Author: Theresa Boersma
When you fly into Changzhou’s airport, the recorded flight attendant over the intercom system tells you to open the shade on your window as the plane lands (normal landing protocol). Meanwhile, the real flight attendant walking down the aisle tells you to close the shade. The airport in Changzhou pulls double duty for a fleet […]
Glancing through the blogs by my classmates, it appears it’s a truth universally accepted that this term is just flying by. In my case, I guess it’s no different. But there has still been time for some quirky surprises. In Service to a Higher Power A project I thought was in a coma may be […]
Well, things have started off with a bang. Just around the time classes were wrapping up last term, China dropped its “zero-covid” policy and leaped into a massive experiment of “let’s see how fast everyone can get covid.” Man, that was fast. After a few weeks, though, where I lived seems to have calmed down […]
November turned into a busy month between classes and my own projects. Outside of these, much of what I wrestled with involved pivoting away from what I had initially thought I was focusing on (as mentioned in my Week 6-7 post) and going back to the drawing board. My Migration and Forced Displacement Intensive was […]
Somewhere amidst finishing my assessment for Exclusion and Inequality, starting the pre-intensive period for Migration and Forced Displacement, and juggling an onslaught of group projects, I began questioning the feasibility of my intended final project (I guess that’s why we’re encouraged to attempt to incorporate our final project idea into this essay? To give ourselves […]
First off, I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude for the great comments and questions I’ve been getting from classmates. These have given me much to think about, as did points made in our cohort meeting in week 3. Some highlights from last week that I wanted to highlight because I found something especially […]
This week we had our first intensives, and the results were… intense. There was a certain amount of satisfaction in being able to read vast amounts of work and somehow magically remember enough of those readings to refer back to them in discussions. Probably even more so for the students in North America who were […]
Last week, I ran across this thread on Twitter. I wanna zoom in on one word in one sentence. “There is a *need* to develop a system that establishes a link between spoken and sign languages.” This entire abstract and paper are obviously wrong and deeply problematic, but let’s talk about “need” for […]
“What is this thing?” Good morning/afternoon/evening from Changzhou, China. This week—my first at the University of Edinburgh—has been an exciting one filled with figuring out where everything is (virtually since I’m commuting from across the planet). I began this week thinking I had a whole year before I really needed to start honing in on […]
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