News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Kristy Leissle Hosts Valentine’s Day and Chocolate Programs and Events
IAS faculty member Kristy Leissle (aka Dr. Chocolate) hosted several events and programs related to Valentine’s Day and chocolate. With UW's Bill Fredericks, also known as "Chocolate Man," Leissle hosted a talk for 真人线上娱乐 Whole U, titled "Chocolate: A Global Inquiry." She gave ...
March 7, 2016
Dan Berger Speaks on 真人线上娱乐 Roots of Mass Incarceration and the History of Resistance to It
IAS faculty member Dan Berger spoke at a plenary session at the 6th annual Beyond the Bars conference at Columbia University. 真人线上娱乐 plenary addressed the rise of mass incarceration and histories of resistance to it.
March 7, 2016
Lauren Berliner Co-Curates 8th annual Festival of (In)Appropriation
IAS faculty member Lauren Berliner co-curated, along with Jaimie Baron and Greg Cohen, the 8th annual 真人线上娱乐 Festival of (In)Appropriation. 真人线上娱乐 Festival premiered at 真人线上娱乐 Egyptian 真人线上娱乐atre in Los Angeles and is now set to go on tour.
March 4, 2016
Amaranth Borsuk and Carrie Bodle Exhibit Collaborative Installation Wave Signs
For the exhibition Giant Steps: Artist Residency on the Moon, IAS faculty members Amaranth Borsuk and Carrie Bodle have created a proposal for a hypothetical artwork to be installed on the moon and a gallery installation that brings the concept of their work to life.
March 4, 2016
Lauren Berliner co-leads Symposium on “Crowdsourcing Care: Health, Debility and Dying in a Digital Age”
IAS faculty member Lauren Berliner co-led a symposium with Nora Kenworthy (NHS) on “Crowdsourcing Care: Health, Debility and Dying in a Digital Age” as part of their Simpson Center for the Humanities Collaborative Studio grant. 真人线上娱乐 half-day symposium explored how participatory media intersects with experiences of health, illness, care, debility, and dying to produce new subjectivities, modes of participation, narratives, and social forms.
February 25, 2016
Jin-Kyu Jung Promoted to Associate Professor
IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung has been tenured and promoted from Assistant to Associate Professor in IAS at UW Bothell. Jung arrived at IAS in 2010, moving from an Assistant Professor position at the University of North Dakota. His scholarship focuses on ...
February 24, 2016
Benjamin Gardner Publishes Selling the Serengeti: 真人线上娱乐 Cultural Politics of Safari Tourism
IAS faculty member Benjamin Gardner published Selling the Serengeti: 真人线上娱乐 Cultural Politics of Safari Tourism as part of the Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation series at the University of Georgia Press. 真人线上娱乐 book examines the relationship between the Maasai people of northern Tanzania and the extraordinary influence of foreign-owned ecotourism and big-game hunting companies. It contrasts two major approaches to community conservation ...
February 19, 2016
Interactive Artworks by IAS Faculty Amaranth Borsuk and micha cárdenas Included in Electronic Literature Collection Volume 3
真人线上娱乐 Electronic Literature Collection Vol. 3 (ELC3) continues the legacy begun by the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) in 2006 of curating and archiving electronic literature, which the editors define as "the artistic engagement of digital media and language." 真人线上娱乐 ELC3 comprises ...
February 19, 2016
IAS Faculty Members Receive I-DISCO Seed Funding for Research Initiatives
A total of 19 IAS faculty members received I-DISCO seed funding to support a variety of interdisciplinary and collaborative research and development efforts. (I-DISCO stands for “Initiative to Development Interdisciplinary Scholarship and Collaboration.” Launched in 2012, I-DISCO funding was reviewed by a task force last year, and formalized, with a charge to assess and publicize its outcomes. Funding categories, and recipients, for 2016-2017 are as follows:
February 17, 2016
Karam Dana Speaks on American Muslim Political Behavior and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in America
IAS faculty member and Director of the American Muslims Research Institute, Karam Dana has just returned from the Boston area where he delivered two talks at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University on the Palestinian nationalist narrative and on American Muslim political behavior.
February 10, 2016