STSS Encounters | Fall 2025 Research Mixer
The interdisciplinary STSS community at UW is both unfunded and robust. This fall meeting brings together faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and staff who are curious about and committed to the critical, cultural, historical, and philosophical study of science and technology. The convening is designed to foreground encounters: it will be a space to share what we’re encountering from our various vantage points across UW, with reports from 4S, the First Monday STSS reading group, the certificate, and the undergraduate major. We’ll introduce new students and end with a game to spark discussion of emerging research.
Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNkXAVcaUjV9T1JNfgxMjs8QcgbOSIThqic8eGdTN1KUe35A/viewform.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 202. Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Workshops. Target Audience: STSS faculty, staff, and students from UW Bothell, Seattle, and Tacoma.
Tuesday, November 25, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
First Monday STSS Reading Group [Online]
First Monday STSS is a monthly, participant-led, interdisciplinary reading group for the STSS community. Email organizer at mmjones@uw.edu to be added to the group.
Learn more: https://depts.washington.edu/stsst/first-monday/.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Workshops.
Monday, December 1, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:25 PM.
Signals and Society - Discussion Series
On Monday, December 1 at 5:30 PM, head to Figurehead Brewing in Fremont (3513 Stone Way N, Seattle, WA 98103) for a pint and a conversation with Hansi Singh, CEO of Planette.ai, on technology, power, water, and carbon math.
Signals & Society is an independent, public-facing, traveling series devoted to exploring how technology shapes—and is shaped by—society. The event is public; no registration required. Please share widely with colleagues, students, and friends who might be interested.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Target Audience: Anyone interested in conversations on technology, energy, and the earth.
Monday, December 1, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM.
Course Showcase: Material and Cultural Bias in Algorithmic Systems (HCDE/DXARTS 485)
Join the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering for our end-of-quarter course showcases and view projects by current students. Light refreshments will be provided.
Find additional Autumn 2025 Course Showcases on the HCDE calendar. Material and Cultural Bias in Algorithmic Systems (HCDE/DXARTS 485), Instructors: Daniela Rosner & Afroditi Psarra
Join HCDE and DXARTS for an open course showcase featuring student artworks—spanning sculpture, interactive multimedia, and participatory performance—that explore bias in algorithms.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: McMahon Hall (MCM). Campus room: DxArts gallery, McMahon Hall. Accessibility Contact: hcdehelp@uw.edu. Event Types: Exhibits. Special Events.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 2:30 PM – 4:20 PM.
CANCELLED - Salon | At the Bioethics Table with Implantable Technologies
Join us at the Bioethics Table for a conversation on implantable technologies. Hosted at the Department of Bioethics & Humanities, this Society + Technology at UW salon brings together scholars and students from philosophy, law, science and technology studies, neuroscience, and clinical practice to discuss the stakes, opportunities, and challenges posed by technologies implanted in the body.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Magnuson Health Sciences Center B (HSB). Campus room: A-204. Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, December 4, 2025, 3:30 PM – 6:00 PM.
Course Showcase: Ideation Studio (HCID 511)
The HCDE and UW community is invited to an end-of-quarter course showcase in the Master of Human-Computer Interaction and Design (MHCI+D) program.
Find additional Autumn 2025 Course Showcases on the HCDE calendar. Ideation Studio (HCID 511), Instructors: Julie Kientz & Roark Congdon
View final poster presentations by students completing their first course final projects in the UW MHCI+D program. Projects primarily focus on empathizing, design, and ideation of ideas, on topics ranging from designs supporting young investors, pet adoption matching, adult children of emotionally immature parents, and people looking to connect socially.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: MHCI+D studio: 2nd floor, 45th Street Plaza. Accessibility Contact: hcdehelp@uw.edu. Event Types: Exhibits. Special Events.
Monday, December 8, 2025, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
1100 NE 45th St, Seattle, WA 98105.
Why is tech hard to regulate? A conversation with Ryan Calo
You’re invited to a conversation with Ryan Calo (Law, UW Seattle) about the frictions between law and technology in honor of the launch of his new book, Law & Technology: A Methodical Approach (Oxford University Press), on Monday, December 8, 2025 at 6 PM at Ada’s Technical Books & Café (425 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112).
Why is technology hard to regulate? What can be done about this? Join us for a cool walk-through of a framework to understand and address legal challenges posed by technologies at Seattle’s geekiest bookstore with UW’s leading scholar of technology and law.
No registration required.
Please feel free to share widely with colleagues, students, and friends who
might be interested.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Target Audience: Anyone interested in law and technology.
Monday, December 8, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit www.societyandtechnology.uw.edu. Improving Accessibility in Computing Courses: Open office hours
Drop-in (online via Zoom) office hours for computing instructors to talk through, co-design, or evaluate efforts to make computing course resources more accessible. Potential topics include broad overviews on digital accessibility, discuss auditing and remediation strategies for specific types of content (e.g. PDFs, websites, videos, math, diagrams), or co-develop a plan for implementing accessibility (for example, making a checklist, planning TA or staff trainings, or evaluating automated tools and their shortcomings).
Join the Zoom session during these times:
Thu, Sept 18 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Mon, Oct 6 at 9 - 11 a.m.
Thu, Oct 16 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Mon, Nov 3 at 9 - 11 a.m.
Thu, Nov 20 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Mon, Dec 1 at 9 - 11 a.m.
Thu, Dec 18 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Consultants: Kevin Lin and Matt Wang, Kevin Lin and Matt Wang are both teaching professors at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. They have prior experience in and are happy to consult about web…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98992837185. Accessibility Contact: doit@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Information Sessions. Special Events. Academics. Target Audience: Computing instructors.
Thursday, December 18, 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us.