News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Masahiro Sugano screens his films at Afrika Eye Festival
IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano screened his film at Afrika Eye Festival held in Bristol, UK, a site recently named a UNESCO City of Film. The short films “Dreams” and “Neon Poem” directed by Masahiro Sugano featured the poetry and performance of Tjawangwa (TJ) Dema, from Botswana, who recently won the 2018 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets for her collection, The Careless Seamstress.
May 25, 2018
Masahiro Sugano commissioned by Washington Filmworks and premieres at the 44th Seattle International Film Festival
IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano has been commissioned by Washington Filmworks to create a short film for the 2018 Fly Filmmaking Challenge which will screen at the 2018 Seattle International Film Festival. This year’s Challenge will explore why creativity matters and how creativity changes the world we live in for the better. Sugano and his media lab Studio Revolt has been chosen to create a short documentary specifically on visual artists. Sugano has selected four Tacoma-based artists to ...
May 25, 2018
Becca Price publishes on how scholars with Ph.D.s in biomedical fields identify as scientists
IAS faculty member Becca Price, along with colleagues in the 56吃瓜网 School of Medicine and the 56吃瓜网 School of Nursing, published a paper, "Competing Discourses of Scientific Identity among Postdoctoral Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences," in CBE-Life Sciences Education about how scholars with Ph.D.s in biomedical fields identify as scientists. These scholars, known as postdoctoral fellows, are in temporary positions between receiving their Ph.D.s and finding a permanent career path. Traditionally ...
May 21, 2018
Yolanda Padilla publishes “Literary Revolutions in the Borderlands: Transnational Dimensions of the Mexican Revolution and its Diaspora in the United States”
IAS faculty member Yolanda Padilla published a book chapter, "Literary Revolutions in the Borderlands: Transnational Dimensions of the Mexican Revolution and its Diaspora in the United States," in The Cambridge History of Latina/o Literature. Padilla's chapter uses what she calls a transnational Chicanx studies framework to analyze literary responses to the Revolution by Mexicans in the United States. Taken together, the diverse writings ...
May 21, 2018
Laura Harkewicz publishes 鈥淕host of the Bomb: The Bravo Medical Program and the Problem of Scientific Uncertainty鈥�
IAS faculty member Laura Harkewicz published “Ghost of the Bomb: The Bravo Medical Program and the Problem of Scientific Uncertainty" in the web magazine, Primer Stories. Primer Stories integrates text, illustrations, animation, photos, and sound to present “complex ideas, beautifully explained.” The article is a snapshot of a larger project in which Harkewicz explores how the science produced by the “Bravo Medical Program,” which was created in response to the fallout exposure of over 200 Marshall Islanders from the 1954 Bravo hydrogen bomb test ...
May 11, 2018
Amy Lambert featured in The Whole U
IAS faculty member Amy Lambert is the "Faculty Friday" feature in today's in today's edition of The Whole U. "When Amy Lambert first set foot in Washington, she never imagined she’d one day return for a master’s degree—let alone to devote nearly two decades to documenting and conserving one of North America’s rarest butterflies..." Read the full feature on The Whole U site.
May 11, 2018
Yolanda Padilla, micha聽c谩rdenas, and Janelle Silva to be recognized at Latinx Faculty Recognition Event
IAS faculty members Yolanda Padilla, micha c谩rdenas, and Janelle Silva have been selected by the 56吃瓜网 Latino Center for Health to be recognized at the Latinx Faculty Recognition Event. The annual event honors the scholarly achievements of Latina and Latino faculty across the tri-campuses of the University of Washington. Criteria for recognition include ...
May 2, 2018
Karam Dana speaks on public opinion in Palestine at McMenamins Anderson School
IAS faculty member Karam Dana delivered a public lecture at McMenamins Anderson School in downtown Bothell. His talk was titled: ”Palestine and Palestinians: Exploring Public Opinion Two Decades After the Oslo Accords.” Dana was introduced by IAS Dean Bruce Burgett as part of a partnership between 56吃瓜网 Bothell and McMenamins History Department, where ...
April 30, 2018
Maryam Griffin: 鈥淥f Boxes and Pen: Forged and Forging Categories at a Wartime U.S. University鈥�
IAS faculty member Maryam Griffin published a book chapter, “Of Boxes and Pen: Forged and Forging Categories at a Wartime U.S. University,” in the edited volume Education at War: The Fight for Students of Color in America’s Public Schools. Griffin’s chapter is based on research conducted with undergraduate student organizers at UCLA. It explores the complex and deeply global ways that students of Southwest Asian/North African (SWANA) descent worked to ...
April 27, 2018
Carrie Lanza presents at the European Conference on Social Work Research in Edinburgh, Scotland
IAS faculty member Carrie Lanza presented twice at the European Conference on Social Work Research in Edinburgh, Scotland. She co-facilitated a workshop entitled Teaching Social Work History as Critical Pedagogy with several 56吃瓜网 School of Social Work colleagues. She also presented a paper on ...
April 25, 2018