News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Yolanda Padilla publishes Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative and Nation in Twenty-First Century Chicana/o Literary Criticism
IAS faculty member Yolanda Padilla published a volume of critical essays that she co-edited titled Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative and Nation in Twenty-First Century Chicana/o Literary Criticism. The essays reveal how "Chicana/o" defines a literary critical sensibility as well as a political one, and show how this view can yield new insights about the status of Mexican Americans, the legacies of colonialism, and the ongoing prospects for social justice.
September 16, 2016
Karam Dana talks about Islam and Muslims in America with KUOW’s Ross Reynonlds and is interviewed for the Tacoma Tribune
IAS faculty member Karam Dana participated in KUOW's Ask a Muslim or Two, an event led by Ross Reynolds meant to provide a safe environment where questions about Islam and Muslims can be asked and answered. Dana was also interviewed by ...
September 15, 2016
Shannon Cram publishes and speaks on nuclear energy, work, and politics
IAS faculty member Shannon Cram published "Living in Dose: Nuclear Work and the Politics of Permissible Exposure" in Public Culture. Informed by her ethnographic and policy work at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Cram's article traces the historical development and embodied practice of "permissible dose" in U.S. nuclear industry. She considers the deeply political ways that worker exposure facilitates nuclear production and examines how "safe" has become synonymous with "safe enough" at Hanford. She also ...
September 8, 2016
Dave Stokes presented research on California tiger salamander ecology and conservation-reliant species
IAS faculty member Dave Stokes presented research on California tiger salamander ecology and conservation-reliant species at the EcoSummit 2016 meeting in Montpellier France. His talk, based on a paper currently in review at the journal Biodiversity Conservation, was titled “Saving All the Pieces: An Inadequate Conservation Strategy for an Endangered Amphibian in a Rapidly Urbanizing Area.” He also ...
September 8, 2016
Jason Lambacher presents paper on Wilderness, Wildness, and Cross-cultural Dialogue
IAS faculty member Jason Lambacher presented an environmental political theory paper titled, "Wilderness, Wildness, and Cross-cultural Dialogue," at the Just Sustainability -- Hope for the Commons conference, hosted by Seattle University's Center for Environmental Justice & Sustainability on August 7-9. Lambacher's paper examines social justice critiques of ...
August 26, 2016
Dan Berger publishes two op-eds on the history of law and order politics in 2016
IAS faculty member Dan Bergerpublished an article in the African American Intellectual History blog about the use of law and order politics by both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in their respective party conventions. The article, “Lessons in Law and Order Politics,” describes the 1960s origins of law and order ...
August 10, 2016
Becca Price publishes paper on the challenges of teaching genetic drift
IAS faculty member Becca Price published a co-authored paper, “Observing populations and testing predictions about genetic drift in a computer simulation improves college students’ conceptual understanding” in Evolution: Education and Outreach. The paper focuses on the challenges of teaching genetic drift ...
August 10, 2016
Julie Shayne presents at the International Sociological Association’s (ISA) Forum on Sociology conference in Vienna, Austria
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne presented at this year’s International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum on Sociology in two different sessions. First, her book Taking Risks: Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas (SUNY; 2014 & 2015) was featured at an author-meets-critics session with a handful of other sociologists who conduct transnational feminist research. Additionally, Shayne ...
July 25, 2016
Dan Berger on KING5 #StandUnited
IAS faculty member Dan Berger appeared on the KING5 “#StandUnited” roundtable on July 9 to discuss police violence and Black Lives Matter in the wake of recent police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, as well as the deaths of five police officers in Dallas. The hour-long roundtable, which aired live, featured local activists, religious leaders, scholars, and police officers. Berger joined ...
July 11, 2016
Carrie Bodle Gives Artist Talk
IAS faculty member Carrie Bodle gave an artist talk on her work at Glass Box Gallery in Seattle on June 29. Bodle highlighted her visual and sound artworks from 2002-2016 which are immersive installations that explore the relationships between art and science, translating inaudible or invisible phenomena into sensible experiences. This talk is ...
July 6, 2016