We Have Seen The Enemy And He Is Us
Dearest of Enemies
Since September 2003 (gasp!) I have been working on my Ph.D. dissertation in the glorious science of History (well, in my case maybe more of an art), dealing with enemy images, idealized stereotypes, identification, self-Othering and other difficult and confusing subjects that at least got my own brain turned inside out sometimes. The last 3 days before deadline were pure hell, I can assure you. But like Dante I’m through with the Inferno and just passing through Purgatory while the manuscript is mangled through the publishing system and D-Day is drawing nigh.
It’s 19/12, a Friday, if you’re interested. Invitations for the post-dissertation party will be sent out in due time. I can’t believe I just casually wrote that. There will be a party, yes there will.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:32 am
Congratulations! What an amazing achievement, and such an interesting topic! I really wish I could see the work that you’ve done on this issue.
Best of luck!
September 19th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Mum is already obsessing about what to wear at the party.
That graphic is so funny!
September 19th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Thank you, Zheyna! I hope the book is decent, I had a very hazy picture of it when I delivered it to the publisher after 3 practically sleepless nights. I’m planning to make a little website dedicated to the thesis with some translations, pictures and stuff that got left out in the last minute.
Tinet: Yeah, poor Per Albin doesn’t look like himself at all! It’s from a caricature by Tove Jansson’s Mum Signe “Ham” Hammarsten-Jansson… It’s especially cool because she was a Sweden-born woman illustrating a Finland-born man’s extremely anti-Swedish satire … which was written in Swedish for a Swedish-speaking audience in Finland! And yet, I think most Finns can recognise the character as a “typical Swede” even without the national colours…
September 19th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
OK… This is the “Swedish people’s own” Per Albin Hansson whom we know and… well. At least people know he was the one with the eyebrows.
BUT… then I found this picture of a much younger PA.
Damn if he doesn’t look like Björn Gustafsson!
EDIT: Warning, extremely Swedish humour in the linked YouTube clip.
September 19th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
JIHUU!!!!!!!!!
Vihdoinkin hipat!
Grattis ANA!
September 19th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Congrats! And have a daft party!