9 Jul 2014
by Laura Sjoberg
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One of my good friends from college, Andrew Brokos, is a professional poker player and poker coach (as Foucault82, follow him at @thinkingpoker on Twitter). He is playing this week in the World Series of Poker Main Event in Las … Continue reading
16 Jun 2014
by Laura Sjoberg
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A fair amount of conversation, both online and offline, has arisen around my observations about my post on the unwritten rules of disciplinary IR. I have engaged a number of questions, including whether the rules I observed were uniquely American … Continue reading
5 Jun 2014
by Laura Sjoberg
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The other day, Brandon Valeriano pointed out to me an ESPN article on the unwritten rules of baseball. Though I am a lifelong football and basketball fan, I’ve never been a huge fan of baseball. Several times over the course of … Continue reading
21 May 2014
by R. William Ayres
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In my previous post I talked about the reasons why faculty might want to go into academic administration (chair, dean, director, provost, etc.) Some of those reasons are good ones and some are not – the kind of administrator you … Continue reading
21 May 2014
by Laura Sjoberg
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Following the tradition of Saturday Night Live’s Father Sarducci, Steve Walt turned the “Five Minute University” from the 1970s into a lesson for the undergraduate class of 2014 on Foreign Policy yesterday, providing a five-minute lesson as a substitute for a Bachelor’s degree in … Continue reading
20 May 2014
by Brandon Valeriano
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It should go without saying that blogging is an important and beneficial part of the academic landscape. The problem is that we still need to have these conversations. Some don’t see the benefits of blogging (the whole ISA debacle reinforces … Continue reading
9 Apr 2014
by Laura Sjoberg
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I have had the privilege to spend today at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida. I was invited by Phil Steinberg on behalf of the journal Political Geography to comment on a … Continue reading
27 Mar 2014
by Laura Sjoberg
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This morning, the Committee on the Status of Women and the Committee on the Status of Representation and Diversity co-hosted a panel on the gender gap in IR citation practices. The panel was organized in response to the collection and … Continue reading
14 Mar 2014
by Laura Sjoberg
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As I work on my last (of way too many) presentations for ISA 2014, I can’t help but remember my first two ISAs. The first was in Portland, Oregon in 2003 – I went to the conference to see what … Continue reading
12 Mar 2014
by Laura Sjoberg
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This morning’s Chronicle of Higher Education included a piece called “Dark Thoughts,” which discussed the reasons why mental illness is on the rise in academia – in response to a Guardian blog post about a culture of acceptance of mental health issues in the … Continue reading