News from the School of IAS
Jennifer Atkinson speaks on “Climate Depression and Environmental Angst”
AS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson spoke at Muhlenberg College's Center for Ethics event series, The Ethics of the Anthropocene: Crisis Earth. Her talk on "Climate Depression and Environmental Angst" explored the complex emotional and ethical issues faced by the Climate Generation, offering strategies for students, educators, and activists to stay engaged in environmental justice work over the long run. Both her lecture and ...
February 15, 2019
Lauren Lichty co-edits special issue of Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice
IAS faculty member Lauren Lichty co-edited a two-volume special issue of the Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice titled, “Developing Undergraduate Community Psychology Pedagogy and Research Practice” with Eylin Palamaro-Munsell (Northern Arizona University) and Jen Wallin-Ruschman (College of Idaho). Lichty was lead ...
February 14, 2019
Kyra Laughlin presents “Strategies for Engaging Student Survivors in Campus Efforts to Address Sexual Violence”
M.A. in Policy Studies (MAPS) student Kyra Laughlin traveled to Washington D.C. last month for the 2019 National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Strategies for Sexual Assault Prevention and Response conference. While there, Laughlin held a round table discussion titled "Strategies for Engaging Student Survivors in Campus Efforts to Address Sexual Violence" to an audience of ...
February 13, 2019
Julie Shayne organizes panel on the lecturer track/tenure track hierarchy
IAS faculty member, and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) coordinator, Julie Shayne, was asked to organize a panel discussion about the lecturer track/tenure track hierarchy at this year's Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) conference in Denver, Colorado. Her session was called “Upsetting the Tenure/Non-Tenure Track Hierarchy: An Interactive Conversation” and it was based on a blog post she wrote for ...
February 12, 2019
Sara Maxwell’s research highlighted in the Washington Post
IAS faculty member Sara Maxwell is quoted in a Washington Post article on using advances in data analysis to inform regulation of the fishing industry in the interests of protecting endangered species. Addressing the current state of regulatory practice, Maxwell says: "The whole structure is antiquated. It assumes a level of stability that is definitely not happening ... The climate is changing. Fisheries are not prepared." Read the full article:
February 6, 2019
IAS faculty promotions
IAS faculty members Christian Anderson, Amaranth Borsuk, and Lauren Lichty were official notified by the UW Provost’s Office of their promotion from Assistant to Associate Professor (with tenure).
February 1, 2019
Masahiro Sugano selected for Rah Artist Residency in Tehran, Iran
From Dec 7 - Dec 31, 2018, IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano traveled to Tehran, Iran on invitation of the Rah Artist Residency program. During his residency he presented a collection of his film works in a retrospective screening at Jaleh Gallery in Tehran and gave an artist talk at the University of Tehran. The 3-week residency also ...
February 1, 2019
Anida Yoeu Ali publishes two poems in the Massachusetts Review
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali published two poems titled “Reflections” and “Camp” in the latest issue of the Massachusetts Review (Volume 59, Issue 4). This special issue themed around Asian American Literature is titled “Rethinking the Canon” and appears by way of a partnership between the Massachusetts Review, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (APAC), and the University of Connecticut Institute for Asian and Asian American Studies, with a guest editorial committee of Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, Rajini Srikanth, and Min Hyoung Song. It ...
February 1, 2019
Ted Hiebert translates 101 Words of Pataphysics
IAS faculty member Ted Hiebert has translated 101 Words of Pataphysics (authored by the Collège de 'Pataphysique), a book of keywords related to the "science of imaginary solutions" invented by French playwright Alfred Jarry. The translation is available in book form through Noxious Sector Press in Seattle, or ...
February 1, 2019
Jennifer Atkinson and students interviewed in Medium
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson and three IAS students - Rhissa Delphin, Mahleah Grant, and Michael Groves - were interviewed for a story published by Medium on the emotional dimensions of environmental loss. The article, titled "Climate Change’s Hidden Victim: Your Mental Health," explores UW Bothell's seminar on Environmental Anxiety and Grief. It argues that ...
January 30, 2019