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

• Mark Nowak on “A People’s History of the Poetry Workshop”
• Brenda Cárdenas on “Writing Working Class Lives”
• UW Bothell Labor Colloquium: Social Reproduction Reimagined with The Feminist Radical Political Economy (FRPE) Collective
• Kale Bantigue Fajardo on “Trans-Waters/Trans-Archipelagic Solidarities, Approaches, and New Directions”

Winter 2021

• Dr. Julia Duncheon on “It’s Not Who You Know, but How You Know Them: An Organizational Perspective on Social Capital and College Access”

Autumn 2020

• Dr. Carl Suddler on “Policing Black Youth Through the War on Crime”
• Nicole Porter on “Felon Disenfranchisement: Why Expanding the Vote is Necessary for a Better World”
• Emi Koyama and Tobi Hill-Meyer in a Panel Discussion on “Sex Work Policy Activism: Centering Trans & BIPOC Leadership”
• Oloth Insyxiengmay on “Correctional Industries: Punishment and Profit in Washington Prisons”

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”