News from the School of IAS
Creative works of Susan Brown reach local and international audiences
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing & Poetics alum Susan Brown (’14) has been busy! Her artist book Mythical Magical Physickal Madness was included in the Heroic Works exhibition at University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries last summer. In October, a second copy was exhibited at Seattle's Antiquarian Book Fair, which showcases thousands of rare and antiquarian books and ephemera. Brown is also ...
October 23, 2017
Grewal and Huston discuss their careers in mental health and sustainable agriculture
Alums Jasleena Grewal and Aaron Huston met with IAS students to share their career journeys and how they leveraged their time at UW Bothell. Grewal (’13, Environmental Science) is currently working on a psychiatric nurse practitioner degree at Seattle University and is a freelance journalist writing about art, culture, and social justice. Huston (’13, Environmental Studies and Global Studies) is co-owner of Farmstand Local Foods, which supports economically and environmentally sustainable food systems by facilitating connections between local producers and consumers.
October 23, 2017
Alka Kurian leads book chats at Columbia City Library
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian led a book chat on Mohsin Hamid's novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist on October 19 at Columbia branch library and moderated a film-screening program at Rainier Arts center on October 20. These programs...
October 23, 2017
Amoshaun Toft leads workshops on Community Radio Journalism at area LPFM stations
IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft is facilitating a series of workshops at new area Low Power FM radio stations. The first two workshops will be held at the brand new SPACE 101.1 FM studios in the gatehouse for Sand Point at Magnuson Park, where UWB students will act as peer facilitators for workshop attendees from area LPFM radio stations. Participants will include potential programmers for ...
October 20, 2017
Adam Romero provides coal products tree to Atlantic article
An archival image collected by IAS faculty member Adam Romero was recently highlighted by environmental sociologist Rebecca Altman in The Atlantic. Altman's article, "How the Benzene Tree Polluted the World," explores the use of tree metaphors in naturalizing the products of the chemical industry. Professor Romero acquired the image titled, ‘Coal Products Tree’ at ...
October 20, 2017
Amoshaun Toft profiled in Faculty Highlights Report
IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft is profiled in a Faculty Highlights Report on Urban@UW's Homelessness Research Initiative. He is working with faculty and students across the three campuses in the Critical Narratives of Homelessness research cluster to confront dominant stereotypes through ...
October 20, 2017
Martha Groom named “Super Mentor”
IAS faculty member Martha Groom was named a "Super Mentor" at the Student Conference for Conservation Science - New York in recognition of her many years of service giving career and project advice to young conservationists at the three day conference each year. She began her work with SCCS-NY as their first Plenary Speaker in 2010, and has attended as a mentor every year. The conference hosts graduate students and post-doctoral students from around the world, with speakers from over 30 countries. The last two years, Martha also has brought 25-30 undergraduates ...
October 18, 2017
Amaranth Borsuk speaks and reads on the east coast
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk traveled to Temple University in Philadelphia last week to give a lecture as part of the Poets & Writers Series at the Tyler School of Art's gallery, Temple Contemporary. Her talk, "Poetic Mutations and Digital Mediations," traced her interest in the book as a transforming object across her scholarly and creative practice. While on the east coast, Borsuk also traveled to New York to read as part of SUNY Buffalo's Poetics Plus series, held at the Western New York Book Art Center, a fitting space in which to present her poetry and poetics. In addition ...
October 17, 2017
Silvia C. Ferreira presents at Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference
IAS faculty member Silvia C. Ferreira presented at the 11th Biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference, which was held at the University of Dayton in early October. She was on a panel titled “Global Rhetorical Actions.” Her paper, which was titled “Probing the ‘Golden Rules’ of Gender: Global Feminist Rhetorics in the Arab Immigrant Press in Brazil,” focused on ...
October 12, 2017
Amaranth Borsuk presents work in Denmark
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk and her collaborator Ian Hatcher traveled to Denmark to speak about their creative practice, perform their work, and discuss their project Abra, a hybrid artist's book and iOS app created with Kate Durbin. The two attended the exhibition opening of Fra A til 3D, an exhibition of international new media writing and art at the Roskilde Bibliotekerne. Abra is featured in the exhibit as winner of the Turn On Literature Prize, which presents ...
October 12, 2017