Posted in Grad School, Talks on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
A ridiculous number of interesting talks at Columbia tomorrow (March 28), so for those thinking of skipping out on AERA for the afternoon…here’s a sample:
(1) Manufacturing Inequalities. What Do We Learn from the Study of Artistic Labor Markets?
Pierre-Michel Menger
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Location: Maison Française: Buell Hall, East Gallery.
Artistic labor markets are puzzling. [...]
Posted in Conferences on March 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Just managed last Friday to put to rest a week-long conference that was held at my school, for which I was the assistant coordinator. It’s something that I’d been working on for a full year, going full-time more or less since September, with crazily intense hours since January.
I could say a lot about the experience [...]
Posted in Humor on March 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Oof. Please let me make it to the end of the month!
Posted in Academia, General Thoughts, tagged student advising on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Blowing off some steam.
In a former life, before becoming a full-time doctoral student, I was an international student advisor - an immigration advisor, really, for international students (and an occasional visiting scholar or faculty member). Now one of the funny things about working as an international student advisor (ISA) is that ISAs are responsible for [...]
Posted in Politics, tagged Abu Ghraib on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
A couple of weeks ago I read David Griffith’s ‘A Good War is Hard to Find,’ a meditation about Abu Ghraib, violence, and morality in American culture. It was a wonderfully reflective book, deserving of another read; but neither it nor the passage of several years since the scandal broke quite prepared me for the [...]
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