ANNOUNCEMENTS

Bothell Youth Court (BYC), a collaborative effort of the City of Bothell Municipal Court and University of Washington Bothell, will celebrate its launch on January 28,2013 from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. at the University of Washington Bothell North Creek Events Center. Community members are encouraged to join the celebration, which will include refreshments and a mock youth court hearing created and staged by BYC teen participants. 

BYC fosters community interests in safety, efficiency and civic engagement, as high school students take charge of their own courtroom in legal proceedings for traffic infractions committed by teens  in the community. Students serve as judge, prosecutor, defense attorney, bailiff and jury. By empowering teens, youth courts have proven to be a powerful restorative justice model that encourages creativity and prepares teens for the future. BYC will officially begin hearing cases in February 2013. More information is available from Karen Torrado or from the BYC website.      

Keep in Mind--Innovation Forum 2013: Engaging Design... 

Join Other Fans to Support the Huskies--and a Good Cause! 

The University of Washington Huskies will take on the Broncos of Boise State University at the Maaco Bowl in Las Vegas December 22. Students and alumni can celebrate together at a local viewing party at the Dub Pub in Kirkland to support the team and a good cause! Party proceeds will benefit UW Bothell student scholarships. Ticket purchase includes an all-access buffet, two drink tickets, and the chance to win free door prizes.   

  

Details  

Date: Saturday, December 22 

Time: The bowl game party starts at 10:00 a.m. with game time at 12:30 p.m. 

Place: Dub Pub in Kirkland (11516 124th Ave NE, Kirkland, WA) 

Cost: $20 online pre-registration or $25 at the door 

  

Pre-registration  

Register online for the event.   

    

  

Readings from the Convergence Zone and Other Phenomena    

The MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics will celebrate the new year with the launch of a new reading series, Readings from the Convergence Zone.

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.

Presentations will resume at the beginning of the Winter Quarter.    

Why I Also Hate New Media: The Synthetic Rhetorics of Web 2.0   

Crispin Thurlow

Tuesday, January 8, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
UW Bothell, Rose Room (UW1-280)  

"In this presentation, I follow the lead of linguistically-oriented discourse analysts like Norman Fairclough and Deborah Cameron as well as the broader sociological perspective of Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault  in presenting a critical reading of the 'rhetorics of Web 2.0'. I consider how these often hyperbolic, always invested claims manifest in discourse domains like commerce, politics, education, the news media, celebrity, and academia. I will then show how a pointedly synthetic media is produced through stylized, commoditized notions of language and communication. It seems that the rhetorics of Web 2.0 usually have little to do with the everyday social uses of new/social media and everything to do with the kind of pseudo-sociality favoured by advertisers and other agents or beneficiaries of neoliberal capital."  

Tuesday, February 5, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Community, Knowledge, Economy
Colin Danby  

Tuesday, March 4, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Comedies of Surplus: Representing the Garden in Contemporary American Literature
Jennifer Atkinson  

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

Student, Alumni, and Faculty News

Students

IAS students paint murals in Arts, Politics, and Social Change 

 

Students in IAS faculty member Deborah Caplow's BIS 470 Art, Politics, and Social Change spent autumn  quarter studying the history of public and mural art, then created eight murals that are displayed on one of the construction fences on campus. The murals join four others created this past summer in Caplow's BCUSP 191 Introduction to Public Art.    

Alumni

Debbie Brown (Cultural Studies, 2011) recently received a $150 scholarship from Bear Creek United Methodist Church in Woodinville, Washington. The scholarship is awarded to United Methodist students who are interested in pursuing careers that will benefit others. Debbie is a Ph.D. candidate in the Leadership Studies Program at Gonzaga University in Spokane.    

Julianna Mandler (Policy Studies, 2012) began an internship with the Partnership for Water Conservation (PWC) in June 2011, working with several other water conservation experts in the Puget Sound area to develop a report that examines the efforts of municipal water suppliers in the implementation of the Water Use Efficiency Rule in Washington State. The report, "Cooperative Conservation: A Report on the Implementation of Washington's Water Use Efficiency Rule," was completed and released in November 2012. In the report, Julianna and her colleagues presented the status of water efficiency efforts by municipal water suppliers, and detailed the history of water conservation, case studies and the future of water use efficiency for water suppliers. Visit the PWC website. Access the report.

Mike Hope (Policy Studies, 2006) has been re-elected to the to the Washington State House of Representatives, representing the state's 44th district. Reflecting on his experience in the MAPS program, Mike says he is grateful for the solid governmental foundation he received while in the program, and thankful to his constituents for the opportunity to serve another term dedicated to making a difference in Olympia for Washington State. Get in touch with Mike.  

Faculty

IAS faculty have been busy this fall!  

Dan Berger has given several recent talks about his research. Berger moderated a roundtable at the 2012 American Studies Association conference about Puerto Rican political prisoners, and co-organized another panel about the island's political history. Both sessions featured academics, legal experts and activists. Berger also spoke about his book The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism to the NY Metropolitan American Studies Association at Hunter College. Finally, Berger spoke at a national conference at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University on "Mass Incarceration in America: Arts, Advocacy, and the Academy" and introduced a lecture by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, the former president of the American Studies Association, at the University of Pennsylvania.    

Bruce Burgett spoke on a roundtable discussion at the 2012 American Studies Association conference on "Access to What?: A Roundtable on Public Scholarship, Community Engagement, and Diversity." Along with colleagues from the University of Michigan (UM) and University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (UWM), Burgett discussed strategies for developing transformative graduate and undergraduate curricula that can respond to the needs, knowledges, and capacities of increasingly diverse student bodies, staffs, and faculties. Burgett highlighted UW's Certificate in Public Scholarship, while other speakers focused on UM's Arts of Citizenship and UWM's Cultures and Communities initiatives. Burgett also participated in the Advisory Board meeting of American Quarterly, the flagship journal in the field.     

Johanna Crane and Gwen Ottinger co-organized and spoke on a panel entitled "Location, Location, Location: Science, Inequality, and the Politics of Place" at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Crane's paper, "Bodies in Place: Who Gets to do Global Health?," drew from her forthcoming book on the politics of global health science. Ottinger's presentation, "The Biopolitics of the Fenceline," expanded on themes in her forthcoming ethnography of a Louisiana community on the fenceline of a petrochemical facility.

Karam Dana attended and participated in the 2012 Middle East Studies Association conference, where he took part on the inaugural panel of the Arab American Studies Association. Dana discussed his work on Arab Americans and the challenges and opportunities for research in this area. He also spoke on a highlighted panel sponsored by the British Council: "Bridges of Understanding: The Contribution of Muslim Cultures to American and European Societies." Back in Seattle, Dana was interviewed by Bill Rice on KOMO Radio about the cease-fire sponsored by the US and Egypt, and accepted by Hamas and Israel on Nov 21, 2012.

Wanda Gregory recently agreed to serve as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Seattle-based non-profit organization Reel Grrls. Founded in 2001, Reel Grrls is dedicated to providing year-round media-training program for girls, ages 9 - 21. Participants learn production skills through hands-on workshops and classes taught by female media professionals and educators. Gregory brings to the board her expertise in interactive media production and pedagogy, her experience as the founding director of UW Bothell's Center for Serious Play and as a member other non-profit boards, and her passion for mentoring young women in media production both inside and outside the classroom.

Susan Harewood presented two papers at the 2012 National Communication Association convention in Orlando, Florida. The presentations -- "Media and the Project of Freedom in the Caribbean" and "Uses of the Tropical: The Zumba Craze and its Calypso Progenitor" -- showcased Harewood's research by examining the ways in which the Anglo Caribbean and its cultural practices have been positioned within the international political economy, both historically and in the present.

Jeanne Heuving has just published her long poem, "Dear Miss Lonelyhearts," in Hambone 20. Hambone is a literary journal edited and published by Nathaniel Mackey for over thirty years. Heuving's poem engages Nathaneal West's novel, Miss Lonelyhearts, in which a rather gruff newspaper man poses as Miss Lonelyhearts in order to write a personal advice column. Heuving writes a series of letters to Miss Lonelyhearts through the personae of J, posing as a writer who teaches in a university seeking advice about love and writing. Hambone 20 begins with work from Amiri Baraka and concludes with work from Kamau Brathwaite. It also includes work from Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Peter O'Leary, Will Alexander, Andrew Joron, Laura Moriarty, Louis Chude-Sokei, among others.    

Ted Hiebert and his collaborator Doug Jarvis recently opened a curated group art exhibit in Victoria, British Columbia: "Welcome Back Ye Annunaki". Housed at the Open Space Artist Run Centre. The show includes eighteen vis  ual and performance artists, all of whom responded to an international call for work addressing the question "How would you host an ancient alien?" Reviews of the exhibit have appeared in The Vancouver Sun, Preview, and Mountain Life. Video documentation is available here. The show runs until December 21, 2012.

Along with IAS faculty member Bruce Kochis and Executive Director of the William Penn House Byron Sandford, Ron Krabill presented "Students Seeing Sausage in D.C.: Making U.S. Human Rights Policy" at the annual conference of the National Council for the Social Studies. He also gave a research talk on "Africa, Sentimentalism, and the Production of Global Citizens" to the University of Washington Tacoma's Global Africa seminar series. In addition, Krabill co-designed, with Master of Arts in Cultural Studies graduate student Kaelyn Caldwell, a workshop on "Telling Better Stories About Public Scholarship" at the annual meeting of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. Caldwell attended the conference as a fellow in Imagining America's Publicly-Active Graduate Education program. 

During a recent trip to Thailand, Kari Lerum met the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW), a women's labor rights organization based in Bangkok, to explore partnerships between GAATW and the University of Washington. GAATW supports women's rights in labor and migration, producing an understanding of trafficking that counters sensationalist popular press stories. GAATW also hosts a new peer-reviewed journal, Anti-Trafficking Review. Lerum is the lead author of an article in the first issue of this journal, "Using Human Rights to Hold the US Accountable for its Anti-Sex Trafficking Agenda: The Universal Periodic Review and New Directions for US policy."

  

Crispin Thurlow delivered a lecture in early November at the University of Hong Kong's School of English. Entitled "Why I Hate Facebook," the talk examines the hyperbolic claims made about social media in commercial, political, media, and educational contexts. Thurlow argues that the way new media is represented in these contexts has little to do with the everyday social uses of new media and everything to do with the kind of pseudo-sociality favored by the agents or beneficiaries of neoliberal capital. Thurlow will present a version of this talk in January as part of the IAS Research Colloquium. 

Internships

4Culture,  Public Art Administrative Internship, Seattle
Volunteer, 8-15 hours/week
Closes: Dec 21

King County,  Graduate Internship in Transit's Market Development Group, Seattle
Paid, 20 hours/week through academic year/full-time in Summer
Closes: Jan 4

Washington Wild,  Communications and Media Intern, Seattle
Volunteer, 20 hours/week
Closes: Jan 11  

Feet First, Agenda Cities Outreach Intern, Seattle

Volunteer, 8 hours/week

Open until filled

Feet First, Website Writer/Researcher, Seattle

Volunteer, Hours flexible, Work remotely

Open until filled