Human Rights: Activism, Concepts, Books & something Rusty
After a week long extravaganza of performance and politics around music and dance, it is time for performance & politics […]
EVENTS! #HumanRights
To conclude our thematic week, it’s time for yet another events’ post! This time the theme is, of course, human
REDUX: In Search of Hope #HumanRights
On April 30 and May 1, 2015 fourteen anthropologists from seven countries and thirteen universities and research institutions came together
An Anniversary as a Laboratory
This Allegra week we focus on a theme that we have addressed numerous times earlier: human rights. This repeated attention
History of human rights Threads
Revisiting a Writing Process: Ode to Academic Freedom
This week we have dedicated an unusual amount to one single publication. This has in part been because of the
Book Launch
The University of Helsinki Think Corner turned out to be too small for the book launch of Revisiting the Origins
Toward a Messy History of Creative Tensions
To the blind believer in human rights, nothing so messy as history is truly necessary. To question, to complicate, to ‘problematize’
Introducing ‘Textbook Narrative of Origins’
Where does the history of human rights begin: centuries, even millennia earlier, or a mere few decades ago? What constitutes this
Thematic week: History of Human Rights
This Allegra week will be devoted to a theme that we have not previously addressed, namely the history of human
REDUX: Who is afraid of #HumanRights in Russia?
Russian politics fare well in keeping conflicting stories alive. Sir Winston Churchill famously said that the Soviet Union is a