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.
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. 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. 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.
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.