Great encounters in Irvine.
George Marcus and Erkan
I had a great and productive talk with George. It was real nice to see him here and it was such a good exchange of ideas. George seems to be quite impressed with my blogging activity. (In fact, i have learnt that some other people know already about this blog) I will probably meet George again before I leave US.
Guess, who met me in the train station: Metin of Talkturkey. Bloggers meet again. He is based in Irvine and man, he is fun and funny. I am overwhelmed with his hospitality here. We will have some going outs today and tomorrow. Well, he had already had to meet my humble fantasies such as having pancakes constantly (!)
As a reading report:
In my 4 hour train trip from Santa Barbara to Irvine I have read an article from Brian Silverstein. "Disciplines of Presence in Modern Turkey. Discourse, Companionship, and Mass Mediation of Islamic Practice" (In Cultural Anthropology Journal)
It is a good sound article. Mass Mediation part is open ended, future work recommended, but the initial parts are good to work for those who are interested in these topics. The book form could be a follow up on Brinkley Messick's Caligraphic State...
It was also a great pleasure to meet Kristin Peterson (L) who was a graduate student at Rice Anthro. She has become a faculty member at UC Irvine Anthro. I had the pleasure to meet with Bill Maurer (R), chair of UC Irvine and whose writings I have been aware of for a while...
Yesterday, i skipped a panel in the panel symposium i am attending and saw another event:
I have already got the local newspapers but i will still be hanging out in Irvine for a while...
Comments
Nice to see fnally a face behind Talk Turkey..)
Enoy Irvine. Thats a long time ago I studied there...
Posted by: Hans A.H.C. de Wit | April 27, 2008 05:05 PM
Enjoy your time there.
Irvine is wonderful, bringing me back memories of 25 years ago..))
Say Hello to M.
Posted by: Hans A.H.C. de Wit | April 27, 2008 10:16 PM
I agree with Hans, it's nice to see a face behind TalkTurkey. As for you, I think you should stay away from those pancakes, unless you want to look like one soon. Yet, I think Irvine sucks, you should come to San Francisco.
Posted by: Mitat Yerli | April 28, 2008 04:51 AM
Sounds like you're having a fabulous time!!! I envy you the conversations with George Marcus.
Travel safe :)
Posted by: Di | April 28, 2008 04:19 PM