The time is near for us to discuss the future of postgraduate networking in Biblical Studies.
To be a part of it, make sure you come along!
EABS: Graduate Forum
7/25/2007 5:00 PM to 6:00 PMRoom: HS 29 - Hauptgebaude
The purpose of this session is to disucss the idea of a Postgraduate Forum on the EABS website - perhaps a blog of some sort. This is open to all graduate students and will provide an opportunity to discuss concerns about communication in general. NB: This session is separate from and has a different purpose than the two student sessions where research is presented.
Philip Davies, Sheffield University, Presiding
Emma England, Presiding
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Procrastination – How to Escape it!
If you are anything like me you are an expert procrastinator. Me, I’m obsessed with doing my laundry and then there is… the internet! How can we stop ourselves procrastinating?
Here are some handy hints and tips. I hope some of them give you a helping hand!
The dreaded internet: Have set times to check your email, MSN or forums. If you set a break-time, or a reward time (a paragraph, 500 words etc) you might stand a better chance of ignoring the lure. Try not to check them as soon as you turn the computer on. If you do you might end up wasting the first hour of your day.
Routines: Stick to your cleaning, eating, shopping routines. If all the laundry is done you can’t do any more.
Tidy workspace: Try not to keep ‘fun things’ on your desk. My sister in her infinite wisdom gave me this fabulous thing called ‘The Procrastinator’, a doodle pad, can you imagine!
Games: If Minesweeper is your weakness uninstall it.
Self-deprivation: Don’t do it. A sure fire way of procrastinating is to deprive yourself of something you love or need. Don’t think ‘I should be studying so I can’t go out with Bob’; instead think ‘Today I wrote 1000 words so I am going out with Bob’. (Lucky Bob!)
Productive Procrastination: Ok, so you really can’t read that dull chapter any more or you are trying to write a paragraph but your brain has stopped mid-sentence, what do you do? Procrastinate! Try procrastinating by filling in those footnotes or checking your formatting or ordering that Inter Library Loan you keep forgetting about.
To Do Lists: Write really detailed lists such as ‘read chapter 7, write the paragraph on X’. If your list is ‘read book X, write section Y’ it is much harder to tick things off so you feel less rewarded and are driven to procrastination.
Backward Calendar: Make a calendar starting at your next BIG deadline, fill in all the things that need to be done before that date. Seeing things in black and white can work a treat!
Have fun: If you cannot stop procrastinating one day, stop everything and ‘go have fun’. You might just find that you can start again with a productive vengeance you sometimes only dream about.
Just Do It! Occasionally we all need shouting at, so, remember it has to be done and JUST DO IT!
Procrastination has a mind of its own but it can be defeated and even turned into a productive helper!
Good luck to one and all.
Here are some handy hints and tips. I hope some of them give you a helping hand!
The dreaded internet: Have set times to check your email, MSN or forums. If you set a break-time, or a reward time (a paragraph, 500 words etc) you might stand a better chance of ignoring the lure. Try not to check them as soon as you turn the computer on. If you do you might end up wasting the first hour of your day.
Routines: Stick to your cleaning, eating, shopping routines. If all the laundry is done you can’t do any more.
Tidy workspace: Try not to keep ‘fun things’ on your desk. My sister in her infinite wisdom gave me this fabulous thing called ‘The Procrastinator’, a doodle pad, can you imagine!
Games: If Minesweeper is your weakness uninstall it.
Self-deprivation: Don’t do it. A sure fire way of procrastinating is to deprive yourself of something you love or need. Don’t think ‘I should be studying so I can’t go out with Bob’; instead think ‘Today I wrote 1000 words so I am going out with Bob’. (Lucky Bob!)
Productive Procrastination: Ok, so you really can’t read that dull chapter any more or you are trying to write a paragraph but your brain has stopped mid-sentence, what do you do? Procrastinate! Try procrastinating by filling in those footnotes or checking your formatting or ordering that Inter Library Loan you keep forgetting about.
To Do Lists: Write really detailed lists such as ‘read chapter 7, write the paragraph on X’. If your list is ‘read book X, write section Y’ it is much harder to tick things off so you feel less rewarded and are driven to procrastination.
Backward Calendar: Make a calendar starting at your next BIG deadline, fill in all the things that need to be done before that date. Seeing things in black and white can work a treat!
Have fun: If you cannot stop procrastinating one day, stop everything and ‘go have fun’. You might just find that you can start again with a productive vengeance you sometimes only dream about.
Just Do It! Occasionally we all need shouting at, so, remember it has to be done and JUST DO IT!
Procrastination has a mind of its own but it can be defeated and even turned into a productive helper!
Good luck to one and all.
Monday, January 8, 2007
Spring/Summer Conferences
This list is by no means exhaustive and will hopefully be added to in time.
February 2-4 – Understanding Violence and Religion in Popular Culture
St Deiniol’s Library, Hawarden, Wales (Call for Papers Closed)
http://trpc.org.uk/events.html
February 23-25 – Graduate Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Bible World
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (Call for Papers Closed)
http://www.tcd.ie/Religions_Theology/ gia.committee@gmail.com
April 2-4 – Religion, Media and Culture: Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age
St. Catherine’s College, Oxford (Call for Papers Closed)
http://trpc.org.uk/mediaculture.html
April 12-13 – Matthew, James and the Didache
University of Tilburg, Tilburg, The Netherlands
http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/faculties/tft/conference2007/
July 9-11 – The Greek Bible in Byszantine Judaism
Wolfson College, Cambridge, England (Call for Papers Open)
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ioscs/cambridge2007/
July 11-13 - "Jews, the Arts, and Scholarship: Production and Reception"
University College London, England (Call for Papers Closes February 15)
http://www.art.man.ac.uk/RELTHEOL/JEWISH/BAJS/confer.html
July 9-12 – Society of Old Testament Studies, Summer Meeting
Tapton Hall, University of Sheffield (Call for Papers Closed)
http://www.sots.ac.uk/conferences.html
July 16-18 – International Organization for Qumran Studies
Ljubljana, Slovenia (Call for Papers open)
etigchelaar@fsu.edu
July 22-26 – European Association of Biblical Studies and the
Society of Biblical Literature, International Meeting (See EABS website for Call for Papers)
Vienna, Austria (Call for Papers closes January 15)
http://www.eurassbibstudies.group.shef.ac.uk/conference.htm
http://www.sbl-site.org/Congresses/Congresses_InternationalMeeting.aspx
February 2-4 – Understanding Violence and Religion in Popular Culture
St Deiniol’s Library, Hawarden, Wales (Call for Papers Closed)
http://trpc.org.uk/events.html
February 23-25 – Graduate Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Bible World
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (Call for Papers Closed)
http://www.tcd.ie/Religions_Theology/ gia.committee@gmail.com
April 2-4 – Religion, Media and Culture: Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age
St. Catherine’s College, Oxford (Call for Papers Closed)
http://trpc.org.uk/mediaculture.html
April 12-13 – Matthew, James and the Didache
University of Tilburg, Tilburg, The Netherlands
http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/faculties/tft/conference2007/
July 9-11 – The Greek Bible in Byszantine Judaism
Wolfson College, Cambridge, England (Call for Papers Open)
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ioscs/cambridge2007/
July 11-13 - "Jews, the Arts, and Scholarship: Production and Reception"
University College London, England (Call for Papers Closes February 15)
http://www.art.man.ac.uk/RELTHEOL/JEWISH/BAJS/confer.html
July 9-12 – Society of Old Testament Studies, Summer Meeting
Tapton Hall, University of Sheffield (Call for Papers Closed)
http://www.sots.ac.uk/conferences.html
July 16-18 – International Organization for Qumran Studies
Ljubljana, Slovenia (Call for Papers open)
etigchelaar@fsu.edu
July 22-26 – European Association of Biblical Studies and the
Society of Biblical Literature, International Meeting (See EABS website for Call for Papers)
Vienna, Austria (Call for Papers closes January 15)
http://www.eurassbibstudies.group.shef.ac.uk/conference.htm
http://www.sbl-site.org/Congresses/Congresses_InternationalMeeting.aspx
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Invitation from Emma England
Hello and Welcome! Are you a PhD student in any of the multitudinous fields within Biblical Studies? Do you want to be, or are you simply a Professor trying to supervise one (or five)? If so, this is the place for you.
As postgraduate students we are in a unique position with regard to our careers, social standing, level of education and lifestyle. This is often a fantastic experience, which is able to make us feel proud, happy and optimistic for our future. It can also create a strong and immediate bond between us; however, many of us study at home and have little or no access to other students. Some of us don’t live in the same town – or even country – as our institution and so we miss out on many of the benefits of being involved in an academic community. On the other hand, we are often working on some of the most groundbreaking work and some of us may be leaders in our field in the years to come. This blog will be about accessing information as well as the support of other students and even the odd Professor. Eventually we want this to become somewhere where you can develop a network for building your career and collaborative projects as well as a supportive place to discuss differences in education practices, funding, supervision styles and other practical aspects of being a graduate student.
This blog has been set up as a forerunner for a Postgraduate Forum for graduate students in the field of Biblical Studies. At least once a month a blog will appear on here discussing some aspect of life that influences us. The topics may include: finding funding, how to maintain a work/life balance and how to make the best of networks (of the human variety). On top of this we will hopefully have the odd ‘guest blog’ and relevant news including announcements for conferences, calls for papers, funding opportunities, research hints and so on. At the EABS conference in Vienna this July there will be an opportunity to discuss what you want from the Postgraduate Forum: maybe more of the same, maybe a discussion board, regular meetings or something else entirely – the choice will be yours.
Until our next blog, here are two places you can go for confidential and general support:
www.phinished.org, www.postgraduateforum.com
Thanks for reading, I look forward to hearing from you – oh, and feel free to leave a comment!
If you have any news, information and/or would like to contribute a guest blog please email me at: E.E.England@uva.nl In case you are wondering who I am, I am Emma, a part-time PhD student, a part-time Student Assistant and a part-time photocopy girl trying to find funding and get through the minefield of academic life without giving up my own.
As postgraduate students we are in a unique position with regard to our careers, social standing, level of education and lifestyle. This is often a fantastic experience, which is able to make us feel proud, happy and optimistic for our future. It can also create a strong and immediate bond between us; however, many of us study at home and have little or no access to other students. Some of us don’t live in the same town – or even country – as our institution and so we miss out on many of the benefits of being involved in an academic community. On the other hand, we are often working on some of the most groundbreaking work and some of us may be leaders in our field in the years to come. This blog will be about accessing information as well as the support of other students and even the odd Professor. Eventually we want this to become somewhere where you can develop a network for building your career and collaborative projects as well as a supportive place to discuss differences in education practices, funding, supervision styles and other practical aspects of being a graduate student.
This blog has been set up as a forerunner for a Postgraduate Forum for graduate students in the field of Biblical Studies. At least once a month a blog will appear on here discussing some aspect of life that influences us. The topics may include: finding funding, how to maintain a work/life balance and how to make the best of networks (of the human variety). On top of this we will hopefully have the odd ‘guest blog’ and relevant news including announcements for conferences, calls for papers, funding opportunities, research hints and so on. At the EABS conference in Vienna this July there will be an opportunity to discuss what you want from the Postgraduate Forum: maybe more of the same, maybe a discussion board, regular meetings or something else entirely – the choice will be yours.
Until our next blog, here are two places you can go for confidential and general support:
www.phinished.org, www.postgraduateforum.com
Thanks for reading, I look forward to hearing from you – oh, and feel free to leave a comment!
If you have any news, information and/or would like to contribute a guest blog please email me at: E.E.England@uva.nl In case you are wondering who I am, I am Emma, a part-time PhD student, a part-time Student Assistant and a part-time photocopy girl trying to find funding and get through the minefield of academic life without giving up my own.
Saturday, December 9, 2006
Introducing the new EABS blog for graduate students
This is a new facility for graduate students of biblical studies in European countries, or members of the EABS in other countries, to converse with each other.
No doubt it will start very small, but over the next few momths and years, let us hope it will become a virtual common room.
Please start using it.
No doubt it will start very small, but over the next few momths and years, let us hope it will become a virtual common room.
Please start using it.
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