[As the Fall
semester of my 13th year at Fitchburg State commences, a series previewing
some of my courses and other plans for the fall. I’d love to hear about your
fall classes and plans in comments!]
Two unfolding communal
events I’m looking forward to—and room for one more!
1)
NeMLA 2018: The 2018
Northeast MLA (NeMLA) Convention will be held in mid-April in Pittsburgh, with
current President Maria
DiFrancesco and continuing (and amazing) Executive Director Carine
Mardorossian presiding. As always, it promises to be a wonderful event,
with new initiatives like “NeMLA
Reads Together” coupled with all that has made NeMLA
a favorite community of mine for many years now. Your best chance to join
us in Pittsburgh will be by submitting an
abstract to one of the many compelling sessions, panels, and roundtables
that’ll be featured there—so take a look at the CFP, submit an abstract or two
(you can be on both a panel and a roundtable), and I’ll hope to see you in the
Steel City in April!
2)
SSN
Boston: Other than the early August legislative event (which unfortunately
didn’t end up taking place), everything I highlighted in that hyperlinked post
on upcoming opportunities and connections through the Scholars Strategy Network’s
Boston chapter remains true and well worth your time. Not a day goes by that I’m
not reminded of both the need for publicly engaged scholars and teachers, and
the benefit of being surrounded by a community of peers and colleagues as we do
that vital work. SSN offers all of that, but it could be much wider and deeper
of a community still, and that depends both on your own engagement with it and
your recruiting of other folks. So once again I’ll ask you to consider joining
SSN in one way or another, and to spread the word to anyone and everyone who might
be interested as well. And feel free to email me with any questions or
thoughts!
3)
This Space for Rent: I bet you’ve got
organizational and communal events and opportunities you’d like to highlight
and share—and I’d love to learn about them and help spread the word here. So
please feel free to highlight them in comments, or again email me and I’ll do so. Let’s
make it as communal and successful a fall as possible!
Next series
starts Monday,
Ben
PS. You know
what to do! And any other fall courses or plans you’d highlight?
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