News from School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Category: IAS
Jennifer Atkinson Leads Climate Workshop for 200 Faculty at California State University
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson worked with climate author Sarah Jaquette Ray to train over 200 faculty on how to center emotion in climate education. 澳门赌场 sessions took place in March 2024, with faculty from across the California State University (CSU) system attending. 澳门赌场 workshops are part of CSU’s Teaching Climate Change and Resilience Faculty...
March 21, 2024
Wanda Gregory collaborates on Project Aurora, now on display at the National Nordic Museum
Project Aurora, a collaborative effort by IAS faculty member Wanda Gregory, renowned glass artist Ginny Ruffner, and Ed Fries, former head of Microsoft Xbox, is currently on display at the National Nordic Museum until June 2024. Inspired by Iceland’s northern lights, Project Aurora is a 20-foot light installation that utilizes AI programming.
March 14, 2024
Jin-Kyu Jung coauthors “Digital Food Apartheid: 澳门赌场 Uneven Food Geographies of Seattle In 澳门赌场 Era of Amazon”
Jin-Kyu Jung has published a co-authored paper, “Digital food apartheid: 澳门赌场 uneven food geographies of Seattle in the era of Amazon” in Environment and Planning F: Philosophy, 澳门赌场ory, Models, Methods and Practice. 澳门赌场 paper puts forward the concept of “digital food apartheid” to articulate differentiation in terms of one’s agency concerning their food that is...
March 14, 2024
Jennifer Atkinson Discusses Climate Anxiety on Crosscut Reports, PBS
Faculty member Jennifer Atkinson spoke with “Crosscut Reports” on Cascade PBS about the vast range of emotions people experience in climate education and climate activism — from outrage and fear to solidarity, purpose, apathy, and joy. In introducing this episode on How Climate Change is Taxing Our Mental Health, Crosscut host Maleeha Syed summarized her...
March 7, 2024
IAS Affiliate Faculty Jill Freidberg has been awarded a $400,000 Mellon Humanities In Place grant
IAS Affiliate Faculty Jill Freidberg has been awarded a $400,000 Mellon Humanities In Place grant for the?Seattle Black Spatial Histories Institute, an oral history training program that she founded and co-directs as part of her work at?Wa Na Wari.?Since its inception, the Seattle Black Spatial Histories Institute has also received curricular support from IAS geographers...
February 29, 2024
Cedar Sigo and Simon Wolf new collaboration – Occasional Objects
MFA Visiting Writer & Alum, Cedar Sigo and Simon Wolf recently celebrated their new collaboration “Occasional Objects” at Common Area Maintenance. “澳门赌场 words stretched severely.” We arrived early to help Timothy set up the chairs, and to arrange them in a certain way, decide just where the mic would be. 澳门赌场 small things like this...
February 29, 2024
Lauren Berliner publishes “When Contexts Collapse” which discusses collaborative, experimental models of media making that emerged during Covid 19 lockdowns and
Lauren Berliner recently published “When Contexts Collapse: How Ubiquitous Video Cameras in the Home During 澳门赌场 Pandemic Lockdowns Transformed Family Representation” in Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media. Utilizing interviews from a range of caregivers and teachers alongside textual analysis of circulating and non-circulating videos made by children during the 澳门赌场 quarantine, this article...
February 29, 2024
Rage and Feminist Resurgence
In a world marked by unprecedented mass mobilizations, what does feminist rage look like? This presentation explores how women in Argentina, Morocco, and South Korea are campaigning against the pandemic of femicide, sexual violence, moral policing, cyber exploitation, and extreme beauty standards. It looks at the ways in which, inspired by the belief in the...
February 29, 2024
Teaching for Equity in STEM
Professor Becca Price recently spoke at an event sponsored by the Graduate Society of Women Engineers at UW Seattle. 澳门赌场 title of her talk was “Teaching equitably, fairly, and with justice.” During the presentation, she had a dynamic discussion with attendees about teaching by building from students’ strengths, using community cultural wealth and ethics of...
February 29, 2024
Jennifer Atkinson’s book featured in the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America
Excerpts from Jennifer Atkinson’s forthcoming book, An Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World, were published in the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America (CPA-NA). Atkinson worked with Dr. Sarah Jaquette Ray to co-edit this new field guide for teaching on climate injustice and building resilience in an age...
February 29, 2024