torsdag 29. september 2022

Knowing that we do not know; knowing how we do not know

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When working in the humanities, it is easy to develop a certain instinctive response to the various forms in which we encounter a widesprea...
søndag 25. september 2022

Achronology as a cultural force, part 2

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  In my previous blogpost , I described how achronology’s ability to blur and obfuscate people’s understanding of the past could impact cul...

Achronology as a cultural force, part 1

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  I can see through time            - Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons S05E13          As a historian, I am trained to divide history into p...
torsdag 8. september 2022

How I learned to love reading – the redux version

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At its core, this blogpost is one I have been meaning to write for some time, and if I had not seen a particular video clip online today – m...
tirsdag 30. august 2022

What the walrus tells us - language, translation and identity-construction in Historia Norwegie

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Today, August 30, I conducted a seminar in a half-term course for first-year students that I have designed myself. The course focusses on th...
mandag 29. august 2022

Sculptor - a poem by Sylvia Plath

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Sculptor   For Leonard Baskin   To his house the bodiless  Come to barter endlessly  Vision, wisdom, for bodies  Palpable as his, and weight...
onsdag 24. august 2022

Finding nuggets - the rewards of reading widely

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  When conversing about books and reading, a recurring topic tends to be how to balance the amount of available material with the limited ti...