lost note on peninsulas and islands
This is from the summer of 2025—attendance at two conferences, one Inter Asia Cultural Studies, the other on Islands at Jeju. A squib commentary, well organised events, notable…
Tag: international
BOOK REVIEW: Ghassan Kanafani’s History Lessons
BOOK REVIEW: Ghassan Kanafani’s History Lessons 31 October 2025 by Jay Murphy Ghassan Kanafani, The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine, Background, Details, Analysis, transla…
Marston Mats Tank Mats 1945 Mats Matty Mats
Only adding this to the archive – tanks are not needed just now in Indonesia. It is a Matilda Tank of the 2/9th Australian Armoured Regiment in Tarakan…
Serena Di Ma – Report｜The Relevance of Post-colonial Imagination in 21st Century Asi
Report｜The Relevance of Post-colonial Imagination in 21st Century Asia 2025-05-26 Topic｜The Relevance of Post-colonial Imagination in 21st Century Asia Date/Time｜2025/5/26 09:00-18:00 (T…
On the way to Nakhon Si Thammarat again.
heading to – https://iacs2025.com/
Ali France wins Australia over Peter Dutton.
. Maybe the worst thing about the Trump-effect will be things like: – the resuscitation of the liberals in Canada… – the unification of the Australian middle of the roa…
Close the bases! Shipwrecks as “providence!”: electoral media shitshows about ports and expropriators.
. For example—close the CIA Pine Gap secret spy base in Central Australia, recently expanded according to Denis Doherty in 2024: https://www.anti-bases.org/pine-gap-threatens-gaza-china-and-au…
Built on silt, but gold.
Calcutta Research Group Talk JH and questions for the Making and Unmaking of Cities series of CRG, done March 29 2025 (but the intro promised Samata Biswas but…
The Dead are live now
is 50,000 enough in Palestine? 60,000+ in Sudan? 73,000 in Russia-Ukraine? 300k+ in Syria? 6 mill in Congo? When does it stop? Let’s celebrate with some games, like…
Chilli box by Jinan Farming Star import and export. HCMC food & bev trade fair 09.08.24.
Good teh tarik too.
SCULPTURE INNOVATION REFLEXIVITY
Here is Antony Gormley’s presentation of work at the ISSH2024 conference at Ton Duc Thang University this weekend just gone. This was the 3rd International conference on Innovations…
ISSH2024
We have extended the deadline for abstracts for ISSH2024 by ten days. Though the deadline for text for the proceedings is still 1st May. Conference is 26-27 July.…
CALL FOR PAPERS – 3rd International Conference on Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities ISSH2024 (26-27 July 2024)
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30 Minute Methods 2023 #2
Dec 19, 2023 16:00 (Time Zone: UTC+7)Professor Joyce C.H. LiuLimit as Method-Phương Thức Giới Hạn Link cho zoom meeting của cả ba seminar:https://us05web.zoom.us/j/ 89191284691?pwd= G8V…
30 Minute Methods
30 Minute Methods TDTU, VSA (Sth) and TARN 2023-3024 The 30-minute Methods seminar series invites noted scholars to present their insights on new and pressing sociological approaches. In…
Migration, Logistics and Unequal Citizens in Contemporary Global Context
Happy to share that the article collection from the GHI special issue of Social Identities is now live at the following URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/csid20/collections/Migration-Logis…
NIAS gone!
This is not at all good. Announcement: NIAS is closing down! Courage, cleverness and tenacity have not been enough. After years of spirited resistance, it is now time…
Indigenous Peoples’ Un-Freedoms
“Indigenous Peoples’ Un-Freedoms and Our Academic Freedom A Call for Solidarity” Not usually a petition signer, but in this case there is informative text and urgent reasons…. …
Stepan Georgevich Shaumian – not to be forgotten.
Besides the usual wiki stuff, I would welcome any recommendations on Shaumian. Or Shaumyan as Louis Aragon spells his name in The History of the USSR (1962) –…
Pirate Reboot – Occupy Madagascar
Graeber, David. 2023. Pirate Enlightenment, Or the real Libertalia. London: Allen Lane. In this entertaining book, the world of early eighteenth century Madagascar piracy, and the women they…
Kureishi metamorphosis
This is Hanif Kureishi’s study, and I am looking forward to his next book that will be greater than Kafka’s Gregor Samsa, with Italianate stylings. He had a…
Pawn or War Crime? – you choose who gets voted off the island (two votes allowed per person)
Secret weapons sales (not so secret) and fancy dress panto season – really beyond the pale (white supremacy evil tricksters all). Justification here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/1…
ISSH2021 Proceedings
ISSH2021 is all online now thanks to the National Library of Australia – this was somehow automatic I guess because of the ISBN thing. Nevertheless, here you go:…