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heresluck

conference report

Feb 12, 2005 23:21

This post is for coffee_and_ink.

Got back this evening from the Albuquerque conference where faith_delivers and another colleague and I presented papers on BtVS. We all agreed that we had the best BtVS panel there (and there were lots- BtVS was the theme of the SFF strand of the conference). There were two other papers that were as good as ours, or nearly so, but each of ( Read more... )

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taraljc February 13 2005, 05:24:43 UTC

Were you at UNM? Did you meet Leslie Donovan?

heresluck February 13 2005, 05:27:25 UTC

No and no.

taraljc February 13 2005, 05:30:12 UTC

ahhhhhh. My brain just went there, because I could so see her going to the presentation of a Buffy paper (I took Arthurian Lit. from her 2 years running, and I think nwo she teaches a kickass Tolkien class) if it were happening on campus.

heresluck February 13 2005, 17:24:37 UTC

It's entirely possible that she was there, but not everyone who attended our panel came up to introduce themselves afterwards. There were also about a dozen Buffy panels to choose from, so if she had to choose she might have attended a different one -- or attended a Tolkien panel, for that matter, since there were a few of those as well.

renenet February 13 2005, 05:53:04 UTC

Wheeeee! Bring your own geeks is definitely the best way to ensure the quality of your panel. I'm so glad it went well. I must hear all about it at the earliest opportunity.

exsequar February 13 2005, 06:01:36 UTC

That's great that it went so well for you :) I was wondering, would you be willing to post your paper? I'd love to read it.. I think. What's the subject?

heresluck February 13 2005, 17:25:35 UTC

I've been thinking about posting the paper at my website, yes. I won't have a chance to do so for a while, though, as I'm going out of town again tomorrow.

coffeeandink February 13 2005, 15:30:40 UTC

Of course you rock!

heresluck February 13 2005, 17:27:42 UTC

Well, of course *we* knew that. But now lots of other people know it as well, which is pleasing. And I got asked for my paper by one of the two other people who wrote kick-ass papers -- really nice guy, and very smart, and I'm guessing just a year or two ahead of me career-wise.

superplin February 13 2005, 15:30:52 UTC

Any chance you'd be willing to share more about this conference, the panel/paper topics (including--maybe even especially--the crazy ones) and your own stuff?

heresluck February 13 2005, 17:38:42 UTC

Sure. I'm going out of town again tomorrow, but can post at some point after I get back.

As a teaser: the paper I gave was about feminist community in BtVS, and grew out of ideas I wrote about in posts on Dirty Girls and Chosen.

I miss my show.