News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Rebecca Brown’s “A Vision” translated into Japanese
IAS faculty member Rebecca Brown’s story “A Vision" has just been translated into Japanese by Motoyuki Shibata and published in a two volume set of English language stories (Kenkyusha).
May 17, 2021
IAS faculty win Simpson Center Awards
IAS faculty member Naomi Macalalad Bragin won a first book fellowship to work on her manuscript Black Power of Hip Hop Dance: On Kinethic Politics. IAS faculty member Shannon Cram won a first book fellowship to work on her manuscript Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility. IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk is ...
May 14, 2021
Becca Price moderates conversation on inclusive teaching
IAS faculty member Becca Price moderated a conversation about inclusive teaching with Bryan Dewsbury (The University of Rhode Island) and Cynthia Brame (Vanderbilt University). The conversation was part of the Online with LSE webinar series sponsored by CBE-Life Sciences Education.
May 7, 2021
Ching-In Chen publishes “The work of breathing: Pushing against perfectionism”
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s lyric essay “The work of breathing: Pushing against perfectionism” was published for the Being Lazy and Slowing Down blog. Being Lazy and Slowing Down was started by Dr. Kimine Mayuzumi and Dr. Riyad A. Shahjahan as a way to ...
May 5, 2021
Becca Price: Pandemic-Related Instructor Talk
IAS faculty member Becca Price spent fall and winter of 2019/20 supporting a team of postdoctoral scholars as they developed biology seminar courses to teach at UW Bothell and at UW Seattle for spring of 2020. These beginning instructors had to quickly change their approach to teaching in the face of the emotional crises of that spring and the sudden shift to remote teaching. Price and the instructors published a paper ...
May 5, 2021
Jin-Kyu Jung on living in smart cities
IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung gave a presentation on “Smart Engagement with Citizens Unbound” at the “Join Venture and Joining Governance” session in “The 1st Sejong Smart City Forum” held in Sejong, South Korea. Jung discussed the need to engage closely with the citizens in embracing the diverse perspectives and opportunities of living in the smart cities and ...
April 28, 2021
Alka Kurian moderates Q&A for Writing with Fire
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian co-moderated the question and answer session for the film Writing with Fire screened at the 2021 Seattle International Film Festival. The award-winning film is about "the fearless journalists behind Khabar Lahariya, India’s only newspaper run by Dalit (“untouchable”) women, as they fight for truth and justice in the face of hostile patriarchy and ...
April 27, 2021
Anida Yoeu Ali exhibits in Fragilità with support of The Embassy of Italy in Kuala Lumpur
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali was selected as one of four Southeast Asian artists to exhibit alongside Italian artists in an immersive online group exhibition titled "Fragilità." “Fragilità” is curated by Alberto Salvadori, director of Fondazione ICA Milano, Luigi Fassi, director of MAN in Nuoro, and Lim Wei Ling, director of the Wei Ling Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, and it is organized with the support of the Italian Embassy in Malaysia. “Fragilità” began on Instagram channel @particle____ from March 3-10, 2021 with platform access and public program found on the Fragilità website.
April 26, 2021
Ching-In Chen publishes in The Rupture
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s hybrid pieces “Gatha for Forest Walk / When No Father Arrives,” “Desert / Nine Days,” and “Park” were published in The Rupture, a bimonthly publication of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.
April 23, 2021
Anida Yoeu Ali exhibits at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum in Chiang Mai
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali exhibited prints from The Buddhist Bug series at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum in Chiang Mai, Thailand from Nov 14, 2020 - March 30, 2021. The photographs were part of a final touring exhibition titled “A Beast, A God and A Line” originally curated by Hong Kong based curator Cosmin Costinas.
April 23, 2021