News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Diana Garcia-Snyder performs, promotes, and teaches about Butoh
IAS faculty member Diana Garcia-Snyder was recently interviewed by KCTS9 Arts & Culture series "Dare to be Ugly: Dance That Goes Beyond the Beautiful" highlighting the 8th Annual Seattle International Butoh Festival (SIBF), a two week celebration of butoh dance which ran March 31st- April 9th. Since 2009 Diana has served as Co-Director and performer with DAIPANbutoh, Seattle’s premier Butoh company which produces SIBF. What is Butoh?
April 18, 2017
Amaranth Borsuk publishes audio poem
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk has a new piece in Daily Gramma. Borsuk's audio poem, "elegy facing crochet holes and knit slubs with running stitch," is at once personal and outward-looking, an attempt to think through modes of mourning and resistance as they pass through hands engaged in the craft of caring. The title's impossible act references an attempt to ...
April 12, 2017
Julie Shayne presents about her newest book project at the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) conference
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne attended the PSA April 6-8, 2017 where she presented a paper about her newest book project. Shayne is working on an edited collection tentatively titled Mobilizing the University: Curriculum, Space, and Solidarity. Mobilizing the University will be an interdisciplinary, edited collection which focuses on the relationship between social justice activism and the university in the Americas. Contributors will use an intersectional feminist framework to ...
April 10, 2017
Anida Yoeu Ali performs at Art Central Hong Kong and is featured in Harper鈥檚 Bazaar
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali recently performed “The Red Chador: Ban Me!” at Art Central Hong Kong from March 20-25, 2017. While still utilizing religious aesthetics to provoke ideas of otherness, Ali performed a new iteration of her internationally recognized “The Red Chador” series as a response to questions about democracy, civil participation and public complicity. For Hong Kong, Ali adapted her performance to emerge from 99 protest signs, each sign appropriating text from notable slogans of the HK Umbrella Movement, President Trump’s public speeches, the US Civil Rights movement of the 1960’s and ...
April 5, 2017
Maryam Griffin publishes We Will Not Be Silenced: The Academic Repression of Israel’s Critics
IAS faculty member Maryam Griffin published a collection of essays co-edited with William I. Robinson, We Will Not Be Silenced: The Academic Repression of Israel's Critics. The collection features thirteen first-hand testimonies from U.S.-based academics about the harassment and repression they have faced for advocating for justice for Palestinians, criticizing policies of the Israeli state, or even simply recognizing ...
April 4, 2017
Kristy Leissle’s research into the chocolate industry featured and published
IAS faculty member Kristy Leissle appeared in Columns, the University of Washington Alumni Magazine. Columns' Digital Editor and IAS graduate, Quinn Russell Brown, wrote about Leissle's "coming to chocolate studies" as well as her forthcoming book, Cocoa, for Polity Books, in "Traveling the World Like a Cocoa Bean." Leissle also recently appeared on a radio episode for Innovation Hub, "Making a More Versatile Chocolate," which aired on WGBH Boston. After a three-year study ...
March 20, 2017
Amaranth Borsuk speaks and reads in Montreal
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk traveled to Montreal last week to attend the symposium Expanded Poetics: Romantic, Modernist, Contemporary. Hosted by the Centre for Expanded Poetics at Concordia University, an experimental research laboratory focused on materialist media studies and collaborative interdisciplinary research, the event brought together philosophers, literary scholars, and poets working in new media to discuss interdisciplinary poetics from Jena Romanticism to the present. Borsuk spoke about
March 20, 2017
Anida Yoeu Ali with Studio Revolt has two works featured in the new online exhibition “Salaam: I Come In Peace”
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali, along with her media collaborative Studio Revolt, have two works: "Hijabs & Hoodies" and "The Red Chador" featured in the new online exhibition "Salaam: I Come In Peace" launched by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. The digitally curated exhibition includes four works from artists who address experiences of Muslims in America. These works offer deeper insight and understanding of the greater Muslim American community.
March 13, 2017
Anida Yoeu Ali becomes a fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar in Salzburg, Austria
As an invited fellow, IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali gave the opening artist talk for the Salzburg Global Seminar 573 Session on The Art of Resilience: Creativity, Courage and Renewal. The Salzburg Global Seminar is a seventy year old think tank engaged in designing, facilitating and hosting international strategic convening and multi-year programs to tackle critical issues in education, health, environment, economics, governance, peace-building and more. The mission of the Salzburg Global Seminar is to challenge current and future leaders to solve issues of global concern. The goal of this particular session was to ...
March 13, 2017
Jeanne Heuving receives 56吃瓜网 Bothell Distinguished Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Award
IAS faculty member Jeanne Heuving is the recipient of the fourth annual 56吃瓜网 Bothell Distinguished Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Award (DRSCA). The DRSCA is presented each year to a 56吃瓜网 Bothell faculty member in recognition of scholarly or creative achievement that exemplifies the standards of excellence that are required by the research intensive education environment of 56吃瓜网 Bothell. Heuving, one of 56吃瓜网 Bothell’s Founding Faculty members ...
March 8, 2017