News from the School of IAS
David Goldstein Shares Knowledge of Teaching and Learning Centers in Japan and Milwaukee
David Goldstein, IAS senior lecturer and Director of the Teaching and Learning Center, served as a Visiting Scholar at Waseda University in Tokyo for the month of July. Along with three colleagues from UW Seattle, he helped launch a Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology that will be jointly run by Waseda and the UW. Back in the U.S. ...
October 14, 2015
Kari Lerum Speaks on Feminism and Mad Max, Fury Road
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum recently spoke on a panel discussing the feminist potential of the sci-fi dystopian film Mad Max, Fury Road (2015). The panel -- part of GeekGirlCon ’15 held at the Washington State Convention Center -- included...
October 14, 2015
MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics Hosts Fourth Annual Fall Convergence
MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics hosted the fourth annual Fall Convergence October 1-2. This year’s program featured an opening keynote reading + conversation with award-winning poet, novelist, and critic Nathaniel Mackey. The multi-day program of...
October 12, 2015
David Nixon’s Bladfold Wins Best Musical Film Award
IAS faculty member David Nixon's animated musical documentary "Bladfold:The Story of Brad Nixon" won the Best Musical Film award at the 2015 Oregon Independent Film Festival.
October 9, 2015
Leissle and Nixon Publish the Third Volume of The Monolith: Science Fiction Short Stories
IAS faculty members Kristy Leissle and David Nixon published the third volume of The Monolith: Science Fiction Short Stories, subtitled What's In My Head. UWB students in Nixon and Leissle's Discovery Core 1 class, "Thinking Beyond Borders: Philosophical Explorations of Science Fiction," author all the stories in the collection.
October 9, 2015
Bartha Publishes Keyword Essay on “Skill” and Talks About its Development on the Keyword Blog
Miriam Bartha, IAS Director of Graduate Programs and affiliate faculty member, has published a post-publication essay on “Skill” in the second edition of Keywords for American Cultural Studies, a print-digital publication of New York University Press edited by Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler.
October 9, 2015
Jennifer Atkinson Publishes on the Sustainability of Humanities Education
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson has published "Multi-Sensory Experience and Environmental Encounter: Rethinking the Sustainability of Humanities Education" in Interdisciplinary Environmental Review's Special Issue on Environmental Justice and Sustainability.
October 9, 2015
Ursula Valdez Connects Students in Bothell and Peru through Social Media
IAS faculty member Ursula Valdez is featured in a new article prepared by Office of the Provost and IT about her work on the UW-Peru collaboration (Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences course BIS 490). The article shows...
October 6, 2015
Kristy Leissle Speaks on Social Justice and Chocolate
IAS faculty member Kristy Leissle hosted a talk at the NW Chocolate Festival, as part of the event's two-day Educational Program. Leissle's talk took the format of a live interview with Gillian Goddard of Sun Eater Organics, a chocolate company based in Trinidad and Tobago.
October 5, 2015
Dan Berger Talks on Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
IAS faculty member Dan Berger delivered two talks in California about his award-winning book, Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era. The first event, "Prisoners and Politics: from the San Quentin Six to Pelican Bay," took place as part of Shaping San Francisco, a participatory community history event series.
September 28, 2015