News from the School of IAS
Convergence Zone hosts Janice Lee, extending meditate on Memory and Memorial
One week after the 2021 Fall Convergence on the theme of Memory and Memorial, students and faculty in the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics extended these considerations in a satellite event hosted at the Henry Art Gallery. The event featured Portland-based author Janice Lee, a Korean-American writer, editor, teacher, and shamanic healer, reading from her new book Imagine A Death. She also ...
October 12, 2021
Karam Dana speaks at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
IAS faculty member Karam Dana participated recently in the annual banquet of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), a Washington DC-based nonprofit organization. Dana was one of the scholars invited to discuss ...
October 7, 2021
Dan Berger speaks on “Prison Organizing and Prison Abolition: A View from History”
IAS faculty member Dan Berger delivered a virtual talk at Wellesley College. Berger's talk, "Prison Organizing and Prison Abolition: A View from History," was the inaugural event of a ...
October 6, 2021
Amy Hirayama receives PAGE Fellowship with Imagining America: Artists & Scholars in Public Life
Amy Hirayama, second-year student in the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics and a student ambassador has been selected as one of eight 2021-2022 Publicly Active Graduate Education Fellows, by the national consortium Imagining America: Artists & Scholars in Public Life. Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) is Imagining America’s ...
October 5, 2021
Kristin Gustafson presents “Balanced Research Tools for Asian American Media History”
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson presented “Balanced Research Tools for Asian American Media History” at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s August conference. She shared two teaching modules as part of the ...
October 4, 2021
Karam Dana on public opinion in Palestine and Arabs and Muslims in the US
IAS faculty member Karam Dana gave two lectures showcasing some of his research findings this month. The first was titled “Palestinian Public Opinion: The Role of the US, and the Making of Future Policy” and was part of the Diplomacy Roundtable organized by the Seattle Rotary Club. The second ...
September 29, 2021
David Stokes: Saving all the pieces
IAS faculty member David Stokes and others published Saving all the pieces: an inadequate conservation strategy for an endangered amphibian in an urbanizing area in the journal Biological Conservation. The paper reports on the results of a long-term (19 year) study of the federally endangered Sonoma population of the California tiger salamander in the rapidly urbanizing ...
September 28, 2021
Brinda Sarathy: Before Amazon
IAS faculty member and dean Brinda Sarathy recently published an article examining the “pre-history” of warehouses and logistics in inland Southern California prior to the birth of Amazon. Sarathy’s work traces the production of the Inland Empire’s logistics industry to the development of military installations, differentially incarcerated ...
September 27, 2021
Ching-In Chen teaches at LiTFUSE Poetry Workshop
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen taught two workshops at this year’s 15th Annual LiTFUSE Poetry Workshop in Tieton, Washington and has nominated MFA student Madison Nikfard and Master of Arts in Cultural Studies student Sam Prudente to serve as ...
September 27, 2021
Colin Danby publishes two articles on the history of political economy
IAS faculty member Colin Danby has published two new articles on development economics. The first is a biographical article on the Mexican economist Juan Noyola (1922-1962) for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics ...
September 24, 2021