Dan Berger Talks on Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era

IAS faculty member Dan Berger delivered two talks in California about his award-winning book, Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era. The first event, "Prisoners and Politics: from the San Quentin Six to Pelican Bay," took place as part of Shaping San Francisco, a participatory community history event series.

September 28, 2015

IAS Student Alia Marsha is New Editor-in-Chief of Husky Herald

Senior Alia Marsha (Media and Communication Studies major) will serve as the new Editor-in-Chief of Husky Herald for the 2015-2016 academic year. Husky Herald is the UW Bothell student newspaper, which goes to print monthly, and publishes online as news happens.

September 23, 2015

IAS Students Experience Dance, Healing, and Community-Building

IAS faculty memberCarrie Lanza, Diana Garcia-Snyder, and their students devoted the summer quarter to an exploration of dance as a technology for healing and community building in BISIA 484: Arts Learning in the Community. Students participated in and engaged critically with...

September 23, 2015

Portraits of Refugees by Howard Hsu

IAS faculty member Howard Hsu has published a portrait series of refugees in Germany on Mashable. "The Ones Who Found Refuge" provides views of Europe's migrant crisis through the faces of some of these people.

September 23, 2015

Chad Bates Launches Community Talk Show

IAS alum Chad Bates (Global Studies, 2014) recently launched a live talk show and podcast called And...Discuss!? Bates hopes to build a community that engages those that loved learning about and discussing serious issues in college, but don’t have a place to do that after graduation. In their 2nd show,

September 17, 2015

Julie Shayne Blogs About the Limits of the Tenure Track

IAS faculty member Julie Shayne writes on “Losing the Tenure Track, Finding Activist Scholarship” in the Gender & Society blog. In her post, Shayne talks about the political freedom she found once she left the tenure track.

September 2, 2015

S. Charusheela Speaks Economics and Gender in Delhi

S. Charusheela gave a seminar for M.Phil students at the Centre for Development Practice, Ambedkar University Delhi, on postcolonial economics on Thursday August 27, and public lectures on "Sexing the Economy: Capitalcentrism and the Gendered Subject" and "Engendering Feudalism: Alternate Subjects for Post-capitalist Futures" on Friday, August 28.

August 31, 2015