News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Barbara Noah in “Volcano!” exhibit at the Portland Art Museum
IAS faculty member Barbara Noah is included in the "Volcano! Mount St. Helens in Art" exhibit at the Portland Art Museum (PAM), in honor of the 40th anniversary of the eruption. The virtual exhibition can be viewed online, and is featured on the PAM Instagram account. The recording ...
May 21, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson launches “Facing It” podcast on the emotional burden of climate change
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson launched Facing It, a new podcast exploring the emotional burden of climate change. The project is a collaboration between Atkinson, who is the writer and host, and London-based composer and sound artist Roberto DavidRusconi. In her pilot episode, Atkinson explains the podcast theme ...
May 15, 2020
Jed Murr receives Fulbright US Scholar award to Slovenia
IAS faculty member Jed Murr has received a Fulbright US Scholar award to Slovenia, where he will work with students, educators, and cultural workers in two major institutions to explore the possibilities and problems that emerge when performing the transnational work of American Studies, Black Studies, and Ethnic Studies in classrooms and arts spaces outside of the US university. ...
May 15, 2020
Katherine Voyles: “Plague Stories Are Cold Comfort: On The Limits Of Fiction”
IAS/FYPP faculty member Katherine Voyles published an article "Plague Stories Are Cold Comfort: On The Limits Of Fiction," in which she discusses COVID-19 and plague literature by focusing on Lawrence Wright’s new novel The End of October for War on the Rocks. She previously wrote about Wright’s work when ...
May 13, 2020
Becca Price publishes teaching module: “Vitamin C for Colds? Writing LETTERS to Synthesize and Communicate Results from Multiple Studies”
A team of scientists including IAS faculty member Becca Price published a teaching module called “Vitamin C for Colds? Writing LETTERS to Synthesize and Communicate Results from Multiple Studies” in CourseSource. In the lesson, students draw from three different data sources to explore whether vitamin C lowers severity or length of a cold in average people. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the data show that vitamin C has ...
May 12, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson speaks with NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday about pandemic gardens
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson was interviewed on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday for a story about pandemic gardens. The piece took up the question of why the COVID-19 pandemic has set off such an unprecedented boom in home gardening. The simple answer, of course, is fear of ...
May 11, 2020
Yolanda Padilla discusses the “Politics of the Archive/s” and Latinx print culture
IAS faculty member Yolanda Padilla visited the University of Arizona by invitation from the Program in Social, Cultural and Critical Theory via Zoom in April. She discussed Latinx print culture in the context of critical archive studies with a graduate class called "Politics of the Archive/s." She then gave a public lecture titled "Recovering Borderlands Modernism ...
May 7, 2020
Min Tang presents at the cyberconference “What is Information 2020”
IAS faculty member Min Tang attended the What is Information 2020 Cyberconference between April 30-May 2 and presented at the Law/Government Panel. Tang’s presentation on “Information, Imperialism and Geopolitics: A Critical Approach to Global Internet Governance” revisited the conceptualization of global Internet governance from a critical political economy approach and highlighted the complex nature of information as sites of geopolitical-economic rivalries.
May 4, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson on gardening in the pandemic
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson published an article on the gardening boom set off by COVID-19, and why growers' motives go far beyond food. In The impulse to garden in hard times has deep roots, she notes the explosion of news commentary comparing today's rush to plant gardens with the WWII victory garden movement, where governments encouraged Americans to ...
May 1, 2020
Ursula Valdez wins 2020 Husky Green Award
IAS faculty member Ursula Valdez is one of the 2020 Husky Green award winners. The selection committee highlighted the incorporation of conservation and sustainability into Valdez's classes and activities. "She actively encourages students and other researchers to document avian diversity and natural history in urban spaces and educates them on how to restore these habitats. She also ...
April 29, 2020