Academia | Patricia (Tish) J. Lopez

25 Apr Disruptions and things

Posted at 18:53h in Academia, circuits of power, dissertation proposal, grad school, Uncategorized by maoquai 1 Comment

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I've had one question that has been my research question for the entirety of my graduate school experience, whether it was in DR Congo or Haiti (a well-advised location-switch from the chairs): what is it that the people being "helped" really actually truly want or...

22 Apr Classical Liberalism and the post-Washington Consensus vs. my soul

Posted at 04:18h in Academia, ethical conundrums, Uncategorized by maoquai 0 Comments

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This is being reposted from 29 December 2010 - i pulled it down on the off-chance that the funders might do a search on me. It didn't matter - i still didn't get the money. That's "no" number 6. I came across a funding opportunity...

21 Apr Clamoring camps of academia

Posted at 12:45h in Academia by maoquai 0 Comments

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We had the pleasure of the company of a visiting scholar for the past few weeks at the University of Washington - Naomi Millner, from Bristol University. It's always such a delight to have visitors with whom to chat and engage with. She left this...

26 Mar Protests, anarchism, animal laws and education

Posted at 12:24h in Academia, Britain, grad school, violence by maoquai 0 Comments

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I woke up to Twitter madness this morning - Oxford Circus was trending madly, but not Hyde Park - which where most of the protestors were headed and (one hopes) ended up. Of course, most of the coverage was of anarchists - both good and...

15 Mar A Theory of Interesting

Posted at 12:23h in Academia by maoquai 0 Comments

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I can speak now. We've had our job talks, had our rounds of negotiations and have landed on a future professor for our department. What i don't understand is how, in a job talk, when speaking about something (which will remain anonymous for the speaker's sake)...