News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Carrie Bodle Gives Artist Talk
IAS faculty member Carrie Bodle gave an artist talk on her work at Glass Box Gallery in Seattle on June 29. Bodle highlighted her visual and sound artworks from 2002-2016 which are immersive installations that explore the relationships between art and science, translating inaudible or invisible phenomena into sensible experiences. This talk is ...
July 6, 2016
Dan Berger at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and in TIME Magazine
IAS faculty member Dan Berger led a seminar about the criminal justice system for college students at the Mellon Summer Humanities Institute. Held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, part of the NY Public Library system, the Institute brings together advanced undergraduates in African American Studies interested in pursuing Ph.D.s in the humanities. Over an eight-week period...
July 5, 2016
micha cárdenas Featured in French Magazine MCD (Musiques & Cultures Digitales)
IAS faculty member micha cárdenas' work on gender in virtual reality is featured in an article in the latest issue of the French MCD Magazine: "MICHA CÁRDENAS: la question du genre dans la réalité virtuelle" ("micha cárdenas: the question of gender in virtual reality").
July 5, 2016
Kristin Gustafson and Rena Kawasaki Present Joint Research in Japan
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson and IAS alumna Rena Kawasaki ('13, Community Psychology) traveled to Fukuoka, Japan for the International Communication Association (ICA) pre-conference, "Crossing Borders: Researching Transnational Media History." They presented their collaborative research project, “Shifting language transnationally: Japan’s national language program and a U.S. Japanese-language newspaper before and after WWII."
June 27, 2016
Amy Lambert’s San Juan Island Research and Conservation Efforts Featured
IAS faculty member Amy Lambert’s work on the island marble butterfly is featured in an article from the Issaquah Press. “Groups seek to protect rare butterfly on San Juan Island” highlights over a decade of Lambert’s research into the species that was thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered on San Juan Island in 1998.
June 21, 2016
“Contemplative Practice as Pedagogy” Research Interest Group Convenes at the Whiteley Center
Members of the "Contemplative Practice as Pedagogy" Research Interest Group Alice Pedersen, Kristin Gustafson, and Amy Lambert traveled to the Whiteley Center together in May as a culmination of the RIG's collaboration this year. They shared ...
June 8, 2016
Jeanne Heuving Publishes New Book: The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics
IAS faculty member Jeanne Heuving published a new book, The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics, in the Modern and Contemporary Poetics series, co-edited by Charles Bernstein and Hank Lazer, at the University of Alabama Press. The book examines ...
June 8, 2016
Kari Lerum Publishes “Should Prostitution be Decriminalized?”
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum published “Should prostitution be decriminalized?” at The Conversation in partnership with PBS’ “Point Taken.” The essay was posted at PBS as recommended reading material for a debate on “Should paying for sex be a crime?” In this opinion piece Lerum argues ...
June 2, 2016
Jin-Kyu Jung and Taylor Frazier Publish “A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Relationship Between Crime and Community Gardens”
A recent IAS graduate, Taylor L. Frazier ('15, Law, Economics & Public Policy), and IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung co-authored a paper, “A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Relationship Between Crime and Community Gardens: A Case Study of Seattle’s P-Patches from 1996 to 2006,” in the International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities.
May 25, 2016
IAS Funds Two Additional Research Interest Groups for 2016-17
Two additional Research Interest Groups (RIGs) have received I-DISCO seed funding for interdisciplinary research and development projects over the 2016-2017 academic year: Project title: Investigating Racial Disparities in Health Project title: Urban Gardens
May 24, 2016