News from the School of IAS

Category: Research and Creative Practice

IAS faculty members serve as research mentors for the Pacific Science Center’s 2019 “Games for our Future”

IAS faculty members Jennifer Atkinson, Mark Chen, and Jason Lambacher served as research mentors for the Pacific Science Center's 2019 "Games for our Future" event, a three-day game jam focused on the theme “Creating a Green Tomorrow.” The Game Jam brought game developers and researchers together to learn from each other and show the power of games to translate complex environmental research into a medium that's both fun and educational. The event was ...

May 28, 2019

Charlie Collins co-authors top-cited paper in Journal of Urban Affairs

IAS faculty member Charlie Collins co-authored the top-cited paper in the Journal of Urban Affairs in 2018: “Transforming social cohesion into informal social control: Deconstructing collective efficacy and the moderating role of neighborhood racial homogeneity.” Drawing on collective efficacy and social disorganization theories, the article found a positive relationship between social cohesion ...

May 2, 2019

IAS faculty and student win 2019 Husky Green Awards

The Husky Green Awards are given annually to students, faculty and staff from the Seattle, Bothell and Tacoma campuses who show environmental leadership and dedication. This year, IAS faculty members Rob Turner, Warren Gold, Environmental Science major Jordan Fette, and Policy Studies alum Sean Schmidt have been awarded this distinction.

April 23, 2019

Jason Frederick Lambacher publishes editorial on the Green New Deal

IAS faculty member Jason Frederick Lambacher published an editorial in the May 2019 edition of The New Republic on the Green New Deal. In a guest editorial for the magazine, Lambacher, drawing on the work of Hannah Arendt, argues that citizen involvement in both imagining and implementing a Green New Deal (GND) is fundamental to its viability.

April 23, 2019

IAS Faculty Host Distinguished Speaker Cecilia Vicuña

Last week, the School of IAS hosted Dean's Distinguished Speaker Cecilia Vicuña, a Chilean visual artist and poet whose work addresses ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization. As part of her visit, Vicuña delivered a performance lecture, Living Poems, on Tuesday April 16th from 6-8pm to a large audience of campus and community members. The following day ...

April 23, 2019

Jason Frederick Lambacher delivers a paper derived from his Art & Politics of Walking course

IAS faculty member Jason Frederick Lambacher delivered a paper derived from his Art & Politics of Walking course at the Western Political Science Association’s (WPSA) annual conference in San Diego, CA in April 2019. Lambacher presented new work at a WPSA mini-conference titled, The Politics of the Mindfulness Revolution. The conference took a critical look at the multiple and competing forces of the “mindful revolution” in the contemporary zeitgeist, including yoga, meditation, education, pedagogy, corporate mindfulness, mindfulness in prisons, and various types of Buddhism. Lambacher discussed ...

April 23, 2019

Amaranth Borsuk and Sarah Dowling Publish Interview and Review of Poet Jordan Abel

The current issue of ASAP/J, the web journal of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, includes Borsuk and Dowling's collaborative review of Injun, Jordan Abel's Griffin-Award winning poetry collection collaged, cut-up, and erased from a corpus of 91 public-domain pulp western novels. Their review is accompanied by an interview with Abel in which the three discuss Injun in the context of his body of work, both previous and forthcoming, which uses ...

April 23, 2019

David Goldstein: John Waters was a pioneer of queer cinema

IAS faculty member David Goldstein was quoted in an article about pioneering film director John Waters in the online magazine them. Goldstein explained why Waters is an icon in the queer community, making films since 1972 that subvert social mores about sexuality and fearlessly center marginalized groups in the United States.

April 18, 2019

Carrie Bodle’s Sound Field Sea Cycles highlighted by Creative Capital

Creative Capital features IAS faculty member Carrie Bodle’s in-progress project Sound Field Sea Cycles in their "On Our Radar” announcement. Bodle was a finalist for their nationally competitive award being in the top 2% of over 5,200 applications. Her work in-progress consists of ...

April 17, 2019

Anida Yoeu Ali published in “Turning Tides: Caribbean Intersections in the Americas and Beyond”

IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali has published in the edited volume, “Turning Tides: Caribbean Intersections in the Americas and Beyond” published by Ian Randle Publishers. The book brings together an eclectic collection of 19 essays, conversations and reports intended to reach beyond regions and compartmentalized disciplines. The book hopes to broaden the horizons of what we call ‘The Caribbean’ both geographically and intellectually.

April 15, 2019