In the interest of the advancement of knowledge and the quest for unalloyed truth, disciplinary status, and shameless self-aggrandizement, I’ve put together a research instrument that I have no doubt will lay to rest for all time the ugly questions surrounding improper areas of focus at academic conferences. To that end, reader, I’d be grateful for your input, if you’d be so generous with your time as to
I’ll post the results here.
Or maybe propose to present them at an academic conference, in the interest of confirming certain folks’ ongoing fears.
The Unbearable Ugliness of Panel Titles
Argh: “interdisciplinary” breaks the letter limit (16) by one.
Now there you go gettin all hifalutin like and usin them big words. 😉
I took the survery because “knowlege is everything,” and stuff.
And then I proofread my entery.
community, praxis, rethinking
risky, frisky, Lebowski
proves, ecumenical, wino
longitudinal, mixed-method, and I can’t remember the third.
Let’s just say…saffron.
I would add “discourse” and “activity” to the verboten list, but I’m trying to publish a paper with those two terms.
I would go to anything with “scatalogic” in the title.
Thanks, all. I’ll put the results up in a few days.