<![CDATA[I'm presenting at this, online!]]>RE: https://library.love/@sevmunro/116600864632048107

I'm presenting at this, online! (Can't make the journey on this occasion alas.)

It is going to be a VERY last minute paper at this rate but it's building on one I published in Studia Celtica Fennica a few months ago.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/12e2c568-71c4-4702-ad5d-c0c770350127/i-m-presenting-at-this-onlineRSS for NodeMon, 25 May 2026 10:39:10 GMTTue, 19 May 2026 22:29:07 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to I'm presenting at this, online! on Thu, 21 May 2026 15:29:06 GMT]]>@finnlongman I just love how many different perspectives people bring to Celtic Studies (and especially the Ulster Cycle, for my own selfish reasons!). Coming from linguistics, and especially Indo-European Studies, I spend a lot of time thinking about patterns and what to compare and why. I also think a lot about what words mean and how we know what they mean and how meanings shift in some pretty unpredictable ways. It's part of why I'm thinking now about the parts of stories that aren't actually expressed in words - the assumed knowledge and the connections that audiences are supposed to make on their own and how they learn to make those connections. I read a really interesting article about experiments on how readers imagine stories and how a lot of the time they'll just imagine the world of the story as being as close as possible to the real world unless they are explicitly told otherwise in the story.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/AnnaJunePage/statuses/116613273807888690https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/AnnaJunePage/statuses/116613273807888690Thu, 21 May 2026 15:29:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm presenting at this, online! on Thu, 21 May 2026 13:41:09 GMT]]>@AnnaJunePage Ooh that sounds interesting!

I think the biggest thing I've taken from my queer theory background is to stop assuming I know how relationships/roles/social structures work in any given text based on what I assume the identities or roles of characters are, and look at how they're ACTUALLY being constructed within THAT text (as it may vary between texts), with an openness to parallels between characters whose surface-level traits are dissimilar.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/finnlongman/statuses/116612849290793589https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/finnlongman/statuses/116612849290793589Thu, 21 May 2026 13:41:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm presenting at this, online! on Thu, 21 May 2026 13:36:55 GMT]]>@finnlongman I'm really excited to hear it. We definitely import a lot of our own ideas into readings of the past and our own ideas aren't exactly well founded in the first place. I regularly worry about the texts not actually saying what we think they do. You've also made me think about a different application for some of the scholarship on readers and imagining story worlds that I was working with in my CSANA paper, so now I'm going to frantically scribble down a bunch of ideas before they disappear! Really looking forward to your talk!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/AnnaJunePage/statuses/116612832654362941https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/AnnaJunePage/statuses/116612832654362941Thu, 21 May 2026 13:36:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm presenting at this, online! on Wed, 20 May 2026 13:45:03 GMT]]>@AnnaJunePage Yeah, it's something they and I have been discussing for a while! Kind of related to my paper for this conference, in that I'm partly looking at how solely centring gender in discussions of female characters and their relationships and role often obscures the equal or greater importance of class in structuring those roles and interpersonal connections. (And what unlearning heteronormativity has to do with revealing those dimensions.)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/finnlongman/statuses/116607202359114956https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/finnlongman/statuses/116607202359114956Wed, 20 May 2026 13:45:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm presenting at this, online! on Wed, 20 May 2026 13:41:24 GMT]]>@finnlongman
I did read through Emmet's paper quickly because I was so excited to see someone finally talking about Medb as king! I'm looking forward to reading it again more slowly, along with the other papers. What a great resource that volume will be, I'm sure!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/AnnaJunePage/statuses/116607187993103173https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/AnnaJunePage/statuses/116607187993103173Wed, 20 May 2026 13:41:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm presenting at this, online! on Wed, 20 May 2026 12:37:51 GMT]]>@sevmunro It's a very busy time of year! Hence why I have not actually started writing my paper yet :') and I'm away for the long weekend so it's going to be Interesting fitting it in, oops. I had such good intentions and they have come to naught.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/finnlongman/statuses/116606938095604176https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/finnlongman/statuses/116606938095604176Wed, 20 May 2026 12:37:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm presenting at this, online! on Wed, 20 May 2026 12:28:59 GMT]]>@AnnaJunePage I need to finish reading the rest of the articles in it myself! I read Emmet's at an earlier stage but I haven't read the finished version yet.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/finnlongman/statuses/116606903252408373https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/finnlongman/statuses/116606903252408373Wed, 20 May 2026 12:28:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm presenting at this, online! on Wed, 20 May 2026 11:26:48 GMT]]>@finnlongman
I'm going to attend as much as I can, so I hope I get to see your paper! I'm also looking forward to sitting down with that entire volume of Studia Celtic Fennica sometime soon because everything in it looks absolutely amazing.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/AnnaJunePage/statuses/116606658688582836https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/AnnaJunePage/statuses/116606658688582836Wed, 20 May 2026 11:26:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm presenting at this, online! on Wed, 20 May 2026 08:18:54 GMT]]>@finnlongman Hello, nice to see you here! That's great you're attending and presenting. I nearly submitted a paper myself (also building on my recent Studia Celtica Fennica article! I really must read the whole volume...) but sadly it's been too busy a season for it this time around. I will look forward to your paper!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://library.love/users/sevmunro/statuses/116605919841651041https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://library.love/users/sevmunro/statuses/116605919841651041Wed, 20 May 2026 08:18:54 GMT