ANNOUNCEMENTS

Admissions Deadlines Approaching for the IAS Graduate Studies Programs!

Priority deadlines for admission to the Autumn 2013 cohorts for the IAS graduate studies programs are coming up quickly. If you know someone who is considering applying, please pass along the following deadlines to them: 

• MA in Cultural Studies: February 1
• MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics: February 1
• MA in Policy Studies: March 1

Questions about admissions or requests for more information should be directed to Kate Osmond at kosmond@uwb.edu. 

The Cultural Studies Association (CSA) has announced its eleventh annual conference will take place May 23 through 26 at Columbia College in Chicago.The theme of this year's conference, Beyond Disciplinarity: Interventions in Cultural Studies and the Arts, encourages submissions that reflect on the nature, limits, and merits of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary practices across the humanities, social sciences, and the arts. The new CSA website is now live and accepting submissions for the 2013 conference.  

Key Dates: 

Open for Proposal Submissions: January 7, 2013 - Submit an abstract

Deadline for Proposals: February 11, 2013

Notification of Acceptance: March 18, 2013

Early Conference Registration: March 4, 2013 - April 22, 2013

Deadline for Inclusion in the Conference Program: May 13, 2013

Society of Scholars

UPCOMING EVENTS                

Readings from the Convergence Zone and Other Phenomena    

Inspired by the Puget Sound Convergence Zone, the meteorological phenomenon that sends bands of rainfall teeming across the verdant University of Washington Bothell campus, the new MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics has launched its series, Readings from the Convergence Zone.

Nick Monfort will be reading from his creative work, including a work in progress, All the Way for the Win, and the recently-published Riddle and Bind, Thursday, January 17. Follow the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics on Facebook for information on upcoming readings.

First Friday Art Exhibit at Lucid Jazz Lounge

Join other students and alums at a one-night-only event, featuring the work of freelance Seattle photojournalist and filmmaker David Ryder at Lucid Jazz Lounge "First Friday" on February 1. A graduate of the Master of Arts program in Cultural Studies at UW Bothell (2011), Ryder will share a photo collection representing love, and the power it has to redefine, heal, celebrate and restore at the event. The exhibit will include his coverage of same-sex marriage in Washington state, spiritual ceremonies on the Duwamish River, Occupy protests and tango in Argentina. Prints will be available for purchase with proceeds going to the University of Washington Community Peace Garden. Lucid Lounge is located at 5241 University Way NE, Seattle. The evening will also feature an exclusive cocktail and dessert menu.

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.   

Mark your calendars for upcoming presentations: 

Community, Knowledge, Economy  
Colin Danby 

Tuesday, February 5, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
UW Bothell, Rose Room (UW1-280)  

This paper distinguishes two accounts of community, and the knowledge community supports: the large, holist, from-above concept of "culture," and the ground-level intersubjectivity that rests on extended living and work with particular other people. These accounts are commonly combined, so that "intersubjective" is generalized from particular relationships to a larger intersubjective space in which many people participate, bringing it into line with the holist concept of culture. This conflation is unwarranted.

After distinguishing a robust ground-level intersubjectivity that is not reliant on a holist doctrine of culture, I show that it provides a social-ontological base for drawing together insights from feminist, Austrian, and Post Keynesian economics about the nature and limitations of people's knowledge.

Comedies of Surplus: Representing the Garden in Recent American Literature

Tuesday, March 4, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Jennifer Atkinson  

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

Innovation Forum 2013: Engaging Design  

Innovation Forum 2013: Engaging Design, which will take place February 11 through 14 at the University of Washington Bothell, intends to bring together a broad audience from around the region, including faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members, to engage in a deep dialogue and exchange on wide-ranging engagement with the process of design. UW Bothell Chancellor Kenyon Chan says this signature event for UW Bothell "affirms our role as a thought leader and an institution focused on innovation and creativity." More information about the event is available here.

Research in Progress

The Research-in-Progress (RIP) seminar series highlights the ongoing research of UW Bothell faculty, while fostering interdisciplinary communication and collaboration. These presentations, sponsored by the Office of Research, take place the second Tuesday of each month at 4:00 p.m. in LB1-205, and are open to all interested faculty, students and staff.

Two IAS faculty members will present talks this quarter as part of the RIP series:   

Kristin Gustafson will present "What's in a Name? - Immigrant Journalism in a Digital Age" February 12.

Camille Walsh will present "Race, Taxes and Rights: Taxpayer Identity and the Structure of Racial Inequality" February 19.

Student, Alumni, and Faculty News

Students

 

 

Christa Bell (Cultural Studies, 2014) will attend "Black Portraiture[s]: The Black Body in the West," in Paris, France, January 17 through January 20. The conference is sponsored by the Photography & Imaging department at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Christa will present on her experience at the conference during spring quarter. (Coordinates will share details about her upcoming presentation when they are confirmed.)  

 

Jun Chen (Cultural Studies, 2014) has been awarded a $1200 Natalie K. Lang International & Immigrant Student Scholarship from UW Bothell. These competitive scholarships go to international or immigrant students who demonstrate outstanding commitment to the local and/or global community. Jun has been admitted to 2013 United Nations Practicum in Advocacy, a UN training program led by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and other international NGOs. She will participate as a delegate of the NGOs at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to be held in March 2013 at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. The CSW theme for 2013 is the elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls.  

 

Erin Sanchez (Cultural Studies, 2013) will be teaching a 2-credit Writing Studio at UW Bothell this quarter. The Writing Studio, a new course designed to help students become better, more confident writers, is open to all freshman and it is taught in a workshop format. The course, designed and led by Karen Rosenberg, Director of the Writing and Communication Center, and Kris Kellejian, Director of Composition, was piloted last quarter. Currently, Erin is in the final stages of her Capstone, which melds communication theory, politics and the arts. Her long time passion for writing and her goal of developing her writing skills are being fulfilled through her experience in the MACs program. For the past year, she has been tutoring at UW Bothell's Writing and Communication Center, and is pursuing a number of professional writing endeavors. Erin plans to continue to work with students in higher education and to build her freelance writing portfolio.

 

Alumni

Priya Frank (Cultural Studies, 2011) is curating a an exhibit of work by photojournalist David Ryder (Cultural Studies, 2011), which will be featured at Lucid Jazz Lounge Februrary 1, 2013. (See Upcoming Event announcement above.) Priya currently serves as Assistant Director of Advancement at the University of Washington Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity, where her passion for supporting access and opportunities for students and communities of color is utilized through fundraising, communications and community relations.  

Courtney Normand (Policy Studies, 2008) recently received a "Campaign Heroine" award from the National Women's Political Caucus of Washington. The award honors her service as Washington Field Team Lead at Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest (PPVN) during the past election season. Courtney landed her job at PPVN while finishing her degree in Policy Studies at UW Bothell. Her capstone project compared teen health outcomes of different sexual health education programs ("abstinence-only-until-marriage" versus "comprehensive" curricula). Courtney says the foundation in public policy she received in the MAPS program has helped her grow in her position at PPVN.  

Faculty

Dan Berger published an interview with David Gilbert in The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture. Gilbert was a founding member of the Columbia University chapter of Students for a Democratic Society and later a member of the Weather Underground; he is currently in prison in New York state, where he started the first peer-education program on AIDS in prison and has continued to be an antiracist activist and author. View or download the discussion of three contemporary social movements: Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and prisoner rights activism.

Amaranth Borsuk spoke recently on the future of the book at the Feria Internacional Del Libro Infantil y Juvenil in Mexico City, an annual children's and young adult book fair. Her talk, translated into Spanish, is featured here. She also received a grant from Chicago's Center for Book and Paper Arts, together with collaborators Kate Durbin and Ian Hatcher. The funding will enable the team to create an interactive iPad app for Borsuk and Durbin's generative poetry book Abra, which will be issued simultaneously as a limited-edition artist's book by the CBPA. Read more here. 

Ted Hiebert will be exhibiting his art work or curating the work of others at three Seattle venues this January and February. "Hybrids and Other Strange Amalgamations" is a group exhibition curated by Barbara Shaiman at the Seattle Art Museum (January 10-February 9). "Peak Shift" is an exhibit at the Shift Collaborative Studio (January 3-February 2). "Second Front Ends the World" is a Noxious Sector Project (January 3-February 2). Don't miss these opportunities to check out Hiebert's work.

Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren spoke and performed in Tennessee and Hong Kong. She was a Minority Guest Artist-in-Residence at the Dance and Theatre Department at Middle Tennessee State University, where she gave talks, performed, and facilitated dance and theatre workshops on diversity, autobiography, and performance. In Hong Kong, she participated in a ten day research laboratory on haptic interfaces. Future Windows: Home/Land, a dance/installation developed in collaboration with five Hong Kong artists, premiered at the Haptic InterFace Exhibit at Koo Ming Kwon Exhibition Gallery, in Hong Kong from November 21-Dec. 16. She also gave an invited talk on "Haptic Play: Materials, Bodies, and Architectures in Dance and Design" at the International Conference on Research Creativity: Praxis conference in Hong Kong.

Gwen Ottinger was named recently as an affiliate of the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes at Arizona State University (CSPO). The CSPO is an intellectual and institutional network focused on enhancing the contribution of science and technology to society's pursuit of equality, justice, freedom, and overall quality of life. The network helps decision makers and institutions grapple with the power and importance of science and technology as society charts a course for the future. Ottinger brings to the CSPO her expertise in environmental health, policy, and justice.

Internships