News from the School of IAS
Community Mural Project at Interfaith Solidarity Event
On Friday, March 22nd, the Bothell community came together to honor the lives lost in the New Zealand live-stream shooting. The ICOB Mosque hosted an Interfaith Solidarity Event at the Bothell United Methodist Church which brought numerous speakers, including: law enforcement agencies, religious leaders, and community members to reflect on the tragedy and offer their condolences. People were given ...
April 9, 2019
IAS board member Leslie Olson supports the Global Scholars program in a big way
On April 4, 2019 all three University of Washington campuses participated in the first annual Husky Giving Day with a 24 hour, high energy, online campaign across all our media channels. The UW Bothell School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences came in second on the Bothell campus for most dollars raised, thanks in a large part to a $25,000 pledge for the Global Scholars program from UW alum and IAS Advisory Board member Leslie Olson. Leslie has
April 5, 2019
Alumni receive Fulbright awards to Estonia and Namibia
Hana Bloedel has been selected for a U.S. Student Fulbright grant to Estonia, where she will serve as an English Teaching Assistant. Hana completed her B.A. in Global Studies and Society, Ethics & Human Behavior, with a minor in Human Rights, in June 2018. Mariah Crystal (formerly Ortiz) has been granted a Fulbright award to conduct research in Namibia during the 2019-2020 academic year. She will be analyzing the oral history narratives of Namibian women who contributed the anti-apartheid movement and ...
April 5, 2019
Amaranth Borsuk speaks at Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk attended the annual AWP conference in Portland, Oregon last week, joining more than 12,000 writers in a three-day marathon of panels, talks, and off-site readings. Borsuk spoke and shared her work as part of the panel Poetry and Technology: Appendage, Mask, Voice, Body, and Song. With fellow panelists Samuel Ace, Douglas Kearney, and Ronaldo Wilson, Borsuk shared the ways ...
April 4, 2019
Lauren Berliner at the Digital Diaspora Symposium
IAS faculty member Lauren Berliner was an invited participant at the Digital Diaspora Symposium at the University of Rochester. She was a featured panelist and workshopped a paper called “When You Hit Rock-bottom, Your Views Can Only Go Up: Overdose Videos in Desperate Times.” The symposium included ...
April 4, 2019
Human rights in practice: The D.C. Seminar
Since 1991, more than 450 students have participated in the Washington D.C. Human Rights Seminar, which provides an experiential learning opportunity for students to engage with human rights policy at national and international levels. Hear faculty and alumni perspectives on the seminar in this video.
April 2, 2019
Jacob Allen co-founds social identity-focused school
IAS alum Jacob Allen (’12) is CEO and co-founder of pilotED Bethel Park, a new charter elementary school in Indianapolis that believes identity and civic engagement could transform the educational landscape, especially for students of color. Says Allen, “Once you acknowledge who the child is as a human being … what comes after that are highly engaged students.”
April 1, 2019
Washington D.C. Human Rights Seminar transforms students
As UW Bothell’s longest running experiential learning program, the Washington D.C. Human Rights Seminar has catalyzed hundreds of students to seek justice. Whether personally or professionally, locally or globally, D.C. students become proponents of social change and human dignity. Each year ...
March 29, 2019
IAS students surprised by Legislature experience
When they went to Olympia as legislative interns, four University of Washington Bothell students expected they might witness political infighting while burdened with drudgery like making copies. After spending winter quarter inside the marbled walls, they said the experience wasn’t like that at all. Instead ...
March 29, 2019
Jason Frederick Lambacher’s work featured in The New Republic
IAS faculty member Jason Frederick Lambacher’s work on Hannah Arendt and green civic republicanism was featured in Win McCormack’s April 2019 Res Publica editorial in The New Republic, “How Green Was My Virtue?” Lambacher uses Arendt, and other civic republicans such as Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Madison, to explore civic republican ideas of public goods, agonistic dialogue, and political freedom as they apply to environmental issues such as species loss and climate change. Generally speaking
March 28, 2019