Now that cancel-culture has hit SBL and it has cancelled itself; we are going to have to think creatively about our annual blog dinner.
A forum for people with knowledge of the Bible in its original languages to discuss its manuscripts and textual history from the perspective of historic evangelical theology.
- Contributors
- Peter M. Head (ed)
- Tommy Wasserman (ed)
- P. J. Williams, and others
Just out of curiosity, how did cancel-culture hit SBL?
ReplyDeleteThe Society of Biblical Literature and American Academy of Religion have just emailed their members about the annual meeting in November. Here's the first part of the one from SBL: "Due to the serious risks to public health posed by COVID-19, the in-person 2020 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Literature, scheduled to take place in Boston on 21–24 November, has been cancelled.
DeleteNo woke scholars at SBL? How disappointing.
DeleteThere will be an online Annual Meeting, but the structure, timetable, dates, and format are not yet clear.
ReplyDeleteBoth IBR and ETS are also going online.
DeleteWhen we had to take our undergrad conference online last April, because it normally ends with a banquet and keynote speaker, we toyed with the idea of encouraging everyone to order a delivery meal to arrive just before the speaker would begin, and then to sit at our computers, enjoying our meals together for about half an hour. In the end we gave it up as too complicated. But something like that could be a lot of fun. Food is important!
ReplyDeleteSo at the beginning of the lock-down, I scheduled some dinners with friends over zoom. We picked a time, and each of us made or own dinners, then we set our computers up at the table and dialed in and ate dinner and talked.
ReplyDeleteTurned out that lock-down did not generate massive amounts of free time when you have to work at home and all your normal outside meetings are also on zoom so I haven't done it recently.
The biggest impediment to the SBL dinner is picking an appropriate time. It might be more of a SBL late dinner (Europe/Africa), late lunch/early dinner (Americas), early Breakfast (East Asia/Australia). If we need to handle Central Asia and the Middle East as well, we are probably hosed. (When we schedule international meetings for work, If it includes Europe and the US West coast, it's 8 a.m. Pacific Time, 5 p.m. Europe Time - the only "business hours" overlap. If it include the US/Australia/Europe, it's 6a.m. Australia, 1p.m. Pacific, 4p.m. Easter, 10 p.m. Europe, the only "we're all up at the same time" overlap)
Yes, the time zone problems are pretty significant.
DeleteCan we all eat at Hard Rock on Zoom?
ReplyDeleteHere is the statement from SBL: https://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/AMUpdate13July2020.pdf
ReplyDeleteAmong other things the online meeting will be longer than 4 days - so that could impact both ETS and IBR.
https://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/2020AM_FAQ.pdf suggests that late Nov/early Dec is the general timeframe, so no necessary connection with the previously announced date for the SBL AM.
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