News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Lauren Lichty and Janelle Silva both published papers in a special issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology
IAS faculty members Lauren Lichty and Janelle Silva both published papers in a special issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology called “Ethical Challenges in Community Psychology Research & Practice.” Co-authored with Eylin Palamaro-Munsell...
January 12, 2018
Ted Hiebert published Naturally Postnatural: Catalyst: Jennifer Willet
IAS faculty member Ted Hiebert published Naturally Postnatural: Catalyst: Jennifer Willet (Noxious Sector Press, 2017), an edited collection of writings by prominent artists and scientists in the field of bioart, inspired by the work of artist and educator Jennifer Willet. With contributions by...
January 11, 2018
Ted Hiebert’s co-authored book Ludic Dreaming: How to Listen Away from Contemporary Technoculture was reviewed
IAS faculty member Ted Hiebert’s co-authored book Ludic Dreaming: How to Listen Away from Contemporary Technoculture was reviewed by Andrew Hugill for...
January 11, 2018
Becca Price published a co-authored paper “Many Paths Toward Discovery: A Module for Teaching How Science Works.”
IAS faculty member Becca Price published a co-authored paper “Many Paths Toward Discovery: A Module for Teaching How Science Works.” 真人线上娱乐 paper emphasizes that college students enter science classrooms with a sophisticated understanding of the way scientists test hypotheses. However...
January 11, 2018
Shannon Cram receives fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center
IAS faculty member Shannon Cram received a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center where she will be a Writer in Residence for two weeks in January. 真人线上娱乐 focus of Cram's residency will be her current book project, Unmaking the Bomb: Nuclear Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility, which explores the complex politics of remediation at Washington State’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Home to more than two-thirds of the nation’s high-level nuclear waste and the largest environmental cleanup in human history, Hanford is tasked with managing toxic materials that ...
January 3, 2018
Lauren Berliner’s research cited in Mother Jones and the Financial Times
IAS faculty member Lauren Berliner’s collaborative research with Nora Kenworthy was cited in the cover story of the most recent edition of Mother Jones magazine. 真人线上娱乐 feature, entitled “Go Fund Yourself: Begging for health care in the new safety net,” draws on Berliner and Kenworthy’s finding that online marketing skills correlate with income, thus reproducing social inequality in social media fundraising environments. Berliner and Kenworthy’s original research ...
January 2, 2018
Jason Lambacher publishes “Extinction & Democracy” and “Exploring the Green Nobel”
IAS faculty member Jason Lambacher published "Extinction & Democracy: Wildness, Wilderness, and Global Conservation" in the Interdisciplinary Environmental Review (December 2017). 真人线上娱乐 article promotes cross-cultural dialogue regarding species loss centered on the concept of wildness, as distinguished from the legal-philosophical idea of wilderness. Responding to critiques of wilderness conservation "gone global" that point out an insufficient attention to social and political dimensions, Lambacher argues that wildness holds special potential as a hybrid concept capable of linking ecological goals with social critiques that ...
December 28, 2017
IAS faculty members receive support from the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities
Seven IAS faculty members received support from the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities in its fall 2017 funding round. Naomi Bragin will be a Society of Scholars fellow in 2018-19, enabling her to work on her book manuscript, “Black Power of Hip-Hop Dance: On Kinethic Politics.” Ron Krabill and Ben Gardner are teaming up with Anu Taranath on a project focused on “Pedagogies of Reciprocity: 真人线上娱乐 Politics of International Education.” Two ...
December 19, 2017
Shannon Cram discusses Environmental Worlds: Between Craft and Emergence
IAS faculty member Shannon Cram attended the annual American Anthropological Association meeting in Washington D.C. where she served as discussant for a panel entitled, "Environmental Worlds: Between Craft and Emergence." Bringing together scholars from multiple disciplines and institutions, this panel explored the embodied relations of labor and environment through ethnographic research in high-end food cultivation in Japanese strawberry fields and "geoparks," "dead labor" in ...
December 19, 2017
Anida Yoeu Ali performs and speaks at the first Palestinian Performing Arts Network Conference in Ramallah
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali was one of two US-based artists invited to speak at the 1st Palestinian Performing Arts Network (PPAN) Conference held at 真人线上娱乐 Red Crescent Society in Ramallah. 真人线上娱乐med around “真人线上娱乐 Impact of Arts on Communities/Societies,” the conference aimed to assess the impact of performing arts as a powerful tool with which to engage communities in various levels of social, political, economic, and educational change. 真人线上娱乐 host organization centers Palestinian people’s knowledge, arts and culture as central tools of resistance to oppression and as a window for international solidarity and ...
December 18, 2017