tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post2042474048649896241..comments2023-08-28T23:06:44.654-12:00Comments on The Ruminate: Looney Kalamazoo Part the Firsttheswainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05919025515524894537noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-73032394408726906472010-01-04T05:55:57.146-12:002010-01-04T05:55:57.146-12:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-43470058292585453642010-01-02T08:50:43.920-12:002010-01-02T08:50:43.920-12:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-7522031933273030832009-12-11T09:39:28.059-12:002009-12-11T09:39:28.059-12:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-89236558169849138692009-10-08T03:33:41.058-12:002009-10-08T03:33:41.058-12:00Hear, hear, Jackie.
If one goes to Kzoo for the c...Hear, hear, Jackie.<br /><br />If one goes to Kzoo for the content, spending your time listening to young scholars with apparently off-the-wall topics is going to be a good use of your session time.<br /><br />I once saw an established scholar at the Medieval Academy stand up and start reading from what looked like his book ms. And he never finished, he had to be stopped.Steve Muhlbergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18136005762428407135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-67609610491361485372009-10-06T23:39:46.480-12:002009-10-06T23:39:46.480-12:00For me, the culture shock some disciplines experie...For me, the culture shock some disciplines experience at the methods and preoccupations of others is a by-product of one of the very best things about Kalamazoo: that it's a place where people who spend their academic years locked in traditional departments and their Christmas vacations attending disciplinary conferences can, come spring, burst out into a space where medievalists can be theirCarinhttp://carinruff.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-27582360626753022232009-10-06T01:03:28.797-12:002009-10-06T01:03:28.797-12:00I've never been to Kalamazoo, but I go to SBL ...I've never been to Kalamazoo, but I go to SBL (the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature). It sounds like the same or at least very similar complaints and kudos can be about the two. Sure, there's plenty of theory for those who do theory, but there's also plenty of nuts-and-bolts scholarship too. Of course, after attending a while and having gotten to meet many of Stephen C. Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18239379955876245197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-5689441321343765342009-10-05T09:22:12.484-12:002009-10-05T09:22:12.484-12:00When I pointed out in the Facebook discussion the ...When I pointed out in the Facebook discussion the "It's just Kalamazoo" problem, I should have specified that it's been *colleagues,* not students, who have been the worst culprits. Students pick up that attitude from their advisors, who either tell them not to bother with the conference or who think it's fine for them to present some half-baked seminar paper just to "Jackiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00061062649010323549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6221357.post-69625007442870031012009-10-05T06:48:03.983-12:002009-10-05T06:48:03.983-12:00The grad students I've known who've expres...The grad students I've known who've expressed the 'it's just Kalamazoo' attitude (or worse, 'don't bother with Kalamazoo') were directing quoting their <i>advising faculty</i>.<br /><br />The problem isn't an unprepared grad student or two: the vast majority of thrown-together papers I've heard--including one that was little more than rambling from cues he&E Carnellhttp://elisabeth.carnell.comnoreply@blogger.com