Well, no, wait, that sound better than it is. I just like the sound of that line, sung to the tune of a rather objectionable song but it always reminds me of the Agatha Christie novel title…
So far I have three papers to present this fall. Two are within the space of a week and a couple of days, down in Melbourne at the beginning of September — one on ecology, politics, and dystopia in The Host at the annual Utopias conference hosted by Monash, and one on a couple of diverse uses of SF in the Korean classroom (and why I think the low popularity of SF here actually makes it more useful in the classroom) as part of the Academic track WorldCon — and one is in Seoul in, I believe, October (about the dominant pedagogical paradigm in popular TEFL practice, and the suggestion of an alternative based on a fundamentally different conception of language, communication, creativity, and human motivation).
So that’s a busy summer for me, since I can whip up a wonderful-looking abstract in an hour, but a decent paper takes somewhat longer. Then again, at least one of these papers is practically written in my head already, and the other I have a lot of the basis worked out already, and the third one is more of a qualitiative/narrative-analysis think piece (with most of the references to multidisciplinary stuff outside of TEFL, which is more fun to play with) and some room for qualitative analysis and reflection on students’ self-evaluations and comments on the class, which is more fun and interesting to write…
Busy summer, busy fall…