It’s funny – in one way my Bournemouth experiences still linger on, in another way I left England a long time ago and the whole EMHIS-team at Hamburg is already knee-deep preparing the next forum coming up at the Hans-Bredow-Institute in November.
Four months have already gone by since the last EMHIS Forum at the Centre for Media History at Bournemouth University (BU)! Incredible, how time flies. Still, my recollections are so vivid.
I had the pleasure of staying in the beautiful seaside town of Bournemouth for a full ten days. I was able to utilize the peace of Bournemouth to get some serious work done—starting to write down the core of my thesis, the introduction and method chapters. For this, the conversations with all EMHIS-members at BU were a terrific support and I would like to thank them all, Kathryn McDonald in particular. Also the fruitful methodological discussions at the EMHIS-forum, inspired by the comments of Prof. Andreas Fickers, meant a great deal to me. Thanks to the wonderful care and help from the EMHIS-team at BU, the whole trip was a huge success for me.
By now, autumn is upon us. And I’m about to wrap up the introductory chapters of my thesis, which are well on their way—nearly finished, I dare say. I doubt that this would have been possible without the productive kick-off days in peaceful Bournemouth! By the way, the lovely salt-water waves certainly helped in terms of a ‘fresh’ start for my chapters. Bournemouth is a surfing place! Could it get any better? I can’t wait to get back. But in the meantime, I’m busy prepping for our Forum III and hoping that the next Hamburg meeting will be just as enriching for my EMHIS-colleagues as Bournemouth was for me.
//Alina