News from the School of IAS

Amaranth Borsuk featured in Bienal Internacional Poesia Oeiras

IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk was featured this month in the first International Poetry Biennial in Oeiras Portugal, a celebration of poetry under the theme of Power and Democracy. The biennial was held at the Templo da Poesia in the Poets' Park, a public oasis with ...

November 24, 2021

Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung: The hunt for happiness

Heads in the Cloud, a Discovery Core class team-taught by IAS faculty members Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung, asks the students one, complex question: Is our technological environment simply the new architecture of life, or are there creative ways to think and rethink our possibilities for engagement?

November 23, 2021

Karam Dana on “Palestine: Resurgent and Emergent Solidarities”

IAS faculty member Karam Dana participated in the American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) annual meeting as a panelist on a virtual roundtable titled “Palestine: Resurgent and Emergent Solidarities.” Dana discussed how Palestinians have long sympathized with other colonized ...

November 23, 2021

Ching-In Chen joins editorial board of Hyphen Magazine

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has joined the editorial board of Hyphen Magazine as a Visual Arts editor on the Arts and Culture team. Hyphen is a news and culture magazine, media outlet, and community partner that illuminates Asian America through ...

November 23, 2021

Berette S. Macaulay Exhibits at Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam

Berette S. Macaulay (Cultural Studies, '20) is a featured artist in the exhibition Back in the Day is our Future, part of the Melkweg Expo in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 29 through December 5, 2021. Curated by Jessy Koeiman, Back in the Day is our Future amplifies Black voices who manifest resistance by ...

November 22, 2021

Minda Martin screens Ramps to Nowhere and engages in community discussion

IAS faculty member Minda Martin screened her essay film Ramps to Nowhere on November 15, 2021 to more than 350 attendees hosted by Front and Centered, King County Equity Now, Disability Rights Washington, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways, 350 Seattle, Social Justice Film Institute, and Meaningful Movies. ...

November 22, 2021

MFA student Amy Hirayama Apprentices with Writers in the Schools

Amy Hirayama, a second-year student in the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, was recently selected to serve as an apprentice in Seattle Arts and Lectures' Writers in the Schools Program. In this newly-created role, Hirayama, a former middle school teacher, will serve as a Writer-in-Residence alongside an established WITS teacher at Evergreen High School, gaining experience, mentorship, and professional development while working in an area of education she is passionate about. Profiled last month on SAL's blog, SAL/ON, ...

November 19, 2021

Melanie Malone: community research on the Lower Duwamish Superfund

IAS faculty member Melanie Malone and colleagues from UW Seattle led a project to facilitate community research on the Lower Duwamish Superfund. The project, "Co-creating an Adaptive Community-Science Network: Supporting Tribal and Grassroots Action through the Puget Creek Watershed Assessment," ...

November 19, 2021

Jennifer Atkinson’s podcast featured in Arts & Climate Change

IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson's podcast was featured in Arts & Climate Change, an organization that supports "deeply-engaged, throughout-provoking and artistically-savvy responses to climate change." In 2020, Atkinson launched a podcast called Facing It to share research on the emotional and psychological toll of climate change. Yet the series also ...

November 18, 2021