ANNOUNCEMENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS                

The MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics will hold its second annual Fall Convergence on Poetics at North Creek Events Center Oct. 3 to 5, 2013. MFA students and faculty will participate in workshops with Tisa Bryant and Carla Harryman, who will begin serving as additional thesis advisors to second-year MFA students in the fall. The Convergence will also feature a reading and conversation with poet and author Kathleen Fraser. Please get in touch with Meredith Field for additional information. 

2013-2014 IAS Research Colloquium Series Line-up is Set!  

The schedule for the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Research Colloquium Series has been announced. This monthly showcase of research-in-progress by IAS faculty members is open to the campus-community and the general public. Participants 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 presentations take place the first Tuesday of each month, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. in UW1-280 (Rose Room). Mark your calendars for the next year's presentations:   

Fall 2013
October: Karam Dana - "What Caused the Arab Revolts?: Exploring State-Society Relations in the Arab World"
November: Jungyeop Shin - "Reappraisal of the Urban Sprawl in the Metropolis and Detecting its Methodologies: The Case of Seoul Metropolitan Region, Korea"
December: Wanda Gregory - "Mindful Games: Games and Health" 

Winter 2014
January: Emily Thuma - "We are Attica or We are Nothing": Women Radicals and Antiracist Resistance to the Carceral State in the Long 1960s"
February: Ted Hiebert and Jin-Kyu Jung - "Re-Mapping Imaginary and Imagined Communities"
March: Susan Harewood - "Another 'History of the Voice': Researching 'Fans,' 'People,' and 'Citizens'" 

Spring 2014
April: Christian Anderson - "The Astounding Social Geographies of Everyday Life on a Single New York City Street"
May: Becca Price - "What Do You Know about Evolution?: Assessing Undergraduate Students' Conceptions"
June: Sarah Dowling - "Animality and Poetic Voice: from Virginia Woolf's Flush to Bhanu Kapil's Humanimal."

Please visit the web for detailed information about upcoming and past colloquium archives, or get in touch with Meredith Field for more information.      

Student, Alumni, and Faculty News

Students

Ellen Bauer (Creative Writing & Poetics, 2014) was accepted to this summer's Appalachian Writers Workshop in Hindman, Ky. She will participate in the Workshop's short story class, which will be taught by Holly Goddard Jones. Bauer applied to the Workshop with her short story, "Burning Bridges," written for Rebecca Brown's creative writing class last fall. Bauer is a veteran of the Appalachian Writers Workshop, having attended twice in the past, in 2009 and 2012. 

Tyrell Edwards (Cultural Studies, 2013) received UW Bothell's Emerging Leader Award for 2013, which is awarded to a graduate student who has demonstrated exceptional leadership skills, has an excellent academic record and shows clear indication of outstanding future leadership. In April, Edwards received a Fulbright award from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. He is the University of Washington Bothell's first Fulbright Student Scholar.

Alumni

Shana Hirsch (Cultural Studies, 2012) will join the Master of Science in Nationalism Studies program in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh beginning this September. The program focuses on fast-paced changes happening all over the world, and seeing nationalism-national identities, ideologies and interests-as central to those changes. Hirsch notes this is the perfect time and place to be studying nationalism, since the Referendum on Scottish Independence coming up in September 2014. She presented her research "Farming for a New Nation? Reframing the Role of the Crofter for an Independent Scotland" at the 2012 MACS Graduate Research Conference.

John Lee (Policy Studies, 2010) and his wife Sarah Kaufmann-Fink invite UWB graduate students and alums to join them for the inaugural MoveMMORE Across America 5K & I Mile Run/Walk to support multiple myeloma (MM) research. The event will take place June 30 at Magnuson Park in Seattle. Registration begins at 8:00 a.m.; the race starts at 9:00 a.m. The Seattle event will be one of several being held around the country, with 150 to 200 people expected to participate at Magnuson Park. Teams are encouraged to join. Register online for the event.

Julianna Mandler (Policy Studies, 2012) will start a new job as an Evaluation Researcher for ADM Associates in Fremont, Calif., on July 1. She will be working on energy efficiency program evaluation, and is happy to point out she will be using knowledge and skills acquired through her MAPS degree in the position. Mandler presented her capstone research project, The Water Use Efficiency Rule and Overcompliance: An Analysis of Water Conservation in Washington State at the 2012 Policy Studies Graduate Research Conference.

Alums Collaborate Beyond the Cohort!  

A Dose for Dominic, a short documentary written and directed by Ruth Gregory (Cultural Studies, 2011), produced by Luke Ware (Cultural Studies, 2011) and shot by David Ryder (Cultural Studies, 2011), won the award for Best Use of Theme at the 2013 International Documentary Challenge screening at the Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Festival in Toronto on April 30. The three MACS alums were excited to see their work included in the Hot Docs line-up, since the Festival is regarded worldwide as a premier venue for documentary film screening. The film documents the decision of parents, Anjela and Anthony Leppel, to treat their severely autistic son, Dominic, with medical cannabis. A Dose for Dominic was one of four films, out of 112 entries in the International Documentary Challenge screening, to win an award. Gregory invites students and alums to check out the film and help the group win another award by voting online for the Audience Choice award: http://docchallenge.org/2013-Finalists/a-dose-for-dominic.html

Faculty 

Jennifer Atkinson recently presented a paper on "American Garden Writing: Some Notes on a Fantasy Genre" at the University of Delaware symposium "EARTH PERFECT? Nature, Utopia, and the Garden." The symposium is a follow-up to last year's publication of the book of the same title. Earth Perfect is an interdisciplinary reflection on the relation between humanity and the garden, understood as a site of contestation and a repository for symbolic, spiritual, social, political, and ecological meaning.

MFA faculty member Amaranth Borsuk has had a busy couple of months. In addition to speaking at the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as part of the "Emerging Writer" series,celebrating National Poetry Month at the Richard Hugo House in Seattle as part of Castalia, and reading in The Book that Was to Come series at The Chicago Poetry Center, she wrote the libretto for The Lorelei Ensemble's The Familiar Spirit and helped to launch the second issue of Portland-Based Pocket Notes, a website that publishes process notes from writers' journals, at "Pocket Tones: Exile Water," a happening at the Independent Publishing Resource Center where  poets read from their work and created live erasures from it. The last event  is linked to book-length erasure project on which Borsuk is collaborating, titled As We Know, selections of which work appeared in The Volta and Dusie. 

MFA faculty member Rebecca Brown published "In Defense of Monsters: On Creatures Aghast, Afraid, Ashamed of Themselves, and Creepy to Everyone Else" in the May 29-June 4 issue of The Stranger. An interview with Brown, in which she talks about how "Writing is Emotional and Mysterious" among other topics, also appeared in the March-April issue of The Gay & Lesbian Review.

Bruce Burgett, in his role as the President of the Cultural Studies Association (CSA), curated and hosted a crowd-sourced Presidential Plenary for the CSA's 2013 conference in Chicago. Twelve speakers drawn from an open call to the membership, including IAS faculty member S. Charusheela, presented three minute manifestos, diatribes, riffs, or rants on what cultural studies should, will, or could be.  

In addition, Burgett along with Ron Krabill and Miriam Bartha, recently published "Critical Purchase in Neoliberal Times" in the second issue of Lateral, the digital journal of the Cultural Studies Association. The publication is a result of a conversation with cultural studies scholar Ien Ang conducted as part of a multi-year collaboration that led to the launch of IAS's Master of Arts in Cultural Studies and the UW's graduate Certificate in Public Scholarship.

Karam Dana recently spoke on Russia Today (Arabic) about U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's trip to Palestine/Israel on 21 May 2013. Dana discussed the role of the U.S. in the Peace Process more than 20 years ago, noting the crucial importance of the U.S. taking a more even-handed position when addressing the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He suggested that, from a policy viewpoint, the peace process cannot advance without an active and fair U.S. position in bringing the two sides together.

 Martha Groom served recently as an external reviewer for a new report on the impacts of biofuels on biodiversity, coordinated by the Center for International Forestry Research and the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence. A group met together in Zurich to discuss the problems stemming from lack of research, particularly outside of oil palm plantations, and make recommendations for new research. 

Susan Harewood recently won the Emerging Scholar Award in the Ethnicity and Race in Communication (ERIC) division of the International Communication Association. The Emerging Scholar Award is a new award from the division, funded by Stockholm University. The award identifies and recognizes younger scholars who are developing strong and important dossiers of research in the field of ethnicity and race in communication.

Ted Hiebert recently published "That Which Burns: a meditation on fire, allegory and competitive telekinesis" in a special "On Fire" issue of the journal Performance Research. The issue as a whole seeks "to explore the elemental, creative and destructive force of fire... with performance - at once transformative, celebratory, purifying, cathartic, and catastrophic." Hiebert also recently exhibited and performed his work in Singapore and Montreal. In Singapore, he exhibited "Nightmare Inductions" (with the Noxious Sector Arts Collective) in the "Locomotion" show at the Goodman Art Center as part of their Digital Art Weeks International symposium. In Montreal, he performed "Nightmare Inductions" (with the Noxious Sector Arts Collective) and ran a workshop on "Creative Self-Hypnosis" at the Eastern Bloc Artist-run Centre, in conjunction with Monteal's Sight and Sound Festival. Hiebert was also recently interviewed for "Bad at Sports Contemporary Art Talk".

Gwen Ottinger published "The Winds of Change: Environmental Justice in Energy Transitions" in the latest issue of the journal Science as Culture. The article suggests that wind energy may be good for the environment, but is often implemented in ways that perpetuate the same environmental injustices permeating our existing, fossil fuel-based energy systems. Ottinger argues that we need to think proactively about the scale of energy production and the environmental and health effects that accompany energy innovations, if we want to make the transition to new energy technologies both renewable and just.  

Julie Shayne has secured a contract with SUNY Press to publish her edited collection, Taking Risks: Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas. Taking Risks will be published in SUNY's "Praxis: Theory in Action" series. The book is an interdisciplinary collection about feminist and women's social movements in the Americas situated in discussions of activist scholarship. The twelve scholar-activists in the collection include IAS faculty member Kristy Leissle and Mahala Lettvin, an IAS American Studies graduate and incoming Master of Arts in Cultural Studies student.

  

UWave the UW Bothell radio station, went live on 5 June 2013, with the leadership of IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft and UW Bothell students. The launch was covered by the Bothell Reporter Toft, along with IAS Media and Communications Studies student Drew Stone and Master of Arts in Policy Studies student Andrew Nguyen, also attended a Low Power FM organizing meeting at Washington Hall hosted by Brown Paper Tickets. The goal of the event was to ensure that all LPFM frequencies in Seattle have qualified applicants when the FCC opens the application window for them in October 2013. Toft also has been honored with the 2012-13 Faculty Award from the Associated Students of the University of Washington Bothell (ASUWB). This award is given annually to honor a UW Bothell faculty member for their outstanding performance and excellence in teaching. The award recognizes that Toft is, in the word of one of his student nominators, "able to reach any student by meeting them where they are and engaging them intellectually in ways that make it easy for students to learn and grow." 

In addition, Toft and Media and Communication Studies student Paul Kim spoke on a post screening panel for the Seattle premier of the film "Corporate FM" as part of the Meaningful Movies series. Toft and Kim shared their work in helping to start the UWave campus-community radio station at UW Bothell as an alternative to the corporate radio model the film examined, and helped attendees think through how they too can apply for LPFM licenses during the Fall FCC filing window. UWave radio launches its internet broadcast at noon on June 5th. Watch the minutes count down at http://UWave.fm!

Camille Walsh hit the road recently to talk taxes, youth courts, and restorative justice. She presented her work on racialized taxpayer identity and served as a chair and discussant for a panel on "Race and U.S. Sociolegal History" at the Law and Society Association annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. Walsh and IAS alum Karen Terrado presented on Bothell Youth Court at the Global Youth Justice Institute in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and will discuss youth court mentoring as part of a roundtable on "Restorative Justice in a Juvenile Justice Context" at the 4th National "Race and Restorative Justice" conference in Toledo, Ohio later this month. Walsh will deliver the commencement address at the University of Oregon History Department graduation ceremony in Eugene, Oregon on June 17th. Finally, Walsh participated in the 13th annual "Reacting to the Past" faculty institute at Barnard College where she played the role of Emma Goldman in a "Greenwich Village, 1913" game.  

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