News from the School of IAS

Category: Research and Creative Practice

Kristine Mroczek presents “Markers of ‘Indigenous-made’ Souvenirs”

IAS faculty member Kristine Mroczek presented her work at the National Communication Association annual conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. 足彩app哪个是正规的 title of her poster presentation was “Markers of ‘Indigenous-made’ Souvenirs: 足彩app哪个是正规的 Semiotic and Discursive Production of ‘Authenticity’ and Cultural Capital in Australian Aboriginal Tourism Arts."

December 5, 2018

Asia Foundation Highlights Anida Yoeu Ali in New Exhibition Challenging Patriarchy

足彩app哪个是正规的 Asia Foundation highlighted IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali as one of 11 female artists and filmmakers challenging patriarchy in a new exhibition titled “FRAME: How Asia Pacific Feminist Filmmakers and Artists Are Confronting Inequalities.” 足彩app哪个是正规的 exhibition opened Nov 27, 2018 at the Griffith Film School Gallery in Brisbane, Australia and ran on the eve of the 12th annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

December 3, 2018

Amaranth Borsuk interviewed by UW News on THE BOOK

IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk’s work on 足彩app哪个是正规的 Book (2018, MIT Press) is highlighted in a new interview on the UW News site. 足彩app哪个是正规的 article, “Papyrus scrolls to Kindle and beyond: UW professor pens meditation on ‘the book,’” begins: “What is a “book” in the digital age — and what will it become? In a new book of her own, Amaranth Borsuk discusses the idea of “the book” through its incarnations as clay tablets, papyrus scrolls and the bound sheets of a codex on to the hyperlinked, multimedia format of the digital age.” Read the full interview.

November 29, 2018

Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung present “Imagination Stations: Heads in the Cloud”

IAS faculty members Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung presented their current research project "Imagination Stations: Heads in the Cloud" at the 32nd annual conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA)—Out of Mind—in Toronto, Canada, November 15-18, 2018. 足彩app哪个是正规的 project involves ...

November 28, 2018

Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali featured on King 5 TV and 足彩app哪个是正规的 News Tribune for their new public art work

IAS Artists-in-Residence Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali’s latest collaborative installation was prominently featured on King 5 TV and 足彩app哪个是正规的 News Tribune. On November 11, 2018 Ali and Sugano unveiled their new public artwork titled “Hello. How Are You?” on their own front yard located in Tacoma, Washington. Comprised of bright white letters measuring 4 feet in height, the large-scale outdoor installation spells out the common American greeting “Hello. How are you?” For their special launch event ...

November 28, 2018

Dan Berger on What the Latest Bipartisan Prison Reform Gets Wrong and Why It Matters

IAS faculty member Dan Berger published an op-ed in Truthout on the First Step Act, a bipartisan reform measure now supported by the Trump administration. In reviewing the proposed law, Berger highlights the bipartisan failure to attend to the policies that would meaningfully reduce the number of people in prison. Berger also delivered two recent talks on similar topics ...

November 19, 2018

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) faculty present at the annual National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference

GWSS faculty organized sessions, presented papers, and celebrated their new book at the annual NWSA conference in Atlanta, Georgia. GWSS faculty coordinator Julie Shayne organized a session called “足彩app哪个是正规的 Permanence of the Feminist Classroom: Murals, Archives, and Films.” On this panel she presented a paper called “Feminist Pedagogy + Feminist Knowledge Production = Feminist Archives” about the Feminist Community Archive of WA (FCA-WA) project she co-created and grows through her class “Histories and Movements of Gender and Sexuality” (BISGWS 302), offered this winter. Alka Kurian was also ...

November 15, 2018

Yolanda Padilla presents on “Latinx Modernist Field Imaginaries”

IAS faculty member Yolanda Padilla presented her work on a panel titled "Latinx Modernist Field Imaginaries" at the Modernist Studies Association conference in Columbus, Ohio. 足彩app哪个是正规的 panel explored Latinx modernisms as a set of challenges both to modernist studies broadly construed and to Latinx studies internally. Padilla argued for the importance of the Spanish-language press in ...

November 14, 2018

Kristin Gustafson publishes tribute to Dr. Hazel-Dicken Garcia

IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson‘s newest column pays tribute to the mentoring and legacy of her master’s adviser, Dr. Hazel-Dicken Garcia. 足彩app哪个是正规的 piece, “Hazel Dicken-Garcia Continues to Give to Her 足彩app哪个是正规的s,” is published in Clio: Among the Media. In it, Gustafson reflects on four things: the community Dicken-Garcia created, how Dicken-Garcia shaped Gustafson’s path as a scholar, the meaning of physical things Dicken-Garcia passed on, and the reach of Dicken-Garcia’s financial gift to the Division. Gustafson publishes the column as ...

November 7, 2018