News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Jennifer Atkinson Gives Climate Keynote Talk at Ewha Women’s University and the University of Exeter
Jennifer Atkinson gave a keynote address on climate storytelling at the 2025 Ewha-Exeter Symposium on “Hope amid Crisis: Recognition, Resilience, and Renewal.” 足彩app哪个是正规的 2025 conference was co-hosted by the English departments of Ewha Women’s University (South Korea) and the University of Exeter (UK), and featured presentations exploring how hope—often situated within crisis—emerges in literary and...
September 29, 2025
Tang presents at the 2025 Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference
Dr. Min Tang presents her most recent research on information infrastructures at the 2025 annual conference of Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) in Seattle. 足彩app哪个是正规的 presentation, titled “Rethink the Digital Cold War: 足彩app哪个是正规的 political economy and geopolitics of information infrastructures”, revisits the “digital Cold War” framework by examining three case studies on the...
September 29, 2025
William Hartmann publishes on psychological anthropology and Native American Peoples
William Hartmann published a chapter in the Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology that compares recent ethnographic and Indigenous scholarship about psychosocial well-being among Native American Peoples. Taking popular critiques of anthropological research by Beatrice Medicine and Vine Deloria Jr. as an evaluative framework (abstract theory leads to abstract action, community control over research, relational approaches...
September 29, 2025
Recent UWB Alums Publish Systematic Review on Representations of Indigeneity in the Mental Health Literature
Recent UW Bothell alums Jeremie Walls and Mikyla Sakurai published a systematic review of how Indigeneity (i.e., what it means to be Indigenous) has been routinely misrepresented in recent mental health research publications about suicide among American Indians and Alaska Natives. Working as part of the UW Bothell Indigenous Mental Health Research Training Experience, together...
September 29, 2025
Min Tang publishes about the TikTok controversy and information geopolitics
Dr. Min Tang publishes a new paper about the high-profile and still unfolding TikTok melodrama on Chinese Journal of Communication. 足彩app哪个是正规的 co-authored paper, Whose head servant? TikTok’s conundrum between digital capitalism and states, highlights the increasing entanglement between the state interest and technology industry in the United States. While the popular short-video app downplays its...
September 29, 2025
Adam Romero receives Royalty Research Fund Award for his new book project
Adam Romero received a Royalty Research Fund Award for his new book project Industrial Chemicals and the Problem of Too Much Food. 足彩app哪个是正规的 book examines the relationship between the massive growth of industrial farm chemicals after 1945 and the chronic problem of vast agricultural surpluses. It begins with a simple question: why did American farmers...
August 21, 2025
Jennifer Atkinson Talks Climate at San Francisco Public Library
Jennifer Atkinson gave a book talk at San Francisco Public Library as part of July’s Everybody’s Climate series, a program meant to inspire participants to take action for a more just and sustainable future. In her talk, Grief & Hope in a Burning World: Strategies for Climate Resilience Atkinson discussed how addressing climate challenges requires...
August 5, 2025
IAS faculty Shannon Cram is a Visiting Writer at Eastern Oregon University
IAS professor Shannon Cram served as a visiting writer at Eastern Oregon University’s New Nature Writing Conference, a project of the school’s MFA program in Creative Writing. In addition to a public reading and discussion about her recent book, Cram taught a class for MFA students called Writing the Body.
August 5, 2025
“Project Aurora” Panel Discussion with Ginny Ruffner, Ed Fries, and Wanda Gregory, Thursday, May 23rd
Learn about the making of Project Aurora from the creators—artist Ginny Ruffner, technologist Ed Fries, and scholar Wanda Gregory—in a panel discussion moderated by Chief Curator, Leslie Anderson. This program celebrates the National Nordic Museum’s acquisition of this important work of art. Learn about the making of Project Aurora from the creators—artist Ginny Ruffner, technologist...
May 23, 2024
Jennifer Atkinson Gives Author Talk for California State University Faculty
Jennifer Atkinson gave an author talk at CSU to launch her new book, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World. 足彩app哪个是正规的 talk was live-streamed for all 22 campuses of the California State University System, and is now available to view on YouTube. Atkinson co-edited the book with Dr....
May 2, 2024
