The current pandemic landscape is of unprecedented global scale, ushering in what is being called “a new normal,” and bringing with it new social organization, living strategies, and a hypervisibility [...]
Tomorrow will be my first day of classes in the Spring Quarter term at Kalamazoo College. Like most of the academic world, I will be teaching online. I have never [...]
For nearly a decade, I have been a faculty member at San Jose State, a large university located in the heart of Silicon Valley—just blocks away from tech companies like [...]
Opening Note: This is one of the most defeating pieces I’ve ever sat down to write. I do not intend it as further demoralization in a sea of ubiquitous bad [...]
It happened fast. The announcement came on the second Saturday of March. We had two days to shift our courses online. It was not ideal, but I was grateful for [...]
Emplacement & Disarray (Laura Roe) A feeling of dull surprise – this is what I say I felt, when I was told to vacate my home during the pandemic. Although it [...]
Sinophobia, the coronavirus’s ominous companion, has been the newest—although expected—topic of discussion in my class “Images of Asian Women: Dragon Ladies and Lotus Blossoms.” From the beginning of the spring [...]
I arrived in Vladivostok wearing a face mask. Daily life seemed to continue as usual in this city that I have come to know. I was not put in quarantine, [...]
The little bee that enjoys flower sap would not like to leave the beautiful garden, but when the icy wind suddenly sweeps in at the end of autumn, it has [...]
I suspected that Saturday March 14 would be my last weekend in London before returning home from fieldwork. Only three weeks into my archival research on colonial asylums in present-day [...]
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