How to organise an international academic conference with a low budget?
1) make sure you’ve got even a low budget, or a clear plan of how to get one.
2) get partners. there are two things you should be interested in a) institutional support and finance: if you have a budget to share, they might chip in. [...]
The conference (The constructions of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’: Discourses on Nationalism and Populism) with the visit from my old professor Ernesto Laclau went well. Thanks to all the speakers and participants.
What was praised was the interdisciplinary environment and the intellectual stimulation that it brought. Sometimes interdisciplinary events produce a situation where people speak nominally about [...]
I just came accross Seán Hanley’s blog, where there was a nice review of my PhD thesis (the manuscript is rewritten as we speak into a book) and my comments on Finnish politics here last spring. It’s actually a very nice blog, with stuff on Central Eastern Europe and beyond - mainly Czech and Slovak [...]
