LSJ Student Engagement Council Dawg Daze Welcome Event!
We invite new Huskies to join the Law, Societies and Justice (LSJ) Student Engagement Council for an afternoon opportunity to learn more about our department, meet the Student Engagement Councilmembers and get to know some of your fellow students. The LSJ Student Engagement Council is an on-campus registered student organization dedicated to developing programming that enriches the experience of students in our department. We hope you will consider joining us to get your questions about LSJ answered and discover how joining our department may enrich your experience at UW. We hope to see you there!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Smith Hall (SMI). Campus room: SMI M261. Accessibility Contact: Jonathan Fincher. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: New Huskies.
Friday, September 19, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Wetlandia: Analytics for a Global Terraqueous Humanities
Wetlandia is a symposium that attempts to systematically rethink the wetland as an analytic constituted by far more than nature. Often located at ocean/river/land boundaries, wetlands serve as homes to a rich collection of flora, fauna, and people. Salt, sand dunes, mangroves, mud, weeds, and reeds all animate the uncertain wetland environment. Birds, fish, animals, and insects thrive (and die) on wetlands. Wetlands are spaces of economic life, affording people life and livelihood in salt pan development, fishing, hunting, agriculture, and more. At the intersection of this rich physical and social geography, we propose to rethink and reclaim the wetland from a conservationist and statist paradigm, to a political, economic, and historical one. In our symposium, we will convene global wetland scholars to propose four analytical interventions in wetland studies, namely: rethinking the undisciplined wetland; post-colonial/settler politics of the wetland; shifting spatial geographies and temporalities of the wetla…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Campus room: Petersen Room. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center, 206.543.3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Conferences.
Friday, November 21, 2025, 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM.