Sonya Clark performs "Hairdressers are my Heroes"

The ISI is cosponsoring Sonya Clark's performance of "Hairdressers are my Heroes", hosted by the UMCA. The performance was originally scheduled for February 7, but was cancelled due to a snow storm. The UMCA hopes to reschedule this event, and we will keep you informed.

Sonya Clark performs "Hairdressers are my Heroes"

Former ISI Fellow Rebecca Lorimer Leonard recently published, "Writing on the Move: Migrant Women and the Value of Literacy"

Former ISI Fellow Rebecca Lorimer Leonard (Value, 2014-15) recently published, Writing on the Move: Migrant Women and the Value of Literacy, which details how ideological values affect literacy. Based on a qualitative study of migrant writers in the U.S. from 17 countries, Writing on the Move describes multilingual writers both struggling and succeeding under contemporary conditions of migration. Part of the book was workshopped during ISI's 2014-15 "Value" seminar. More information about the book is available on the website of The University of Pittsburgh Press.

Hande Gürses publishes chapter in edited volume on Orhan Pamuk

The ISI congratulates current ISI Faculty Fellow Hande Gürses on the recent publication of a chapter in the edited volume, Orhan Pamuk: Critical Essays on a Novelist Between Words, edited by Taner Can, Berkan Ulu, and Koray Melikoğlu and published with Columbia University Press. Gurses’ chapter is titled, “Voices of Dissent: Belonging and Identity in Silent House and A Strangeness in My Mind.”

Marian McCurdy to speak at National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)

Marian McCurdy, ISI ‘Dissent’ Fellow, will be speaking at the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) in Belmont, MA on December 14, 2017. McCurdy will be speaking on "Nemesis, Justice, and Inter-generational Trauma: How Resistance Promotes Resilience."

Lee Badgett named Spotlight Scholar

Current ISI ‘Dissent’ Fellow and economist M.V. Lee Badgett has been named a 2017-18 Spotlight Scholar.

When Badgett published her 1995 study on the wage gap faced by gay men and lesbians, there was nothing like it in the field. In fact, conventional wisdom held just the opposite of what she found. Badgett’s research was the first to look at LGBT realities through an economic lens. As an economist, she understood that money and power were intertwined.

Former ISHA Fellow Whitney Battle-Baptiste Panelist at Conference on Black Religious Traditions

Former ISHA and ISI Fellow, professor of anthropology and director of the W.E.B. DuBois Center Whitney Battle-Baptiste appeared on a panel during a two-day academic conference on the relationship between black religious traditions and material objects hosted by the new Center for the Study of African American Religious Life (CSAARL) at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, D.C. Battle-Baptiste spoke about the importance of material culture as a physical connection between our past and present.

Laura Furlan publishes Indigenous Cities: Urban Indian Fiction and the Histories of Relocation

Laura Furlan, current ISI Faculty Fellow, recently celebrated the publication of her latest book, Indigenous Cities: Urban Indian Fiction and the Histories of Relocation, in which she demonstrates that stories of the urban experience are essential to an understanding of modern Indigeneity. More information about the book is available on the website of the University of Nebraska Press website.

2018 Graduate Seminar Application Call: 'Dissent'

Graduate Seminar 2018: Call for Applications

Dissent

Dissent has gained great prominence. How do we conceive of dissent in the past and the present, whether this relates to racism, women’s rights, gay and transgender rights, migrant and immigrant rights, human rights, labor rights, education, health and other areas of stress and vulnerability? In an era in which Islamophobia, racism, and xenophobia are renascent, questions of solidarity and dissent are likely to take on increasing importance. Where scientific consensus—for example on climate change—is under threat, there may for once be a paradoxical overlap between consensus and dissent. Where ‘truth’ itself has become a malleable political commodity, a matter of performance and simulacrum rather than fact, how will we tie dissent to notions of evidence and truth? How will evidence and truth be legitimated?

ISI Fellow Laura Furlan's Book Launch for "Indigenous Cities" on October, 25 at 4pm at Amherst Books

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Sonya Clark performs "Hairdressers are my Heroes"

Sonya Clark performs "Hairdressers are my Heroes"

Former ISI Fellow Rebecca Lorimer Leonard recently published, "Writing on the Move: Migrant Women and the Value of Literacy"

Hande Gürses publishes chapter in edited volume on Orhan Pamuk

Marian McCurdy to speak at National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)

Lee Badgett named Spotlight Scholar

Former ISHA Fellow Whitney Battle-Baptiste Panelist at Conference on Black Religious Traditions

Laura Furlan publishes Indigenous Cities: Urban Indian Fiction and the Histories of Relocation

2018 Graduate Seminar Application Call: 'Dissent'

ISI Fellow Laura Furlan's Book Launch for "Indigenous Cities" on October, 25 at 4pm at Amherst Books

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