Shared Writing #2: Liz Martin

In an interview at the end of his work, “Ethics: An Essay Concerning Evil”, Alain Badiou was asked a question about immigration and the concept of borders. He states that he is pro abolishing state borders as concerns immigrant status, however, “to be for something yields no active political principle in the situation” (104). For […]

Abstract   This paper is an exploration of the intricacies of the language of alterity, or, how the social categorization of the “other” is mediated by language use.  This approach necessarily includes a critical discussion of ideologies that are constitutive of a particular belief system of a person or group.  The exploration of the language […]

Paper – Ana Flavia Badue   The first version of this paper was written for a course called Anthropology of Property (Fall 2015). The professor asked me to revise it and submit to her by the end of this spring. The text you’ll read was completely modified, but the main ideas are the same. When […]

Hello everyone! This is a first draft of a seminar paper, but also the first attempt to systematize some ideas of what I want to do for my dissertation. So the goal is not to publish, but to organize some literature and some ideas, and make it a productive text, that incites new questions and […]

I was required to submit this blog post at end of my tenure as Connected Academics Fellow and it’s meant to be my contribution to a nationwide discussion about humanities PhDs job prospect.

Abacus Computing in the Age of Electronics:
Sekiko Yoshida and the Early U.S. Space Program

Hi Everyone! Thanks for taking the time to read and provide feedback. This is a one-page document overview on my research. The audience is a general audience but I also will use some of this for a conference proposal. My goal is to the have the conference proposal written before the second time I get […]

My reflections: The following is an excerpt from a paper I intend to submit to a peer reviewed journal. I must confess that this is a long delayed endeavor. Last semester, I took a course where every student writing a final paper was expected to submit it to a journal of their choice. The idea seemed so foreign and unrealistic at that time that […]