Rune evensen biography of christopher
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All Grantees (2013-2024)
BI Norwegian Establishment School (BI)
Efficiency and Justice in Economics Based Arrive at for Feeling Change Design Norway: University lecturer Jorgen Randers UC Berkeley: Senior lecturer David Anthoff Year: 2014
Long Fleeting Dynamics illustrate IT Agglomerations: The Cases Of Semiconductor Valley Presentday Kongsberg
Norway: Professor Knut Sogner
UC Berkeley: Associate lecturer David Teece
Year: 2014
Fragility in interpretation Lucas Orchard
Norway: Senior lecturer Paul Ehling
UC Berkeley: Professor Johan Walden
Year: 2015
Economic Evolution, Wealth Sharing, And Grim Policy Norway: Academic Erling Steigum
UC Berkeley: Professor Alan Auerbach
Year: 2016
Implementing A Sustainable Aquaculture Strategy; Supposed Drivers Champion Challenges Seep out Two Blurry Innovation Systems From Infraction Other?
Norway: Professor Heidi Wiig Aslesen
UC Berkeley: Professor Ill feeling Agogino
Year: 2016
Learning foul Play Reaction In Bazaars With Coordination Frictions Elitist Informational Asymmetries
Norway: Lecturer Leif Helland
UC Berkeley: Professor Toilet Morgan
Year: 2017
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Summary
This article explores the Norwegian AIDS epidemic from a temporal perspective. It argues that interrogating the epidemic’s tempos and rhythms provides useful tools in writing the history of an epidemic by drawing on a wide array of material from its first decade. By using various theories of temporality and chronology, this article maps out three phases of the Norwegian AIDS epidemic. In the first phase (1983–85), the emergence of the first cases of AIDS threw the positive perception of medicine’s past into question and fundamentally challenged the notion of incessant medical progress. In the second phase (1985–87), as grim epidemiological prognoses were created and the general population was increasingly targeted, panic grew across Norwegian society. In the third phase (1987–96), as it was slowly realised that the initial prognoses would not materialise, the epidemic faded from the public imagination. With the unremembering of AIDS, HIV was turned into a chronic disease. The article argues that analysing past temporalities, like past pasts and past futures, provides insights into the presents of the past.
Keywords: HIV/AIDS, epidemics, temporality, past futures, public health
‘In six years, 50,000 will have AIDS in Norway.’1 To a country with a population of j
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Being downsized stinks, as the millions of Americans who’ve been canned in the past year know. My own employment debacle involved getting laid off, getting another gig, losing that one, then getting and losing another and another as each company I found employment with went out of business in the tanking economy, almost on cue as I arrived. It seemed like a sick joke. But I wasn’t laughing.
I’m a musician and writer and haven’t had a “real job” since 1988, though in lean times I did paint apartments and once sang “Blue Suede Shoes” dressed as the ’68 Elvis at a Korean birthday party. Gigs weren’t too hard to get when I wanted them because I play a few instruments and know the words and music to something like 3,000 songs comprised of blues, jazz, classic rock, rockabilly, standards, Broadway, television commercials, novelty music and my own stuff. Rap’s O.K. with me; ditto hip-hop and salsa. The only music I never really got into was metal. That is, until my personal economy collapsed.
As a lifelong gun-for-hire, I had been used to, and O.K. with, not knowing what tomorrow would bring. I