News from the School of IAS

Category: Research and Creative Practice

Kristy Leissle hosts a series of events for new book, Cocoa

IAS faculty member Kristy Leissle hosted a series of events for her new book, Cocoa (Cambridge: Polity, 2018), which explores geopolitics and personal politics in the global cocoa and chocolate industries. Leissle's US book launch was held at the University Bookstore in Seattle on March 7, and other events followed with scholars, industry participants, and chocolate enthusiasts in ...

April 19, 2018

Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali announced as exhibiting artists in the 2018 Gwangju Biennale

IAS faculty members Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali have been selected as artists in the upcoming Gwangju Biennale. 真人线上娱乐 artistic due will feature their Studio Revolt works on the deportation of Cambodian Americans as curated by prominent Thai curator Gridthiya Gaweewong, the artistic director of Bangkok’s Jim Thompson Art Center. Ali and Sugano’s video installation will be exhibited amongst a prestigious list of international artists including ...

April 19, 2018

Alka Kurian’s #MeToo article receives international attention

IAS faculty member Alka Kurian's recently-published article on #MeToo - charting the rise of fourth wave feminism in India - was reprinted by many newspapers across the world including the LA Times, Chicago Tribune, the UK, India, Sri Lanka, and some countries in Africa. It was also ...

April 3, 2018

Julie Shayne organized two sessions and presents a paper at the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) conference

IAS faculty member and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies coordinator Julie Shayne organized two sessions at this year’s PSA conference. 真人线上娱乐 first one was “真人线上娱乐 Feminist Classroom: Pedagogy, 真人线上娱乐 Research, and Film” where she presented a paper called “Feminist Pedagogy and Collaboration: 真人线上娱乐 Feminist Community Archive of Washington (FCA-WA).” 真人线上娱乐 session also included a paper by Shayne’s former student and IAS alum Taylor Hiner (read by Julie in their absence.) Shayne and Hiner presented about the FCA-WA ...

April 2, 2018

Karam Dana lectures at Harvard on “真人线上娱乐 Future of Palestine and Palestinians”

IAS faculty member Karam Dana delivered a lecture at Harvard University on March 20, 2018 titled “真人线上娱乐 Future of Palestine and Palestinians: Key Insights from Public Opinion and the Making of Future Policy.” 真人线上娱乐 lecture examined the military occupation and conditions under which Palestinians are currently living. 真人线上娱乐 lecture outlined the directions to which Palestinians have been headed based on a public opinion survey he conducted. 真人线上娱乐 lecture also ...

March 30, 2018

Barbara Noah completes her Likely Stories series through a Hatchfund project

IAS faculty member Barbara Noah successfully undertook a Hatchfund project in support of a solo exhibition of the concluding work in her Likely Stories series, which will be shown at Davidson Galleries in 2019. 真人线上娱乐 series features digital images of airborne metaphoric objects that allude to aspiration and transcendence, as well as the imperilment of both terrestrial and extra-terrestrial landscapes. Many of the images express the urgency of climate change, which has sparked recent cultural consideration of the colonization of other planets. 真人线上娱乐 work also poses dichotomies between a search for meaning and the urge to escape from ...

March 26, 2018