News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Jason Frederick Lambacher publishes editorial on the Green New Deal
IAS faculty member Jason Frederick Lambacher published an editorial in the May 2019 edition of The New Republic on the Green New Deal. In a guest editorial for the magazine, Lambacher, drawing on the work of Hannah Arendt, argues that citizen involvement in both imagining and implementing a Green New Deal (GND) is fundamental to its viability.
April 23, 2019
IAS Faculty Host Distinguished Speaker Cecilia Vicuña
Last week, the School of IAS hosted Dean's Distinguished Speaker Cecilia Vicuña, a Chilean visual artist and poet whose work addresses ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization. As part of her visit, Vicuña delivered a performance lecture, Living Poems, on Tuesday April 16th from 6-8pm to a large audience of campus and community members. The following day ...
April 23, 2019
Jason Frederick Lambacher delivers a paper derived from his Art & Politics of Walking course
IAS faculty member Jason Frederick Lambacher delivered a paper derived from his Art & Politics of Walking course at the Western Political Science Association’s (WPSA) annual conference in San Diego, CA in April 2019. Lambacher presented new work at a WPSA mini-conference titled, The Politics of the Mindfulness Revolution. The conference took a critical look at the multiple and competing forces of the “mindful revolution” in the contemporary zeitgeist, including yoga, meditation, education, pedagogy, corporate mindfulness, mindfulness in prisons, and various types of Buddhism. Lambacher discussed ...
April 23, 2019
Amaranth Borsuk and Sarah Dowling Publish Interview and Review of Poet Jordan Abel
The current issue of ASAP/J, the web journal of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, includes Borsuk and Dowling's collaborative review of Injun, Jordan Abel's Griffin-Award winning poetry collection collaged, cut-up, and erased from a corpus of 91 public-domain pulp western novels. Their review is accompanied by an interview with Abel in which the three discuss Injun in the context of his body of work, both previous and forthcoming, which uses ...
April 23, 2019
David Goldstein: John Waters was a pioneer of queer cinema
IAS faculty member David Goldstein was quoted in an article about pioneering film director John Waters in the online magazine them. Goldstein explained why Waters is an icon in the queer community, making films since 1972 that subvert social mores about sexuality and fearlessly center marginalized groups in the United States.
April 18, 2019
Carrie Bodle’s Sound Field Sea Cycles highlighted by Creative Capital
Creative Capital features IAS faculty member Carrie Bodle’s in-progress project Sound Field Sea Cycles in their "On Our Radar” announcement. Bodle was a finalist for their nationally competitive award being in the top 2% of over 5,200 applications. Her work in-progress consists of ...
April 17, 2019
Anida Yoeu Ali published in “Turning Tides: Caribbean Intersections in the Americas and Beyond”
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali has published in the edited volume, “Turning Tides: Caribbean Intersections in the Americas and Beyond” published by Ian Randle Publishers. The book brings together an eclectic collection of 19 essays, conversations and reports intended to reach beyond regions and compartmentalized disciplines. The book hopes to broaden the horizons of what we call ‘The Caribbean’ both geographically and intellectually.
April 15, 2019
Amaranth Borsuk is poet-in-residence at the Seattle Review of Books for National Poetry Month
The Seattle Review of Books has asked IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk to be their poet in residence for April. The editors will publish a poem by Borsuk each week and interview her about her work and reading. Borsuk's first piece, a new poem titled "Strap on a Witness When You Go Out with the Tongue in Your Mouth Worn Thin from Walking," was published on 4/2. "It Goes without Saying," a collaboration with artist Julie Wills, has just been published. Borsuk's current reading list was ...
April 9, 2019
Amaranth Borsuk speaks at Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk attended the annual AWP conference in Portland, Oregon last week, joining more than 12,000 writers in a three-day marathon of panels, talks, and off-site readings. Borsuk spoke and shared her work as part of the panel Poetry and Technology: Appendage, Mask, Voice, Body, and Song. With fellow panelists Samuel Ace, Douglas Kearney, and Ronaldo Wilson, Borsuk shared the ways ...
April 4, 2019
Lauren Berliner at the Digital Diaspora Symposium
IAS faculty member Lauren Berliner was an invited participant at the Digital Diaspora Symposium at the University of Rochester. She was a featured panelist and workshopped a paper called “When You Hit Rock-bottom, Your Views Can Only Go Up: Overdose Videos in Desperate Times.” The symposium included ...
April 4, 2019