Top 10 (or thereabout) of 2015
As we embark on yet another Allegra year, let’s take a look back: what were your favorite posts for 2015? Reading this list of…
Read MoreAs we embark on yet another Allegra year, let’s take a look back: what were your favorite posts for 2015? Reading this list of…
Read MoreA while back I experienced bitter disappointment as yet another funding application was rejected. The fact that I was only one of thousands of…
Read MoreWe’re back – and full of energy for YET another exciting Allegra year! We hope that your break was enjoyable and relaxing (and do…
Read MoreOn Saturday 28 November Alun Withey and I hosted Framing the Face: New Perspectives of the History of Facial Hair, a one day conference…
Read MoreThis week we have dedicated an unusual amount to one single publication. This has in part been because of the unabashed claim – from…
Read MoreThe University of Helsinki Think Corner turned out to be too small for the book launch of Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights. The…
Read MoreTo the blind believer in human rights, nothing so messy as history is truly necessary. To question, to complicate, to ‘problematize’ has been thought to…
Read MoreThis Allegra week will be devoted to a theme that we have not previously addressed, namely the history of human rights. Furthermore, this thematic…
Read MoreIn September 2015, an image of a three year old Syrian child, lying lifeless on a Turkish beach, travelled the world in a matter…
Read More“Fate met Chance; I don’t know what she said to him but it was something about pictures and time” (Lorelei, 104). It is nearly…
Read MoreContemporary phenomena of migration and human trafficking pose challenges to modern states, which may struggle to deal effectively and fairly with how to address…
Read MoreI was visiting Chiang Mai, Thailand, at around the same time travel magazines began to herald Myanmar as the “it” destination of 2015. When…
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