News from the School of IAS

Category: Research and Creative Practice

Berliner and Krabill publish Feminist Interventions in Participatory Media: Pedagogy, Publics, Practice

IAS faculty members Lauren S. Berliner and Ron Krabill published Feminist Interventions in Participatory Media: Pedagogy, Publics, Practice, an edited collection that brings together feminist theory and participatory media pedagogy. It asks what, if anything, is inherently feminist about participatory media? Can participatory media practices and pedagogies be used to reanimate or enact feminist futures? And finally, what reimagined feminist pedagogies are opened up (or closed down) by participatory media across various platforms, spaces, scales, and ...

October 1, 2018

Minda Martin premieres new documentary, Ramps to Nowhere, at Northwest Film Forum

IAS faculty member Minda Martin’s new documentary film, Ramps to Nowhere, premiered at the Northwest Film Forum on Wednesday, September 26, 2018. The film’s description reads: "In 1960, Seattle began undergoing a seismic change. The construction of I-5 ruthlessly bifurcated the city, rupturing the buildings and social fabric of what is now known as the International District. The same year..."

September 28, 2018

Julie Shayne blogs about having “senior” status without tenure in academia

Julie Shayne, faculty coordinator of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies wrote her third blog piece for Conditionally Accepted about what it means to be considered senior faculty while on the lecturer track. In it she argues that while senior in rank within IAS there are still stark material, cultural, and structural differences that subordinate even senior lecturers to junior faculty on the tenure track. In the piece, she was asked to offer recommendations that other universities might take up to rectify the inequities. She ...

September 28, 2018

Ted Hiebert publishes “Efforts of Ambiugity”

IAS faculty member Ted Hiebert published “Efforts of Ambiugity” in the edited collection, Something Other than Lifedeath—Catalyst: S.D. Chrostowska (edited by David Cecchetto for the Catalyst Book Series at Noxious Sector Press). The essay is a meditation on relational metaepistemology, creativity, and the performance of ambiguity.

September 24, 2018

Diane Gillespie connects sleep strategies to community development in West Africa

Since retiring in 2012, IAS Emerita Professor Diane Gillespie continues to find fulfillment in her work with Tostan, a West African organization that empowers communities to bring about sustainable development and positive social transformation based on respect for human rights. Tostan’s ground-breaking approach has catalyzed a grassroots movement for the promotion of human rights and the abandonment or harmful practices, such as female genital cutting (FGC) and child marriage. Gillespie has been involved with Tostan since 1991 when it was founded by her sister, Molly Melching, as chronicled in However Long the Night by Aimee Molloy. Now Gillespie has ...

September 18, 2018

Shannon Cram participates in Hanford Forum for Shared Conversation

IAS faculty member Shannon Cram participated in the annual Hanford Forum for Shared Conversation in August. The Forum is a three-day event that brings 40-50 people together each year to have open, insightful discussions about cleanup at Washington State's Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Cram is ...

September 18, 2018

Barbara Noah’s Likely Stories in solo exhibition at Davidson Galleries

IAS faculty member Barbara Noah will exhibit her Likely Stories series in a solo exhibition at Davidson Galleries in Seattle in September 2019. In this series, unexpected metaphoric objects float in distant skies, deadpan and absurd relative to the grandeur of lofty extraterrestrial contexts. The images, some of which are visionary surrogate selfies or emojis, reflect on both issues like space exploration, climate change, and mortality, and ...

September 11, 2018

Gustafson and Lanza participate in 2018 Pen to Paper Retreat

Two IAS faculty members, Carrie Lanza and Kristin Gustafson, participated in the 2018 Pen to Paper Retreat in August. The two-and-a-half-day writing retreat brought scholars -- faculty, professional staff, graduate students, and community partners -- together for time focused on writing with, for, and about community engagement. Participants "unfurled" writing projects, pitched publication ideas to editors of leading community engagement journals, and built a new network of ...

September 6, 2018