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Moe Kojima ’24 presents at American College Dance Conference with Carleton Semaphore Repertory Dance Company
11 April 2024SOAN major and GWSS minor Moe Kojima ’24 presented before a national panel of adjudicators at the American College Dance Conference, held this year at St. Olaf, with the Carleton Semaphore Repertory Dance Company. The company performed in the adjudicated concert with works by guest artist Elayna Waxse and by senior dance major d’Auria. Kojima performed an original solo in the Informal Concert.
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Kao Kalia Yang ’03 featured in The New York Times for her newly released memoir “Where Rivers Part” Outside link
29 March 2024GWSS, AMST, and CCST alum Kao Kalia Yang ’03 was featured in The New York Times for her newly released memoir “Where Rivers Part.” The piece is titled, “Memoirs Are Powerful Currency for This Hmong American Writer.”
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Kao Kalia Yang ’03 to give Carleton commencement address for Class of 2024 Outside link
28 March 2024GWSS, AMST, and CCST alum Kao Kalia Yang ’03 will give the commencement address for Carleton College’s 150th Commencement. Yang is a Hmong writer who holds the distinction of authoring both the first Hmong American memoir published with national distribution about the history of Hmong people and the first Hmong story adapted to opera.
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Iveta Jusová featured in Carleton Off-Campus Studies Blog for directing Women’s and Gender Studies in Europe program Outside link
7 February 2024Iveta Jusová, professor of gender, women’s & sexuality studies and director of Women’s and Gender Studies in Europe program at Carleton, discusses the program’s unique academic attention to feminism, gender, race, and sexuality topics as well as the opportunities for personal growth as a college student.
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Samira Gado ’24 presents at annual Psychonomic Society meeting with colleagues Outside link
25 January 2024Psychology major and GWSS minor Samira Gado ’24 presented a poster at the annual Psychonomic Society meeting in San Francisco with colleagues Mija Van Der Wege, associate professor of psychology, Ori Kim ’24, Sophie Rast ’24, and Sonia Shah ’24. The poster was titled, “Measuring the Closeness-Communication Bias in the Game Codenames.”
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Kao Kalia Yang ’03 publishes piece in Condé Nast Traveler celebrating St. Paul’s Hmong Village Outside link
12 December 2023GWSS, AMST, and CCST alum Kao Kalia Yang ’03 published a piece in Condé Nast Traveler titled, “In a World Where There Is No Hmongland, There Is St. Paul’s Hmong Village.” The piece is part of a series called Home, Made, “a collection of stories honoring Asian diasporas creating vibrant communities by weaving their heritages with their American hometowns.”
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Meera Sehgal and Iveta Jusová moderate roundtable discussions at National Women’s Studies Association annual conference
9 November 2023Meera Sehgal, professor of gender, women’s & sexuality studies and sociology at Carleton, and Iveta Jusová, professor of gender, women’s & sexuality studies and director of Women’s and Gender Studies in Europe at Carleton, moderated a roundtable discussion at the National Women’s Studies Association annual conference about gender and off-campus studies. Jusová also moderated a discussion on trigger warnings and academic freedom, which featured Amna Khalid, professor of history at Carleton, and Jeff Snyder, professor of educational studies at Carleton.
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GWSS and Political Science/International Relations major and Spanish minor Mikhalina Solakhava ’23 received a 2023 Fulbright Award for an English Teaching Assistantship in Spain. Ten members of the Carleton Class of 2023 and three Carleton alumni from the Classes of 2019, 2021 and 2022 received Fulbright Awards this year from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, which gives college students and recent graduates the opportunity to travel the world and participate in advanced research and culturally immersive experiences.
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Art Onwumere ’24 awarded PFund Minnesota Scholarship for participation in Carleton IDE efforts
18 May 2023GWSS major Art Onwumere ’24 was awarded a PFund Minnesota Scholarship for his active participation in Carleton’s IDE efforts as well as advocacy and leadership within LGBTQIA+ communities on campus.
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Adrian Balvuena ’24 featured in Carleton News for Festival de Cammes film “Boys in the Sun” Outside link
15 May 2023CAMS major and GWSS minor Adrian Balvuena ’24 was featured in Carleton News for participating in the 2023 Festival de Cammes: Color of Life film screening, an event that displays the work of CAMS majors. Balvuena’s film “Boys in the Sun” is a queer coming-of-age story that “warps the spatial and temporal timeline of their romantic experiences to tell the story of this young couple.”