News from School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Category: Diversity
Margaret Redsteer publishes chapter in Handbook of North American Indians
IAS faculty member Margaret Redsteer is a coauthor of "Native American Communities and Climate Change," a chapter in the new (2022) introductory volume of the Handbook of North American Indians published by the Smithsonian Institution.
May 26, 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
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 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
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
Masahiro Sugano’s short film addressing anti-Asian violence awarded first place at The Artists Forum Juried Competition in New York City
In May 2021, IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano and his media lab Studio Revolt responded to a rise in anti-Asian violence with a short film titled “Listen Asshole” based on a poem by the spoken word duo Yellow Rage. The poem, originally written 20 years ago by Michelle Myers and Catzie Vilayphonh, sought to defy stereotypes that many people perpetuate about Asian Americans and ...
April 12, 2022
Julie Shayne presents paper at the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) annual Winter Conference
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne (she/her/hers) was invited by SWS president Dr. Roberta Villalón to be a featured guest on the panel “Celebrating Interdisciplinary Perspectives as Integral to Feminisms.” Her paper was called “Reflections from a Feminist Editor: Blending Sociological Analysis and Feminist Theory to Create Interdisciplinary Texts and Pedagogy.” In it, she argued ...
April 4, 2022
American Muslims Research Institute holds two talks on the experiences of American Muslims in public service
After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the American Muslims research institute (AMRI), directed by IAS faculty member Karam Dana, held two virtual talks highlighting the experiences of American Muslims in public service in March. ...
April 4, 2022
Julie Shayne: A literary lens on gender, race and power
The spirit of IAS faculty member Julie Shayne’s new class, The Power of Feminist Writing, is perhaps best captured in the words of Malala Yousufzai, a Pakistani activist for female education, who said, “One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world.” ...
March 28, 2022
Julie Shayne presents two Pressbooks projects during Open Education (OE) Week
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne was an invited speaker, along with other UW instructors, on an Open Education Week panel called “Student Authored: UW Open Pedagogy & Publishing.” She discussed her two UW Pressbooks: Badass Womxn in the Pacific Northwest and ...
March 7, 2022
Talena Lachelle Queen’s Poem Featured in New Jersey Black History Curriculum
IAS alum Talena Lachelle Queen (MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, 2014) has been busy at work with the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) to support the design and implementation of representative curricula throughout the state. ...
February 23, 2022