News from the School of IAS
Robert Trumbull Presents on Derrida and Foucault at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
IAS faculty member Robert Trumbull presented a paper entitled “Power and the 'Drive for Mastery': Derrida's Freud and the Debate with Foucault" at the annual conference for the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy in Atlanta and ...
October 21, 2015
Denise Vaughn has been named to the Editorial Board of the National Parliamentary Debate Association Journal
IAS faculty member and UW Bothell Director of Debate Denise Vaughn has been named to the Editorial Board of the National Parliamentary Debate Association Journal. 真人线上娱乐 journal is dedicated to ...
October 21, 2015
Kristy Leissle Publishes an Article on Major Trends in US Craft Chocolate
IAS faculty member Kristy Leissle published an article on major trends in US craft chocolate in the “Economy & Business” section of 真人线上娱乐 Conversation. 真人线上娱乐 article, "Craft chocolate shakes up industry as its sweet season begins," documents ...
October 16, 2015
Bruce Burgett speaks about interdisciplinary education at Fordham University
IAS Dean and faculty member Bruce Burgett spoke twice at Fordham University. 真人线上娱乐 first discussion was focused on the development of undergraduate interdisciplinary curricula. 真人线上娱乐 second, sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, focused on interdisciplinary and engaged curriculum at the Master’s level.
October 16, 2015
IAS contributes mightily to the American Studies Association
IAS faculty members contributed to six different events at the American Studies Association conference in Toronto, Canada. Bruce Burgett chaired a roundtable on “After the Misery: What Are Critical University Studies For?,” responding with the answer “Transdisciplinary Praxis.” Dan Berger ...
October 14, 2015
David Goldstein Shares Knowledge of Teaching and Learning Centers in Japan and Milwaukee
David Goldstein, IAS senior lecturer and Director of the Teaching and Learning Center, served as a Visiting Scholar at Waseda University in Tokyo for the month of July. Along with three colleagues from UW Seattle, he helped launch a Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology that will be jointly run by Waseda and the UW. Back in the U.S. ...
October 14, 2015
Kari Lerum Speaks on Feminism and Mad Max, Fury Road
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum recently spoke on a panel discussing the feminist potential of the sci-fi dystopian film Mad Max, Fury Road (2015). 真人线上娱乐 panel -- part of GeekGirlCon ’15 held at the Washington State Convention Center -- included...
October 14, 2015
MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics Hosts Fourth Annual Fall Convergence
MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics hosted the fourth annual Fall Convergence October 1-2. This year’s program featured an opening keynote reading + conversation with award-winning poet, novelist, and critic Nathaniel Mackey. 真人线上娱乐 multi-day program of...
October 12, 2015
David Nixon’s Bladfold Wins Best Musical Film Award
IAS faculty member David Nixon's animated musical documentary "Bladfold:真人线上娱乐 Story of Brad Nixon" won the Best Musical Film award at the 2015 Oregon Independent Film Festival.
October 9, 2015
Leissle and Nixon Publish the Third Volume of 真人线上娱乐 Monolith: Science Fiction Short Stories
IAS faculty members Kristy Leissle and David Nixon published the third volume of 真人线上娱乐 Monolith: Science Fiction Short Stories, subtitled What's In My Head. UWB students in Nixon and Leissle's Discovery Core 1 class, "Thinking Beyond Borders: Philosophical Explorations of Science Fiction," author all the stories in the collection.
October 9, 2015