News from the School of IAS
Dan Berger tours east coast to promote Captive Nation
IAS faculty member Dan Berger delivered a series of lectures on the east coast related to his book, Captive Nation. Berger gave a lecture entitled "Prisons, State Violence, and the Organizing Tradition" at Dickinson College. More than 100 students and faculty attended the talk, which was hosted by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and the Popal Shaw Center for Race and Ethnicity.
June 26, 2015
UWave Radio broadcasts World Radio Day
UWave Radio collaborated in a regional celebration of World Radio Day on February 13th titled "Celebrate Radio: The Big Power of Local New Low Power FM Radio Stations." The free event took place at the Seattle Public Library Downtown Branch, and brought together a cohort of regional non-profit and educational groups that will start broadcasting on the FM dial over the next 10 months.
June 25, 2015
Becca Price helps students learn about insects that use gears to jump
IAS faculty member Becca Price published a set of resources for teachers to teach and students to learn about the first-ever interactive gears found in animals. The resources accompany a Science article by Malcolm Burrows and Gregory Sutton that describes...
June 25, 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
IAS Graduate Students host first annual IAS Grad Research Flash Talks
Graduate students in the MA in Cultural Studies and MA in Policy Studies programs organized the first Research Flash Talks event, which highlighted ongoing projects from second year students in each program.
June 25, 2015
Amaranth Borsuk exhibits her students’ work on “Chapbooks and Artists’ Books”
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk is exhibiting work by students in her BISIA 483B "Chapbooks and Artists' Books" course. Check out the display cases on the lower level of Discovery Hall to see what current and recent IAS students have done.
June 25, 2015
Dan Berger publishes on Malcolm X in Al Jazeera America
IAS faculty member Dan Berger published "Malcolm X's Challenge to Mass Incarceration" in Al Jazeera America, discussing the significance of Malcolm X and his legacy, fifty years after his assassination in 1965.
June 25, 2015
Georgia Roberts, Nafasi Ferrell, and Brandon Washington participate in “Power, Justice & Freedom Through Education Summit”
IAS faculty member Georgia Roberts, MA in Cultural Studies student Nafasi Ferrell, and Media and Communication Studies major Brandon Washington participated in Franklin High School's annual "Power, Justice & Freedom Through Education Summit" on January 14th in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
June 25, 2015
Kristin Gustafson and Andreas Brockhaus facilitate workshop on UW Bothell learning objectives
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson, along with affiliate faculty member Andreas Brockhaus, facilitated campus-level discussions of assessment of student learning at UW Bothell, particularly in terms of the undergraduate learning goals.
June 25, 2015
Kristy Leissle, aka Dr. Chocolate, publishes “Labels of Love”
IAS faculty member Kristy Leissle, known in the chocolate industry as Dr. Chocolate, has published "Labels of Love" in the Business & Economy section of The Conversation, an online newspaper. As chocolate comes under its annual scrutiny in the lead up to Valentine's Day...
June 25, 2015