News from School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Category: Diversity
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
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
Ching-In Chen published in NOMBONO
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s poems “Flood Fathers” and “Guest/Stalker” was published in NOMBONO: an Anthology of Speculative Poetry by BIPOC Creators From Around the World, edited by Akua Lezli Hope, from Sundress Publications. “In the stunning and imaginative NOMBONO ...
October 20, 2021
Jin-Kyu Jung: “The Harder We Run: The State of Black Buffalo in 1990 and the Present”
IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung co-authored a report, “The Harder We Run: The State of Black Buffalo in 1990 and the Present,” with Dr. Henry-Louis Taylor, Jr. and Evan Dash at the University of Buffalo Center for Urban Studies. The study aimed to determine how the City’s emerging post-industrial or knowledge economy impacted African Americans, and sought to determine if the Black socioeconomic trajectory is ...
October 18, 2021
Dan Berger: “In Seattle city attorney race, beware of ‘rising crime’ alarmism”
IAS faculty member Dan Berger published an op-ed in Crosscut on the Seattle city attorney race. Berger discussed the race between abolitionist Nicole Thomas-Kennedy and Republican Ann Davison in the context of progressive prosecutors in other cities around the country.
October 18, 2021
Julie Shayne presents at the National Women’s Studies Association annual conference
In honor of her new book, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, IAS faculty member Julie Shayne organized a session titled “50 Years of GWSS: The Story Across Borders, Ranks, and Institutions via an Open-Access Book.” On the (zoom) panel, she presented her paper titled “Expanding the Narrative: An Open Access Book Celebrating 50 Years of GWSS.”
October 15, 2021
Bruce Burgett presents on “Creating Critical Field Formations”
IAS faculty member Bruce Burgett presented as part of a roundtable on “Creating Critical Field Formations: Keywords for African American Studies, American Cultural Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies” at the 2021 American Studies Association conference. He was joined by ...
October 13, 2021
Ching-In Chen published in Q&A: Voices from Queer Asian North America
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “inspector of journals makes introductions: Fan & Basket plot escape from Peabody Essex Museum/a birthright” was published in Q&A: Voices from Queer Asian North America, edited by Martin F. Manalansan IV, Alice Y. Hom, and Kale Bantigue Fajardo, Temple University Press. This hybrid writing was originally published in recombinant ...
October 13, 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