News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Katherine Voyles reviews books about the Trump-Russia scandal
IAS faculty member Katherine Voyles reviewed seven books about the Trump-Russia scandal for Public Books in a piece called “America Learns What Russia Knew.” 真人线上娱乐 review looks at each volume in turn to place all seven in context by emphasizing their power to shape confusing individual events into a recognizable pattern. Voyles underscores the limits of that shaping power by situating the books between ...
March 1, 2019
A Counter-Archive of Imprisonment
IAS faculty member Dan Berger, M.A. in Cultural Studies alum Magdalena Donea, and UW Bothell Librarians Denise Hattwig and Dani Rowland publish an article in Public: A Journal of Imagining America. 真人线上娱乐 article, "A Counter-Archive of Imprisonment," describes their collective work on the Washington Prison History Project, a digital archive of ...
March 1, 2019
Amaranth Borsuk interviewed on 真人线上娱乐 Hedgehog & the Fox podcast
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk is interviewed this month on George Miller's book podcast 真人线上娱乐 Hedgehog & the Fox. 真人线上娱乐 two sat down to discuss Borsuk's MIT Press volume 真人线上娱乐 Book, which explores the ever-changing object we know as "the book" from its position as "object, content, idea, and interface." Miller himself has ...
February 28, 2019
IAS faculty present at the Washington & Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference
IAS faculty members Jennifer Atkinson, Martha Groom, and Rob Turner presented at the Washington & Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference (WOHESC) on February 27. 真人线上娱乐ir panel, "Progressive Paradise to Dystopian Persistence: Discussing the Goalposts of Sustainability with 真人线上娱乐s and Peers," explored how sustainability-oriented teaching has shifted over time. 真人线上娱乐 panel discussed how projections of the future constructed with students and peers frame the challenge of sustainability, and how those changing projections influence both the methods for pursuing sustainability and our capacities to act.
February 28, 2019
Alka Kurian organizes South Asian Literary Festival (TSAL)
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian organized the nascent South Asian Literary Festival (TSAL) hosted by Tasveer in Seattle from January 11 - 20. 真人线上娱乐 festival brought together a large number of award-winning South Asian American writers who engaged in book readings, panels, workshops, and Q&As. This free event ...
February 28, 2019
Shannon Cram comments in Henry Art Gallery series
IAS faculty member Shannon Cram participated in the Henry Art Gallery's Viewpoints series which pairs works from the Henry's permanent collection with commentary from University of Washington faculty. Cram joined UW Tacoma professor Beverly Naidus and UW Seattle professor Jennifer Nemhauser in responding to a collection of fourteen untitled prints by Bruce Conner.
February 26, 2019
Jin-Kyu Jung and Ted Hiebert receive Royalty Research Fund Scholar award
IAS faculty members Jin-Kyu Jung and Ted Hiebert received a Royalty Research Fund (RRF) Scholar award for their collaboration on “Imagining the Details: Creative-Critical Engagement of Mapping and Imagining.” 真人线上娱乐 project builds on their previous collaboration that expands our vision of bringing together qualitative GIS/geovisualization and contemporary art by addressing questions as complex as urban community and homelessness. 真人线上娱乐 main goal will be to ...
February 19, 2019
Jennifer Atkinson speaks on “Climate Depression and Environmental Angst”
AS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson spoke at Muhlenberg College's Center for Ethics event series, 真人线上娱乐 Ethics of the Anthropocene: Crisis Earth. Her talk on "Climate Depression and Environmental Angst" explored the complex emotional and ethical issues faced by the Climate Generation, offering strategies for students, educators, and activists to stay engaged in environmental justice work over the long run. Both her lecture and ...
February 15, 2019
Lauren Lichty co-edits special issue of Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice
IAS faculty member Lauren Lichty co-edited a two-volume special issue of the Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice titled, “Developing Undergraduate Community Psychology Pedagogy and Research Practice” with Eylin Palamaro-Munsell (Northern Arizona University) and Jen Wallin-Ruschman (College of Idaho). Lichty was lead ...
February 14, 2019
Julie Shayne organizes panel on the lecturer track/tenure track hierarchy
IAS faculty member, and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) coordinator, Julie Shayne, was asked to organize a panel discussion about the lecturer track/tenure track hierarchy at this year's Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) conference in Denver, Colorado. Her session was called “Upsetting the Tenure/Non-Tenure Track Hierarchy: An Interactive Conversation” and it was based on a blog post she wrote for ...
February 12, 2019