ANNOUNCEMENTS

IAS launched its new MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics with a rousing national conference Convergence on Poetics September 27-30.  Nearly 200 local and international conference participants, including IAS faculty members Jeanne Heuving, Amaranth Borsuk, Rebecca Brown, Sarah Dowling, Ted Hiebert, and Joe Milutis, explored current understandings and practices of poetics within writing communities and the academy. The conference included poetry readings, artist talks, keynote panels, performances, and short "postings on poetics." The Convergence is an annual public event integrated into the curriculum of the MFA, so don't miss it next year!

IAS Graduate Office Welcomes Meredith Field  

  

UPCOMING EVENTS              

  

Husky Tailgate

UW vs. USC Warm Up and Viewing Party Oct. 13 at Safeco Field - Tickets Limited!
Think tailgate before a game but on a much bigger scale. Join 4,000 Husky fans in The 'Pen inside of Safeco Field, partying together with music, great food and reasonable beer prices. UW Bothell will have a reserved section with games, prizes and a raffle to win tickets into the game. Your ticket gets you a $10 food and drink voucher plus VIP access to the UW Bothell section. Students $10 and Alumni & Friends $15. Check the alumni website for more information and to purchase tickets.  

 

Miss Representation Screening and Panel Discussion    

 

 

Thursday, October 18th, 6-9 pm, North Creek Events Center
Screening and Panel Discussion of the Award Winning Documentary Miss Representation.   

 

How do you feel about women's image today? Miss Representation explores how the media's misrepresentations of women have led to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence.

 

  

Chalk It Up Design Competition! 

 

The Kick-Off Event for the 2013 Innovation Forum: Engaging Design 
UWB Commons and Promenade, October 18, 2012 from 12-6 pm
Sign in: 12- 1 pm: commons lobby, competition from 1:15-3:15 pm,voting and other surprises 3:15-5:15 pm, announcement of prizes 5:30 pm!

Spaces Limited: Early Registration Recommended
For more information or to sign up contact Aina Braxton at ainab@uw.edu

School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Research Colloquium 

Join us for a monthly showcase of research-in-progress by Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences faculty members. The campus-community and the general public are invited to interact with faculty in conversations about their research, gain a sense of how research practices shift as they move across disciplines and sectors, and think critically and creatively about the implications of different forms of research design.       

"The Black Book of Nazi Terror in Europe: An International Collaboration between Artists and Writers, Mexico City, 1943" with Deborah Caplow
Tuesday, November 6, 4:00 - 5:30pm
UW Bothell, Rose Room (UW1-280)

Please visit the web for detailed information, upcoming presentations, and past colloquium archives.         

Student, Alumni, and Faculty News

Students

Christa Bell (Cultural Studies) will be speaking on a panel at the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) in Oakland, CA in November.  The panel is: From "Super Bass" to "Stupid Hoe": Contextualizing the Black Sexual Politics of Nicki Minaj and her presentation is (tentatively) titled, A Visual History of the Lewd in Black Women's Performance Art.   

Christa will also premiere an excerpt from her new performance art piece, 1001 Holy Names for Coochie: A Mantra, A Meditation, A Movement, at the Seattle Art Museum, October 12, 6-9 pm in the Simons Boardroom, as part of the opening events for Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Talena Kettrell (Creative Writing & Poetics) will begin a writing residency at Lake Forest Park Elementary where she will use the school as a laboratory for creative ideas regarding literacy as a fine & visual art and work with students using the Common Core Standards to improve their overall writing skills. Also, Talena's nonprofit project Her Best Self is looking for volunteer female mentors who are willing to invest in a young woman's quest for self-discovery and improvement. Find more information on their website at www.herbestself.org   

Alumni

Mona Halcomb (Cultural Studies, 2011) will be a co-presenter at the 2012 National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) conference which will be held October 12-14, 2012 in Seattle. NCDD is a network of 1,600 organizations and individuals who bring people together across divides to discuss, decide, and act together on today's toughest challenges.  NCDD serves as a gathering place, a resource center, a news source, and a facilitative leader for this active community centered around the practices of dialogue and deliberation. Mona will present at the workshop: Reexamining the Indigenous Deliberative Democracy Practice -   Past & Present.

David Ryder (Cultural Studies, 2011) has been producing promotional videos for UW Bothell since graduating from the Cultural Studies program in 2011 and as of October 1 he has a 30-second spot that he produced airing as a commercial on local CBS affiliate KSTW CW11/Seattle.

Priya Frank (Cultural Studies, 2011) will be a panelist at The Arts & Social Change Symposium taking place Oct 12-13 at the Seattle Center. Her panel will be on October 12th in the Art Critics session from 3:30 - 5:00 pm.  This panel session examines the intersection between art critique and social change. Priya Frank will discuss world music artists in the context of contested spaces and redefined identities. Jen Graves and Misha Berson will provide insight into their roles as art critics at two major Seattle newspapers and how criticism can be used as a vehicle to broadcast artistic intentions toward social justice.

Joy MacTavish-Unten (Cultural Studies, 2010) was a speaker at the DONA International Doula Conference in Cancún, Mexico, in July. Her session was titled "Supporting LGBTQ Families: Cultural Competencies for Doulas." Joy has also recently accepted a position as the Project Coordinator for the Puget Sound worksite lactation support outreach project for the Breastfeeding Coalition of Washington (BCW) a program of WithinReach, a non-profit organization working together to promote, protect and support breastfeeding as a vital part of the health and development of children and families. She looks forward to bringing her research, analysis and cultural studies skills to use in this important role.

Ericka Weathers (formerly Wiggins) (Policy Studies 2011) will be presenting at the 17th Annual Conference on Advancing School Mental Health in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 25-27, 2012. She will be presenting results of an evaluation of the Seattle Public School's Family Support Program. Ericka contributed to this evaluation through my role as Research Coordinator in the Division of Public Behavioral Health and Justice Policy at the University of Washington.  

Faculty

 

Carrie Bodle presented at  Our Creative Society: Beyond Art. Creative Thinking in Contemporary Culture at the Cornish College of the Arts this weekend.  Our Creative Society, the first of an annual program centered on a theme that reflects the cultural currents and discourse taking place at the College and in the community, presents this year's theme: Beyond Art. Creative Thinking in Contemporary Culture. Carrie presented her work during The Art of Science session on Saturday, October 6 during the Day of Ideas. 

Amaranth Borsuk's experimental "technotext" Between Page and Screen has been garnering positive reviews. An epistolary encounter between two characters -- P(age) and S(creen) -- the "digital pop-up book" raises questions about the stability of literary texts in a digital age and the (false) distinction between disembodied writing and embodied performance. The first edition is nearly sold out, with a second on its way.  

Rebecca Brown has been chosen to take part in the Mw (Moment Magnitude) exhibit at the Fry Art Museum. Mw is an ambitious cross-platform project of visual art, performance, production, rehearsal, specially commissioned artworks, music, dance, literary events, design, and arts engagement programs showcasing exceptional artistic practice in Seattle. It will be on view from October 13, 2012 to January 20, 2013.

Bruce Burgett and UW Bothell Vice Chancellor Susan Jeffords contributed to a new report published by the Big 10 Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) on "Making a Case for the Humanities: Advocacy and Audience." The report emerged from a 2012 Modern Language Association plenary session organized by Teresa Mangum of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa. Other contributors to the report are Barbara McFadden Allen (Director of the CIC), Esther Mackintosh (President of the Federation of State Humanities Councils), and Scott Jaschik (reporter for Inside Higher Ed.).

Jeanne Heuving published an interview with Nathaniel Mackey in Contemporary Literature (University of Wisconsin Press) in their summer 2012 issue. Mackey's work is defined by his commitment to serial composition and improvisatory modes, drawing inspiration from jazz and world music. He is a National Book Award winner and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Ted Hiebert has been busy this month, opening three new exhibitions of his work. "Hunting Orange Rabbits" at Shift Collaborative Studio, Seattle, WA runs until September 29. "Between Magnets" at Noxious Sector Projects, Seattle, WA runs until September 30. "Electroprojections," a project of the Noxious Sector Arts Collective, includes Hiebert's work in a group show curated by Cara-Ann Simpson at G3 Artspace in Kingston, Australia.

Dan Jacoby participated this month in an invitational think tank at the Center for Craft Creativity and Design at the University of North Carolina Asheville intended to support the creation of new apprenticeship models among master craftsmen. Professor Jacoby's expertise in this area emerges from research conducted for his book, Laboring for Freedom, and his current scholarship on labor politics and educational policy. Jacoby also gave a talk at the Washington State Labor Education and Research Center comparing our work on the Bellevue Teachers Strike to the Chicago Teachers Strike.

Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, drawing on his experience as UW Bothell Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Learning, recently delivered a Skype keynote address to the National Seminar on Academic Leadership, organized by the Centre for Education beyond Curriculum at Christ University in Bangalore, India. 

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