The Unbearable Ugliness of Panel Titles
In the interest of the advancement of knowledge and the quest for unalloyed truth, disciplinary status, and shameless self-aggrandizement, I’ve put together a research instrument that I have no doubt will lay to rest for all time the ugly questions surrounding improper areas of focus at academic conferences. To that end, reader, I’d be grateful for your input, if you’d be so generous with your time as to
I’ll post the results here.
Or maybe propose to present them at an academic conference, in the interest of confirming certain folks’ ongoing fears.
January 29th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Argh: “interdisciplinary” breaks the letter limit (16) by one.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Now there you go gettin all hifalutin like and usin them big words.
January 30th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
I took the survery because “knowlege is everything,” and stuff.
January 30th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
And then I proofread my entery.
January 30th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
community, praxis, rethinking
risky, frisky, Lebowski
February 1st, 2008 at 10:01 pm
proves, ecumenical, wino
longitudinal, mixed-method, and I can’t remember the third.
Let’s just say…saffron.
February 1st, 2008 at 10:04 pm
I would add “discourse” and “activity” to the verboten list, but I’m trying to publish a paper with those two terms.
I would go to anything with “scatalogic” in the title.
February 6th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Thanks, all. I’ll put the results up in a few days.