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Well, I fly out to New Zealand today for the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand conference. Then I'm back for a couple of days next week before heading off to Germany for another conference and Finland for research (and Christmas). The travel agents still haven't gotten back to me. Oh well. In case blogging is even ...

I'm heading off on a conference/research trip in just under two weeks, so it seems like a suitable time to share some thoughts about the university's preferred supplier-approach to travel agencies. (you may already have guessed where this is going...) Last year I booked my flights for my first research trip through one of the uni preferred ...

I've noticed many theses seem to include some kind of caveat in the preface or elsewhere early on. I've found I don't quite know where I sit with them, so here is a loose rambling on about exceptions and clauses... ''Such-and-such is beyond the scope of this study'' aka ''please don't mark me down for theorist X's absence in the lit ...

  The dreadful pertinence of PHD comics...   

It all started with me first being able to squeeze out a hundred words or so yesterday. I'm starting a new chapter so it's all weird and scary at the moment and I have no real structure to work with yet. As I agonised with the lack of existing structure, Sandra imparted some of her wisdom on me. Just write for an hour and a half in the morning - ...

My family headed over to the US to meet relatives a few months ago, and a local newspaper published this article about their travels (the image quality isn't fantastic): The Great Michigan Tour of '08 On my thesis front: not much going on at the moment, I've been tinkering on an article on the Eurovision Song Contest that I want to submit ...

Behold, some advice on staying motivated on past/long term projects. The bit about writing-down-your-ideas has, in admittedly a different format and context, kickstarted me in my thesis work after four consecutive semesters of teaching/procrastinating. My greatest recent moment in terms of thesis productivity occurred one night a week or ...

I've just registered (or applied? I'm not quite sure how it works) for the Donald Sassoon Masterclass Culture of the Europeans at the end of the year, and thought I should perhaps read the good man's book Culture of the Europeans - 1800 to the present beforehand. I got it yesterday - at over 1600 pages it's a scary prospect, but so far ...

I don't have a regular blogroll that I trawl through, but there is one blog that I occasionally visit and end up spending far more time reading posts and following links than I had planned. It still surprises me, because it's an economics blog, and economics is boring, right? (I am re-evaluating my prejudices slightly following my husband's ...

A couple of photos from the recent interdisciplinary conference organised by Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies.The photos here represent different aspects of the event. Peer feedback and exchange of ideas: The organised chaos of networking Formalities and postgrad solidarity (this is also an excuse to include a photo ...