Info Session | Foster Undergraduate Study Abroad 101 - Week of Welcome (WoW) Event
UW Global Month
🌐 Foster Study Abroad 101: Info Session + Free Lunch
Kick off the school year by discovering how you can study abroad through Foster! 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, meet Foster Study Abroad Advisers, and start planning your international experience.
📅 September 25 | 🕧 12:30 PM | 📍 Deloitte Commons (PCAR 299)
🍽️ Free lunch provided! This event is open to all UW undergraduate students.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: PACCAR Hall (PCAR). Campus room: Deloitte Commons (Room 299). Accessibility Contact: goabroad@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM.
For more info visit foster.uw.edu. WORKSHOP|Dangerous Subjects: Immigration Bureaucracy as a Game
UW Global Month
In this work-in-progress, Juan Llamas-Rodriguez (Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania) investigates the complexity and opacity of immigration policy and bureaucracy as game-like structures. Llamas-Rodriguez analyzes The Green Card Game, a browser-based game that simulates the avenues available to achieve permanent residence status in the United States, to argue against the reactionary talking point that it is easy or simple for potential migrants to “immigrate the right way.” In contrast to most other migration games, The Green Card Game is not concerned with building sympathy for migrants but with critiquing the purposely obtuse and nearly intractable system of U.S. immigration. What are the affordances and limitations to this approach towards gaming immigration bureaucracy? How do the game’s mechanics and intended rhetoric contend with the mundaneness of paperwork itself? Through a detailed examination of this case study, Llamas-Rodriguez explores what it means to model bureaucrac…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thomson Hall (THO). Campus room: 317. Accessibility Contact: jsisevents@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership (WE Lead) Cohort Info Session
UW Global Month
The Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership (WE Lead) Cohort is an annual program for the most highly engaged entrepreneurial student leaders on campus. If you wish to invest more deeply in your growth, leadership, connections, and innovation journey during this academic year, this is for you!
Join an info session to learn more about the cohort, application process, and cohort experience (in person on 10/1, virtually 10/10 or 10/13) and bring your questions! We'll have a brief presentation followed by open time for Q+A.
Key Dates & Deadlines:
Application Opens: Thursday, October 10th
Application Deadline: 12pm (noon) on Monday, October 20th
Information Sessions: October 1st (in person) , October 10th (virtual) , October 13th (virtual), Who is Eligible to Apply?
WE Lead, and the WE Lead Cohort, is open to women, non-binary students, and allies across the gender spectrum who are comfortable in spaces that center the experiences of women and their intersecting marginalized identities. Members of the WE Lead…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Founders Hall (FNDR). Campus room: Founders Hall 490. Accessibility Contact: Winona Kantamaneni. Event Types: Student Activities. Diversity Equity Inclusion. Information Sessions.
Wednesday, October 1, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit washington.startuptree.co. Overview: Competing for Limited Submission Opportunities (LSOs)
UW Global Month
UW Faculty are invited to attend a virtual Zoom session titled “Overview: Competing for Limited Submission Opportunities (LSOs)” hosted by Cecilia Giachelli, Associate Vice Provost for Research, and Lene Hansen, Director of Foundation Relations, as part of the Fall 2025 Office of Research Seminar Series.
This session will provide an overview of how LSOs are managed at the University of Washington and offer tips for navigating the internal application process.
Register by Friday, September 26
Session Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Time: 12:00–1:00 PM Pacific Time
Location: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be sent upon registration).
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: herrerah@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: Faculty.
Wednesday, October 1, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Zoom.
For more info visit urldefense.com. Info-Session | Honors Rome: The Global Refugee Crisis (Spring 2026)
Information Session for Honors Rome: The Global Refugee Crisis - From devastation to diaspora, the physical, mental, and cultural challenges of refugee migration (Spring 2026).
- Zoom Link.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/6862715812?omn=98875709747. Campus room: zoom. Accessibility Contact: jacksonc@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Wednesday, October 1, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
For more info visit studyabroad.washington.edu. Media, Race, and the Sudanese Civil War | Global Africa Transcontinental Seminar Series
UW Global Month
Free and open to the public. Registration required.
In April 2023, fighting broke out in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces. In the ongoing conflict, thousands have been killed, millions displaced, and millions more require urgent humanitarian assistance. In the midst of it all, another element has become a focal part of this trauma: the media. In this talk, Dr. Christopher Tounsel (University of Washington) will discuss the war's historical background, address why Western media has been comparatively silent in its coverage, and show how one community’s response to the conflict sheds light on the intersections of race, media, and the African Diaspora.
Christopher Tounsel is Director of African Studies and associate professor of history at the University of Washington. An historian of the Sudan, Tounsel is the author of Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan and Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity.…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/_gPv-u36Th2F8qCyZRMsMQ. Accessibility Contact: africa1@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, October 2, 2025, 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM.
Online via Zoom.
Info Session | Business London and Paris - Spring Break 2026
UW Global Month
🌍 Info Session: London & Paris Spring Break Program
Curious about launching your global career in two of Europe’s most iconic cities? Join Foster Career Services to learn about the London & Paris Spring Break Program, an immersive trek featuring company visits, alumni networking, and firsthand insight into international business culture.
📅 October 2 | 🕧 12:30 PM | 📍 Founders Hall 293, Applications are due October 20, 2025: https://studyabroad.washington.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=11782.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Founders Hall (FNDR). Campus room: 293. Accessibility Contact: goabroad@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Thursday, October 2, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM.
Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership (WE Lead) Cohort Info Session
UW Global Month
The Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership (WE Lead) Cohort is an annual program for the most highly engaged entrepreneurial student leaders on campus. If you wish to invest more deeply in your growth, leadership, connections, and innovation journey during this academic year, this is for you!
Join an info session to learn more about the cohort, application process, and cohort experience (in person on 10/1, virtually 10/10 or 10/13) and bring your questions! We'll have a brief presentation followed by open time for Q+A. RSVP to receive Zoom link (provided within 24h of event). Key Dates & Deadlines:
Application Opens: Thursday, October 10th
Application Deadline: 12pm (noon) on Monday, October 20th
Information Sessions: October 1st (in person) , October 10th (virtual) , October 13th (virtual), Who is Eligible to Apply?
WE Lead, and the WE Lead Cohort, is open to women, non-binary students, and allies across the gender spectrum who are comfortable in spaces that center the experiences of women and their…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Virtual (RSVP for Zoom link). Accessibility Contact: Winona Kantamaneni. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Information Sessions. Student Activities.
Friday, October 10, 2025, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM.
For more info visit washington.startuptree.co. Film Screening | Farming the Revolution
UW Global Month
Free and open to the public. Registration advised.
Please join the South Asia Center and Tasveer Film Festival for a screening and discussion of Farming the Revolution (1hr 45min, India, 2024, Nishtha Jain).
In November 2020, Gurbaz Sangha, a young farmer from Punjab, embarked on a remarkable journey. Riding his tractor for 400 kilometres to Delhi, he joined forces with thousands, and later more than half a million, men and women from diverse backgrounds. Their united mission: to stand against the newly enacted Farm Laws, despite widespread opposition. Amid a COVID lockdown, these farmers-representing over half of India's workforce-vowed to remain at the borders until the laws were repealed. In this parallel world, they redefined co-existence, with women emerging as equal political partners rather than mere supporting characters. Day after day, the protesters showcased India's pluralistic, defiant and resilient spirit-often overlooked by the media. As the movement gained momentum, farmers across the country…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Allen Library (ALB). Campus room: Allen Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: sascuw@uw.edu. Event Types: Screenings. Special Events.
Friday, October 10, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
Making slide decks accessible
UW Global Month
This information session will demonstrate basic skills associated with building slide decks that 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/93748463437. Accessibility Contact: teaching@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM.
Zoom.
Info Session | Business London and Paris - Spring Break 2026
UW Global Month
🌍 Info Session: London & Paris Spring Break Program
Curious about launching your global career in two of Europe’s most iconic cities? Join Foster Career Services to learn about the London & Paris Spring Break Program, an immersive trek featuring company visits, alumni networking, and firsthand insight into international business culture.
📅 October 15 | 🕧 12:30 PM | 📍 Founders Hall 559, Applications are due October 20, 2025: https://studyabroad.washington.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=11782.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Founders Hall (FNDR). Campus room: 559. Accessibility Contact: goabroad@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM.
Thrive Together: WE Lead Mentoring Circle
UW Global Month
Mentorship is a key driver of success, and can support us at any stage of our professional lives. There is ample research showing that having a mentor or a sponsor can help you land raises, promotions, stretch assignments, and more. Mentoring is not only a critical source of professional and leadership development, it is key for closing the gender gap in pay equity, representation on boards and in the C-suite, and more.
Join WE Lead's Mentoring Circle and develop connections on and off campus, be part of a forum for group learning and conversation, and develop professional skills to support you in navigating the next steps of your career.
What to expect: Mentors are entrepreneurial women from varied industries , You'll be matched with up to 4 mentors during this event in two "circles" shared with peers from across campus , When registering, you are committing to attending the full event , Ample snacks and beverages will be provided! Who should attend?
This event is for any currently enrolled UW student…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: HUB 332. Accessibility Contact: Winona Kantamaneni. Event Types: Special Events.
Friday, October 17, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit washington.startuptree.co. Aligning your course
UW Global Month
This conversation is designed to introduce the core element of alignment (see Faculty Code Section 24-32) and showcase instructors who have aligned 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/91970716295. Accessibility Contact: teaching@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Zoom.
Info-Session | Honors Rome: The Global Refugee Crisis (Spring 2026)
Information Session for Honors Rome: The Global Refugee Crisis - From devastation to diaspora, the physical, mental, and cultural challenges of refugee migration (Spring 2026).
10/22 Info-Session Zoom Link.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/6862715812?omn=99186669532. Campus room: zoom. Accessibility Contact: jacksonc@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit studyabroad.washington.edu. Book Launch - Gilah Kletenik' "Sovereignty Disrupted: Spinoza and the Disparity of Reality"
UW Global Month
Please join the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies as we celebrate the recent publication of Hazel D. Cole Fellow Gilah Kletenik’s new book, "Sovereignty Disrupted: Spinoza and the Disparity of Reality."
In it, Kletenik takes a dazzlingly fresh reading of Spinoza’s Ethics, thinking with Spinoza to present an alternative to dominant “Western” theories about the nature of reality, the promise of reason, and the status of humans.
Kletenik will be joined by Stroum Center Director Noam Pianko to discuss the book, share how Jewish philosophy can be applied in this moment, and answer questions. Light refreshments will be provided before the talk and the book will be available for purchase.
"It is rare to find a thorough and compelling reading of a great philosophical classic, Spinoza's Ethics, that upends some of the central presumptions about sovereignty that have populated standard readings for many years. Kletenik shows that sovereign rule functions neither as a political form nor as a model of conceptual maste…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: KNE 225. Accessibility Contact: jewishst@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Special Events. Target Audience: Free and open to the public. Registration Required.
Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM.
Inclusive and equitable teaching
UW Global Month
This conversation is designed to introduce the core element of inclusive and equitable teaching (see Faculty Code Section 24-32) and showcase instructors who use inclusive teaching practices.
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/91766166318. Accessibility Contact: teaching@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Monday, November 3, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
Zoom.
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
Since its inception in 2013, Ladino Day at the University of Washington has become a hallmark of campus and virtual programming where community members, students, faculty, and scholars come together to discuss the past, present, and future of Ladino.
Join us for Ladino Day 2025, featuring speakers Rina Benmayor and Dalia Kandiyoti, and a conversation with Devin Naar, “Sephardic Homelands: Spanish and Portuguese Citizenship and the Question of Belonging Today.” Light refreshments to be provided after the lecture.
Rina Benmayor is Professor Emerita in the School of Humanities and Communication at California State University Monterey Bay, where she taught oral history, literature, digital storytelling, and Latinx studies. She has authored books and articles on these subjects as well as on Sephardic folklore, identity and migration, cultural citizenship, testimonial writing and storytelling. She authored Romances judeo-españoles de Oriente (1979), an original field collection and study of Sephardic romansas…
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.
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.
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.
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. Registration Coming Soon!
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.
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.