tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post116083326687294146..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: If you happen to be in Washington DC on Oct. 27 ...Cord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1161222740152474722006-10-18T21:52:00.000-04:002006-10-18T21:52:00.000-04:00dang! it would be a nice birthday present to myse...dang! it would be a nice birthday present to myself, but I will be listening to students peer review a seminar paper.Another Damned Medievalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05231085915472400163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1161221413839191952006-10-18T21:30:00.000-04:002006-10-18T21:30:00.000-04:00Jeffrey knows I'm poking him in the ribs with this...Jeffrey knows I'm poking him in the ribs with this, but...<BR/><BR/>Looking at the GWU job advert:<BR/><BR/>"Preferred Qualifications: Applicants with research interests in any of the following will be given preference: racial, religious, cultural difference; colonial and postcolonial studies; trans-cultural contact and conflict; trade, travel, and exchange; nonnormative identities (queer, Other, animal, barbarian, hybrid); nations and nationalism; writing in the British archipelago from a non-Anglocentric point of view; periodization and time; England and the world; the complexities of identity in their relation to texts and writing."<BR/><BR/>I might could see where the department needs the education to which Chairman Cohen refers in the previous post. But then again presumably the department is sufficiently clued in to such concerns since does the list not comprise a neat precis of the Chairman's own career in critical medieval studies?<BR/><BR/>Perhaps there is another way to read the Ouroboros?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1161188215849054912006-10-18T12:16:00.000-04:002006-10-18T12:16:00.000-04:00This is mostly an internal GW event, in that it ed...This is mostly an internal GW event, in that it educates the department for the job search we're embarking upon -- we're not trying to make some grand conclusions of import to all of the field. It's much more selfish, and circumscribed. We welcome outsiders, of course, but the primary audience isn't medievalists.<BR/><BR/>It would be good to do a version of this nationally or internationally, wouldn't it?<BR/><BR/>But if anyone has any particular questions they'd like to suggest, I'm happy to add them to our list.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1161105533279237512006-10-17T13:18:00.000-04:002006-10-17T13:18:00.000-04:00My only question is this: will the panelists allo...My only question is this: will the panelists allow questions from far afield (pun intended), that is, via cell text or BlackBerry? To be left out of this conversation seems a cosmic injustice. <BR/><BR/>I know Kellie will not be at the Zoo, and for that I am in a state of anticipatory grief. Will Bruce?<BR/><BR/>dein, EmileAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1161092858519983442006-10-17T09:47:00.000-04:002006-10-17T09:47:00.000-04:00No: you'll just be able to beat a path of your own...No: you'll just be able to beat a path of your own to the future outside the Sauron-like gaze of hegemonic medievalism. Or something like that.<BR/><BR/>Consider yourself lucky!Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1161031999247410472006-10-16T16:53:00.000-04:002006-10-16T16:53:00.000-04:00I am pretty bummed out that I cannot make this sym...I am pretty bummed out that I cannot make this symposium, but I'm also worried. As this symposium is about the "futures" of our field, will I be left behind in the past if I don't attend?Eileen Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.com