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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 […]

December, 2015 / By Ukri Soirila

The University of Helsinki Think Corner turned out to be too small for the book launch of Revisiting the Origins

December, 2015 / By Conor Gearty

To the blind believer in human rights, nothing so messy as history is truly necessary. To question, to complicate, to ‘problematize’

This Allegra week will be devoted to a theme that we have not previously addressed, namely the history of human

November, 2015 / By Sharon Attard

In September 2015, an image of a three year old Syrian child, lying lifeless on a Turkish beach, travelled the

November, 2015 / By Frank Karioris

“Fate met Chance; I don’t know what she said to him but it was something about pictures and time” (Lorelei,

November, 2015 / By David Orr

Contemporary phenomena of migration and human trafficking pose challenges to modern states, which may struggle to deal effectively and fairly

November, 2015 / By David Fazzino

I was visiting Chiang Mai, Thailand, at around the same time travel magazines began to herald Myanmar as the “it”

November, 2015 / By Taras Fedirko

I spent much of my fieldwork at a department of the UK Government grappling with a confusing dynamic between civil

November, 2015 / By Allegra Lab

Allie’s conference week has been packed full of interesting reads from the Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society. Tired