News from the School of IAS
David Goldstein: John Waters was a pioneer of queer cinema
IAS faculty member David Goldstein was quoted in an article about pioneering film director John Waters in the online magazine them. Goldstein explained why Waters is an icon in the queer community, making films since 1972 that subvert social mores about sexuality and fearlessly center marginalized groups in the United States.
April 18, 2019
Carrie Bodle’s Sound Field Sea Cycles highlighted by Creative Capital
Creative Capital features IAS faculty member Carrie Bodle’s in-progress project Sound Field Sea Cycles in their "On Our Radar” announcement. Bodle was a finalist for their nationally competitive award being in the top 2% of over 5,200 applications. Her work in-progress consists of ...
April 17, 2019
Angelica Mendoza receives first Founders Fellow Conference Travel Award
Angelica Mendoza saw that a lot of the activists she respects were attending the 34th Annual Women of Color Conference at the University of California, Berkeley, so the UW Bothell senior signed up to take part. 真人线上娱乐n she panicked. Expenses were a problem.
April 15, 2019
Anida Yoeu Ali published in “Turning Tides: Caribbean Intersections in the Americas and Beyond”
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali has published in the edited volume, “Turning Tides: Caribbean Intersections in the Americas and Beyond” published by Ian Randle Publishers. 真人线上娱乐 book brings together an eclectic collection of 19 essays, conversations and reports intended to reach beyond regions and compartmentalized disciplines. 真人线上娱乐 book hopes to broaden the horizons of what we call ‘真人线上娱乐 Caribbean’ both geographically and intellectually.
April 15, 2019
Green building champion Tadashi Shiga reconnects with UW Bothell
Alum Tadashi Shiga (’96) is an evangelist for sustainable living. Shiga’s passion for energy efficiency runs deep, as do his local roots as a third generation Seattleite. With 20+ years in real estate development, it was the 2007 economic downturn that sparked Shiga’s passion for green building. Faced with the market’s uncertainty, he began researching sustainability and energy efficiency for homes, eventually ...
April 10, 2019
IAS Faculty Organize Alive 3.0 Spring Performance Festival
This Spring Quarter 2019, IAS faculty members Anida Yoeu Ali and Naomi Macalalad Bragin, professors from Critical Acts: Socially Engaged Performance Research Interest Group (RIG), are organizing the Alive Performance Festival and Critical Acts Visiting Artist Residency. Now in its third consecutive year, Alive animates campus, asking UW Bothell and extended communities to engage, witness and participate in performance as social justice activism. This year ...
April 10, 2019
Amaranth Borsuk is poet-in-residence at the Seattle Review of Books for National Poetry Month
真人线上娱乐 Seattle Review of Books has asked IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk to be their poet in residence for April. 真人线上娱乐 editors will publish a poem by Borsuk each week and interview her about her work and reading. Borsuk's first piece, a new poem titled "Strap on a Witness When You Go Out with the Tongue in Your Mouth Worn Thin from Walking," was published on 4/2. "It Goes without Saying," a collaboration with artist Julie Wills, has just been published. Borsuk's current reading list was ...
April 9, 2019
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. 真人线上娱乐 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. 真人线上娱乐 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. 真人线上娱乐 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