here's how it goes
Mar. 11th, 2012 03:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbI'm heading off very very early tomorrow morning to Greece.
There are a number of things I'm worried about, and a number of things I have to do while I'm there. For my own research, I'm trying to get permission to look at archives from the EFA, and from the Archaeological Society as well. (Advice, dear internets, on convincing the nice Greek people to let me look at their archaeological reports?)
The other thing I absolutely must do is accomplish what my postgrad handbook instructs me to do by mid-April:
1. A draft chapter of between 8,000 and 10,000 words. This chapter should display the
levels of research, critical analysis and originality commensurate with research at
doctoral level. It should not merely be a general account of the topic, nor an
introduction.
2. A detailed plan of work for the following year. This research plan should be
approximately 1,000 words long.
#1 rather terrifies me. Critical analysis! Originality! Eeeep!
(Yes, I knew coming in I need to accomplish this. It doesn't make it any less terrifying in practice.)
Also, by Wednesday night, I need to revise my FAoD yet again.
So. If I am screamy and scattered? Be a little patient with me.
Now, I'm going to spend the next four hours playing Skyrim, since it's the last chance I'll get.
There are a number of things I'm worried about, and a number of things I have to do while I'm there. For my own research, I'm trying to get permission to look at archives from the EFA, and from the Archaeological Society as well. (Advice, dear internets, on convincing the nice Greek people to let me look at their archaeological reports?)
The other thing I absolutely must do is accomplish what my postgrad handbook instructs me to do by mid-April:
1. A draft chapter of between 8,000 and 10,000 words. This chapter should display the
levels of research, critical analysis and originality commensurate with research at
doctoral level. It should not merely be a general account of the topic, nor an
introduction.
2. A detailed plan of work for the following year. This research plan should be
approximately 1,000 words long.
#1 rather terrifies me. Critical analysis! Originality! Eeeep!
(Yes, I knew coming in I need to accomplish this. It doesn't make it any less terrifying in practice.)
Also, by Wednesday night, I need to revise my FAoD yet again.
So. If I am screamy and scattered? Be a little patient with me.
Now, I'm going to spend the next four hours playing Skyrim, since it's the last chance I'll get.
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Date: 2012-03-11 06:33 pm (UTC)About the reports--can you get your supervisor to send an email on your behalf? It seems like a reasonable modern equivalent of the letter of introduction, which is a guaranteed open-sesame in France.
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Date: 2012-03-11 06:49 pm (UTC)(I have fucked up, though, since my postgraduate progress review interview is supposed to happen before I get home. I had it in my head that it was a month later! So I am holding off on asking the supervisor for anything else until I know whether I can have the interview by Skype. Or reschedule.)
(Argh argh terror argh.)
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Date: 2012-03-11 06:58 pm (UTC)OK, I've had that reaction more than once, and I know you know your supervisor's limits...but I feel required to ask whether you're sure that delaying won't make it harder to get your work done.
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Date: 2012-03-11 04:56 pm (UTC)Can you not get a reference from your department or your supervisor which you can send to the Greek authorities? I found it very straightforward to get access to museum collections like the BM and other regional institutions because my supervisor knew the curator of the Bronze Age Collections. I'd also dug on a site the aforementioned curator was excavating once upon a time. With that combination of factors, the rest was easy. And am I right in thinking that you're only wanting access to the paper archives and not the actual artefacts???
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Date: 2012-03-11 04:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-11 05:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-11 05:20 pm (UTC)It should be straightforward enough. I just flail. Flail!
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Date: 2012-03-11 05:49 pm (UTC)Hmm... I wonder what that is in Greek???
Hope the weather's better than it is over here!
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Date: 2012-03-11 05:35 pm (UTC)Travel safely.
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Date: 2012-03-11 05:38 pm (UTC)Thanks.
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Date: 2012-03-11 08:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-12 01:24 am (UTC)It always works for getting dig permits :-P
Also, are you staying at the IHHSA? Who's the Assistant Director? Wow I just learned Prof. John Dillon is no longer the director. I need to get with the times. The Assistant Directors tend to be pretty helpful. Plus they have the added advantage of knowing people. So get them to give you the low down on how to go about it.
Also email Christine and ask her how to/ beg letter.
If all else fails have a frappe. Meso gluco, Ochi gala, and a pita gyros. Oh an a kaiser beer in that nice bar down in Exarcia Square. God I miss greece.
I'm coming with you next time.
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Date: 2012-03-12 06:37 pm (UTC)<3
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Date: 2012-03-12 04:29 pm (UTC)* points to all the people above who are smart and have faith in you *
also, feel free to scream and be scattered at me anytime you need to.
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Date: 2012-03-12 06:37 pm (UTC)