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

Winter 2021

Autumn 2020

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”