#Sociology friends! Last call to submit your abstracts/papers for the 2026 ASA conference in NYC! I'm still accepting submissions for my session on Diverse Visions and Perspectives on the Sociology of Religion.

AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies 2026 invites proposals for Organized Panel, Roundtable and Book Talks on "Making Knowledge, Making History: Producing the Indonesian Past, Present and Future." Submission deadline: February 22 tinyurl.com/4jraf54w

A downtown protest and memorial bike ride drew an estimated 3,000 people, marking the largest ICE-related demonstrations #Boulder has seen, in photos. boulderreportinglab.org/2026/02/01/p...

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

Sociologists! I am organizing the ASA 2026 session "Diverse Visions and Perspectives on the Sociology of Religion." This session will present cutting-edge theoretical, epistemological, and international/transnational perspectives on the sociology of religion. Please consider submitting your work!

Open to educators in Colorado's Front Range! Afghanistan’s Terrain & Traditions is a one-day in-person workshop on January 24, 2026, on the#CUBoulder campus. Apply online now

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

Tomorrow (12/9)! Please join the #CUBoulder Center for Asian Studies for this exciting virtual panel on recent youth protests and discontent in Asia. With speakers on Bangladesh, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Nepal! Please register in advance. www.colorado.edu/cas/youth-pr... #Boulder #AsianStudies

Join #CUBoulder's Center for Asian Studies for this virtual panel on youth protests in Asia, featuring speakers discussing Bangladesh, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Nepal. Dec 9, 5 - 6:30 pm US mountain time. Please register in advance. www.colorado.edu/cas/youth-pr... #AsianStudies #Sociology #Boulder

Join the #CUBoulder Center for Asian Studies for this exciting virtual panel on youth protests in Asia, focusing on Bangladesh, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Nepal. December 9 at 5 pm US mountain time. Register in advance. www.colorado.edu/cas/youth-pr... #AsianStudies #Boulder

#CUBoulder friends, enrollment is still open for Indonesian language classes through the Center for Asian Studies! Community auditors are welcome! #Boulder #AsianStudies

Post-breakfast nap

ASA member Rachel Rinaldo @rarinald.bsky.social @colorado.edu co-authored a letter to the editor @chronicle.com alongside other scholars, asking what the consequences might be if America stops investing in language learning, cultural fluency, and global knowledge.

Sharing my latest article, “I Have a Right to A Better Imam”: Divorce, Islam, and Changing Marriage Ideals in Indonesia." This one has been a long time coming! Thanks to @criticasianstds.bsky.social for a helpful review process! #AsianStudies www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Federal cuts are hitting CU #Boulder: More than $2.2M in lost funding is putting migrant student support and foreign language programs at risk, with Title VI grants discontinued nationwide. What’s at stake: boulderreportinglab.org/2025/11/13/f...

Sharing my new essay, "Pivots as Praxis in Unsettled Times," examining how Indonesian women took creative risks during the COVID-19 pandemic to support their families and communities. polarjournal.org/2025/11/14/p...

Thanks to @boulderrl.bsky.social for this in-depth coverage on how the #CUBoulder Center for Asian Studies has been impacted by federal funding cuts. #AsianStudies boulderreportinglab.org/2025/11/13/f...

Tomorrow 11/11 at the Center for Asian Studies #CUBoulder. The End of the War in Việt Nam: Reflection, Recovery, Reconciliation. With Chuck Searcy, Kelly Denton-Borhaug, and Erin Steinhauer. www.colorado.edu/cas/end-war-... #AsianStudies

Coming up at the #CUBoulder Center for Asian Studies: The End of the War in Việt Nam: Reflection, Recovery, Reconciliation. 11.11.2025. www.colorado.edu/cas/end-war-... #Asianstudies #Colorado

#CUBoulder friends! I'm thrilled to be leading a global seminar to China in May/June 2026. Please share with your students. Social Change in Contemporary China (Beijing, Xi’an & Yunnan, China) - sponsored by the Tang Fund in 2026 Info session October 27, 5PM, C4C S350!

#Sociology friends, this applies to us too!

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: Make your voices heard. Join us in a peaceful protest across our country against the most corrupt, deceitful & criminal Administration in U.S. History. We say NO KINGS, NO CROOKS, NO SPRAY-TAN CONMAN! 👎 Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org #BeThere 👍

Call for applications -- Global Southeast Asias Dissertation Workshop. Deadline Oct. 20! www.asianstudies.org/call-for-app...

Are you an undergrad student in Southeast Asia interested in applying for graduate schools abroad? Then join us for a special series of virtual roundtables focusing on discussing the process of applying for grad school!

Call for Papers for a special issue of Gender & Society on “Global Fault Lines: Gender, Religion, and Nationalism,” co-edited by Fauzia Husain (Queen’s University) and Rachel Rinaldo (University of Colorado Boulder). Full details available at journals.sagepub.com/page/gas/cal...

🧵I urge everyone to read this important peer-reviewed study by some of the top scholars on the methods modern autocrats use to undermine democracy and civil rights. @annapplegate.bsky.social @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social among the leading scholars involved. I also summarized the study below.

During the European campaign of WW2, American troops would leave this character to let the NAZIs know that they were everywhere. Kilroy is beginning to pop up in public spaces. He is the call for & promise of liberation. He is hope. He is everywhere. Kilroy was here.

The end of Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships and National Resource Centers means the loss of critical language and area studies expertise across the United States. These are the actions of an administration that cannot imagine the future, presiding over a declining world power

Today was my first experience with what has become a ritual of modern American parenthood -- having my child's school be on lockdown. Thankfully, it seems to have been a person mistakenly identified as being armed. Why does our society continue to allow this? www.dailycamera.com/2025/09/11/l...

My take on the recent protests in Indonesia www.newmandala.org/mass-protest...

Broad concerns about inequality, corruption, and lack of opportunity are driving the protests -- as well as anger about police violence and re-militarization. Over 60% of Indonesian workers are in the informal economy. Precarity is the norm, even for some in the middle class.

Good piece on what is driving the anger of protesters in Indonesia. theconversation.com/the-banality...

Area studies centers develop language and cultural expertise. The Center for Asian Studies at #CUBoulder is in the same situation as the other National Resource Centers. If already-awarded federal funds are not released by 9/30, many activities will end. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today. Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American. There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.

It's not just NIH/NSF, etc. Foreign language and area studies grants to universities are also threatened like never before.

Many US universities were awarded federal funds for intl studies, including Foreign Language and Area Studies grants, for next year, but Dept of Ed has not released the funds that should begin next week. PLEASE call your reps and express support for release of TItle VI funds!!

Important! Area studies centers do not yet know if Title VI NRC/FLAS funds for 2025-2026 will be released. Please call your Senators and ask them to urge OMB to release these funds expeditiously and the U.S. Department of Education to issue non-competing continuation Grant Award Notifications (GAN).

#Sociologists! Great opportunity for recent/soon-to-be PhDs at the University of Colorado Boulder. #ASA2025 www.colorado.edu/postdoctoral...

Imo three things you can do in undergrad that will probably meaningfully improve your career chances (that aren’t highly contextual where the wind may shift and what’s happening to CS majors rn might happen): -become statistically numerate -learn another language -learn to write well

Sociologists interested in the Global South! If you will be at the upcoming ASA conference in Chicago, please join me for this exciting session on the Sociology of Development. August 10, 10 - 11:30 am, East Tower, Hyatt Regency, Floor: Concourse Level/Bronze, Randolph 1A. Hope to see you there!

A year ago this would have been the lead story in all major media….

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

Hungary is the goal of Project 2025. Given the country's weak performance (low GDP per capita, high inflation, brain drain), it's interesting that economic elites are on board. My guess is they think they can get a good deal by appeasing the leader. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

#AAS2026 Southeast Asia Council call for papers: www.asianstudies.org/call-for-pap...

#caturday she fits neatly on the placemat

A useful guide to the real goals of the folks influencing the Trump administration. The key tell here is that DEI hasn’t existed for 60 years, but civil rights has. And that’s what they oppose.

Really useful thread here. All of this is also true for social science and humanities research as well.

How to wreck the nation’s health (and it’s entire scientific infrastructure). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...