News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Ching-In Chen publishes “Lantern Letter: a Zuihitsu”
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “Lantern Letter: a Zuihitsu" was published in Watch Your Head: Writers & Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis, a print anthology published by Coach House Books in conjunction with an online project that publishes writing and art about climate justice issues and the climate crisis. In Watch Your Head, poems, stories, essays, and artwork sound the alarm on ...
October 2, 2020
A major milestone for GWSS
The discipline now known as Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) is celebrating its 50th anniversary worldwide this year. At the University of Washington Bothell, Oct. 26, 2020 will mark the four-year anniversary of the GWSS major and minor. IAS faculty member and GWSS faculty coordinator Julie Shayne had a goal to develop the major on campus since joining UW Bothell in 2007. In 2014, she became one of the committee members charged with creating the degree program, which officially launched in 2016. Since then, 18 students have graduated with the major and 73 students with the minor.
October 2, 2020
Amaranth Borsuk publishes new poem in Cordite Poetry Review
The most recent issue of Australian contemporary poetry and art journal Cordite Poetry Review focuses on the theme of Propaganda. The poetry section, curated by Simon Groth and Mez Breeze, features works that interrogate language's use and abuse and includes a new poem by IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk titled "Whisper Campaign." In the editors' words, "This distinction—of poetry manifesting as an antithesis to propaganda ...
October 2, 2020
Margaret Redsteer receives the Distinguished Alumni Award
IAS faculty member Margaret Redsteer received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Oregon State University’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences. She will be giving a virtual talk there next month on "A Record of Climate Change: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge and Conventional Science,” ...
September 28, 2020
Shauna Carlisle, Ching-ln Chen, and S. Charusheela receive Diversity and Inclusion Seed Grant
IAS faculty members Shauna Carlisle, Ching-ln Chen, and S. Charusheela have received a Diversity and Inclusion Seed Grant from the UW Diversity Council to launch a diversity and inclusion graduate student questionnaire to be sent to alumni who graduated between 2015 and 2020. Survey will assess perceptions of ...
September 25, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson speaks to international audiences on climate change and mental health
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson spoke to audiences in the U.S., Germany, and Canada as part of a 2020 speaking series on climate change and mental health. Her talks were featured at the Festival of Live Digital Art in Toronto, the Aspen Institute's Future Leaders Climate Summit, the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, the City of Bellevue's virtual Earth Day event, and Edmonds Community College's 2020 Triton Talk series. Atkinson's presentations highlighted ...
September 23, 2020
Kristin Gustafson publishes “Reporting today, with yesterday’s context”
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson, along with co-authors Nicholas Hirshon (William Paterson University) and Lori Amber Roessner (University of Tennessee), published “Reporting today, with yesterday's context” in the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR). The article addresses the role of historical reporting and "turning to history for perspective" in covering today's news. CJR is a magazine for journalists and ...
September 22, 2020
Alka Kurian: Covid-19, Black Lives Matter, and model minority discourse
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian had a busy summer! She gave virtual lectures in June and September on "Youth, Education, Gender, and Human Rights in India" to students of the Foreign Services Institute, and presented a virtual paper entitled “Growing Up South Asian in America Today” at the University of Lucknow, India. She also participated in virtual ...
September 16, 2020
Ching-In Chen poem included in Alone Together anthology
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s poem “Dear O” was selected for inclusion in the anthology Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19. All proceeds will benefit indie booksellers via The Book Industry Charitable Foundation. Chen was also profiled as ...
September 9, 2020
Min Tang on the Geopolitics of 5G Infrastructures
IAS faculty member Min Tang has recently published an article, titled "Huawei Versus the United States? The Geopolitics of Exterritorial Internet Infrastructure?," in the International Journal of Communication. The article explores the complex political economy behind the controversies around the Chinese telecom company Huawei which have drawn much media attention worldwide in past years. While many ...
September 9, 2020