Wiener Zeitung

Thats a possibility, where is it at? Like I said not sure of our plans but nothing is set in stone.

(counting the hours until I leave)

you don't have to suffer through my lecture, i'm sure people will be heading out for some fun that evening. institute is in the 9th district - U (subway) stop friedensbrucke (U4). (www.iwm.at). eh, i'll pm you my direct contacts... it's easier to talk on the phone once you get here and all...

bm

(I must surely be the last person here to have discovered your wonderful thread, dag!)

Hey, I'll be in Vienna next Thursday too ... but i think the plan is to go to the museum in the evening, cos its open till 9. But perhaps before that, what time is your presentation Dag? Or afterwards, depending on the last train back to Pest...

it's at 2:30pm... geeze, you're making me nervous. gotta start preparing

Eh ... I'm going with Susannah, and we're supposed to go museum-watching and clothes-shopping, so I'm afraid I wont be able to actually attend your presentation ... but perhaps we can find you back sometime after so you can tell me all about it ...

Ehm, no wait, thats not going to help with your deadline, is it. So, wait, I mean: Yes, I might be there too in the audience, so you'd better start preparing!!

sublime will be in town,too. we might be going out into town also with some colleagues later that night. please join us if you can.

Geez! Who knew so many people travel to Wein (where is Wein anyway?)?

Dag, do you still want the option of crashing here while you're in town?

And Dagmar made it into the the news:

Während Historiker nach einem Maximum an Objektivität streben, ist die Erinnerung der Menschen nicht unbedingt rational zu fassen. Als Teil der eigenen Identität kommen hier vielmehr die Emotionen ins Spiel. Gerade Politiker machen sich dieses Werkzeug in Konflikten gerne zunutze, meint die Politologin Dagmar Kusa. Sie berichtet am Wiener Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) morgen über historische Erinnerung und historische "Amnesie" in der Politik Mitteleuropas.

http://science.orf.at/science/news/142188

...Informationen zur Autorin
Dagmar Kusa studiert Politikwissenschaft an der Boston University und arbeitet gegenwärtig an ihrer Dissertation, die untersucht, wie die historische Erinnerung in der Politik instrumentalisiert wird - insbesondere im Rahmen von ethnischen Spannungen und Konflikten. Sie verbringt derzeit als Junior Visting Fellow ein Semester am IWM in Wien.....

Twice, even on the Austrian Radio news website:



Link

Oooh!

"Politologin"?

Political scientist.

goodness! am i THAT famous? and i don't even understand what they write. hope it's not insulting.

uggghhh, i guess i'd better start preparing some sort of sumtin for tomorrow's talk.... uggghhhgh again...

meeting sublime (and maybe nimh?) in the evening tomorrow. ul, wanna join us when you're done with the reception? i guess those can stretch. i need to pack somewhere in between the talk and the bar crawl. leaving for boston in the am on friday.

finishing a chapter, preparing a 10-15 page extract to go with the talk and a powerpoint presentation... what are the chances of finishing? maybe i should just battle the latter two....but but but i'm on a roll with my chapter. chapter is more important.... grrrrr. someone decide for me!

Well, on the news site, there's just a short summary, but on the science site they are only publishing what you actually wrote ("by Dagmar"!):

i can't write that, i don't even understand! nah, i know about it of course. i had to give an abstract to our PR person and she translated it. How closely, I don't know. Damn, am getting quite nervous...

You'll be fine. You and E.G. seem to approach these things very similarly and if he is in your state of mind, as prepared as you are (or lack thereof) one day before a talk, he'll kill.

If he prepares too far ahead of time he just doesn't have that extra spark that panic lends. :-D

i can't compare. i never ever prepared too far ahead. i only operate in panic mode, unfortunately.

trouble is: i could talk for 5 hours. but i want to do a snappy 45 minute talk, no more than that. (i got photos and videos, so to claim i'm fully unprepared is a blatant lie, but i still do have a TON of work.)

and i'm always nervous. even when i teach a class i taught many times before. helps me concentrate and reach higher, so to speak... eeeek, back to work.

That's not an "extra spark that panic lends" - that's just a different kind of preparation. :wink:
(Says someone, who knows about that very well.)

Dag,
it is well written and very interesting.
Your workstyle seems a lot like my husbands- all is ready in his head, ready on the last second with powerpoint or slides. But he needs this little extra kick of panic.
Sorry,can't congratulate you tomorrow night- Thanksgiving dinner will be a longer session.
Bar hopping is not for old woman anyway.:wink:

Good luck, Hals-und Beinbruch for tomorrow.
Have a good trip.