In less than the last week, I have composed over 50 letters of recommendation.
Category Archives: Academe
HASTAC conference
I’m re-posting with for my friend Cathy Davidson, who is one of the main players in HASTAC, a very interesting digital humanities initiative. Sorry for the poor formatting. Call for Papers International HASTAC Conference “Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface” April 19-21, 2007 * www.hastac.org We are now soliciting papers and panel proposals for “Electronic …
And now a few words on class, social class that is
I’ve always thought of some of what academics do as “playing at” being of a higher social class than we are. Major field-wide conferences [cough]NCA![/cough]are held at hotels so expensive that they decimate university travel budgets. Groups of academics routinely go out to meals at these events that they can’t really afford. Broke job candidates …
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Cool
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf06319/chap1.cfm Seems kind of interesting. — Sorry things are so quiet on this end. It’s been a lot of evaluating and recommending this week, punctuated by some nice social events and an interesting talk. More anon.
Science Wars, Part 1 Million
Here’s an article about a surprising test by sociologist of science Harry Collins. Sure enough, experts can’t tell his answers from real physicists’ on a test about gravity. I’m not sure where this is going, but I think it proves just about as much as The Original Sokal Affair did. It proves with some skill …
Atheistic Drinks at Lunch on Campus
So I was speaking on the phone with a friend last night who has just moved from Canada to take an academic job in the U.S. So I did to her what all the Canadians did to me when we arrived here. “So? What’s it like? What are the differences? Have you considered starting a …
New Text
Jonathan Sterne and Emily Raine, “Command Tones: Digitization and Sounded Time,” First Monday 11:9 (September 2006): available online at [http://firstmonday.org/issues/special11_9/sterne/index.html]. — In other news, class went great yesterday. It’s good to be back in the classroom.