News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Jin-Kyu Jung co-authors “Qualitative GIS and Spatial Research”
IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung co-authored a flagship chapter with Sarah Elwood, “Qualitative GIS and Spatial Research.” The chapter, which appears in SAGE Research Methods Foundations (SRMF), presents a critical review of qualitative GIS as a mixed methods framework for social and spatial research. It reflects an earlier wave of qualitative approaches in the 2000s implementing qualitative forms of representation or analysis into GIS-based research.
October 2, 2019
Hugo House Interviews Ching-In Chen
Hugo House published an interview with IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen and co-reader Kenji C Liu about their Spotlight Poetry reading at Hugo House in Seattle on Thursday, September 26, 2019 as well as their paths to poetry and recent books. Spotlight readings feature ...
September 26, 2019
Alka Kurian Launches Podcast on South Asian Writers and Filmmakers
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian has launched a new podcast where she investigates how South Asian writers and filmmakers explore some of the major issues of the world and help us make sense of our reality. In her very first episode, she interviewed the award-winning author ...
September 23, 2019
Barbara Noah’s “Toss and Turn” featured in Seattle Times
IAS faculty member Barbara Noah created a significant body of work, "Toss and Turn,” exhibited at Davidson Galleries in Seattle, September 5-28. The work contemplates climate change, transcendence, joy, our place in the universe, and the hunt for home. It was featured in the Seattle Times in a September 18 online article ...
September 23, 2019
Lauren Berliner: “When it all Clicks: Writing about Participatory Media”
IAS faculty member Lauren Berliner published "When it all Clicks: Writing about Participatory Media" in the edited volume Writing About Screen Media. Berliner's contribution draws on her experience researching and writing Producing Queer Youth: The Paradox of Digital Media Empowerment, providing advice for ...
September 20, 2019
Melanie Malone publishes article on failed implementations of no-till agriculture techniques
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone published an article in Progress in Physical Geography. "A physical and social analysis of how variations in no-till conservation practices lead to inaccurate sediment runoff estimations in agricultural watersheds" examines the social and physical complexities behind failed implementations of no-till agriculture techniques. The article emphasizes the need to ...
September 19, 2019
Kristin Gustafson moderates “Transformative Teaching of Media and Journalism History”
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson moderated a teaching panel, “Transformative Teaching of Media and Journalism History,” at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference held in Toronto in August. The panel featured the five teaching-contest winners for the AEJMC History Division. ...
September 16, 2019
“How We Respond” – climate change adaptation site goes live
IAS faculty member Margaret Redsteer is a Project Advisor for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) project on Climate Change Adaptation. In that role, she advised the AAAS project on developing objectives and acted as review editor of case studies that demonstrate how science informs communities on the effects of climate change, and how they can lessen the impacts now. Housed in the AAAS’s Center for Public Engagement with Science & Technology, the “How We Respond” project ...
September 16, 2019
Ching-In Chen’s “Lantern Letter: a Zuihitsu” chosen as Split This Rock‘s Poem of the Week
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen's "Lantern Letter: a Zuihitsu" was chosen as Split This Rock's Poem of the Week and was published in the Quarry: a Social Justice Poetry Database. The poem uses the Japanese hybrid form of zuihitsu to explore connections and kindnesses among strangers in the context of ecological disaster.
September 6, 2019
Jennifer Atkinson: “How should we talk about what’s happening to our planet?”
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson's course on eco-grief and climate anxiety was featured in a Washington Post story titled "How should we talk about what’s happening to our planet?" The article explores how language and emotion shape our response to the climate crisis, and how terminology has evolved from "global warming" to “climate change” to “climate emergency” and "extinction" over time.
September 5, 2019