Politeness and Prurience

[anteros_lmc]

I sooo want to go to this conference! If the conference abstract is anything to go by, I suspect the papers will be rather heavy on the old critical theory discourse, but I bet they'll be a lot of fun too :)

Comments

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Oh, it does look fun. Can you go?

i like the girl in the painting--but it looks like she has a party streamer on her head! (And I knew they were into hats back then, but surely she is not trying to stay warm with her hat?!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

I'll have to wait and see whether I can go, I have no idea what I'll be doing work-wise by next September. I hope I can go though!

but surely she is not trying to stay warm with her hat?!
Never mind her hat! If she doesn't put her vest on she'll catch her death!

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

Is there anything to stop you from going? It looks fabulous, I wish I could go. Why didn't I become a scholar?!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Is there anything to stop you from going?
Childcare, funds and work (or possible lack thereof) in that order! :} I live in hope though!

Why didn't I become a scholar?!
Heh, I've worked in academia most of my life but somehow the really interesting conferences always seem to be in subjects I don't work in. Poo!

[esteven]

Let's go! :)

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

If I get to go would you like to accompany me? :)

[esteven]

I'd try to get days off!

I'll then have to find an overnight stay. :)

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Glasgow is not so very far from Edinburgh! :)

[esteven]

:)
How about dear Nodbear?

And which is easier to reach from London?

Anyway, I AM serious. :)))))))))))))))

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

And which is easier to reach from London?
I's six and half a dozen, no real difference at all!

Anyway, I AM serious. :)))))))))))))))
Yay! Sadly I have no idea what I'll be doing next September as my job is very precarious right now. It would be great if we could make this happen though! :D

[esteven]

*crosses fingers for job*

I should like that of all things. :)

Let's talk about it nearer the time.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Please do cross everything. The university sector here is being decimated. Not a good place to work right now at all :/

Never mind, onwards and upwards! Lets see if we can plan something nearer the time. I also wondered if dear latin_cat might be interested in this?

[esteven]

Hm, she might. I shall pm her with a link to your post. :)

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

What's a long century? A couple more decades than a regular century?! Bartholomew says this is why people think arts graduates can't count. Then gave me a look. Cheeky little bugger.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

You're asking me?! I'm a prehistorian remember, I count in millennia not centuries! XD And you can tell Master Bartholomew if he doesn't mind his manners he'll be on hard tack till Christmas!

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

He wants to know if hard tack is a brand of caviar.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Something like that.... ;)

[julian-griffith.livejournal.com]

Basically they count the eighteenth century as running, conceptually, right up to Victoria's reign. I don't remember if they start it a little earlier. But it's about cultural patterns. Guess who's been studying the Georgians, however informally?

[aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com]

If you manage to attend, one can hope for a few cough*hundreds*cough words of report, of course? :}

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Well I can't promise that I'll get to go, but if I do, I can promise I'll come back with one or two notes!

[julian-griffith.livejournal.com]

I WANT TO GO TOO.

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Looks good.

You should definitely go.