AAG 2012 session details and content November 24, 2011
Posted by Mike Gulliver in Musings.Tags: AAG 2012
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The AAG 2012 schedule has been released, and the information on each of the Deaf Geographies sessions is available at the following URLS.
Monday 27th February.
12.40 – 2.20: Deaf Geographies I – Foundations for Deaf Geographies
2.40 -4.20: Deaf Geographies II – Analyzing Deaf Geographies
4.40 – 6.20: Deaf Geographies III -The Future of Deaf Geographies
If last year is anything to go by, the wealth of information and research will be amazing, and I’ll be so excited by the end I’ll barely be able to sleep.
I’m presenting in the first session, so lots of time to kick back afterwards, relax and listen.
I *am* going to New York November 16, 2011
Posted by Mike Gulliver in Musings.Tags: balance, funding, leverage, NYC
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Amazing what securing a tiny bit of funding does in leveraging more. Maybe it’s about the credibility that it lends to your project.
Having secured the conference fees from the AAG, I’ve now been told that work are going to contribute something to get me to New York. This is wonderful news, particularly since part of the ‘new vision’ that I described yesterday requires me to develop a way to hold in (tension is the wrong word, it suggests that there is a tension… maybe balance would be a better one) balance the two roles that I currently play within the University (IT services and Academic) and, if possible, work them together.
Unless the university adopts a revolutionary new approach to many things (I can’t, for example, be a member of academic staff and support staff – different pay grades and structures and different rules on what each can do apply), one of the only ways to constructively bridge the two areas is to present ideas that do just that, at fora like the AAG.
Last night, upon hearing the news that I’d got partial funding, and some more on the way *fingers crossed*, I got the go ahead from home to attend – no small grace when it involves leaving Jo at home with a (will be then 23 month old) toddler for a week on her own.
Big Apple – here I come 
The Clandestine University November 15, 2011
Posted by Mike Gulliver in Musings.Tags: Cambridge, Clandestine University, Official University, Reality, utopia, vision
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A recent article by Thomas Doherty in the Timer Higher Education, suggests that within increasingly polished ‘Official Universities’, Clandestine scholarship is becoming the only way to carry out real research and teaching.
Doherty argues that with :
“Transparency playing as a poor substitute for truth; and raw Information supplanting the curiosity-driven demands for critical knowledge that are the primary concern of a serious university, there exist at least two universities within each institution: an “Official” one and a “Clandestine” one.” (text slightly adapted)
He goes on to detail all the things that the Clandestine university does but cannot admit to. Things which are fundamental to keeping the heart of knowledge-generation beating, but which don’t officially exist. (more…)
I might be going to the AAG after all November 10, 2011
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Following on from the previous post – which was put up rather too long ago – I decided that the only way to get to the AAG was to go aggressive on the ‘travel fund’ angle.
There were two options: (more…)
