from Anne: shall we dance?

If your dance card isn't already filled, Madeleine Sorapure and I were wondering if you'd like to go on a little venture with us for CCCC 09.

I need to give you a little background, because we're actually going to submit two proposals, probably.

I am on the Executive Committee, and so know that there is a push to come up with "non-talking-head" panel formats in the coming years of the conference. Marilyn Valentino, who is conference chair for next year, is considering how to incorporate some of that for next year, although the call for 09 doesn't specify any alternate proposal formats.

What we're going to do is propose to Marilyn an installation/performance sort of piece. We haven't worked out what, exactly, because we didn't want to do anything until we had a wonderful smart third person on board. So, if you were interested, we'd put our heads together and come up with some sort of topic/argument that got us each interested and excited, and then get creative about how we would use the space and time all together. (Part of what would be included in the proposal is extra time for set-up/take down, as well as some room arrangement that *was not* the usual "all chairs face a raised dias" bit.) But I am contemplating something to do with gender/technology/writing/reading; Madeleine is thinking about visualizations of texts... and you certainly have plenty of interesting ideas to bring to the mix.

Meanwhile, because there's no guarantee that Marilyn would accept such a panel, we're going to go ahead and propose a "regular" panel (but try to push on the format a bit...) just in case the other, more extensive thing ends up not being able to fly. (There's money / time / space issues for the conference in SF, so we'll see.)

But let me know if this is at all interesting to you, if you are still free for a panel, if.....