We survived - it was intense, but actually quite productive. And I think that we didn't have to wrangle as much about terminology and miscommunications between c. 4 distinct academic cultures as much as I had thought. Perhaps that speaks volumes for me nagging my student researchers all summer about thinking outside the box and to try and grasp where other students on the RDF project are coming from. Of course the biggest gap is between the humanists and the computer scientists, but even this was bridged quite easily. The excitement in the room about some of the questions we've been wrestling with - the nature of how we might map social processes as networks - was palpable, and there was int
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It looks like the holy oats article is going to make it into the 2013 open issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies: fingers crossed, it's going through post-revision reviews at the moment. If it makes it in, I'll be extremely happy. The project has been a long haul from finding some indications that Aquinas thought grace had intentional being as a quality, through the work at the Pontifical Institute in Toronto, and the submission of the LMS paper version, to the complete redrafting and rewriting of the research as a paper for McGill Medievalists in the winter of 2010. Finding the oats recipe was a godsend as it let me deal with the complex issues, I think, in a slightly hu
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