News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Dan Berger interviewed about decarceration in the time of COVID
IAS faculty member Dan Berger was interviewed on KUOW's The Record (scroll down on the page to hear just Berger's segment) about decarceration in the time of COVID. Berger discussed the threat that prisons and jails, which account for more than three-quarters of outbreak clusters, pose in a pandemic. He also highlighted similar issues in ...
August 6, 2020
Min Tang on the Networked Digital Power and Information Geopolitics
IAS faculty member Min Tang presented at the 2020 International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference. This year's theme was "Reimagining the Digital Future: Building inclusiveness, respect and reciprocity." Tang’s video presentation on “The Networked Digital Power: Capital Connections in Global ICT and Geopolitical Implications" ...
July 28, 2020
Raissa DeSmet collaborates on Southeast Asia authoritarianism project funded at $1,000,000
IAS faculty member Raissa DeSmet is collaborating with faculty colleagues from the University of Washington Southeast Asia Center (SEAC) on a four-year $1,000,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation's Luce Southeast Asia initiative for a project titled, "Tracing Authoritarianism: Linking Southeast Asia with Southeast Asian America Through Archives, Language, and Pedagogy." Along with DeSmett, faculty who developed the project are ...
July 23, 2020
Yolanda Padilla publishes “Approaches to Teaching Early Twentieth-Century Mexican American Literature in Undergraduate Classrooms”
IAS faculty member Yolanda Padilla published "Approaches to Teaching Early Twentieth-Century Mexican American Literature in Undergraduate Classrooms" in Writing / Righting History: Twenty-Five Years of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage. In her chapter, Padilla reflects on how U.S. literary studies' neglect of recovered Latinx texts results in a lost opportunity for important field transformation. She ...
July 20, 2020
Karam Dana chairs Comparative Politics section of WPSA conference
IAS faculty member Karam Dana has been selected to chair the Comparative Politics section of the 2021 Western Political Science Association’s conference. which will be held in Seattle, WA in April 1-3, 2021. The theme of the 2021 WPSA conference is "POPULISM, NATIVISM, DEMOCRATIC BACKSLIDING AND PANDEMIC POLITICS.”
July 13, 2020
Dan Berger says incarcerated people must be freed to halt virus spread
When the coronavirus pandemic hit Washington state, IAS faculty member Dan Berger thought immediately of prisons. As co-curator of the Washington Prison History Project, Berger joined a chorus of activists and scholars calling for Gov. Jay Inslee to release many of the 19,000 people incarcerated in the state’s prisons and jails. Read his interview in University of Washington Magazine.
June 30, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson featured on KUOW’s Speakers Forum
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson's work on eco-anxiety and her podcast Facing It were featured on KUOW's Speakers Forum in a segment titled Solastalgia and you. ‘The pain was necessary to know the truth.’ From producer John O'Brien:
June 26, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson featured on KUOW’s Speakers Forum
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson's work on eco-anxiety and her podcast Facing It were featured on KUOW's Speakers Forum in a segment titled Solastalgia and you. ‘The pain was necessary to know the truth.’ From producer John O'Brien:
June 26, 2020
IAS Faculty Members Win Simpson Center Funding Awards
Five IAS faculty members won Simpson Center for the Humanities awards in the Spring 2020 funding round. Dan Berger, Ching-In Chen, Neil Simpkins, Ron Krabill, and Ben Gardner's funded projects include ...
June 26, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson: Why the Covid Gardening Boom is About More than Food
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson published an article on Why the Covid Gardening Boom is About More than Food with Earth Island Journal. The piece explores some of the reasons behind the surge in gardening's popularity during a time of pandemic, police violence, and protest. Atkinson interviewed University of Washington Bothell students and gardeners across the U.S., including the founders of Black Sanctuary Gardens, which ...
June 16, 2020