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In late April, I had the pleasure and privilege of sharing my research on the history between the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and the Norbertine Order with fellow graduate students and Fordham staff and faculty at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences' first Research Day. I am grateful to have the opportunity to pursue this research and build relationships of trust, esteem, and sincerity (see: communio!) while researching and presenting on research. If you'd like to learn more about this history, let me know! You can also view a resource guide I created based on my research at https://lnkd.in/eckA8NiQ.

Research Colloquium: SSEALS (2024) South and Southeast Asia Leiden Series: Encounters, Absences, Detours SSEALS is a new colloquium initiative stitching together three core concerns that animate scholars and researchers in the humanities and social science: space/detours, time/absence and people/encounters. The colloquium hosts external guest speakers alongside scholars from within the Leiden University community whose works deliberate on and within these themes. https://lnkd.in/eMfudb7G

"In the 21st century, we have certain criteria and methods to prove what is scientifically or historically true. In the 12th and 13th centuries, scholars worked from a different set of criteria when it came to knowing what was true. In my research, I try to figure out the structure of intellectual communities in northwestern medieval Europe and how they understood and recounted their past." Nicholas Thyr, PhD ’24, discusses his research on how scholars in the Middle Ages learned and passed on knowledge, how he became a medievalist, and the joys of organizing a graduate-run conference at Harvard. Read more: https://buff.ly/3AHSJjQ

The first part of my PhD dissertation is out and about as a standalone article :) Once again, thanks to the KEMO and Central European University open access support funding, it’s easily available online. Many thanks to Jasmin Dall Agnola and the Swiss Political Science Review (SPSR) team for making the special issue on Authoritarianism 3.0 possible. The title speaks for itself. You can access the article here: https://lnkd.in/dGkB9Ue7

I participated in a scientific conference on the 31th of May of 2024. The title of the seminar was "New challenges in the social sciences and humanities at the beginning of the 3rd millenium"

I give you a quiz. Those of us in education policy space. Translate what this means for you. Seeking the ‘Just’ in Liminal Spaces: Rebordering Conception, Definition, and Praxis of Education in the Global South. If our own experts on Global South decides to be to be so incomprehensible even for education policy audience, imagine how much they are understandable to poor bureaucrats and practitioner who are implementers in places like Odisha, Bahawalpur and Jaishoor? The simple translation of this is that "that education policy research and practice should account for the reality of mothers, head teachers who deal with particularly challenging issues like disability, autism, conflicts etc. That they should not feel limited by their own disciplines' frameworks. So basically, Robert Chambers whose reality counts argument." Should there be a movement to simply what we say?

Gearing up for a conference presentation at the University of New Mexico’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Conference on April 12th! My project is titled “Evangelical Social Change and Partisanship: Analyzing Sermons from 2020-2024.” Below is the abstract!

“Between Mandates and Molding Minds: The Challenge of Teacher Autonomy Today” was one of the top papers from Undergraduate Research Journal for the Human Sciences with 21 downloads. Read the paper here: buff.ly/4e1VDhL. Read this article by an Undergraduate Researcher.

On 29th August I have the privilege to give my inaugural professorial lecture at Kelburn Campus. Registration to attend is now open. Title: Complexity beyond pure reason: A quest to understand universal laws of change Abstract: Change happens everywhere and all the time—in biological systems, social systems, the Earth system, even in everyday situations. Sometimes we have the ability to anticipate change, and sometimes change surprises us, because the events causing it were not statistically likely to occur. In this lecture Professor Markus Luczak-Roesch will explain the complexity that gets revealed when we assume that everything is information, and how that may help us to understand change. By combining the lens of complexity science with the autobiographical account of a first-generation university student he will discuss the following questions: What is information? How much information is too much information? And what does it mean for others that it was statistically unlikely for him to become a professor? https://lnkd.in/gmEtuS74

"With our world in danger and our ecosystems suffering, it’s more important than ever for scientists to share their knowledge with the public." Chemistry and ocean sciences student Antonia Kropp has a dream of earning a PhD, conducting independent research, and teaching at a university. She wants to educate as many people as she can about our changing world and how we can help Earth recover. 🔗 Read Antonia's story: https://ow.ly/sCIz50TvMCn