Everich yeer, michel clerkes fare tu Michygan and eten, drynke, and telle tydinges. For you plebs who don’t speak Middle English, that means each year ...
Category: Shoptalk
Shoptalk: Overheard at C19
This year, members of the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists gathered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the organization’s fifth biennial ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at MLA 2018
Literary critics that managed the trek to this year’s Modern Language Association conference descended into a professional circle of hell: the convention was held in ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at AAA
The American Anthropological Association’s 116th Annual Meeting was brimming with how can we even? under the Trump administration. The theme ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at ASA
This year’s American Studies Association conference coincided with Chicago’s first snowfall of the season. Its theme was “Pedagogies of Dissent,” and conversations that circulated in the conference ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at GSA
Over one thousand scholars gathered in Atlanta, Georgia, in early October for the German Studies Association annual conference. In keeping with the German language’s tendency to prefer the passive ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at ASA
Each August, sociologists from across North America gather for their annual meeting. This year they congregated in and around the Palais des congrès ...
Shoptalk: Overheard At MLA
Literary scholars say the darndest things, and their comments at this year’s annual Modern Language Association convention in Philadelphia proved no exception to …
Shoptalk: Overheard at Dickens Universe
Each August among the redwoods of the sprawling campus of UC Santa Cruz, academics converge to discuss and celebrate a novel by Charles Dickens. This year that novel was … Middlemarch. Between ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at ACLA
During the first weekend in July, academics from around the world convened in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in order to Perform Dignity, Read at the Surface, and Feel the Unbearable—among a number of ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at Kzoo
The International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) convenes every year at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI, and thus is far better ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at the Feminist Theory Workshop
On March 24–25, hundreds of feminist, queer, gender, and sexuality studies scholars and activists—representing 87 institutions and 18 countries—gathered at Duke University for its 11th Annual ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at SEA
The Society of Early Americanists convened in Tulsa, OK, last week to talk about American literature and culture. This year’s conference featured blooming trees, a bus trip to the ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at AWP
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference & Bookfair, affectionately known as the AWP, is a high-profile annual destination for more than 12,000 writers, teachers, students ...
Shoptalk: Overheard At MLA
Literary scholars say the darndest things, and their comments at this year’s annual Modern Language Association convention in Philadelphia proved no exception to this rule. From chatter overheard in bathrooms and on barstools …