Episode 8: What can we do, individually and collectively, to fight a system that was not built for us, scholars or students from and of the Global South, of color and of minority, and women and LGBTQ scholars? We need to be louder and stronger than the monster.

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Episode 7: For this episode, I re-connected with Dr. Rabi'ah Aminudin, my senior at the International University of Japan, who finished her PhD at the University of Manchester. She shared the highs and lows of being a minority scholar and how to get going despite the systemic challenges in academia.  I'm so thankful to Rabi'ah for her courage in sharing her story and for reminding us of the importance of kindness and diversity.

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Episode 6: This episode is a reading of an article I've written for the International Affairs blog, entitled "I hope this finds you well living in the Anthropocene," drawing on my research published in the International Affairs journal. You can find the much more complete version of the blog post here and the journal article here. I wanted to talk about academic opportunities, following my conversation with Dr Leticia dos Muchangos in Episode 6, but the typhoons that recently devasted the Philipines made it difficult for me to talk about these. Instead, I encourage you to consider donating to the typhoon victims in my home country. Here is the list of aid agencies accepting donations.

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Episode 5: In this episode, I had a fun conversation with Dr. Leticia dos Muchangos about her academic journey from Mozambique to China and then to Japan and how she has discovered opportunities and created some for herself. Subscribe to her podcast https://anchor.fm/endless-possibilities-pod

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Episode 4: When do we stop learning? I contemplated this question for this episode in the context of higher education.

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Episode 3: Dr. Dahlia Simangan speaks to Dr. Lemuel Toledano about learning and service in a career outside the academia, challenges in an academic journey, and the importance of balancing work and fun, among many other topics.

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Episode 2: In this episode, Dahlia Simangan reflects on the concept of home as an overseas scholar and shares the idea behind the Scholars Unbound project.

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Episode 1: In this episode of Scholars Unbound, I talked to Dr Michael Magcamit about his research on security and insecurity issues in Southeast Asia, his fieldwork experiences, and how he, as an overseas scholar, makes sense of home and belongingness.

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