News from the School of IAS
MFA student Amy Hirayama Apprentices with Writers in the Schools
Amy Hirayama, a second-year student in the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, was recently selected to serve as an apprentice in Seattle Arts and Lectures' Writers in the Schools Program. In this newly-created role, Hirayama, a former middle school teacher, will serve as a Writer-in-Residence alongside an established WITS teacher at Evergreen High School, gaining experience, mentorship, and professional development while working in an area of education she is passionate about. Profiled last month on SAL's blog, SAL/ON, ...
November 19, 2021
Melanie Malone: community research on the Lower Duwamish Superfund
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone and colleagues from UW Seattle led a project to facilitate community research on the Lower Duwamish Superfund. The project, "Co-creating an Adaptive Community-Science Network: Supporting Tribal and Grassroots Action through the Puget Creek Watershed Assessment," ...
November 19, 2021
Jennifer Atkinson’s podcast featured in Arts & Climate Change
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson's podcast was featured in Arts & Climate Change, an organization that supports "deeply-engaged, throughout-provoking and artistically-savvy responses to climate change." In 2020, Atkinson launched a podcast called Facing It to share research on the emotional and psychological toll of climate change. Yet the series also ...
November 18, 2021
Dan Berger: “SNCC’s Unruly Internationalism”
Writing in Boston Review, IAS faculty member Dan Berger published an article on the global imagination of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The legendary civil rights organization formed in 1960 and recently had a 60th anniversary conference. Yet while many remember the organization's role in confronting Jim Crow ...
November 17, 2021
David Goldstein talks about pedagogies for DEI at Waseda University, Japan
IAS faculty member David Goldstein presented an invited seminar on critical pedagogies for diversity, equity, and inclusion for Waseda University in Japan as part of his Fulbright U.S. Scholar award. Headquartered in Tokyo, Goldstein is ...
November 16, 2021
Ching-In Chen and Lauren S. Berliner write for Viewpoints series at the Henry
IAS faculty members Ching-In Chen and Lauren S. Berliner were invited to write in response to the work of Dean Sameshima’s Torso (Black on Silver) and Anthony White’s BOYZ OF THE WILD as part of the Henry Art Gallery’s Viewpoints series. ...
November 15, 2021
Jin-Kyu Jung discusses “Local Territories, Global Power Structures”
IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung participated as a discussant in the “Local Territories, Global Power Structures” panel session in Reclaiming the City: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea Conference, held at Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
November 15, 2021
Amaranth Borsuk publishes new chapbook
Last month, Above/Ground Press in Ottawa published W/\SH: Initial Contact, a collaborative chapbook created by IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk with poet and artist Terri Witek. This small book of poetry is the first part of a longer speculative ecopoetic manuscript that includes work in a number of different forms, including audio, video, and frottage art. ...
November 15, 2021
Neil Simpkins in Nevada State College Writing Center Social Justice Speaker Series
IAS faculty member Neil Simpkins gave a talk for the Nevada State College Writing Center Social Justice Speaker Series on November 10, 2011. He shared a chapter from his book in progress, Accommodation Work: The Rhetorical Tactics of Disabled College Writers. He also ...
November 10, 2021
Students present at Washington Lakes Protection Association
Three UW Bothell students presented at the annual Washington Lakes Protection Association (WALPA) meeting online in October, supported by IAS faculty member Avery Shinneman. Jodylene DeLosReyes and Tram Lam presented on the outcome of a CBLR partnership with King County, supported by a ...
November 8, 2021