News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Kristy Leissle Speaks on Social Justice and Chocolate
IAS faculty member Kristy Leissle hosted a talk at the NW Chocolate Festival, as part of the event's two-day Educational Program. Leissle's talk took the format of a live interview with Gillian Goddard of Sun Eater Organics, a chocolate company based in Trinidad and Tobago.
October 5, 2015
Dan Berger Talks on Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
IAS faculty member Dan Berger delivered two talks in California about his award-winning book, Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era. The first event, "Prisoners and Politics: from the San Quentin Six to Pelican Bay," took place as part of Shaping San Francisco, a participatory community history event series.
September 28, 2015
IAS Students Experience Dance, Healing, and Community-Building
IAS faculty memberCarrie Lanza, Diana Garcia-Snyder, and their students devoted the summer quarter to an exploration of dance as a technology for healing and community building in BISIA 484: Arts Learning in the Community. Students participated in and engaged critically with...
September 23, 2015
Portraits of Refugees by Howard Hsu
IAS faculty member Howard Hsu has published a portrait series of refugees in Germany on Mashable. "The Ones Who Found Refuge" provides views of Europe's migrant crisis through the faces of some of these people.
September 23, 2015
Dan Berger Lectures on Decarceration in Ecuador
IAS faculty member Dan Berger delivered two talks in Quito, Ecuador, about the rise and possible fall of mass incarceration in the United States. Berger spoke on...
September 8, 2015
Kari Lerum Publishes on Amnesty International’s Vote to Decriminalize Sex Work
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum recently published a commentary on Amnesty International’s vote to decriminalize sex work in The Conversation (an online academic news forum). The article, entitled “Scientists score one over celebrities in battle to decriminalize sex work” compares...
September 8, 2015
Julie Shayne Blogs About the Limits of the Tenure Track
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne writes on “Losing the Tenure Track, Finding Activist Scholarship” in the Gender & Society blog. In her post, Shayne talks about the political freedom she found once she left the tenure track.
September 2, 2015
S. Charusheela Speaks Economics and Gender in Delhi
S. Charusheela gave a seminar for M.Phil students at the Centre for Development Practice, Ambedkar University Delhi, on postcolonial economics on Thursday August 27, and public lectures on "Sexing the Economy: Capitalcentrism and the Gendered Subject" and "Engendering Feudalism: Alternate Subjects for Post-capitalist Futures" on Friday, August 28.
August 31, 2015
Kari Lerum Publishes in Sex Roles
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum is the lead author of an article published in the journal Sex Roles. The article...
August 17, 2015
Wanda Gregory Completes her PhD
IAS faculty member Wanda Gregory successfully defended her PhD at the University College Dublin in July. Her dissertation, explores how digital games...
August 12, 2015