News from the School of IAS
Amaranth Borsuk Presents New Work at AWP Conference
Amaranth Borsuk attended the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference in Minneapolis, where she presented work on two panels. For "The Essay Blinks," she delivered a cautionary manifesto on the interrelation of form and content in the artist's book, which included an homage to Alison Knowles and James Tenney's 1967 computer-generated poem "House of Dust" titled "Book of Dust."
July 9, 2015
Amaranth Borsuk publishes poetics essay on “The Aesthetics and Poetics of Deletionism”
Amaranth Borsuk has published a poetics essay on "The Aesthetics and Poetics of Deletionism" together with collaborators Jesper Juul and Nick Montfort in Media-N, the journal of the new media caucus and presents work at annual AWP conference.
July 9, 2015
Dan Berger publishes op-ed on initiative to reduce the American jail population
IAS faculty member Dan Berger publishes op-ed in Truthout about the MacArthur Foundation's $75 million initiative to reduce the American jail population. As part of that program, the Foundation has asked jail staff at 20 municipalities around the country to work with judges, prosecutors, court administrators, police and correctional officials to reduce the size of the jail population. In his op-ed...
July 9, 2015
Stuart Streichler presents on the fate of Guantánamo detainees at the Law and Society Association
IAS faculty member Stuart Streichler delivered a paper on "Guantánamo Detainees: A Decade of Rights without Remedy" at the annual meeting of the Law and Society Association held in Seattle.
July 9, 2015
Ron Krabill and David Goldstein receive grant to support Collaborative, Online, International Learning
IAS faculty members Ron Krabill and David Goldstein, along with Natalia Dyba, Director of Global Initiatives at UW Bothell, and UW Tacoma Assistant Chancellor Collean Carmean, received a $49,700 grant to support Collaborative, Online, International Learning (COIL) courses on all three UW campuses.
July 9, 2015
Jill Freidberg, Nia Lam, and Denise Hattwig publish study on the Community Voices Collection
IAS faculty member Jill Freidberg, along with librarian Nia Lam and curator Denise Hattwig, have completed a study based on the Community Voices Collection, an archive of oral histories conducted by - and with - University of Washington Bothell students, staff, faculty, and community members.
July 9, 2015
Erica Seibert Collaborates on Conveyance Sound Art Project
Erica Seibert, an IAS double major in Media and Communication Studies and Culture, Literature and the Arts, has collaborated with Perri Howard, a Seattle-based sound and visual artist, on a multimedia public art project. This project juxtaposes...
July 9, 2015
Christian Anderson, Jin-Kyu Jung, and Santiago Lopez present at Association of American Geographers in Chicago
IAS faculty members Christian Anderson, Jin-Kyu Jung, and Santiago Lopez presented their research at the 2015 meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Chicago, Illinois.
July 9, 2015
IAS Environmental Studies students obtained 2nd place at regional GIS competition
IAS Environmental Science and Studies students David Headrick and Mattie Wheeler presented their research in the Richard 'Dick' Thomas Memorial Student Presentation Competition at the 2015 Washington State Chapter of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (WAURISA) conference.
July 9, 2015
Students gain career advice through IAS Mentor Chats
Over spring quarter, several undergraduate students met with alumni mentors Andrea Blanken (Culture, Literature and the Arts, ’02) and Emily Anderson (Society, Ethics and Human Behavior, ’09) to learn about their career trajectories and gain real-time advice on accessing their fields.
July 9, 2015