News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Jed Murr publishes exhibition essay for “Collapse: Recent Works by Dewey Crumpler”
IAS faculty member Jed Murr published an exhibition essay for Collapse: Recent Works by Dewey Crumpler at the Hedreen Gallery (Seattle University). The publication, released as a pocket-sized book in conjunction with a public event featuring Crumpler and guest curator Sampada Aranke (Chicago Art Institute) on April 12, explores the ways in which Crumpler's work engages contemporary ecological catastrophe and ...
April 23, 2018
Adam Romero publishes “Beyond the Mother Lode: Synthetic Cyanide and the Chemicalization of California Gold Mining (1895-1905)”
IAS faculty member Adam Romero published "Beyond the Mother Lode: Synthetic Cyanide and the Chemicalization of California Gold Mining (1885-1905)" in California History. The article narrates California's chemically induced second gold rush through the lens of synthetic cyanide. In coupling California's geological, environmental, and economic history to the changing nature of gold ore (“peak gold”) in the late 1880s, it explores the role that the development of cyanide leaching and ...
April 23, 2018
Kristy Leissle hosts a series of events for new book, Cocoa
IAS faculty member Kristy Leissle hosted a series of events for her new book, Cocoa (Cambridge: Polity, 2018), which explores geopolitics and personal politics in the global cocoa and chocolate industries. Leissle's US book launch was held at the University Bookstore in Seattle on March 7, and other events followed with scholars, industry participants, and chocolate enthusiasts in ...
April 19, 2018
Karam Dana at the Midwestern Political Science Association
IAS faculty member Karam Dana has just returned from participating in a roundtable at the Midwestern Political Science Association’s annual conference in Chicago. The roundtable was designed for ...
April 19, 2018
Dan Berger awarded Fellowship at Schomburg Center of Research in Black Culture
IAS faculty member Dan Berger has been awarded a Scholars-in-Residence Fellowship at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for the winter/spring of 2019. Part of the New York Public Library...
April 19, 2018
Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali announced as exhibiting artists in the 2018 Gwangju Biennale
IAS faculty members Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali have been selected as artists in the upcoming Gwangju Biennale. The artistic due will feature their Studio Revolt works on the deportation of Cambodian Americans as curated by prominent Thai curator Gridthiya Gaweewong, the artistic director of Bangkok’s Jim Thompson Art Center. Ali and Sugano’s video installation will be exhibited amongst a prestigious list of international artists including ...
April 19, 2018
Amy Lambert and Alexa Russo win Husky Green Awards
IAS faculty member Amy Lambert and Environmental Studies (‘17) alum Alexa Russo won 2018 Husky Green Awards. The Husky Green Awards are...
April 17, 2018
Dan Berger delivers the Department of History’s African American Postdoctoral Lecture
IAS faculty member Dan Berger delivers the Department of History's African American Postdoctoral Lecture at Case Western Reserve University. The lecture is delivered annually by a scholar nominated by the department's postdoctoral fellow, currently Nora Krinitsky. Berger delivered a talk entitled ...
April 3, 2018
Alka Kurian’s #MeToo article receives international attention
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian's recently-published article on #MeToo - charting the rise of fourth wave feminism in India - was reprinted by many newspapers across the world including the LA Times, Chicago Tribune, the UK, India, Sri Lanka, and some countries in Africa. It was also ...
April 3, 2018
Julie Shayne organized two sessions and presents a paper at the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) conference
IAS faculty member and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies coordinator Julie Shayne organized two sessions at this year’s PSA conference. The first one was “The Feminist Classroom: Pedagogy, Student Research, and Film” where she presented a paper called “Feminist Pedagogy and Collaboration: The Feminist Community Archive of Washington (FCA-WA).” The session also included a paper by Shayne’s former student and IAS alum Taylor Hiner (read by Julie in their absence.) Shayne and Hiner presented about the FCA-WA ...
April 2, 2018