Global Travel Health and Safety - Travel Registration and Temporary Work Abroad
UW Global Travel Health and Safety will review information about international travel registration as well as provide a brief overview of the revised remote work abroad policy and request process.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VYRrAPfDRX6-tHv_lgWk7Q#/registration. Campus room: Zoom call. Accessibility Contact: Maddie MacMath. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Friday, November 7, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
Zoom.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Sustaining International Research in the Current Changing Landscape (Workshop)
UW Global Month
You are invited to attend a virtual Zoom session titled “Sustaining International Research in the Current Changing Landscape,” hosted by leadership from the Office of Research and the Office of Global Affairs, as part of the Fall 2025 Office of Research Seminar Series.
The goals of this workshop are to outline challenges to research that involve international collaboration in the current funding environment, to confirm the university’s commitment to this work, and to brainstorm ways to enable and support ongoing and new international collaborations. The workshop will include breakout group discussions, including: How might our current international collaborations in education provide opportunities for enabling research collaborations? , What regions of the world are UW researchers most interested in and why? What new partnerships would be most strategic in the current environment? , What do UW researchers need from OGA’s Global Operations Support team for successful international research? Registration is…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: herrerah@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Information Sessions. Target Audience: Researchers, faculty, research administrators.
Friday, November 7, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Zoom.
For more info visit forms.office.com. Translating Enchantment: Journeys of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s (d. 1210) Book of the Hidden Secret
UW Global Month
UW MELC Lecturer Dr. Lillian McCabe's talk is entitled "Translating Enchantment: Journeys of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s (d. 1210) Book of the Hidden Secret"
The Book of the Hidden Secret was an immensely popular text of theoretical and practical magic written by the famed Muslim theologian and philosopher Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 1210).
This talk shows how this text was a site where an Islamic theory of comparative religion was developed, and explores what this work, and translations of it, can tell us about the relationship between religion and magic in Islamic thought, and between enchantment and disenchantment more broadly.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: 317. Accessibility Contact: limccabe@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, November 7, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
Book talk: "Spaces of Creative Resistance"
UW Global Month
This lecture will explore and expand on the newly published “Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in 21st-Century East Asia.” Over the last two decades, social disconnection, increased income disparity, and new burdens have been placed on the young, women’s reproductive labor, and the environment in Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Bringing together a cross-regional interdisciplinary group of scholars, scholar activists, artists, and others, each chapter in the volume focuses on a different form of “creative resistance" in response to these issues.
SPEAKERS
Andrea Gevurtz Arai is a cultural anthropologist of Japan and East Asia and acting assistant professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. She is the editor of “and Editor of Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Project in East Asia.”
Jeff Hou is a professor of architecture at the National University of Singapore. He has worked on projects ranging from…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: Thomson Hall 317. Accessibility Contact: japan@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Free and open to the public.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Indigenous Food Ways and Mental Health
UW Global Month
Join the UW Consortium for Global Mental Health and the Population Health Initiative for a conversation between Dean of the School of Social Work, Michael Spencer and Dr. Emma Elliott on Indigenous Food Ways and Mental Health. They will discuss their research and what they've learned in their work and lives about the ways traditional foods and meal traditions support mental health for indigenous populations. This is a hybrid event, please register, however you plan to attend.
Register: https://bit.ly/4mXQLOv, Dr. Emma Elliott (Cowichan Tribes) is an assistant professor in the Department of Learning Sciences and Human Development in the College of Education at the University of Washington. She holds both a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and a Master of Social Work in Children, Youth, and Families. The interdisciplinary intersections of her research include culture, learning, and human development; land-based and Indigenous methodologies; and trauma, prevention, and recovery among Indigenous children and…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (HRC). Online Meeting Link: http://bit.ly/4pYOe9p. Campus room: HRC 101. Accessibility Contact: lmng@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
Jackson School M.A. Info Session
UW Global Month
Why should you pursue a master's degree in international studies? Learn more about the Jackson School and its master's programs with Graduate Program Adviser Jesús Hidalgo.
More details and registration at bit.ly/4hi8VJi.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/4hi8VJi. Accessibility Contact: jsisma@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Friday, November 14, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Ghazal Celebration: Poetry Readings Across Languages
UW Global Month
This event brings together colleagues and students for a collective celebration of the ghazal, a poetic form that has flourished in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu, and many other languages. Each participant will read one of their favorite ghazals in its original language, followed by a translation into English.
By foregrounding oral recitation and the experience of listening across languages, the gathering highlights the ghazal’s role as a transregional and transhistorical form of poetic expression. Together, we will reflect on the pleasures of sound, the challenges of translation, and the enduring vitality of the ghazal across literary traditions.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Denny Hall (DEN). Campus room: Denny 211. Accessibility Contact: ariafani@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, November 14, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Ladino Day 2025: Sephardic Homelands: Spanish and Portuguese Citizenship and the Question of Belonging Today
UW Global Month
Join us for Ladino Day 2025, featuring speakers Rina Benmayor, Dalia Kandiyoti, Devin Naar, and Isaac Alhadeff for a conversation on “Sephardic Homelands: Spanish and Portuguese Citizenship and the Question of Belonging Today.” The program will be followed by a modest reception featuring Sephardic foods.
Event will be live-streamed. Registration is only required for in-person attendance. View the live-stream here.
This year’s program critically examines the significance of the decision of the Spanish and Portuguese governments–exactly ten years ago in 2015–to offer citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled five centuries ago. The discussion will situate Spain and Portugal’s offers within broader debates about the homelands that Sephardic Jews have claimed as their own over the generations, while also recognizing that millions of people in the world remain stateless today.
Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies and program Chair, Devin E. Naar, will host Professor Emerita Rina…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: Kane Hall 210. Accessibility Contact: jewishst@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Information Sessions. Special Events. Target Audience: Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Sunday, November 16, 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Film Screening and Discussion | Vietnamerica
UW Global Month
Join the Center for Southeast Asia and Its Diasporas (CSEAD) and Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asia (GETSEA) for a simulcast screening of Vietnamerica.
Following the wars in Vietnam, over two million people fled to country with the collapse of the Republic of Vietnam. That exodus, referred to by many as “the boat people” resulted in nearly half dying while in flight, battling the elements, starvation, and pirates.
Vietnamerica follows Master Nguyen Hoa as he returns to former refugee camps in Southeast Asia after three decades abroad to search for the graves of his wife and two children. Having fled Vietnam in 1981 on a boat with his family and friends, Hoa was the only survivor.
Executive Producer Nancy Bui of the Vietnamese Heritage Foundation joins GETSEA and 25 universities across North America to watch Vietnamerica together simultaneously and connect via Zoom for a discussion with the filmmaker about the Vietnamese diaspora, their struggle, and how Master Hoa’s story is a prism to see…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: 317. Accessibility Contact: csead@uw.edu. Event Types: Screenings.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Exquisite Corpus. A Practical Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Creative Expression
UW Global Month
This workshop, led by Laura Luna Castillo (UW, DX Arts), merges computational linguistics and creative experimentation. We will use Python’s Natural Language Toolkit (NTLK) to analyze, deconstruct and algorithmically expand text corpora in a Dadaist spirit. Participants will be guided through hands-on code examples to learn techniques for data augmentation and synthetic data generation. We will explore grammatical patterns, linguistic visualizations and randomization as meaning-making tools that introduce surreal linguistic styles into a corpus, generating endless variations of source texts. This process provides insight into how Large Language Models learn and adapt to linguistic styles, albeit on a much larger scale. Time allowing, we will use our augmented corpus to fine-tune our own, rustic, language model. A laptop is required for this hands-on session.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons. Accessibility Contact: text@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: Faculty and students.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Fair | Foster Undergraduate Study Abroad Fair
UW Global Month
🌍 Foster Undergraduate Study Abroad Fair
Don’t miss this annual drop-in event to explore all the ways you can study abroad through Foster! Meet students who’ve participated in programs across the globe, compare options, and find the best fit for your goals.
📍 Anthony’s Forum (Dempsey Hall, 3rd Floor)
🕧 November 19, 2025 from 12:00 - 1:30pm
🍽️ Free lunch while supplies last
Chat with alumni and inbound exchange students representing programs like Business Italy, ALBA Barcelona, IES Abroad Berlin, Foster Exploration Seminars (Denmark, Australia, Ireland), and the 23+ Foster Exchange & Direct Enroll options. Plus, get expert advice on funding and planning from the UW Study Abroad Office.
This event is open to all UW undergraduate students.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Dempsey Hall (DEM). Campus room: Anthony's Forum (3rd Floor). Accessibility Contact: goabroad@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit foster.uw.edu. Pan-Africanism in Paris: Haiti and the Black Atlantic at the 1900 World’s Fair | Global Africa Transcontinental Seminar Series
UW Global Month
Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Dr. Randolph will present findings from his new article in the Journal of African and African Diasporic Studies (York University, Harriet Tubman Institute) in a special issue emerging from a 2023 conference at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop (Dakar). He offers a close reading of a curious item in the French national archives: a tattered book of lost dreams, featuring blueprints and correspondence honoring Haiti as part of the 1900 exposition universelle. Even with dashed dreams for a pavilion, the plans of Haitian diplomats to (quite literally) step up on the world stage in Paris reverberated across the Black Atlantic.
Article available here: https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.55914/hti.2.1.002
Dr. Matthew (Matt) Alexander Randolph (he/him/his) is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies, in the Department of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. His multilingual and inter-imperial scholarship…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/qyqcu3-nTT6HYjD_MK-KUg. Accessibility Contact: sameerai@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM.
Rising Tide: Women Making Waves in the Startup World
UW Global Month
Rising Tide: Women Making Waves in the Startup World is the Buerk Center's Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership program (WE Lead)'s annual celebration of entrepreneurial women across the Pacific Northwest who are creating impact and making change in their communities. Rising Tide is also a celebration of Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, where we'll build community among entrepreneurial leaders, problem solvers, intrapreneurs, and creative minds from on and off campus.
Women rise to their potential by growing their leadership and by making their dreams a reality, in community with other women. Together, we work to lift up the next generation of women leaders to make us all stronger—“a rising tide lifts all boats.”
You will be joined for lunch by other students, as well as special guests - dynamic professional women from a multitude of industries, all with their own stories to share. In addition, we'll have activities to inspire connection and conversation, special guest speakers, and more!
All are welcome…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: HUB South Ballroom, 211B. Accessibility Contact: Jenny Forbes. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Lectures/Seminars. Special Events.
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit washington.startuptree.co. Fostering intellectual humility in students
UW Global Month
This session examines the role of intellectual humility in learning, its effects on well-being, and tactics for fostering it in the classroom.
The University is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education, and employment for individuals with disabilities. This event will include live-captioning services. If you need additional disability accommodations, please reach out to the UW Disability Services Office (DSO). When contacting DSO at dso@uw.edu, please share the event details listed in the event registration form.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/91845938563. Accessibility Contact: teaching@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Zoom.
Pilgrimage in Mexico: A Dynamic Tradition: a Talk by Edward Wright-Ríos
UW Global Month
From a distance nearly all of us misunderstand pilgrimage. Influenced by movies, memoirs, and travel influencers we tend to think of the practice as a personal reboot, a self-imposed extended, sweaty therapy session that leads to the authentic and better self. Alternatively, we conjure notions of stoic devotees preserving ancient traditions. But in Mexico a small subset of Catholics numbering the millions embrace pilgrimage as a lifelong practice knit into the complexities of their hectic modern lives. Why and how do they sustain this mode to religious devotion at considerable cost and effort? Why does pilgrimage endure, and why is it experiencing something of a renaissance? Edward Wright-Rios (Professor of History, Vanderbilt University) will explore these questions in his talk.
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Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 202. Accessibility Contact: jsisevents@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Geographers in Practice
UW Global Month
Join the Department of Geography community for our annual event featuring three alumni sharing their experiences as geographers in practice! From inspiration to impact, these stories highlight their ongoing professional activities, public service and activism.
This event is virtual via Zoom and registration is required. Register Now!
Geographers in Practice Panel Discussion Archive.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Nell Gross, ngross@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students. Graduate Students. Alumni. Faculty. Staff.
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM.
Online via Zoom.
Making your syllabus accessible
UW Global Month
This information session will demonstrate basic skills associated with building a syllabus that complies with the updated Americans with Disability Act (ADA) digital accessibility standards.
The University is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education, and employment for individuals with disabilities. This event will include live-captioning services. If you need additional disability accommodations, please reach out to the UW Disability Services Office (DSO). When contacting DSO at dso@uw.edu, please share the event details listed in the event registration form.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/93914749093. Accessibility Contact: teaching@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM.
Zoom.
Info Session (Virtual) | Foster Undergraduate Study Abroad
UW Global Month
🌐 Foster Study Abroad Info Session (via Zoom!)
Whether you're a first-year or senior, there are global opportunities waiting for you and you can even go abroad more than once. Learn about business-focused programs and start planning your international experience.
📅 December 2 | 🕧 1:30 PM | 📍 Zoom link sent in reminder emails
This event is open to all UW undergraduate students.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Zoom link sent in reminder emails. Accessibility Contact: goabroad@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM.
Zoom.
For more info visit foster.uw.edu. Get more out of student course evaluations with Form T
UW Global Month
This information session is designed to orient instructors to Form T, a new student course evaluation form aligned to UW’s new core elements of effective teaching (Faculty Code Section 24-32). The session will highlight how the form is designed to provide instructors with better feedback on their teaching.
The University is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education, and employment for individuals with disabilities. This event will include live-captioning services. If you need additional disability accommodations, please reach out to the UW Disability Services Office (DSO). When contacting DSO at dso@uw.edu, please share the event details listed in the event registration form.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/95590787894. Accessibility Contact: teaching@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Thursday, December 4, 2025, 2:30 PM – 3:15 PM.
Zoom.
Futurisms and the African Now: Tech for Development and Democracy
UW Global Month
Free and open to the public. Registration required.
In this talk, Dr. Reginold Royston will discuss technology and role of Pan-Africanism in the fields of international development, diaspora and politics in Ghana and beyond. Royston's new book Pan-African Futurism examines the state of IT for development work in this critical moment of "post-aid” drawing from his ethnographic research with programmers, artists and entrepreneurs on the continent since 2010. The book charts the explosion of mobile Internet across Africa during the early 2000s, growing interest in African tech entrepreneurship as a development driver, and the flowering of digital diasporas in the time since, especially in the creative fields of Nollywood and AfroBeats. Royston describes how Ghana's Pan-African futurists advocate entrepreneurship and civil society activism as a means of “hacking” the kinds of socio-economic development work that has long been advocated by NGOs. He will discuss how the controversial ideas of Afropolitanism and…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/qTu1SkvcSo26UKakcllYDw. Accessibility Contact: sameerai@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, January 12, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
Harnessing accessibility checker tools
UW Global Month
This information session will demonstrate basic skills associated with using accessibility checkers to assess whether course materials comply with the updated Americans with Disability Act (ADA) digital accessibility standards.
The University is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education, and employment for individuals with disabilities. This event will include live-captioning services. If you need additional disability accommodations, please reach out to the UW Disability Services Office (DSO). When contacting DSO at dso@uw.edu, please share the event details listed in the event registration form.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/99118879215. Accessibility Contact: teaching@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Thursday, January 22, 2026, 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM.
Zoom.
Enhancing collegiality in the classroom
UW Global Month
This session will share tools, practices, and strategies to enhance and deepen collegiality with and among students.
The University is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education, and employment for individuals with disabilities. This event will include live-captioning services. If you need additional disability accommodations, please reach out to the UW Disability Services Office (DSO). When contacting DSO at dso@uw.edu, please share the event details listed in the event registration form.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98769112197. Accessibility Contact: teaching@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Thursday, February 5, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Zoom.