I want to see the Oscars. No chance, I'll have to follow it on my mobile.

Simultaneoulsy I am updating my website. Today I included NWAS. I am struggling with using a template. It is the first time I have used a template, ever. I have always done my pages from scratch. This time, however, I wanted to try my own predicament of the constrains on using pre-made templates wehre you adapt to the template rather than the template being designed for the discipline.

Contemporary European Social Theory

I am preparing a lecture on 'The New Europe', looking at citizenship, identity and democracy. The lecture is in a power point and starts at looking at identity, different kinds of identities, national and ethnic identity, Anderson's imagined communities, moving towards complexity, multiplicity, contextuality of social identies. It then develops into the nation state, superstates, rights and obligations, supressed national identities, cosmopolitan democracies, political interest and engagement on active citizenship. I hope the convenor of the course will be pleased with the line I have followed for teaching this theme. Tomorrow I need to finish the PowerPoint and prepare a tutorial on this theme. I will do an exercise where the students will have to take votes and look at the meaning of 'majority' on two controversial themes (energy and security in Europe). I need to get two study cases and to find a country description (for each student's country) of these issues so they can compare across Europe. I need to add links to the council of Europe website, and to my own article on the European Elections.

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All my blogs, past, present and future will have some room here, anew

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Maybe this time this blogs will enjoy a much contextualised life, at least that is what I hope for them

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