News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Dan Berger gives talks on Captive Nation and “Prisons, Slavery, and Abolition”
IAS faculty member Dan Berger gave two lectures in Florida. At the University of Tampa's Honors Program Symposia, Berger spoke about his book Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era to highlight the origins of mass incarceration in response to prisoner activism in the 1960s and 1970s. Berger also delivered a talk entitled “Prisons, Slavery, and Abolition” at ...
February 26, 2018
Karam Dana publishes two articles and lectures at UW School of Law
IAS faculty member Karam Dana published two co-authored articles. 足彩app哪个是正规的 first, in the Journal of Politics and Religion titled “Veiled Politics: Experiences with Discrimination among American Muslim Women,” uses public opinion data, the article sheds light at gendered forms of discrimination and argues that Muslim women in the US who wear the hijab tend to experience the higher levels of discrimination when compared to Muslim women who do not wear the hijab. Overall, Muslim women, whether hijab-wearing or not, experience much higher discrimination than Muslim men. 足彩app哪个是正规的 second ...
February 26, 2018
Ted Hiebert presents on “Art for Ghosts”
IAS faculty member Ted Hiebert presents on “Art for Ghosts” at the 2018 College Arts Association Conference in Los Angeles. 足彩app哪个是正规的 paper speculates on recent work by Hiebert and his collaborators Doug Jarvis and Jackson 2bears, exploring links between technological culture, surveillance, haunting and strategies for communicating with other-than-human entities.
February 26, 2018
Camille Walsh publishes Racial Taxation: Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869-1973
IAS faculty member Camille Walsh published Racial Taxation: Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869-1973 with the University of North Carolina Press. 足彩app哪个是正规的 book explores the history of the concept of “taxpayer citizenship”—the idea that, as taxpayers, we deserve access to certain social services like a public education. It shows how tax policy and taxpayer identity were built on the foundations of white supremacy and intertwined with ideas of whiteness. From the origins of unequal public school funding ...
February 21, 2018
Adam Romero receives American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
IAS faculty member Adam Romero received an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for 2018-19. 足彩app哪个是正规的 highly-competitive fellowship will support the completion of Romero’s book project: Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of United States Agriculture, 1860-1945.
February 20, 2018
Simpson Center publishes on media attention surrounding Lauren Berliner and Nora Kenworthy’s medical crowdfunding research
足彩app哪个是正规的 University of Washington's Simpson Center for the Humanities recently published "Medical Crowdfunding Researchers Draw Widespread Media Attention," an article that features the collaborative research of IAS faculty member Lauren Berliner and Nora Kenworthy. 足彩app哪个是正规的 article notes: "足彩app哪个是正规的 media queries began before the research had even appeared in print. Last February ...
February 20, 2018
Solicitor General Purcell discusses president’s travel ban
Washington State Solicitor General Noah Purcell visited campus on February 8 to discuss the state’s successful challenge of the president’s travel ban. Purcell was hosted by UW Bothell’s American Muslim Research Institute, which is headed by IAS faculty member Karam Dana, who moderated the Q&A session.
February 15, 2018
Becca Price launches new feature in CBE-Life Sciences Education
IAS faculty member Becca Price, along with colleagues Erin Dolan (UGA) and Clark Coffman (Iowa State) have launched a new feature in the journal CBE-Life Sciences Education called “Anatomy of an Education Study.” 足彩app哪个是正规的 feature annotates influential papers that the journal has published to introduce scholars to biology education research. 足彩app哪个是正规的 annotations are framed through five 足彩app哪个是正规的es: background, definitions, applications for instruction, research design, and tips for writing papers to submit to the journal. 足彩app哪个是正规的 first series of annotations is about ...
February 15, 2018
Jennifer Atkinson presents “Environmental Grief and Hope in an Age of Climate Consequences”
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson presented on “Environmental Grief and Hope in an Age of Climate Consequences” at the Washington & Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference in Portland. 足彩app哪个是正规的 session aimed to help students, faculty, and climate activists directly address their anxiety and grief, and build the resilience to navigate climate issues without becoming overwhelmed. 足彩app哪个是正规的 seminar drew on the humanities, environmental philosophy, contemplative practice, and creative writing to help participants develop capacities to stay engaged in this difficult work over the long term. 足彩app哪个是正规的 session examined ...
February 12, 2018
Anida Yoeu Ali exhibits in Dhaka, Bangladesh as part of a four country international traveling group show
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali exhibits in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the first stop in a 4 country traveling group exhibition. Ali’s “足彩app哪个是正规的 Buddhist Bug” series of photographs is on exhibition from February 2 - 10, 2018 as part of “A Beast, A God and A Line” curated by Cosmin Costinas. 足彩app哪个是正规的 exhibition touches on issues marking the current historical moment in this macro-region: the development and spread of politicised religion (jihadist Islam across several countries, fascist Buddhism in Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, and Hindu ethno-fascism in India, alongside revivalist Christianity among many indigenous ...
February 12, 2018