Just a Trial Run for Now...

To Whomever May Stumble Across This,

This is just a trial run for the conference blog at the moment. With the website and the Facebook page already up and running, I'm not sure whether the addition of the blog will prove necessary or manageable, but the worst that can happen is that I end up shutting this down within a few weeks. No harm done. But since the idea of opening a conference blog had been suggested a while back, I thought I'd give it a shot. Once the semester begins, we'll see just how far off the ground we actually make it.

Ideally, this would be a regularly-updated blog for posting conference-related announcements and publicity. It would also serve as a place for members of the MA program to share their musings on themes related to the conference, or on the intersections between philosophy and art in a more general, wide-ranging sense. I know that blog tools as class assignments haven't worked so well for us in the past, and enthusiasm tends to dwindle as the semester progresses. I think that this is to our own detriment. It would be excellent to see this develop into a regularly-utilized forum for sharing informal writing on philosophical topics, increasing our communication with one another and making connections with people we may not have thought to seek out, who share similar ideas or have relevant contributions to make to our projects.

(Ideally, that is. The realist in me balks at the very suggestion that this could actually take off.)

For now... we'll see. In the meantime, I'll finish setting up the links between all the conference-related pages I've been adding, which may or may not prove an egregious waste of the precious little summer I have left. If you've managed to make it this far and are at all persuaded that this is, in fact, a good idea, feel free to leave a rallying cry...