News from the School of IAS

IAS Faculty Host Distinguished Speaker Cecilia Vicuña

Last week, the School of IAS hosted Dean's Distinguished Speaker Cecilia Vicuña, a Chilean visual artist and poet whose work addresses ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization. As part of her visit, Vicuña delivered a performance lecture, Living Poems, on Tuesday April 16th from 6-8pm to a large audience of campus and community members. The following day ...

April 23, 2019

Jason Frederick Lambacher delivers a paper derived from his Art & Politics of Walking course

IAS faculty member Jason Frederick Lambacher delivered a paper derived from his Art & Politics of Walking course at the Western Political Science Association’s (WPSA) annual conference in San Diego, CA in April 2019. Lambacher presented new work at a WPSA mini-conference titled, The Politics of the Mindfulness Revolution. The conference took a critical look at the multiple and competing forces of the “mindful revolution” in the contemporary zeitgeist, including yoga, meditation, education, pedagogy, corporate mindfulness, mindfulness in prisons, and various types of Buddhism. Lambacher discussed ...

April 23, 2019

Amaranth Borsuk and Sarah Dowling Publish Interview and Review of Poet Jordan Abel

The current issue of ASAP/J, the web journal of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, includes Borsuk and Dowling's collaborative review of Injun, Jordan Abel's Griffin-Award winning poetry collection collaged, cut-up, and erased from a corpus of 91 public-domain pulp western novels. Their review is accompanied by an interview with Abel in which the three discuss Injun in the context of his body of work, both previous and forthcoming, which uses ...

April 23, 2019

Yolanda Padilla and Janelle Silva honored at UW Latinx Faculty Recognition

IAS faculty members Yolanda Padilla and Janelle Silva have been selected for recognition at the 3rd Annual Latinx Faculty Recognition Event on May 2nd. This year, 33 Latinx faculty across the tri-campuses of the University of Washington were selected. Twenty-four of the honorees are from the UW Seattle campus, five honorees from UW Bothell, and four honorees from UW Tacoma.

April 22, 2019

Amber Shirk recognized as one of Tacoma’s top volunteers

Alum Amber (Monson) Shirk has always been involved in her community, but her engagement has only deepened since graduating from the M.A in Policy Studies (MAPS) program in 2017. This June, Shirk will receive a City of Destiny Award from Tacoma Mayor Victoria Woodards and the City Council for her contributions to the city’s economic development. Shirk is Digital Marketing Chair for Tacoma Waterfront Association, Event Coordinator for Friends of the Foss’s annual Free Summer Concert Festival Series, and ...

April 22, 2019

Interactive art illustrates climate change

Recent graduate Vancie Fu created a senior project that still has her teachers talking. With elements of art, environmental studies, digital media and creative storytelling, Fu uses an multi-disciplinary approach to discuss climate change with her “artifact from the future.”

April 22, 2019

David Goldstein: John Waters was a pioneer of queer cinema

IAS faculty member David Goldstein was quoted in an article about pioneering film director John Waters in the online magazine them. Goldstein explained why Waters is an icon in the queer community, making films since 1972 that subvert social mores about sexuality and fearlessly center marginalized groups in the United States.

April 18, 2019

Carrie Bodle’s Sound Field Sea Cycles highlighted by Creative Capital

Creative Capital features IAS faculty member Carrie Bodle’s in-progress project Sound Field Sea Cycles in their "On Our Radar” announcement. Bodle was a finalist for their nationally competitive award being in the top 2% of over 5,200 applications. Her work in-progress consists of ...

April 17, 2019