Yvan
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#CallForPapers
Alternative Futures and Popular Protest 2026
The 2026 conference will be held in Manchester on June 15-17, 2026.
More details: www.movements.manchester.ac.uk/afpp/
Alternative Futures and Popular Protest 2026
The 2026 conference will be held in Manchester on June 15-17, 2026.
More details: www.movements.manchester.ac.uk/afpp/
AFPP 2026 Call for Papers
www.movements.manchester.ac.uk
November 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
#CallForPapers
Alternative Futures and Popular Protest 2026
The 2026 conference will be held in Manchester on June 15-17, 2026.
More details: www.movements.manchester.ac.uk/afpp/
Alternative Futures and Popular Protest 2026
The 2026 conference will be held in Manchester on June 15-17, 2026.
More details: www.movements.manchester.ac.uk/afpp/
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The Global Online Seminar on Social Movements, Collective Action, and Social Change presents:
Book Presentation and Conversation: '¿Eternamente jóvenes? Nómadas globales en tiempos de cambio’
Please click the link to access. Language is Spanish.
teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
Book Presentation and Conversation: '¿Eternamente jóvenes? Nómadas globales en tiempos de cambio’
Please click the link to access. Language is Spanish.
teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
November 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The Global Online Seminar on Social Movements, Collective Action, and Social Change presents:
Book Presentation and Conversation: '¿Eternamente jóvenes? Nómadas globales en tiempos de cambio’
Please click the link to access. Language is Spanish.
teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
Book Presentation and Conversation: '¿Eternamente jóvenes? Nómadas globales en tiempos de cambio’
Please click the link to access. Language is Spanish.
teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
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Call for Papers! Necropolitics and Mass Violence: Power, Death, and Resistance in Global Perspective.
Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2025
Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1cTjz...
Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2025
Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1cTjz...
November 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Call for Papers! Necropolitics and Mass Violence: Power, Death, and Resistance in Global Perspective.
Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2025
Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1cTjz...
Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2025
Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1cTjz...
Last week's RDL was about #gratitude. It was straightforward until I got to the part asking if I was grateful for pain and failures. Naturally, I was not. How could anyone ever be thankful for that? I asked my spiritual director about the line between mindful gratitude and #self-delusion.
September 22, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Last week's RDL was about #gratitude. It was straightforward until I got to the part asking if I was grateful for pain and failures. Naturally, I was not. How could anyone ever be thankful for that? I asked my spiritual director about the line between mindful gratitude and #self-delusion.
Finished with Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Read it for its philosophical content, but I was too much of a literalist to understand it unaided.
September 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Finished with Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Read it for its philosophical content, but I was too much of a literalist to understand it unaided.
One thing I learned from #Arendt is that pluralism is a fact of life. People come from a multitude of perspectives, and this is unavoidable. To believe that we could somehow reach a monolithic view is a delusion. The way forward is to manage these differences without compromising action.
September 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
One thing I learned from #Arendt is that pluralism is a fact of life. People come from a multitude of perspectives, and this is unavoidable. To believe that we could somehow reach a monolithic view is a delusion. The way forward is to manage these differences without compromising action.
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BOOK LAUNCH! The Palgrave Handbook on Decoloniality in Asia online and onsite.
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August 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
BOOK LAUNCH! The Palgrave Handbook on Decoloniality in Asia online and onsite.
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Demasiado cansado para dormir
August 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Demasiado cansado para dormir
Me: Recording online session, spends 40 minutes talking.
Also me: *forgets to press zoom record button.*
Also me: *forgets to press zoom record button.*
August 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Me: Recording online session, spends 40 minutes talking.
Also me: *forgets to press zoom record button.*
Also me: *forgets to press zoom record button.*
“As he thought about his life, he felt both tears and mockery welling up inside him. All that lay before him was madness or suicide. He walked down the darkening street alone, determined now to wait for the destiny that would come to annihilate him.”
- The Life of a Stupid Man, Akutagawa
- The Life of a Stupid Man, Akutagawa
August 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“As he thought about his life, he felt both tears and mockery welling up inside him. All that lay before him was madness or suicide. He walked down the darkening street alone, determined now to wait for the destiny that would come to annihilate him.”
- The Life of a Stupid Man, Akutagawa
- The Life of a Stupid Man, Akutagawa
In this podcast, Asst. Prof. Jennifer Hadden talks about the decline of #NGOs today. This is contrasted with their previous roles as purveyors of liberal democracy across the world.
open.spotify.com/episode/3dS0...
open.spotify.com/episode/3dS0...
The Stark Demise of the Era of NGOs
open.spotify.com
August 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
In this podcast, Asst. Prof. Jennifer Hadden talks about the decline of #NGOs today. This is contrasted with their previous roles as purveyors of liberal democracy across the world.
open.spotify.com/episode/3dS0...
open.spotify.com/episode/3dS0...
This week I learned about Jephthah’s daughter and the possibility that his father sacrificed her to God.
Grateful that there are scholars in the internet who willingly explain difficult stories like these.
www.thetorah.com/article/did-...
#CatholicSky
Grateful that there are scholars in the internet who willingly explain difficult stories like these.
www.thetorah.com/article/did-...
#CatholicSky
Did Jephthah Actually Kill his Daughter? - TheTorah.com
The story of Jephthah’s daughter is famous as an example of child sacrifice in the Bible, but is that really what the verses mean? The biblical text leaves a number of clues that imply that the Bible ...
www.thetorah.com
August 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This week I learned about Jephthah’s daughter and the possibility that his father sacrificed her to God.
Grateful that there are scholars in the internet who willingly explain difficult stories like these.
www.thetorah.com/article/did-...
#CatholicSky
Grateful that there are scholars in the internet who willingly explain difficult stories like these.
www.thetorah.com/article/did-...
#CatholicSky
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#CallforPapers Places of Struggle, Struggle for Places: On the Reconfiguration of Political Commitment in a World of Despair
More information: www.csa-scs.ca/files/www/Ne...
#AcademicSky #Sociology
More information: www.csa-scs.ca/files/www/Ne...
#AcademicSky #Sociology
August 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
#CallforPapers Places of Struggle, Struggle for Places: On the Reconfiguration of Political Commitment in a World of Despair
More information: www.csa-scs.ca/files/www/Ne...
#AcademicSky #Sociology
More information: www.csa-scs.ca/files/www/Ne...
#AcademicSky #Sociology
Took a longer path to avoid the rain.
July 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Took a longer path to avoid the rain.
Right now, my job is to find myself again because I could not pour from an empty cup. When that happens, I must trust that God will call me to His service again.
July 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Right now, my job is to find myself again because I could not pour from an empty cup. When that happens, I must trust that God will call me to His service again.
"Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing.”
I’ve always wondered what this meant and stumbled upon this reflection:
#CatholicSky
I’ve always wondered what this meant and stumbled upon this reflection:
#CatholicSky
Anxious and Worried: The Lessons of Saint Martha
Both of the stories from today’s Gospel selections tell about Saint Martha’s encounters with Christ. The one that really makes me stop and think is the second selection, from Luke. In t…
www.acatholic.org
July 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
"Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing.”
I’ve always wondered what this meant and stumbled upon this reflection:
#CatholicSky
I’ve always wondered what this meant and stumbled upon this reflection:
#CatholicSky
#callforvolunteers Next System Teach-Ins
As the world collapses around us: Can we build the next system?
Volunteer to be an RC48 representative for this initiative by sending us a message or volunteer directly by visiting nextsystem.org
As the world collapses around us: Can we build the next system?
Volunteer to be an RC48 representative for this initiative by sending us a message or volunteer directly by visiting nextsystem.org
July 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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#callforvolunteers Next System Teach-Ins
As the world collapses around us: Can we build the next system?
Volunteer to be an RC48 representative for this initiative by sending us a message or volunteer directly by visiting nextsystem.org
As the world collapses around us: Can we build the next system?
Volunteer to be an RC48 representative for this initiative by sending us a message or volunteer directly by visiting nextsystem.org
July 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
#callforvolunteers Next System Teach-Ins
As the world collapses around us: Can we build the next system?
Volunteer to be an RC48 representative for this initiative by sending us a message or volunteer directly by visiting nextsystem.org
As the world collapses around us: Can we build the next system?
Volunteer to be an RC48 representative for this initiative by sending us a message or volunteer directly by visiting nextsystem.org
This week on #CatholicSky, the task was to reflect on a famous Ignatian message:
“Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.”
“Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.”
July 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This week on #CatholicSky, the task was to reflect on a famous Ignatian message:
“Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.”
“Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.”
A stream falls downhill with no purpose, a cloud drifts into the mountain cave with no plan. If life is lived as a cloud and a stream, the iron tree will blossom to usher in the spring.
Chi Lin Nunnery, #HongKong
Chi Lin Nunnery, #HongKong
July 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
A stream falls downhill with no purpose, a cloud drifts into the mountain cave with no plan. If life is lived as a cloud and a stream, the iron tree will blossom to usher in the spring.
Chi Lin Nunnery, #HongKong
Chi Lin Nunnery, #HongKong
July 14, 2025 at 8:09 AM
We know that parties and formations in the #Philippines are based on political expedience and not ideology. So my assessment of Bam and Kiko will depend on their outcomes, not on whether they join the majority or not.
There is a place for grace in politics, especially for our allies.
There is a place for grace in politics, especially for our allies.
July 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
We know that parties and formations in the #Philippines are based on political expedience and not ideology. So my assessment of Bam and Kiko will depend on their outcomes, not on whether they join the majority or not.
There is a place for grace in politics, especially for our allies.
There is a place for grace in politics, especially for our allies.