News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Faculty and students collaborate on Viaduct podcast: Taxpayer Time Machine
IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft and Community Radio Journalism student Kristine Kim (Interdisciplinary Arts) collaborated with the Culture Hustlers to record thoughts and reflections from attendees of a public festival where Seattle residents said goodbye to the “Alaska Way Viaduct” – a crumbling two story freeway that runs across the waterfront in downtown Seattle. The interviews were done in four vintage 1950s trailers on ...
March 15, 2019
Becca Price publishes “Spotlighting Diversity: An example of a well-tested and effective classroom intervention”
IAS faculty member Becca Price and Clark Coffman (Iowa State) have published a third article in a series of annotations that introduce scholars to biology education research. The original paper (by Schinske and colleagues) describes an easy-to-implement intervention that showcases the biographies of different scientists, highlighting the ...
March 13, 2019
Amaranth Borsuk and Shannon Cram speak at “Earthly Impressions” symposium
IAS faculty members Amaranth Borsuk and Shannon Cram spoke last week at a symposium organized by faculty in UW's Textual Studies Program and co-sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. Earthly Impressions considered points of contact between the history of the book and the environmental humanities. Borsuk spoke about "Destruction and Durability in Artists' Books," with particular attention to the holdings of the University of Washington's Special Collections. Cram discussed ...
March 11, 2019
Alka Kurian publishes “#StopThisShame, #GirlsAtDhaba, #WhyLoiter and more: women’s fight against sexual harassment didn’t start with #MeToo”
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian published an article "#StopThisShame, #GirlsAtDhaba, #WhyLoiter and more: women's fight against sexual harassment didn't start with #MeToo." This article claims that "while the success of #MeToo testifies to the power of social media in putting the spotlight on the culture of misogyny across the world ...
March 8, 2019
Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung: At the intersection of art and geography
As IAS faculty members, Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung have been colleagues for a long time. But they seldom had occasion to talk until they found themselves commuting on the same bus. Those commuter conversations a few years ago led to a creative collaboration of researchers from two different fields. Recently, Jung and Hiebert received a UW Royalty Research Fund (RRF) Scholar award for nearly $39,000 for a research project called “Imagining the Details: Creative-Critical Engagement of Mapping and Imagining.”
March 7, 2019
Shannon Cram publishes flash prose: “Mastectomy: Instructions Before Surgery”
IAS faculty member Shannon Cram published a flash prose piece entitled "Mastectomy: Instructions Before Surgery" in the latest issue of Fugue (Issue 56). This short creative nonfiction essay adopts the language of a how-to-guide, annotating the pre-operative instructions she received before her own mastectomy. Cram's current book ...
March 4, 2019
Katherine Voyles reviews books about the Trump-Russia scandal
IAS faculty member Katherine Voyles reviewed seven books about the Trump-Russia scandal for Public Books in a piece called “America Learns What Russia Knew.” The review looks at each volume in turn to place all seven in context by emphasizing their power to shape confusing individual events into a recognizable pattern. Voyles underscores the limits of that shaping power by situating the books between ...
March 1, 2019
A Counter-Archive of Imprisonment
IAS faculty member Dan Berger, M.A. in Cultural Studies alum Magdalena Donea, and UW Bothell Librarians Denise Hattwig and Dani Rowland publish an article in Public: A Journal of Imagining America. The article, "A Counter-Archive of Imprisonment," describes their collective work on the Washington Prison History Project, a digital archive of ...
March 1, 2019
Amaranth Borsuk interviewed on The Hedgehog & the Fox podcast
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk is interviewed this month on George Miller's book podcast The Hedgehog & the Fox. The two sat down to discuss Borsuk's MIT Press volume The Book, which explores the ever-changing object we know as "the book" from its position as "object, content, idea, and interface." Miller himself has ...
February 28, 2019
IAS faculty present at the Washington & Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference
IAS faculty members Jennifer Atkinson, Martha Groom, and Rob Turner presented at the Washington & Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference (WOHESC) on February 27. Their panel, "Progressive Paradise to Dystopian Persistence: Discussing the Goalposts of Sustainability with Students and Peers," explored how sustainability-oriented teaching has shifted over time. The panel discussed how projections of the future constructed with students and peers frame the challenge of sustainability, and how those changing projections influence both the methods for pursuing sustainability and our capacities to act.
February 28, 2019