News from the School of IAS
Jennifer Atkinson Publishes on the Sustainability of Humanities Education
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson has published "Multi-Sensory Experience and Environmental Encounter: Rethinking the Sustainability of Humanities Education" in Interdisciplinary Environmental Review's Special Issue on Environmental Justice and Sustainability.
October 9, 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
Kristy Leissle Speaks on Social Justice and Chocolate
IAS faculty member Kristy Leissle hosted a talk at the NW Chocolate Festival, as part of the event's two-day Educational Program. Leissle's talk took the format of a live interview with Gillian Goddard of Sun Eater Organics, a chocolate company based in Trinidad and Tobago.
October 5, 2015
Dan Berger Talks on Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
IAS faculty member Dan Berger delivered two talks in California about his award-winning book, Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era. The first event, "Prisoners and Politics: from the San Quentin Six to Pelican Bay," took place as part of Shaping San Francisco, a participatory community history event series.
September 28, 2015
IAS Student Alia Marsha is New Editor-in-Chief of Husky Herald
Senior Alia Marsha (Media and Communication Studies major) will serve as the new Editor-in-Chief of Husky Herald for the 2015-2016 academic year. Husky Herald is the UW Bothell student newspaper, which goes to print monthly, and publishes online as news happens.
September 23, 2015
IAS Students Experience Dance, Healing, and Community-Building
IAS faculty memberCarrie Lanza, Diana Garcia-Snyder, and their students devoted the summer quarter to an exploration of dance as a technology for healing and community building in BISIA 484: Arts Learning in the Community. Students participated in and engaged critically with...
September 23, 2015
Portraits of Refugees by Howard Hsu
IAS faculty member Howard Hsu has published a portrait series of refugees in Germany on Mashable. "The Ones Who Found Refuge" provides views of Europe's migrant crisis through the faces of some of these people.
September 23, 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
Rezina Habtemariam Selected as 2015 PAGE (Publicly Active Graduate Education) Fellow
Rezina Habtemariam, a second-year MA in Cultural Studies student, has been selected as a 2015 PAGE (Publicly Active Graduate Education) Fellow. PAGE is the graduate-student organized network of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA)...
September 10, 2015
Dan Berger Lectures on Decarceration in Ecuador
IAS faculty member Dan Berger delivered two talks in Quito, Ecuador, about the rise and possible fall of mass incarceration in the United States. Berger spoke on...
September 8, 2015