News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Rob Turner advances sustainability in teaching and scholarship
IAS faculty member Rob Turner helped run an hour-long discussion session at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges & Universities in January. The session was titled Fostering Sustainability Out of a Pandemic: Pathways for Higher Education to Create a More Resilient Institution and Society. In November, he received ...
February 9, 2021
Ching-In Chen’s hybrid poetry published in Blue Cactus Press online journal
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s hybrid poetry -- “Still Green,” “Pilgrimage,” “Flood Fathers,” “Overnight Holiday,” and “Emperor” -- was published in Blue Cactus Press’ online journal, edited by Christina Butcher. Blue Cactus Press crafts books that inspire dialogue about ...
February 5, 2021
Jennifer Atkinson’s course on climate grief and eco-anxiety featured in New York Times
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson’s seminar on climate grief and eco-anxiety was featured in a New York Times story on efforts to support people experiencing distress over the global climate crisis. The article, Got Climate Anxiety? These People Are Doing Something About It, noted that the number of Americans who are “very worried” about climate change has more than doubled over the past five years to its current rate of ...
February 5, 2021
Julie Shayne discusses The Revolution Question with local feminist organization
Local feminist organization Radical Women invited IAS faculty member and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Faculty Coordinator Julie Shayne to speak to their book club about her book The Revolution Question: Feminisms in El Salvador, Chile, and Cuba. The conversation ...
January 28, 2021
Karam Dana on the Biden Administration’s reversal of the Muslim Ban (KUOW)
IAS faculty member Karam Dana was interviewed by KUOW’s Kim Malcolm for “All Things Considered” on the Biden Administration’s reversal of the Muslim Ban. Dana reflected on what this reversal means to the local Muslim American community, and its impact globally, situating the issue of discrimination towards Muslims as a central problem with how American society has operated ...
January 27, 2021
Kari Lerum: Rights, not rescue
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum researches the rights of sex workers and how anti-trafficking campaigns can bring more harm than good. “The general public is so conditioned to think about sex work as right or wrong and sex workers as free or coerced,” she said. “But what’s more useful is to think about how the state regulates and surveils sex workers who are just trying to make ends meet, especially when they are Black and brown, poor or transgender. These policies do nothing to alleviate poverty, racism or transphobia.”
January 27, 2021
Bruce Burgett co-edits essays related to the events in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021
IAS dean and faculty member Bruce Burgett co-edited, with Glenn Hendler (Fordham University), a dossier of essays related to the events in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, and their aftermath. “Keywords Now” contains brief elaborations of essays published in the third edition of Keywords for American Cultural Studies, also co-edited by Burgett and Hendler. The elaborations focus on the keywords conservatism ...
January 22, 2021
Karam Dana speaks on religion and political participation among minorities in the US
IAS faculty member Karam Dana delivered a lecture on January 15th as part of the On the Corner Symposium: Nexus at the Political Intersection of Race and Religion Research sponsored and hosted by the Taft Research Center of the University of Cincinnati. His lecture was titled "Role of Religion in Political Participation Among Minorities in the US.” The video ...
January 22, 2021
Amaranth Borsuk Publishes “Curt Curtal Sonnet Corona”
On January 15th the Quarantine Public Library released a new slate of free printable chapbooks, including IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk's "Curt Curtal Sonnet Corona," a series of programmatically-generated curtal sonnets. QPL publishes artists' books designed for a single side of an 8.5 x 11 page which readers print, fold and cut using a simple template. ...
January 21, 2021
Karam Dana on reversing the Muslim travel ban (Q13 FOX)
IAS faculty member Karam Dana spoke to Q13 FOX about U.S. President Joe Biden's reversal of a travel ban on foreign nationals from certain Muslim-majority countries. "The Muslim ban was a travel ban that limited access to the United States, even to those who had a green card. Not only those who carry valid visas, but also ...
January 21, 2021