News from School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Shannon Cram participates in a symposium at Duke University
Shannon Cram presented at the Politics of Dwelling in the Anthropocene symposium at Duke University. Hosted by the Asian Pacific Studies Institute, the symposium centered around two primary questions: “How do anthropogenic activities both jeopardize and constitute the very grounds of our coexistence? How do people navigate complex landscapes amidst global realities of unsettling disparities,...
May 7, 2024
Shannon Cram wins the Cultural and Political Ecology Outstanding Book Award
Shannon Cram won the 2024 Cultural and Political Ecology Outstanding Book Award. Given to one book annually by the Association of American Geographers’ Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group, this award celebrates authors that “demonstrate leadership through broadly influential, critical, and innovative thinking.” Cram’s book, Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility,...
May 7, 2024
Shannon Cram presents at the LA Times Festival of Books
Shannon Cram participated in a panel about nuclear weapons at the 2024 LA Times Festival of Books. Cram discussed her recent book, Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility in conversation with investigative journalists Sarah Scoles, Annie Jacobsen, and Margot Roosevelt.
May 7, 2024
Jennifer Atkinson Gives Author Talk for California State University Faculty
Jennifer Atkinson gave an author talk at CSU to launch her new book, The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World. The 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
Jennifer Atkinson gives keynote talk at OSU on Collective Climate Action
Jennifer Atkinson gave a keynote talk for the new series on “Collective Climate Action: Inspired Organizing for Our Future” as part of Oregon State University’s Spring Creek Project. The Collective Climate series was launched to bring together the practical wisdom of environmental science, the clarity of philosophy, and the transformational power of the written word...
April 23, 2024
Yolanda Padilla publishes on the Latinx essay for the Cambridge History of the American Essay
Yolanda Padilla published a chapter titled “Latinx Culture and the Essay” in The Cambridge History of the American Essay. In her overview of this important but neglected genre, Padilla identifies three especially significant strands of the Latinx essay: the crónica, which has its roots in Latin American journalistic traditions, the personal essay, and the radical...
April 17, 2024
Kari Lerum publishes two essays in The Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ+ Studies
Associate Professor Kari Lerum recently published two essays in the second edition of The Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ+ Studies. The first essay, “Sex work and Criminalization,” is a revised and updated version of Lerum’s essay by the same name appearing in the 2016 The Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ+ Studies. The essay defines sex work within...
April 17, 2024
A Call for Global Cultural Change to Shift Civilization and Save the Planet
In a review published April 2, 2024, University of Hawaii atmospheric scientist Charles Fletcher, UWB professor Phoebe Barnard and a team of eminent western and indigenous scientists, historians, futurists, and other global colleagues consider the causes of and solutions to multiple converging and interwoven crises on Earth, including climate change, ecological destruction, disease, pollution, and...
April 3, 2024
MFA Alum Abigail Mandlin founds Literary Journal – Heart on our Sleeves Press
Abigail Mandlin (MFA ’20) recently launched Heart on Our Sleeves Press, a literary magazine featuring poetry and prose. The title is a reference to the way writers encounter the world. As Mandlin writes, “[i]t’s our burden and our pleasure to experience the world in technicolor–in all caps–and it’s what drives us to the page, to...
March 28, 2024
Purpose, History, Justice, and the Paranormal
IAS alum Anthony Safai finds his passion in an unconventional place through his web series Existence in Silence “Just go out there and you’ll find something. You won’t expect it, but you’ll definitely find it.” These are the words of Anthony Safai (’24), a recent graduate of UW Bothell who majored in Media & Communication...
March 25, 2024