Wednesday, November 21, 2007
(9:47 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
AAR/SBL: In Brief
Overall, AAR/SBL went well. Anthony and Brad's panel was well-attended, despite being scheduled against a session that included both John Milbank and Catherine Keller, and it went really well on pretty much every level -- Brad, in his capacity as presider, was even labelled "a hoot." My paper was significantly less well-attended, but generated some good discussion. In other "business" matters, I met my editor from Continuum and, among other things, got to see the archetype for the "Philosophy and Theology" series cover design. (Apparently each book will have a different X-rayed item on the cover -- in discussion this weekend, I became convinced that a skull would be the most appropriate item for Zizek, but I am open to suggestions.)It was good to finally meet Eric Lee and to enjoy his hospitality, and to meet Mrs. Old Doug Johnson. I also was able to spend some time hanging out with Philip Goodchild, Lissa McCullough, Clayton Crockett, and Marcus Pound, all of whom are great (those whom I met only briefly -- please forgive me for excluding you from this run-down). And finally, I had ample opportunity to reflect on the profound injustice that I only get to hang out with Brad, Anthony, Josh Davis, and Nate Kerr on rare occasions.
And now I'm turning around and going home for Thanksgiving tomorrow. Hopefully my family won't be offended when I sleep until 3 pm on Friday.
Work on next year's top-secret "Weblog panel" has already begun, and I have reason to believe that one of the AAR groups will be hosting a session on Jean-Luc Nancy. More importantly, it's going to be in Chicago, which is better for me on virtually every level.
