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Mixed Nuts
June 13, 2007    File under: Denver

There aren't really enough good things to say about this:

If you're in Denver and are a thinking person and you're not going to this, I'm not sure you're interested in having fun. This is where it all comes together.

Look, I spent my 21 years in school, got my PhD, got my job, set up my little post in the Academy, but not so I could have some sense intellectual authority fend off questions the way the shields on the Starship Enterprise deflect asteroids and phaser blasts. I got into the business, like most people, because I wanted to keep talking about things, which is also why I've gone to academic conferences. There, however, too often the frenzy to get one's c.v. into shape, to get the number of conference appearances you need before the upcoming personnel review, tends to short out the exchange, not to mention failing to bring you into contact with very many people who might not share most of your institutional assumptions.

For that, you've got to step outside. That shouldn't, however, mean abandoning the Academy altogether.

There should be a middle ground.

And there is.

This is it.

Seriously, you should be going. All the time.

Posted by Jake Adam York at June 13, 2007 1:54 PM



COMMENTS

you mean there is an Academy?

i thought there were FTEs to-be-filled?

gary

Posted by: gary at June 13, 2007 4:22 PM