August 2019

IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano recently screened his award-winning feature documentary “Cambodian Son” in four different countries including Cambodia, Japan, Australia, and the Philippines. Sugano filmed, directed, edited, and released the documentary during his residency in Cambodia from 2012-2015. The film was awarded the “Top Documentary Prize at CAAMFEST 2014”, “The Special Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Lebanon International Film Festival 2014”, and the “2015 Audience Award at Bali International Film Festival,” along with ...

Cary Westerbeck remembers when Bothell was a smaller town and the North Creek Wetlands were a working cattle ranch.  A lifelong resident, Westerbeck takes pride in his north Lake Washington roots and the bustling region it’s become. Today, he is the principal of westerbeck|architecture, based in downtown Bothell and specializing in modern works of architecture including remodels, custom homes, multi-family, and mixed-use commercial projects. An early IAS alum ...

IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali was one of three internationally recognized artists invited for a live performance, exhibition and lecture at Haus Der Kunst as part of the museum’s “Archiv Galerie 2019” series. Ali’s “The Buddhist Bug” was the opening performance for the launch of “Archives in Residence: Southeast Asia Performance Collection” on view in Munich, Germany from June 28 - September 29, 2019. The series focuses on the relationship between the archive and the formation of history ...

Morgan Mentzer is co-founder and executive director of Lavender Rights Project, whose mission is to advance a “more just and equitable society by providing low-cost civil legal services and community programming centered in values of social justice for trans and queer low-income people and other marginalized communities.” Last spring Mentzer and Lavender Rights Project (LRP) collaborated with students in Julie Shayne’s “Histories and Movements of Gender and Sexuality” course to chronicle the organization’s history as part of the ...

IAS faculty member Min Tang has published Tencent: The Political Economy of China’s Surging Internet Giant. The book, as part of Routledge's Global Media Giants Series, examines the history and expansion strategies of the China-based leading global Internet giant, Tencent, and illuminates its emergence as a joint creation of the Chinese state and ...