The second questionable choice of my summer? Writing a textbook chapter.

Ps. I did pass my dutch exam.

Maybe… and hear me out, maybe it was a mistake to take the super intensive Dutch class in the summer instead of working in my papers.

A group of scholars stand behind a sign that reads ITAM. There is green lawn to the front and sides of the sign and red buildings in the background.

We had an amazing time in ITAM in Mexico City for the 17th Empirical Study of Gender (EGEN) workshop! Our workshop brought together scholars from around the world to discuss projects on gender and power, get feedback, and build community. Look at this group of amazing scholars 🤩

More ICP prep… Microphone and slides check.

First typo of my ICP lectures found. On the first slide, of the first lecture, found by my PhD advisor, who used to teach this class and sees it as his baby. This is not going well.

In this day, you might be interested in some Natural Language Processing, so here is the link to the complete course (including slides and code) on Computational Text Analysis I teach at @westernu.bsky.social:

svallejovera.github.io/cpa_uwo/

Setting my Introduction to Comparative Politics Class for more than 400 students. I am adding quick polls for every class. On each question I add as a possible answer: is this an exam question? - Finding joy in this grey January.

Hey Bluesky!

We are proud to announce our *seventh* annual "Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt Conference" at Leiden, w our Radical Re-Readings workshop (this year: Plato!)

Date: Feb 20-21

If interested email: arendtradicalrereadings@gmail.com

And pls repost!

@polscileiden.bsky.social