News from the School of IAS

Category: Research and Creative Practice

Jennifer Atkinson interviewed on The 4 Stages of Climate Grief

IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson was interviewed in an Outside Magazine story on The 4 Stages of Climate Grief. Written by Heather Hansman, author of Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West, the essay profiled personal struggles with climate grief and eco-anxiety. Atkinson's contribution highlighted practical strategies for coping with distress that arises from assaults on places we are personally connected to. Hansman contacted Atkinson after learning of her work helping students build emotional strategies to cope with climate grief and ...

December 9, 2019

Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung publish “Psychogeographic Visualizations: or, what is it like to be a bat?”

IAS faculty members Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung published “Psychogeographic Visualizations: or, what is it like to be a bat?” in Cultural Geographies. The article takes a creative re-interpretation of psychogeography: psyschogeography less about the psychological dimensions of real space but more about the mind’s spatiality with the consideration of different forms of imagining as ‘places’ ...

December 5, 2019

Minda Martin facilitates artist panel at the Henry

IAS faculty member Minda Martin facilitated an artist panel on 23 November 2019 during the opening weekend of Shamim M. Momin’s In Plain Sight exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery. The artists on the panel Beatriz Cortez, Nicole Miller, Tom Burr, and Andrea Bowers. The panel focused on ...

December 5, 2019

Amoshaun Toft at the OurMedia Conference: “From StudioX to legal FM”

IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft co-organized the “Echoes of Indymedia: Infrastructures of resistance” panel at the OurMedia conference in Brussels. His presentation, “From StudioX to legal FM: Organizing communications infrastructure in Seattle 1999-2019” accompanied participants in-person and remotely from a range of academics and practitioners involved in ...

December 2, 2019

Rebecca Brown: recent publications and an interview

IAS faculty member Rebecca Brown has had a very active 2019, publishing several pieces of writing: an essay, “Body, Soul and Word,” in @ KGB Bar Lit Journal; a story, “The Beanstalk,” in Willow Springs; an interview in Willow Springs ; two stories, “The Pigs” and “Gepetto,” in Brutus (translated into Japanese from her 2018 collection, Not Heaven, Somewhere Else); a short essay, also translated into ...

November 25, 2019

It’s time to start adapting to climate change

Too many discussions about climate change end in a conversation about reducing greenhouse gases, says IAS faculty member Margaret Redsteer in a recent 56Թ Bothell news piece. That’s not a bad conversation, but it’s too late. “There’s no real discussion about the fact that climate change is already here...

November 25, 2019

Amaranth Borsuk publishes in special issue of Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture

IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk has a longstanding practice of making her digital works open-source and available for modification. This month, she opened up her collaborative project Abra: A Living Text for a special issue of Enculturation edited by Helen Burgess (North Carolina State University) and Roger Whitson (Washington State University). The issue, "Critical Making and Executable Kits" features scholars open sourcing digital humanities projects with ...

November 25, 2019

Amaranth Borsuk speaks in Texas

Last week IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk visited Texas for two speaking engagements related to The Book. In San Antonio, Borsuk visited the Southwest School of Art, where she gave an artist's talk and met with students studying paper making, book arts, and letterpress printing. She then traveled to Victoria to speak in the American Book Review reading series at the University of Houston Victoria. Her talk there ...

November 19, 2019

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) faculty, staff, and student present at the annual National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference

This year six GWSS faculty, one undergraduate major, and the GWSS librarian all attended the 40th annual National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) conference. Professor Julie Shayne organized a session titled “Using Feminist Pedagogy to Mobilize Knowledge: Zines, Museums, Peer Education, & Pop Feminism.” The panel showcased the work of 56ԹB faculty, staff, and students. Prof Shayne, GWSS librarian Penelope Wood, and GWSS major Nicole Carter co-presented a paper titled “‘Rad Womxn and Femmes in the Pacific Northwest:’ A Zine by ...

November 19, 2019