News from the School of IAS
Jennifer Atkinson gives the Earth Day Keynote lecture
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson gave the Earth Day Keynote lecture for 2022 at Pacific Lutheran University. Her talk, titled "Beyond Climate Doom," focused on the psychological toll of climate disruption. As our climate crisis deepens, feelings of anxiety, grief, and ...
April 27, 2022
Ted Hiebert publishes “New Energy Holistics”
IAS faculty member Ted Hiebert published "New Energy Holistics: Speculations on the predicament of predictive living," in David Cecchetto, ed. My Mother Was a Computer—Catalyst: M. Beatrice Fazi (Seattle: Noxious Sector Press, 2022). Hiebert's essay explores ...
April 26, 2022
Jennifer Atkinson and Warren Gold receive Husky Green Awards
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson and retired faculty member Warren Gold have received 2022 Husky Green Awards. The Husky Green Awards recognize individuals and groups across all University of Washington campuses who lead the way for sustainability at the University of Washington. This is the 13th year ...
April 26, 2022
Ching-In Chen has been commissioned as Writing the Land poet
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has been commissioned as a Writing the Land poet to write poems about Misery Point Preserve for the Great Peninsula Conservancy in Kitsap County. Writing the Land partners with various nonprofit and environmental organizations to ...
April 25, 2022
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 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