I have now been in New York City for a couple of days doing mixed work. Later today I will do a talk at CUNY. I am excited to be here and I am looking forward to the talk as well as continuing to meet really interesting people today and for the rest of my [...]

I am currently in California and after among other things have spent time at Stanford and met with the Spatial History group, I will spend Monday at UC Humanities Research Institute. After that I will go to NYC for a couple of meetings, and a talk at Yale on Dec 2. I am looking forward [...]

This has been a very hectic year and I am happy to have a few days of relatively slow time. I went on a walk in beautiful Sollefteå earlier today in the cold. Sollefteå features a great deal of undulated terrain, a river and a very picturesque setting. I have a great deal of planning [...]

I had a productive meeting today at UC Irvine. Forward looking and exciting. Mainly about a book project, but also other things. Tonight, I have a “free” evening, which I chose to partly spend in the hotel bar with a latop. It works as well as a café in terms of getting writing and work [...]

I have now arrived in Irvine and will have meetings here tomorrow at UCHRI at UC Irvine. This morning I did some work on the expansion of the lab and I am trying to catch on email and other things.
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you precisely try to judge the size [...]

I am currently in Santa Cruz, where have I had a meeting today. Tomorrow I will drive to Southern California – Irvine. And yesterday I was in Palo Alto. I saw a girl with a cardboard sign saying “Can you spare some change?” and some more that I could not read – on Stanford campus. [...]

One of the things I like about the US – at least the US I meet – is the strength of individuals and their drive and conviction. I just talked to the waitress at the bar I am “using” for writing (combined with eating/drinking) and it turns out that she is hoping to do an [...]

I have just spent two Friday evening hours working on my article. One nice thing about this choice of day and time is that cafés in Berkeley are less crowded than normally.
Getting here from the airport was interesting. For some very strange reason the van – destined from the East Bay and Berkeley – [...]

I arrived in Toronto early Saturday morning. My hotel is also a pub (or rather several pubs – although not in the same buidling), which caused the taxi driver (who did not know about the hotel part) to wonder about me arriving from an international flight at 1:30 am and immediately going to a bar. [...]

Blogging has been fairly slow on this blog some time. Hopefully there will be more in the future. I will focus more on my own work the rest of this year, and I think this will result in more blogging here (as well as on the HUMlab blog). There is a lot to be reported [...]