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Beyond Text Conference, 21-22 June, day two

I missed the first panel session.  Later in the morning Gillian Calder from the University of Victoria, BC facilitated an excellent session where she showed us aspects of Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed techniques, and his Tree of Theatre.  And she did so by getting us to do it – experiential learning.  

Beyond Text Conference, 21-22 June, day one

We re-convened for the final session of this project in the David Hume Tower, Edinburgh University (see here for posting on one of the early sessions last year).  Zen and Maks introduced the two-day conference, then their key papers were briefly summarized and commented upon by Julian Webb and Tony Bradney. Interesting comments on fine papers.  Wished there had been more time for this part of the conference.  Zen referred to his earlier work on parable, and I had a déjà vu moment, for almost exactly 30 years ago in the DHT as a doctoral student I attended an inspirational seminar on parable by the (then) Yale literary critic, J. Hillis Miller.  It was only when I mentioned this at the start of my session that, astonishingly, it turned out that one of the Beyond Text conference participants, Anne Pirrie, had attended the same seminar, and told Zen about it, starting his own work on the topic.

Oñati workshop on legal education

At Fiona Cownie's invitation I gave a paper at the Oñati Workshop on Values in Legal Education, 23-24 April.  First day, first session was my paper: '"Associated thought"': social software, professional relationships and democratic professionalism'.  Slides here, draft paper here.  Discussion on the issues of technocratic vs democratic professionalism was fairly extended.  

Radio silence

Cartoon courtesy of toothpastefordinner.com.

It's been a l-o-n-g time but [terminator voice] I'm back.  No excuses, just life & writing got in the way of blogging.