News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Amaranth Borsuk featured in Bienal Internacional Poesia Oeiras
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk was featured this month in the first International Poetry Biennial in Oeiras Portugal, a celebration of poetry under the theme of Power and Democracy. The biennial was held at the Templo da Poesia in the Poets' Park, a public oasis with ...
November 24, 2021
Karam Dana on “Palestine: Resurgent and Emergent Solidarities”
IAS faculty member Karam Dana participated in the American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) annual meeting as a panelist on a virtual roundtable titled “Palestine: Resurgent and Emergent Solidarities.” Dana discussed how Palestinians have long sympathized with other colonized ...
November 23, 2021
Ching-In Chen joins editorial board of Hyphen Magazine
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has joined the editorial board of Hyphen Magazine as a Visual Arts editor on the Arts and Culture team. Hyphen is a news and culture magazine, media outlet, and community partner that illuminates Asian America through ...
November 23, 2021
Minda Martin screens Ramps to Nowhere and engages in community discussion
IAS faculty member Minda Martin screened her essay film Ramps to Nowhere on November 15, 2021 to more than 350 attendees hosted by Front and Centered, King County Equity Now, Disability Rights Washington, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, 350 Seattle, Social Justice Film Institute, and Meaningful Movies. ...
November 22, 2021
Melanie Malone: community research on the Lower Duwamish Superfund
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone and colleagues from UW Seattle led a project to facilitate community research on the Lower Duwamish Superfund. The project, "Co-creating an Adaptive Community-Science Network: Supporting Tribal and Grassroots Action through the Puget Creek Watershed Assessment," ...
November 19, 2021
Jennifer Atkinson’s podcast featured in Arts & Climate Change
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson's podcast was featured in Arts & Climate Change, an organization that supports "deeply-engaged, throughout-provoking and artistically-savvy responses to climate change." In 2020, Atkinson launched a podcast called Facing It to share research on the emotional and psychological toll of climate change. Yet the series also ...
November 18, 2021
Dan Berger: “SNCC’s Unruly Internationalism”
Writing in Boston Review, IAS faculty member Dan Berger published an article on the global imagination of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The legendary civil rights organization formed in 1960 and recently had a 60th anniversary conference. Yet while many remember the organization's role in confronting Jim Crow ...
November 17, 2021
David Goldstein talks about pedagogies for DEI at Waseda University, Japan
IAS faculty member David Goldstein presented an invited seminar on critical pedagogies for diversity, equity, and inclusion for Waseda University in Japan as part of his Fulbright U.S. Scholar award. Headquartered in Tokyo, Goldstein is ...
November 16, 2021
Ching-In Chen and Lauren S. Berliner write for Viewpoints series at the Henry
IAS faculty members Ching-In Chen and Lauren S. Berliner were invited to write in response to the work of Dean Sameshima’s Torso (Black on Silver) and Anthony White’s BOYZ OF THE WILD as part of the Henry Art Gallery’s Viewpoints series. ...
November 15, 2021
Jin-Kyu Jung discusses “Local Territories, Global Power Structures”
IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung participated as a discussant in the “Local Territories, Global Power Structures” panel session in Reclaiming the City: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea Conference, held at Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
November 15, 2021