Confessions of a displaced hedgehog

A displaced hedgehog is a figure - or rather an image - from Tove Jansson's Moomin books. This is how I can best describe myself. This blog is mostly about being displaced.

Sunday, 17 March 2013

Heteroglossia

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I have just come home from Norway. Yes, again. And yes, another PhD examination. I will not repeat the whole procedure, but there was a tria...

Saturday, 9 March 2013

Our names are who we are

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For some reason, two articles on a similar topic were circulated on Facebook today: this and this. It is a very interesting subject w...

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Thursday, 7 March 2013

Old Hags' Day

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Tomorrow is the International Women's Day, another holiday I do not celebrate. Women's Day once a year, and the rest are men'...

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Sunday, 17 February 2013

Rebirth

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I know I have said this before, but it cannot be said too often. The miracle is repeated every year. The first day of gardening, mostly insp...

Friday, 15 February 2013

Timeline

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As usual, I am inspired by my daughter's blog. Young as she is, she cannot think more than five years back and three years into the fut...

Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Virtually Russian

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A couple of years ago I carelessly promised to go to Moscow for a guest lecture. It's a bad habit I must get rid of: when people invite ...

Sunday, 3 February 2013

Questions about reading

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It has been a while since I responded to my daughter's blog. (Time to have another blog marathon, Julia!). She pinched the questions fro...

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