News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
IAS Artists-in-Residence Anida Yoeu Ali and Masahiro Sugano Awarded a 2017 Art Matters Grant
Studio Revolt, the collaborative media lab of IAS faculty members Anida Yoeu Ali and Masahiro Sugano was awarded a 2017 Art Matters grant. The Art Matters foundation awarded 22 fellowships of 7,500 USD each for ongoing work that breaks ground aesthetically and socially. Art Matters considers applications by invitation only. Priority is given to artists working with social issues and experimenting with form.
December 14, 2017
Anida Yoeu Ali exhibits and speaks at the National Art Gallery Malaysia
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali’s artwork is exhibited in the inaugural Kuala Lumpur Biennale currently on view at the National Art Gallery until March 30, 2018. Featuring a celebrated line-up of artists from Southeast Asia, China, South Korea, Japan and India, the KL Biennale is anticipated by Malaysians and visitors as a highlight on the city’s cultural calendar. The biennale is poised to attract more than 250,000 visitors over the five month period with public programs that include outreach to local schools and community centers. At the event’s opening celebration held on November 23, 2017, Ali performed live as The Red Chador to an audience of thousands including ...
December 12, 2017
Kristin Gustafson publishes “Faculty addresses diversity by getting students into communities early, often”
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson published "Faculty addresses diversity by getting students into communities early, often" in Clio: Among The Media. Her column shares with readers curriculum strategies in the works at Temple University that provide journalism students engagement with their surrounding community sooner and more consistently throughout their studies. The changes build on the diversity of faculty, students, and the Philadelphia community. Gustafson's quarterly columns surface best practices that ...
December 12, 2017
Santiago Lopez speaks at Climate Change, Natural Hazard, and Sustainable Cities Conference in Busan, Korea
As part of his collaborative work with Jin-Kyu Jung and colleagues from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences on "Hybrid Epistemologies of Environmental Change," IAS faculty member Santiago Lopez gave an invited talk at the Climate Change, Natural Hazard, and Sustainable Cities Conference in Busan, Korea. His talk explored the conceptualization of climate change as a ‘hybrid phenomenon’ and ...
November 30, 2017
Atkinson, Cram, and Romero present at the Knowledge/Cultures/Ecology conference in Santiago, Chile
As part of their IAS Research Interest Group on "Expanding the Environmental Humanities," faculty members Jennifer Atkinson, Shannon Cram, and Adam Romero presented at the Knowledge/Cultures/Ecologies InternationalConference in Santiago, Chile. Their talks traced the resurgence of farmer's markets to their historical roots in the 1960s counterculture; explored
November 29, 2017
“Cry out Loud!” Multiracial Organizing and Documentary Cinema
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian presented two papers at the National Women's Studies Association Conference. In the first, she explored “Cry Out Loud,” a documentary film focusing on racism against Africans in India. Kurian investigated the parallels between racism and communalism in the U.S. and India that discriminate against minorities populations. She highlighted the need for multi-racial organizing between South Asian diaspora in the U.S. and other communities of color and collaboration with protest movements such as Black Lives Matter and Dream Defenders. She stressed that this type of analysis is all the more important during these deeply unsettling times when ...
November 29, 2017
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies faculty have big presence at the National Women’s Studies Association (#NWSA2017) conference
The NWSA held its annual conference in Baltimore, Maryland this year. The conference’s theme was “Forty Years After Combahee: Feminist Scholars and Activists Engage the Movement for Black Lives” and was an inspiring weekend full of panels, round-table discussions, plenaries, meetings, receptions, networking, and socializing. Seven GWSS faculty presented and co-presented papers. GWSS faculty coordinator Julie Shayne organized a panel called ...
November 20, 2017
Alka Kurian leads discussion of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Interpreter of Maladies
IAS Faculty member Alka Kurian led a discussion of Jhumpa Lahiri's The Interpreter of Maladies for Columbia Library-hosted Arts Gumbo Book Chats in partnership with SEEDArts this fall. The discussion book featured South Asian/Indian immigrant’s experiences.
November 20, 2017
Dan Berger publishes Rethinking the American Prison Movement
IAS faculty member Dan Berger has published Rethinking the American Prison Movement. The book, coauthored with Toussaint Losier (Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst), provides a short, accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles against America’s prison system throughout the 20th century. The book has been hailed as "necessary and important" ...
November 15, 2017
Center for Contemporary Asian Art in Sydney publishes an interview with Anida Yoeu Ali
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali was interviewed by the Sydney-based Center for Contemporary Asian Art (or 4A) about her practice and ongoing performance of The Red Chador in an ever-changing US political climate. Ali’s The Red Chador was curated into the Performance x 4A program at Art Central Hong Kong in March 2017. The Art Central performance of The Red Chador: Ban Me! was the first time that Ali staged this work in the context of ...
November 15, 2017