News from School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Category: Diversity
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
Ursula Valdez Connects Students 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). The article shows...
October 6, 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
Kari Lerum Publishes in The Feminist Wire and Moderates Panel at Sextravaganza
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum published an essay in The 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
Janelle Silva Wins UW Bothell Faculty Leadership Award
IAS faculty member Janelle Silva won the UW Bothell faculty leadership award at the UW Bothell/Cascadia College Women in Leadership conference.
July 9, 2015
IAS faculty members present at the 2015 Teaching and Learning Symposium
IAS faculty members presented at 2015 Teaching and Learning Symposium. Gary Carpenter, Deborah Jacoby, and Julie Shayne all presented in their capacity as Community Based Learning and Research Fellows.
July 9, 2015
Kari Lerum Speaks in London and Publishes in Ms Magazine‘s Blog
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum delivered a paper at the Sexual Cultures 2 conference in London on "Building communities of (im)possibility: transgender sex workers & structural (re)humanization."
July 2, 2015
IAS faculty members play leadership roles in UW Bothell Diversity Week
IAS faculty members played leadership roles in UW Bothell’s Diversity Week. Leslie Ashbaugh, S. Charusheela, and Majd Baniodeh, Program Manager for the Center for University Studies and Programs, co-organized an Interfaith Dialogue.
July 1, 2015
Alka Kurian Talks with Dr. Nitasha Kaul on U-Wave Radio Station
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian hosted writer, scholar, and human rights activist Dr. Nitasha Kaul on the February 24, 2015 edition of her "Voices from the Margins: Conversations with non-mainstream writers and filmmakers" program at the U-Wave radio station.
June 26, 2015
Becky Aanerud, Lauren Lichty, and Julie Shayne present at Sociologists for Women in Society
Becky Aanerud, Lauren Lichty, and Julie Shayne presented at the Sociologists for Women in Society winter meeting in Washington, DC. Shayne organized a session titled “Curricular and Administrative Feminist Activism” where...
June 25, 2015