Comments on: Historiann hits the Old Northwest Territory, again!

By: Invasion of the pod people : Historiann : History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:26:06 +0000

[...] graduate student Justin Carroll made of my talk at the CIC-American Indian Studies Consortium at Michigan State University earlier this month. (At least you can find out what I sound like, if not what I look like!) Those of you who are [...]

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:57:30 +0000

JJO, you weren’t there (I think) the time they had those little miniaturized hot-dog thingies in some kind of dark viscous, clingy, sauce-based substance! We thought it was all very I guess you’d say existential back in those days.

By: JJO

JJO — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:45:16 +0000

That actually sounds a bit grand for old-school Philly fare, Indy. Would you care for a stainless steel bowl full of last month’s Doritos?

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:56:09 +0000

Isn’t the menu Perpetua describes what we used to have back in Fluff’ya, Historiann? Whatever. I’m extending your late tour into the cedar stands of Delmarva over the next couple of days, and so far I’ve had a lot more free food than I’ve had to do any work. They get to bat tomorrow, though.

By: Perpetua

Perpetua — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:08:23 +0000

Free food works – as long as it isn’t university catering! I’m *so* tired of platters of cheddar cheese, stale crackers, half-dead fruit, and cookies.

By: Historiann

Historiann — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:35:04 +0000

No kidding, and guess what? Attendance is a lot better, esp. among the grad students, I’m guessing.

I need to start using food and drink as bribes, and to help lubricate intellectual exchange in my own department. It’s how I grew up in my grad department, but I’ve ended up teaching in departments where that wasn’t the tradition and/or there wasn’t the budget. But, it really works!

By: Comrade PhysioProf

Comrade PhysioProf — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:41:29 +0000

That’s pretty fucking swank that they serve free lunch at departmental/program seminars!

By: Historiann

Historiann — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:16:51 +0000

Katherine–she really is a very generous and accomodating host, and her students are really smart. (Plus, it’s just nice to find out that someone is reading your book and taking it seriously.)

A good cure for the slumps, I tell ya.

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:33:40 +0000

Just ’cause it’s called East Lansing don’t quite rightly make it “East!” I’m heading a couple hundred miles east from Bituminosia tomorrow and will still not get to salt water, unless a Chesapeake Bay bridge collapses or something. What state name did Thomas Jefferson propose to give to that part of the Lower Peninsula? Will look forward to that podcast. Happy traveling tomorrow!

By: Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:18:14 +0000

Yea Susan Sleeper-Smith! I met her at the Berks last time, she’s lovely!