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Category: Culture

Gun Control: An international perspective

Sitting in the library of Sciences Po on October 5, just a few days after the attack at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, I...
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Ten Crazy Days

It’s the day after returning from our ten day adventure over fall break, and I’m both relieved and sad to be back home in...
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Loving my Home Stay

At this point of the semester, the semester seems long and the midterms and papers seem daunting, and if I were in Evanston I...
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Dashing

by Savannah Birnbaum The semester so far feels a lot like walking up a down-moving escalator.  I must do everything! Go everywhere! Have the...
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My trip to Guangzhou

As promised, this post will talk about my trip to some villages around Guangzhou as part of “Exploring Chinese Culture Through Fieldwork.” The trip...
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Exploring Hong Kong and Southern China, in and outside of the classroom

My favorite class here has been “Exploring Chinese Culture through Fieldwork.” It is a cultural anthropology class focused on Southern China and Hong Kong....
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Toussaint Part I: Cliffs of Moher

Paris is great and all but city life gets to be a bit tiring sometimes. This is why my friends and I decided to...
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Halfway There

I’m writing this at Sciences Po’s library*, just a few hours before I take off for Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany, all places that...
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Some Fishy Explorations

Cinque Terre: the famed 5 cities on the Ligurian coast of Italy. This past week, my friend and I had scheduled for two nights in...
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Food Frenzy

by Ann Ku There’s nothing I can say about the food here except delicious.  Over the few months that I’ve been here, I’ve tried...
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