John and I woke up very early this morning to hop the train to Chicago for the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes' annual meeting. The topic of this meeting is "The Fate of the Disciplines," which sounds a little less sunny than the "future of the disciplines" discourse typically flying about. And given some of the mixed panels listed on the lobby easel--one panel is called "Cinema Studies and Philology"--the title of the meeting might well be changed to "Fight of the Disciplines." But that's just a guess.
It's also my first tagalong conference (John is the one who works for the Humanities Program on our campus), which means I haven't seen John since we parted at the train station, but I have seen a lot of Michigan Avenue. For my money, which isn't much since I'm mooching, buying new tee shirts is a lot better than watching a philologist and a film theorist try to cohere. Maybe that's too skeptical. But bear in mind that I do like tee shirts.
Judith Butler is giving a plenary tomorrow, so I'll likely venture down to Hyde Park to hear what she has to say about our disciplinary fate--I promise a full report right here. For now, though, all I know is that while John is rubbing elbows with conferees tomorrow eve, I will be dining at Vong Thai Kitchen on State and Hubbard, a future I really couldn't be happier about.
mmm... VTK is delicious. Do get that awesome dim summy appetizer plate.
Posted by: Z | 27 April 2006 at 07:31 PM
hey, did you guys read cary nelson got arrested in NYC?
Posted by: katka | 28 April 2006 at 12:04 PM
oh my, what for?
Posted by: dhawhee | 28 April 2006 at 05:19 PM