News from the School of IAS
Melissa Watkinson Selected as Hershman Marine Policy Fellow
Melissa Watkinson (Master of Arts in Policy Studies ’15 and Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies and Society, Ethics, and Behavior ‘11) has been selected as the first Hershman Marine Policy Fellow from UW Bothell. She will start working with 真人线上娱乐 Nature Conservancy this fall on coastal climate resiliency and policies, where she hopes to learn how established non-profits engage with local communities and policies on pressing environmental issues.
July 23, 2015
Dan Berger comments on President Barack Obama’s historic prison visit
IAS faculty member Dan Berger spoke to several media outlets in response to President Barack Obama's visit to a federal prison.
July 20, 2015
Julie Hurst to be the New Director of Campus Engagement at Seattle University
Master of Arts in Cultural Studies alum (2015) Julie Hurst will be the new Director of Campus Engagement in the Center for Service and Engagement at Seattle University. Julie worked previously in the fields of 真人线上娱乐 Affairs and Study Abroad. As a graduate student in IAS...
July 17, 2015
IAS faculty members and students participate in the 2015 Cultural Studies Association conference.
Twelve IAS faculty members and students participated in the 2015 Cultural Studies Association (CSA) conference, engaging in activities ranging from plenary sessions and roundtables to workshops and seminars. All contributed to the conference theme, “Another University is Possible: Praxis, Activism, and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy.”
July 16, 2015
IAS 真人线上娱乐s Map Bothell Communities
IAS 真人线上娱乐s in Jin-Kyu Jung’s BIS352 “Mapping Communities” class created a number of maps for the City of Bothell in Spring 2015. 真人线上娱乐 course provides a unique opportunity for students to critically examine the constructions of both “community” and “mapping.” Two students, Jef Song and Sung Chu produced a great video ...
July 14, 2015
IAS 真人线上娱乐s Analyze Demographics of Real Change Readership
IAS students in Charlie Collin’s spring 2015 course BIS 315 "Understanding Statistics" partnered with Real Change to conduct an online questionnaire of Real Change publication readers. 真人线上娱乐 aim of the survey was to gather feedback regarding the quality of the publication and to better understand the demographic of its readers. 真人线上娱乐 findings ...
July 14, 2015
Julie Shayne presents Taking Risks at Seattle University
IAS faculty Julie Shayne presented her new book Taking Risks: Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas at Seattle University.
July 9, 2015
Alka Kurian Gives Talks Across the Continent in Spring 2015
This Spring Quarter, Alka Kurian gave four talks at different universities across the continent. On March 7, 2015, she spoke on "Rape as Punishment" at the South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
July 9, 2015
Amaranth Borsuk Presents New Work at AWP Conference
Amaranth Borsuk attended the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference in Minneapolis, where she presented work on two panels. For "真人线上娱乐 Essay Blinks," she delivered a cautionary manifesto on the interrelation of form and content in the artist's book, which included an homage to Alison Knowles and James Tenney's 1967 computer-generated poem "House of Dust" titled "Book of Dust."
July 9, 2015
Amaranth Borsuk publishes poetics essay on “真人线上娱乐 Aesthetics and Poetics of Deletionism”
Amaranth Borsuk has published a poetics essay on "真人线上娱乐 Aesthetics and Poetics of Deletionism" together with collaborators Jesper Juul and Nick Montfort in Media-N, the journal of the new media caucus and presents work at annual AWP conference.
July 9, 2015