News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Jason Frederick Lambacher’s work featured in The New Republic
IAS faculty member Jason Frederick Lambacher’s work on Hannah Arendt and green civic republicanism was featured in Win McCormack’s April 2019 Res Publica editorial in The New Republic, “How Green Was My Virtue?” Lambacher uses Arendt, and other civic republicans such as Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Madison, to explore civic republican ideas of public goods, agonistic dialogue, and political freedom as they apply to environmental issues such as species loss and climate change. Generally speaking
March 28, 2019
Barbara Noah selected for the exhibition “Art of the Cosmos”
IAS faculty member Barbara Noah was selected for the exhibition "Art of the Cosmos", which will open in April of 2020 in Pasadena. CA. The exhibition celebrates the Hubble Space Telescope and is organized by Fulcrum Arts. The image below is one of the works that will be exhibited in the show ...
March 28, 2019
Anida Yoeu Ali exhibits in Kuala Lumpur at the inaugural “Democracy In Action” Festival
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali exhibited photo documentation from her “The Public Square” series, last performed as a 24-hour durational public action in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The exhibition, curated by Intan Rafiza Abu Bakar, brought together artists navigating the arts and activism worlds in an inaugural Democracy Festival program hosted in Kuala Lumpur. The accompanying exhibition “Democracy In Action” featured a group of ...
March 28, 2019
Anida Yoeu Ali honored with 2018 Public Art Network Year in Review Award
The Seattle Office of Arts & Culture shared their award, a 2018 Public Art Network Year-in-Review national award for their exhibition BorderLands, with nine other regional artists, including IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali. Commissioned to respond to issues of nationalism and belonging, Ali was prominently featured in an iteration of her renown series on Islamophobia titled “The Red Chador.” Annually, the Public Art Network (PAN) Year in Review recognizes outstanding ...
March 28, 2019
Faculty and students collaborate on Viaduct podcast: Taxpayer Time Machine
IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft and Community Radio Journalism student Kristine Kim (Interdisciplinary Arts) collaborated with the Culture Hustlers to record thoughts and reflections from attendees of a public festival where Seattle residents said goodbye to the “Alaska Way Viaduct” – a crumbling two story freeway that runs across the waterfront in downtown Seattle. The interviews were done in four vintage 1950s trailers on ...
March 15, 2019
Becca Price publishes “Spotlighting Diversity: An example of a well-tested and effective classroom intervention”
IAS faculty member Becca Price and Clark Coffman (Iowa State) have published a third article in a series of annotations that introduce scholars to biology education research. The original paper (by Schinske and colleagues) describes an easy-to-implement intervention that showcases the biographies of different scientists, highlighting the ...
March 13, 2019
Amaranth Borsuk and Shannon Cram speak at “Earthly Impressions” symposium
IAS faculty members Amaranth Borsuk and Shannon Cram spoke last week at a symposium organized by faculty in UW's Textual Studies Program and co-sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. Earthly Impressions considered points of contact between the history of the book and the environmental humanities. Borsuk spoke about "Destruction and Durability in Artists' Books," with particular attention to the holdings of the University of Washington's Special Collections. Cram discussed ...
March 11, 2019
Alka Kurian publishes “#StopThisShame, #GirlsAtDhaba, #WhyLoiter and more: women’s fight against sexual harassment didn’t start with #MeToo”
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian published an article "#StopThisShame, #GirlsAtDhaba, #WhyLoiter and more: women's fight against sexual harassment didn't start with #MeToo." This article claims that "while the success of #MeToo testifies to the power of social media in putting the spotlight on the culture of misogyny across the world ...
March 8, 2019
Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung: At the intersection of art and geography
As IAS faculty members, Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung have been colleagues for a long time. But they seldom had occasion to talk until they found themselves commuting on the same bus. Those commuter conversations a few years ago led to a creative collaboration of researchers from two different fields. Recently, Jung and Hiebert received a UW Royalty Research Fund (RRF) Scholar award for nearly $39,000 for a research project called “Imagining the Details: Creative-Critical Engagement of Mapping and Imagining.”
March 7, 2019
Shannon Cram publishes flash prose: “Mastectomy: Instructions Before Surgery”
IAS faculty member Shannon Cram published a flash prose piece entitled "Mastectomy: Instructions Before Surgery" in the latest issue of Fugue (Issue 56). This short creative nonfiction essay adopts the language of a how-to-guide, annotating the pre-operative instructions she received before her own mastectomy. Cram's current book ...
March 4, 2019