The Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences department at UW Bothell is grateful to each faculty member and colleague who has participated in our Research Colloquium series.
Winter Quarter 2012
Autumn Quarter 2011
Spring Quarter 2011
Winter Quarter 2011
Autumn Quarter 2010
Winter 2012 Speaker Lineup
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
4:00 – 5:30pm*
The Politics of Hindutva South Asian Cinema
Alka Kurian
This paper explores cinematic representation of the 2002 state-led genocidal violence perpetrated against the Muslims in the Indian state of Gujarat. While the films under investigation offer a scathing critique of the rise of right wing Hindu fundamentalism in India and within its diaspora, they overlook some of the key pieces of the context such as: the expression of solidarity and compassion by moderate, non-fundamentalist Hindus towards minority communities; the question of class and economy that get buried underneath cultural explanations for the anti-Muslim violence; the Hindutva-led politics of divide and rule whereby one minority community was pitted against the other with the view to gaining majority sympathy and electoral gain. And where the films do represent moderation of communal attitude and behavior they locate this humanity in the context of working / lower-middle class femininities, whose classed and gendered subjectivity renders them not entirely effective, or within the narrow parameters of upper-middle class secularity whose adherents are shown to be far above communal matters to be affected by them.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
4:00 – 5:30pm
Playing in the Noxious Sector: Extended Practices and Artistic Interventions
Ted Hiebert
There are times when it’s not enough to be rational – moments when one must exaggerate or over-emphasize or simply lie in order to more accurately represent the nuances of a question. These are moments where probability as a scientific endeavor fails to represent the poetic actuality of the moment – moments that can challenge, and sometimes defy, the parameters of certainty and verifiability because the imagination has never been limited by possibility or truth. There are also times when one must put the imaginary first, creatively engaging the irrational possibilities of the world, whether seductive, absurd or entirely nonsensical. Part theoretical reflection, part artist talk, this presentation shares work from recent projects of the Noxious Sector Arts Collective. Dedicated to the exploration of the imaginative, the implausible and the absurd, Noxious Sector projects provide creative forums from which to rethink questions of artistic possibility and integrated practice.
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012
4:00 – 5:30pm
Who’s Speaking Now? Sorting Out Voices in Polyvocal Texts
Bill Seaburg
In a broad sense, this report on current research looks at the question: what happens (obligatorily) between the “voice” of the storyteller as it leaves her mouth and ends up as ink on a printed page? And, what kinds of transformations (or worse, transmogrifications) can (optionally) happen when “voice” is written down? I will illustrate with excerpts from the “same” text first recorded in 1897, first published in 1902, and “republished” in 1953. Excerpts from several texts recorded in 1935 and as yet unpublished will look at the question from my title: who’s speaking now—the consultant or the anthropologist? Finally, we’ll consider the question: why should we care?
Autumn 2011 Speaker Lineup
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
4:00 – 5:30pm*
Introducing Human Rights to the Anti-Sex-Trafficking Agenda
Kari Lerum
Since the passing of the 2000 Trafficking Victims Protection Act, anti-trafficking efforts have grown in funding, political strength, and popular-culture appeal in the United States and globally. Particularly influential in shaping anti-trafficking policy in the United States are the "new abolitionists" whom are primarily concerned with "saving" sex workers and eradicating sexual commerce. Simultaneous to the development of abolitionist anti-trafficking and anti-prostitution efforts in the US, movements for sex worker rights have also grown in strength and visibility, impacting a variety of cultural, academic, and public health arenas. While these sex worker activists have widened the dialogue around sex workers' rights, their perspectives have not until recently been acknowledged by US policy makers. This talk will describe the unprecedented collaborative activist process by which a human rights agenda for US-based sex workers was introduced and approved at the United Nations Human Rights council through the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process. The talk will conclude with policy recommendations for the federal, state, and local levels of the United States.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
4:00 – 5:30pm
Portfolios and Recovery Districts: the Future of Public Education?
Paul Hill
States and localities, looking for ways to increase school performance even during a time of fiscal stringency, are experimenting with new methods of performance-based management. These involve assessment of all schools based on student achievement gains, which can lead to dramatic actions, including closing schools and replacing them with new independently-managed schools. The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) is studying these local and state initiatives. Paul Hill will describe CRPE's research and summarize current findings about consequences for teaching, student learning, equality of opportunity, and interest group politics.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
4:00 – 5:30pm
What is Class?
S. Charusheela
What happens when a concept travels across disciplinary boundaries? The implications and meanings of terms and ideas shift as they take their place within a different conceptual order, and the work a concept does begins to change as it enters a new terrain. One such concept is class. This paper draws on and refines the work of Julie Graham, and argues that the work the concept of class can provide for Cultural Studies differs dramatically depending on whether class is translated as social position, subject position, or process.
Spring 2011 Speaker Lineup
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
4:00 – 5:30pm*
Managing the Teacher Workforce in Austere Times: The Implications of Teacher Layoffs
Dan Goldhaber
This research presentation estimates the factors that predict the likelihood of a teacher receiving a reduction-in-force (RIF) notice. Results suggest that a teacher’s seniority is the greatest predictor of receiving a layoff notice, and that teacher effectiveness is not considered in the layoff decision.
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
4:00 – 5:30pm
The Biopolitics of the Fenceline
Gwen Ottinger
In communities located on the fencelines of the nation’s oil refineries, residents worried that pollution is making them ill have a tense relationship with refinery scientists and engineers, who assure them that it is not. Drawing on ethnographic research in a Louisiana fenceline community, this talk looks at the ways that contemporary cultural values of individual responsibility and self-care shape the resident-expert relationship--and, in particular, how these values make the costs of challenging expert knowledge prohibitively high for poor and working-class residents.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011
4:00 – 5:30pm
Qualitative Geovisualization for Community Planning: Masten District Neighborhood Plan in Buffalo, NY
Jin-Kyu Jung
This talk will discuss what qualitative geovisualization is, and particularly, what it can offer to the community-based planning process. By showcasing the Masten District Neighborhood Plan in Buffalo, NY, it will show how qualitative geovisualization draws similarly or differently on other related practices such as Public Participatory GIS (PPGIS), qualitative GIS (QGIS), and traditional community-based planning.
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Winter 2011 Speaker Lineup
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
4:00 – 5:30pm*
Arts-Based Research
Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren
This talk will examine the basic tenets of arts-based research, its history, and its current status in a variety of research, arts practice, and applied settings. Particular consideration will be given to the role of performance based approaches and the place of the moving body in Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren’s work on disability (hearing theaters) and the environment (the dramaturgy of natural disasters).
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
4:00 – 5:30pm
The Impact Of Maternal Religion On African-American Girls’ HIV Risk
Wadiya Udell
Dr. Udell will review her study examining the relationship between religion, mental health problems, and sexual risk behaviors among African American girls. She will discuss the importance of an ecological framework in understanding how aspects of psychopathology and religiosity relate to sexual risk behavior among African American girls in psychiatric care.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
4:00 – 5:30pm
How can we conserve biodiversity where we live?: Land use planner perspectives on barriers and opportunities for conservation
Martha Groom and David Stokes
The ways in which we develop land have far reaching consequences for the degree to which we conserve species, maintain ecosystem services, and functional natural habitats. Working with collaborators at UW Bothell and at two other universities, Dr. Groom and Dr. Stokes tried to understand the degree to which biodiversity considerations are included in local land use planning and what factors create barriers or promote opportunities to achieve conservation goals. They will discuss key results of their studies and new ideas for collaborations with local planners to better conserve biodiversity in our region.
Autumn 2010 Speaker Lineup
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
4:00 – 5:30pm
Human Rights from the Bottom Up: How Culture Matters
Diane Gillespie
Dr. Gillespie will describe her current research project focused on the nonformal human rights education program of Tostan, a nonprofit working in remote rural areas across North Africa. Tostan’s approach has led to widespread abandonment of female genital cutting and early child marriage. Gillespie’s research project is qualitative, exploring how Tostan’s participatory human rights education, as it was implemented in three rural villages in Senegal, West Africa, position participants to become involved in social transformation.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
4:00 – 5:30pm
Teachers Unions and the Current Challenges of Educational Reform
Dan Jacoby, Keith Nitta, and Mari Taylor (Policy Studies, '10)
This talk discusses K-12 schools at the national level and examines two local district strikes. The speakers ask how teacher unions can and have addressed the larger issues of educational standards and accountability.
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
4:00 – 5:30pm
My World Cup
Ron Krabill, Angelica Macklin, and Georgia Roberts
During the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, UW partnered with Cape Town Community Television to produce a series of short films looking at the impacts of the World Cup on multiple communities in Cape Town. The UW leaders of this program will be sharing their research.
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