Showing posts with label Rome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rome. Show all posts

Monday, September 22, 2008

Review and restart

It has been a few weeks since the last post. And before that, posts were thin on the ground for some time. Where have I been? What have I been doing?

Packing and preparing to leave our beloved home in Sydney;
Travelling in India, visiting old friends and meeting some locals;
Moving into Edinburgh, staying first with a friend of a friend and then moving into longer term accommodation;
Conferencing in Rome, concerning which I might post a few thoughts in the coming days;
Helping Jess start a new blog;
Conferencing again, this time in Dunblane on a more intimate scale with my supervisor, two other academics (including his wife) and a few PhD students from Edinburgh and Oxford;
Enrolling and being oriented at New College for my PhD studies in the School of Divinity at Edinburgh University;
Adjusting to a new city, its geography, topography, demography and public transport; and
Waiting for a reliable broadband connection to be set up.
Thus, I haven't had much space or opportunity to blog, and the little time I have been able to grab on the net has largely consisted of writing emails and Skyping. Hopefully, I will now have a little more space and things can get rolling once more. Enough of the excuses; time to re-start.

Saturday, August 30, 2008

All roads lead to...

...the Rome theology and philosophy conference, The Grandeur of Reason. At least, my road leads there this week. Speakers include Agamben, Hauerwas, Milbank and O'Donovan, as well as Myers, Russell and many more - should be a good week! Blogging will resume upon my return.

UPDATE: Conference programme now available to download [102KB], H/T Ben.