News from the School of IAS
Category: Cultural Studies
Kari Lerum elected co-chair of the Seattle LGBTQ commission
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum was recently elected co-chair of the Seattle LGBTQ commission. The commission’s mission is “to effectively address and present concerns of lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and transgender citizens of Seattle to the Mayor, City Council, and all City Departments” and to recommend “legislation, policy, programs and budget items to the Mayor, City Council and City departments.”
March 2, 2020
Yolanda Padilla presents “Borderlands Modernism and Mariano Azuela’s Los de abajo”
IAS faculty member Yolanda Padilla presented her work on a panel titled "Recovering Latinx Modernisms" at the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project conference in Houston, TX. The panel centered non dominant literary forms, such as testimonies and periodical writing, to stage a conversation about what it means to recovery Latinx modernism as indispensable to and constitutive of U.S. and Latin American modernisms. Padilla's presentation ...
February 28, 2020
Zeinabu Irene Davis screens “Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema from UCLA”
On February 22, 2020, the Henry Gallery hosted a screening and discussion of “Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema from UCLA” directed by Zeinabu Irene Davis, who was introduced by her former student and current IAS faculty member Lauren Berliner.The discussion centered on and was facilitated by members of the Black Cinema Collective and M.A. in Cultural Studies students Berette Macaulay and Savita Krishnamoorthy. ...
February 26, 2020
David Ryder covers coronavirus and produces documentary film
IAS alum David Ryder (’11) has been an independent Seattle photographer and filmmaker for more than 15 years. His portfolio includes extensive experience with wildfires, disaster zones, and hurricane coverage. Ryder’s most recent work concerns travel restrictions to China due to coronavirus. Later this week he will photograph a U.S. government quarantine facility near North Bend ...
February 6, 2020
Cultural Studies alumni share their career pathways
The M.A. in Cultural Studies (MACS) program prepares students for careers in social, cultural, and arts fields or further interdisciplinary graduate education across the arts, humanities, and social and natural sciences. Graduates work across diverse roles and sectors, and each winter a panel of alumni are invited to connect with students to share their post-graduate experiences and career navigations. This year students heard from Joshua Heim (’10), Meshell Sturgis (’17), and Mollie Wolf (’15). Each alum ...
February 6, 2020
Katherine Shaw blends laughter and feminism at The Syndrome Mag
Katherine Shaw has always appreciated comedy, and she has recently embraced the title "funny woman." In fact, humor was a much needed relief during her 4+ years working in community health care. Clinic life was extremely stressful, requiring her to respond to life-threatening situations on a daily basis. “Seeing the humorous side of things has always been my form of medication” she says, but the stress took a toll on her personal health. “It's kind of funny - all my years of studying trauma and yet there I was, being traumatized by my career without realizing it,” she says. Eventually, Shaw found her exit and opened a ...
January 22, 2020
My Story: An Artist Around the World
Last spring Cultural Studies alum Mateó B. Ochoa (’19) was awarded the prestigious Bonderman Travel Fellowship, a rare opportunity to travel the world independently. Over the next eight months, Ochoa will visit Brazil, China, Colombia, Egypt, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Taiwan, Philippines, Rwanda, South Korea and Ghana ...
January 14, 2020
Berette Macaulay cited in Seattle Times’ list of hottest events for January 2020
Berette Macaulay, second-year Cultural Studies candidate, recently collaborated with the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Frye Art Museum, and the Photographic Center of the Northwest to bring “MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora” to Seattle, introducing public audiences to “the broad yet nuanced creative, cultural, and interventionist visions offered by black women photographers both internationally as well as in the Pacific Northwest.” Her upcoming curated exhibition
January 3, 2020
Maryam Griffin receives Society of Scholars Fellowship
IAS faculty member Maryam Griffin has been awarded a Society of Scholars fellowship from the Simpson Center for the Humanities. This fellowship will support Griffin's work on her research project “Vehicles of Decolonization: Politics and Public Transportation in the Palestinian West Bank.” Griffin will join ...
January 2, 2020
Amoshaun Toft at the OurMedia Conference: “From StudioX to legal FM”
IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft co-organized the “Echoes of Indymedia: Infrastructures of resistance” panel at the OurMedia conference in Brussels. His presentation, “From StudioX to legal FM: Organizing communications infrastructure in Seattle 1999-2019” accompanied participants in-person and remotely from a range of academics and practitioners involved in ...
December 2, 2019