tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post81135648337217755..comments2023-08-18T19:57:30.372+10:00Comments on humanities researcher: My Year with Bluestone: Interdisciplinary AnxietyThis old world is a new worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-20030733344193157222015-08-25T01:09:51.936+10:002015-08-25T01:09:51.936+10:00I like "affective history" a great deal ...I like "affective history" a great deal and if that seems right to you, retain it. There will always be quibbling over who owns what terms, but when it comes down to it, none of us own any of them (historia is, we medievalists know, STORY ... Bluestone: An Affective Story is one register of your subtitle). <br /><br />I used "Ecology" in my own subtitle to try to sidestep someJeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-50952729549813396362015-08-25T00:13:27.101+10:002015-08-25T00:13:27.101+10:00P.s. Bat ang is Angela Ndalianis :)P.s. Bat ang is Angela Ndalianis :)batanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00080684866555254293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-23400187024208820402015-08-25T00:12:34.201+10:002015-08-25T00:12:34.201+10:00The bluestone, what is created from it, it's h...The bluestone, what is created from it, it's historical and cultural contexts which change over time - this is your text. One of the most exciting things about research is our object of study - that and stepping outside your field and comfort zone into new territory that also embraces interdisciplinarity. Go forth and conquer.batanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00080684866555254293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-32633481707935360082015-08-25T00:11:13.710+10:002015-08-25T00:11:13.710+10:00The bluestone, what is created from it, it's h...The bluestone, what is created from it, it's historical and cultural contexts which change over time - this is your text. One of the most exciting things about research is our object of study - that and stepping outside your field and comfort zone into new territory that also embraces interdisciplinarity. Go forth and conquer.batanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00080684866555254293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-86106007888948190722015-08-24T16:52:00.624+10:002015-08-24T16:52:00.624+10:00Well, the writing of your "Adelaide" and...Well, the writing of your "Adelaide" and Delia's "Sydney" will both be very relevant models for this project, though I'll perhaps be a tad less personal. It's probably all about how I pitch it in the beginning. As we always say to PhD students:to be clear from the beginning about what you are and aren't going to do.<br />This old world is a new worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-43020413084330612392015-08-24T16:44:31.039+10:002015-08-24T16:44:31.039+10:00But the same critics would squeal with outrage if ...But the same critics would squeal with outrage if you turned the tables and questioned their expertise in textual interpretation. Historians interpret written/verbal texts all the time, often in ways that We Who Are Trained In Literary Style Close Reading find extraordinarily limited in their naivete, lack of verbal sophistication, and/or literal-mindedness, and I'm pretty sure they are Kerryn Goldsworthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11270814460793882309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-22016376977185865582015-08-24T14:36:35.700+10:002015-08-24T14:36:35.700+10:00Yes, that's exactly what I'll be doing. An...Yes, that's exactly what I'll be doing. And the stick-in-the-mud attitude won't stop me. But these responses did make me realise — and I have just been discussing this with a colleague from a third discipline -- how in Australia we medieval and early modern and literature and history and art history and music and language people have all learned to listen attentively to each other in This old world is a new worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-55701984780707718002015-08-24T14:30:30.084+10:002015-08-24T14:30:30.084+10:00I don't see why you can't use 'history...I don't see why you can't use 'history'. Historians use primary sources to back up what they're trying to argue. You're trying to write about the emotive language(? I assume from what you've written) of bluestone and using the bluestone of Melbourne as your primary source: your archive. As a historian I would pull in research from others for context - maybe about stoneElizabethhttp://sayselizabeth.comnoreply@blogger.com