News from the School of IAS

Jin-Kyu Jung coauthors 鈥淒igital Food Apartheid: The Uneven Food Geographies of Seattle In The Era of Amazon鈥�

Jin-Kyu Jung has published a co-authored paper, 鈥淒igital food apartheid: The uneven food geographies of Seattle in the era of Amazon鈥� in Environment and Planning F: Philosophy, Theory, Models, Methods and Practice. The paper puts forward the concept of 鈥渄igital food apartheid鈥� to articulate differentiation in terms of one鈥檚 agency concerning their food that is...

March 14, 2024

Jennifer Atkinson Discusses Climate Anxiety on Crosscut Reports, PBS

Faculty member Jennifer Atkinson spoke with 鈥淐rosscut Reports鈥� on Cascade PBS about the vast range of emotions people experience in climate education and climate activism — from outrage and fear to solidarity, purpose, apathy, and joy. In introducing this episode on How Climate Change is Taxing Our Mental Health, Crosscut host Maleeha Syed summarized her...

March 7, 2024

IAS Affiliate Faculty Jill Freidberg has been awarded a $400,000 Mellon Humanities In Place grant

IAS Affiliate Faculty Jill Freidberg has been awarded a $400,000 Mellon Humanities In Place grant for the聽Seattle Black Spatial Histories Institute, an oral history training program that she founded and co-directs as part of her work at聽Wa Na Wari.聽Since its inception, the Seattle Black Spatial Histories Institute has also received curricular support from IAS geographers...

February 29, 2024

Cedar Sigo and Simon Wolf new collaboration – Occasional Objects

MFA Visiting Writer & Alum, Cedar Sigo and Simon Wolf recently celebrated their new collaboration 鈥淥ccasional Objects鈥� at Common Area Maintenance. 鈥淭he words stretched severely.鈥� We arrived early to help Timothy set up the chairs, and to arrange them in a certain way, decide just where the mic would be. The small things like this...

February 29, 2024

Lauren Berliner publishes “When Contexts Collapse” which discusses collaborative, experimental models of media making that emerged during Covid 19 lockdowns and

Lauren Berliner recently published “When Contexts Collapse: How Ubiquitous Video Cameras in the Home During COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdowns Transformed Family Representation” in Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media. Utilizing interviews from a range of caregivers and teachers alongside textual analysis of circulating and non-circulating videos made by children during the COVID-19 quarantine, this article...

February 29, 2024

Rage and Feminist Resurgence

In a world marked by unprecedented mass mobilizations, what does feminist rage look like? This presentation explores how women in Argentina, Morocco, and South Korea are campaigning against the pandemic of femicide, sexual violence, moral policing, cyber exploitation, and extreme beauty standards. It looks at the ways in which, inspired by the belief in the...

February 29, 2024

Teaching for Equity in STEM

Professor Becca Price recently spoke at an event sponsored by the Graduate Society of Women Engineers at UW Seattle. The title of her talk was 鈥淭eaching equitably, fairly, and with justice.鈥� During the presentation, she had a dynamic discussion with attendees about teaching by building from students鈥� strengths, using community cultural wealth and ethics of...

February 29, 2024

Jennifer Atkinson鈥檚 book featured in the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America

Excerpts from Jennifer Atkinson鈥檚 forthcoming book, An Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World, were published in the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America (CPA-NA). Atkinson worked with Dr. Sarah Jaquette Ray to co-edit this new field guide for teaching on climate injustice and building resilience in an age...

February 29, 2024