Today, I'm working out of office. Together with other colleagues of #UGent I protest against the austerity measures by working side-by-side with those colleagues whose jobs are threatened.
Charlotte
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Bruxelloise (she/her) - PhD student UGent 💭 - writing about Heritage development in Jordan 🖋️ - TA for BScSS VUB & UGent - love dogs 🐶 - generally doing too many things at once but they’re all interesting 🤹🏻♀️
In less depressing academic news: this is what a mini dissertation breakthrough looks like.
All that was needed was an obscure Edward Said reference and some terrible spotify playlists.
De Vlaamse regering stelde heel trots haar koers naar een begroting in evenwicht voor. Politiek heel fijn natuurlijk - maar nu zijn het de burgers en instellingen die in het rood gaan na drie jaar crisis. Na kinderopvang, zorg, scholen, nu ook het hoger onderwijs. Durf nu niet af te komen met een eis naar #excellentie, het vat is af. #ugent
This weekend: reading group with friends and Memento, a literary festival in Kortrijk.
Next weekend: Passa Porta Festival in Brussels.
I'll be humming Simone's Feelin' Good for the next 10 days, I think.
Thank you to those literary culture workers battling budget cuts to organize these wonderful events.
Onderweg naar de universiteit om te protesteren voor internationale vrouwendag en … ja ik weet eigenlijk niet wat zeggen nu. Het artikel matcht het bewustzijn rond gender gelijkheid aan mijn universiteit, is zo ongeveer het beste waar ik op kan komen. 🤦🏻♀️
Trip to natural reserve Kalmthoutse Heide. I want to recommend our eco hotel Jerom, fully accessible by bike & train (or a combination as we did). There are few places so accessible by public transport and near nature reserves at the same time in Flanders. Super quiet heath landscape just across the road. Perfect for walking/running/biking the dreary winter months out of our bodies.
Scary report on the scale of 'forever chemicals' in Europe.
Flanders lights up like a toxic pointillist painting.
Sometimes, secretly, I escape from the stress of my PhD into my covert historian's existence.
Parallel to my research on heritage development, I have continued some work on my thesis: The Belgian Occupation of the Rhine.
Oddly, I have published with more ease and been invited personally to more talks for this project than for my PhD. I believe it has to do with a total lack of pressure - it's just for fun. I sometimes wonder what my PhD would be like if it felt the same. #history #PhD
It’s been a dark year but this book is one of the things lifting me up as I move towards the next one.
A couple of stirring passages: “Each of us saw in the other a fellow philosopher who loved the obscure, ephemeral and tangential and had a tendency to ask weird questions. We soon discovered that we shared a common despair at the state of academic philosophy.”
Metaphysical Animals - Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman.
A couple of stirring passages: “Each of us saw in the other a fellow philosopher who loved the obscure, ephemeral and tangential and had a tendency to ask weird questions. We soon discovered that we shared a common despair at the state of academic philosophy.”
Metaphysical Animals - Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman.
When - after weeks of "wroeten" (literally rooting, here you can translate as struggling) - I finally get into the flow of writing, it can really feel like a high.
Thanks to the beautiful writing retreat organized by colleagues - escaping into the weekend to avoid all TA duties.