Earlier this week was the annual Weinstein lecture, and so members of my family converged on Washington DC. As is our wont, Carrie and I took advantage of the opportunity to go book shopping and found ourselves at Kramerbooks. After selecting a nice pile of reading, we decided the best plan of action would be …
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More on the Strike
from Saturday’s Gazette
I hate not being able to blog about this in more detail
In the meantime, a story from MacLean’s, which is sort of like a Canadian Newsweek.
Strike Hits Chronicle
Here’s the latest. It’s a little too American — this isn’t about McGill’s relationship to the Bush administration or gated communities (sorry Marc, you’ll have to be more creative with your metaphors) but rather the politics of labor within Quebec and Canada and McGill’s place in it — but it’s getting covered nonetheless. More when …
TA Strike
The TA strike started on the day I left for Europe and has gotten complicated, as these things do. I haven’t posted anything since as chair I also speak for the department and so I am being extra careful. In the meantime, you can read about it here.
Sssshhhh! Scholar at Work!
Sorry for the quiet. I’ve been using every extra moment to get four talks together for Europe. Why I agreed to give four different talks in six dates is beyond me. Oh wait, I figured fear of public embarrassment would motivate me to make progress on that difficult chapter in my book. And it worked. …
The Phonautograph Gets Its 15 Minutes. . .
. . .and I ride its coattails, or help it, or something. The story is now making it’s way around AP. I talked to an LA Times reporter yesterday and have a few quotes in their story, which also has a picture of the device. The quotes are of mixed quality and the guy appears …
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