As I walked home late one night last week, I came upon a scene that perhaps many of us are familiar with. In a dark corner of a quiet area there lay a pair of new looking shoes, laced up and stood together, as if worn by a phantom manContinue Reading
Special Issue of Wildproject: Journal of Environmental Studies From Sleepy Hollow to Battery Park, Broadway follows the lower Hudson valley down to the New York harbor. Broadway is more than an avenue or a road: it is a fragment of American ground and mythology, and a transect through one of theContinue Reading
Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Convenors: Professor Yoko Hayami and Dr Loh Kah Seng 16-17 January 2013 The workshop invites papers that undertake inter-disciplinary and transnational approaches to the study of natural disasters. It aims to historically contextualise the causes and consequences of disasters and to compare themContinue Reading