News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Katherine Voyles on James Mattis, ecology & religion, and national defense in culture
IAS faculty member Katherine Voyles recently published on the re-emergence into public life of General James Mattis for Small Wars Journal. She also participated in a conference on “Ecology and Religion in 19th Century Studies,” and appeared on the podcast Trumpcast to discuss issues of national defense in culture and the cultures of national defense.
November 4, 2019
Ching-In Chen curates a series of new poems in response to a New Asian Futurisms exhibit
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has curated a series of new poems in response to a New Asian Futurisms exhibit currently on display at Philadelphia’s Asian Arts Initiative through December 6. In New Asian Futurisms, artists re-repaired the imaginations of fragmented pasts and observed multiple histories of diverse communities in looking forward to the future. In their work ...
November 1, 2019
Jennifer Atkinson presents research on eco-anxiety, climate grief and pretraumatic stress
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson presented her research on eco-anxiety, climate grief and pretraumatic stress at the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. Speaking to an audience of climate educators, students, university administrators and environmental justice activists, her panel shared emerging research in higher education showing that young people carry an increasing emotional response of fear, anger, frustration, and sadness in response to climate disruption.
October 30, 2019
Julie Shayne and Jessica Manfredi publish paper about feminist activist scholarship in the Trump-Bolsonaro era
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) faculty member Julie Shayne and Global Studies alum Jessica Manfredi co-authored an article titled “Reflections on Activist Scholarship in the Trump-Bolsonaro Era: Dual Hemisphere Hate Transforms Intellectual Praxis into Political Imperative” which just came out in the Colombian open-access journal Revista CS. It was published in a special issue on activist scholarship ...
October 24, 2019
Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali featured in the New York Times
IAS faculty Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali are highlighted in the New York Times for their upcoming November residency at the Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture and Design. In the article titled, “A Hawaii Home for Islamic Art Widens Its Scope” Sugano and Ali, through their media lab Studio Revolt, are mentioned as invited “artists charged with exploring Muslim and Hawaiian cultures in new ways.”
October 24, 2019
IAS faculty, staff, students, and alumni host and participate in &Now Festival of Innovative Writing
On September 19-22 the UW Bothell and Cascadia College campuses hosted more than just incoming freshmen. Over 400 participants convened at Bothell for the &Now Festival of Innovative Writing, hosted this fall by the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics in conjunction with the program's annual fall Convergence on Poetics. ...
October 24, 2019
Wanda Gregory’s course on “Black Mirror” featured
“What originally intrigued me about ‘Black Mirror’ was its intersections: technology, society, ethics, business,” says IAS faculty member Wanda Gregory. “Exploring the network that these connections form creates space for fascinating conversations and questions.”
October 21, 2019
Ching-In Chen’s “Score for a Prison Town” included in Of Texas exhibition
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “Score for a Prison Town” is included in Of Texas, an exhibition and publication of instruction or score-based artworks, poems, and texts created by people who live in Texas, are from Texas, or are somehow deeply connected to Texas; or otherwise, “of Texas.” The exhibit will have an opening reception at ...
October 21, 2019
Alka Kurian interviews Fatima Bhutto
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian launches the second episode of her podcast #SouthAsianFilmsAndBooks. It is based on her conversation with Fatima Bhutto on her latest book New Kings of the World where the author talks about how mass-produced Western cultural products are being swept aside as a result of the rise of Bollywood films ...
October 16, 2019
Gustafson and Adams present on mutual civic engagement
A cross-campus collaboration focused on reciprocity and mutuality led Kristin Gustafson, IAS faculty, and Kara Adams, director of community engagement, to present their research at the Engagement Scholarship Consortium International Conference in October. The conference, held in Denver, focused on advancing community engagement in higher education.
October 15, 2019