News from the School of IAS
IAS student Kyra Laughlin wins Chancellor’s Medalist Award!
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) major Kyra Laughlin received the UW Bothell 2017 Chancellor’s Medalist Award. The award is an honor that recognizes graduating seniors who have achieved academic excellence and served as a consistent source of inspiration for faculty and students alike. In winter 2017 Kyra founded the campus group Sexual Assault and Violence Education (S.A.V.E.), which works from a grassroots empowerment model of social support and awareness raising. With Kyra at the helm, the group applied for and won the T-Mobile Equity and Inclusion Grant, and collaborated with IAS faculty member Lauren Lichty and Campus Safety director Cham Kao to revise the UW Bothell website's Sexual Assault Support pages. Kyra continues to build new awareness initiatives and programming for Sexual Assault Awareness Month (April), and delivers class presentations and trainings in our residence halls.
April 26, 2017
Joshua Heim calls for rethinking the suburbs as a site for the arts
Joshua Heim ('10, Cultural Studies) has recently published a call to rethink the suburbs as a space for arts engagement and development. The article, posted on the Americans for the Arts Artsblog, poses a challenge in its very title: “Over 50 percent of American live and work in suburbs. Are 50% of them arts leaders?” Since graduating from the MA in Cultural Studies, Heim has worked as ...
April 25, 2017
Adam Romero wins 2017 Vernon Carstensen Award
IAS faculty member Adam Romero has won the 2017 Vernon Carstensen Award for best article in Agricultural History, the journal of record in the field. Romero's article, “‘From Oil Well to Farm’: Industrial Waste, Shell Oil, and the Petrochemical Turn (1927-1947),” explores the emergence of petroagriculture in California in the interwar period. It tells the story of how two industrial waste products of California’s petroleum industry became industrial agriculture’s chemical salvation ...
April 24, 2017
Julie Shayne and IAS alums Teresa Polendo and Liam McGivern speak about supporting immigrants
On Sunday April 23, 2017, IAS faculty member Julie Shayne, and IAS alums Teresa Polendo and Liam McGivern spoke to a group of activists at the Indivisible Edmonds townhall meeting. Attendees came to learn more about the present realities for local immigrants. Shayne provided background to the situation, discussed and countered myths about immigrants, and shared additional educational resources. Liam McGivern ...
April 24, 2017
Jason Lambacher delivers paper on “The Politics of Ecological Nostalgia”
IAS faculty member Jason Lambacher attended the annual conference of the Western Political Science Association (WPSA) this month in Vancouver, B.C. The WPSA is the regional professional association of political scientists and is internationally known as a hot spot for work in environmental political theory. He delivered an environmental political theory paper titled, “The Politics of Ecological Nostalgia.” Lambacher's paper ...
April 21, 2017
Diana Garcia-Snyder performs, promotes, and teaches about Butoh
IAS faculty member Diana Garcia-Snyder was recently interviewed by KCTS9 Arts & Culture series "Dare to be Ugly: Dance That Goes Beyond the Beautiful" highlighting the 8th Annual Seattle International Butoh Festival (SIBF), a two week celebration of butoh dance which ran March 31st- April 9th. Since 2009 Diana has served as Co-Director and performer with DAIPANbutoh, Seattle’s premier Butoh company which produces SIBF. What is Butoh?
April 18, 2017
Amaranth Borsuk publishes audio poem
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk has a new piece in Daily Gramma. Borsuk's audio poem, "elegy facing crochet holes and knit slubs with running stitch," is at once personal and outward-looking, an attempt to think through modes of mourning and resistance as they pass through hands engaged in the craft of caring. The title's impossible act references an attempt to ...
April 12, 2017
Mitoha Ondo’o Ayekaba named 2017 African Leadership Institute Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellow
Former Policy Studies student Mitoha Ondo’o Ayekaba has been named to the 2017 African Leadership Institute Tutu Leadership Fellowship Programme cohort. As African Leadership Institute’s (AFLI) flagship programme, the Tutu Leadership Fellowship Programme welcomes an elite group of Africa’s highest potential young leaders, representing a wide range of sectors. AFLI is dedicated to identifying, nurturing, and equipping Africa’s future leaders with experiences, insights, and tools so that African-led solutions are developed to address Africa’s challenges. The Institute provides ...
April 10, 2017
Julie Shayne presents about her newest book project at the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) conference
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne attended the PSA April 6-8, 2017 where she presented a paper about her newest book project. Shayne is working on an edited collection tentatively titled Mobilizing the University: Curriculum, Space, and Solidarity. Mobilizing the University will be an interdisciplinary, edited collection which focuses on the relationship between social justice activism and the university in the Americas. Contributors will use an intersectional feminist framework to ...
April 10, 2017
Anida Yoeu Ali performs at Art Central Hong Kong and is featured in Harper’s Bazaar
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali recently performed “The Red Chador: Ban Me!” at Art Central Hong Kong from March 20-25, 2017. While still utilizing religious aesthetics to provoke ideas of otherness, Ali performed a new iteration of her internationally recognized “The Red Chador” series as a response to questions about democracy, civil participation and public complicity. For Hong Kong, Ali adapted her performance to emerge from 99 protest signs, each sign appropriating text from notable slogans of the HK Umbrella Movement, President Trump’s public speeches, the US Civil Rights movement of the 1960’s and ...
April 5, 2017