News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Jennifer Atkinson launches the “Existential Toolkit for Climate Educators” discussion series
Last fall IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson launched the Existential Toolkit for Climate Educators discussion series, a project supported by the Rachel Carson Center to help climate experts and activists share their research and teaching strategies with audiences around the world. Working with Dr. Sarah Jaquette Ray, author of A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety, and Dr. Elin Kelsey, author of Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We Think Is Critical to Solving the Environmental Crisis, Atkinson's group brings together an international community of scholars, educators and climate justice leaders each month to explore the emotional impact of climate disruption, and how we can help students navigate the long emergency ahead.
January 11, 2021
Alka Kurian interviews Pulitzer Prize winner, leads South Asian film events
In December 2020, IAS faculty member Alka Kurian interviewed the Pulitzer Prize winner poet Vijay Seshadri for the Tasveer Author Meets event. In November 2020, Kurian was a panelist for the “Triumph over Misogyny,” “Duties, Dreams and Desires in a Young Woman,” “Displacement and Trauma: Sri Lanka’s Civil War and Partition of India,” and “Courageous Ordinary Lives in Flood-prone Assam,” panels at the South Asian Film Festival of Montreal.
January 6, 2021
David Goldstein co-authors Toni Morrison鈥檚 Secret Drive
IAS faculty member David Goldstein published a book co-authored with Dr. Shawnrece D. Campbell (Stetson University), Toni Morrison’s Secret Drive: A Reader-Response Study of the Fiction and Its Rhetoric (McFarland Press). The book argues that late Toni Morrison ...
December 28, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson collaborates with youth/teen climate activists
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson collaborated this fall with youth theater groups and young climate writers to explore the emotional impact of our climate crisis. For the newest dramatic production created by Cry Havoc Theater Company in Dallas, Texas, Atkinson contributed a series of interviews based on her work helping students navigate eco-anxiety and climate despair. The resulting piece, titled Endlings, is Cry Havoc’s fourth ...
December 17, 2020
Masahiro Sugano and Anida Yoeu Ali Awarded a 2020 Art Matters Grant
Studio Revolt, the collaborative media lab of IAS faculty members Anida Yoeu Ali and Masahiro Sugano was awarded a 2020 Art Matters grant. The Art Matters foundation awarded 37 fellowships of 5,000 USD each to individual artists and collective teams working in contemporary art and performance. In this year of pandemics and protests, Art Matters engaged ...
December 11, 2020
Julie Shayne blogs about Trump refusing to concede the election
IAS faculty member and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Faculty Coordinator Julie Shayne wrote a blog piece for Ms. Magazine about the patriarchal entitlement that allows Donald Trump to refuse to concede the election. In it she argues that if he were a woman this highly unprofessional and immature behavior would likely put an end to all future woman presidential candidate’s careers whereas no men’s political careers are going to be even slightly damaged by his behavior. Read: “If Trump Were A Woman.”
December 7, 2020
Jennifer Atkinson releases Episode 6 of her podcast “Facing It”
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson releases Episode 6 of her podcast Facing It, a series exploring climate anxiety and eco-grief. The latest episode in the series, titled Embracing Uncertainty, is available on apps like Apple podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, Amazon Music, and Stitcher. As Atkinson argues in this new episode ...
December 4, 2020
Amaranth Borsuk publishes article on design legend Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk has published a biographical essay outlining the life and work of artist Barbara "Bobbie" Stauffacher Solomon in the latest issue of The Improbable, an art newspaper published by Siglio Press for the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Borsuk became fascinated with the work and career of the boundary-breaking artist after ...
December 4, 2020
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IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has published a new chapbook, Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters, which explores familial lineage for monsters and mutants with Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, an independent press which publishes poetic works showcasing “subtle and intense forms of public exchange and autonomous expressions—dynamic in awareness—luminous in form.” As a Finalist for The Leslie Scalapino Award ...
December 4, 2020
Melanie Malone publishes “Teaching Critical Physical Geography”
IAS faculty member Melanie Malone recently published an article in the Journal of Geography in Higher Education entitled "Teaching Critical Physical Geography." Beyond providing a framework for how to teach CPG, the article also provides methods for students to overcome power dynamics and ...
November 24, 2020