News from School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Category: Cultural Studies
Priya Frank wins Outstanding Early Career Award
IAS 2011 Master of Arts in Cultural Studies alum and Associate Director for Advancement Priya Frank received the 2015 Outstanding Early Career Award from the UW Seattle Department of Communication.
June 30, 2015
Carrie Lanza contributes to Women Who Rock
A member of the Women Who Rock Collective, IAS faculty member Carrie Lanza co-produced the 5th Annual Women Who Rock unConference. This year's theme was "Rocking Media Justice" and the unconference featured an inter-generational roundtable discussion of media activists facilitated by the Women of Color for Systemic Change, which includes several current UW Bothell students.
June 30, 2015
Bruce Burgett talks about Keywords and public scholarship at the University of Michigan
IAS dean and faculty member Bruce Burgett delivered an invited lecture, “What Do (print-digital) Keywords Do?” sponsored by the Departments of English and American Culture at the University of Michigan. While on campus, Burgett also...
June 30, 2015
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
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
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 Students 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
Lauren Berliner and students host interactive documentary gaming event
IAS faculty member Lauren Berliner and students from her Participatory Media Culture class will host a live RPG gaming event, plus viewing and discussion of Fort McMoney at the Northwest Film Forum on February 19, 2015 at 7:00 pm.
June 25, 2015
Dan Berger speaks on radio about Captive Nation
IAS faculty member Dan Berger discussed his book Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era on the Morning Blend, a program of KBCS radio in Bellevue. KBCS played excerpts of the interview with Berger throughout the week of Feb 2.
June 25, 2015
IAS faculty members and students participate in UW Ferguson and Beyond teach-in
Several IAS faculty and students participated in the UW-wide teach-in, “Ferguson and Beyond: Race, State Violence, and Activist Agendas for the 21st Century,” which was written up in the Seattle Times. IAS faculty members Dan Berger and Scott Kurashige presented on the panel "The Past is Always Present: Contextualizing US State Violence," and Wadiya Udell moderated the panel "#Blacklivesmatter: A Universal Call for Social Justice."
June 25, 2015