Today I turn the blog over to another colleague, fellow learner and friend Merry Vaughan.
Although I asked Merry to blog about her feelings on Conference Day, I should have her discuss her dissertation topic (Based on Ethics of Dr.Seuss). I think that I will ask her to discuss this in a future blog post.
Hello. As the schedule shows, today is the Academic Conference Day at our residency. It is a day where we all get a chance to share our specialized areas of interest. We also get to interweave those ideas with the interdisciplinary nature of the program. The schedule highlights those opportunities; there are presenters from all but the newest cohort, presentations from all three concentrations, and on an incredible number of diverse topics.
Today is a day I really look forward to because we get the opportunity to see how brilliant the learners at Union truly are. It is a chance to see the passions of each individual come to the forefront of the discussion. We sit as interested audience members to see how the discourse unfolds. I am not presenting this term, but many of the members of my cohort are. Throughout the past three terms, we have heard a lot from each other in our cohort about our areas of interest and dissertation topics, but the academic conference gives learners in other cohorts a chance to share the passion. We also have the opportunity to experience the universality of interdisciplinary learning.
One of the presentations today is on the novel Fledgling by Judith Butler. Cohort 1 read this novel in our first term. I am interested in how Cohort 3 interpreted and interacted with this text; unfortunately it was at the same time as another topic I found slightly more impelling to engage with. But, just the fact that this was a topic in a presentation came up at breakfast, and we were once again engaged with material that had been a part of our curriculum almost 18 months ago. That is one of the wonderful things about Union, the opportunity to revisit and re-digest information that we encountered in past courses and put them into discourse with thoughts and ideas we have experienced since.
We will leave each other in three short days, but the scholarship shared on this day will stick with us. Perhaps only in a glimpse of insight or maybe in mind-altering ways, but the passion and the scholarship of the learners at Union are unparalleled in my mind, and I enjoy absorbing the brilliance at this point in the residency.
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