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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
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
Yolanda Padilla publishes on the Latinx essay for the Cambridge History of the American Essay
Yolanda Padilla published a chapter titled “Latinx Culture and the Essay” in The Cambridge History of the American Essay. In her overview of this important but neglected genre, Padilla identifies three especially significant strands of the Latinx essay: the crónica, which has its roots in Latin American journalistic traditions, the personal essay, and the radical...
April 17, 2024
MFA Alum Eric Acosta Exhibits Short Film “Gatekeeper” at the South Sound Experimental Film Fest
Eric Acosta (MFA ‘20) short film “Gatekeeper” was showcased at the South Sound Experimental Film Festival in November. The film was a collaboration with Eric’s friend, chef and writer – Rodrigo Sanchez and was created from a prompt for the multimedia creationists group Wordo. The South Sound Experimental Film Fest celebrates experimental film-making from local...
January 25, 2024
Jennifer Atkinson and California High School Students Channel Climate Anxiety into Climate Justice Solutions
To help students overcome hopelessness around climate change by focusing on justice-oriented action, Jennifer Atkinson has partnered with Northwood High School in Irvine, CA to guide students through the emotional rollercoaster of their environmental curriculum. Last fall, Atkinson worked with 70 students in Northwood High School’s “Interdisciplinary Climate Exploration” class to provide readings, hands-on classroom...
January 11, 2024