News from the School of IAS
A Culture of Giving in IAS
The University of Washington Bothell recognizes donors whose giving reaches $25,000 as Founder-level benefactors. Bruce Burgett, Dean of the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (IAS), recently met that level, an amount he admits reaching accidentally, simply because he was supporting a school he believes in and helping students and faculty whose success he champions daily. ...
March 6, 2018
Students reap the benefits of D.C. human rights scholarship
The Washington D.C. Human Rights Seminar is UW Bothell’s longest running experiential learning program and, inarguably, one of its most transformative. Founded in 1991, the seminar offers a unique opportunity for students to engage with human rights policy at national and international levels. Students travel to D.C. and for six demanding days, taking part in intensive seminars and briefings with institutions and policy makers across the political spectrum. ...
March 6, 2018
Natalia Valdez hosts Boeing career panel at UW Bothell
Alum Natalia Valdez (’11, Society, Ethics & Human Behavior) joined forces with UW Bothell Career Services to host a panel discussion with Boeing colleagues representing the areas of Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Procurement/Systems/IT, and Human Resources. Students across majors attended to learn about their career paths, day-to-day responsibilities, and the company culture. ...
March 6, 2018
S. Charusheela on “Engendering Feudalism”
IAS faculty member S. Charusheela gave a talk on “Engendering Feudalism” at the History and Development Workshop of the Economics Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The talk explored ways of understanding economic activity outside of the capitalist wage system. While there, she also ...
February 28, 2018
After the MFA: The Trace Remains – Alumni in Conversation
By Andrew Carson (’16) I recently had the opportunity to meet up over lunch with Lynarra Featherly and Sarah Baker, fellow alumni of the University of Washington Bothell MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics program. What resulted was a ranging conversation during which we discussed our MFA experiences, our lives now, and a few pertinent asides.
February 27, 2018
Natalie Singer releases memoir: California Calling: A Self-Interrogation
This week alum Natalie Singer (’16, Creative Writing & Poetics) releases her memoir, California Calling: A Self-Interrogation. Singer will discuss her memoir at Elliott Bay Books on March 5, joined in conversation by Sonora Jha, Hugo House Prose Writer-in-Residence and author of Foreign. On March 13 Singer will appear at Lit Fix, Seattle’s bar-friendliest reading and music series, hosted at Chop Suey.
February 27, 2018
Dan Berger gives talks on Captive Nation and “Prisons, Slavery, and Abolition”
IAS faculty member Dan Berger gave two lectures in Florida. At the University of Tampa's Honors Program Symposia, Berger spoke about his book Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era to highlight the origins of mass incarceration in response to prisoner activism in the 1960s and 1970s. Berger also delivered a talk entitled “Prisons, Slavery, and Abolition” at ...
February 26, 2018
Karam Dana publishes two articles and lectures at UW School of Law
IAS faculty member Karam Dana published two co-authored articles. The first, in the Journal of Politics and Religion titled “Veiled Politics: Experiences with Discrimination among American Muslim Women,” uses public opinion data, the article sheds light at gendered forms of discrimination and argues that Muslim women in the US who wear the hijab tend to experience the higher levels of discrimination when compared to Muslim women who do not wear the hijab. Overall, Muslim women, whether hijab-wearing or not, experience much higher discrimination than Muslim men. The second ...
February 26, 2018
Corbin Louis selected for 2018 Jack Straw Writers Program
IAS alum Corbin Louis ('17, MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics) was selected for the 2018 Jack Straw Writers Program. The Jack Straw Writers Program was created in 1997 to introduce local writers to the medium of recorded audio, to develop their presentation skills for both live and recorded readings, to encourage the creation of new literary work, and to provide new venues for the writers and their work.
February 26, 2018
Corbin Louis selected for 2018 Jack Straw Writers Program
IAS alum Corbin Louis ('17, MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics) was selected for the 2018 Jack Straw Writers Program. The Jack Straw Writers Program was created in 1997 to introduce local writers to the medium of recorded audio, to develop their presentation skills for both live and recorded readings, to encourage the creation of new literary work, and to provide new venues for the writers and their work.
February 26, 2018