June 2012 – Page 2 – jill/txt

Alumni organisation

Castells and the Holberg Prize and alumni networking and a very fancy dinner

Manuel Castells won the Holberg Prize this year, and UiB has celebrated with several days of festivities. At Digital Culture, we assign Castells in several courses (in DIKULT251 this semester I actually assigned a video of a lecture he gave on Wikileaks) […]

Strikes, conflicts and academia

This morning I dropped my two-year-old and four-year-old off at preschool for the first time after a thirteen day strike. What a relief. I adore my children, but figuring out childcare from day to day, canceling meetings, trying to work at home, […]