Dear all I just got this in my inbox, sent only to the SCMSGrad list so I thought it might be helpful to forward this on - being e-mailed only to SCMSGrad it probably won't reach non-student members and I recall some grad students also seem to have trouble getting list e-mails. I know cost ref Tokyo is a considerable issue for many of us, so I felt this note from SCMS was quite thoughtful. At

Even acknowledging the brute reality that conferencegoing may down this year in our field, at least for junior and apprentice scholars in North America, I thought I'd pass down this list of tips on "how to enjoy a convention." (note: pdf version, scroll to p. 16) It's written by a sociologist, Dan Ryan, himself an intermittant blogger, and some of his more discipline-specific advice might not

After a short stint as a TA for a film noir class, I have now reached six weeks of unemployment before by PhD career begins. Having not written for a while and looking down the barrel of a handgun labeled “book chapter deadline,” I thought I’d spew off a few thoughts on my summer media interactions. Due to my lack of cable television and my shortsighted knowledge of recent music outside the new