News from the School of IAS

Category: Research and Creative Practice

Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali featured on King 5 TV and The News Tribune for their new public art work

IAS Artists-in-Residence Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali’s latest collaborative installation was prominently featured on King 5 TV and The News Tribune. On November 11, 2018 Ali and Sugano unveiled their new public artwork titled “Hello. How Are You?” on their own front yard located in Tacoma, Washington. Comprised of bright white letters measuring 4 feet in height, the large-scale outdoor installation spells out the common American greeting “Hello. How are you?” For their special launch event ...

November 28, 2018

Dan Berger on What the Latest Bipartisan Prison Reform Gets Wrong and Why It Matters

IAS faculty member Dan Berger published an op-ed in Truthout on the First Step Act, a bipartisan reform measure now supported by the Trump administration. In reviewing the proposed law, Berger highlights the bipartisan failure to attend to the policies that would meaningfully reduce the number of people in prison. Berger also delivered two recent talks on similar topics ...

November 19, 2018

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) faculty present at the annual National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference

GWSS faculty organized sessions, presented papers, and celebrated their new book at the annual NWSA conference in Atlanta, Georgia. GWSS faculty coordinator Julie Shayne organized a session called “The Permanence of the Feminist Classroom: Murals, Archives, and Films.” On this panel she presented a paper called “Feminist Pedagogy + Feminist Knowledge Production = Feminist Archives” about the Feminist Community Archive of WA (FCA-WA) project she co-created and grows through her class “Histories and Movements of Gender and Sexuality” (BISGWS 302), offered this winter. Alka Kurian was also ...

November 15, 2018

Yolanda Padilla presents on “Latinx Modernist Field Imaginaries”

IAS faculty member Yolanda Padilla presented her work on a panel titled "Latinx Modernist Field Imaginaries" at the Modernist Studies Association conference in Columbus, Ohio. The panel explored Latinx modernisms as a set of challenges both to modernist studies broadly construed and to Latinx studies internally. Padilla argued for the importance of the Spanish-language press in ...

November 14, 2018

Kristin Gustafson publishes tribute to Dr. Hazel-Dicken Garcia

IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson‘s newest column pays tribute to the mentoring and legacy of her master’s adviser, Dr. Hazel-Dicken Garcia. The piece, “Hazel Dicken-Garcia Continues to Give to Her Students,” is published in Clio: Among the Media. In it, Gustafson reflects on four things: the community Dicken-Garcia created, how Dicken-Garcia shaped Gustafson’s path as a scholar, the meaning of physical things Dicken-Garcia passed on, and the reach of Dicken-Garcia’s financial gift to the Division. Gustafson publishes the column as ...

November 7, 2018

Margaret H. Redsteer selected as one of the 125 Extraordinary Ordinary Women of Montana State University

IAS faculty member Margaret H. Redsteer has been selected as one of the 125 Extraordinary Ordinary Women of Montana State University. In celebrating Montana State University’s 125th anniversary, the President’s Commission on the Status of University is honoring women leaders, problem solvers and innovators from today and throughout MSU’s history. The 125 honorees were ...

November 2, 2018

Masahiro Sugano’s Short Film on Climate Justice Screens at the Royal Academy of Arts in London

On September 29, 2018 the largest exhibition of arts and culture of Oceania opened at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, featuring IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano’s short film, “Tell Them.” Originally filmed live at the Southbank Centre as part of the Cultural Olympiad London 2012 showcase, the spoken word film features poet and climate justice activist Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner from the Marshall Islands. ...

October 31, 2018

Two short films by Masahiro Sugano selected for the 2018 ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival in Germany

Out of more than 1,200 entries from 87 countries, Berlin’s Literaturwerkstatt program commission selected two films by IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano as part of the 2018 ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival in both Münster and Berlin.The festival ran from September 27th to 30th 2018. The two works screened were spoken word short films by powerful poet Tjawangwa “TJ” Dema of Botswana. Both “Dreams” and “Neon Poem” were featured in this year’s festival line up. Both videos were ...

October 31, 2018