Finished #Babel17
#SamuelRDelany
“Oh, the bright young people who come here, with their bright, lively imaginations. They do nothing all day long but think of ways to kill….I think it does something to our minds. Imagination should be used for something other than pondering murder….”
#Babel17
#SamuelRDelany
“I'm familiar with a half dozen languages…Babel-17 isn't one of them…I want to find out who speaks this language because I want to find out who, or what, in the Universe thinks that way….”
Better late than never: archive of ALL THE #babel17 TWEETS! @GroupBABEL @MedievalAngie @dorothyk98 #medievaltwitter storify.com/JonathanHsy/babel17-in-r...
@GroupBABEL 7. What if institutions didn’t just care about their brand but about people (not just protecting their own)? #academia #babel17 @GroupBABEL
@GroupBABEL 5. How do institutions & communities build support networks for all (students, staff, faculty at all stages)? #academia #babel17 @GroupBABEL
@GroupBABEL 4. How is academic work *of all kinds* invested in advocacy and allyship? #academia #babel17 @GroupBABEL
@GroupBABEL 3. How do you make stories that open up new ways of understanding/knowing/perceiving? #academia #babel17 @GroupBABEL
@GroupBABEL 2. What are the ethics of telling others’ stories (in scholarship, historical fiction, advocacy work)? #academia #babel17 @GroupBABEL
@GroupBABEL 1. What’s at stake in self-disclosure in the #academy (integrating your identity/experience and your scholarship)? #babel17 @GroupBABEL
Reflecting on #BABEL17: THREAD of *questions* (not answers nor solutions) that emerged throughout the conference @GroupBABEL #academia
Thx @MedievalAngie @dorothyk98 & for restorative, reflective #babel17. Building/transforming structures & care for whole selves @GroupBABEL
One irony of #BABEL17 so far: not yet any refs to Delany’s novel on how language makes world(s) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel-17
#babel17 Translyricism & Translation: Making / Medieval / Modern. Lyric modalities, labor/craft, temporalities/modalities, cultural critique
#babel17 Excellent practicum on strategies for organizing in academy (& outside it). Thinking a lot abt solidarity & 1on1 convos @GroupBABEL
#babel17 @bruceholsinger @Transliterature convo on ethics of keeping up with scholarship & its organizational possibilities for communities
#babel17 @bruceholsinger thinking on ethics/duties to transgender audiences in fiction? Reflecting on early medieval scholarship on Rykener
#babel17 @bruceholsinger @Transliterature convo: making makes us brave
#babel17 @bruceholsinger in historical fiction and making as method. What spirit of making can inflect our scholarly imagination/stories?
#babel17 @Transliterature on trans community as not so much a utopia but a necropolis: a miss of living with & in communion wish our dead
#Babel17 @bruceholsinger & @Transliterature convo: trans approaches. On Gower’s Confessio & “divisioun,” gender dysphoria/transformation
#babel17 Kadin Henningsen’s presentation is a performative comic!
Danny the Street & Rhizomatic Transtemporality in Doom Patrol. @GroupBABEL
YAY @GroupBABEL #BABEL17 in Reno: NB DONUT SOCIAL and CHURRO SOCIAL #medievaldonut #medievaltwitter #biculturaldonut babel-meeting.org/2017-meeting-reno/2017-m...
TODAY Jun15 CFP deadline #BABEL17 MAKE/RISK/WORK Reno: #activism #academia making &more @GroupBABEL #medievaltwitter https://babel-meeting.org/2017-meeting-call-for-papers/
CORRECTION TOMORROW (June 15) is the CFP deadline for #BABEL17; sorry for any confusion there! #medievaltwitter #timeywimey twitter.com/JonathanHsy/status/87501...
TOMORROW (Jun15) #BABEL17 MAKE/RISK/WORK! Incl “Immigrants[,] Make #Medieval Studies” 250ish words #medievaltwitter https://babel-meeting.org/2017-meeting-call-for-papers/
CFP TODAY (Jun15) #BABEL17 MAKE/RISK/WORK! Incl “Immigrants[,] Make #Medieval Studies” 250ish words #medievaltwitter https://babel-meeting.org/2017-meeting-call-for-papers/
#BABEL17 CFP (by June 15): babel-meeting.org/2017-meeting-call-for-pa...
NB “Immigrants[,] Make Medieval Studies” (blurb c.250 words is great)! #medievaltwitter
