News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Dan Berger participates in roundtable on prisoner organizing and publishes in Black Power 50
IAS faculty member Dan Berger participated in a roundtable discussion for Process, the blog of the Organization of American Historians, on prisoner organizing in the 1960s and 1970s. 足彩app哪个是正规的 three-part roundtable discussed the history of prisoner organizing, research methods for those studying the history of prisons and prisoners, and the relevance of this history and scholarship on contemporary criminal justice policy. Berger also ...
September 23, 2016
Karam Dana deliveres keynote lecture to the 58th Washington Judicial Conference
IAS faculty member Karam Dana delivered a keynote lecture to Washington State's judges, during the 58th Washington Judicial Conference, an annual conference attended by judges of all levels in the State of Washington, His talk ...
September 16, 2016
Rob Turner presents Pedagogy for Change at the Just Sustainability Conference
IAS faculty member Rob Turner presented at the Just Sustainability Conference at Seattle University on August 9, 2016. 足彩app哪个是正规的 talk, “Pedagogy for Change: Effects of Sustainability Engagement on 足彩app哪个是正规的 Attitudes, Values and Beliefs,” examined shifts in student environmental perspectives and cultural worldviews in 4 courses based on responses to survey instruments completed at the beginning and end of each course. In 2 of the courses ...
September 16, 2016
Yolanda Padilla publishes Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative and Nation in Twenty-First Century Chicana/o Literary Criticism
IAS faculty member Yolanda Padilla published a volume of critical essays that she co-edited titled Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative and Nation in Twenty-First Century Chicana/o Literary Criticism. 足彩app哪个是正规的 essays reveal how "Chicana/o" defines a literary critical sensibility as well as a political one, and show how this view can yield new insights about the status of Mexican Americans, the legacies of colonialism, and the ongoing prospects for social justice.
September 16, 2016
Karam Dana talks about Islam and Muslims in America with KUOW’s Ross Reynonlds and is interviewed for the Tacoma Tribune
IAS faculty member Karam Dana participated in KUOW's Ask a Muslim or Two, an event led by Ross Reynolds meant to provide a safe environment where questions about Islam and Muslims can be asked and answered. Dana was also interviewed by ...
September 15, 2016
Shannon Cram publishes and speaks on nuclear energy, work, and politics
IAS faculty member Shannon Cram published "Living in Dose: Nuclear Work and the Politics of Permissible Exposure" in Public Culture. Informed by her ethnographic and policy work at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Cram's article traces the historical development and embodied practice of "permissible dose" in U.S. nuclear industry. She considers the deeply political ways that worker exposure facilitates nuclear production and examines how "safe" has become synonymous with "safe enough" at Hanford. She also ...
September 8, 2016
Dave Stokes presented research on California tiger salamander ecology and conservation-reliant species
IAS faculty member Dave Stokes presented research on California tiger salamander ecology and conservation-reliant species at the EcoSummit 2016 meeting in Montpellier France. His talk, based on a paper currently in review at the journal Biodiversity Conservation, was titled “Saving All the Pieces: An Inadequate Conservation Strategy for an Endangered Amphibian in a Rapidly Urbanizing Area.” He also ...
September 8, 2016
Jason Lambacher presents paper on Wilderness, Wildness, and Cross-cultural Dialogue
IAS faculty member Jason Lambacher presented an environmental political theory paper titled, "Wilderness, Wildness, and Cross-cultural Dialogue," at the Just Sustainability -- Hope for the Commons conference, hosted by Seattle University's Center for Environmental Justice & Sustainability on August 7-9. Lambacher's paper examines social justice critiques of ...
August 26, 2016
Dan Berger publishes two op-eds on the history of law and order politics in 2016
IAS faculty member Dan Bergerpublished an article in the African American Intellectual History blog about the use of law and order politics by both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in their respective party conventions. 足彩app哪个是正规的 article, “Lessons in Law and Order Politics,” describes the 1960s origins of law and order ...
August 10, 2016
Becca Price publishes paper on the challenges of teaching genetic drift
IAS faculty member Becca Price published a co-authored paper, “Observing populations and testing predictions about genetic drift in a computer simulation improves college students’ conceptual understanding” in Evolution: Education and Outreach. 足彩app哪个是正规的 paper focuses on the challenges of teaching genetic drift ...
August 10, 2016