News from the School of IAS
Simone de Rochefort finds success as digital media journalist
IAS alum Simone de Rochefort (’13, Culture, Literature & the Arts) produces videos for Polygon, a top website for video game news and reviews. While her affinity for video games began long before college, the possibility of building a career around this passion crystalized at UW Bothell. “I would not be where I am today ...
January 2, 2019
IAS faculty organize Resilient Visions film and media festival
IAS faculty members Minda Martin, Alka Kurian, Susan Harewood, and Masahiro Sugano are organizing the first annual UW Bothell film and media festival. The festival, entitled Resilient Visions, will take place on May 30th, 2019. Organized by internationally known filmmakers and IAS professors of film and media studies, this festival brings together films and media production from UW Bothell students and alumni. Members of the UW Bothell community (graduate and undergraduate students, and alumni) who have made media productions from 2017-2019 are invited to submit to the festival by April 15th, 2019.
December 19, 2018
Nicole Sanderson promoted to Director of Finance & Customer Care role at UW Bothell
IAS alum Nicole Sanderson has accepted the newly created role of Director of Finance & Customer Care with UW Bothell Facilities Services and Campus Operations (FS&CO). Sanderson is a Certified Educational Facilities Manager and has served the FS&CO unit for more than 12 years in various project, construction, and fiscal management capacities. She enjoys the opportunities her position provides to collaborate with and support the work of staff, faculty and students across campus.
December 18, 2018
Frances Lee writes on the pitfalls of empathy and the commodification of suffering
Frances Lee’s article, “Seeking change without the commodification of pain and suffering,” was published in The Seattle Globalist on Dec 10. The Cultural Studies alum discusses how social movements rely on emotion and the dead end this creates. “If you don’t care about someone or a group of people until the media has made it abundantly clear that they are suffering, then your concern and engagement is not laudable, but ordinary, expected, and unremarkable.”
December 13, 2018
Jennifer Atkinson interviewed on “Constant Wonder”
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson was interviewed about her new book, Gardenland, on "Constant Wonder" (BYU Radio). Her talk highlights the historical development of garden writing in the United States and discusses the desires, anxieties, ideologies, and social movements that underlie this genre.
December 13, 2018
Amaranth Borsuk exhibits collaborative work at Pierogi Gallery in New York
Curated by Heather and Raphael Rubinstein, the show Under Erasure takes its title from Jacques Derrida's concept of sous rature, which posits that to put a word under erasure (sous rature) is "to signal the inadequacy of inherited language while also recognizing its inevitability." The exhibition includes work by artists and writers who draw upon and obscure sourced texts. According to the curators, "Many of the works included in the exhibition, by artists such as Jenny Holzer and Glenn Ligon, utilize erasure and redaction to emphasize the political ...
December 10, 2018
Jennifer Atkinson at Climate Science on Tap!
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson joined a panel of climate experts including Meade Krosby (UW Climate Impacts Group) and Sarah Myhre (UW Oceanography) to speak on the topic of Environmental Grief & Hope at Climate Science on Tap! The Climate Science on Tap program is a partnership between Cascadia Climate Action and the University of Washington that offers public panel discussions to build community understanding of, and engagement with climate change, its related causes, impacts, and solutions.
December 10, 2018
Ellen Donnelly exhibits Call Me Rabbit in Los Angeles
MFA alum Ellen Donnelly (’16) will exhibit Call Me Rabbit, an immersive video installation, at Actual Size in Los Angeles, CA from December 15 to January 19. The New York-based artist’s first solo exhibition uses imagery, audio, and rhetoric from wellness culture, online marketing, and social media to create an anxious but intriguing landscape to consider our place as individuals and the way we define ourselves as such.
December 7, 2018
Margaret Redsteer co-authors chapter on Tribal Lands for National Climate Assessment and Carbon Cycle Report
IAS faculty member Margaret Redsteer was one of the authors on the recently released National Climate Assessment and Carbon Cycle Report. Her co-authored chapter on “Tribal Lands” focused on traditional land-use and agricultural practices of Indigenous people of the United States, Canada and Mexico that can inform our understanding of carbon cycling and carbon sequestration. Further ...
December 5, 2018
Rebecca Brown publishes Not Heaven, Somewhere Else, a cycle of stories
IAS Senior Artist-in-Residence Rebecca Brown's new book of stories, Not Heaven, Somewhere Else, a cycle of stories was published by Tarpaulin Sky Press in October. The book has been reviewed in The Seattle Review of Books and The Stranger. From The Seattle Review of Books: "Rebecca Brown is the smartest writer in Seattle. ..."
December 5, 2018