News from the School of IAS
Alka Kurian publishes “Post-colonial Transgression in Deepa Mehta’s Feminist Quartet”
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian published "Post-colonial Transgression in Deepa Mehta's Feminist Quartet," in Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan and Vimal Mohan John's co-edited collection of essays Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Bollywood Directors and Their Cinema. In this chapter Kurian ...
January 3, 2017
Shannon Cram presents research on remediation at Washington’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation
IAS faculty member Shannon Cram was invited to the University of Michigan's Science, Technology, and Society Program where she presented her research to the Science and Technology Studies Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop and gave a guest lecture in Dr. Gabrielle Hecht's "Global Nuclear Proliferation" class. For both events ...
December 30, 2016
IAS Faculty Members Win Simpson Center Funding Awards
Six IAS faculty members won Simpson Center for the Humanities awards in the fall 2016 funding round. Shannon Cram received a research fellowship as a member of the Society of Scholars to complete her book manuscript, “Unmaking the Bomb: Nuclear Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility.” José Fusté, Jade Power-Sotomayor, and Dan Berger were all awarded Digital Humanities Summer Fellowships. Fusté and Jade Power-Sotomayor will work on “The Bomba Wiki Project: Oral, Aural, and Corporeal History and Community-Making through Bomba Music and Dance,” while Berger will ...
December 21, 2016
VIDEO: Don’t Look Away Yet – Final Project on Climate Justice for IAS Global Agitation Course
Artist-in-Residence Anida Yoeu Ali posed the final project for BISIA 383 Interdisciplinary Arts Workshop: Global Agitation Art & Activism as a simple challenge: Consider an important issue in your world and create an artistic work of art or an action that addresses, responds and/or challenges that issue. At the heart of the work you should consider the role of agitation as a tool to creating the final project. Use your resources, your passion, your campus and your peers. See the video here:
December 20, 2016
VIDEO: Alan Wood’s Encore! Lecture on history, yin-yang theory, and contemporary global challenges
IAS faculty member and UW Bothell founding faculty Alan Wood was the featured speaker for this year’s Encore! Lecture series. In advance of the talk, he spoke about the early years at UW Bothell, where, he said: “…something remarkable happened. We created what I believe was one of the first truly interdisciplinary institutions of higher education ever in the state of Washington.” He talks about his memories in the video below ...
December 20, 2016
Kristin Gustafson publishes award-winning paper on “Visually framing press freedom and responsibility of a massacre”
Visual Communication Quarterly published IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson's co-authored article, “Visually framing press freedom and responsibility of a massacre: Photographic and graphic images in Charlie Hedbo's newspaper front pages around the world,” in November. The article previously won second place top faculty paper for the Visual Communication Division when it was presented at the 2015 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The collaboration with Dr. Linda Jean Kenix examined 441 front-page images published in 367 newspapers on the day following the shooting in Paris of twelve people at or near the Charlie Hebdo office.
December 20, 2016
#ShoulderToShoulder an IAS class creates a #MannequinChallenge video denouncing hate and Islamophobia
An IAS class of 43 students created a response to the #MannequinChallenge as their final project. On December 8, 2016 students from BISCLA 380 Arts in Context: Contemporary Muslim Artists stood shoulder-to-shoulder, alongside other classmates, deans, faculty, and staff of the University of Washington Bothell to denounce hate and Islamophobia.
December 15, 2016
Loren Redwood’s Discovery Core class holds support of Dreamers event
IAS faculty member Loren Redwood's Discovery Core class, BCORE 107G, held a support of Dreamers event on December 6th in the Activities and Recreation Center. The event provided information about the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. The event also was intended to support undocumented students at risk of possible deportation under a new federal administration.
December 8, 2016
Alums produce video of anti-racist poetry performance
Alums Quinn Russell Brown (’13, Society, Ethics & Human Behavior) and Aaron Middleton (‘13, Media & Communication Studies) produced a short video of local artist Troy Osaki’s poetry performance, “Year of the Dragon,” a homage to martial arts legend Bruce Lee and his struggle against racism. When Brown first heard Osaki recite the poem at a fundraiser months earlier, he was deeply moved and approached Osaki about creating a video. Brown then ...
December 5, 2016
Peter Brooks presents approaches to teaching cultivated community spaces surrounding games
IAS faculty member Peter Brooks, along with his collaborator Kris Purzycki (UW Milwaukee), presented work on game-based pedagogy at the Computers & Writing (C&W) conference in Rochester, New York. They participated on a panel on "Approaches to Teaching Cultivated Community Spaces Surrounding Games." Peter's work focused ...
December 5, 2016