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Congress – Day #1
For the next 5 days I am going to be blogging from Congress 2009 at Carleton University.
I attended the President’s reception this evening. Lots of great food, libations, and a mass of fascinating conversations. This is what interdisciplinarity is all about. Not replacing the value of field-specific concentrations, but enriching them immeasurably with ideas and concepts from other areas. The energy this synergy produces is positively electric.
Today I arrived just before noon and the campus was just buzzing under a brilliantly blue sky, tempered only by a cool north wind. It seems every time I look lost or start trying to orient myself with one of the ubiquitous campus maps, some helpful conference staffer comes up and asks if I need help – that happened at least four times today. I am, apparently, map-challenged.
I went to the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (CASDW) this afternoon. This is an awesome group that was galvanized after a Universities Affairs item earlier this year questioned the value of Writing Centres on university campuses. Very interesting session. Met a prof from Texas who is looking at the role place plays in the job search. She’ll be sending me some info and I’ll pass it along to you folks when I get it.
Tomorrow morning I sit on the academic blogging panel and run the first of two CV clinics at the University Affairs booth (#49) at the book fair, If you’re around, hope to see you there.
