IAS contributes mightily to the American Studies Association

IAS faculty members contributed to six different events at the conference in Toronto, Canada. Bruce Burgett chaired a roundtable on After the Misery: What Are Critical University Studies For?, responding with the answer Transdisciplinary Praxis. Dan Berger contributed to a roundtable called Freedom From Violence: Resistance as Question and Imperative with a talk on All that Ella Baker and Milton Friedman Dont Have in Common: Rethinking Freedom Between Exploitation and Emancipation. Jed Murr presented Enough to Destroy: The Fugitive Insurgency of the Omowale Mural on a Black Sites and Fugitive Visions panel. Jose Fuste discussed Of Negroes and Negros: Negotiating Black (Inter)Nationalisms Across the US/Cuba Imperial Divide, 1895-1909 as part of a panel on Methodological Miseries and Race along the Seams of Empire. micha cardenas presented Stitching Poetics: Algorithmic Identity and Networked Bodies as part of a panel on Digital Death Worlds: Mediating Necropolitics. cardenas also performed a live version of her digital project Redshift and Portalmetal at the YYZ Gallery.