Sometimes people don’t say the P*** word but actions speak louder

The sad part is, it does break your back.

The sun has been magnificent these past few days and I am enjoying it, despite prejudice and discrimination hitting my back these past few months, this Pakistani, Muslim academic is here to stay. So lifting my spirits with a dash of red under the glorious sun rays.

This morning I had the honor to deliver a keynote speech at the head office of SEB in Stockholm. I shared my research findings to demonstrate how cutting-edge research in the field of interactional linguistics gives concrete evidence about human social interaction.

An absolute honour and privilege to finally meet the brilliant Professor Prof Kalwant Bhopal Uni of Birmingham at NCRE 2024 (Nordic Conference for Racism in Education) Conference Uppsala University CEMFOR - Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden.
#Fangirling moment! 😍🥰❤️

What started off as messing around with some of my old recordings has resulted in a new YouTube channel set up by my video editor who collected my talks and is creating shorts from them. Feel free to like, share & subscribe.
‘The postdigital condition’
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In other news, the picture I take when I arrive at Arlanda airport! #HansRosling
one of the best we had!

Great to catch up with Dr Alia Amir (Suharwardy) ڈاکٹر عالیہ عامر, Yasemin & Feza in person at SpiceVillage Tooting this week. Excellent food and interesting linguistic and semiotic landscape in Tooting, London.

Visiting Fellowship for South Asian scholars…8 weeks in 2024-25

You know it’s a gem, whenever you see Ingrid Piller’s name. Can’t wait to check out this new publication

‘We’re looking at losing 20% of Olympic nations’: how the climate crisis is changing sport | Sport | The Guardian theguardian.com/sport/article/…

Pakistan records ‘wettest April’ in more than 60 years | Climate News | Al Jazeera aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/4/…

So excited that the long-awaiting new book co-authored by members of the Language-on-the-Move team as a data-sharing ethnography of migrants' language learning and settlement experiences will finally be out in June

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Glad to finally get hold of Lauren Benton’s They Called it Peace.

Benton shows “how imperial small wars produced conditions for outbreaks of atrocity.” Timely stuff!

“The apple growers say they have invested their entire lives – and their limited resources – in raising the orchards, only for them to be forcefully taken away by the authorities. Shafi’s orchard effectively belongs to the government now, an acquisition he did not sign up for.”

This is art SpiceVillage Tooting
Tiny shots of tamarind dip under the gol grappas/ pain puri
#FoodInMigration #PakisraniFood

Kashmir’s apple orchards, millions of jobs, face threat from rail line | Business and Economy | Al Jazeera aljazeera.com/features/2024/…

We are holding a competition to support early career anthropologists in publishing their first monograph. The monograph will be published as part of the LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology series now published by LSE Press.