Cognitive Resonance

WisCon after-report

2013-05-30T01:55:16Z

I got back from WisCon yesterday and I am still pretty tired. But, though I failed to see a good many people I would have liked to hang out with more, I had an awesome time overall.

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WisCon schedule

2013-05-13T06:53:32Z

I'll be at Wiscon in less than two weeks. Hooray Wiscon!

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Book review: The Queer Art of Failure

2013-05-07T07:34:36Z

Bibliographic Data: Halberstam, Judith. The Queer Art of Failure. Chapel Hill, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.

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BCNM DE student presentations

2013-04-13T03:27:40Z

I'll be speaking for about half an hour (15 minutes talk, 15 minutes Q&A) about my work on the data side of the Fan Fiction and Internet Memory project under Gail De Kosnik next Wednesday at 3:00pm. If you're Berkeley-side, shoot me an email and I will send you the info.

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Ada Initiative advisory board

2013-04-12T02:39:04Z

I'm unspeakably thrilled and honored to be joining the advisory board of The Ada Initiative, a non-profit organization which advocates for and supports women in open technology and culture. The Ada Initiative's people and advisers are a phenomenal bunch of passionate people, and it's a privilege to be able to lend my expertise.

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April Fanhackers post: Transnational Fan Studies

2013-04-09T07:15:56Z

The TWC Symposium blog is now Fanhackers!

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April OTW Membership Drive

2013-04-04T05:14:21Z

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In which I am quoted in the newspaper about fandom, again*

2013-01-21T23:54:29Z

Through the OTW, I spoke to Oakland Tribune writer Angela Hill about fanfiction two weeks ago, and her article, quoting me and a few other OTW and Bay Area people, went live on January 16: "Fan fiction: A world where Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes could meet."

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Spring Bakai at the Institute for East Asian Studies

2013-01-12T20:17:29Z

I'll be speaking at the spring bakai at IEAS at Berkeley on Wednesday, January 30 at 4pm. My talk is called "Record of Dying Days: Ôoku as Alternate History," and is the next step of the talk I've been giving in various fora since last fall. The event isn't open to the public, but if you're a Berkeley grad student who wants to attend, drop me a line and I'll forward your RSVP. Brendan Morley and Michael Craig of EALC will also be giving talks.

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HASTAC 2013

2012-12-28T05:26:53Z

I was just informed today that Gail de Kosnik and I will be heading to Toronto at the end of April to present on our data-side work on the Fan Fiction and Internet Memory project at HASTAC 2013. Canada, here I come! Believe it or not, I've never been to any other North American country, and I'm quite excited for the conference and the city. I hope to see you there!

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Achievement unlocked: DE!

2012-11-30T14:56:52Z

Also, I have just been informed that I have been accepted into the Designated Emphasis in New Media.

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November TWC Symposium post

2012-11-29T14:53:33Z

Rise up, pixelated young women of the new age!

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Marc Bloch, The Historian's Craft

2012-11-05T01:05:29Z

Bloch, Marc. The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It. Trans. Peter Putnam. New York: Vintage, 1953.

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October TWC Symposium post

2012-10-22T04:19:32Z

Fandom Gets Physical, or, I am still angry about Readercon. (I couldn't even find a way to talk about the problem with DragonCon. Briefly: DragonCon is a for-profit enterprise, so every membership purchased goes to support an alleged serial child molester perverting the course of justice.)

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Ada Lovelace Day

2012-10-17T00:11:48Z

Having just sustained a conversation with a highly skeptical (and, I suspect, rather sexist) colleague about her and her place in history, let me take a moment to wish everyone a Happy Ada Lovelace Day.

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Five years! (My brain hurts a lot)

2012-10-13T20:17:44Z

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Sirens 2012

2012-10-07T19:21:49Z

I'm thrilled to be returning to the Sirens Conference again this year, now being held at Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, Washington. I'll be appearing on several panels:

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OTW Board Candidate Questions

2012-10-06T02:53:06Z

As well as the candidate chats (the final one, with Eylul and I, is in approximately twelve hours), I've answered questions in several other places:

Next candidate chat and transcript on otw_news
Candidate manifestos on the OTW blog

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OTW Board Election

2012-09-25T21:31:51Z

As you can read in a post on the OTW blog, in light of this year's election going uncontested (three candidates for three seats), I am happy to confirm that I will be joining the Board next year along with Franzeska Dickson and Eylul Dogruel. (In a moment of parochialism, I would just like to note that Eylul and I make four total Board members, past and present, furnished by the Internationalization & Outreach committee.)

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I support open access

2012-09-22T19:30:55Z

When academic journals are charging $20,000 for a subscription, they have become obstacles to knowledge rather than enablers. […] The new age of open access should have us learning from the wisdom of the founders of the United States, who saw copyright as a necessary temporary restriction on access that should last a reasonable period (fourteen years back then, seventy years after the death of the rights holder now) before a work would enter the public domain - a sensible balancing of incentives for creators and the good of an educated, creative public.

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In which Thucydides has words for Mittens

2012-09-18T05:50:22Z

There are people who will say that democracy is neither an intelligent nor a fair system, and that those who have the money are also the best rulers. But I say, first, that what is meant by the demos, or people, is the whole State, whereas an oligarchy is only a section of the State; and I say next that though the rich are the best people for looking after money, the best counsellors are the intelligent, and that it is the many who are best at listening to the different arguments and judging between them. And all alike, whether taken all together or as separate classes, have equal rights in a democracy. An oligarchy, on the other hand, certainly gives the many their share of dangers, but when it comes to the good things of life not only claims the largest share, but goes off with the whole lot. And this is what the rich men and the young men among you are aiming at; but in a great city these things are beyond your reach. What fools you are! In fact the stupidest of all the Hellenes I know, if you do not realize that your aims are evil, and the biggest criminals if you do realize this and still have the face to proceed with them.

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Five years (what a surprise!)

2012-09-07T19:51:58Z

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Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits 2012 and the Third Mechademia Conference

2012-08-14T23:30:41Z

I will be presenting on Ôoku, manga, and history-writing at Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits 2012 in Minneapolis, MN next month and in Seoul, South Korea, at the Third Mechademia Conference at the end of November. Despite the very similar names (and the fact that both have a relationship to my journal Mechademia) these are in fact two different events, and I'm thrilled to be able to go to both of them. I hope to see you at either or both of them!

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Heike monogatari

2012-08-13T20:00:37Z

Heike monogatari | The Tale of the Heike. Trans. Helen Craig McCullough. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988.

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Achievement unlocked: Master of the Arts degree

2012-08-09T05:15:13Z

I just received confirmation that I was awarded a Master of the Arts degree in history from UC Berkeley this May. For the moment, much like birthdays, I don't feel any different. Perhaps that will change next month when I receive my diploma in the mail.

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