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supermarkets as lieux de mémoire

apologies for the french – i’m channelling my inner bedbug. A lieu de mémoire (French for “site of memory”) is a physical place or object which acts as container of memory Sabine Marschall, 2013 There’s one lecture that I remember most clearly from my time at university, about memory and place. I don’t remember a lot of […]

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graduating in a pandemic

Uni during a pandemic is hard. Third year, when the work gets hardest and the deadlines matter the most, would be hard anyway. Third year as part of the Covid cohort? Feels almost undoable. Add in the perception that students should just be used to living in a pandemic at this point and it’s not […]