News from the School of IAS
Hiroshi Miyamoto’ Study Abroad in Japan Garners Local Press
Hiroshi Miyamoto, who teaches beginning Japanese in led a UW Exploration Seminar in Ehime Prefecture, Japan, in September. The program, which focused on Japanese popular culture, got some local attention for a half-day visit to an elementary school (https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/1418547) and to a high school (attached), and a television story on their visit to Ozu City...
October 3, 2024
Cinnamon Hillyard is a Panelist at the Women in Leadership Conference
Cinnamon Hillyard is a panelist at the Women in Leadership – Higher Education – 2024 Meeting.She will discuss the opportunities, challenges, and strategies in navigating parenthood while also progressing in higher education on the “Diapers to Diploma’s” panel. https://www.natdc.org/women-in-leadership-2024/agenda#day-1-afternoon
October 2, 2024
Joe Ferrare receives Spencer Foundation Vision Grant
Joe Ferrare, associate professor of data visualization and analytics in IAS, has received a Vision Grant from the Spencer Foundation. The grant, titled “Culture Wars, Curriculum Conflicts & Public Schools,” is a collaboration with Professor Danfeng Koon at the University of San Francisco and Professor Huriya Jabbar at the University of Southern California. The $75,000...
October 1, 2024
Santiago Lopez publishes on the impacts of social unrest on air quality using a remote sensing framework
Santiago Lopez and international colleagues from the Salesian Polytechnic University published “Assessing Air Quality Dynamics during Short-Period Social Upheaval Events in Quito, Ecuador, Using a Remote Sensing Framework” in the Journal Remote Sensing. This research article investigates air quality fluctuations during two short-period social upheaval events caused by civil protests during Ecuador’s economic crisis in...
September 26, 2024
Yolanda Padilla Co-Founds New Latinx Studies Journal, “Pasados: Recovering History, Imagining Latinidad”
Yolanda Padilla is one of the founding editors of a new Latinx studies journal, titled Pasados: Recovering History, Imagining Latinidad. Appearing twice annually, the journal publishes essays in the fields of Latinx history, literary and cultural criticism, and archive studies, as well as translations of recovered materials and pedagogical models for classroom teaching. The inaugural...
September 18, 2024
Jennifer Atkinson Joins Lead Climate Litigator and Youth Plaintiff to Speak About Climate Lawsuits
Jennifer Atkinson spoke on a panel with Andrea Rogers, lead litigator for the national youth climate cases Our Children’s Trust, Olivia Vesovich, youth plaintiff in the Held v. Montana case, andyouth leader/educator Terrell Engmann, founder of the environmental justice organization Basilica Bio. The four panelists spoke about what young people need to cultivate climate hope...
September 5, 2024
Jason Frederick Lambacher’s International Relations course hosts HHS official for discussion on unaccompanied child migrants at the U.S. Souther border
Jason’s International Relations course welcomed Mary Myslewicz, Unaccompanied Children Program Policy Advisor with the U.S Department of Health and Human Services for a discussion about immigration policy as it affects children at the U.S. Souther Border. Mary delivered a presentation that separated fact from media fiction when it comes to what the federal government is...
August 12, 2024
Everett Comedian Cory Michelis partners with Office of CELR and Jason Frederick Lambacher’s Art and Politics of Comedy Course
Dana Washington with the Office of CELR contacted Cory Michelis, host of the Everett Comedy Night, and helped build a partnership with Jason’s BCORE Art & Politics of Comedy class. Students prepared for Cory’s in-class visit by applying concepts from the course (different theories of comedy; issues of free speech and censorship; comedy as dangerous...
August 12, 2024
Jason Frederick Lambacher delivers paper on the politics of dam removal at the Western Political Science Association
Jason delivered a paper on the global dam removal movement at the recent 2024 Western Political Science Association meeting in Vancouver, BC. Titled “Unplugged: Climate Change, Free Flowing Rivers, and the Politics of Dam Removal,” Jason traces how a movement to bring down dams and other diversions on large rivers around the globe is accelerating...
August 12, 2024
Jennifer Atkinson Featured on the Podcast “Climate Change and Happiness”
Jennifer Atkinson’s new book The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators was featured on the July episode of Climate Change and Happiness, a podcast exploring the personal side of climate change and its impact on mental health. Hosted by American clinical psychologist Thomas Doherty and Finnish climate emotions scholar Panu Pihkala, the episode discussed how...
August 12, 2024