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Overheard
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Shoptalk: Overheard at ATHE
Theater theorists, historians, and practitioners gathered in Orlando for this year’s annual meeting of ATHE, the Association for Theatre in Higher …
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Shoptalk: Overheard at AOIR
This October, scholars from 30 countries headed to Montreal for the 19th annual meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers. Experts discussed the state …
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Shoptalk: Overheard at APSA 2018
Over a holiday weekend in early September, political scientists gathered in the heart of Boston in a mall (well, in a conference center and two hotels …
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Shoptalk: Overheard at ICA
This May over three and a half thousand scholars descended on Prague for the International Communications Association Conference. In between the thousands …
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Shoptalk: Overheard at Kzoo 2018
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 commons suggest there was robust critical engagement with emergent subthemes of Pedagogies of Day Drinking, Dissenting from Weather, and Against 8 a.m. Panels. Read on for a neoliberal…
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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 construction, it can be reported that many humorous quotes seem to have been overheard. Join us in celebrating the 95 Theses’ quincentennial, titter at the titillating…
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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 …
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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 other panels at this year’s American Comparative Literature Association conference. As scholars traversed the beautiful cobbled streets, held their canvas bags close to…
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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 …
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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, editors, and publishers. This year’s conference, which took place last month in Washington DC, featured panels studded with literary celebrities like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Jennifer Egan. But…
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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 …
