I hope this message finds you enjoying a beautiful fall semester! I’m writing because I’m on the search committee for a new position in Chinese Literature at Penn State. Could you help spread the word amongst friends, colleagues, peers, grad students and the like? (Ad below.)

Thanks so much!
Charlotte

Job #65648
Assistant Professor of…[Read more]

The National Labor Relations Board issued a decision on 23 August “that student assistants working at private colleges and universities are statutory employees covered by the National Labor Relations Act.” https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/board-student-assistants-covered-nlra-0

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(You can also read this piece here.)
Academic Boycotts and Professional Responsibility

Delivered at the Annual Convention of the

American Philosophical Association,

San Francisco, March 31, 2016
Russell A. Berman

I was invited to speak on this panel, having been reassured that it would be devoted to academic boycotts, in general, but I cannot…[Read more]

 
The Ten Worst Things About the BDS Movement
                                                                                                  Cary Nelson

1. BDS demonizes, antagonizes, and delegitimizes one of the two parties who have to negotiate a solution to the conflict by working together and uncritically idealizes the other.

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Proponents of BDS (currently) argue that they are (only) proposing a boycott of institutions (only Israeli universities) and that this will not harm individuals. In Inside Higher Education, David Hirsh dismantles this myth.  Boycotts of institutions harm the individuals in those institutions.

Attacking Israeli universities is an attack on un…[Read more]

We are excited to present the following two panels at the next Annual Meeting, and hope to see you there! Sorry for cross postings.

311. “Nature and Disaster in the Contemporary Japanese Cultural Imagination” Friday Jan 6 1:45–3:00 p.m., 406, Philadelphia Marriott

Presiding: Karen Thornber, Harvard Univ.

1. “What about Animals? In the Wake of N…[Read more]

We are excited to present the following two panels at the next Annual Meeting, and hope to see you there! Sorry for cross postings.

311. “Nature and Disaster in the Contemporary Japanese Cultural Imagination” Friday Jan 6 1:45–3:00 p.m., 406, Philadelphia Marriott

Presiding: Karen Thornber, Harvard Univ.

1. “What about Animals? In the Wake of N…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

Vanessa Joosen and I have proposed a children’s literature-related seminar for the American Comparative Literature Association’s 2017 Annual Meeting, which will be held in Utrecht July 7-9.

Here’s the CFP:

Children’s Literature Crossing Borders

Children’s literature has long been viewed as an agent for international peace. Fr…[Read more]

Hello all!

Information about the schedule for MLA 2017 has begun to circulate. I’ll post the titles, dates, and times for the Premodern Japan panels here. Hope you’ll join us!

#164 “Sounding the Premodern Sinosphere” Thursday 1/5, 7:00-8:15pm, 406 Marriott

#238 “Soundscapes of Premodern Japan” Friday 1/6, 10:15-, 406 Marriott

Also, if you have…[Read more]