News from the School of IAS
Suzanne M. Cohen presents on non-traditional casting at Scholars Studio
Master of Arts in Cultural Studies student Suzanne M. Cohen presented her research in a lightning talk entitled ‘Nontraditional Casting: Transgressive or Transcendent?’ as part of a March 5th Scholar’s Studio event on the theme of “Play.”
June 26, 2015
Amaranth Borsuk video extension of As We Know
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk had her video collaboration with Andy Fitch, an extension of their book As We Know (Subito, 2014) published on the video poetry website PoetrySeen and subsequently picked up in Harriet, the official blog of the Poetry Foundation.
June 26, 2015
Dan Berger tours east coast to promote Captive Nation
IAS faculty member Dan Berger delivered a series of lectures on the east coast related to his book, Captive Nation. Berger gave a lecture entitled "Prisons, State Violence, and the Organizing Tradition" at Dickinson College. More than 100 students and faculty attended the talk, which was hosted by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and the Popal Shaw Center for Race and Ethnicity.
June 26, 2015
UWave Radio broadcasts World Radio Day
UWave Radio collaborated in a regional celebration of World Radio Day on February 13th titled "Celebrate Radio: 真人线上娱乐 Big Power of Local New Low Power FM Radio Stations." 真人线上娱乐 free event took place at the Seattle Public Library Downtown Branch, and brought together a cohort of regional non-profit and educational groups that will start broadcasting on the FM dial over the next 10 months.
June 25, 2015
Becca Price helps students learn about insects that use gears to jump
IAS faculty member Becca Price published a set of resources for teachers to teach and students to learn about the first-ever interactive gears found in animals. 真人线上娱乐 resources accompany a Science article by Malcolm Burrows and Gregory Sutton that describes...
June 25, 2015
Becky Aanerud, Lauren Lichty, and Julie Shayne present at Sociologists for Women in Society
Becky Aanerud, Lauren Lichty, and Julie Shayne presented at the Sociologists for Women in Society winter meeting in Washington, DC. Shayne organized a session titled “Curricular and Administrative Feminist Activism” where...
June 25, 2015
IAS Graduate 真人线上娱乐s host first annual IAS Grad Research Flash Talks
Graduate students in the MA in Cultural Studies and MA in Policy Studies programs organized the first Research Flash Talks event, which highlighted ongoing projects from second year students in each program.
June 25, 2015
Amaranth Borsuk exhibits her students’ work on “Chapbooks and Artists’ Books”
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk is exhibiting work by students in her BISIA 483B "Chapbooks and Artists' Books" course. Check out the display cases on the lower level of Discovery Hall to see what current and recent IAS students have done.
June 25, 2015
Dan Berger publishes on Malcolm X in Al Jazeera America
IAS faculty member Dan Berger published "Malcolm X's Challenge to Mass Incarceration" in Al Jazeera America, discussing the significance of Malcolm X and his legacy, fifty years after his assassination in 1965.
June 25, 2015
Georgia Roberts, Nafasi Ferrell, and Brandon Washington participate in “Power, Justice & Freedom Through Education Summit”
IAS faculty member Georgia Roberts, MA in Cultural Studies student Nafasi Ferrell, and Media and Communication Studies major Brandon Washington participated in Franklin High School's annual "Power, Justice & Freedom Through Education Summit" on January 14th in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
June 25, 2015