Category: IACS Stories
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Elspeth Probyn and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: A tribute from behind the scenes
— By Fran Martin, with thanks to Meaghan Morris — Elspeth’s connections with the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies project are perhaps not widely known outside the networks directly involved, but they are nonetheless deep and consequential. Elspeth is linked with Inter-Asia not through publicly visible institutional-level affiliations or an Asia specialization in her own research, but…
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Thinking with Elspeth Probyn: a love letter to my teacher
Photo: Elspeth celebrated with the newly minted Dr Leung over a Dark ’n Stormy— her love Sarah’s favourite—The Redfern, Sydney, 18 June 2021. — A memorial tribute by her student, Daren Shi-Chi Leung — Elspeth thought with feeling. She could bring life to the most ordinary subjects—human and non-human—and make them throb with consequence. As…