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meghaamrith.bsky.social
Anthropologist of migration, care, ageing, and wellbeing | Associate Professor, Maastricht University | PI: ERC-CoG ‘WELL-ASIA’ | Editor: Global Networks
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Are you interested in joining an interdisciplinary team to study transnational #mobilities and #wellbeing in #Asia?🌏 Passionate about #ethnographic research? Apply for this PhD position in @meghaamrith.bsky.social's project before 16 April⏰ 👉 tinyurl.com/3xp6neba

📢PhD Vacancy in my new ERC project ‘WELL-ASIA’ @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social on the wellness industry in Southeast Asia! The PhD will work ethnographically on transnational labour mobilities in Singapore’s wellness sector 🌏Applications due April 16! vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

RIP James Ferguson stanforddaily.com/2025/02/19/j...

“The only path to a viable future is through a disarmament in our relations not only with one another but also with the rest of the living planet,” writes the historian Sunil Amrith. “The alternative unfolds before us, even if we choose to avert our eyes.”

📢VACANCY📢 Do you enjoy working with academic staff, helping them to manage complex project requirements? Are you enthusiastic, well-organised and used to working with deadlines? Apply before 24 February for the Research Project Officer position 👉 tinyurl.com/369yztr8

Excited to be starting my position at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social and to begin setting up my new #ERC-CoG ‘WELL-ASIA’ -watch this space for more updates!

Feels like the end of an era. We have been immensely privileged to have had our research group ‘Ageing in a Time of Mobility’ hosted at the @mpimmg.bsky.social for the past seven years. We will miss this intellectually stimulating and supportive atmosphere and our wonderful colleagues dearly! Danke!

Join me for a virtual book talk on my book Forever 17! January 10, 12 pm PT / 3 pm ET / 9 pm CET. Register here: tinyurl.com/yc2x3r59 Thank you CCIS (UC San Diego), CSIM (UCLA), BIMI (UC Berkeley) & GMC (UC Davis) for organizing the event and @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social for serving as commentator.

Updated starter pack on Migration and Displacement Researchers. Wow! Thanks to all who asked to be added. I’ve discovered so many excellent people and great research this way! As usual, let me know if you don’t want to be on the list or want to be added. go.bsky.app/PLhHQgR

How about a kinship studies starter pack? Please let me know if you’d like to be included (or removed). And please share! Cc: @wennergrenorg.bsky.social

#CFP “Global Southeast Asia: Continuity and Change,” Association of Southeast Asian Studies conference at St John’s College, University of Cambridge, September 15-17, 2025. Submit paper and panel abstracts by April 30 for consideration.

Hi all, hope we can re-connect here!

Joining to try to connect to other academics, organisations and people working on similar issues of gender, crisis, migration, and asylum. Looking forward to finding my people!

New on Bluesky! 👋🏽 hoping to rebuild some networks in this space!