Dear student,
if you think about your choice for the next Cultural Studies Seminar at our university, I can definitely recommend the course “From Empire to Europe”. And why?
By now, I have written quite a bit about the Brexit vote and its consequences on this blog. But when I read Alessa Günther’s post (see link below) a few days ago, it got me thinking again and gave me some new insights. Thus, I thought I’d write another few words on the…
To be honest, during my entire school life, I never really liked history. I guess my teacher also wasn’t really the best, not being able to mediate his enthusiasm for history to his class. However, starting my studies in English at University, I quickly understood that there are several classes…
The building of this term’s “From Empire to Europe” class of the University of Mainz was quite interesting. While the purpose was to follow the process surrounding the “Brexit” referendum in the UK, the teacher would introduce the students to the history of…
Dear Mike, I absolutely share your opinion about the leading campaigners in the referendum now slowly resigning one after the other. Especially concerning Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, I think it is an absolute absurdity that they now “leave the boat”. After all, the pro-Brexit campaign in my opinion largely lived of and won with the strong…
Dear Tine, thanks you for choosing such an interesting topic for your blog post! :-) Although apparently this controvery surrounding the CHOGM was an issue only three years ago, so rather recently, I hadn’t heard of it before our CS IV course. To be honest, I didn’t even know that there was something like Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings…