News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Amaranth Borsuk presents at the annual Modern Language Association Conference
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk participated in this year's MLA conference in Seattle in January, where she spoke on the panel "Weird Books" convened by Whitney Trettien (University of Pennsylvania) and 脡lika Ortega (University of Colorado Boulder). The panel invited scholars and book artists to "think critically about the role of weirdness in studying the material text [and] excavate the history and materiality of a weird book." Borsuk's talk ...
January 30, 2020
Ching-In Chen selected for the 2020 Jack Straw Writers Program
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has been selected to be one of twelve writers for the 2020 Jack Straw Writers Program by curator Anastacia-Ren茅e. The program features voice and presentation training, in-studio interviews, public readings, a published anthology, and podcasts. ...
January 28, 2020
Anida Yoeu Ali exhibits artwork in 4 different countries
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali exhibited her artworks in four different countries. Ali is an internationally recognized artist whose works span performance, installation, video, images, public encounters, and political agitation. This past November Ali’s works were on view concurrently at the Jogja National Museum (Indonesia), Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (The Netherlands), Gajah Gallery (Singapore) and the Kunsthall Trondheim (Norway). ...
January 24, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson discusses climate grief with LA Times
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times for a story exploring the emotional impact of our climate crisis. As 2020 kicked off with the world's attention focused on the Australian bushfires, there has been little discussion of the far-reaching mental health consequences of such disasters. Atkinson explained that we still primarily frame climate change as a scientific or technical problem, when in fact it is a deeply emotional issue as well ...
January 24, 2020
The hijab and discrimination towards women who wear it
IAS faculty member Karam Dana is co-author of a research report on the discrimination faced by women who wear the hijab in the United States. "Targeted: Veiled Women Experience Significantly More Discrimination in the U.S." appears on the Religion in Public blog, and examines whether Muslims who wear the hijab are more likely to experience mistreatment and perceive discrimination.
January 21, 2020
The hijab and discrimination towards women who wear it
IAS faculty member Karam Dana is co-author of a research report on the discrimination faced by women who wear the hijab in the United States. "Targeted: Veiled Women Experience Significantly More Discrimination in the U.S." appears on the Religion in Public blog, and examines whether Muslims who wear the hijab are more likely to experience mistreatment and perceive discrimination.
January 21, 2020
Sara Maxwell on the need for mobile marine protected areas
IAS faculty member Sara Maxell is cited in a recent 56吃瓜网 News article, "Mobile protected areas needed to preserve biodiversity in the high seas," for her research and adcocacy work on including mobile marine protected areas in the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea. “In the context of climate change ...
January 21, 2020
IAS faculty promotions
IAS faculty members Yolanda Padilla and Amoshaun Toft were officially notified by the 56吃瓜网 Provost’s Office of their promotion from Assistant to Associate Professor (with tenure). Congratulations Yolanda and Amoshaun!!!
January 10, 2020
Melanie Malone awarded Royalty Research Fund
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone received a Royalty Research Fund (RRF) of $39,993 for her research on contaminant sources in organic urban community gardens. Building off her pilot project on contamination in soils in urban community gardens in Seattle, WA and Brooklyn, NY, the RRF will allow Malone to ...
January 8, 2020
Seattle Human Rights Day features student research and Abigail Echo-Hawk
For several years, students of the Washington D.C. Human Rights Seminar have participated in Seattle Human Rights Day by presenting their human rights research at the pre-program reception. The 2019 event was particularly special, as Abigail Echo-Hawk, both an IAS and D.C. Seminar alum, was a featured speaker in the main program, “Amplifying Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples’ Voices.”
January 7, 2020