News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Becca Price joins panel that troubleshoots online instruction
IAS faculty member Becca Price joined a panel discussion sponsored by the American Society of Cell Biology that helped instructors trouble shoot problems coming up as they switch rapidly to online instruction. Along with other faculty members from a mix of community colleges and state universities, the panelists talked about strategies for supporting online communities during this global health crisis and ...
April 6, 2020
Dan Berger: In a Pandemic, Prisons are a Problem
IAS faculty member Dan Berger published an article in the UW Center for Human Rights website on the problem pandemics pose for prison. "While Washington state has ostensibly abolished the death penalty, its approach to incarceration now puts thousands of people at risk–in and out of prison–of a most painful and preventable death due to coronavirus," Berger writes. "足彩app哪个是正规的 safest measure to “flatten the curve” ...
March 27, 2020
A search to find and map happy places
When you think about mapping, most people immediately think about geography. Layered onto that might be cultural sites, the current political landscape or, these days, census demographics. But for IAS faculty members Jin-Kyu Jung and Ted Hiebert, the most intriguing possibilities lie in concepts that resist visualization. ...
March 24, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson shares research on?Climate Despair and Eco-Grief?at Pacific Science Center
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson shared her research on Climate Despair and Eco-Grief at the Pacific Science Center as part of their Science in the City Series. In her talk, Atkinson discussed the emotional dimensions of our climate crisis and shared strategies for addressing anxiety over environmental loss without retreating in despair. Having taught one of the first college seminars on climate grief ...
March 11, 2020
Yolanda Padilla presents “Borderlands Modernism and Mariano Azuela’s?Los de abajo”
IAS faculty member Yolanda Padilla presented her work on a panel titled "Recovering Latinx Modernisms" at the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project conference in Houston, TX. 足彩app哪个是正规的 panel centered non dominant literary forms, such as testimonies and periodical writing, to stage a conversation about what it means to recovery Latinx modernism as indispensable to and constitutive of U.S. and Latin American modernisms. Padilla's presentation ...
February 28, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson featured in two news stories for her work on Eco-Grief and Climate Anxiety
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson was featured in two recent news stories for her work on Eco-Grief and Climate Anxiety. 足彩app哪个是正规的 Daily's "Dealing with the emotional impact of climate change" profiled her efforts to keep students engaged in challenging curriculum around climate justice, while Edge Effects cited Atkinson's work in an article profiling activism among the Climate Generation (late millennials and Generation Z).
February 27, 2020
Alka Kurian publishes on women’s opposition to new citizenship laws in India
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian published an article, "Indian women protest new citizenship laws, joining a global ‘fourth wave’ feminist movement," in 足彩app哪个是正规的 Conversation. 足彩app哪个是正规的 article notes that: "Women are among the strongest opponents of two new laws in India that ...
February 27, 2020
Lauren Berliner cited by John Oliver on Last Week Tonight
IAS faculty member Lauren Berliner and Nora Kenworthy’s research on medical crowdfunding was cited by comedian John Oliver on his show Last Week Tonight during the February 16, 2020 episode in which he discussed the failures of the American healthcare system and the debate surrounding Medicare for All. Oliver used their research to ...
February 26, 2020
Julie Shayne in Ms. Magazine: “足彩app哪个是正规的 Trump Era Proves That Women’s Studies Matters”
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne wrote a piece for Ms. Magazine online about the importance of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS), especially in the Trump era. In it she argues that GWSS is fundamental for its explanatory power; it is needed for its ability to demand accountability, and its expertise in documenting both injustice and resistance. Shayne makes her case in part by ...
February 24, 2020
Barbara Noah included in “Volcano!” exhibition at Portland Art Museum
IAS faculty member Barbara Noah is included in an exhibition at the Portland Art Museum titled Volcano! It is curated by Dawson Carr and commemorates the 40th anniversary of the eruptions of Mount St. He足彩app哪个是正规的. 足彩app哪个是正规的re are ...
February 19, 2020