Today’s post is about other people, sort of. First, Tim Hecker, who came to McGill to do sonic history, also has a new album out which has him featured on Pitchfork. Here’s the review. Here’s his guest list column. Second, I have been on the steering committee for a group called Media@McGill for some time …
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A New Record
In less than the last week, I have composed over 50 letters of recommendation.
Another Reason to Love Quebec
“Teach Darwin, Quebec tells evangelicals”.
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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Miscellaneous
1. It appears that the U.S. government is either too cheap to hire proofreaders or simply can’t spell. 2. Like our building itself, our street’s been under construction for awhile. There are “no parking” signs up and down the street, though people tend to ignore them on the weekends since nobody’s doing construction on the …
10 Things About Berlin
I arrived in Berlin having never spent any time in Germany apart from what must add up to a few days in the Frankfurt Airport (sorry “Flughafen”) and knowing almost no German. Here are some incredibly pedestrian insights resulting from that set of circumstances. 1. From outside the U-Bahn, it sounds just like the Washington …