News from the School of IAS
Category: Engagement
Alka Kurian Co-directs the 10th Seattle South Asian Film Festival
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian co-directed the 10th Seattle South Asian Film Festival (SSAFF) October 15 - 25, 2015. Held over five cities in the Greater Seattle area, with nearly 60 films, and 25 invited filmmakers, SSAFF is the biggest and the most diverse film festival of its kind in the US. As part of the festival ...
November 25, 2015
Miriam Bartha and Bruce Burgett discuss public scholarship at Imagining America
IAS Director of Graduate Programs Miriam Bartha and Dean Bruce Burgett ran a workshop with colleagues from the Arts of Citizenship program at the University of Michigan on “Public Scholarship and Graduate Education: Strengthening Connections, Delineating Futures” at the ...
October 22, 2015
IAS Hosts the 2015 Community Research and Action in the West (CRA-W) Conference
IAS faculty members Charlie Collins and Lauren Lichty co-organized the 2015 Community Research and Action in the West (CRA-W) conference, hosted by the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences (IAS) at UW Bothell. Over 100 community engaged social justice scholar-practitioner attended, including ...
October 21, 2015
Ursula Valdez Connects 足彩app哪个是正规的s in Bothell and Peru through Social Media
IAS faculty member Ursula Valdez is featured in a new article prepared by Office of the Provost and IT about her work on the UW-Peru collaboration (Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences course BIS 490). 足彩app哪个是正规的 article shows...
October 6, 2015
Chad Bates Launches Community Talk Show
IAS alum Chad Bates (Global Studies, 2014) recently launched a live talk show and podcast called And...Discuss!? Bates hopes to build a community that engages those that loved learning about and discussing serious issues in college, but don’t have a place to do that after graduation. In their 2nd show,
September 17, 2015
Nafasi Ferrell: Let’s Talk! Race and Class through Hip-Hop and Poetry
Nafasi Ferrell, a second year Master of Arts in Cultural Studies student, developed and facilitated a three-hour workshop at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center with community members of varying ages. Let’s Talk!! Race and Class Through Hip-Hop and Poetry challenged participants to define and redefine their understandings of race and class using the mediums of hip-hop and poetry.
July 23, 2015
IAS 足彩app哪个是正规的s Map Bothell Communities
IAS 足彩app哪个是正规的s in Jin-Kyu Jung’s BIS352 “Mapping Communities” class created a number of maps for the City of Bothell in Spring 2015. 足彩app哪个是正规的 course provides a unique opportunity for students to critically examine the constructions of both “community” and “mapping.” Two students, Jef Song and Sung Chu produced a great video ...
July 14, 2015
IAS 足彩app哪个是正规的s Analyze Demographics of Real Change Readership
IAS students in Charlie Collin’s spring 2015 course BIS 315 "Understanding Statistics" partnered with Real Change to conduct an online questionnaire of Real Change publication readers. 足彩app哪个是正规的 aim of the survey was to gather feedback regarding the quality of the publication and to better understand the demographic of its readers. 足彩app哪个是正规的 findings ...
July 14, 2015
Jill Freidberg, Nia Lam, and Denise Hattwig publish study on the Community Voices Collection
IAS faculty member Jill Freidberg, along with librarian Nia Lam and curator Denise Hattwig, have completed a study based on the Community Voices Collection, an archive of oral histories conducted by - and with - University of Washington Bothell students, staff, faculty, and community members.
July 9, 2015
Kari Lerum Publishes in 足彩app哪个是正规的 Feminist Wire and Moderates Panel at Sextravaganza
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum published an essay in 足彩app哪个是正规的 Feminist Wire entitled “Cisgender FemmeNist reflections on Trans* Justice.” Drawing from personal, cultural, and political reflections the article calls for fans of trans* celebrities to move from adoration to action for trans* justice. Lerum also
July 9, 2015