News from the School of IAS
Amaranth Borsuk Launches Abra, a Book and App that Change in the Reader’s Hands
This past week saw the publication of IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk's collaborative project Abra: A Living Text, created with Kate Durbin and Ian Hatcher. Abra presses at the boundaries of the book, coupling a limited-edition, fine press artists' book with a free art app for iPad and iPhone that ...
November 30, 2015
David Goldstein Publishes “Holistic Learning-Centeredness: De-Centering the University for Social Justice”
IAS faculty member David Goldstein published “Holistic Learning-Centeredness: De-Centering the University for Social Justice” in the inaugural issue of Race & Pedagogy. Goldstein argues that de-centering the college campus in favor of ...
November 25, 2015
Santiago Lopez and David Stokes Publish on Spatial Relationships and Model Plant Invasion Process
IAS faculty members Santiago Lopez and David Stokes published “Modeling the Invasion of Holly (Ilex aquifolium): Spatial Relationships and Spread Trajectories” in the journal The Professional Geographer. The article ... Lopez also gave a lightning talk at this year’s GIS Day Conference at UW Seattle. Lopez presented the work students ...
November 25, 2015
Alka Kurian Co-directs the 10th Seattle South Asian Film Festival
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian co-directed the 10th Seattle South Asian Film Festival (SSAFF) October 15 - 25, 2015. Held over five cities in the Greater Seattle area, with nearly 60 films, and 25 invited filmmakers, SSAFF is the biggest and the most diverse film festival of its kind in the US. As part of the festival ...
November 25, 2015
Julie Shayne Presents Taking Risks at Howard Zinn Book Fair
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne presented her edited book Taking Risks: Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas (SUNY 2014; 2015) at the Second Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair in San Francisco. Shayne read her essay “Mother’s Day” which discusses her decision to prioritize family, quality of life, and ultimately ...
November 16, 2015
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