I'm halfway through reading Sarah Knott's Mother: An Unconventional History (published elsewhere as Mother is a Verb). This was initially homework for the academic identities cultural history project—each member of the team read a different book (there's a cultural history of almost everything you can imagine: sex, food, weather, places, objects, actions)—but I have become … Continue reading Always interruptible
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Impressions from the peaceful university
Greetings from Japan! I spent three days last week at the 6th International Academic Identities Conference at the University of Hiroshima. The theme was The Peaceful University: aspirations for academic futures – compassion, generosity, imagination, and creation. This post offers impressions of the conference, its location, the theme and the presentations. The theme was described as … Continue reading Impressions from the peaceful university
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The brutal concrete building where I studied for my PhD is now a hollow shell, with the promise of a wonderful new space to come in 2020. Re-reading Alison Phipps (2007) The sound of higher education: sensuous epistemologies and the mess of knowing for my recent post on the senses, I was thinking about how … Continue reading Joy
The Slow Academic 