News & Stories
Meet an IAS Residential Fellow: Gail Dubrow
Introducing Gail Dubrow (IAS Faculty Fellow, Fall 2020) working on a collection of autobiographical short stories set, primarily, in a Jewish section of the Bronx and white ethnic section of Queens during her childhood, between 1954 and 1972. These stories highlight outer borough migration, school segregation and integration, and the emergence of an interrelated set of social movements to shed light on the period and place.
Meet an IAS Residential Fellow: Richa Nagar
Introducing Richa Nagar (IAS Faculty Fellow, Fall 2020), working on a historical novel, tentatively titled Birds Don’t Die. Set in four cities of India—Agra, Lucknow, Bombay, and Madras—and spanning 115 years and six generations, the novel explores the complex and contradictory meanings of oppression and freedom in relation to gender, sexuality, caste, class, and nation during a period that begins around the time of the Indian Revolt against the rule of British East India Company in 1857 and ends twenty-two years after India’s formal independence and partition in 1947.
Meet an IAS Collaborative: Memory, Trauma, and Human Rights at the Crossroads of Art and Science
Introducing Memory, Trauma, and Human Rights at the Crossroads of Arts and Science, an IAS Research and Creative Collaborative dedicated to exploring how an interdisciplinary understanding of memory and traumatization can illuminate pathways between artistic production and healing.
Join the IAS for a November Series on Environmental Stewardship!
Join the IAS for four conversations on environmental stewardship, culminating in our final IAS Thursday event of the semester!
Meet an IAS Residential Fellow: Emily Mitamura
Introducing Emily Mitamura (Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow at the IAS, 2020–2021), working on her dissertation, titled “Afterliving Mass Violence: Plot, Justice, and the Cambodian Genocide.” Her research turns to the political economy of contemporary artistic production in transit between Cambodia and the United States, interrogating transnational regimes of knowledge production in film, literature, news media, and aid policy.
Meet an IAS Collaborative: Critical Disability Studies Research Colloquium
Introducing the Critical Disability Studies Research Colloquium, which proposes a model of intersecting, interdependent, and flexible leadership to continue to explore and expand capacity for critical disability studies (CDS) at the University of Minnesota.
Meet an IAS Collaborative: Project for Advancing Health Care Stewardship
Introducing the Project for Advancing Health Care Stewardship, which facilitates social conversations about health and health care stewardship in order to rebuild and maintain an efficient, effective, and sustainable system. This community-driven team incorporates perspectives from evidence-based practice, narrative medicine, behavioral health, sustainability, and community engagement.
IAS in the News, October 2020
Current IAS Residential Faculty Fellow Rachel Hardeman has been awarded the Planned Parenthood Courage Award. IAS Director Jennifer Gunn is quoted in the Star Tribune. Former IAS Advisory Board Member and Faculty Fellow Greg Donofrio and his students are at work on a major project about the communities displaced by the construction of I-35W in Minneapolis.
Meet an IAS Residential Fellow: Greta Friedemann-Sánchez
Introducing Greta Friedemann-Sánchez (IAS Faculty Fellow, Fall 2020), working on “From the Battlefield to the Home Front: Harmonizing Security Policies on Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Conflict Colombia.” “How can post-conflict security studies and the feminist fields addressing domestic violence converge so that nations emerging from conflict, their families, and women may live in peace?” she asks.
Meet an IAS Collaborative: Gender and Violence: South Korea and Beyond
Introducing Gender and Violence: South Korea and Beyond, an IAS Research and Creative Collaborative, which is motivated by its concern about the Korean Studies’ disciplinary limitation in addressing gendered violence and about the issues of colonial legacies that have shaped area studies in the U.S. academia at large.