Posted from NUS website: CALL FOR PAPERS (DEADLINE: 30 DEC 2013) This workshop is organised by the Migration Clusters of Asia Research Institute, & Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. It also has support from Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and...
We recently moved to San Francisco. I've been struck by the ways in which people are pre-criminalized by the city. There is a sense that anyone who uses public spaces and public services are already-always a potential criminal. For instance, soon after we moved here, SF...
The 20th Annual Critical Geography Conference CFP is up. Conference will be held 21-23 February 2014 in Boulder, CO. Themes this year are, "Gegraphies Otherwise," "Critical Traditions, Revisited," "Decolonizing Methods," and "Diversifying Geography." The two keynote speakers are Richa Nagar and Alvaro Reyes. The conference in...
I accompanied Katie on another research field site last week. It's been a year since our last shared excursion. This time was different. I'm not sure why. Maybe i've learned more tools for compartmentalizing. Maybe it's been the year without conversations to prepare me for the visit....
Everyone says, "Make sure you exercise" when you first start graduate school. They'll remind you at annual meetings about life-work balance. They chime in again at check-ins. It's a constant topic of conversation over beers, usually followed by, "I should exercise more," or "I started...