News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Ching-In Chen’s “Asking for Blue” inspires new single by Claire Michelle
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s hybrid work, “Asking for Blue,” inspired a new single by singer-songwriter Claire Michelle as part of the Bushwick Book Club Seattle, which matches musicians with writers. Chen and Michelle’s work was featured as part of this ongoing collaborative series, in which Bushwick Book Club Seattle musicians create original music inspired by the writers’ work published in the 2020 Jack Straw Writers Anthology. You can listen to “Asking for Blue” and ...
February 22, 2021
Ching-In Chen publishes “Dumpling-Making Kin”
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s creative nonfiction essay "Dumpling-Making Kin" was published in the South Seattle Emerald. The South Seattle Emerald was founded as a platform that amplifies the voice and experience of South Seattle by authentically depicting ...
February 17, 2021
Angelica Lucchetto publishes research in UW FieldNotes journal
IAS Environmental Science major Angelica Lucchetto published, "Impacts of Floating Woody Debris on Algae Communities: A Comparison between Spirit Lake and Coldwater Lake, Mount St. Helens," a feature article on her research in the UW FieldNotes journal. The article ...
February 11, 2021
Jed Murr: Teaching ethnic studies here and in Slovenia
During a sabbatical originally planned as a teaching Fulbright in Slovenia, IAS faculty member Jed Murr is working on a project funded with a UW Bothell Scholarship, Research and Creative Practice Seed Grant. As part of a larger Black Arts Northwest collaboration with scholars, librarians and archivists, Murr is creating a digital history platform. Part of the platform will be a website about a Black Power mural in Seattle that was created in the early 1970s and destroyed in the 1990s. Another project would digitize Black periodicals published in Seattle and make them publicly accessible.
February 9, 2021
Rob Turner advances sustainability in teaching and scholarship
IAS faculty member Rob Turner helped run an hour-long discussion session at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges & Universities in January. The session was titled Fostering Sustainability Out of a Pandemic: Pathways for Higher Education to Create a More Resilient Institution and Society. In November, he received ...
February 9, 2021
Ching-In Chen’s hybrid poetry published in Blue Cactus Press online journal
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s hybrid poetry -- “Still Green,” “Pilgrimage,” “Flood Fathers,” “Overnight Holiday,” and “Emperor” -- was published in Blue Cactus Press’ online journal, edited by Christina Butcher. Blue Cactus Press crafts books that inspire dialogue about ...
February 5, 2021
Jennifer Atkinson’s course on climate grief and eco-anxiety featured in New York Times
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson’s seminar on climate grief and eco-anxiety was featured in a New York Times story on efforts to support people experiencing distress over the global climate crisis. The article, Got Climate Anxiety? These People Are Doing Something About It, noted that the number of Americans who are “very worried” about climate change has more than doubled over the past five years to its current rate of ...
February 5, 2021
Julie Shayne discusses The Revolution Question with local feminist organization
Local feminist organization Radical Women invited IAS faculty member and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Faculty Coordinator Julie Shayne to speak to their book club about her book The Revolution Question: Feminisms in El Salvador, Chile, and Cuba. The conversation ...
January 28, 2021
Karam Dana on the Biden Administration’s reversal of the Muslim Ban (KUOW)
IAS faculty member Karam Dana was interviewed by KUOW’s Kim Malcolm for “All Things Considered” on the Biden Administration’s reversal of the Muslim Ban. Dana reflected on what this reversal means to the local Muslim American community, and its impact globally, situating the issue of discrimination towards Muslims as a central problem with how American society has operated ...
January 27, 2021
Kari Lerum: Rights, not rescue
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum researches the rights of sex workers and how anti-trafficking campaigns can bring more harm than good. “The general public is so conditioned to think about sex work as right or wrong and sex workers as free or coerced,” she said. “But what’s more useful is to think about how the state regulates and surveils sex workers who are just trying to make ends meet, especially when they are Black and brown, poor or transgender. These policies do nothing to alleviate poverty, racism or transphobia.”
January 27, 2021