News from the School of IAS

Category: Research and Creative Practice

IAS faculty members keynote and present at the UW Center for Teaching and Learning symposium

Ben Gardner provided a keynote talk, “Global Studies Pedagogy: Relational teaching, relational thinking,” as part of this year’s emphasis on “Teaching in Global Classrooms.” Alice Pedersen presented on "足彩app哪个是正规的 Politics & Practices of Yoga: Mindfulness in the First-Year Classroom," focusing on outcomes from her use of meditation and yoga in her UW Bothell Discovery Core1/BWRIT 134 linked course. Min Tang presented her instructional practices in critical media literacy classes where she integrates global citizenship education in the curriculum and foregrounds an awareness for global communities as an essential aspect to media morality. Becca Price ...

April 24, 2018

Jed Murr publishes exhibition essay for “Collapse: Recent Works by Dewey Crumpler”

IAS faculty member Jed Murr published an exhibition essay for Collapse: Recent Works by Dewey Crumpler at the Hedreen Gallery (Seattle University). 足彩app哪个是正规的 publication, released as a pocket-sized book in conjunction with a public event featuring Crumpler and guest curator Sampada Aranke (Chicago Art Institute) on April 12, explores the ways in which Crumpler's work engages contemporary ecological catastrophe and ...

April 23, 2018

Adam Romero publishes “Beyond the Mother Lode: Synthetic Cyanide and the Chemicalization of California Gold Mining (1895-1905)”

IAS faculty member Adam Romero published "Beyond the Mother Lode: Synthetic Cyanide and the Chemicalization of California Gold Mining (1885-1905)" in California History. 足彩app哪个是正规的 article narrates California's chemically induced second gold rush through the 足彩app哪个是正规的 of synthetic cyanide. In coupling California's geological, environmental, and economic history to the changing nature of gold ore (“peak gold”) in the late 1880s, it explores the role that the development of cyanide leaching and ...

April 23, 2018

Kristy Leissle hosts a series of events for new book, Cocoa

IAS faculty member Kristy Leissle hosted a series of events for her new book, Cocoa (Cambridge: Polity, 2018), which explores geopolitics and personal politics in the global cocoa and chocolate industries. Leissle's US book launch was held at the University Bookstore in Seattle on March 7, and other events followed with scholars, industry participants, and chocolate enthusiasts in ...

April 19, 2018

Karam Dana at the Midwestern Political Science Association

IAS faculty member Karam Dana has just returned from participating in a roundtable at the Midwestern Political Science Association’s annual conference in Chicago. 足彩app哪个是正规的 roundtable was designed for ...

April 19, 2018

Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali announced as exhibiting artists in the 2018 Gwangju Biennale

IAS faculty members Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali have been selected as artists in the upcoming Gwangju Biennale. 足彩app哪个是正规的 artistic due will feature their Studio Revolt works on the deportation of Cambodian Americans as curated by prominent Thai curator Gridthiya Gaweewong, the artistic director of Bangkok’s Jim Thompson Art Center. Ali and Sugano’s video installation will be exhibited amongst a prestigious list of international artists including ...

April 19, 2018