“Your pier-glass or extensive surface of polished steel made to be rubbed by a housemaid, will be minutely and multitudinously scratched in all directions; but place now against it a lighted candle as a centre of illumination, and lo! The scratches will seem to arrange themselves in a fine series of concentric circles round the little sun. It is demonstrable that the scratches are going everywhere impartially, and it is only your candle which produces the flattering illusion of a concentric arrangement, its light falling with an exclusive optical selection. These things are a parable. The scratches are events, and the candle is the egoism of any person now absent..." ~ George Eliot

November 27, 2011

continuing the conversation

As a follow up to my guest post for Constructing the Academy blog, I found a pretty interesting article that lays out what one should do at a conference (as opposed to my post which was simply what I did at my first conference as a faculty member).


**disclaimer: by posting this link I"m not suggesting I agree wholesale with this writer. To me, though, its worth thinking about how other people approach professionalization issues in our field because it helps me clarify what I want my approach to be**
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