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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

I wasn’t sure if our last blog posts had to be particularly reflective. I’ve really enjoyed the process of simply writing every week, having to consider alternative views on a subject. In the process of writing many of these blogs

Blog post number 8. This is it, final one. I’ve watched a couple of the presentations but will save my comments for our meeting next Tuesday. For now, since this is my last post, I’ll provide a few reflections on

In my last blog post I introduced you all to Johann Reinhold Forster, a Prussian naturalist who sailed with Captain James Cook on Cook’s second voyage into the Pacific. When Forster moved from Prussia to England, not only did he

These past few weeks, I focused on working on a part of my project that I had yet to fully explore. As I mentioned before, most of my work had been focused on exploring transnational feminist first wave movements in

I am not sure if anyone else has found it tricky to find new topics of conversations with the people around them. We tend to gain our news from the same sources, leaving little for discussion at our collective mealtimes.

I woke up yesterday morning to see ‘Rosa Parks’ trending on Twitter. When someone trends on Twitter these days, it is usually for one of four reasons: they’re dead (not possible in Parks’ case, since she passed away in 2005);