October 2019

“What originally intrigued me about ‘Black Mirror’ was its intersections: technology, society, ethics, business,” says IAS faculty member Wanda Gregory. “Exploring the network that these connections form creates space for fascinating conversations and questions.” 

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “Score for a Prison Town” is included in Of Texas, an exhibition and publication of instruction or score-based artworks, poems, and texts created by people who live in Texas, are from Texas, or are somehow deeply connected to Texas; or otherwise, “of Texas.” The exhibit will have an opening reception at ...

IAS faculty member Alka Kurian launches the second episode of her podcast #SouthAsianFilmsAndBooks. It is based on her conversation with Fatima Bhutto on her latest book New Kings of the World where the author talks about how mass-produced Western cultural products are being swept aside as a result of the rise of Bollywood films ...

IAS staff members Sakara Buyagawan and Jung Lee received a UW Bothell Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement Fellowship to explore support options for international students. Their project goals are to identify available academic and career success resources for international students, to develop and cultivate partnerships between IAS and ...

A cross-campus collaboration focused on reciprocity and mutuality led Kristin Gustafson, IAS faculty, and Kara Adams, director of community engagement, to present their research at the Engagement Scholarship Consortium International Conference in October. The conference, held in Denver, focused on advancing community engagement in higher education.