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
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