IAS faculty receive grant and organize UW Bothell Labor Colloquia Series
IAS faculty members Ching-In Chen, Dan Berger, S. Charusheela, Joseph Ferrare, and Kari Lerum received a grant from the UW Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies. The grants committee noted that “the progress in growing Labor Studies made at UW Bothell was extraordinary in the 2019-2020 academic year, reaching new faculty and audiences both on and off-campus, and we applaud your work!”
One of the public-facing projects of the group is to host a series of labor colloquia series. To date, the colloquia consist of:
Labor in Times of Crisis
Spring 2021
- Mark Nowak on “A People’s History of the Poetry Workshop”
- Brenda Cárdenas on “Writing Working Class Lives”
- UW Bothell Labor Colloquium: Social Reproduction Reimagined with The Feminist Radical Political Economy (FRPE) Collective
- Kale Bantigue Fajardo on “Trans-Waters/Trans-Archipelagic Solidarities, Approaches, and New Directions”
Winter 2021
Autumn 2020
- Dr. Carl Suddler on “Policing Black Youth Through the War on Crime”
- Nicole Porter on “Felon Disenfranchisement: Why Expanding the Vote is Necessary for a Better World”
- Emi Koyama and Tobi Hill-Meyer in a Panel Discussion on “Sex Work Policy Activism: Centering Trans & BIPOC Leadership”
- Oloth Insyxiengmay on “Correctional Industries: Punishment and Profit in Washington Prisons”
Labor in the 21st Century
2019-2020
- Charlotte Garden (Seattle University): “Gig Labor and the Law”
- Sabina Vaught (U of Oklahoma) & Damien Sojourner (UC Irvine): “Forged Together: Labor and the Carceral State Education Project”
- Keith Nitta (UW Bothell) & Jordan Woljter (Law, Economics & Public Policy): “Japanese Teacher Unions”
- Dan Berger (UW Bothell): “Social Movement Unionism from the Grassroots”
- Debbie Carlsen (LGBTQ Allyship) & Ching-In Chen (UW Bothell): “Organizing LGBTQ Workers”
- Emi Koyama (Coalition for Rights and Safety) & Kari Lerum (UW Bothell): “Strategies for supporting Immigrant and survival sex workers”
- Janice Sapigao (Santa Clary County Poet Laureate): “Microchip for Millions”
- Dan Jacoby (UW Bothell): “Undermining Academic Labor”