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Category: Research and Creative Practice
Kristin Gustafson publishes “Faculty addresses diversity by getting students into communities early, often”
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson published "Faculty addresses diversity by getting students into communities early, often" in Clio: Among 足彩app哪个是正规的 Media. Her column shares with readers curriculum strategies in the works at Temple University that provide journalism students engagement with their surrounding community sooner and more consistently throughout their studies. 足彩app哪个是正规的 changes build on the diversity of faculty, students, and the Philadelphia community. Gustafson's quarterly columns surface best practices that ...
December 12, 2017
Santiago Lopez speaks at Climate Change, Natural Hazard, and Sustainable Cities Conference in Busan, Korea
As part of his collaborative work with Jin-Kyu Jung and colleagues from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences on "Hybrid Epistemologies of Environmental Change," IAS faculty member Santiago Lopez gave an invited talk at the Climate Change, Natural Hazard, and Sustainable Cities Conference in Busan, Korea. His talk explored the conceptualization of climate change as a ‘hybrid phenomenon’ and ...
November 30, 2017
Atkinson, Cram, and Romero present at the Knowledge/Cultures/Ecology conference in Santiago, Chile
As part of their IAS Research Interest Group on "Expanding the Environmental Humanities," faculty members Jennifer Atkinson, Shannon Cram, and Adam Romero presented at the Knowledge/Cultures/Ecologies InternationalConference in Santiago, Chile. 足彩app哪个是正规的ir talks traced the resurgence of farmer's markets to their historical roots in the 1960s counterculture; explored
November 29, 2017
“Cry out Loud!” Multiracial Organizing and Documentary Cinema
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian presented two papers at the National Women's Studies Association Conference. In the first, she explored “Cry Out Loud,” a documentary film focusing on racism against Africans in India. Kurian investigated the parallels between racism and communalism in the U.S. and India that discriminate against minorities populations. She highlighted the need for multi-racial organizing between South Asian diaspora in the U.S. and other communities of color and collaboration with protest movements such as Black Lives Matter and Dream Defenders. She stressed that this type of analysis is all the more important during these deeply unsettling times when ...
November 29, 2017
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies faculty have big presence at the National Women’s Studies Association (#NWSA2017) conference
足彩app哪个是正规的 NWSA held its annual conference in Baltimore, Maryland this year. 足彩app哪个是正规的 conference’s theme was “Forty Years After Combahee: Feminist Scholars and Activists Engage the Movement for Black Lives” and was an inspiring weekend full of panels, round-table discussions, plenaries, meetings, receptions, networking, and socializing. Seven GWSS faculty presented and co-presented papers. GWSS faculty coordinator Julie Shayne organized a panel called ...
November 20, 2017
Alka Kurian leads discussion of Jhumpa Lahiri’s 足彩app哪个是正规的 Interpreter of Maladies
IAS Faculty member Alka Kurian led a discussion of Jhumpa Lahiri's 足彩app哪个是正规的 Interpreter of Maladies for Columbia Library-hosted Arts Gumbo Book Chats in partnership with SEEDArts this fall. 足彩app哪个是正规的 discussion book featured South Asian/Indian immigrant’s experiences.
November 20, 2017
Dan Berger publishes Rethinking the American Prison Movement
IAS faculty member Dan Berger has published Rethinking the American Prison Movement. 足彩app哪个是正规的 book, coauthored with Toussaint Losier (Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst), provides a short, accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles against America’s prison system throughout the 20th century. 足彩app哪个是正规的 book has been hailed as "necessary and important" ...
November 15, 2017
Center for Contemporary Asian Art in Sydney publishes an interview with Anida Yoeu Ali
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali was interviewed by the Sydney-based Center for Contemporary Asian Art (or 4A) about her practice and ongoing performance of 足彩app哪个是正规的 Red Chador in an ever-changing US political climate. Ali’s 足彩app哪个是正规的 Red Chador was curated into the Performance x 4A program at Art Central Hong Kong in March 2017. 足彩app哪个是正规的 Art Central performance of 足彩app哪个是正规的 Red Chador: Ban Me! was the first time that Ali staged this work in the context of ...
November 15, 2017
Anida Yoeu Ali commissioned by 足彩app哪个是正规的 British Council for Imagine 2037
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali selected as 1 of 8 international artists commissioned by 足彩app哪个是正规的 British Council to create an original performance for Imagine 2037 as part of the Edinburgh Showcase. Imagine 2037, curated by Andy Field, Alma Salem, Cathy Gomez and Matt Beavers, is a festival of imaginary performances created by artists who are migrants. It ...
November 13, 2017
Masahiro Sugano receives a 2017 GAP Award
IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano received a 2017 GAP Award from the Artist Trust for the completion of his latest film HEADLOCK (working title) - a short magical realism film set in the Pacific Northwest. Inspired by the cinema of Emir Kustrica and Alejandro Jodorowsky, this live action film utilizes subtle fantastic elements to create a bold narrative of ...
November 13, 2017