ANNOUNCEMENTS

Admissions Deadlines Approaching for Master of Arts in Policy Studies!

Priority deadline for admission to the Autumn 2013 cohort for the IAS Master of Arts in Policy Studies program is coming up quickly. If you know someone considering applying, please pass along a deadline reminder: 

• MA in Policy Studies: March 1

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

UWB Student Government Seeks Graduate Senator   

The student government, Associated Students of the University of Washington Bothell (ASUWB), is hiring a graduate senator to represent the voice and needs of graduate students. The position requires approximately three hours of work per week, and student senators are paid a stipend of up to $615 over two quarters. Applications are due online by 11:45 p.m. on March 1, 2013. Link to the application here. Questions about the position can be directed to Andrew Nguyen (Cultural Studies, 2013) at  Anguyen@uwb.edu or to ASUWB at asuwb@uwb.edu.

UPCOMING EVENTS                

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 Cultural Studies Association (CSA) has announced its eleventh annual conference will take place May 23 through 26 at Columbia College in Chicago.The new CSA website is now live and accepting submissions for the 2013 conference. Early conference registration is available from March 4 to April 22.  

The Master of Arts in Cultural Studies program is now an institutional member of the Cultural Studies Association.  

from The Convergence Zone     

Alexandra Chasin will read from her new book, Brief, on February 19 at 7 p.m. in UW2-305. 

The third annual University of Washington Bothell Teaching and Learning Symposium will take place Thursday, April 18 from 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The symposium provides an opportunity to share best practices, celebrate accomplishments, and discuss the scholarship of teaching and learning in a forum dedicated to enriching the UW Bothell experience for faculty, staff and students. The program will include two 60-minute poster sessions. The deadline to submit proposals for posters is Friday, March 8, 2013. More information is available from David Goldstein, Director, Teaching and Learning Center, at dgoldstein@uwb.edu or 425-352-5378.

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: 

Comedies of Surplus: Representing the Garden in Recent American Literature

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

This talk explores the function of the garden in American literature and culture as an instrument for reimagining problems of waste, surplus and value. Drawing on literary fiction, popular gardening publications and community or "guerilla gardening" movements, I discuss how garden-based economies of production and exchange are represented as a counter-figure to the commodity logic otherwise structuring everyday experience.

In particular, I focus on ways that growers, writers and activists from the past thirty years have used the garden to challenge assumptions that some form of subtraction must accompany a parallel act of increase.

Research Colloquium presentations for Spring Quarter 2013 will feature Ben Gardner, Jeanne Heuving and Amoshaun Toft.

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

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.

Student, Alumni, and Faculty News

Students

  

Calvin Timmons (Cultural Studies, 2014) will attend the International Language
Documentation and Conservation Conference in Honolulu, Hawai'i, at the end of February. Following the conference, he will participate in a two-day field study in Hilo on Hawai'ian language revitalization via public education. These opportunities tie in to his interest in language politics in Ireland, and to his aspiration to pursue a teaching career.   

 

Cora Thomas (Cultural Studies, 2013) recently attended the 2013 Mentoring Symposium at Western Washington University. The mission of this year's symposium, It Begins with ME: The Mentoring Effect, was to build a community of people interested or engaged in mentoring, and to discuss why mentoring is essential to the future. The conference mission aligns with Cora's experience as a mentor, and with her interest in the role increased agency for students might play in improving higher education.    

 

Alumni

Priya Frank (Cultural Studies, 2011) shares news that her recent collaboration with photojournalist, and fellow alum David Ryder (Cultural Studies, 2011) was a big success. Announced in last month's issue of Coordinates, Priya curated the pop-up exhibit of David's work featured at Lucid Jazz Lounge in early February. The UW Department of Communication did a piece on it, available here.

Ericka Weathers (Policy Studies, 2011) will present at the 26th Annual Children's Mental Health Research and Policy Conference in Tampa, Florida, in March. Her talk will focus on the psychometrics and reliability of the Wraparound Team Observation Measure (TOM). Erika describes Wraparound as a team-based care coordination process for youth with behavioral health needs and their families, and notes she took the lead on this project through her role as a Research Coordinator in the Division of Public Behavioral Health and Justice Policy at the University of Washington Seattle.  

Faculty

Dan Berger recently gave conference plenaries on two continents. The talks concerned the rise and possible fall of mass incarceration in the United States. Berger delivered the first at the 18th annual Rosa Luxemburg Conference in Berlin. While in Germany, he also delivered talks in Stuttgart, Frankfurt, and Hamburg. Joined by Rachel Herzing of Critical Resistance, Berger gave the second plenary at the Tangled Webs: Mass Incarceration and Alternative Futures conference at Fairhaven College of Western Washington University. These talks drew on Berger's research into prison protests of the 1960s and 1970s. The lectures in Germany also celebrated the publication of the German edition of Berger's earlier book, Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity.

Amaranth Borsuk and Joe Milutis read from their books at Elliott Bay Book Company in January. Borsuk read from her two recently-published books of poetry, Handiwork and Between Page and Screen. Milutis read from his recently-released book Failure: A Writer's  Life. Following his first book, Ether: The Nothing that Connects Everything, Failure maps a hybrid and heterogeneous landscape of artistic marginalia, web detours, and literary and philosophical roads-not-taken. Milutis is, in the words of one reviewer, "a skilled ringmaster of difficult ideas that might otherwise bite."  

Rebecca Brown recently published a new essay and short story, accompanied by interviews. Brown's essay on "Transgressive Meditation" was published in Bombay Gin, the magazine of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, with the accompanying interview appears on the Bombay Gin blog. The short story and second interview appeared in FACT-SIMILE Magazine. Brown read from her work at the closing event of the Frye Art Museum's Moment Magnitude exhibit on January 20. She also will be in conversation with author Garry Wills on February 20 at 7:00 p.m. at First Baptist Church in Seattle. Wills will read from his new book, "Why Priests: A Failed Tradition," and Brown will interview him on stage.    

Kari Lerum was recently invited to speak at the "From Prosecution to Empowerment: Fighting Trafficking and Promoting the Rights of Migrants" conference held at the University of Southern California. The conference featured key players in the original United Nations' development of the Trafficking Protocol, with a goal of situating the war on trafficking in the broader struggle for migrant human rights. Lerum's presentation, "Victims, Villains, and Heroes: How 'Trafficking' Stories are Told and Sold in the U.S.," was part of a panel on "Sex Workers: The Impact of Curb Campaigns."

Julie Shayne worked recently with the University of Washington and University of British Columbia libraries to archive and digitize the bilingual feminist periodical Aquelarre: Latin American Women's Magazine. Translated as "illegal gathering of witches," Aquelarre was published in the late 1980s and 1990s as a creative and political forum for Latin American women everywhere. Shayne had collected six of the twenty-one issues the Aquelarre collective produced as part of her research on Latin American culture and politics, including her award-winning 2009 book, They Used to Call Us Witches: Chilean Exiles, Culture, and Feminism. The original copies of the journal now reside in the Museo de la Memoria y Los Derechos Humanos (Museum of Memory and Human Rights) in Santiago, Chile.

Crispin Thurlow spoke recently on KING 5 evening news about the significance of a proposed bill in the Washington state legislature to mandate gender neutral language in state law. View or listen to the segment and debate here. A second print article, also quoting Thurlow, appeared in the Seattle Times on February 4 and the story has been picked up in the Huffington Post.

Amoshaun Toft and student Paul Kim spoke recently on a panel about opportunities for educational institutions to apply for Low Power FM radio licenses. The discussion drew on efforts at UW Bothell to start a student-driven, community radio station, KUWB. The panel, "Catch Some (Air)Waves: An information session on low power radio (LPFM) and what it means for Seattle/King County," was organized by Brown Paper Tickets and took place at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute. The event aired on the Seattle Channel. Toft and IAS student Ellen McCleerey spoke at local Seattle station Hollow-Earth Radio on Wednesday, February 13, as part of an event for United Nations World Radio Day.

Camille Walsh has been working with dozens of IAS students over the past year to launch a Youth Court in the City of Bothell. The youth-centered restorative justice project began as a joint collaboration between Walsh and Bothell Municipal Court Judge Michelle Gehlsen. Teens from schools in the area will serve as jurors, advocates, judges, and mentors in monthly hearings at the courthouse, and the youth defendants will be encouraged to return and participate as jury members after their hearing is over. IAS students have researched and presented their findings to the city, and led trainings on restorative justice and advocacy techniques for the teen court members as part of an ongoing independent study course. Bothell Youth Court was launched at a celebration on January 28 in the North Creek Events Center.

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