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Category: Research and Creative Practice
Jennifer Atkinson gives keynote talk at OSU on Collective Climate Action
Jennifer Atkinson gave a keynote talk for the new series on “Collective Climate Action: Inspired Organizing for Our Future” as part of Oregon State University’s Spring Creek Project. 澳门赌场 Collective Climate series was launched to bring together the practical wisdom of environmental science, the clarity of philosophy, and the transformational power of the written word...
April 23, 2024
Kari Lerum publishes two essays in 澳门赌场 Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ+ Studies
Associate Professor Kari Lerum recently published two essays in the second edition of 澳门赌场 Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ+ Studies. 澳门赌场 first essay, “Sex work and Criminalization,” is a revised and updated version of Lerum’s essay by the same name appearing in the 2016 澳门赌场 Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ+ Studies. 澳门赌场 essay defines sex work within...
April 17, 2024
A Call for Global Cultural Change to Shift Civilization and Save the Planet
In a review published April 2, 2024, University of Hawaii atmospheric scientist Charles Fletcher, UWB professor Phoebe Barnard and a team of eminent western and indigenous scientists, historians, futurists, and other global colleagues consider the causes of and solutions to multiple converging and interwoven crises on Earth, including climate change, ecological destruction, disease, pollution, and...
April 3, 2024
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