Isabel Köster

Well, hoppy sparkle tomorrow!

Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing The Taiping Civil War (1851–1864) was one of the most destructive wars in Chinese history, with the death toll estimated between twenty and thirty million. What visions did survivors have for restorin...

It's officially my book's publication date! The online open access version is available now, link below. Read online or download the pdf copy I want you to have, all without having to go to some shady website for a pirated copy!

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It’s not really a conversation. It’s “here’s my mega-text about how people don’t read anymore”

Solid "possessed by the ghost of Hannibal" territory.

plutoarttv on tumblr: prometheus: hot take, the greek gods: no give that back

My favorite was a classroom in the math building where they’d locked out the lighting controls because people couldn’t figure them out, so they were stuck in low for PowerPoints. You had to request exam lighting so people could see their papers. Fortunately I noticed during the review session.

Can’t find classroom is my favorite. “Tech isn’t working” stopped being a stress dream here because it’s just a fact that it won’t, so there’s no point in worrying about it the first couple of classes. Am I still surprised and annoyed when I have to call support? Sure.

In our irregular "adventures with robot" series: the e-mail summary I can't turn off informed me that today I had a 5-star brunch experience... further inquiry reveals that this is it trying to make sense of the receipt for eggplant ($5) at the largely cashless farmers market.

He's also a bit concerned that it's Sunday evening already.

"Today I'm going to book the next round of sabbatical travel" she announced before being thwarted by Poland not wanting to sell rail tickets more than 30 days out (Germany, on the other hand, will happily get you across the country for the price of an Uber in Boulder County if you book far out)

lol (sob)

So, lesson here: if it does spring back to life, be vigilant with backups since it may suddenly decide it's cooked.

First, ugh, I'm so sorry! Second, I once bathed a Macbook (lid of coffee cup came off) and it turned on fine after two days of drying. In fact, it was totally happy for a full year after the incident and then just one day done. It turns out a lot of the inside had rusted.

Good to know— I’ll check it out. I’m still scouting

Wise, though I’m sure cabbage also cures footnotes.

Cabbage is for everything.

What's the California edition? I always forget it's 2ish hours by plane that way.

I REALLY need to make Madrid happen. In fact, I really need to make things south of Barcelona happen.

Let's just say the Romans knew what they were doing when they moved on from central Italy.

I need to spend more time in Minneapolis. I was there briefly and liked it, but it wasn't enough to really get a sense of the place.

I was debating between Charleston and Savannah. It's really close between them. They're both pretty excellent. Also St. Augustine, but I hear that's been hurricaned pretty solidly since I've been there, so I don't want to have it on the list until I've had a chance to reinspect.

1. Paris
2. Athens
3. Rome
4. Vienna
5. Copenhagen
6. Berlin
7. Bern
8. Dublin
9. Amsterdam
10. London

Boston, DC, Chicago are the top 3 for me. Then it gets a little more complicated. Both Portlands definitely, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Philly all seem pretty safe somewhere on the list, Cincinnati has a chance, NYC depends on my mood, ditto Charleston.

* enthusiastic pom poms! *

We have a serious “our dissertations grew up” bookshelf! It’s amazing.

There are lots of ways of organizing accountability partners, but having asynchronous big picture collaborative discussions is a lot harder to figure out.

One real problem these days is a platform. You need it to be private (obviously) and it’s ideal if you can do overall comments that thread. Line edits (which is what something like google docs pushes you into) aren’t optimally helpful for the most part, and you need to be able to have discussions

The greatest thing Livejournal ever did (and this is not up for debate!)

I miss the rhythm, just saying :-)

It's also the first fall I'm off since 2010, so I'm a little out of practice with this whole "no syllabi?!" thing.