Today being international women's day, I was at a seminar this morning given by some prominent researchers from lund all about the history of women in politics and diversity etc. The lecture was given in the new SOL (Språk och Litteratur (trans. = language and literature)) center's auditorium which was comfy and huge glass windows that were great for spying on the passers by. The first two women who talked gave a picture of feminism through the ages and women in politics respectively. Both chose to just talk whereas the third speaker, the newly oppointed Prof. in Gender Studies and well-known researcher into Queer Studies Tiina Rosenberg, made a big song and dance of her 45 minute slot incorporating song, film and powerful speeches. She made the audience laugh on more than one occasion due to the technical problems that incurred in the beginning of the talk. Tiina, in my opinion, was rather too over extravagent and played to the audience, but she has very strong opinions and is not afraid to voice them, so I guess that's positive.
On the research front am writing up my third paper for my thesis and have discovered the wonders of the LaTeX package subfigure.
Swam over a kilometre this evening at the pool in Delphi the student residence and I weighed in at 87 kg after showering and towelling down. 2 kilos less than a month ago???
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