News from the School of IAS
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
Anida Yoeu Ali commissioned by The British Council for Imagine 2037
IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali selected as 1 of 8 international artists commissioned by The British Council to create an original performance for Imagine 2037 as part of the Edinburgh Showcase. Imagine 2037, curated by Andy Field, Alma Salem, Cathy Gomez and Matt Beavers, is a festival of imaginary performances created by artists who are migrants. It ...
November 13, 2017
Masahiro Sugano receives a 2017 GAP Award
IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano received a 2017 GAP Award from the Artist Trust for the completion of his latest film HEADLOCK (working title) - a short magical realism film set in the Pacific Northwest. Inspired by the cinema of Emir Kustrica and Alejandro Jodorowsky, this live action film utilizes subtle fantastic elements to create a bold narrative of ...
November 13, 2017
Mark Chen gives keynote at 2017 Media, Multimedia, and Secondary English Education conference
IAS faculty member Mark Chen gave a keynote talk at the 2017 Media, Multimedia, and Secondary English Education (MMSEE) conference in South Korea. Titled “What It Means to Be Gaming Literate,” the talk explored how "literacy" is dependent on active participation and is inherently a narrative account of practice and that gaming literacy is therefore also about active participation, in this case with finding patterns in messy systems. Chen also ...
November 8, 2017
Erin Sanchez applies cultural studies to entrepreneurship
Erin Sanchez (’13, Cultural Studies) is passionate about work/life balance. After several years of freelancing as a writer and marketing consultant, she launched Candidly Erin to support women in their journeys to “…flee the 9-5 and build businesses they love.” Drawing from her experiences of procrastination and self-doubt, Erin provides women with business skills and actionable strategies for becoming successful entrepreneurs. Recently, she spoke at Seattle’s GeekGirlCon 2017 on ...
November 6, 2017
Anida Yoeu Ali & Masahiro Sugano awarded grants from the Tacoma Artists Initiative Program
IAS faculty members Anida Yoeu Ali & Masahiro Sugano were each awarded grants from the Tacoma Artists Initiative Program administered by the Tacoma Arts Commission. The grant supports independent artists in engaging, enlightening, and inspiring their communities as well as audiences from the Puget Sound area and beyond. ...
November 6, 2017
Bruce Burgett gives keynote and plenary on “What Do Keywords Do”
IAS dean and faculty member Bruce Burgett gave a keynote and plenary on “What Do Keywords Do” at the “Language and Culture” conference in Koper, Slovenia. Co-delivered with his co-author Glenn Hendler (Fordham University), the talk focused on lessons learned from their co-editing of Keywords for American Cultural Studies, and ...
November 3, 2017
William McKeithen co-edits forum of open-access essays on social reproduction
Project for Interdisciplinary Pedagogy (PIP) fellow William McKeithen has co-edited a forum of open-access essays (all on the shorter side) on social reproduction. The first batch has just been released, focusing on queer theory and SR. Later issues coming out this month will focus on un/paid labor and nature-society relations respectively. He has co-written the introduction, “Beyond binaries and boundaries in ‘social reproduction” as well as ...
November 1, 2017
Kyra Laughlin receives full scholarship to attend The Women’s Convention in Detroit
This past weekend (October 27-29, 2017) Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) alum Kyra Laughlin attended the Women’s Convention in Detroit. The convention, aptly titled “Reclaiming Our Time,” was coordinated by the same women who organized the Women’s March in January 2017 which drew hundreds of thousands of people to rally in support of women's rights and to resist the multitude of injustices marginalized communities face. ...
October 31, 2017