Hello All,
Under the conviction that scholarship is always collective, even when we think it is not, I am hoping that three participants will step up and agree to present on our readings for next week. Let me tell you what this entails.
Presenters read the text looking for the problem that the writer believes she or he is solving. The presenter is responsible for identifying the problem for other participants in the seminar, explaining why the author might have thought that this was a problem, and then identifying how the author tried to solve the problem. This can provide an opportunity to discuss how well or poorly seminar members feel that the author solved the problem, whether the problem really needed to be solved, or whether there even was a problem to solve in the first place.
Usually, presenters take between fifteen to twenty five minutes working with the text. I hope that you will consider presenting next Monday, 18 November, on one of our readings.
Thanks,
Joe