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IAA Advocacy:
Free Speech & Civic Dialogue

Respect for free speech is in decline throughout American politics, with fear and filter bubbles discouraging us from even trying to talk to each other.

Academic institutions, which are traditionally tasked with dealing with this problem, have proven to be part of it.  Illiberal sensibilities are all-too normalized by those who should know better. And state governors responding in turn by enacting censorship of their own only makes this mess worse.

Having worked with progressives and conservatives alike (we're even writing a book on that), we at the IAA believe that building broad coalitions for a free and fair post-digital world means having free and fair conversations about the country we all live in and are responsible for.

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  • Speech/Dialogue Exhibitions

  • Speech/Dialogue Publications

  • Speech/Dialogue Grants

  • Speech/Dialogue Partners
     

Curated Exhibitions and Civic Education

  • “Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy: Curating Change.”  With Steven Pederson and Allison Baker.  Lewis and Clark University.  Portland, OR.  October 2021.
     

  • “Social Justice Through Artistic Expression.” With Steven Pederson and Allison Baker.   Creative Impact Series by Tualatin Valley Creates.  Beaverton, OR.  September 2021.

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  • “Medical Unreliability and Sick Girl Theory.”  Curator and Editor.  (Student Cross-Cultural Art Exchange.)  With Allison Baker, the Institute for Digital Humanity, Hamline University, and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.  St. Cloud Zine Fest.  St. Cloud, MN.  February 2020.

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IAA's Exhibits: Group or Solo Shows (Juried or Invited)

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  • “Medical Unreliability and Sick Girl Theory.”  Curator and Editor.  (Student Cross-Cultural  Art Exchange.)  With Allison Baker, the Institute for Digital Humanity, Hamline University, and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.  St. Cloud Zine Fest.  St. Cloud, MN.  February 2020.

 

 

  • “World Press Freedom Day: What Do You Have to Say.” Curator and Organizer. (Student Art Installation and Festival on Free Speech.)  Hamline University.  Saint Paul, MN.  April 2017.
     

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IAA's Publications

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  • “WandaVision Exposes the Reality that Our Filter Bubbles Control our Minds.” Hannah Grubbs. Popular Culture and Theology.   September 22, 2021.
     

  • “WandaVision: An Intersectional Perspective on the Erasure of Jewish Identity.”  Joe Cobb.  Blerg.com.  April 18, 2021.

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  • “Free Speech in Post-Digital America.”  Editor.  With The Institute for Digital Humanity.  Hennepin County Library.  September 2019.

     

  • “I Want to Party With You Cowboy: Stephen Colbert and Campaign 2016’s Aesthetic Logic of Truthiness.”  With Thomas Lawson.  In Julie Webber-Collins, Ed.  The Joke is On Us: Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times.  Lexington Press, 2019.

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  • “Fear and Loathing in the New Media Era : How to Realign our Rhetorical Judgments for the Post-Postmodern, Digital Media Age.”  Dissertation.  Ohio State University, 2012.  (Released to the public by Ohio State.  Actively cited.)​

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