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Sep. 27th, 2015 10:30 pm- So, WorldCon is in Helsinki for 2017 which means bids for NASFiC 2017 is going to happen, and there's a bid for a San Juan NASFiC. I'm on the Bid Committee for volunteers, so if a NASFiC in San Juan sounds like your bag of munchies, and you'd like to help out, let me know!
- Got an email from one of my quals committee profs (didn't keep him for my diss committee because I have better folks for my project, but he was one of my favourite people to work with) saying he'd backed the IGG (ee!!) and also there's a SEA Studies conference coming up at UC Berkeley, and he wanted to know if I'd be interested in giving a talk about literary culture in Malaysia. I don't feel I'm qualified to talk much about the literary culture in Malaysia, being part of it only tangentially, but I might be able to write a thing I've been thinking about re: re-telling folktales, the act of modernizing mythologies, how globalization factors into the act, as well as the pressure to Westernize.
That said, there is this article which has been generating a lot of conversation on the FB group I'm part of, so, hm.
- YL and I went to the Heritage House to check out the Chinese Moon Festival, and also to watch the blood moon. I'd never been to the Heritage House (which is just a Victorian-era house converted into a museum display piece to show how Riverside settlers would have lived and built their houses in the late 1800s).
There were a few dudes setting up telescopes, and we chatted with a Japanese-American who had a telescope from the Riverside Astronomical Society, a simpler, larger thing, that's only ten years younger than me.
We wandered, and met one of the Philosophy profs who's also involved in the Science Fiction program, and I knew YL was really excited about possibly meeting him, so I made introductions. She was pretty over the moon about it. We got to check out the eclipse! Then I realized I didn't want to wait for the bus home, and went to look for the prof again, and serendipitously ran into him, his wife, and adopted daughter. Then I asked for a ride home. As a group we went to check out a telescope and the red moon together (I still think it looks like a persimmon) and walked to his family's van, where we got an even better view.
So, that was pretty cool.
- The Publishers Weekly review is now up, and it's really starting to sink in.
- Got an email from one of my quals committee profs (didn't keep him for my diss committee because I have better folks for my project, but he was one of my favourite people to work with) saying he'd backed the IGG (ee!!) and also there's a SEA Studies conference coming up at UC Berkeley, and he wanted to know if I'd be interested in giving a talk about literary culture in Malaysia. I don't feel I'm qualified to talk much about the literary culture in Malaysia, being part of it only tangentially, but I might be able to write a thing I've been thinking about re: re-telling folktales, the act of modernizing mythologies, how globalization factors into the act, as well as the pressure to Westernize.
That said, there is this article which has been generating a lot of conversation on the FB group I'm part of, so, hm.
- YL and I went to the Heritage House to check out the Chinese Moon Festival, and also to watch the blood moon. I'd never been to the Heritage House (which is just a Victorian-era house converted into a museum display piece to show how Riverside settlers would have lived and built their houses in the late 1800s).
There were a few dudes setting up telescopes, and we chatted with a Japanese-American who had a telescope from the Riverside Astronomical Society, a simpler, larger thing, that's only ten years younger than me.
We wandered, and met one of the Philosophy profs who's also involved in the Science Fiction program, and I knew YL was really excited about possibly meeting him, so I made introductions. She was pretty over the moon about it. We got to check out the eclipse! Then I realized I didn't want to wait for the bus home, and went to look for the prof again, and serendipitously ran into him, his wife, and adopted daughter. Then I asked for a ride home. As a group we went to check out a telescope and the red moon together (I still think it looks like a persimmon) and walked to his family's van, where we got an even better view.
So, that was pretty cool.
- The Publishers Weekly review is now up, and it's really starting to sink in.