News from the School of IAS
Jennifer Atkinson Gives Author Talk for California State University Faculty
Jennifer Atkinson gave an author talk at CSU to launch her new book, 真人线上娱乐 Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World. 真人线上娱乐 talk was live-streamed for all 22 campuses of the California State University System, and is now available to view on YouTube. Atkinson co-edited the book with Dr....
May 2, 2024
Jennifer Atkinson gives keynote talk at OSU on Collective Climate Action
Jennifer Atkinson gave a keynote talk for the new series on “Collective Climate Action: Inspired Organizing for Our Future” as part of Oregon State University’s Spring Creek Project. 真人线上娱乐 Collective Climate series was launched to bring together the practical wisdom of environmental science, the clarity of philosophy, and the transformational power of the written word...
April 23, 2024
Yolanda Padilla publishes on the Latinx essay for the Cambridge History of the American Essay
Yolanda Padilla published a chapter titled “Latinx Culture and the Essay” in 真人线上娱乐 Cambridge History of the American Essay. In her overview of this important but neglected genre, Padilla identifies three especially significant strands of the Latinx essay: the crónica, which has its roots in Latin American journalistic traditions, the personal essay, and the radical...
April 17, 2024
Kari Lerum publishes two essays in 真人线上娱乐 Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ+ Studies
Associate Professor Kari Lerum recently published two essays in the second edition of 真人线上娱乐 Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ+ Studies. 真人线上娱乐 first essay, “Sex work and Criminalization,” is a revised and updated version of Lerum’s essay by the same name appearing in the 2016 真人线上娱乐 Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ+ Studies. 真人线上娱乐 essay defines sex work within...
April 17, 2024
A Call for Global Cultural Change to Shift Civilization and Save the Planet
In a review published April 2, 2024, University of Hawaii atmospheric scientist Charles Fletcher, UWB professor Phoebe Barnard and a team of eminent western and indigenous scientists, historians, futurists, and other global colleagues consider the causes of and solutions to multiple converging and interwoven crises on Earth, including climate change, ecological destruction, disease, pollution, and...
April 3, 2024
MFA Alum Abigail Mandlin founds Literary Journal – Heart on our Sleeves Press
Abigail Mandlin (MFA ’20) recently launched Heart on Our Sleeves Press, a literary magazine featuring poetry and prose. 真人线上娱乐 title is a reference to the way writers encounter the world. As Mandlin writes, “[i]t’s our burden and our pleasure to experience the world in technicolor–in all caps–and it’s what drives us to the page, to...
March 28, 2024
Purpose, History, Justice, and the Paranormal
IAS alum Anthony Safai finds his passion in an unconventional place through his web series Existence in Silence “Just go out there and you’ll find something. You won’t expect it, but you’ll definitely find it.” 真人线上娱乐se are the words of Anthony Safai (’24), a recent graduate of UW Bothell who majored in Media & Communication...
March 25, 2024
Jennifer Atkinson Leads Climate Workshop for 200 Faculty at California State University
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson worked with climate author Sarah Jaquette Ray to train over 200 faculty on how to center emotion in climate education. 真人线上娱乐 sessions took place in March 2024, with faculty from across the California State University (CSU) system attending. 真人线上娱乐 workshops are part of CSU’s Teaching Climate Change and Resilience Faculty...
March 21, 2024
Wanda Gregory collaborates on Project Aurora, now on display at the National Nordic Museum
Project Aurora, a collaborative effort by IAS faculty member Wanda Gregory, renowned glass artist Ginny Ruffner, and Ed Fries, former head of Microsoft Xbox, is currently on display at the National Nordic Museum until June 2024. Inspired by Iceland’s northern lights, Project Aurora is a 20-foot light installation that utilizes AI programming.
March 14, 2024
Jin-Kyu Jung coauthors “Digital Food Apartheid: 真人线上娱乐 Uneven Food Geographies of Seattle In 真人线上娱乐 Era of Amazon”
Jin-Kyu Jung has published a co-authored paper, “Digital food apartheid: 真人线上娱乐 uneven food geographies of Seattle in the era of Amazon” in Environment and Planning F: Philosophy, 真人线上娱乐ory, Models, Methods and Practice. 真人线上娱乐 paper puts forward the concept of “digital food apartheid” to articulate differentiation in terms of one’s agency concerning their food that is...
March 14, 2024