[lit-ideas] Re: Office Hours
- From: Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:18:53 -0700 (PDT)
Speaking of travel and conferences, check this out:
http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/291454049612286.php#
--- John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This might be a good time to mention to the list
> that the American
> Association of Philosophy Teachers is having its
> biennial conference on
> teaching philosophy (you were expecting a
> conference on nanotechnology)
> in Guelph, Canada, August 6-10. The AAPT website
> has preliminary
> information now, and the detailed information about
> housing, meals, and
> fees should be online later this week. The
> organization's mission is to
> offer as low-cost conferences as possible, hence
> university housing
> rather than hotel, meals taken together, lots of
> time for informal
> discussions rather than extensive sight-seeing.
>
> For details, go here: http://philosophyteachers.org
>
> Robert Paul wrote:
> >> So who does have nice offices?
> >> I'll give you one guess. Hint: their travel
> budget, when last I
> >> looked, was less than $100,000... but not a lot
> less.
> > How are these things known? We get (no invidious
> departmental
> > distinctions) one free trip to a conference,
> symposium, NBA game, or
> > whatever a year. That's all-in; airfare, hotel,
> etc., with a per-diem
> > for meals. If one wanted (insanely) to attend an
> APA meeting without
> > delivering or commenting on a paper, one could do
> that and still
> > attend another event in which one did take part
> that same year. In
> > light of what colleagues elsewhere tell me this is
> unbelievably generous.
>
>
>
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