Hi there, This post is for prospective participants in a proposed Poststructural Panel for the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Conference to be held in Las Vegas from 7-10 April 2021. I understand it may go online if it is unsafe to travel by then. The details of the conference can be found here. I … Continue reading ISA 2021: Poststructural Panel Call
Five Days in Rome (Day 5)
[Shortcut to the poem mentioned in this blog: Border Butter] This blog is part of a short series documenting 5 days of activities at the British School at Rome, supported by my funders, Northern Bridge DTP. If you’ve missed out so far, try out details from Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 or Day 4! And so … Continue reading Five Days in Rome (Day 5)
Five Days in Rome (Day 4)
This blog is part of a short series documenting 5 days of activities at the British School at Rome, supported by my funders, Northern Bridge DTP. If you've missed out so far, try out details from Day 1, Day 2 or Day 3! Day 4 was all about art in the process of becoming, the … Continue reading Five Days in Rome (Day 4)
Five Days in Rome (Day 3)
This is Day 3 of five days visiting Rome for the Northern Bridge Winter School. I'm very lucky that Northern Bridge provides me with funding that means I can do a PhD. I'm in year one of that. Along with about 14 colleagues, we are at the British College in Rome. If you missed … Continue reading Five Days in Rome (Day 3)
Five Days in Rome (Day 2)
This is the second of 5 short blogs describing my visit to Rome as part of the Northern Bridge Winter School. If you'd like to start with Day 1, click here... Day 2 (Tuesday) dawned with a sky full of colours behind the screen window. I was so tired, I woke really early again, but with so … Continue reading Five Days in Rome (Day 2)
Five Days in Rome (Day 1)
Ciao tutti! Welcome to a short series of daily blogs from the centre of Roma! I'm very excited to be here and already exhausted and saturated with new ideas and glimpses of knowledge. Some of you may know that I'm away for this week in Rome courtesy of Northern Bridge, the body through which my … Continue reading Five Days in Rome (Day 1)
The Writing Groove
I've been thinking about writing a post for a few weeks. It's not the one I intended to write. It has been 3.5 months since I started a PhD at Queen's University, Belfast and everything is about writing. I've been on writing courses, I've submitted pieces to be assessed and learned how to handle positive … Continue reading The Writing Groove
The Everydayness of Living to Work…
Living to Work, Working to Live... I'm unsure who coined that pithy phrase but it captures, in its own imperfect way, the dilemma many of us feel about the position of work in our lives; lives for which we have high expectations which 'work', most often, defies with its very everydayness. The very suggestion of … Continue reading The Everydayness of Living to Work…
‘Scuse me? Where’s the blog/MA at?
I did disappear a bit. There's an empty seat where once we chatted daily. Sigh. I got to New Zealand and started working hard on the MA thesis which is - after all - why I'm travelling. I posted a few bobbets on FaceBook and kind of tailed off. I've been to Australia in between … Continue reading ‘Scuse me? Where’s the blog/MA at?
Libraries & Academia: Providencia, Santiago, Chile
While I have the fortune and luxury of travelling around the world, I am absorbed in the world of academia, at least for some of the time! Roughly, my aim is to work 4 days a week and be a tourist for the other 3. To do so, sometimes I work in my hotel room, … Continue reading Libraries & Academia: Providencia, Santiago, Chile
Planet Patrick 