En studie av rum i Ultuna


Apart from the fact that a good friend of mine works there, I appreciate the peace and quiet and the many rooms within rooms, which allow me to work undisturbed.
It is clear that there is a landscape architecture programme at the university...
In 1977, the Agricultural University, the Veterinary University, the Veterinary Institute (Skara), the Forestry University and the Forestry School (Skinnskatteberg) merged to form SLU.
At the same time as the university was founded, the Veterinary Institute in Skara was established in 1775 by veterinarian Peter Hernquist with the support of King Gustav III.
Peter Hernqvist (1726-1808) studied natural sciences at the age of 25 at Uppsala University and, after completing his studies, travelled to France to train as a veterinarian in Lyon...
...which is in our neck of the woods, as Lyon is 344.8 km from our little house in Marseillan.
He was obviously good at what he did, because he was offered a professorship in botany in St. Petersburg, which he turned down, and was ordered by the government to return home from France and establish a veterinary school in Sweden (1769).
His love life seems sadder.
It was not until Peter was 55 that he married the young Helena Maria Skarin.
She became pregnant shortly after their wedding, but died in childbirth at the age of 24.
Not only did they only have one year of marriage, but their son also died a few months after his mother's death.
Peter never remarried.
This story reminds me that we live in a society where scientific knowledge has enabled us to make life so much better for so many people.
This was precisely the question discussed after lunch as a dress rehearsal for the panel discussion at the department and academy conference on 20-21 August.
More specifically, we discussed why we have higher education, what makes it unique, what is meant by academic freedom, academic citizenship, democracy and freedom of expression.
These are incredibly exciting and important issues, and I really appreciated being able to explore them with my colleagues at the University of Gävle: Peder and Signe.
Per did a great job as moderator.
I got some book recommendations from colleagues who have read The Vegetarian and found it thought-provoking.
Synopsis: "Han Kang is the recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
‘for her intense poetic prose, which confronts historical trauma and exposes human vulnerability.’
Yeong-hye is a quiet woman in a traditional marriage in South Korea. She has never rebelled, but then she begins to dream of blood and brutality, of bodies and meat.
One day, she makes up her mind: she must become a vegetarian. The people in her life, her husband, brother-in-law and sister, refuse to accept her decision, and her stubbornness sets off a spiral of coercion and violence. The struggle is not only about her body and what she chooses to eat, but also about her sexual and intellectual freedom. What happens to someone who constantly has to fight for their existence? What means are available, and when does a person reach their breaking point? The violence unleashed by Yeong-hye's protest takes hold of her, begins to work against her. On the other side of the metamorphosis, rationality no longer prevails.
The Vegetarian is a breathtakingly beautiful and dark story about desire and transformation, power and resistance. It was awarded the International Man Booker Prize in 2016 and became Han Kang's breakthrough outside her native South Korea. It is a lyrical story in three acts, moving between realism, surrealism and allegory.
During the coffee break, I had the opportunity to explore SLU's many rooms.
From an imaginative staircase in Kuben, I was led up to the staff roof terrace, which in itself created a room and opened up to the room down in the courtyard and roof terraces on different floors.
They were also selling homemade honey, which I couldn't resist buying.




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