Posted in Asian Studies, Music, Okinawa, Sociology on May 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Thinking about the forms of musical genre led me, once again, to YouTube, where I ended up spending an unhealthy chunk of my day watching videos of Okinawan music - especially the contemporary stuff, which provides a case study, I think, in the importance of hybrid form and spiraling trajectories rather than clear progression. Even [...]
Posted in Asian Studies, Education, Okinawa, tagged global education, higher education on October 21, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Courtesy of Beerkens’ Blog, an alert to a new web site / news service devoted to global higher education, University World News. (The title sounds a little tabloidish to me for some reason, but oh well, those are just my ears doing the talking… 
In any event, the idea is something like an Inside Higher [...]
Posted in Asian Studies, Science and Technology on August 17, 2007 | No Comments »
When I was at the Association of Pacific Rim Universities conference in Tokyo last month, the featured speaker was Heizo Takenaka, Minister of Economic Policy and later Postal Privatization under the former prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi. Takenaka, an academic who had a genuinely remarkable run under Koizumi, gave us a brisk rundown of some of [...]
Posted in Asian Studies, Conferences, Cultural Politics, Education, HIV/AIDS, Institutional theory, New York City, Politics of Identity, Social Theory, Sociology on August 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Thought I’d take running notes on how the American Sociological Association conference is proceeding - for me, that is. I could wait and do a single wrap-up once the whole thing packs up and leaves town, but I probably just won’t remember anything. So, it’s just as well to jot things down as they take [...]
Posted in Academia, Asian Studies, Conferences on August 6, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve made it back from the APRU-DSC conference at Keio University in Tokyo. I’m still trying to shake off jet lag - oddly, I slept quite a bit on the plane ride back, a relatively quick-and-efficient 12 hours, and slept well since returning Saturday night, but I’m still tired. Maybe I’m just dehydrated?
In any event, [...]
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