News from the School of IAS
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
Fall Convergence: Memory & Memorial
The MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics' 9th annual Fall Convergence was held from Thursday, Sept. 30 through Saturday, Oct. 1. This year’s theme was Memory and Memorial, which invites participants to consider where and how memories are made: written into our very DNA, constructed and imposed by power systems, and collectively authored with others, whose memories may converge or diverge from our own.
October 12, 2021
Convergence Zone hosts Janice Lee, extending meditate on Memory and Memorial
One week after the 2021 Fall Convergence on the theme of Memory and Memorial, students and faculty in the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics extended these considerations in a satellite event hosted at the Henry Art Gallery. The event featured Portland-based author Janice Lee, a Korean-American writer, editor, teacher, and shamanic healer, reading from her new book Imagine A Death. She also ...
October 12, 2021
Karam Dana speaks at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
IAS faculty member Karam Dana participated recently in the annual banquet of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), a Washington DC-based nonprofit organization. Dana was one of the scholars invited to discuss ...
October 7, 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
Amy Hirayama receives PAGE Fellowship with Imagining America: Artists & Scholars in Public Life
Amy Hirayama, second-year student in the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics and a student ambassador has been selected as one of eight 2021-2022 Publicly Active Graduate Education Fellows, by the national consortium Imagining America: Artists & Scholars in Public Life. Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) is Imagining America’s ...
October 5, 2021
Kristin Gustafson presents “Balanced Research Tools for Asian American Media History”
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson presented “Balanced Research Tools for Asian American Media History” at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s August conference. She shared two teaching modules as part of the ...
October 4, 2021
Karam Dana on public opinion in Palestine and Arabs and Muslims in the US
IAS faculty member Karam Dana gave two lectures showcasing some of his research findings this month. The first was titled “Palestinian Public Opinion: The Role of the US, and the Making of Future Policy” and was part of the Diplomacy Roundtable organized by the Seattle Rotary Club. The second ...
September 29, 2021
David Stokes: Saving all the pieces
IAS faculty member David Stokes and others published Saving all the pieces: an inadequate conservation strategy for an endangered amphibian in an urbanizing area in the journal Biological Conservation. The paper reports on the results of a long-term (19 year) study of the federally endangered Sonoma population of the California tiger salamander in the rapidly urbanizing ...
September 28, 2021