News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Ted Hiebert publishes “Art and the ‘Pataphysics of Exception: Or, how a sieve becomes a time machine”
IAS faculty member Ted Hiebert published "Art and the 'Pataphysics of Exception: Or, how a sieve becomes a time machine" in Katie Price & Michael Taylor's edited volume, 'Pataphysics Unrolled. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022. pp. 153-170. Hiebert's essay examines ...
April 14, 2022
Naomi Macalalad Bragin brings Waacking/Punking dance research to Paris
April 9 and 11, IAS faculty member Naomi Macalalad Bragin moderated a roundtable and gave a research talk on Waacking/Punking, a dance that derives from the first gay clubs of Los Angeles, California, during the Disco and Funk music era of the early 1970s. Her groundbreaking work highlights ...
April 12, 2022
Masahiro Sugano’s short film addressing anti-Asian violence awarded first place at The Artists Forum Juried Competition in New York City
In May 2021, IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano and his media lab Studio Revolt responded to a rise in anti-Asian violence with a short film titled “Listen Asshole” based on a poem by the spoken word duo Yellow Rage. The poem, originally written 20 years ago by Michelle Myers and Catzie Vilayphonh, sought to defy stereotypes that many people perpetuate about Asian Americans and ...
April 12, 2022
Amaranth Borsuk publishes collaborative poems and interview
The latest issue of Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review includes a series of poems from IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk's collaboration with Terri Witek, W/\SH, a book of speculative ecopoetics that grapples with climate catastrophe. Comprising a series of myths and visual transmissions, the poems connect women on ...
April 11, 2022
Ching-In Chen’s works selected for Re-Examining Conservation exhibit book
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “Lantern Letter: a Zuihitsu,” “Original,” “Predator,” and “Guest/Stalker” were selected to be included in an artist book to accompany the Re-Examining Conservation: Questions at the Intersection of the Arts & Sciences exhibit, on view April 4-June 10 in the ...
April 7, 2022
Julie Shayne presents paper at the Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) annual Winter Conference
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne (she/her/hers) was invited by SWS president Dr. Roberta Villalón to be a featured guest on the panel “Celebrating Interdisciplinary Perspectives as Integral to Feminisms.” Her paper was called “Reflections from a Feminist Editor: Blending Sociological Analysis and Feminist Theory to Create Interdisciplinary Texts and Pedagogy.” In it, she argued ...
April 4, 2022
American Muslims Research Institute holds two talks on the experiences of American Muslims in public service
After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the American Muslims research institute (AMRI), directed by IAS faculty member Karam Dana, held two virtual talks highlighting the experiences of American Muslims in public service in March. ...
April 4, 2022
Ching-In Chen: Poetry of Activism
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen attended the annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference in Philadelphia last week. Chen presented work on the intersection of community organizing and poetry as part of the “Whenever the Wounds of Injustice are Salted We Will Gather: Poetry of Activism” ...
April 1, 2022
Rebecca Brown interviewed in BOMB Magazine
IAS faculty member Rebecca Brown is interviewed in a piece entitiled "Working Beyond the End," published by BOMB Magazine. The interview cover's Brown's new book, You Tell the Stories You Need to Believe; themes that run through Brown's works, such as youth and innocence; Brown's treatment of characters; Brown's religious faith; and the need to have stories we can believe in. ...
March 28, 2022
Jennifer Atkinson featured in “Down with Doomscrolling”
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson's teaching and research on mental health and climate change was featured in The Planet Magazine. The piece, titled Down with Doomscrolling, profiled young people and students in environmental fields who are struggling with emotional distress from engaging with difficult topics around ...
March 28, 2022