Four cheers for Finland! #EVENTS in the North (but not only there)
To conclude this Allegra week, it is time for yet another events’ post! These are always a thrill to us: they allow us to…
Read MoreTo conclude this Allegra week, it is time for yet another events’ post! These are always a thrill to us: they allow us to…
Read MoreYou just have to walk down the street in any immigrant neighborhood—Washington Heights in New York City, Kreuzberg in Berlin, or the Bijlmer in…
Read More“That’ll be $1.09.” I hand over the last two dollars of my stipend in exchange for my favorite kind of cookie, a gingersnap, while…
Read MoreScene One: London Soho and Bloomsbury I used to love London for its Indian and Thai vegan restaurants, vibrant queer cafes, independent bookstores, second…
Read MoreEver so often we find it indispensable to remind ourselves & everyone else that one of Allegra’s guiding mottos is ‘slow food for thought‘….
Read MoreIT’S WORLD ANTHROPOLOGY DAY!!! (Admit it, this one calls for all capital lettering.) And we are very pleased to celebrate by joining – virtually,…
Read MoreToday we are pleased to share this talk by our ‘Allie’ Samuli Schielke. The talk is titled ‘Dreaming of the Inevitable: How Money, Morals and Destiny Come…
Read MoreIt is a banal insight that law creates the illegal and the conditions for illegality. At the most basic level, crossing a border without…
Read MoreHello everyone – it’s yet another glorious Allegra week! Fine, admittedly the weather in some parts of the world (aka where this post is…
Read MoreWe conclude this dark thematic week on University Crisis with our insistence to be also ‘tongue in cheek’. We remind both ourselves and others:…
Read MoreTell me in what journal you publish and I will tell you who you are! As social and human scientists we are caught in…
Read MoreOver the last years academics from different disciplines have become increasingly visible on popular and social media, narrating personal stories and reflecting on the…
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