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Next 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 the next presentation:   

Being in Love and Writing Poetry  

Jeanne Heuving

Tuesday, May 7, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
UW Bothell, Rose Room (UW1-280)  

Jeanne Heuving discusses the theory chapter from her forthcoming book Transmutation of Love, which regards the relationship between being in love and writing poetry. For epochs, poets have celebrated how being in love enables them to write poetry, and how writing poetry intensifies their love. Heuving explores how these relationships are important to the avant garde inventions of Ezra Pound, H.D., Robert Duncan, Kathleen Fraser, and Nathaniel Mackey. These poets change love writing to writing as lovers to beloveds to a libidinized field of scintillating word art.

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

Student, Alumni, and Faculty News

Students

 
Marcus Bingham (MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, 2014) recently learned two pieces of his writing have been accepted for publication in Mirror Northwest, the literary and arts journal of Wenatchee Valley College. Bingham's poem "Broken Man" will be in the print and online editions of the journal; his memoir "Casting Doubt" will be featured in the online version. Bingham wrote both pieces for a class during his first quarter enrolled in the new MFA program.

Megan Dunn (Policy Studies, 2013) has been appointed by the Mayor of Everett, Wash., and confirmed by the City Council, to serve on the city's Human Needs Committee. During her six-year appointment, Dunn will review applications and award grants to non-profit agencies that render services in Everett to the City's residents. In 2012, more than $300,000 in funding was available to local agencies through this competitive grant process. A resident of the City of Everett for the past eight years, Dunn also served on the Council of Neighborhoods and was a former Chair of her neighborhood association, Lowell Civic Association. She continues to serve as as Vice Chair.  

  

Dunn's capstone research is an empirical measurement of human well-being as it relates to the ecosystem.The study will determine if a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries policy instrument had an impact the human well-being of fishing communities as measured by a composite index of social indicators and individual measurements of well-being when compared to other coastal communities.  Dunn notes the skills she has developed through her graduate study for analyzing policy, budgeting and organizations will be directly applied to this appointment

 

Tyrell (Ty) Edwards (Cultural Studies, 2013) recently won a prestigious Fulbright award for his research. Beginning in September, Edwards will live on-campus at the University of British Columbia (UBC), while he conducts research on international student development and retention. Currently a candidate in IAS's Master of Arts in Cultural Studies, Edwards also earned his undergraduate degree from IAS, majoring in Culture, Literature, and the Arts.

 

 

Ronnie Thibault (Cultural Studies, 2014) has been invited to submit her manuscript, "Can Autistics Redefine Autism? The Cultural Politics of Autistic Activism," for peer review for an upcoming special edition of the Sage journal, Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice. For the past five years, working first as an undergraduate at UW Bothell with Cultural Studies professor Ben Gardner and now as a graduate student, Thibault has been investigating the cultural politics of autistic activism and exploring how a highly engaged group of autistic activists, known as the Neurodiversity Movement, are working to reform the public representation of, and assumptions about, what it means to be autistic. She will submit her manuscript in June. Thibault is also developing a curriculum that addresses the embodied features of autism to help practitioners work with individuals with autism on social skills development.

 

Calvin Timmons and Nicole Wilson (Cultural Studies, 2014) made a joint presentation, "Representing 'Fat' on Television," as part of the Arts & Lectures Salon Series sponsored by the University Beyond Bars (UBB) program on April 6 at the Monroe Correctional Complex in Monroe, Wash. Timmons and Wilson were the first students from UW Bothell to present as part of the UBB program. Their talk focused on the connections between images on television and their meanings. They also discussed how representations are created and the consequences of those representations in media.

 

Michael Paschall (MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics, 2014) will present his UBB talk, "The Heart and Soul of Poetry," tomorrow night, April 20. (See Upcoming Events section above!)

 

Coordinates will feature a more in-depth look at these, and future, UBB presentations by IAS graduate students next month!  

 

IAS students in the inaugural cohort of the UW Bothell MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics program have created a new reading series, "An Evening of Poetry and Prose," held every month at the Lyons' Den in Bothell. Students John Boucher, Margaret Chiavetta, Michael Paschall, Billy Phillips, and Kat Seidemann read at the series launch in February. Billy Phillips read again in March, joined by Kelle Gaddis, Aimee Harrison, Talena Kattrell and Lauren Light.

 

Alumni

Allyson Fredericksen (Policy Studies, 2010) recently joined the staff at Alliance for a Just Society, providing administrative, research, and report writing support, after working as a contractor for the organization for the past six months. The Alliance for a Just Society's mission is to execute regional and national campaigns and build strong state affiliate organizations and partnerships that address economic, racial, and social inequities. Fredericksen began working for the Alliance, formerly called Northwest Federation of Community Organizations, as an intern while in the Policy Studies program, when she helped produce the 2009 Job Gap Report. Since then, she has worked on a variety of reports for the Alliance, including the 2012 Job Gap Report and a report on the economic benefits of expanding access to Medicaid in Montana.

Amanda Martin Sandino (Cultural Studies, 2011) is completing her MFA in writing, with a focus on poetry, at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) this quarter. She recently accepted UCSD's offer of a full fellowship to their PhD program in English in the Cultural Studies track of the Literature PhD, and will start in the fall. The fellowship, known as the San Diego Fellowship, will provide Sandino with five years of funding.

Ericka Weathers (Policy Studies, 2011) followed up on the news of her presentation on the psychometrics and reliability of the Wraparound Team Observation Measure (TOM) at the 26^th Annual Children's Mental Health Research and Policy Conference in Tampa, Florida, in March. Her presentation, which was a part of a symposium on new directions in wraparound research, practice, and quality assurance, was well received by the audience that included researchers and practitioners. Though her presentation wasn't recorded, those interested in learning more about her work can view her presentation slides here. Weathers also shared that other alums may remember her as Ericka Wiggins, but she goes by Weathers since her marriage last May.

Faculty

Dan Berger is now a faculty associate of the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the UW Seattle. Bridges Center associates are members of a network of University of Washington faculty members whose scholarship reflects the interdisciplinary nature of labor studies. Berger will join other center associates who share information about Bridges Center events and activities, and spread the word to students about prizes, grants, and scholarships.  

Amaranth Borsuk recently read at Richard Hugo House as part of the Castalia Reading Series. Borsuk also gave readings and guest lectures at: Evergreen State College; The Spare Room in Portland, Ore.; Capilano University in Vancouver, British Columbia; the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at the University of Southern California; the University of California at San Diego; and The Cambridge Arts Council Annex, Cambridge, Mass. Borsuk also had four poems published recently in Chicago Review. Her book, Between Page and Screen, was exhibited at the Library of Congress as part of "Electronic Literature and its Emerging Forms," and at Nouspace Gallery in Vancouver, Washington and Texas Woman's University.

Rebecca Brown offered a "benediction" to open this year's APRIL Festival at Chop Suey in Seattle. APRIL is a festival of Authors, Publishers and Readers of Independent Literature. The festival opening also featured readings by Brown, Matthew Dickman and Summer Robinson, and a variety of "oddities" including, literary coloring books, a live fortune booth with one of the Hill's best poets, and a piñata.

Karam Dana and Gwen Ottinger have been named 2012-2013 Worthington Distinguished Scholars. Dana received funding for his project, "Anti-American Sentiment in the Arab World: A Clash of Civilizations?" Ottinger's research will take her to Portland, Ore., New Orleans and the San Francisco Bay Area to interview people who have been involved in fenceline air monitoring activities for her project, "Community-Based Air Monitoring: A Demand for Epistemic Justice?"

Dana spoke recently at Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies. His lecture, "Contextualizing the Arab Revolts: State-Society Relations, Protests, and Other Forms of Discontent," was part of Harvard University's 2013 Middle East Forum Lecture Series.

Ottinger recently published an article, "Changing Knowledge, Local Knowledge, and Knowledge Gaps: STS Insights into Procedural Justice," in Science, Technology, and Human Values. She also will speak about standards of informed consent, focusing on environmental hazards when knowledge of risks and benefits is uncertain, as part of the Biological Futures Colloquium Series, April 29 at UW Seattle from noon until 1:30 p.m.

Sarah Dowling read as part of the Spare Room Reading Series in Portland, Oregon, in March. The reading series focuses on experimental poetry. Dowling, who was joined by Brian Coffelt at the reading, is the author of Birds & Bees and Security Posture. Her work has appeared in the anthology I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women, and in many journals.

Ben Gardner  was quoted earlier this month in "Tanzania Massai battle game hunters for grazing land," a BBC News front page story about the Maasai people's struggle to retain control over their important, and historic grazing land in Tanzania. Gardner has been working in and studying the region for more than 20 years, and recently discussed his work at the April session of IAS Research Colloquium.

Ted Hiebert recently lectured and exhibited his art work at a range of events. In collaboration with the Noxious Sector Collective, he contributed "The Simulation is Haunted" to "Wintermoot," an augmented and mixed reality festival in Anchorage, AK, hosted by the Institute for Speculative Media. He gave an invited lecture on "The Transparency of Aesthetics: Between Nonsense and Technology" in the "Future of Posthumanism" series at the Pacific Center for Technology and Culture. He also curated two exhibitions for Noxious Sector Projects in a window gallery in downtown Seattle: Nathan Shafer's "Non-Local: Cosmic Constant MRPG," and Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman's "Geolocation." Coming up is Hiebert's contribution to "Off the Plain," a group exhibit at Place Gallery in Portland, Oregon, featuring photographic works that explore conceptual space beyond the flat plane of the image.  

Hiebert and fellow IAS faculty members Linda Watts, Alan Wood, and Jin-Kyu Jung, have been named as Worthington Innovation Fellows for 2013-14. Made possible through the Worthington Technology Fund, these grants are intended to catalyze the use of technology to enhance innovation across campus. Watts's award will help her to create a digital archive of materials related to her research on the Seattle Liberation Front and the Seattle 7 Conspiracy Trial . Woods's funding will support his efforts to "flip" his classroom, using digital interfaces to deliver content and small, face-to-face conversation to enhance students' critical engagement with those materials.    

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