News from the School of IAS

Category: Diversity

IAS faculty and students speak at Allied Media Conference in Detroit

IAS faculty member Scott Kurashige will speak in the Opening Ceremony of the 2017 Allied Media Conference. Kurashige, author of The Fifty Year Rebellion, will ground the work of AMC in the context of Detroit as an international model for survival, resistance, and solidarity.

June 21, 2017

Karen Rosenberg and Julie Shayne speak on a panel in honor of Judy Howard

University of Washington Professor Judy Howard is retiring as Divisional Dean of Social Sciences. On Monday June 5, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the UW Seattle campus hosted a half day conference and reception to honor the career and mentoring of Judy. Included in the program was a panel titled “Feminist Scholarly Mentorship and Publishing,” on which both Karen Rosenberg and Julie Shayne were invited panelists.

June 8, 2017

Jed Murr presents “Whiteness: Seven Frames” and also receives early-career faculty fellowship

IAS faculty member Jed Murr presented a multi-media presentation entitled “Whiteness: Seven Frames” as part of INTERRUPTING WHITENESS, a PechaKucha Night at the Seattle Public Library and on KUOW. The event, featuring Robin DiAngelo, Shelby Handler, Ijeoma Oluo, and other cultural workers and organizers, focused on the necessity for white people to work “with communities of color, to center people of color and be supportive of collective work to end racism and create a deeper collective humanity.” Murr’s talk emphasized ...

June 6, 2017

Naomi Bragin and Jade Power-Sotomayor to host “Improvisational Crossings: Social Dance as Interdisciplinary Intervention”

IAS faculty members Naomi Bragin and Jade Power-Sotomayor, together with Juliet McMains (UW Seattle) have been awarded funding from the Simpson Center to host a public two-day colloquium, “Improvisational Crossings: Social Dance as Interdisciplinary Intervention.” This colloquium will bring together six dance scholar/practitioners from differing disciplinary backgrounds for two days of lectures, workshops, and dialogue that address border crossings through the lens of improvisational social dance. Collectively they will ask ...

June 5, 2017

Book group provides space to engage with human rights issues

This fall, IAS Professor Emeritus Diane Gillespie will facilitate a discussion of the book, However Long the Night, by Aimee Molloy. However Long the Night chronicles the work of Gillespie’s sister, Molly Melching, founder of the Senegal-based community development organization, Tostan. Molloy’s account details Melching's beginnings at the University of Dakar and follows her journey of 40 years in Africa, where she became a social entrepreneur and voice for the rights of girls and women. All are invited to attend ...

May 30, 2017

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies celebrates the end of a wonderful first year!

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) students, staff, and faculty, along with supporters at UW Bothell, gathered for a recognition ceremony last week to celebrate the end of a great first year. The day was dedicated to Dr. Leslie Ashbaugh, beloved colleague who passed away last year. IAS affiliate faculty member Karen Rosenberg shared memories of Leslie, and GWSS faculty coordinator Julie Shayne presented two students with Leslie Ashbaugh Feminist Praxis in Education (LAFPIE) Awards.

May 23, 2017

Activist Kelsen Caldwell enacts social justice in communities and on buses

Alum Kelsen Caldwell (’13, Cultural Studies) continues to expand their horizons and recently became a Housing Justice Organizer with LGBTQ Allyship. In this role, they are helping launch and facilitate the LGBTQ Housing Leadership Institute. Of this endeavor, Kelsen writes, “Housing costs are on the rise, which puts LGBTQ communities at increased risk of homelessness, displacement, and general economic insecurity. The institute is an awesome opportunity to be part of a cohort of emerging housing justice leaders who can build fierce and grounded solutions through organizing with the communities that matter the most.”

May 22, 2017

Martha Groom blogs on ways scientists can support inclusivity

IAS faculty member Martha Groom collaborated with national colleagues to draw attention to the need for diversity in STEM fields. While the April national March for Science highlighted the social importance of supporting scientific research and education, the blog post from the Concerned Scientists' website ...

May 16, 2017

Mira Shimabukuro speaks about her book Relocating Authority: Japanese-Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration

IAS faculty member Mira Shimabukuro spoke twice recently about her book, Relocating Authority: Japanese-Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration. The first was an interview/article published in the journal Discover Nikkei: Japanese Migrants and their Descendants . The second was a talk presented in Los Angeles at the Japanese American National Museum. Both emphasized the ways Japanese Americans used vernacular writing to respond to mass incarceration during World War II and ...

May 15, 2017