Martin Kavka

Only a three-day extension? When I was a young scholar, walking uphill in the snow to and from the convention center, we got a whole week!

Indeed, it is not! But given the limits of my own imagination, it is where my mind went.

I wonder whether any academic can even imagine a similar ease in a doctoral student.

It may just reflect the time I entered the field, but Wilken’s address in my mind publicly marked the field as riven by conflict in a way that had not been the case earlier. But I don’t recall the finer details of Wiebe’s histories of AAR presidential addresses at this moment.

The president does some visionary planning (e.g. picking a theme, splitting the AAR and SBL meetings, bringing them back together), but not day-to-day admin, iirc.

The presidential address ends up in JAAR; the other plenaries do not, and so I’d always thought the prez address was more prestigious.

Also, I’m curious about (a) the presidential address being at the bottom of this list, when one might expect it to be at the top, (b) whether there were internal politics that led to the creation of this new welcoming address by someone whom the President targeted in his address.

Wilken’s presidential address is an important moment in the political history of the field. It was eventually published in JAAR 57:4.

For those seeking a bit of glamor, there is the possibility of spelling one's name with L-with-stroke (borrowed from Polish), and a corresponding change in pronunciation?

You will leave it be, yes?

Man Is Denied A Loan

God’s Presence in History Departments

Time to republish this book in a second edition that contains the line “My slutty pajamas not temptin' him in the least”????

Very little deciphering skills on my part! On the hunch that the owner might have cited the volume in a publication, I googled “‘patrum apostolicorum’ ‘a. a.’”

I think it’s A. A. Hobson, who seems to have written a dissertation at Chicago in 1904 on the synoptic problem.

“Might improvement also be possible?,” he asked as he began work on _Critique of Tom Clancy’s Judgment_.

Tom Clancy’s Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism.

(OTOH, I heartily look forward to Tom Clancy’s Star of Redemption.)

There is nothing outside the score to keep it — Derrida

Somewhere in my brain is a short short story about Schl, maker of eggs.

Perhaps. But he *is* only an assistant.

"managing editor for trust"??!!??!!

I'd associate Mendelssohn with The Ramones and Cohen with Hüsker Dü, but I respect this list immensely.

My colleagues and I received an email reminder today about our institution's "resilience tools." There were no emoji in that email, though.

Frankie Goes To Rancho Cucamonga

Were you wearing dungarees in a dungeon when this happened?

Please continue these jokes; otherwise, I will sing to myself "Adam, I'm empty since you left me / Trying to find a way to carry on."

Can I now start referring to helicopters as pterohelices?

<Beulah Bondi waves frantically>

Sometimes, when a boy and a synthesizer love each other very much…

Thanks for sharing. (I was not expecting the Hegel reference in this essay!)

Someone has read five books while
snuggling by both Alice Walker *and* Marilynn Robinson!