News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Minda Martin facilitates artist panel at the Henry
IAS faculty member Minda Martin facilitated an artist panel on 23 November 2019 during the opening weekend of Shamim M. Momin’s In Plain Sight exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery. The artists on the panel Beatriz Cortez, Nicole Miller, Tom Burr, and Andrea Bowers. The panel focused on ...
December 5, 2019
Amoshaun Toft at the OurMedia Conference: “From StudioX to legal FM”
IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft co-organized the “Echoes of Indymedia: Infrastructures of resistance” panel at the OurMedia conference in Brussels. His presentation, “From StudioX to legal FM: Organizing communications infrastructure in Seattle 1999-2019” accompanied participants in-person and remotely from a range of academics and practitioners involved in ...
December 2, 2019
Rebecca Brown: recent publications and an interview
IAS faculty member Rebecca Brown has had a very active 2019, publishing several pieces of writing: an essay, “Body, Soul and Word,” in @ KGB Bar Lit Journal; a story, “The Beanstalk,” in Willow Springs; an interview in Willow Springs ; two stories, “The Pigs” and “Gepetto,” in Brutus (translated into Japanese from her 2018 collection, Not Heaven, Somewhere Else); a short essay, also translated into ...
November 25, 2019
It’s time to start adapting to climate change
Too many discussions about climate change end in a conversation about reducing greenhouse gases, says IAS faculty member Margaret Redsteer in a recent UW Bothell news piece. That’s not a bad conversation, but it’s too late. “There’s no real discussion about the fact that climate change is already here...
November 25, 2019
Amaranth Borsuk publishes in special issue of Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk has a longstanding practice of making her digital works open-source and available for modification. This month, she opened up her collaborative project Abra: A Living Text for a special issue of Enculturation edited by Helen Burgess (North Carolina State University) and Roger Whitson (Washington State University). The issue, "Critical Making and Executable Kits" features scholars open sourcing digital humanities projects with ...
November 25, 2019
Amaranth Borsuk speaks in Texas
Last week IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk visited Texas for two speaking engagements related to The Book. In San Antonio, Borsuk visited the Southwest School of Art, where she gave an artist's talk and met with students studying paper making, book arts, and letterpress printing. She then traveled to Victoria to speak in the American Book Review reading series at the University of Houston Victoria. Her talk there ...
November 19, 2019
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) faculty, staff, and student present at the annual National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference
This year six GWSS faculty, one undergraduate major, and the GWSS librarian all attended the 40th annual National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) conference. Professor Julie Shayne organized a session titled “Using Feminist Pedagogy to Mobilize Knowledge: Zines, Museums, Peer Education, & Pop Feminism.” The panel showcased the work of UWB faculty, staff, and students. Prof Shayne, GWSS librarian Penelope Wood, and GWSS major Nicole Carter co-presented a paper titled “‘Rad Womxn and Femmes in the Pacific Northwest:’ A Zine by ...
November 19, 2019
Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung: Mapping haunted data
IAS faculty members Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung presented recent work on haunted data at the 2019 meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA). Their paper, "Mapping haunted data: Occultations of psychogeography," shared experiments with the concept of haunted data ...
November 15, 2019
Jennifer Atkinson speaks on eco-anxiety
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson spoke on the topic of eco-anxiety at an event sponsored by the City of Seattle's Office of Arts and Culture. Presenting alongside Clayton Aldern, a data scientist and writer for the environmental magazine Grist, Atkinson traced connections between climate change, environmental degradation, and mental health.
November 12, 2019
Ching-In Chen awarded Contemplative Social Justice Scholar grant
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has been awarded a grant as a Contemplative Social Justice Scholar to attend the 2019 Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education conference at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The 2019 ACMHE conference is focused on Radical Well-Being in Higher Education: Approaches for Renewal, Justice, and Sustainability and will share how contemplative practices, including ...
November 12, 2019