Come Here To Me!

Where did February go? Apparently, it only has 28 days. I feel like two days have been stolen on me. The surprise arrival of March this morning reminded me to boot up the poster for this event, the second symposium organised by the people behind the group history blog Pue’s Occurrences.

Pue’s is one of my favourite blogs. I wrote this piece for it in the past on the great Black and Tans/Auxiliary Cadets dispute (Or eh…great to those of us who get upset about such things) and I really enjoy the approach taken by the sites editors to the study of history. Their first symposium, Blogging The Humanities, was a huge success. Most importantly of all, we got to put some faces to names. The internet works that way, you know a name well before you’ve ever shook hands.

This symposium is a follow-up to last year’s ‘Blogging the humanities’. One of the topics that came out of that day as a central area of concern was the legitimacy of blogging as a medium. What is the status of a blog? What use is it to those engaged in arts and humanities research and practice? Should blogs be seen as legitimate teaching, research and outreach tools? The day will consist of two sessions and a roundtable, in which speakers who have used blogging in a variety of contexts will give their perspectives and respond to questions. There will be plenty of time for discussion. The event is open to all and we especially encourage non-academic members of the blogosphere, blogging skeptics and aspiring bloggers to attend.

The draft programme for the event can be read here.