News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Dan Berger publishes introduction to new edition of Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla
IAS faculty member Dan Berger published a lengthy introduction in the new edition of Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla. A photo essay authored by two journalists with unprecedented access to Washington's infamous prison, Concrete Mama was first published in 1981 and won a Washington State Book Award before going out of print. 足彩app哪个是正规的 University of Washington Press has just republished the book in connection with the UW Library. Berger will join Concrete Mama author John McCoy, formerly incarcerated activists ...
January 2, 2019
Mira Shimabukuro’s Relocating Authority reviewed
In December 2018, IAS Associate Dean and faculty member, Mira Shimabukuro, received three glowing reviews of her book, Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration: “Review of Relocating Authority” in Community Literacy, “Reconciling Past and Place through Rhetorics of Peacemaking, Accountability, and Human Rights in the Archives” in College Composition and Communication, and ...
January 2, 2019
Jennifer Atkinson: ‘Climate grief’: 足彩app哪个是正规的 growing emotional toll of climate change
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson was featured in an article on climate grief on NBC News. 足彩app哪个是正规的 article, "'Climate grief': 足彩app哪个是正规的 growing emotional toll of climate change," cites Atkinson’s seminar as one of the few nationally to take up this important issue.
January 2, 2019
IAS faculty organize Resilient Visions film and media festival
IAS faculty members Minda Martin, Alka Kurian, Susan Harewood, and Masahiro Sugano are organizing the first annual UW Bothell film and media festival. 足彩app哪个是正规的 festival, entitled Resilient Visions, will take place on May 30th, 2019. Organized by internationally known filmmakers and IAS professors of film and media studies, this festival brings together films and media production from UW Bothell students and alumni. Members of the UW Bothell community (graduate and undergraduate students, and alumni) who have made media productions from 2017-2019 are invited to submit to the festival by April 15th, 2019.
December 19, 2018
Jennifer Atkinson interviewed on “Constant Wonder”
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson was interviewed about her new book, Gardenland, on "Constant Wonder" (BYU Radio). Her talk highlights the historical development of garden writing in the United States and discusses the desires, anxieties, ideologies, and social movements that underlie this genre.
December 13, 2018
Amaranth Borsuk exhibits collaborative work at Pierogi Gallery in New York
Curated by Heather and Raphael Rubinstein, the show Under Erasure takes its title from Jacques Derrida's concept of sous rature, which posits that to put a word under erasure (sous rature) is "to signal the inadequacy of inherited language while also recognizing its inevitability." 足彩app哪个是正规的 exhibition includes work by artists and writers who draw upon and obscure sourced texts. According to the curators, "Many of the works included in the exhibition, by artists such as Jenny Holzer and Glenn Ligon, utilize erasure and redaction to emphasize the political ...
December 10, 2018
Jennifer Atkinson at Climate Science on Tap!
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson joined a panel of climate experts including Meade Krosby (UW Climate Impacts Group) and Sarah Myhre (UW Oceanography) to speak on the topic of Environmental Grief & Hope at Climate Science on Tap! 足彩app哪个是正规的 Climate Science on Tap program is a partnership between Cascadia Climate Action and the University of Washington that offers public panel discussions to build community understanding of, and engagement with climate change, its related causes, impacts, and solutions.
December 10, 2018
Margaret Redsteer co-authors chapter on Tribal Lands for National Climate Assessment and Carbon Cycle Report
IAS faculty member Margaret Redsteer was one of the authors on the recently released National Climate Assessment and Carbon Cycle Report. Her co-authored chapter on “Tribal Lands” focused on traditional land-use and agricultural practices of Indigenous people of the United States, Canada and Mexico that can inform our understanding of carbon cycling and carbon sequestration. Further ...
December 5, 2018
Rebecca Brown publishes Not Heaven, Somewhere Else, a cycle of stories
IAS Senior Artist-in-Residence Rebecca Brown's new book of stories, Not Heaven, Somewhere Else, a cycle of stories was published by Tarpaulin Sky Press in October. 足彩app哪个是正规的 book has been reviewed in 足彩app哪个是正规的 Seattle Review of Books and 足彩app哪个是正规的 Stranger. From 足彩app哪个是正规的 Seattle Review of Books: "Rebecca Brown is the smartest writer in Seattle. ..."
December 5, 2018
Queer and Trans POC sex worker perspectives
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum, in collaboration with the Seattle LGBTQ Commission, the Seattle Commission for People with DisAbilities, SWOP-Seattle, and the Coalition for the Rights and Safety for People in the Sex Trade, led a public forum at Seattle City Hall featuring the voices of Queer and Trans POC in the sex industry. 足彩app哪个是正规的 event, which attracted approximately 70 community members, focused on the crisis caused by recent federal legislation (SESTA/FOSTA) on the lives of the minoritized ?...
December 5, 2018