Conference was indeed awesome. Day 2 was filled with 4 sessions of good talks, another interesting keynote, and dinner at Pelham House (including Brecht musical numbers, sort of strange--not the songs the set up, but interesting).
Day 3 started with another morning session and then I presented in the very last session of the conference. (I was first in my group of three so I wasn't the last talk.) I was pretty nervous and I heard my voice shake. I also went a little over, but I got good questions (could answer 2 including a translation question, but not a really provocative one about national identity), and good feedback at the end. I know some of the feedback was honest. Before my talk I ran into a woman I recognized, but couldn't place. During my talk she figured it out, she had been a Williams undergrad while I was doing my MA and we had been in a seminar together. Anyway before recognizing each other we had talked about the importance of honest feedback (everyone at the conference was super nice, respectful, and laid back, maybe just a smidge more than you might want). So after I asked for her honest opinion and she was pretty positive (and I didn't get a "just being polite" vibe at all). So that was reassuring.
After the conference I met![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rhaegal. Coffee turned into chatting turned into dinner with more chatting turned into a hunt for the car (with chatting). It was a great evening and I'm so glad treewishes introduced us!
Slightly nervous about all the travel logistics tomorrow, but happy to be going to Croatia! Internet maybe sketchy for a while (or not) so potentially goodbye for 2-3 weeks. If there's anything critical you need to tell me email is best.
Day 3 started with another morning session and then I presented in the very last session of the conference. (I was first in my group of three so I wasn't the last talk.) I was pretty nervous and I heard my voice shake. I also went a little over, but I got good questions (could answer 2 including a translation question, but not a really provocative one about national identity), and good feedback at the end. I know some of the feedback was honest. Before my talk I ran into a woman I recognized, but couldn't place. During my talk she figured it out, she had been a Williams undergrad while I was doing my MA and we had been in a seminar together. Anyway before recognizing each other we had talked about the importance of honest feedback (everyone at the conference was super nice, respectful, and laid back, maybe just a smidge more than you might want). So after I asked for her honest opinion and she was pretty positive (and I didn't get a "just being polite" vibe at all). So that was reassuring.
After the conference I met
rhaegal. Coffee turned into chatting turned into dinner with more chatting turned into a hunt for the car (with chatting). It was a great evening and I'm so glad treewishes introduced us! Slightly nervous about all the travel logistics tomorrow, but happy to be going to Croatia! Internet maybe sketchy for a while (or not) so potentially goodbye for 2-3 weeks. If there's anything critical you need to tell me email is best.
