Glad for Hungarians today🇭🇺, who get to experience political change which has been a long time coming! The Hungarians show that they no longer will be adressed by, or conceived as part of a gang of right wing actors, Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others.
⚡️New publication⚡️
«The House Before the Dark Set in. Norwegian Writers’ Constructions of Reality in Five Novels, 1930–1940» In this I analyze five novels to understand different relationships between politics and literature in the time of 1930s culture wars
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Føredrag i saftbygda, på HVL, i dag!
🚫🇷🇺 Hungarian protesters chanted “Russians go home!” (Ruszkik haza) at Viktor Orbán during a campaign rally, hours after we revealed his foreign minister conspired behind allies' back and even shared EU documents with Sergey Lavrov. The chant echoes the main slogan of the 1956 uprising.
“I’m always at your service”: leaked calls between the foreign ministers of Russia and Hungary.
Recordings of conversations between Russian FM Sergey Lavrov and Hungarian FM Péter Szijjártó suggest the Hungarian minister was willing to advance Moscow’s interests within the EU.
Important read for anyone curious about the upcoming Hungarian election!
Monika Krause recently gave the NSA annual lecture in social theory, and an accompanying lecture titled "Theorizing from cases," integrating insights from "Model cases" book with "Theorizing from neglected cases." The latter was recorded and can be seen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U12G...
Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com: In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University: Nine majors "sunsetting": • Classical civilization • Classics (Greek and Latin) • Digital humanities • Fine arts • German • Latino-Latin American studies • Middle Eastern studies • Modern Jewish studies • Russian ALT
The First University in the Nation to Build a Center Dedicated to the Creator Economy Syracuse University is creating something that doesn't exist anywhere else in higher education. The Center for the Creator Economy is the first academic center of its kind on a U.S. college campus. Led jointly by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin). Whitman School of Management, the center reinforces Syracuse University's commitment to bold, forward-looking academic leadership. By aligning strengths in entrepreneurship, media, communications, athletics and digital infrastructure, the University is charting how higher education can prepare students for the 21st-century economy.
Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone
In recognition of Jürgen Habermas’s great significance for sociology, we have, on the occasion of his passing, made this insightful interview with Habermas by Torben Hviid Nielsen, freely available for you to (re)visit his profound ideas on ‘Morality, Society and Ethics'.
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[???] "tends to use sociological sledgehammers to crack rather thin-shelled cultural nuts." Peter Burke wrote in a review about which sociologist?
Siden jeg har en hang til å like emoene, la meg si det slik: hvem skal kritisere kritikerne? Først gir de årets kritiker til Bulie og så til JEV. Hvor selvgratulerende, trygg og lite raus er det mulig å bli? Hadde jeg vært kritiker i dagspressa hadde jeg tatt det som en fornærmelse
You’ve all heard about Bodø/Glimt, but the city has also finally gotten its own art museum! Great exhibition with Adelsten Normannn there now - go see it! As always: Don’t trust Mona Pahle Bjerke!
Kanskje det å være god på å rydde opp etter nasjonale skandaler kan bli vårt nye oppblåste selvbilde!
Looking forward to welcoming Les Back at our national sociology conference this weekend! “Conflict and resistance” turned out even more topical than we imagined when we started organizing, unfortunately in many respect’s.
AI Slop Matters, but in what way?
Discussed this movie yesterday with Jan Grue, an astonishing movie in many regards! Do you have suggestions for further movie to show as a part of Sociolpgical screenings? Hit me!
Upcoming Tuesday at Vega cinema in Oslo I’ll discuss Peter Greenaways The Cook, The Theif, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) with Jan Grue after the screening. Come for a stunning movie, stay for the striking parallels to today’s political climate
Tiktok 🇺🇸 turns out to be Trump aligned state platform. In no time.
www.independent.co.uk/tech/tiktok-...
Last week we started with deep reading seminars at OsloMet, also known as “shut up and read”. 50 students showed up to read Jacques Ferrandez’ graphic novel version of Camus’ The stranger in its full length. Next up in February: Kamel Daoud’s The Mersault Case. Exited to follow the «experiment»!
A spokesperson for T&F said “Researchers should be free to communicate their work in the journal that best suits their research, and proposing to cap [open access] funding threatens that freedom to publish."
Bold move to set prices high and then complain about freedom when people can't pay.
«We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.» 👏👏👏
3. Krasznahorkai covers, third: Norway. The best or am I completely blind?
2. Krasznahorkai covers, second: Sweden. What on earth are you doing?!
1. Krasznahorkai covers, first: Denmark, nice, pretty close to the English paperbacks
💥 Viktor Orbán faces a possible ousting in April 2026 — and whether he manages to cling to power or not, his regime and its global allure as a model for autocrats worldwide are crumbling. Read the sharpest analysis available.
Trist leder av Mari Skurdal i dag. Bernhard Ellefsen har forsøkt å tenke originalt og konstruktivt om norsk kulturpolitikk og blir møtt med det korte og slappe “tilsvaret”. Hvilke prioriteringer vil Skurdal gjøre for å gjenreise kulturpolitikken?
It’s going to be an interest in election last year
📸 There's a story behind this breathtaking shot of Hungary’s opposition rally marking the 1956 revolution: Orbán’s government banned drones to try conceal the crowd’s size. Yet a passenger on a landing plane caught the scene in Budapest from above — the photo hit Reddit and went viral instantly.
