US trip

by Chris Bertram on April 1, 2004

I’m just back from a trip to the US, which I greatly enjoyed. The main reason for going was the annual conference of the “American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies”:http://asecs.press.jhu.edu/annualmeetingindex.html at Boston, where I’d organised a panel which included blogger Chris Brooke of the “Virtual Stoa”:http://users.ox.ac.uk/~magd1368/weblog/blogger.html . I also caught an excellent seminar on Rousseau at Columbia given by Fred Neuhouser of Barnard and met up with the “Patrick”:http://www.nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/ and “Teresa”:http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight Nielsen Hayden for a rather good sushi lunch one day (thanks!). Patrick and Teresa encouraged me enormously when I first started blogging so it was good to meet them in the flesh. More reflections on matters arising as and when, but meanwhile, thanks to everyone who helped to make it a memorable visit.

{ 5 comments }

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Arthegall 04.01.04 at 1:03 pm

I’m interested… where did you go for sushi in Boston?

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Chris Bertram 04.01.04 at 1:10 pm

I didn’t: the sushi was in New York.

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George Williams 04.01.04 at 9:34 pm

Hey, if I’d known there were other bloggers at ASECS, I would have tried to meet up.

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Chris Bertram 04.01.04 at 10:56 pm

Maybe next time George! Did you catch the plenary session on Friday? Possibly the worst address by a senior academic figure I’ve ever listened to … and that’s quite an achievement.

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George Williams 04.02.04 at 2:34 am

Nope, I have to confess that I skipped it.

ASECS 2005? Viva Las Vegas!

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