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Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · Sep 8

CFP for the new @roadsides.bsky.social issue, CRYOSPHERE. roadsides.net/call-for-pap... "Snow and ice have long served as vital resources for human and non-human inhabitants of this planet. Today the world is experiencing immense changes to the cryosphere."

Journal cover image depicting men using axes to cut blocks of natural ice on the side of a mountain

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Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · Sep 6

Tourism + Aeromobilities abstract deadline extended to 30 Sept

Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · Jul 7

We've got a call for papers out for a special issue on Aeromobilities in Tourism Geographies! Abstract deadline 1 Sept. www.tgjournal.com/aeromobiliti...

Aeromobilities

Guest Editors: Peter Adey, Monash University Weiqiang Lin, National University of Singapore, Singapore Tina Harris, University of Amsterdam Jean-Baptiste Frétigny, CY Cergy Paris Université Kaya...

www.tgjournal.com

Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · Aug 20

CFP for a workshop on Arboreal Nationalism: when Trees become Instruments of Politics, 1-2 Dec in Amsterdam. Abstracts due 1 Sept.
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...

www.jiscmail.ac.uk

Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · Jul 7

We've got a call for papers out for a special issue on Aeromobilities in Tourism Geographies! Abstract deadline 1 Sept. www.tgjournal.com/aeromobiliti...

Aeromobilities

Guest Editors: Peter Adey, Monash University Weiqiang Lin, National University of Singapore, Singapore Tina Harris, University of Amsterdam Jean-Baptiste Frétigny, CY Cergy Paris Université Kaya...

www.tgjournal.com

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Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · Jun 25

still furious www.folia.nl/en/actueel/1...

Authors shocked by unexpected sale of publisher AUP

www.folia.nl

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Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) @aissr.bsky.social · Jun 10

👩‍🎓 Tomorrow at 11:00, PhD candidate Shivani Kaul (Anthropology) defends the thesis 'A Tendrel Logic. Growing Humans Otherwise During the Golden 1000 Days in Bhutan'. Supervised by @tinahonjo.bsky.social & @eyatesd.bsky.social.

🍀 Good luck, Shivani!

🎥 Watch live here: www.uva.nl/en/content/e...

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Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · Jun 9

Furious with the emails I just received informing us that AUP - and the Asian Borderlands book series that I've co-edited for years with Willem van Schendel - has been acquired by Taylor & Francis. None of us knew that this was in the works. But maybe after AUP privatisation in 2019, no surprise.

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Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · May 5

ABRN Asian Borderlands conference abstract deadline extended to 20 May www.iias.asia/programmes/a...

Asian Borderlands Research Network (ABRN) | IIAS

www.iias.asia

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Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · Apr 24

Essay contest on bordering! borderlab.eu/news/call-fo...

Call for Entries: Essay contest on border(ring)s - Eur-Asian BorderLab

The Eur-Asian Border Lab invites you to participate in an innovative essay contest exploring the […]

borderlab.eu

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Roadsides @roadsides.bsky.social · Apr 15

Roadsides 013: Toxic Infrastructures is done! Congratulations to all contributors and guest editors Janine Hauer and Nikolaos Olma. We will publish all articles over the next few days: roadsides.net/collection-n...

Collection no. 013 | Roadsides

Collection no. 013: Toxic Infrastructures Spring 2025 For decades, infrastructures have been widely seen as the backbone of modernity, a symbol of progress and development, and a manifestation of soci...

roadsides.net

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Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · Apr 16

Postdoc position for someone with expertise in cultural anthropology, critical urban studies, and/or STS as part of The Cultures of the Cryosphere project
www.kulturwissenschaften.de/wp-content/u...

www.kulturwissenschaften.de

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abbey steele @abbeyst.bsky.social · Mar 31

📣 excited to announce a 2-year post-doc at the University of Amsterdam @rpa-cs-uva.bsky.social on government responses to displacement project w/ me, @stephrschwartz.bsky.social & Adam Lichtenheld.
- Closing date 30 April, starts fall 2025.
- More info & to apply:
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — Postdoctoral Position with the Conflict & Society Team

Are you a recent social sciences PhD who has conducted cutting-edge research on forced displacement and migration? Do you have experience conducting mixed-methods research? The “Conflict & Society” Re...

werkenbij.uva.nl

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Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · Mar 25

Food folks! Here is a new Roadsides call for papers on food and infrastructure, edited by the wonderful duo of Matthäus Rest and Dolly Kikon. Deadline for abstracts is 13 April, issue out in Nov 2025
roadsides.net/call-for-pap...

Call for Papers | Roadsides

Collection no. 014: Foodways Fall 2025 Editors: Matthäus Rest and Dolly Kikon Food and infrastructure interact in multiple ways. Industrialized food is dependent on modern infrastructure for its produ...

roadsides.net

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Urban Cycling Institute @urbancyclinginstitute.org · Mar 13

Join us this year in #Amsterdam to explore:
🚲 Creative approaches to promoting #cycling
🧐 Using cycling to rethink #assumptions about mobility
🔬 Critical approaches to transport technology and #innovation
Call 4 Abstracts: pretalx.com/cycling-rese... (b4 March 24)
More at cyclingresearchboard.com

CRBAM23 Wuppertal, "The Hill We Ride"

YouTube video by Urban Cycling Institute

youtu.be

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Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · Mar 19

roadsides.net is now on Bluesky :) bsky.app/profile/road...

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Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · Mar 10

PhD in Iranian Secular Visual Culture www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

PhD in Iranian Secular Visual Culture

In this position you explore Iran's Secular Shift, examining how atheism, non-religion, and calls for mosque-state separation are expressed in visual culture.

www.uu.nl

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Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · Mar 4

Call for Contributions, Symposium:
"Foraging Futures: Human-Environment Relations in a Changing World"
October 3–7, 2025 | Triglav National Park, Slovenia
foraging.work/symposium/

Foraging Futures – Symposium 2025 | Foraging at the Edge of Capitalism

Foraging at the Edge of Capitalism

foraging.work

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Eur-Asian Border Lab @eurasianborderlab.bsky.social · Feb 26

🎯 Join the Eur-Asian Border Lab’s One-Day Workshop on April 16, 2025, at Tallinn University!

Why should you attend?

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Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · Feb 28

Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Modern Tibetan Studies
weai.columbia.edu/news/call-ap...

Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Modern Tibetan Studies | Weatherhead East Asian Institute

weai.columbia.edu

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Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · Feb 27

Asian Borderlands conference announcement (relocated and postponed) 13-15 January, 2026 - still open for submissions! www.iias.asia/events/negot...

Negotiating Asian Borders: Actors, Displacements, Multiplicities, Sovereignties | IIAS

www.iias.asia

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Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · Feb 24

Two PhD Positions in Cultural Anthropology in the project, "Diversity Outdoors" www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

Two PhD Positions in Cultural Anthropology in project

Two PhD Positions in Cultural Anthropology in project “Diversity Outdoors”The Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology invites applications for two fully funded four year full-time...

www.universiteitleiden.nl

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Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · Feb 19

Two PhD positions at Leiden University: “Climate Citizenship: Infrastructures, Environments, and Democracy in the Era of Climate Change" (Tokyo and Louisiana) www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

2 PhD Candidates for the project

Leiden University's Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (CADS) is looking for2 PhD Candidates for the project “Climate Citizenship (4 years, full time) We welcome applications...

www.universiteitleiden.nl

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Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · Feb 15

Infrastructure folks! CFP: “Beyond Infrastructure? (Un-)built Environments in the Anthropocene” @infranortherc.bsky.social

infranorth.eu/news/call-fo...

Call for Papers “Beyond Infrastructure? (Un-)built Environments in the Anthropocene” - InfraNorth

International Conference, September 22 - 24, 2025, at the University of Vienna. Deadline for submissions: April 6, 2025. Infrastructure is often seen as solid, fixed, and inevitable while shaping the ...

infranorth.eu

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Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · Feb 11

Call for postdoctoral researchers in border studies at Tallinn University
borderlab.eu/news/call-fo...

Call for postdoctoral researchers in border studies at Tallinn University - Eur-Asian BorderLab

The School of Humanities at Tallinn University invites applications for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship […]

borderlab.eu

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Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · Feb 11

PhD position in Artistic Research - looks interesting indeed merianmaastricht.nl/2025/01/16/p...

PhD in Artistic Research - Merian

The Maastricht Experimental Research In and through the Arts Network (MERIAN) – a collaborative programme initiated by Maastricht University (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University College Ma...

merianmaastricht.nl