Demain, je me réjouis de découvrir la dernière exposition du MEG Musée d’Ethnographie de Genève « Genève dans le monde colonial » jusqu’au 5 janvier 2025 où est exposée ma bande dessinée Cher Carl
Publiée dans Le Courrier, puis reprise sur le site de #unige, elle a participé à relancer et nourrir les débats autour de la célébration de personnages controversés par des institutions académiques. https://colonialgeneva.ch/ #histoirecoloniale#HistoireColonialeEtPostcoloniale https://www.ville-ge.ch/meg/sql/memoires/6.pdf
Happy to be presenting my book & comic project tonight at the University of Cagliari, during an interdisciplinary seminar as part of my Visiting Professorship.
As I've been spending the past few days translating the 'comic' section of it into French from the original English, and will be presenting this in Italian, it really makes me think about how language shapes how we think and write about the world, beyond images. #geography#visualMethods#ethnography#history#comics#bandeDessinée
There are always unexpected delights to spending time at a different university: ideas, mental space, new people & places. In Cagliari 🇮🇹 , I have been lucky enough to find a home two years running with two companionable tortoises wandering around and living on the large terrace. Watching them munch after a day of teaching has been an unexpected, meditative delight. They are so ungainly & awkward, to my limited human eyes. Long may they wander this earth! #tortoise#academicLife#pets
From a few days ago, when I was on my way to Cagliari to teach, I visited the extraordinary 4000-3650 BC site of Monte d’Accoddi, a Neolithic site in Northern Sardinia, completed to the present form around 3000 BC. Fabulously intriguing, and apparently the only ziggurat-style structure in the Western Mediterranean. This island has so many layers of history, in this case with a hint of Mesopotamia!#StandingStoneSunday#Sardegna#Sardinia#VisitingProfessor#unica
In the last few days, in between teaching & writing, I visited two more Nuraghic sites near Siddi dating from the Bronze Age, on a slight high plane above the fertile lowlands of Sardinia: one corridor-shaped (not the usual beehive dome style) at Sa Fogaia; one “giant’s tomb” called Sa Domu ‘e S’Orcu (i.e. house of the orcs!). Both practically empty in April & open to visitors to climb around and inside. Extraordinary places! #StandingStoneSunday#BronzeAge#History#Nuraghe#Sardinia#Sardegna
What a fabulous job our university libraries do, including making public-funded research available & searchable!
The University of Geneva has a superb Archive Ouverte where we must post all our written work, in whatever version (pre/post publication) can be shared.
Locked away in a grand old dame of a hotel up a mountain for three days with a fantastic group of geography PhD students & assorted dynamic colleagues from French-speaking Switzerland 🇨🇭& beyond for the #CUSO doctoral training. Networking, building new solidarities, reaching out and exploring ideas and research methodologies. As always such a privilege to spend time with young scholars and lovely colleagues… but not even a single wisp of snow.❄️ #academicchatter#academia#geography#phd#unige
There is the most amazing blue stuff growing on my very old branches on a neglected and damp woodpile (slime / algae / moss / lichen?). I’ve never seen anything quite like it! (Northern Tuscany, Italy 🇮🇹 ) Not ideal for burning & heating my old house, but aesthetically pleasing. Ideas, anyone?
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The tense negotiations between Swiss universities & major private academic publishers continues, with a no-deal situation between SwissUniversities, Elsevier and Taylor&Francis starting from 1st January. The budgets involved are insane and we urgently need new models for sharing public-funded research results. It’s just nuts.
Covid cases on a rapid rise in Geneva, as witnessed by wastewater analysis (the only real tracking left), and candid observation in my workplace! Sorry, but I can't consider this to be "just a cold now" as many people around me seem to assume. Particularly as I've spent the past few weeks drawing a comic on the acute stage of the pandemic. It's still so raw. #covid#corona#COVID19
@JulietJFall Switzerland is performing a mass denial of Covid. I am still the only person using a mask during my run trough the supermarket. I was the only person using a mask during my recent hospital visit. A lot of coughing patients. But no masks. No doctor, no nurse using a mask.
@mavori@JulietJFall They called it CoViD19 because SARS-CoV-2 was to frightening. And now CoViD19 (20-21-22-23 and so on) disappeared from public discourse. It's magic public health in action: don't talk about a disease and it disappears (in the media at least).
Superbe visite à la collection cartographique Elisée Reclus / Charles Perron à la Bibliothèque de Genève, avec nos étudiant•es de Master en géographie. #BGE#EliseeReclus#maps#cartes#cartographie#oldMaps
So, FacePalm is wanting Europeans to pay or continue to have our data stolen. Fair enough. If it removed the endless rubbish in the timeline and let me see my old friends & family’s posts then even 12.-Swiss Francs a month might make sense, but in fact it’s still going to be totally enshittificated…
Now, how to bring everyone over here?
L'université de Genève produit de plus en plus de documents et des lignes directrices intéressants sur l'utilisation de l'IA dans l'enseignement supérieur, au-delà de la simple chasse à la fraude. De nombreuses discussions spécifiques sont également en cours au sein de chaque faculté. Sacré challenge, tout de même! https://view.genial.ly/642e8b666cba7a0011ef4154