Anne, I have avidly been following your escapades around England. Yes I even went out and got Waterland. Please don't forget to let us know the name of your paper. This is probably the trip to England I will never take.
Shelley
Wow, they have dances at medievalist conferences? We ecologists are so *boring.* The most one can hope for at ecological conferences is that the banquet is edible.
even my dad, the geologist, gets to have more fun at his conferences...
Is that a common thing in your academic sphere, having papers arranged so that a total stranger can read them? The closest thing I've seen in the science/engineering sphere is an officemate half-taking over a poster when the postermaker was ill, and even then the first words out of their mouths were "I didn't do any of this work so I won't be able to answer any real questions".
I've seen it happen at ecological conferences, too, but only when the original presenter was taken ill unexpectedly, and none of the people from their lab or working-group was there to take over. And yes, a big point is made of "I am only reading this, so please do not ask me questions on the research."
More often, the paper is summarily cancelled (at the last minute), which is monumentally irritating if you ran across a campus or from one mega-conference-plex to another to hear it, and wind up missing another paper you sorta kinda wanted to hear.
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