News from the School of IAS
Alka Kurian speaks on feminism and conducts interview with feminist icon in Morocco
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian, currently on a Fulbright research trip to Morocco, gave a talk entitled “A New Protest Culture: Rise of Fourth Wave Feminism in Morocco” at the Al Akhwayn University, Ifrane. Kurian also attended the play Le Masque in Rabat. This play is ...
November 4, 2021
Becca Price publishes results of science education program
IAS faculty member Becca Price and colleagues published a paper about the success of the Science Teaching Experience Program: Working in Science Education. Ph.D. scientists who go through the program are very successful at teaching with techniques that we know work especially well and that include everyone in the class in the learning. A key feature of the program is ...
November 4, 2021
Alka Kurian remote-directs Tasveer South Asian Litfest
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian, currently on a Fulbright research trip to Morocco, remote-directed Tasveer's South Asian Litfest TSAL 2021. The festival was enabled thanks to a combination of technology – Zoom, Elevent, Slack, WhatsApp, FaceTime, and YouTube – and the tireless behind-the-scenes work of Tasveer staff and volunteers scattered across the world who ...
November 1, 2021
Karam Dana: “Between Orientalism and Racialization”
IAS faculty member Karam Dana gave his first in-person talk since the start of the pandemic. Dana was invited to deliver the inaugural lecture of Stonehill College’s newly-established ...
October 29, 2021
Ching-In Chen: “Breath Is Missing”
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s poem “Breath Is Missing” was published in Concision Poetry Journal, a journal edited by Haley Lasche which highlights work investigating the socio-political influences on language and ...
October 27, 2021
Ching-In Chen awarded Kristi Larkin Havens Memorial Fellowship
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen was awarded the Dr. Kristi Larkin Havens Memorial Residency Fellowship for Service to the Community from The Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA), which awards a one-week fully-funded residency at Firefly Farms in Knoxville, Tennessee. The fellowship awards a writer who has ...
October 26, 2021
Adam Romero publishes new book, Economic Poisoning
IAS faculty member Adam Romero's new monograph, Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture, is being released by University of California Press, as part of the Critical Environments Series. From the publisher's site:
October 26, 2021
Jennifer Atkinson speaks about the emotional toll of climate disruption
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson spoke about the emotional toll of climate disruption at New Mexico State University as part of their Climate Change Education Seminar Series on October 20. She also discussed the topic in an interview with KTAL Radio in Las Cruces, NM, highlighting recent research on the psychological distress youth and children experience in the face of government inaction on our climate crisis. The study ...
October 26, 2021
Shannon Cram presents “Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility”
On October 13th, IAS faculty member Shannon Cram presented "Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility" at the Simpson Center for the Humanities. This talk explored the entangled challenges of waste, illness, and remediation at Washington State's Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Home to the majority of the nation’s high-level nuclear waste and ...
October 22, 2021
Charlie Collins publishes: “Subverting Whiteness: A Systems Theoretical Approach to Anti-Racist Praxis”
IAS faculty member Charlie Collins published "Subverting Whiteness: A Systems Theoretical Approach to Anti-Racist Praxis" was just published in the Global Journal of Community Psychology Pracitce for the special issue on anti-racist and decolonizing praxes. Collins, along with co-author Erin Watson, argues ...
October 22, 2021