Intrigued that my department scored higher than Cambridge or the Courtauld Institute. The staff must have really been under pressure to publish by the school/ university over the past few years!

I am a humanities PhD student and found that by the end of my second year I had begun to "do" history in a very specific way - and could locate myself within a particular type of cultural history i.e my theoretical home. This was often an unconscious development at the time - but looking back I can definately see how reading certain texts and looking at certain primary sources shaped my theoretical perspective. In thr first year I would have been lost to say which theoretical perspective I am coming from - but now I can readily say that my work is like "these peoples work" and "not like these peoples work" etc. I realise now that now much of what I am doing is about a phenomenology of animals in a specific period of British cultural history. But this awareness only happened within the past 3 or 4 months.


So perhaps you should relax and let it happen! :)

Congratulations - minor corrections -fantastic! :-)(up) Have a great break over Christmas!

Heh. Kangaroos, hippopotami, parrots, elephant, soooooo many animals! :p

Merci beaucoup! :-)

That seems a good fit. It is a eyewitness report of a kangaroo in 1801 by a Franco-Swiss observer.

:p

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Hej!

I am currently translating a few pages from a 1801 natural history text - there is a phrase I'm not quite sure I got right, partly because I don't know French that well, - any help?

" dirai-je, comme un sorte de plaisanterie" - "I ***, like a sort of joke"?! *dirai?!

Thanks in advance! :$:p

Best of luck Jouri :-)

Anybody else up? I am writing a paper to give tmrw in a departmental seminar. I will finish that in about four hours. and then work on some teaching prep for today! arggghhhhhhh!

Hi - thanks for the both of you for really useful comments/insight. I have developed a group activity for my seminar tmrw which requires group work and presentation to the group, so this should warm them up!

Hi,

I'm sure many of you have this issue with your groups - 18 undergraduates and only 3 people will ever chirp up. I'm reluctant to go around in a circle and ask each student to speakl but what else do you do to get conversation going? In previous seminars I have virtually monologued for over an hour carrying the weight of the seminar....sigh....

chrisrolinski is preparing teaching for next week.

Good luck in your last night of PhD-dom.

I'm just reading so not exactly work in a sense. Still what with work and interest merging it is hard to know when I am working or having 'fun' sometimes. God, I hate myself sometimes! :$

Preparing seminar prep for tmrw. Hoping that the students can carry some of their own weight tmrw!

2,000 calories of (vegan) food, and an hour of swimming (recently joined a swimming pool with a student membership)

I want a swimmers body. In both sense of the word. Heh.

:p

I'm shared between two departments and just have to spread myself thin between them. Attending seminars/workshops and being generally seen around.