News from the School of IAS
Category: Diversity
Dan Berger awarded grant to study labor movement origins of affirmative action
IAS faculty member Dan Berger was awarded a Faculty Labor Research Grant by the UW Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies to study the labor movement origins of the fight for affirmative action in the 1960s and 1970s. In particular, he is looking at how working class Black organizers sought affirmative action across three interrelated domains: the university, labor unions, and ...
April 6, 2020
Dan Berger: In a Pandemic, Prisons are a Problem
IAS faculty member Dan Berger published an article in the UW Center for Human Rights website on the problem pandemics pose for prison. "While Washington state has ostensibly abolished the death penalty, its approach to incarceration now puts thousands of people at risk–in and out of prison–of a most painful and preventable death due to coronavirus," Berger writes. "The safest measure to “flatten the curve” ...
March 27, 2020
Berette Macaulay receives arts award and discusses MFON on Art Zone
In February, two anonymous Seattle patrons of the arts announced the fourth annual Champion of Seattle Arts (COSA) Award winner: Berette S. Macaulay, local artist, curator, and M.A. in Cultural Studies candidate.“Working with a variety of established local arts organizations, Berette has brought forth recent exhibitions of power and strength, focusing on female-identifying photographers of the African diaspora ...
March 6, 2020
Claudia Castro Luna visits UW Bothell
Hosted by IAS and the Latinx Student Union, Washington State poet laureate Claudia Castro Luna was on the UW Bothell campus on Wednesday February 26th for a full day of activities. She visited BIS 258 "Introduction to Latinx Studies" in the morning to discuss her poetry collection Killing Marias (2017). Later she had an informal "meet and greet" with students who had the opportunity to talk to her about a range of issues. In the afternoon she presented a public lecture titled ...
March 2, 2020
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
Alka Kurian publishes on women’s opposition to new citizenship laws in India
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian published an article, "Indian women protest new citizenship laws, joining a global ‘fourth wave’ feminist movement," in The Conversation. The article notes that: "Women are among the strongest opponents of two new laws in India that ...
February 27, 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
Julie Shayne in Ms. Magazine: “The Trump Era Proves That Women’s Studies Matters”
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne wrote a piece for Ms. Magazine online about the importance of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS), especially in the Trump era. In it she argues that GWSS is fundamental for its explanatory power; it is needed for its ability to demand accountability, and its expertise in documenting both injustice and resistance. Shayne makes her case in part by ...
February 24, 2020
My Story: Ending mass incarceration
While a student, Daisy Wong participated in IAS faculty member Gary Carpenter’s “Arts of Social Transformation,” a mixed enrollment course at Monroe Correctional Complex, alongside incarcerated individuals. Says Wong, “As a Community Psychology major, this course was a culmination of everything that I had learned about systemic oppression, racism and how these mechanisms disproportionately affect black and brown communities.” The recent graduate is now pursuing a Master of Social Work at UW in Seattle.
February 3, 2020