibility Contact: For access needs accommodation, please contact Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Meetings. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students. Graduate Students.
Thursday, March 19, 2026, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. 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 9, 2026, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Online via Zoom.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Geography Colloquium: Elizabeth Roberts, University of MIchigan
In Praise of Addiction: Dependency in a Damaged World
Taking lessons from her years in Mexico City as well as from addiction researchers, harm reduction activists, and scholars of religion, philosophy, and anthropology, Roberts pays close attention to the external forces that so often fuel the damage of addiction, to share a new understanding of addiction. The adverse health effects brought on by their dependencies on Coca-Cola, processed foods, drugs, and alcohol have more to do with the ongoing effects of the drug war and NAFTA than any personal failings. Taking up this ecological framework, Roberts draws a line between vice that isolates and addiction that connects, a distinction she movingly integrates into her own life and family, making a case for sharing in the pleasures—and suffering—of dependency.
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 17, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 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. 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.
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. 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 – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit geography.washington.edu.