Author: Bernhard Struck

Having been through an eventful and in many ways challenging semester, I am quite proud to say that my fellow students as well as yours truly are all rooted deeply in transnational perspectives and new units of analysis for our

Although the Spanish Flu Project fell through this did not prevent me from preparing a blog post on the subject, as I found the topic rather fascinating even before the current pandemic. Having done further research on the matter I

           My last blog post is more of a thank you, though it unfortunately is nowhere near as thrilling as Grant’s amazing haiku. This module has been a wonderful experience, both because of the people in it as well as the

Edit: I’ve been preparing this post for a while now, and it turned out to be my magnum opus, as well as a culmination of my series of Hungarian themed posts. Release the Kraken! Enjoy! Where be Hungarians? I touched

It is widely accepted that the two most foundational influences of western civilisation are Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman traditions. However, few scholars go the extra mile in deriving actual teleological significance from these foundations, with the most remarkable exception being the

Do you recognize this symbol? Chances are that the answer is yes. But what is it? Is it an S? An 8? A sideways infinity sign? You’ve probably seen it in children’s notebooks and on graffitied walls, or maybe you

Two weeks ago Bernhard and Milinda opened class with a discussion of the transnationality of nudism and ‘the global naturist movement’. While this light-hearted conversation was clearly meant to be only a quirky way to pass the time until everyone

Coming from Hungary, ‘revisionism’ (well… the Hungarian equivalent per se) was one of the earliest words in my historical political vocabulary. Indeed, in a very Hungarian context revisionism refers with near exclusivity to the rejection of the Treaty of Trianon,

What I seek with this Is exploration of form Style is crucial We speak of transnationals Historical links and flows What do they all mean All too often we Posture and pose we obscure Why they all should care We

Truth be told, I was quite excited to see the long-form presentation about transnational feminist movements in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula in the early decades of the last century. After having gone through the finished presentation twice, I

            The thing I have appreciated most about this module is the space it has given us to form our own opinions and dig deeper into more diverse material than typical chronological modules do. Spending so many weeks dissecting what

Its been a while since I’ve written a blog post, and between me working on other essays and researching for my final project, I’ve gone back to the very first question that we looked at this semester: what does it

In my last product I want to discuss Izzy’s excellent presentation on the influence of the Rhodes Scholarship on the academic study of race. I chose this presentation because I honestly didn’t even know what the Rhode’s scholarship was until

In the spirit of collaboration, I want to pick up on Izzy’s post from Friday on the Met Gala and write a bit about the documentary The First Monday in May that some of us talked about at the unconference

           There were a couple of weeks this semester where I neglected to write any blog posts, leaving me to write most of them within the last month or so. I have realised that I never gave any sort of project