Fredagsbar and the social drinking culture

You haven't had a real university experience until you've been to a Danish "Friday bar." This past Friday was the Største Fredagsbar: an all-day, all-night event of sports games, friendly competition, free concerts, and lots and lots and lots of alcohol.  Now, this isn't your typical fredagsbar.  This annual event is put on by the Aarhus …

A Political Scientist in a Journalist’s World

Disciplinary backgrounds affecting classroom discourse. This past Friday was our first actual class of the programme, the first lecture of our first module, "Reporting Global Change."  It's going to last about a month, and is held at the Danish School of Media and Journalism, or DMJX for short. It was an incredibly long day because …