News from School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Category: Engagement
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 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
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 Students Map Bothell Communities
IAS Students in Jin-Kyu Jung’s BIS352 “Mapping Communities” class created a number of maps for the City of Bothell in Spring 2015. The 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 Students 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. The aim of the survey was to gather feedback regarding the quality of the publication and to better understand the demographic of its readers. The 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 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
Ben Gardner co-organizes “Extraction, Contention and Development” symposium
IAS faculty member Ben Gardner co-organized a symposium on “Extraction, Contention and Development,” along with colleagues Sunila Kale and Tony Lucero from the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
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