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 spent my youth in helsinki. my helsinki was that of 1990s. now, after ten years of living mainly abroad, i’m back. and of course there are a lot of culture shocks and all that kind of stuff involved. more of them in the personal blog http://palemics.wordpress.com which is designed for those who know [...]
It’s interesting how the exact topic under investigation develops when one does research. I had pretty good idea of how to do work on the politics of architecture, but in the end I ended up focusing on memorials and public art for my Bauhaus Kolleg final presentation. Although I’ve been interested for years on public [...]
I repost something from my personal blog palemics.wordpress.com
The last week of the Football World Cup is here - and It’s been all quite interesting.
1) supporting England: How can I be an England supporter? I’m not English, not a real Essex girl - thank gods. Nevertheless, I felt that England is closest to my home country [...]
Well, it took a while to settle down, but now I even have 1) a well-portable laptop with wireless access and 2) an office at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Institute for European Ethnology. Being online and available is much easier now.
The Hungarian elections are a bit passee now, but I'll hopefully post up here [...]
