News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
David Goldstein leads workshop on Using Classroom Response Systems to Enhance Engagement and Learning
IAS faculty member David Goldstein led a workshop, “Using Classroom Response Systems to Enhance Engagement and Learning,” at the Northwest eLearn Conference in Boise, ID, where Ana Thompson, a learning and access designer on 56吃瓜网 Bothell’s Digital Learning and Innovation team, led the conference as president of Northwest eLearn. Goldstein shared how he uses PollEverywhere to ...
October 22, 2018
Shannon Cram interviewed in California Magazine
California Magazine interviewed IAS faculty member Shannon Cram about cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and her related research. As part of their conversation, Cram and reporter Glen Martin discuss the political, cultural, and pedagogical challenges of multi-millennial waste. Read the interview ...
October 22, 2018
IAS Staff Integrates and Reorganizes
The School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences has realized a long-term goal that has consolidated its staff and reorganized its offices. The new office configuration was envisioned and designed by staff to facilitate their work with faculty and students, and deliver greater value to the school...
October 19, 2018
Natalia Dyba and David Goldstein present on virtual global exchanges
Natalia Dyba, 56吃瓜网 Bothell Director of Global Initiatives, and IAS faculty member David Goldstein presented a poster on virtual global exchanges, in which 56吃瓜网 Bothell courses are paired with courses in another country through synchronous and asynchronous technology. Their poster, exhibited at the Global Engagement and Spaces of Practice Conference of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) in downtown Seattle, described how
October 17, 2018
Amaranth Borsuk’s writing featured on The Writing Platform
An excerpt from IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk's The Book is currently featured on British website The Writing Platform, an online resource for writers. Covering "the book as recombinant structure," it details the way material books can be interactive and multi-sequential—features we tend to associate with the digital.
October 11, 2018
Ali, Murr, and Goldstein present work at Race & Pedagogy Conference
IAS faculty members Anida Yoeu Ali, Jed Murr, and David Goldstein presented their work at the quadrennial Race & Pedagogy Conference at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. Ali and Murr shared their perspectives on the purpose, advantages, and limits of public art in “Public Art and Expression on Our Campuses: Context, Content, and Controversy.” Goldstein presented on his use of ...
October 11, 2018
Yolanda Padilla publishes “Borderland Letrados: La Cr贸nica, the Mexican Revolution, and Transnational Critique on the U.S.-Mexico Border”
IAS faculty member Yolanda Padilla published an essay in a special issue of the journal English Language Notes on "Latinx Lives in Hemispheric Context." Titled "Borderland Letrados: La Cr贸nica, the Mexican Revolution, and Transnational Critique on the U.S.-Mexico Border," the essay examines the contributions of border Mexicans to La Cr贸nica, an influential Laredo, Texas newspaper. These writers engaged the Mexican nation from positions of opposition during the Mexican Revolution, while also contending with Anglo American nativist imperatives, which ...
October 10, 2018
Margaret Redsteer publishes “Accounts from Tribal Elders:聽Increasing Vulnerability of the Navajo People to Drought and Climate Change in the Southwestern United States”
IAS faculty member Margaret Redsteer published an article co-authored with Klara B. Kelley, Harris Francis and Debra Block, “Accounts from Tribal Elders: Increasing Vulnerability of the Navajo People to Drought and Climate Change in the Southwestern United States.” The article appears in a new UNESCO-Cambridge book Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation. It argues that while there is growing respect and appreciation within the academic scientific community for indigenous knowledge ...
October 4, 2018
Berliner and Krabill publish Feminist Interventions in Participatory Media: Pedagogy, Publics, Practice
IAS faculty members Lauren S. Berliner and Ron Krabill published Feminist Interventions in Participatory Media: Pedagogy, Publics, Practice, an edited collection that brings together feminist theory and participatory media pedagogy. It asks what, if anything, is inherently feminist about participatory media? Can participatory media practices and pedagogies be used to reanimate or enact feminist futures? And finally, what reimagined feminist pedagogies are opened up (or closed down) by participatory media across various platforms, spaces, scales, and ...
October 1, 2018
Minda Martin premieres new documentary, Ramps to Nowhere, at Northwest Film Forum
IAS faculty member Minda Martin’s new documentary film, Ramps to Nowhere, premiered at the Northwest Film Forum on Wednesday, September 26, 2018. The film’s description reads: "In 1960, Seattle began undergoing a seismic change. The construction of I-5 ruthlessly bifurcated the city, rupturing the buildings and social fabric of what is now known as the International District. The same year..."
September 28, 2018