University Destruction INC! RIP University of Helsinki
Today is a black day in the ongoing the destruction of Finnish universities, particularly the University of Helsinki! Under the the pretence of austerity…
Read MoreToday is a black day in the ongoing the destruction of Finnish universities, particularly the University of Helsinki! Under the the pretence of austerity…
Read MoreOn the 14th of April of 2010, I was approached by J. who had come across my doctoral research when desperately searching the net…
Read MoreIn a recent article published at Allegra, Ferruccio Pastore addresses some of the problems related to counting migrant deaths in the Mediterranean. Furthermore, while…
Read MoreWhen I was recently asked to participate in UCL’s Refuge in a Moving World Seminar Series on a panel titled “Forced migration in, through,…
Read MoreWhen Jon was a PhD student at Edinburgh University in the early 1990s, there was a running joke about the possibility of developing a…
Read MoreThe Open-Mic Anthropologist The first time I performed stand-up comedy was in December 2015, at an open-mic club called On the Rocks. Gripped by…
Read MoreThis morning I felt that I couldn’t bear this passivity any longer. I was sinking in my red plastic chair without anything to do….
Read MoreTo set this week in motion we revisit a theme that we seem unable to escape: boredom. Whether at academic conferences or the elaborate…
Read MoreAnd what do you know – it is AGAIN time for a new Allegra week! Where does the time go, despite of our determination…
Read MoreTo conclude this week we wish to highlight the hard work of one more Allie – namely Marie-Louise Karttunen. She has been with us…
Read MoreToday we continue our celebration of the Allies who handle much of the behind-the-scenes work that is needed to keep fan-bu-tastic (=fabulous meets fantastic) content…
Read MoreYesterday we highlighted one important development that took place for the Allegra team in March of 2014, namely that we were joined by Ninnu…
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