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Oct. 13th, 2015 11:26 pm- Apparently I am now Vice President of International Affairs for a new Malaysian Science Fiction Society. IDK what happened. Also got put in charge of policies and procedures, especially wrt harassment. Seems to mean that I handle well-meaning white brownnosers as well.
- Still thinking about the meeting yesterday. I've put it into my calendar to attend the upcoming international student discussion group. I've been to a few last year, and wonder if there could be one specifically for international grads. I'll ask the ISRC about it. It'll give me a chance to follow up on the climate survey for international students that was conducted last year, and I'll have something to bring to the task force meeting next month.
- Reading Farah Mendlesohn's Rhetorics of Fantasy, just the first chapter on Portal Fantasies. I liked how it started, but right now it's a bit of a drag because she gets into all these details about various novels, and rendering them into really academic language. It's also frustrating for me because the book takes for granted that the reader has already read the novels being analysed, and I feel that I miss a great deal of what's going on because I don't know what's happening in the books--I GET her points when she uses the books that I'm familiar with, but her other points are fuzzy for me when it comes to the books I haven't read. And I can't tell if it's because I've become a lesser reader, or if it's because that book does demand quite a bit.
My plan for Thursday is to first establish the terms that the students find useful from the chapter, apply them to media they know, then have them do little writing exercises on examples of the terms in action using a setting they're working on. That seems reasonable, I think.
- Finally found my Mad Scientist paper! It was in a USB stick on campus. I'm gonna look at how long it was real quick, and then rehearse my Indigenous steampunk paper tomorrow. There's also a seminar with John Rieder too, to discuss his book on the link between colonialism and the emergence of science fiction. I can only make the first half sadly. Still, better than missing all of it! And there will be an APSP roundtable tomorrow as well--it's usually populated by undergrads but I really do like going.
- I hung out with Leen and Mary today! Which was really nice. We went to Yogurtland, and talked about Imposter Syndrome. We made a pact to get together in person at some point and do some handholding in sending out abstracts and articles. I have a couple of articles I'd like to develop further: my paper on Secret Indentities and the reliance on narrative over graphic design to identity Asian Americanness, and a silly paper I wrote about Cats: The Musical applying concepts from Hegel and Irigary.
Which reminds me, I need to get my stuff together to write an abstract on Southeast Asian myth re-tellings.
- Still thinking about the meeting yesterday. I've put it into my calendar to attend the upcoming international student discussion group. I've been to a few last year, and wonder if there could be one specifically for international grads. I'll ask the ISRC about it. It'll give me a chance to follow up on the climate survey for international students that was conducted last year, and I'll have something to bring to the task force meeting next month.
- Reading Farah Mendlesohn's Rhetorics of Fantasy, just the first chapter on Portal Fantasies. I liked how it started, but right now it's a bit of a drag because she gets into all these details about various novels, and rendering them into really academic language. It's also frustrating for me because the book takes for granted that the reader has already read the novels being analysed, and I feel that I miss a great deal of what's going on because I don't know what's happening in the books--I GET her points when she uses the books that I'm familiar with, but her other points are fuzzy for me when it comes to the books I haven't read. And I can't tell if it's because I've become a lesser reader, or if it's because that book does demand quite a bit.
My plan for Thursday is to first establish the terms that the students find useful from the chapter, apply them to media they know, then have them do little writing exercises on examples of the terms in action using a setting they're working on. That seems reasonable, I think.
- Finally found my Mad Scientist paper! It was in a USB stick on campus. I'm gonna look at how long it was real quick, and then rehearse my Indigenous steampunk paper tomorrow. There's also a seminar with John Rieder too, to discuss his book on the link between colonialism and the emergence of science fiction. I can only make the first half sadly. Still, better than missing all of it! And there will be an APSP roundtable tomorrow as well--it's usually populated by undergrads but I really do like going.
- I hung out with Leen and Mary today! Which was really nice. We went to Yogurtland, and talked about Imposter Syndrome. We made a pact to get together in person at some point and do some handholding in sending out abstracts and articles. I have a couple of articles I'd like to develop further: my paper on Secret Indentities and the reliance on narrative over graphic design to identity Asian Americanness, and a silly paper I wrote about Cats: The Musical applying concepts from Hegel and Irigary.
Which reminds me, I need to get my stuff together to write an abstract on Southeast Asian myth re-tellings.