tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post2906417944239755327..comments2024-02-07T03:12:59.031-05:00Comments on Blogenspiel: Transformative ConferencesAnother Damned Medievalisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05231085915472400163noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-71559317200757957052008-06-20T12:39:00.000-04:002008-06-20T12:39:00.000-04:00I heart SMS. She is one of the most intelligent an...I heart SMS. She is one of the most intelligent and classiest people I've ever met. I was at the second panel in her honor, and before it started she went round the room saying hello to everyone. I've only met her once very briefly and e-mailed her a couple of times about something, and I got a gracious and warm greeting like everyone else (I don't even know if she remembered me, she was being nice to everyone). Total role model.New Kid on the Hallwayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04982506415757771218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-64259831955680592492008-06-14T18:46:00.000-04:002008-06-14T18:46:00.000-04:00It was appalling, and you could literally hear the...It was appalling, and you could literally hear the room suck in its breath. The panelists all kind of stared at each other. <BR/><BR/>BUT...<BR/><BR/>SMStuard handled it perfectly: she turned around in her chair (didn't stand), and politely told him that women's historians had been working for a long time to critique the master narrative, and there was still, it seemed, plenty of work to do in that area. She took less than 20 seconds to say this, then turned back around and faced the panelists at the front of the room, to thunderous applause.Notorious Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08700875559325201086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-61863640632708470602008-06-14T18:02:00.000-04:002008-06-14T18:02:00.000-04:00OMG, I heard about that! ECC was there, and told ...OMG, I <I>heard</I> about that! ECC was there, and told me about it as we kibbitzed in our luxury hotel room (i.e., not the dorm I'm in now ..)Another Damned Medievalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05231085915472400163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-5568660367131832082008-06-14T17:22:00.000-04:002008-06-14T17:22:00.000-04:00I like what you say about the transformative power...I like what you say about the transformative power of WH. This May, I was at a K'zoo panel in honor of Susan Mosher Stuard, where three high-profile women's historians gave some very good papers. In the discussion period, a silver-haired fifty-ish gentleman stood up, and asked whether women's history wasn't (and here I'm quoting verbatim) "too important to be left to women's historians." His point, as he went on, was to suggest that women's historians ought to consider making women's experience part of the master narrative. Yeesh. Thank you, mister, for showing us ladies how it's done.Notorious Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08700875559325201086noreply@blogger.com