News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Mark Chen gives keynote at 2017 Media, Multimedia, and Secondary English Education conference
IAS faculty member Mark Chen gave a keynote talk at the 2017 Media, Multimedia, and Secondary English Education (MMSEE) conference in South Korea. Titled “What It Means to Be Gaming Literate,” the talk explored how "literacy" is dependent on active participation and is inherently a narrative account of practice and that gaming literacy is therefore also about active participation, in this case with finding patterns in messy systems. Chen also ...
November 8, 2017
Anida Yoeu Ali & Masahiro Sugano awarded grants from the Tacoma Artists Initiative Program
IAS faculty members Anida Yoeu Ali & Masahiro Sugano were each awarded grants from the Tacoma Artists Initiative Program administered by the Tacoma Arts Commission. 足彩app哪个是正规的 grant supports independent artists in engaging, enlightening, and inspiring their communities as well as audiences from the Puget Sound area and beyond. ...
November 6, 2017
Bruce Burgett gives keynote and plenary on “What Do Keywords Do”
IAS dean and faculty member Bruce Burgett gave a keynote and plenary on “What Do Keywords Do” at the “Language and Culture” conference in Koper, Slovenia. Co-delivered with his co-author Glenn Hendler (Fordham University), the talk focused on lessons learned from their co-editing of Keywords for American Cultural Studies, and ...
November 3, 2017
William McKeithen co-edits forum of open-access essays on social reproduction
Project for Interdisciplinary Pedagogy (PIP) fellow William McKeithen has co-edited a forum of open-access essays (all on the shorter side) on social reproduction. 足彩app哪个是正规的 first batch has just been released, focusing on queer theory and SR. Later issues coming out this month will focus on un/paid labor and nature-society relations respectively. He has co-written the introduction, “Beyond binaries and boundaries in ‘social reproduction” as well as ...
November 1, 2017
Alice Pedersen presents “足彩app哪个是正规的 Practices and Politics of Yoga”
IAS faculty member Alice Pedersen attended the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education annual conference in San Jose, CA. This year's theme, "Radicalizing Contemplative Education: Compassion, Intersectionality, and Justice in Challenging Times" offered discussion and workshops on integrating social justice pedagogies with contemplative pedagogies. Pedersen presented ...
October 31, 2017
Alka Kurian publishes New Feminisms in South Asia: Disrupting the Discourse Through Social Media, Film, and Literature
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian published a co-edited book New Feminisms in South Asia: Disrupting the Discourse Through Social Media, Film, and Literature (Routledge, 2017). This book is a study of the resurgence and re-imagination of new feminist discourse on gender and sexuality in South Asia as told through its cinematic, literary, and social media narratives. It brings incisive and expert analyses of emerging disruptive articulations that represent an unprecedented surge of feminist response to the culture of sexual violence in South Asia. Here, scholars across disciplines and international borders chronicle ...
October 31, 2017
Julie Shayne featured in UW Libraries “How I Work Open” project
October 23-27, 2017 was international Open Access Week, a celebration of shared knowledge, open scholarship, and barrier-free research and scholarly publishing. In honor of Open Access Week, UW Libraries assembled an inspiring collection of interdisciplinary voices from across the University of Washington describing faculty and staff experiences with open access and practicing open scholarship and research. This project is called “How I Work Open” and includes ...
October 31, 2017
Alka Kurian leads book chats at Columbia City Library
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian led a book chat on Mohsin Hamid's novel 足彩app哪个是正规的 Reluctant Fundamentalist on October 19 at Columbia branch library and moderated a film-screening program at Rainier Arts center on October 20. 足彩app哪个是正规的se programs...
October 23, 2017
Adam Romero provides coal products tree to Atlantic article
An archival image collected by IAS faculty member Adam Romero was recently highlighted by environmental sociologist Rebecca Altman in 足彩app哪个是正规的 Atlantic. Altman's article, "How the Benzene Tree Polluted the World," explores the use of tree metaphors in naturalizing the products of the chemical industry. Professor Romero acquired the image titled, ‘Coal Products Tree’ at ...
October 20, 2017
Amaranth Borsuk speaks and reads on the east coast
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk traveled to Temple University in Philadelphia last week to give a lecture as part of the Poets & Writers Series at the Tyler School of Art's gallery, Temple Contemporary. Her talk, "Poetic Mutations and Digital Mediations," traced her interest in the book as a transforming object across her scholarly and creative practice. While on the east coast, Borsuk also traveled to New York to read as part of SUNY Buffalo's Poetics Plus series, held at the Western New York Book Art Center, a fitting space in which to present her poetry and poetics. In addition ...
October 17, 2017