One key role placed by scholarly societies is to monitor the health of a field on a local, national and international level. Knowing what the state of affairs…
Marine Weather Warnings, via NOAA, https://marinenavigation.noaa.gov/weather-warnings.html Unburying the lede: This post is about efforts to sever the financial, and therefore mutual aid, links pr…
Marine Weather Warnings, via NOAA, https://marinenavigation.noaa.gov/weather-warnings.html Unburying the lede: This post is about efforts to sever the financial, and therefore mutual aid, links pr…
Good news is scarce in my world right now, but I am really very pleased to share that Lijun Zhang’s latest book Living in Heritage: Tulou as Vernacular…
Good news is scarce in my world right now, but I am really very pleased to share that Lijun Zhang’s latest book Living in Heritage: Tulou as Vernacular…
Jon Kay is Director of Traditional Arts Indiana, an Associate Professor of Folklore, and Interim Executive Director of Arts and Humanities, all at Indiana University Bloomington. In this…
Jon Kay is Director of Traditional Arts Indiana, an Associate Professor of Folklore, and Interim Executive Director of Arts and Humanities, all at Indiana University Bloomington. In this…
Daoming Town, Chongzhou [County-Level] City, Chengdu [Prefecture-Level] City, Sichuan, China Visited December 20, 2023. This is the first post in the series: Lowland Villages and Towns of South…
Daoming Town, Chongzhou [County-Level] City, Chengdu [Prefecture-Level] City, Sichuan, China Visited December 20, 2023. This is the first post in the series: Lowland Villages and Towns of South…
Menghai Town (formerly Xiangshan Town), Menghai County, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China Visited December 26, 2023 This is the twenty-sixth post in the series: Villages an…
Nuogang Ancient Village, Jingmai Administrative Village, Huimin Hani Ethnic Town, Lancang Lahu Autonomous County, Pu’er City, Yunnan, China Visited December 27, 2023 This is the twenty-fifth po…
Mengben Village, Jingmai Administrative Village, Huimin Hani Ethnic Town, Lancang Lahu Autonomous County, Pu’er City, Yunnan, China Visited December 27, 2023 This is the twenty-third post in th…
Mengben [Dai] Village, Jingmai Administrative Village, Huimin Hani Ethnic Town, Lancang Lahu Autonomous County, Pu’er City, Yunnan, China Visited December 27, 2023 This is the twenty-third post…
Zomi Town [Enclave], [via] City of Tulsa, Muscogee Nation, [via] Tulsa County, [via] [State of] Oklahoma, United States Visited June 14, 2024* This is the twenty-second post in…
I am presently reading a chapter in the monumental Fowler Museum exhibition catalog The Art of Rice: Spirit and Sustenance in Asia (Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of…
Baduo [Natural] Village, Xinsitu [Administrative] Village, Jinuo Ethnic Township, Jinghong City, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China Visited December 24, 2023 This is the twenty-first post in the seri…
The following are still photographs taken by Jason Baird Jackson in Dunn Meadow on the Indiana University Bloomington campus on Saturday, April 27, 2024 between 12:15 pm and…
The following are still photographs taken by Jason Baird Jackson in Dunn Meadow on the Indiana University Bloomington campus on Thursday, April 25, 2024 between 12:15 pm and…
I am eager to share the following call for CMA award nominations. Check it out and nominate the wonderful colleagues in your world. –Jason Michael M. Ames Award…
During a semester (and a year, and a period) filled with woe, my graduate course was one of the most meaningful and rich educational experiences of my career.…
There are too many things needing to be written about. Many of them are grim. Here I want to begin the work week with positivity. This past semester,…
“What starts here changes the world.” “Make it your/our Texas” Images via UT colleagues.
Shuikou, Liping County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, China. Visited July 10, 2019 This is the Twentieth post in the series: Villages and Towns of the Southeast…
This week in my undergraduate museum practices course, we will discuss museum careers (and graduate school). For the first time since 2017, I have again done my calculations…