News from the School of IAS
Jennifer Atkinson Featured as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Chico State University
Jennifer Atkinson was featured as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Chico State University, where she joined the campus to give a public lecture on her new book, The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World. Atkinson co-edited the book with Dr. Sarah Jaquette Ray, a climate author and environmental...
June 4, 2024
Lauren Berliner co-edits and publishes in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
Lauren Berliner recently co-edited and published an essay in the special issue of Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, entitled “Absence and Afterlives: Unwatched, Undistributed, Lost, and Inaccessible Media.” The issue includes articles by leading scholars in the field, including Kelli Moore, Diana Flores Ruīz, Elizabeth Patton, Xin Peng, and Jaimie Baron (co-editor) whose essays...
June 4, 2024
Shannon Cram wins Ludwik Fleck Prize
Shannon Cram has been awarded the 2024 Ludwik Fleck Prize for her book, Unmaking the Bomb. Given annually by the Society for Social Studies of Science, the Fleck Prize recognizes books for their “contributions to the field of Science and Technology Studies, their novelty, and their overall scholarly quality.” The award committee wrote the following...
May 28, 2024
“Project Aurora” Panel Discussion with Ginny Ruffner, Ed Fries, and Wanda Gregory, Thursday, May 23rd
Learn about the making of Project Aurora from the creators—artist Ginny Ruffner, technologist Ed Fries, and scholar Wanda Gregory—in a panel discussion moderated by Chief Curator, Leslie Anderson. This program celebrates the National Nordic Museum’s acquisition of this important work of art. Learn about the making of Project Aurora from the creators—artist Ginny Ruffner, technologist...
May 23, 2024
Jennifer Atkinson Publishes The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators
Jennifer Atkinson published The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World with University of California Press. Atkinson co-edited the book with Dr. Sarah Jaquette Ray. The book features contributions from 35 scholars, educators, activists, educational staff, artists, game designers and students who are integrating emotion into climate justice work....
May 17, 2024
Shannon Cram participates in a symposium at Duke University
Shannon Cram presented at the Politics of Dwelling in the Anthropocene symposium at Duke University. Hosted by the Asian Pacific Studies Institute, the symposium centered around two primary questions: “How do anthropogenic activities both jeopardize and constitute the very grounds of our coexistence? How do people navigate complex landscapes amidst global realities of unsettling disparities,...
May 7, 2024
Shannon Cram wins the Cultural and Political Ecology Outstanding Book Award
Shannon Cram won the 2024 Cultural and Political Ecology Outstanding Book Award. Given to one book annually by the Association of American Geographers’ Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group, this award celebrates authors that “demonstrate leadership through broadly influential, critical, and innovative thinking.” Cram’s book, Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility,...
May 7, 2024
Shannon Cram presents at the LA Times Festival of Books
Shannon Cram participated in a panel about nuclear weapons at the 2024 LA Times Festival of Books. Cram discussed her recent book, Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility in conversation with investigative journalists Sarah Scoles, Annie Jacobsen, and Margot Roosevelt.
May 7, 2024
Jennifer Atkinson Gives Author Talk for California State University Faculty
Jennifer Atkinson gave an author talk at CSU to launch her new book, The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World. The talk was live-streamed for all 22 campuses of the California State University System, and is now available to view on YouTube. Atkinson co-edited the book with Dr....
May 2, 2024
Jennifer Atkinson gives keynote talk at OSU on Collective Climate Action
Jennifer Atkinson gave a keynote talk for the new series on “Collective Climate Action: Inspired Organizing for Our Future” as part of Oregon State University’s Spring Creek Project. The Collective Climate series was launched to bring together the practical wisdom of environmental science, the clarity of philosophy, and the transformational power of the written word...
April 23, 2024