News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Anida Yoeu Ali’s Red Chador performance featured in NBC News and exhibited internationally
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali's "Red Chador" series is featured in NBC News. Ali's "Red Chador" performance continues the artist's interest in investigating issues of otherness. In this particular performance, The Red Chador asks the public "What is you fear?" Since the debut of the work at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris) in April 2015 ...
May 12, 2017
Christian Anderson, Ben Gardner and Santiago Lopez present research at the 2017 meeting of the American Association of Geographers in Boston
Three IAS faculty members presented at the 2017 meeting of the American Association of Geographers in Boston, April 5-9. Christian Anderson was a panelist on two panels, “Gazing at Power in Alternative Economies Research” and “Keywords for Urban Geography” where he discussed how power is theorized in alternative economies research and what becomes of the city when certain key concepts are disrupted. Ben Gardner’s recent book, Selling the Serengeti ...
May 10, 2017
Adam Romero publishes 鈥淐hemical Geographies鈥�
IAS faculty member Adam Romero published a co-authored article, “Chemical Geographies,” in GeoHumanities. The article is a collection of essays that arose from a conference panel on Chemical Geographies organized by Romero and Matt Huber (Syracuse University) at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers.
May 10, 2017
Ursula Valdez keynote speaker at the 2017 56吃瓜网 Teaching and Learning Symposium
IAS faculty member Ursula Valdez was one of the keynote speakers at the 2017 56吃瓜网 Teaching and Learning Symposium on “Building Inclusive Classroom Communities.” Valdez’s talk focused on her work to open her classroom to international online interactions. In this case, students from 56吃瓜网 Bothell and from a Peruvian university shared knowledge and ideas to tackle environmental issues affecting the Pacific Northwest and Peru. Valdez's work is part of the Collaborative Online Interactive Learning (COIL) initiative that aims to open in-classroom opportunities for global education.
May 9, 2017
Kristin Gustafson publishes two new columns in Clio Among the Media
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson published two new columns in Clio Among the Media: Newsletter of the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, which is part of her role as the Division's Teaching Standards Chair. The column published in the winter 2017 issue discusses how Earnest Perry helps students think beyond the field's cherished First Amendment. Her interview with Perry, co-editor of the 2016 Cross-Cultural Journalism: Communicating Strategically About Diversity and associate professor and associate dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Missouri, shared how he centers the 14th Amendment in journalism history classrooms. Her column in the spring 2017 issue ...
May 8, 2017
Anida Yoeu Ali is published in a new contemporary art book
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali is one of nine featured artists interviewed in a new book, “Queering Contemporary Asian American Art” recently published by the University of Washington Press. The book edited by Laura Kina and Jan Christian Bernabe takes Asian American differences as its point of departure, and brings together artists and scholars to challenge normative assumptions, essentialisms, and methodologies within Asian American art and visual culture. The book features cutting-edge visual artworks, including Ali’s The Buddhist Bug project alongside other notable contemporary performance artists including Wafaa Bilal, Viet Le and Saya Woolfak.
May 8, 2017
Dan Berger’s Captive Nation featured in Social Justice
IAS faculty member Dan Berger wrote and spoke about his award-winning book Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era recently. The journal Social Justice published a review forum on the book in its latest issue, with commentary from Sarah Haley, Toussaint Losier, and Waldo Martin as well as an author's response from Berger. He also ...
April 27, 2017
Rob Turner speaks about Promises to Keep: Environmental Racism
IAS faculty member Rob Turner was honored to be an invited speaker on April 22 at the 6th Annual North Puget Sound Conference on Race sponsored by the Communities of Color Coalition. The conference theme this year was Promises to Keep: Environmental Racism.
April 27, 2017
Adam Romero wins 2017 Vernon Carstensen Award
IAS faculty member Adam Romero has won the 2017 Vernon Carstensen Award for best article in Agricultural History, the journal of record in the field. Romero's article, “‘From Oil Well to Farm’: Industrial Waste, Shell Oil, and the Petrochemical Turn (1927-1947),” explores the emergence of petroagriculture in California in the interwar period. It tells the story of how two industrial waste products of California’s petroleum industry became industrial agriculture’s chemical salvation ...
April 24, 2017
Jason Lambacher delivers paper on 鈥淭he Politics of Ecological Nostalgia鈥�
IAS faculty member Jason Lambacher attended the annual conference of the Western Political Science Association (WPSA) this month in Vancouver, B.C. The WPSA is the regional professional association of political scientists and is internationally known as a hot spot for work in environmental political theory. He delivered an environmental political theory paper titled, “The Politics of Ecological Nostalgia.” Lambacher's paper ...
April 21, 2017