AAA2011 – Cold War Christianity, Islam, and the Neoliberal Gospel of Prosperity
Looks like I’ll be attending the anthropology meeting in Montreal in November 2011. I submitted the following abstract to a… more
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How to Write Less Badly
The Chronicle of Higher Education published Michael Munger’s “10 Tips on How To Write Less Badly” back in September 2010,… more
Full-time faculty position in Social Geography in Belgium
The successful candidate will take up a leading position in the activities of the urban research group COSMOPOLIS, City, Culture & Society, and will develop new research initiatives within that framework. Research in the COSMOPOLIS group is broadly focused on urban social, economic and cultural issues in the frame of globalisation, urbanisation and rescaling. The COSMOPOLIS research agenda combines fundamental research with consultancy and research by design. Acquaintance with the Belgian, Flemish and Brussels context is a plus.… more
Reacting to the Past
I found out about this through an email announcing a Korean studies module currently in development: “Korea at the Crossroads… more
[App] Mellon Visiting Assistant Professorship in environmental history/literature at UC Davis
MELLON VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSORSHIP ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY/LITERATURE Departments of History and English University of California, Davis The departments of History and… more
[CFP] Conference on Korean Religions in Inter-Cultural and Global Contexts, May 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on ‘Korean Religions in Inter-Cultural and Global Contexts’ 20-21 May 2011 / Sogang University, Seoul… more
[CFP] “Material Asia” conference in Jeonju, Korea in August 2011
The joint 2011 conference between Society for East Asian Anthropology and Korean Society for Cultural Anthropology SEAA 2011 Conference will… more
[App] SSRC Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop, July 2011
The Social Science Research Council Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop seeks to create a sustained network of advanced graduate students and faculty engaged in research on Korea. The four-day workshop provides an informal setting for participants to give and receive critical feedback on dissertations in progress.… more
Beyond good intentions and evil regimes: North Koreans in Korean/American missionary custody
I’ll be giving a talk next week at the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies at UBC. It’s an updated… more
[Job] Postdoc in Korean Family in Comparative Perspective (KFCP) , University of Illinois
The 5-year Korean Family in Comparative Perspective (KFCP) Laboratory for the Globalization of Korean Studies at the University of Illinois,… more