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Category: Research and Creative Practice

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. 足彩app哪个是正规的 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 足彩app哪个是正规的 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 足彩app哪个是正规的 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. 足彩app哪个是正规的 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. 足彩app哪个是正规的ir 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

足彩app哪个是正规的 NWSA held its annual conference in Baltimore, Maryland this year. 足彩app哪个是正规的 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

Dan Berger publishes Rethinking the American Prison Movement

IAS faculty member Dan Berger has published Rethinking the American Prison Movement. 足彩app哪个是正规的 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. 足彩app哪个是正规的 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 足彩app哪个是正规的 Red Chador in an ever-changing US political climate. Ali’s 足彩app哪个是正规的 Red Chador was curated into the Performance x 4A program at Art Central Hong Kong in March 2017. 足彩app哪个是正规的 Art Central performance of 足彩app哪个是正规的 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 足彩app哪个是正规的 British Council for Imagine 2037

IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali selected as 1 of 8 international artists commissioned by 足彩app哪个是正规的 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