News from the School of IAS
IAS faculty members Amaranth Borsuk and Sarah Dowling publish chapbook documenting Translational Poetics
Essay Press has just published Affect and Audience: Translational Poetics, a chapbook curated by Amaranth Borsuk, with an introduction by Sarah Dowling, and with contributions from micha cárdenas. The free digital publication documents a 2016 symposium at the Simpson Center for the Humanities, which Borsuk and Dowling hosted with Gregory Laynor (PIP) and Brian Reed (UW Seattle, English). The symposium Affect and Audience: Translational Poetics investigated ...
February 14, 2017
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk performs and speaks in Los Angeles and Florida
This January, IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk traveled to Los Angeles to perform at the Armand Hammer Museum in the Hammer Readings, a series that this spring will feature Evie Shockley and Robert Pinsky. The reading marked Borsuk's return to a series that was formative in her own development as a poet while an undergraduate at UCLA. While she was in town, she was interviewed by Naiomi Desai, an editor of Westwind, UCLA's undergraduate literary magazine. At her January 19 reading ...
February 3, 2017
Santiago Lopez has three new publications on climate and land use
IAS faculty members Santiago Lopez and Jin-Kyu Jung published “A hybrid-epistemological approach to climate change research: Linking scientific and smallholder knowledge systems in the Ecuadorian Andes” in the journal Anthropocene. Lopez also published “The socio-ecological systems of southeastern Ecuador: Processes and patterns of land use change,” in Nature and Society: Socio-Ecological perspectives on Global Changes in Latin America. Finally, Lopez and IAS alum, Christopher Wright and Paulette Costanza, published “Environmental change in the equatorial Andes: Linking climate, land use, and land cover transformations” in the journal Remote Sensing Applications: Environment and Society.
January 31, 2017
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) faculty, staff, and students participate in the Womxn’s March on Seattle
On Saturday January 21, 2017, Seattle was one of at least 670 cities around the world where folks turned out en masse to denounce the Trump administration’s misogyny, xenophobia, racism, queer phobia, ableism, and general disregard for marginalized communities. GWSS faculty and students marched with friends, family, and allies, declaring intersectional resistance to the Trump administration’s anti-women, anti-queer, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, and anti-people of color policies. Check out this ...
January 30, 2017
Forbes names Jacob Allen “30 Under 30 Who Are Changing the World in Education”
IAS alum Jacob Allen (’12, Society, Ethics & Human Behavior) is the CEO and Co-Founder of pilotED Schools, an after school program with curriculum focused on sociological identity, academic excellence, and civic engagement. The program has been so successful ...
January 17, 2017
Silvia Ferreira publishes in Journal of Arabic Literature
IAS faculty member Silvia Ferreira published “Confessions and Indiscretions: Translating the Self in the Southern Mahjar” in the latest issue of the Journal of Arabic Literature...
January 12, 2017
Abigail Echo-Hawk discusses indigenous research as storytelling on Red Talks
Alum Abigail Echo-Hawk (’09, MA in Policy Studies; ’07, American Studies) shared her approach to research with indigenous populations on “Red Talks"...
January 12, 2017
Alka Kurian publishes “Post-colonial Transgression in Deepa Mehta’s Feminist Quartet”
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian published "Post-colonial Transgression in Deepa Mehta's Feminist Quartet," in Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan and Vimal Mohan John's co-edited collection of essays Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Bollywood Directors and Their Cinema. In this chapter Kurian ...
January 3, 2017
Shannon Cram presents research on remediation at Washington’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation
IAS faculty member Shannon Cram was invited to the University of Michigan's Science, Technology, and Society Program where she presented her research to the Science and Technology Studies Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop and gave a guest lecture in Dr. Gabrielle Hecht's "Global Nuclear Proliferation" class. For both events ...
December 30, 2016
IAS Faculty Members Win Simpson Center Funding Awards
Six IAS faculty members won Simpson Center for the Humanities awards in the fall 2016 funding round. Shannon Cram received a research fellowship as a member of the Society of Scholars to complete her book manuscript, “Unmaking the Bomb: Nuclear Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility.” José Fusté, Jade Power-Sotomayor, and Dan Berger were all awarded Digital Humanities Summer Fellowships. Fusté and Jade Power-Sotomayor will work on “The Bomba Wiki Project: Oral, Aural, and Corporeal History and Community-Making through Bomba Music and Dance,” while Berger will ...
December 21, 2016