Thanksgiving Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Thursday, November 27, 2025.
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: 2025. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, November 28, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Good Luck Rabbits EP Release and Multilingual Reading
Join GWSS alum and affiliate faculty member Shuxuan Zhou (PhD 2017) for the Good Luck Rabbits EP release show, featuring a multilingual reading and live performance in collaboration with musician Joshua Hou.
This event celebrates the release of Good Luck Rabbits’ first EPs and showcases Zhou’s interdisciplinary creative practice bridging writing, sound, and performance.
💡 Additional Info Open to the public , All ages welcome , Tickets available through The Royal Room.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: 206-906-9920. Event Types: Performances.
Sunday, November 30, 2025, 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM.
The Royal Room.
For more info visit theroyalroomseattle.com. Female Genital Cutting and Marriage in Egypt | Global Africa Transcontinental Seminar
Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Dr. Suzanna Khalifa is an Assistant Professor at Sciences Po. An Invited Researcher at Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and formerly a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University, Dr. Khalifa's research focuses on labour and development Economics, with particular emphasis on the status of women and the level of economic development. She is interested in various forms of violence against women in developing countries, such as domestic violence, excision practices, and the marriage market. Her paper Female Genital Cutting and Bride Price was awarded the European Economic Association (EEA) UniCredit Econ Job Market Best Paper Award 2022, and her paper The Price of Silence: Marriage transfers and women’s attitude toward intimate partner violence was nominated for the Econometrics Society’s Best Paper at the New Delhi Winter School in 2020. Dr. Khalifa holds a PhD in Economics from the Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE) as well as a MSc in…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/XqKEoMLqQ6SP8WJgKhGUYw. Accessibility Contact: sameerai@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, December 4, 2025, 8:00 AM – 9:00 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: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Thursday, December 25, 2025.
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: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Thursday, January 1, 2026.
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: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, January 19, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Book Talk: 'Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-liang' with Nicholas de Villiers
In Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-liang (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), Nicholas de Villiers contends that we need to theorize both queer time and space to understand Taiwan-based director Tsai Ming-liang's cinematic explorations of feeling melancholy, cruisy, and sleepy. Building on those arguments, this presentation starts with a reading of Tsai’s short film It’s a Dream (2007)—set in a movie theater in Malaysia—as a microcosm of Tsai’s themes and motifs of sleep/dreaming, cruising, nostalgia, and the space of the cinema. It then addresses Tsai’s “post-retirement” (after 2013) films and museum installations, including the queer Teddy award-winning digital feature film Days (Rizi, 2020) shot in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Thailand, and the short film The Night (2021) shot in Hong Kong in 2019. Both were featured in the solo exhibition Tsai Ming-liang’s Days at the Museum of National Taipei University of Education (MoNTUE) in 2023, experimenting with "expanded…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://www.youtube.com/@UWTaiwanStudies. Campus room: Thomson Hall 317 and online. Accessibility Contact: Taiwan Studies (taiwanst@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Free and open to the public. Registration COMING SOON.
Thursday, January 22, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Presidents' 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: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, February 16, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu.