Michelle Bastian
@mhbastian.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Environmental Humanities at Edinburgh College of Art. Field philosopher working on clocks, phenology and questioning the charisma of our favourite time solutions. Image from artist David Horwitz
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Some impressions from the first day of our Young Scholars’ »Time & Justice« Conference:
After a long day with maaany interesting talks, we invited the participants on a harbor cruise with a very knowledgeable guide speaking about “Energy Politics” in Hamburg's harbor which was pretty awesome! 🤓🚢
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And with a great keynote by @dschlosberg.bsky.social on »Climate Turbulence, Justice, and Democratic Experimentation« and inspiring comments by @kuebra.bsky.social, @ecojustice.bsky.social, @winterchristine.bsky.social & @chrhentschel.bsky.social we finish off day #2 of our annual conference 🕚 + ⚖️ 😌
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A big thank you to everybody involved!

The last of three thought provoking conference days starts with our panel on “Non-Human Temporalities of Justice” and presentations by Luca Scheunpflug and Domenica Landin. “Conflicting and Coordinating Multiple Temporalities” is up next!

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What is the legacy of the Biden Administration’s “once in a lifetime” investment in environmental justice?

Join us for a conversation with Professor Kyle Whyte as he shares insights from his work with the Biden Administration, Tribal Nations and #EJ organisations.

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Meeting the moment: lessons from the 'once in a lifetime' investment of the Biden Administration in Environmental Justice
Renowned scholar Kyle Whyte will share his experiences serving the Biden administration, environmental justice organisations, and Tribal nations.
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This is really starting off well!

Here are some impressions of the first day of our Young Scholars' Conference with talks by Michelle Bastian, Felix Fink, Pia Geisemann and Anna Fünfgeld.

We are looking forward to all the upcoming presentations!

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I do want to thank however at university of edinburgh wrote the guidance for promotion boards on how to assess an interdisciplinary people. Very sensible advice about some of these issues
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Interdisciplinarity is fun because it’s something job ads in humanities HE say they want but it often feels like it actively disqualifies you (in the sense of having degrees in, and published in leading journals of, multiple distinct disciplines). Everyone believes you’re not in their discipline.
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So many Australian colleagues put through a year of worries and uncertainty. All because Nous Consultancy only thrives on a scarcity narrative?

Bit if a reminder that those cuts can never be justified in pedagogical or academic term, whatever the spin.
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Last week on Wonkhe: Jim Dickinson explores how UCL’s oversubscription crisis has left hundreds of international students in limbo - raising fresh questions about whether UK universities are operating within consumer law
Visa oversubscription at UCL may be more than just a PR problem
Jim Dickinson explores how UCL’s oversubscription crisis has left hundreds of international students in limbo - raising fresh questions about whether UK universities are operating within consumer law
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Will the parasitic wasps eat native flat-headed wood boring beetles? If they do go after native buprestids, how will the wasps be “turned off?”

“Nozzle heads” (economic entomologists) know a 1000 ways to kill a bug but not much about how to identify them, their ecology & biology, natural history
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Note that this is Doctorows review of Bill McKibbens new book, which makes this case.
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Friends and colleagues,

I will be speaking at MoMA next Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 6:30pm, alongside Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Candice Hopkins, on a panel called Imagining Indigenous Futures.The event description and registration can be found below

Hope you see you soon! www.moma.org/calendar/eve...
Imagining Indigenous Futures | MoMA
How do we relate to the world around us? How do we dream new worlds to life? How do we resist in times of upheaval? In his new book Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair, Joseph M. Pie...
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'Graeme Atherton, head of the Ruskin Institute for Social Equity (Rise) at the University of West London, said the policy “is giving with one hand and taking with another” and will “exacerbate” the problems being faced by humanities and arts departments and disadvantaged students.'
Maintenance grants only for priority courses ‘deeply concerning’
Using financial incentives to influence student choice risk undermining Labour’s widening access goals, critics fear
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It's not clear from this article whether the student needed to retake a class which would push back his graduation, or could not graduate at all. It would be most usual for a resit to be required particularly given the circumstances. This is important because it shows the..
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Glasgow University accused of failing student who killed himself on graduation day
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See Shar Brown's excellent and moving argument for teaching more complex understandings of time to students, in part to try and undo the pressures felt by students like this

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power of chrononormativity and its huge dangers. Not following the "correct" timeline for your life can have immense mental health costs. We need to normalise the wide variety of life paths possible.
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“The Riyadh Comedy Festival” should be a Comic Strips Presents… episode about a group of edgy comedians staying at the same luxury hotel for the festival, all trying to out ‘edge’ each other and terrified of appearing woke, while also panicking as members of their group start disappearing.
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