News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Anida Yoeu Ali is published in a new contemporary art book
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali is one of nine featured artists interviewed in a new book, “Queering Contemporary Asian American Art” recently published by the University of Washington Press. 足彩app哪个是正规的 book edited by Laura Kina and Jan Christian Bernabe takes Asian American differences as its point of departure, and brings together artists and scholars to challenge normative assumptions, essentialisms, and methodologies within Asian American art and visual culture. 足彩app哪个是正规的 book features cutting-edge visual artworks, including Ali’s 足彩app哪个是正规的 Buddhist Bug project alongside other notable contemporary performance artists including Wafaa Bilal, Viet Le and Saya Woolfak.
May 8, 2017
Dan Berger’s Captive Nation featured in Social Justice
IAS faculty member Dan Berger wrote and spoke about his award-winning book Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era recently. 足彩app哪个是正规的 journal Social Justice published a review forum on the book in its latest issue, with commentary from Sarah Haley, Toussaint Losier, and Waldo Martin as well as an author's response from Berger. He also ...
April 27, 2017
Rob Turner speaks about Promises to Keep: Environmental Racism
IAS faculty member Rob Turner was honored to be an invited speaker on April 22 at the 6th Annual North Puget Sound Conference on Race sponsored by the Communities of Color Coalition. 足彩app哪个是正规的 conference theme this year was Promises to Keep: Environmental Racism.
April 27, 2017
Adam Romero wins 2017 Vernon Carstensen Award
IAS faculty member Adam Romero has won the 2017 Vernon Carstensen Award for best article in Agricultural History, the journal of record in the field. Romero's article, “‘From Oil Well to Farm’: Industrial Waste, Shell Oil, and the Petrochemical Turn (1927-1947),” explores the emergence of petroagriculture in California in the interwar period. It tells the story of how two industrial waste products of California’s petroleum industry became industrial agriculture’s chemical salvation ...
April 24, 2017
Jason Lambacher delivers paper on “足彩app哪个是正规的 Politics of Ecological Nostalgia”
IAS faculty member Jason Lambacher attended the annual conference of the Western Political Science Association (WPSA) this month in Vancouver, B.C. 足彩app哪个是正规的 WPSA is the regional professional association of political scientists and is internationally known as a hot spot for work in environmental political theory. He delivered an environmental political theory paper titled, “足彩app哪个是正规的 Politics of Ecological Nostalgia.” Lambacher's paper ...
April 21, 2017
Diana Garcia-Snyder performs, promotes, and teaches about Butoh
IAS faculty member Diana Garcia-Snyder was recently interviewed by KCTS9 Arts & Culture series "Dare to be Ugly: Dance That Goes Beyond the Beautiful" highlighting the 8th Annual Seattle International Butoh Festival (SIBF), a two week celebration of butoh dance which ran March 31st- April 9th. Since 2009 Diana has served as Co-Director and performer with DAIPANbutoh, Seattle’s premier Butoh company which produces SIBF. What is Butoh?
April 18, 2017
Amaranth Borsuk publishes audio poem
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk has a new piece in Daily Gramma. Borsuk's audio poem, "elegy facing crochet holes and knit slubs with running stitch," is at once personal and outward-looking, an attempt to think through modes of mourning and resistance as they pass through hands engaged in the craft of caring. 足彩app哪个是正规的 title's impossible act references an attempt to ...
April 12, 2017
Julie Shayne presents about her newest book project at the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) conference
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne attended the PSA April 6-8, 2017 where she presented a paper about her newest book project. Shayne is working on an edited collection tentatively titled Mobilizing the University: Curriculum, Space, and Solidarity. Mobilizing the University will be an interdisciplinary, edited collection which focuses on the relationship between social justice activism and the university in the Americas. Contributors will use an intersectional feminist framework to ...
April 10, 2017
Anida Yoeu Ali performs at Art Central Hong Kong and is featured in Harper’s Bazaar
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali recently performed “足彩app哪个是正规的 Red Chador: Ban Me!” at Art Central Hong Kong from March 20-25, 2017. While still utilizing religious aesthetics to provoke ideas of otherness, Ali performed a new iteration of her internationally recognized “足彩app哪个是正规的 Red Chador” series as a response to questions about democracy, civil participation and public complicity. For Hong Kong, Ali adapted her performance to emerge from 99 protest signs, each sign appropriating text from notable slogans of the HK Umbrella Movement, President Trump’s public speeches, the US Civil Rights movement of the 1960’s and ...
April 5, 2017
Maryam Griffin publishes We Will Not Be Silenced: 足彩app哪个是正规的 Academic Repression of Israel’s Critics
IAS faculty member Maryam Griffin published a collection of essays co-edited with William I. Robinson, We Will Not Be Silenced: 足彩app哪个是正规的 Academic Repression of Israel's Critics. 足彩app哪个是正规的 collection features thirteen first-hand testimonies from U.S.-based academics about the harassment and repression they have faced for advocating for justice for Palestinians, criticizing policies of the Israeli state, or even simply recognizing ...
April 4, 2017