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“Project Aurora” Panel Discussion with Ginny Ruffner, Ed Fries, and Wanda Gregory, Thursday, May 23rd

Monique Taylor — Thu, 23 May 2024 20:16:07 +0000

Learn about the making of Project Aurora from the creators—artist Ginny Ruffner, technologist Ed Fries, and scholar Wanda Gregory—in a panel discussion moderated by Chief Curator, Leslie Anderson. This program celebrates the National Nordic Museum’s acquisition of this important work of art. from the creators—artist Ginny Ruffner, technologist Ed Fries, and scholar Wanda Gregory—in a panel discussion moderated by Chief Curator, Leslie Anderson. This program celebrates the National Nordic Museum’s acquisition of this important work of art.

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Jennifer Atkinson Leads Climate Workshop for 200 Faculty at California State University

Monique Taylor — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 23:56:38 +0000

IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson worked with climate author Sarah Jaquette Ray to train over 200 faculty on how to center emotion in climate education. The sessions took place in March 2024, with faculty from across the California State University (CSU) system attending.

The workshops are part of CSU’s Faculty Learning Community, which helps instructors incorporate climate change and resilience into their teaching. The series features leading experts in climate science, climate communications and policy. In addition to the most recent workshop facilitated by Atkinson and Ray, sessions have been led by the following experts:

Dr. Britt Wray, Director of CIRCLE at Stanford University.
Dr. Elizabeth Bagley of Project Drawdown, an interdisciplinary environmental scientist with experience spanning academia, business, and the nonprofit sector.
Katherine Noble, the Climate Manager of Solutions Journalism Network.
Matt Scott, director of storytelling and engagement for Project Drawdown, and other national leaders in climate education, research and activism.

To learn more about centering emotion in climate education and climate communication, visit , or read her new book , forthcoming May 2024 with University of California Press.

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Jennifer Atkinson Discusses Climate Anxiety on Crosscut Reports, PBS

Monique Taylor — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:14:38 +0000

Faculty member spoke with “Crosscut Reports” on Cascade PBS about the vast range of emotions people experience in climate education and climate activism — from outrage and fear to solidarity, purpose, apathy, and joy.

In introducing this episode on , Crosscut host Maleeha Syed summarized her interview with Atkinson: “It’s hard to miss the signs of climate change. The ocean’s heating, ice sheets are melting and – in places like Washington – wildfire seasons are getting longer. But climate change isn’t just impacting our landscape: It’s also affecting our mental health. In this episode of Crosscut Reports, host Maleeha Syed talks with Jennifer Atkinson, an associate teaching professor at the 56�Թ��, about the difficult emotions many of us experience with these changes – and what we can do to navigate them.”

Listen to the full interview on .

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IAS Affiliate Faculty Jill Freidberg has been awarded a $400,000 Mellon Humanities In Place grant

Monique Taylor — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:55:55 +0000

IAS Affiliate Faculty Jill Freidberg has been awarded a $400,000 Mellon Humanities In Place grant for the Seattle Black Spatial Histories Institute, an oral history training program that she founded and co-directs as part of her work at Wa Na Wari. Since its inception, the Seattle Black Spatial Histories Institute has also received curricular support from IAS geographers...

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Rage and Feminist Resurgence

Monique Taylor — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:07:27 +0000

In a world marked by unprecedented mass mobilizations, what does feminist rage look like? This presentation explores how women in Argentina, Morocco, and South Korea are campaigning against the pandemic of femicide, sexual violence, moral policing, cyber exploitation, and extreme beauty standards. It looks at the ways in which, inspired by the belief in the personal as political, these new social and political protests, are using the Internet as a dynamic space for grassroots discourse to articulate transnational feminist solidarity. Some of the campaigns that it will explore include #NiUnaMenos, the Green Tide, Morokkiates, Moroccan Outlaws, Escape the Corset, Megalia, and Womad.

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Teaching for Equity in STEM

Monique Taylor — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 23:59:05 +0000

Professor Becca Price recently spoke at an event sponsored by the Graduate Society of Women Engineers at 56�Թ�� Seattle. The title of her talk was “Teaching equitably, fairly, and with justice.” During the presentation, she had a dynamic discussion with attendees about teaching by building from students’ strengths, using community cultural wealth and ethics of care as frameworks. She also briefly mentioned —the Science Teaching Experience Program for Upcoming PhDs—that gives graduate students the chance to learn and implement active and inclusive teaching strategies as they design and deliver an undergraduate seminar.

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Melanie Malone announced as Presidential Plenary Speaker for AAG 2024

Monique Taylor — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 17:00:00 +0000

IAS faculty member Melanie Malone will be one of the featured Presidential Plenary speakers at the Annual Association of American Geographers Conference 2024. She will be speaking about reciprocal community research and soil contamination. For more information, see the special events announcement and the session information.

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Santiago Lopez’s research is cited in Grist

Racquel Farrar — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 17:00:00 +0000

Santiago Lopez’s was interviewed by Grist Magazine and his work on tropical deforestation cited in the article entitled “In the Ecuadorian Amazon, oil threatens decades of Indigenous-led conservation“. The article was co-published by Grist and InfoAmazonia and is part of The Human Cost of Conservation, a Grist series on Indigenous rights and protected areas.

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Santiago Lopez received a Global Innovation Fund Award

Racquel Farrar — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 17:00:00 +0000

Santiago Lopez receives a Global Innovation Fund Award to support the implementation of a new program entitled ” Global Connections and Engagements Through Geotechnical Applications”. The program is a collaboration between IAS, the Department of Applied Math at 56�Թ�� Seattle, and the Polytechnic Salesian University in Quito, Ecuador. The funding will support a study abroad experience that will equip students from diverse backgrounds with the necessary knowledge, technical skills, and cultural competencies to address global environmental challenges through the use of remote sensing technologies, geographic information systems, spatial data analytics, and international collaborative work.

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Julie Shayne presents at the annual winter Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) meeting

Racquel Farrar — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 17:00:00 +0000

Dr. Julie Shayne, Teaching Professor in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies and Global Studies attended this year’s winter conference “Queering SWS: Seeking Radical Inclusion in a Complex World.” Shayne moderated a panel titled “Feminist Responses to Gender-Based Violence in Transnational Perspective,” organized by her longtime collaborator Dr. Barbara Sutton from the University at Albany, SUNY.

The panelists discussed their forthcoming books/books-in-progress about feminist activism in response to State based and interpersonal violence against women. Additionally, Shayne participated in a round table discussion titled “Education and Pedagogy” where she presented a paper titled “Where are the Feminist High Impact Practices?” In it, Shayne discussed the High Impact Practices (HIPs) faculty fellowship she is presently co-facilitating and the irony of the absence of feminist theorists in the literature given that GWSS is the discipline of HIPs. She was seeking input for a paper that Jesi Egan, fellow feminist scholar and Director of Research and Creative Projects for Undergraduates, are presently in the early stages of developing.

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