Welcome back Matt.
Posted by Jason at March 27, 2003 10:08 AMHow was the conference?
Posted by George at March 27, 2003 01:26 PMA little scattered, as you might expect. First day, when Kari and I both gave our papers, was rainy and cold and under-attended, but concluded with a rollicking session with papers from Robin Schulze (who pinpoints the problem afflicting academic literary studies) and David Greetham (telling textual tales out of school from the High Court of the Chancery). Second day got off to a great start with a keynote panel featuring Johanna Drucker, Marjorie Perloff, and Charles Bernstein (who spoke about audio: all hail Nipper, the name of the dog in the phonograph logo). Also good sessions by Claire MacDonald (featuring her journal Performance Research, Bradford Paley (of www.textarc.org), and Tom Beller (of www.mrbellersneighborhood.com). Jerry McGann and Hans Walter Gabler rounded things off with a brace of papers on electronic textuality, but we skipped out of the sweltering room after Jerry's half of the proceedings. Conference banquet that night, followed by drinks with friends at the Algonquin. Third day sessions were moved uptown to the Cornell Club to avoid the protests in and around NYU (100,000+ people in Washington Square Park). Exhausted from the trials and tribulations of travel, the conference, and the New Yorker hotel (which was plagued with midnight fire drills), we bowed out and left the city for my parents' on Long Island. Spent most of the next two days following world events.
Posted by MGK at March 27, 2003 08:08 PMHey, avoid deflated blogs...go ahead and lengthen the number of days displayed :) Your regulars will be reading via your RSS feed anyways, so why not go ahead and put two weeks (or more) up there for the first-timers?
Talked me into it!
Posted by MGK at March 29, 2003 08:19 PM