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Category: Research and Creative Practice
Margaret Redsteer publishes?“Sand Dunes, Modern and Ancient, on the Southern?Colorado?Plateau?Tribal Lands, Southwestern USA”
IAS faculty member Margaret Redsteer published “Sand Dunes, Modern and Ancient, on the Southern Colorado Plateau Tribal Lands, Southwestern USA” in Inland Dunes of North America. In her chapter, Redsteer describes how understanding the past, and documenting the current and future potential for sand dune mobility, provides important insights about climate variability and change, particularly in regions prone to drought. Changes to ...
June 1, 2020
Ching-In Chen in @Salon: Queer Sound 2020 Showcase
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s ‘Household Mutations’ was selected for inclusion by curator Samuel Ace for the @Salon Pride: Queer Sound 2020 showcase. In the month of June, sound artists from the showcase will be featured in a Live Zoom series in conversation and performance on Tuesdays, 5p PDT. Ching-In Chen, Ian Hatcher and micha cárdenas will be ...
May 29, 2020
Barbara Noah in “Volcano!” exhibit at the Portland Art Museum
IAS faculty member Barbara Noah is included in the "Volcano! Mount St. He足彩app哪个是正规的 in Art" exhibit at the Portland Art Museum (PAM), in honor of the 40th anniversary of the eruption. 足彩app哪个是正规的 virtual exhibition can be viewed online, and is featured on the PAM Instagram account. 足彩app哪个是正规的 recording ...
May 21, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson launches?“Facing It” podcast on the emotional burden of climate change
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson launched Facing It, a new podcast exploring the emotional burden of climate change. 足彩app哪个是正规的 project is a collaboration between Atkinson, who is the writer and host, and London-based composer and sound artist Roberto DavidRusconi. In her pilot episode, Atkinson explains the podcast theme ...
May 15, 2020
Jed Murr receives Fulbright US Scholar award to Slovenia
IAS faculty member Jed Murr has received a Fulbright US Scholar award to Slovenia, where he will work with students, educators, and cultural workers in two major institutions to explore the possibilities and problems that emerge when performing the transnational work of American Studies, Black Studies, and Ethnic Studies in classrooms and arts spaces outside of the US university. ...
May 15, 2020
Katherine Voyles: “Plague Stories Are Cold Comfort: On 足彩app哪个是正规的 Limits Of Fiction”
IAS/FYPP faculty member Katherine Voyles published an article "Plague Stories Are Cold Comfort: On 足彩app哪个是正规的 Limits Of Fiction," in which she discusses 足彩app哪个是正规的 and plague literature by focusing on Lawrence Wright’s new novel 足彩app哪个是正规的 End of October for War on the Rocks. She previously wrote about Wright’s work when ...
May 13, 2020
Becca Price?publishes teaching module: “Vitamin C for Colds? Writing LETTERS to Synthesize and Communicate Results from Multiple Studies”
A team of scientists including IAS faculty member Becca Price published a teaching module called “Vitamin C for Colds? Writing LETTERS to Synthesize and Communicate Results from Multiple Studies” in CourseSource. In the lesson, students draw from three different data sources to explore whether vitamin C lowers severity or length of a cold in average people. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the data show that vitamin C has ...
May 12, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson speaks with NPR’s?Weekend Edition Saturday about?pandemic gardens
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson was interviewed on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday for a story about pandemic gardens. 足彩app哪个是正规的 piece took up the question of why the 足彩app哪个是正规的 pandemic has set off such an unprecedented boom in home gardening. 足彩app哪个是正规的 simple answer, of course, is fear of ...
May 11, 2020
Yolanda Padilla discusses the “Politics of the Archive/s” and Latinx print culture
IAS faculty member Yolanda Padilla visited the University of Arizona by invitation from the Program in Social, Cultural and Critical 足彩app哪个是正规的ory via Zoom in April. She discussed Latinx print culture in the context of critical archive studies with a graduate class called "Politics of the Archive/s." She then gave a public lecture titled "Recovering Borderlands Modernism ...
May 7, 2020
Min Tang presents at the cyberconference “What is Information 2020”
IAS faculty member Min Tang attended the What is Information 2020 Cyberconference between April 30-May 2 and presented at the Law/Government Panel. Tang’s presentation on “Information, Imperialism and Geopolitics: A Critical Approach to Global Internet Governance” revisited the conceptualization of global Internet governance from a critical political economy approach and highlighted the complex nature of information as sites of geopolitical-economic rivalries.
May 4, 2020