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 as well as the geography data science option.
Register for this session!
Event interval: Single day event. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students.
Thursday, April 13, 2023, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Online via Zoom.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. 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. Event Types: Information Sessions. Academics. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students.
Monday, April 17, 2023, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
Online via Zoom.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Katz Distinguished Lecture by Christopher Newfield, "The End of a Global Model: Prospects for the North American Public University, 2020-2050"
Register at https://bit.ly/katz-newfield-reg
Many countries around the world have looked to the public universities of the United States and Canada as best-case examples of high-quality mass education. This has become less true after the financial crisis. Why is the contemporary public university struggling both at home and abroad? Christopher Newfield will discuss the external pressures and internal policy failures that have undermined North American public universities in the 21st century, and describe features of a reconstructed public university that would better serve the domestic and global needs of the next thirty years. Dianne Harris (Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences) will introduce the lecture as part of the Dean’s initiative Rethinking the Academy. The lecture will be recorded and added to the Katz Lecture playlist at www.YouTube.com/SimpsonCenter.
Christopher Newfield is Director of Research at the Independent Social Research Foundation (London) and President of the Modern Language…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Online Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/katz-newfield-reg. Campus room: 210. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, April 18, 2023, 6:30 PM – 8:00 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 as well as the geography data science option.
Register for this session!
Event interval: Single day event. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students.
Thursday, April 20, 2023, 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Online via Zoom.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. 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. Event Types: Information Sessions. Academics. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students.
Monday, April 24, 2023, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
Online via Zoom.
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 as well as the geography data science option.
Register for this session!
Event interval: Single day event. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students.
Thursday, April 27, 2023, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
Online via Zoom.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. 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. Event Types: Information Sessions. Academics. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students.
Monday, May 1, 2023, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
Online via Zoom.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Ai-Jen Poo: May Day: Women and Equality
Ai-jen Poo is an award-winning organizer, author, and a leading voice in the women’s movement. She is the President of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Director of Caring Across Generations, Co-Founder of SuperMajority, Co-Host of Sunstorm podcast and a Trustee of the Ford Foundation. Ai-jen is a nationally recognized expert on elder and family care, the future of work, and what’s at stake for women of color. She is the author of the celebrated book, The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America.
As a leading voice in the women’s movement, Ai-Jen Poo will talk about the status of today’s labor movement and its impact on women.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: 120. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Diversity Equity Inclusion.
Monday, May 1, 2023, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Katharina Kehl - Between Homonationalism & Anti-Gender Politics – Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Construction of Swedish Nationhood | A Transcultural Approaches to Europe Event
Register at https://bit.ly/TAE2023
Recent decades have seen an increased mobilization of sexual and reproductive rights in nationalist projects of (non-)belonging across the globe. In this context, Scandinavian countries have often been cast as exceptionally progressive with regard to gender equality and LGBTQ rights. This talk explores discursive constructions of Sweden as a particularly good place to be queer in, and the implications these notions of “gender-exceptional Swedishness” have for the livability of queer lives. It looks at how constructions of Swedishness rely on various notions of dangerous and racialized Others, investigates which subject positions are suggested and experienced as “intelligible” within the context of these constructions, and discusses how such normative grids of intelligibility are negotiated as racialized LGBTQ people challenge and maneuver them.
Katharina Kehl (Gender Studies, Independent Scholar) researches the role played by gender, sexuality, and race in nationalist…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://events.uw.edu/event/5e50c455-e811-42a6-9fb3-79e7b7add46f/summary. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, May 2, 2023, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM.
Zoom, Registration required.
Jamele Watkins, on East German transnational solidarity with Angela Davis | A Transcultural Approaches to Europe event
Register at https://bit.ly/TAE2023
Jamele Watkins (German Studies, University of Minnesota Twin Cities) studies race and gender in Germany in the 20th and 21st Century. Her current book project, Roses for Angela, examines East German transnational solidarity with Angela Davis.
This is part of the colloquium lecture series on Transcultural Approaches to Europe: Specters of Sexual Liberation. This colloquium series advances crucial conversations on world language and literature study on the UW Seattle campus through an interdisciplinary, multi-departmental speaker series focused on issues of race, identity, colonialism, and migration within a broad European context. These trans- or postnational, transcultural, and multilingual approaches to national literatures offer effective frameworks for undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty to grasp the intersectional complexity of power configurations in literary and visual cultures.
Accommodation requests related to a disability or health condition should be…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Online Meeting Link: https://events.uw.edu/event/5e50c455-e811-42a6-9fb3-79e7b7add46f/summary. Campus room: 120. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, May 18, 2023, 4:00 PM – 5:30 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: 2023. Quarter: Spring. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, May 29, 2023.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Geography Undergraduate Research Symposium
This year's Symposium will include three synchronous sessions: Geography RSO Showcase, 10:00-11:00 AM Pacific Time , Live Lightning Talks Session I, 11:15 AM-12:15 PM Pacific Time , Live Lightning Talks Session II, 1:00-2:00 PM Pacific Time, We will also present an asynchronous Symposium Gallery of research submissions. More details forthcoming.
Registration Coming Soon!
Event interval: Single day event. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Special Events. Student Activities.
Friday, June 2, 2023, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
Online on Zoom.
Department of Geography Convocation & Reception
The Department of Geography Convocation Ceremony will be held on Friday, June 9, at 10:30 AM Pacific Time, followed by a reception in Red Square.
Graduates 2022-2023
In early May we will send an email invitation with more details to recent alumni who earned a degree in Autumn 2022 and Winter 2023, and current students who have applied to graduate in Spring 2023 or Summer 2023. Please pay careful attention to your email inbox – and check your SPAM/junk mail folders regularly – to be sure you receive this invitation!
Guest capacity may be limited; please note this is not a ticketed event so graduates are responsible for adhering to capacity limits as indicated in the email invitation.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: Red Square. Event Types: Ceremonies. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students. Graduate Students. Faculty. Staff. Alumni.
Friday, June 9, 2023, 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM.
Juneteenth
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Please check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2023. Quarter: Summer. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, June 19, 2023.
For more info visit www.washington.edu.