News from the School of IAS
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
Three IAS students selected as part of the Husky 100 Class of 2017
Each year, the Husky 100 recognizes 100 UW undergraduate and graduate students from Bothell, Seattle, and Tacoma in all areas of study, who are making the most of their time at the UW. Out of the seven students from UW Bothell selected in 2017, three are from IAS.
April 5, 2017
Maryam Griffin publishes We Will Not Be Silenced: The Academic Repression of Israel’s Critics
IAS faculty member Maryam Griffin published a collection of essays co-edited with William I. Robinson, We Will Not Be Silenced: The Academic Repression of Israel's Critics. The collection features thirteen first-hand testimonies from U.S.-based academics about the harassment and repression they have faced for advocating for justice for Palestinians, criticizing policies of the Israeli state, or even simply recognizing ...
April 4, 2017
IAS students featured in article on internships in state government
A recent article in the Bothell Reporter highlights four IAS students who have begun working in public policy at the state level through IAS’s internship course, BIS 497, Political Internship in State Government: Shelby Lubchuk (Media & Communication Studies) Jared Mead (’14, Global Studies) Aysha Raza (Law, Economics & Public Policy) Claira Rolfson (’16, Law, Economics & Public Policy)
April 3, 2017
Alumni Shout Out!
Paula Matano (‘12, Policy Studies) is now the program manager for Oregon State University’s Professional and Continuing Education division. In this role, she develops and manages non-degree certificate programs and roughly 50 online and onsite courses. Hillary U (’10, Culture, Literature & the Arts) has accepted the position of Employee Communications Manager for Horizon Air, where she is responsible for employee-facing communication channels, including the company's intranet, for Horizon's 4000 employees. Josh Thompson (’11, Policy Studies) has announced his candidacy for Edmonds City Council...
April 3, 2017
Mindfulmedia artist Drew Stone shares career wisdom through “College to Confidence”
Drew Stone is a mindfulmedia artist bent towards creativity, design, organizational leadership, games, and forward-thinking culture. Drew holds a Certificate of Excellence in Filmmaking from Seattle Film institute. He completed undergraduate degrees in Media & Communication Studies and Society, Ethics & Human Behavior (’14) at UW Bothell and a Master of Communication in Communities and Networks (’16) at UW Seattle. He is a Project Manager for the Augmented Reality tool...
April 3, 2017