As part of the 2020 #JSLX Dialogue on #language and (in)securitization, our Associate Editor Erez Levon wrote a commentary entitled: "Language, (in)security, and sexuality". 🌐 Free access to commentary: buff.ly/4diLwUW

my hopes for gen z taking over the academic review process is that it will be matched for harshness, but at least more efficient

As folks go on the academic job market, here is a deck on my experience navigating the application, the phone/zoom interview, the campus visit & the offer. It includes my spreadsheet, interview questions, campus itinerary, etc. Take care of yourself! docs.google.com/presentation/d…

Republican Party so regressive that a teen movie from the 90s has more compassion.

Deutschkurs last week: Classmate: Raymund, wie heißt "brain surgeon" auf Deutsch? Raymund: Keine Ahnung. Ich glaube, das haben wir noch nicht gelernt. Vielleicht... Kopfschramme?! Teacher: 😂🤣😱

kiya Gezahegne Addis Ababa University Contested Categories in the Context of #InternationalMigration: Introduction to the Special Issue Authors - Ulrike Bialas, Dr. Johanna Lukate, Steven Vertovec MPI MMG Göttingen, Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung multireligioser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften Coming soon!

Do you plan to conduct ethnography in a collaborative setting (within/as a team)? A couple of years ago I compiled a partial bibliography on Collaborative Ethnography: (fair warning: it might need some updating with 2023-2024 pieces). drive.google.com/file/d/1kisQuJ…

Dr. Phil (Pip) Freestone (he/him) is back in my Department as a guest! He's currently delivering a fascinating lecture about diversity, universities, and queer identities.

My browser keeps taking me to dict.gov.ph instead of dict.cc. Come on man, I just wanna look up German words, not learn about cybersecurity or something haha.

Fully funded 3-year PhD opportunity in the UK 🎓 Join my lab in City, University of London to design and evaluate contextually sensitive language/reading interventions! Projects based in 🇵🇭 preferred but all are welcome. Apply by Dec 2! #UKRIFLF #PinoyScientists city.ac.uk/prospective-st…

📣 Save the date! Leiden University, 5-6 June 2025 Laure Gardelle and I are warmly inviting you to submit abstracts for our conference “Generics and stereotypes in discourse: a cross-disciplinary perspective”. Looking forward to your contributions! staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/06…

I certainly don’t expect gifts from my advisees. But it’ll be hard to beat this one.

Arrived in Köln today! Very excited to join Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies at Universität zu Köln as a Senior Fellow for two months! And very excited to work with Anne Storch! Let's see if my A2 German gets me anywhere! 😅🇩🇪 Germany has been so kind to me; I'm very grateful! …erbach-institut.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/fellows-und-ho…

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Zum Semesterstart: Unser Programm für das Wintersemester 2024/25: Our programme for winter semester 2024/25:

Academia is applying for a job, imagining the rest of your life in that job, then being immediately rejected from that job

FID 5: 8 November 2024, 2–4pm (CET) Yael Peled (MPI MMG Göttingen), “Thinking about Thinking about Thinking: Reflections on an Interdisciplinary Philosophy of Language” Abstract, accessibility and registration details: sites.google.com/fisppa.it/prin… All are welcome! Filosofia @LaStatale

academia is just making mental notes on how you don’t want to behave when you become a professor and then never becoming a professor

I think this scene should be studied by film students.

Inspired by rich conversations reflecting on the field of ageing and migration studies, reconnecting with dear colleagues and celebrating seven years of Ageing in a Time of Mobility MPI MMG Göttingen 🎉🥂🙏🏽