Day 2, Saturday (and a bit of Sunday morning)

Running out of steam here, folks...

Final early morning before catching the train at 10.15. Breakfast outside on the terrace in the warm early morning sunshine coming up. When we get to Chicago we'll have to negotiate the various travel restrictions being caused by the NATO summit, though it's hard to get any definitive information. One line we've heard is that they're not allowing luggage onto the transit to the airport, so cab it might have to be.

Some highlights from yesterday's action-packed agenda: my fellow speakers on the 'Losing It: Learning In The Ruins' panel I was on, including Larry Russell's on the impact of his (auto)ethnographic work on pilgrimage; Maggie MacClure (from Manchester Met) on rethinking interview data in light of the 'new materialism' (Barad, Deleuze, et al.); and Mary Weems (poet and scholar - check her out on YouTube) on an audience's silent response to her and a colleague's performance: 'White noise, white silence'.

And much more. Find some Larry Russell to read if you haven't already.

Must pack.

Jonathan