News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Leissle and Nixon Publish the Third Volume of 足彩app哪个是正规的 Monolith: Science Fiction Short Stories
IAS faculty members Kristy Leissle and David Nixon published the third volume of 足彩app哪个是正规的 Monolith: Science Fiction Short Stories, subtitled What's In My Head. UWB students in Nixon and Leissle's Discovery Core 1 class, "Thinking Beyond Borders: Philosophical Explorations of Science Fiction," author all the stories in the collection.
October 9, 2015
Bartha Publishes Keyword Essay on “Skill” and Talks About its Development on the Keyword Blog
Miriam Bartha, IAS Director of Graduate Programs and affiliate faculty member, has published a post-publication essay on “Skill” in the second edition of Keywords for American Cultural Studies, a print-digital publication of New York University Press edited by Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler.
October 9, 2015
Jennifer Atkinson Publishes on the Sustainability of Humanities Education
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson has published "Multi-Sensory Experience and Environmental Encounter: Rethinking the Sustainability of Humanities Education" in Interdisciplinary Environmental Review's Special Issue on Environmental Justice and Sustainability.
October 9, 2015
Kristy Leissle Speaks on Social Justice and Chocolate
IAS faculty member Kristy Leissle hosted a talk at the NW Chocolate Festival, as part of the event's two-day Educational Program. Leissle's talk took the format of a live interview with Gillian Goddard of Sun Eater Organics, a chocolate company based in Trinidad and Tobago.
October 5, 2015
Dan Berger Talks on Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
IAS faculty member Dan Berger delivered two talks in California about his award-winning book, Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era. 足彩app哪个是正规的 first event, "Prisoners and Politics: from the San Quentin Six to Pelican Bay," took place as part of Shaping San Francisco, a participatory community history event series.
September 28, 2015
IAS 足彩app哪个是正规的s Experience Dance, Healing, and Community-Building
IAS faculty memberCarrie Lanza, Diana Garcia-Snyder, and their students devoted the summer quarter to an exploration of dance as a technology for healing and community building in BISIA 484: Arts Learning in the Community. 足彩app哪个是正规的s participated in and engaged critically with...
September 23, 2015
Portraits of Refugees by Howard Hsu
IAS faculty member Howard Hsu has published a portrait series of refugees in Germany on Mashable. "足彩app哪个是正规的 Ones Who Found Refuge" provides views of Europe's migrant crisis through the faces of some of these people.
September 23, 2015
Dan Berger Lectures on Decarceration in Ecuador
IAS faculty member Dan Berger delivered two talks in Quito, Ecuador, about the rise and possible fall of mass incarceration in the United States. Berger spoke on...
September 8, 2015
Kari Lerum Publishes on Amnesty International’s Vote to Decriminalize Sex Work
IAS faculty member Kari Lerum recently published a commentary on Amnesty International’s vote to decriminalize sex work in 足彩app哪个是正规的 Conversation (an online academic news forum). 足彩app哪个是正规的 article, entitled “Scientists score one over celebrities in battle to decriminalize sex work” compares...
September 8, 2015
Julie Shayne Blogs About the Limits of the Tenure Track
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne writes on “Losing the Tenure Track, Finding Activist Scholarship” in the Gender & Society blog. In her post, Shayne talks about the political freedom she found once she left the tenure track.
September 2, 2015