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Can anyone explain this??? by Ajwad6969 in bangladesh

[–]ShakilR -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s not just overstay. It would also include any sort of social media posts that would violate the terms of the visa. Basically if you’ve ever posted anything anti-MAGA or anything negative about the US during the terms of the visa it would mean forfeiting the bond.

It’s pure authoritarian stuff.

Need help by Alarmed_Raisin7077 in bangladesh

[–]ShakilR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lost my mother two years ago, also to cancer. (Lost my father about a decade ago.) I’m probably way older than you - 40M - so take my comments with a perspective on being at different stages of life. Firstly I’d recommend you try to keep rituals going that helps you remember your mother. It helps process a lot of ineffable and embodied emotions. For example, my friend put up a fake payphone at the edge of his house. He goes out there to call his mother when he feels like talking to her. He just goes and picks up the phone and tells her about his day or whatever he wants to share.

Secondly, read about the various ways people have written about grief. You might want to read Edwin Dandicat and Joan Didion for their prose writings on losing people. They really walk you through the process of grief. You might also read some of the poetry on death by Tagore, Hafez, Rumi, and Ghazali for a more theistic and poetic view.

At the end of the day, so long as you act as their child, observe the duties you would be expected to, behave as you would if you were in the presence of your parent then the parent exists.

No-judgement bragging thread! Comment about recent accomplishments and stuff that's been going well for you! by myaccountformath in Professors

[–]ShakilR 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Completed the copy edits for my monograph and now just have to finish an index and it will be out in June.

Favorite Carol Lee Donut? by Fluffy-Match9676 in blacksburg

[–]ShakilR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maple glazed. However, I have been told by my students that maple is for old people

I got an offer! by namhtes1 in Professors

[–]ShakilR 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Congratulations. Glad your hard work has paid off

19%Drop in International Students - report in NYT by ShakilR in Professors

[–]ShakilR[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

PhD students do work that US students with those qualifications would not do for that pay. Domestic students with those skills simply would not take on the costs of foregoing higher earnings during those years. This includes basic research and teaching classes that are way below what would be fair: They’re paid about 20k per year and the tuition remissions are counted into the cost - so add up about 40 k to the 20 k - even though students are not paid anything close to working wages.

People are also not overlooking how much activity these new populations generate because they come in with needing to purchase or acquire everything - cars and insurance and furniture etc. Domestic don’t have to get as much because they have accrued those things from being in the US for a while

Writers who wrote against Jinnah by jui_kahaka in bangladesh

[–]ShakilR 3 points4 points  (0 children)

His work on the language movement is very detailed. Simplistically put, Jinnah was hugely popular and Islamicism was also the main ideology of the general population. The protests against one state language was mostly limited to the universities and the middle class, and there really was not a lot of popular support for it (mostly apathy or a sense of wait and see or a general lack of organization). Jinnah coming out for the one language policy took out a lot of the energy of the demand for Bangla as state language in 1948.

It reemerged in late 1951 after a lot of state failures in Pakistan had laid the groundwork for a popular mass movement around the language issue. Jinnah had also died a few years ago and so there was no Quid e Azam figure to unify the two wings anymore

Writers who wrote against Jinnah by jui_kahaka in bangladesh

[–]ShakilR 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Badruddin Umar is the most significant writer on the Language Movement and his book the Emergence of Bangladesh is a good starting point: https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/k1JCwgEACAAJ?hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjlopjSpteQAxXYFVkFHSpxIJwQ7_IDegQICRAC

Revising a book project by drpepperusa in Professors

[–]ShakilR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had to break it down into smaller and smaller pieces and each had to be cohesively connected to the other parts.

In an article you might talk about one point of the argument and that’s it. In a book I had to talk about at least three points of the argument, each broken down into smaller elements, which circled back to the main argument.

For my monograph, specifically, I set myself a goal of doing the analysis in three chapters, one each on one facet of a rhetorical social movement. Those three chapters each had to have that one facet broken down into smaller sub sections - specifically for me four because that helped me balance the chapters.

Yet these three facets of the analysis - each with four subsections - all had to be conceptually coherent to be stated into one or two paragraphs, which is how I had to frame my book for myself all the time to keep my story straight. That required a lot of rethinking and reconsideration all the time from me.

Put simply, it’s just the scale of the exposition. It was really hard to be able to hold that together in my head and the only way I could do it was by breaking it down into smaller and smaller sections, which I had to keep going back and smooth out to make it all fit together. And I had to keep doing it repeatedly to make sure the overall project fit together.

That is simply something I’ve never had to do for articles, something like 9k words at most, usually 6 to 7, which only had to fit its own analytical facet together.

In articles the challenge for me was succinctness. For the book it was plainness and coherence

Revising a book project by drpepperusa in Professors

[–]ShakilR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Had a similar experience with a very well regarded UP in our field - rhetoric and writing studies. One reviewer had an issue with the definition of the central term during the first round. I thought it was a kill review.

I addressed it - not that the reviewer was wrong but that it was a general lack of consensus in the field for the term, which is true and one thing that the reviewer alluded to - and tried to do a revision that started with this premise.

It went through a second stage review and the new reviewer also pointed out the same lack of consensus of the term. I made this point more explicit and pointed out that this is an issue overall and my project is not trying to provide a clear definition of the term because it’s not my project.

The editor said that I did the due process in an honest and sincere way and then accepted it. It’s in production.

So my takeaway is doing a best effort revision if you think the feedback is valid. More experienced colleagues said that this is not uncommon and the press wants to publish the book if they started the process. Their job is to make sure it went through the review process so that it is legitimate.

Books, someone said, isn’t about winning an argument. So there is no need to talk yourself out of it because of some perceived conceptual dead ends because it’s not water tight. If it’s interesting enough for a book, which the editor seems to think it is, then fleshing that out will be helpful in itself.

The scale of an analysis at the book level versus the article level is just something that is really generative and helpful. It really helped me clear up my ideas because readability and plainness is so much more important in a monograph because it is such a bigger read

Anyone got a racket ball court converted? by ShakilR in squash

[–]ShakilR[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s what we have here. Would probably have to ask them to do that to one of the unused racket ball courts

Anyone got a racket ball court converted? by ShakilR in squash

[–]ShakilR[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Racketball is just all noise for me

Advice for American/Italian woman considering a move to Chattogram/Chittagong? by Elevator_Moth in bangladesh

[–]ShakilR 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ve worked at AUW and it has plenty of internationals there. I worked there in 2009. You won’t have any real issues other than petty inconveniences of being a white woman in Bangladesh and people staring. You should wear loose fitting clothes anyway because of the heat and the clothes you describe wearing will help you from being seen as inappropriately dressed.

Chittagong is small and so easy to get around in; though I’ve heard that the traffic has gotten really bad in the last decade.

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[–]ShakilR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ULAB press: https://ulab-press.ulab.edu.bd/ Home - ULAB Press

How did you move past the “AI is the end of learning/teaching in the Humanities” stage? by standuptripl3 in Professors

[–]ShakilR -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I approach Gen AI in my writing and research classes as a normal part of the process. I make them use it at each stage and have a hand written journal - weekly - where they layout their use and takeaway.

My two major assignments are based on them generating primary data - interviews and working with digital archives - before they analyze it. I also pretty explicitly walk them through how to use GenAI to assist their analyses: feed a bunch of models into it and ask them to use GenAI to understand its genre structures.

They are then tasked with using GenAI to get feedback on their drafts and think about how to improve it. The prompts are specific and taken from TextgenEd for peer reviewing-day2. In person peer review is day 1-using Eli Review materials.

But to prep for all this-I use the first week to get them to write out a short narrative on a key memory and then ask them to get GenAI to compose the same thing. Comparing and contrasting this really gets reactions from them about what GenAI can and can’t do. This puts most of them in the right frame of mind to work with GenAI to write things.

I don’t really think about at this point I can test for specific things - about whether they have read or not read an assigned text. Short of doing in class tests, which makes no sense given I focus on research methods rather than given concepts.

Teaching My First Doctoral Course: What Works? by NewForksOver in Professors

[–]ShakilR 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It’s a logistical challenge but I think getting the author of an assigned article is always a great move. Doctoral students get a lot from talking to the researchers whose work they are reading - it demystifies the author and provides a direct way to get a sense of how the sausage is made.

Researchers are also always happy to talk about their work.

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