Posted by: Herr Prof. Dr. von Korncrake on May 24th, 2007
Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, & 11 Within seconds of taking the floor, my partner Sally, a middle-aged medievalist from a third-tier state university in North Dakota, had proven herself to be the second best dancer at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, and in so doing she leapt […]
Posted by: Herr Prof. Dr. von Korncrake on May 16th, 2007
Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10 Only well fortified by brandy could I confront the Saturday night festivities at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, an unsightly spectacle of several thousand medievalists engaged in a frenzied and arrhythmic St. Vitus, a spastic explosion of flailing limbs and jerking heads […]
Posted by: Herr Prof. Dr. von Korncrake on May 10th, 2007
I shall conclude the story of my adventures in Kalamazoo later this afternoon. In the meantime, please allow me, by way of reply to my acquaintance Msgr. Padraig Ó Fhlannchaidh, S.J., to present to you this video.
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Posted by: Herr Prof. Dr. von Korncrake on May 8th, 2007
Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 I must now confess that I had never been to a medievalist dance. In my younger days, at Patrice Lumumba in Moscow, I had attended more than my share of student dances, events which began with great pronouncements of international revolutionary brotherhood, but ended […]
Posted by: Herr Prof. Dr. von Korncrake on May 7th, 2007
Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 As I had predicted, my presentation was a rousing success. But then, academics are like swine. As long as the farmer with the slop-bucket seems confident of himself they’ll happily eat up any sort of swill and grunt for seconds. Thirds if the farmer is […]
Posted by: Herr Prof. Dr. von Korncrake on May 4th, 2007
Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7 Finally, Saturday afternoon, the date set for the delivery of my paper, arrived. Still feeling the baleful effects of too much karoke and too many Schlitz, I found my way to the conference room, where a small group was already gathered. “Ah, you must be Professor […]
Posted by: Herr Prof. Dr. von Korncrake on April 23rd, 2007
Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6 I still don’t remember exactly how I made it back from the Tick-Tock to my tiny bunk in my shabby domitory room on the campus of Western Michigan University. The last event I can recall clearly is admirably holding up my end of a Karaoke duet of […]
Posted by: Herr Prof. Dr. von Korncrake on April 22nd, 2007
Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 I spent two very satisfying hours trolling the publishers’ booths, eavesdropping on conversations and thumbing through tedious books on subjects in which I had no interest. And when those meagre entertainments were exhausted I decided it was time to see what the town of Kalamazoo offered. A few […]
Posted by: Herr Prof. Dr. von Korncrake on April 20th, 2007
Parts 1, 2, 3, & 4. Since the presentation of my opus, “Cultural Semiotics, Semi(n)ology and Semiotics: scientia omnis aut est de signis aut de rebus significatis: Text, Textuality and Semiosis”, would not take place until Saturday afternoon, I abandoned the second Friday afternoon session, a tedious discussion of Carolingian numismatics I had wrongly thought […]
Posted by: Herr Prof. Dr. von Korncrake on April 17th, 2007
The first part of this story may be found here, the second part here, and the third part here. Coffee in hand, I fled the cafeteria and found my way to the first session of the morning. I had selected it whimsically, based solely upon the fact that all three papers being presented had misused […]
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