Office of Global Affairs

Seattle, WA — Pacific Time

This hCalendar-compliant page is optimized for search engines. View this calendar as published at www.washington.edu.

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. Event sponsors: Global Business Center. 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. Event sponsors: Simpson Center, Department of History. Monday, January 12, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.

Virtual Talk | Trump in the World 2.0: The European Partnership in Trade and Security

UW Global Month Join us for a free livestream talk and discussion on The European Partnership in Trade and Security as part of our Trump in the World 2.0 Winter Lecture Series on the international impact of the second Trump presidency. RSVP here for the online link, Featured speakers: Edward Alden, Ambassador (ret.) John Koenig, and Jacqueline Miller (moderator), Moderator: Danny Hoffman, Director of the Jackson School of International Studies and Stanley D. Golub Chair of International Studies Questions? Email jsisevents@uw.edu. Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/Trump-in-World-2026. Campus room: Online. Accessibility Contact: jsisevents@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Lectures/Seminars. Event sponsors: Sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and UW Global at the University of Washington. Monday, January 12, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:20 PM. For more info visit bit.ly.

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.

Active and engaged teaching

UW Global Month This conversation is designed to introduce the core element of active and engaged teaching (see Faculty Code Section 24-32) and showcase instructors who have created active and engaged classes. 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/93274232685. Accessibility Contact: teaching@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Thursday, February 19, 2026, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM. Zoom.