Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: "Does Authoritarian International Law Shape Public Preferences?"
Jihyeon Bae, UW Ph.D. Student, University of Washington.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A. Accessibility Contact: polisci@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, January 16, 2026, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM.
“The Enduring Dilemma of Managing American High-level Nuclear Waste”
Barry Rabe
Arthur Thurnau Professor Emeritus of Environmental Policy
University of Michigan, Ford School of Public Policy
Non-Resident Senior Fellow in Governance Studies
Brookings Institution.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: Olsen Room (GWN 1A). Accessibility Contact: polisci@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, January 23, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
“Debating Regularization: Media Frames of Immigration Policy in Spain”
Candela Arias Perez, PhD student
University of Washington
“Debating Regularization: Media Frames of Immigration Policy in Spain”
Location: The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A, 1:30-3:00pm.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A, 1:30-3:00pm. Accessibility Contact: jihyeonc@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, January 30, 2026, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit sites.uw.edu. Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: "No Way Out: Governance Fragmentation and the Limits of Financial Statecraft in the Global South"
Aditi Sahasrabuddhe, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Brown University.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A. Accessibility Contact: polisci@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, February 6, 2026, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM.
Katz Distinguished Lecture: Emily M. Bender, "Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of "AI": The View from the Humanities"
The production and promotion of so-called "AI" technology involves dehumanization on many fronts: the computational metaphor valorizes one kind of cognitive activity as “intelligence,” devaluing many other aspects of human experience while taking an isolating, individualistic view of agency, ignoring the importance of communities and webs of relationships. Meanwhile, the purpose of humans is framed as being labelers of data or interchangeable machine components. Data collected about people is understood as "ground truth" even while it lies about those people, especially marginalized people. In this talk, Bender will explore these processes of dehumanization and the vital role that the humanities have in resisting these trends by painting a deeper and richer picture of what it is to be human.
Emily M. Bender is the Thomas L. and Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Professor in Linguistics and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Computer Science and the Information School at the University of Washington, where she has…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: 210. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center, 206.543.3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
“Human-Wildlife Coexistence”
Amanda Stronza
Professor, Associate Department Head for Graduate Programs
Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology
Co-founder of the Applied Biodiversity Science Program
Texas A&M University.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: Olsen Room (GWN 1A). Accessibility Contact: polisci@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, February 20, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
RSVP to Lunch Workshop Series with Yulenni Venegas-Lopez
Yulenni Venegas-Lopez, UW Political Science
Our Lunch Workshare Series (formerly known as our Brown Bag Series) consists of discussions of work in progress by University of Washington graduate students and faculty.
The paper and RSVP link will be circulated in advance.
Questions? Reach out to
yvenegas@uw.edu.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A. Accessibility Contact: polisci@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, February 27, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit depts.washington.edu. Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: "Negotiating Justice and Decarbonization: Community Resistance Dynamics in Emerging and Established Mining Frontiers"
Elizabeth Echavarria, Ph.D. Student, University of Washington.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A. Accessibility Contact: polisci@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, February 27, 2026, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM.
“New Directions for International Law of the Sea”
Elizabeth Mendelhall
Associate Professor, Joint appointment
Department of Marine Affairs; Political Science
University of Rhode Island.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: Olsen Room (GWN 1A). Accessibility Contact: polisci@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, March 6, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
UW International Security Colloquium presenting Jessica Stanton
Jessica Stanton
Associate Professor of Political Science, Temple University.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A. Accessibility Contact: jihyeonc@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, March 6, 2026, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit sites.uw.edu. WISIR and PT Colloqium Present Dr. Cristina Beltrán
Dr. Cristina Beltrán
Associate Professor at New York University.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Gowen Hall (GWN). Campus room: The Olson Room, Gowen Hall 1A. Accessibility Contact: yvenegas@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, March 12, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit depts.washington.edu.