News from the School of IAS
Nicole McCarthy publishes creative essay “Touch”
Nicole McCarthy ('17) has a new micro essay out with PANK, one of the first pieces released from her second nonfiction book-in-progress. The micro, titled "Touch", explores the significance of physical touch in our lives and how living without it can feel like malnutrition ...
April 22, 2022
Students of Competitive Filmmaking & Global Media Lab Screen Award-Winning Films Worldwide: Vienna, Berlin, Austin & Seattle
The short film “Delirium” created by IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano’s 2020 “Competitive Filmmaking” class has been screened worldwide. The film, created by eight UW Bothell students entirely during remote learning, captures the contradictions of the current moment ...
April 22, 2022
From Zine to Online Gallery: Growing and Reflecting in the Open
May 19, 2022, IAS faculty member Deborah Hathaway, along with UW Bothell librarians Denise Hattwig and Chelsea Nesvig, presented “From Zine to Online Gallery: Growing and Reflecting in the Open” at the University of Washington Teaching & Learning Symposium. Their presentation focused on...
April 21, 2022
Ching-In Chen presents “Q & A: Voices from Queer Asian North America”
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen presented as part of the Association for Asian American Studies conference last week on the 2022 Lambda Literary Finalist Q & A: Voices from Queer Asian North America anthology. Chen discussed their sequence of poems in recombinant, which ...
April 21, 2022
Ching-In Chen’s “Queer Poetry: a Zuihitsu” published in The Margins
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “Queer Poetry: a Zuihitsu” and “Love Letter to Dear Zuihitsu” in the 随筆 | Zuihitsu Notebook, a folio of twenty-one poets’ pieces inspired by the Japanese genre of “following the brush,” published in The Margins ...
April 20, 2022
Amoshaun Toft: Telling the same old story at Third and Pine
IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft is interviewed in "Telling the same old story at Third and Pine," a current analysis of homelessness discourse published by Real Change News. The article argues that Toft’s previous research on homelessness discourse from 2008, along with a subsequent journal article from 2014, provides a useful framework for understanding the current framing of homeless sweeps in Seattle.
April 18, 2022
Anida Yoeu Ali engages Atlanta community in a 10-day residency at The Carlos Museum
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali completed a 10-day residency at the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. Ali’s artworks comprising of photos, videos, installation and live performance from her Buddhist Bug series are part of a group exhibition titled "And I Must Scream”. ...
April 18, 2022
Ted Hiebert publishes “Art and the ‘Pataphysics of Exception: Or, how a sieve becomes a time machine”
IAS faculty member Ted Hiebert published "Art and the 'Pataphysics of Exception: Or, how a sieve becomes a time machine" in Katie Price & Michael Taylor's edited volume, 'Pataphysics Unrolled. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022. pp. 153-170. Hiebert's essay examines ...
April 14, 2022
Naomi Macalalad Bragin brings Waacking/Punking dance research to Paris
April 9 and 11, IAS faculty member Naomi Macalalad Bragin moderated a roundtable and gave a research talk on Waacking/Punking, a dance that derives from the first gay clubs of Los Angeles, California, during the Disco and Funk music era of the early 1970s. Her groundbreaking work highlights ...
April 12, 2022
Ted Hiebert: The camera is a raft
The coronavirus pandemic may have closed theaters and art galleries, but it didn’t quell the desire to create works of art that would eventually fill those spaces or provide comfort to others. As the great painter Dorothea Tanning once said, “Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity.” ...
April 12, 2022