This year is the last in my PhD studies. It’s too early to be ‘summing it up’, and I’m probably not ready to write this post, but I’m not sure I ever will be. Because this post is about love. How can one ever be ready to write about that? My five years of academic […]
Tag: academia
The Monster Theory of Supervision Meetings, or A deck of cards, or Things I’ve been told
In addition to the Four-Kings Theory of Supervision (which I will share in another post… maybe…), I have developed a Theory of Supervision Meetings. It goes like this: Supervision Meetings are the processes in which the PhD Student’s darkest, scariest monsters (the ones that emerge from the hole in the bathtub late at night after […]
On teaching not to transgress, or Not embodying ‘real utopias’, or My first lecture
‘Real utopias can be found wherever emancipatory ideals are embodied in existing institutions, practices, and proposals’ – said I. I was citing Erik Olin Wright. It was a lecture on ‘Sustainability, democracy and gender’, and I stood there, feeling unsustainably undemocratic, and I would get a very low score from gender scholars, as there was […]
On professors, or Paying it forward (at least some of the interest)
This post is written with a lot of respect and admiration for Professors and what they represent in academia… and their PhD students (the reasonable ones, who do their homework instead of writing irrelevant posts). Never start your day by meeting a professor. Ask for an appointment after lunch, but first thing in morning – […]
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