IAS contributes mightily to the American Studies Association
IAS faculty members contributed to six different events at the conference in Toronto, Canada. Bruce Burgett chaired a roundtable on 鈥淎fter the Misery: What Are Critical University Studies For?,鈥� responding with the answer 鈥淭ransdisciplinary Praxis.鈥� Dan Berger contributed to a roundtable called 鈥淔reedom From Violence: Resistance as Question and Imperative鈥� with a talk on 鈥淎ll that Ella Baker and Milton Friedman Don鈥檛 Have in Common: Rethinking Freedom Between Exploitation and Emancipation.鈥� Jed Murr presented 鈥溾�橢nough to Destroy鈥�: The Fugitive Insurgency of the Omowale Mural鈥� on a 鈥淏lack Sites and Fugitive Visions鈥� panel. Jose Fuste discussed 鈥淥f Negroes and Negros: Negotiating Black (Inter)Nationalisms Across the US/Cuba Imperial Divide, 1895-1909鈥� as part of a panel on 鈥淢ethodological Miseries and Race along the Seams of Empire. micha cardenas presented 鈥淪titching Poetics: Algorithmic Identity and Networked Bodies鈥� as part of a panel on 鈥淒igital Death Worlds: Mediating Necropolitics.鈥� cardenas also performed a live version of her digital project Redshift and Portalmetal at the YYZ Gallery.