News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Dan Berger tours east coast to promote Captive Nation
IAS faculty member Dan Berger delivered a series of lectures on the east coast related to his book, Captive Nation. Berger gave a lecture entitled "Prisons, State Violence, and the Organizing Tradition" at Dickinson College. More than 100 students and faculty attended the talk, which was hosted by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and the Popal Shaw Center for Race and Ethnicity.
June 26, 2015
Becca Price helps students learn about insects that use gears to jump
IAS faculty member Becca Price published a set of resources for teachers to teach and students to learn about the first-ever interactive gears found in animals. The resources accompany a Science article by Malcolm Burrows and Gregory Sutton that describes...
June 25, 2015
Becky Aanerud, Lauren Lichty, and Julie Shayne present at Sociologists for Women in Society
Becky Aanerud, Lauren Lichty, and Julie Shayne presented at the Sociologists for Women in Society winter meeting in Washington, DC. Shayne organized a session titled “Curricular and Administrative Feminist Activism” where...
June 25, 2015
IAS Graduate Students host first annual IAS Grad Research Flash Talks
Graduate students in the MA in Cultural Studies and MA in Policy Studies programs organized the first Research Flash Talks event, which highlighted ongoing projects from second year students in each program.
June 25, 2015
Amaranth Borsuk exhibits her students’ work on “Chapbooks and Artists’ Books”
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk is exhibiting work by students in her BISIA 483B "Chapbooks and Artists' Books" course. Check out the display cases on the lower level of Discovery Hall to see what current and recent IAS students have done.
June 25, 2015
Dan Berger publishes on Malcolm X in Al Jazeera America
IAS faculty member Dan Berger published "Malcolm X's Challenge to Mass Incarceration" in Al Jazeera America, discussing the significance of Malcolm X and his legacy, fifty years after his assassination in 1965.
June 25, 2015
Kristy Leissle, aka Dr. Chocolate, publishes “Labels of Love”
IAS faculty member Kristy Leissle, known in the chocolate industry as Dr. Chocolate, has published "Labels of Love" in the Business & Economy section of The Conversation, an online newspaper. As chocolate comes under its annual scrutiny in the lead up to Valentine's Day...
June 25, 2015
Lauren Berliner and students host interactive documentary gaming event
IAS faculty member Lauren Berliner and students from her Participatory Media Culture class will host a live RPG gaming event, plus viewing and discussion of Fort McMoney at the Northwest Film Forum on February 19, 2015 at 7:00 pm.
June 25, 2015
Karam Dana speaks on “Confronting Injustice” at Brown and Northeastern
IAS faculty member Karam Dana will speak on “Confronting Injustice: Palestinian Identity and Non-Violent Forms of Resisting Israeli Occupation” in a live streamed lecture on February 19 at Brown University.
June 25, 2015
Dan Berger speaks on radio about Captive Nation
IAS faculty member Dan Berger discussed his book Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era on the Morning Blend, a program of KBCS radio in Bellevue. KBCS played excerpts of the interview with Berger throughout the week of Feb 2.
June 25, 2015