My usual experience with conferences is that the sessions prompt a
host of good ideas that I vow to develop as soon as I get home. Then
as soon as I get home I am immediately caught up in the work
accumulated while I was away and gradually forget about the conference
briefcase sitting on the floor for a day with fewer demands. One day
at the end of the conference to work collaboratively with others on
developing the ideas gleaned in the conference might be just enough to
move one of those projects out of the conference briefcase and onto
the desk when I return home.
ron
Ron Sheese
Department of Psychology, and
Chair, Centre for Academic Writing
York University
Toronto
On Jun 2, 2009, at 11:55 AM, Karen E. Smith wrote:
> I appreciate all of the foregoing comments. I also wonder if the
> extended conference for Inkshedders could do something different to
> enhance our writing lives. What format would an experience be made
> worth the effort of one day? I'm just thinking out loud here - in a
> random string . . .
>
> Anti - conference? Anti-Congress? What could that be?
> It makes me wonder about the forward motion of Congress and
> conferences in general. They lead you with ideas, papers in
> progress, and airing of papers that go into print. What would be the
> anti to that idea?
>
> An anti-congress could take the shape of a writers workshop where
> speakers from journals guide groups toward publications. Or instead
> of talking heads, we could have writing heads. Perhaps a lot of
> unfinished projects could be written during this time through
> collaborative power. //A brief intense workshop on our favourite
> personal writing project that got lost along the way. It could be a
> type of Dropped Threads writers workshop. Alternatively, we// might
> have a type of //cinema verité <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cinema%20verite
> > in the form of writing - //é//crit // verité.
>
> ////
> For now,
> Karen
>
>
> ////
>
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