News from the School of IAS
Dan Berger speaks on Captive Nation in Baltimore
IAS faculty member Dan Berger gave three talks in Baltimore based on his book Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era. Berger gave a lecture at Goucher College on “Prisons, State Violence, and the Organizing Tradition.” At the annual meeting of ...
November 16, 2015
David Goldstein Publishes Clickers in the Classroom
David Goldstein, along with co-editor Peter Wallis of UW IT, published Clickers in the Classroom: Using Classroom Response Systems to Increase Student Learning (Stylus Press). The book includes ...
November 16, 2015
MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics Alumni are Publishing Widely
MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics alumni are publishing widely! Issue 5 of Small Po[r]tions, a twice yearly journal of short[er] work and multi/intermedia art, has hit the web. Co-editors include ...
November 10, 2015
Shannon Cram publishes “Wild and Scenic Wasteland: Conservation Politics in the Nuclear Wilderness”
IAS faculty member Shannon Cram published "Wild and Scenic Wasteland: Conservation Politics in the Nuclear Wilderness" in Environmental Humanities. Drawing on Cram's ethnographic work ...
November 10, 2015
Julie Shayne Blogs About Feminist Undergraduate Mentoring
IAS faculty Julie Shayne writes “Feminist Mentoring and Underserved Rock Stars” for the Feminist Reflections blog. In it, Shayne talks about ...
October 30, 2015
Laura Harkewicz Transforms Her Dissertation into a Creative Nonfiction Project on 1954 Bravo Hydrogen Bomb Test
IAS faculty member Laura Harkewicz transforms her dissertation into a creative nonfiction project at the annual Pacific Northwest History and Philosophy of Science Workshop. Harkewicz’s project discusses ...
October 27, 2015
Amaranth Borsuk Speaks in Mexico City and Screens Videopoetry Internationally
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk speaks at international symposium Máquinas de Inminencia: Estéticas de la Literatura Electrónica in Mexico City. Borsuk also screened her videopoetry at several sites in October, including ...
October 27, 2015
Miriam Bartha and Bruce Burgett discuss public scholarship at Imagining America
IAS Director of Graduate Programs Miriam Bartha and Dean Bruce Burgett ran a workshop with colleagues from the Arts of Citizenship program at the University of Michigan on “Public Scholarship and Graduate Education: Strengthening Connections, Delineating Futures” at the ...
October 22, 2015
Yolanda Padilla presents at Casa de las Américas
IAS faculty member Yolanda Padilla presented at a colloquium hosted by Casa de las Américas in Havana, Cuba. Her paper, “Hemispheric Letradas: Gender, the Mexican Revolution, and Transnational Critique on the U.S.-Mexico Border” argues ...
October 22, 2015
IAS Hosts the 2015 Community Research and Action in the West (CRA-W) Conference
IAS faculty members Charlie Collins and Lauren Lichty co-organized the 2015 Community Research and Action in the West (CRA-W) conference, hosted by the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences (IAS) at UW Bothell. Over 100 community engaged social justice scholar-practitioner attended, including ...
October 21, 2015