News from the School of IAS
Category: Cultural Studies
Priya Frank promotes SAM exhibit “Figuring History” on New Day Northwest
Alum Priya Frank (’11, Cultural Studies) discussed Seattle Art Museum’s (SAM) exhibit “Figuring History” on KING5 TV’s New Day Northwest. Figuring History features the works of Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, and Mickalene Thomas, three contemporary American artists from different generations, who challenge the Western tradition of History Painting and its underrepresentation of people of color.
March 30, 2018
Frances Lee co-director of 2018-19 Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) fellows cohort
Master of Arts in Cultural Studies student Frances Lee has accepted a co-directorship with the 2018-19 Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) fellows cohort. PAGE is Imagining America’s network for publicly engaged graduate students in humanities, arts, and design. Along with the other co-directors, Frances will be selecting the new cohort of ...
March 23, 2018
Dan Berger delivers lecture on Comparing Radical Eras Of Activism
IAS faculty member Dan Berger deliverd a lecture at Niagara University. The talk, "Comparing Radical Eras Of Activism: 1960s and Now," discussed how movements against war, racism, and environmental catastrophe have evolved across recent American history. While in Buffalo, Berger also ...
March 19, 2018
Alums share professional pathways in social justice and responsibility
On March 6, three IAS alumni shared their career experiences and advice through UW Bothell’s “Professional Pathways Panels” series. Panelists included: Ray Corona, Lauren Fay, and EJ Juárez ...
March 15, 2018
Julie Shayne blogs in honor of International Women’s Day
IAS faculty member and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies faculty coordinator Julie Shayne was invited by the editors of State of Nature to ponder the question “What is the Biggest Challenge Facing Women Today?” as part of a blog in honor of International Women’s Day. Her response to that question argues that the current president of the US is women’s and femmes’ biggest challenge. She maintains “He [and his team] are responsible for emboldening a toxic cocktail of misogyny, racism, and xenophobia,” which ultimately translates into “the biggest obstacle women and femmes face in living with ...
March 8, 2018
S. Charusheela on “Engendering Feudalism”
IAS faculty member S. Charusheela gave a talk on “Engendering Feudalism” at the History and Development Workshop of the Economics Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The talk explored ways of understanding economic activity outside of the capitalist wage system. While there, she also ...
February 28, 2018
Dan Berger gives talks on Captive Nation and “Prisons, Slavery, and Abolition”
IAS faculty member Dan Berger gave two lectures in Florida. At the University of Tampa's Honors Program Symposia, Berger spoke about his book Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era to highlight the origins of mass incarceration in response to prisoner activism in the 1960s and 1970s. Berger also delivered a talk entitled “Prisons, Slavery, and Abolition” at ...
February 26, 2018
Frances Lee interviewed on latest episode of Bitch Media’s Popaganda podcast
M.A. in Cultural Studies student Frances Lee was interviewed on the latest episode of Bitch Media's Popaganda podcast on the topic of empathy. Frances drew on the discussions in their current Performance and Belonging elective with Jade Power-Sotomayor to talk about the limits of using empathy as ...
February 22, 2018
Careers and Cultural Work Roundtable highlights cultural studies values in action
Alumni of the M.A. in Cultural Studies program returned to campus to share their stories about living the values of the program in their work, studies, and lives. The roundtable discussion on “Careers and Cultural Work” highlighted the flexibility and applicability of cultural studies learning to multiple fields of endeavor, working inside and across institutions, sectors, and communities. ...
February 20, 2018
Dan Berger: Are Florida prisons suppressing an inmate strike or just lying about it?
IAS faculty member Dan Berger published "Are Florida prisons suppressing an inmate strike or just lying about it?," an op-ed in the Washington Post about a whether the state of Florida is suppressing a strike by prisoners. Called "Operation Push," the strike was supposed to begin on Martin Luther King Day and demanded a series of changes to one of the nation's largest prison systems. Yet prison officials have denied the existence of ...
January 25, 2018