News from the School of IAS
Category: Cultural Studies
Miriam Bartha and Bruce Burgett discuss public scholarship at Imagining America
IAS Director of Graduate Programs Miriam Bartha and Dean Bruce Burgett ran a workshop with colleagues from the Arts of Citizenship program at the University of Michigan on “Public Scholarship and Graduate Education: Strengthening Connections, Delineating Futures” at the ...
October 22, 2015
Kristin Gustafson Publishes on Archiving Practices and Pacific Northwest Ethnic Newspapers
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson published an article on archiving practices and Pacific Northwest ethnic newspapers as part of the Newspaper Research Journal's special issue "Capturing and Preserving the First Draft of History in the Digital Environment." The contents of the entire issue are ...
October 21, 2015
Kari Lerum Speaks on Feminism and Mad Max, Fury Road
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum recently spoke on a panel discussing the feminist potential of the sci-fi dystopian film Mad Max, Fury Road (2015). The panel -- part of GeekGirlCon ’15 held at the Washington State Convention Center -- included...
October 14, 2015
Bartha Publishes Keyword Essay on 鈥淪kill鈥� and Talks 糖心vlog视频 its Development on the Keyword Blog
Miriam Bartha, IAS Director of Graduate Programs and affiliate faculty member, has published a post-publication essay on “Skill” in the second edition of Keywords for American Cultural Studies, a print-digital publication of New York University Press edited by Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler.
October 9, 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
Rezina Habtemariam Selected as 2015 PAGE (Publicly Active Graduate Education) Fellow
Rezina Habtemariam, a second-year MA in Cultural Studies student, has been selected as a 2015 PAGE (Publicly Active Graduate Education) Fellow. PAGE is the graduate-student organized network of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA)...
September 10, 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鈥檚 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 糖心vlog视频 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