Maybe we could pull something fun off this summer surrounding the World Cup? There's enough of us academic types floating around BigSoccer that we could have a fun conversation if nothing else, using available technologies to "gather" online. Thoughts? Ideas? People to loop in? @Dr. Wankler @BalanceUT @Friedel'sAccent @hardhead @lots of others.
@bungadiri Just as long as this has nothing to do with "digital humanities." 'Cause I don't know what that is.
Summoned and subscribed, thanks! Left academia for the dark side -- i.e., industry -- over a decade ago, but very intrigued by the BigSoccer Academic Conference idea.
I accidentally came across this. Qualifications? I work in higher ed...I have a Master's in Educational Policy and Administration and an MBA.
Ismitje and his committee is reviewing your C.V. and will likely be contacting your references shortly. There is some concern over an absence of overt pomposity in your posts, and you don't appear to be willing to seek out and continue pointless arguments for no apparent reason other than vanity and a drive to self-aggrandizement, but he does seem to find some potential for positive contribution. I'm not seeing it myself...
Are we going to have to present papers? Because I'm going to need about 16 hours' notice to frantically write mine at the last possible minute. Like I do for every conference paper. Last week's MLA talk was no exception.
I hope this does go on your CV. I founded an alumni board for my program and called the Board of Reason, so the members can be (not board members but) Voices of Reason. I just think that would be a really cool line on a CV that might catch the eye of an HR person in a good way. Like this too - CV for sure!. We probably should do something tied to the World Cup. The question is whether we want to try some degree of seriousness (though in a series of 5-10 minute talks all including "Preliminary This" and "Towards Initial Thoughts On" that) or organize ourself akin to the good folks who give out the Ignobel Prizes.
I already have a published paper related to the World Cup... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9811365 Do y'all mean I have to do something new? Ugh... (Actually, I have some ideas.)
I demonstrated this before you published, but unfortunately, I couldn't find a journal to accept my research. All the referees said my own wang was far too small a sample. I'm like, "small? ******** you!" Then they pointed out they were speaking quantitatively, not qualitatively. But the damage had been done to my research career.
Subscribed as well. Given that we're all likely in vastly different academic fields, it would be interesting to see what might happen if we have this shindig...
I'm in. I've always wanted to see if there was a true statistician on BigSoccer (PhD, Masters, just in stats) who could co-author a paper on absurd correlations in soccer, like that "teams that wear orange colors are in shitty parts of the world." If it were more serious, the book "How Soccer Explains The World" is just begging for some political scientists to test the hypotheses implicated by the book. Or - for example - using Bentham's Law to determine match-fixing in Nigeria and see if match-fixing is a way for Christians and Muslims to avoid or incite local conflicts. Stuff like that.