Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Sent off three recommendation letters for a student.

Conferences

• Emailed Patrick about abstracts for the Dharmakirti conference.

Miscellaneous

Sunday, December 29, 2013

Reading

• Actually managed to sit in Gwen's room this morning after she woke up and before breakfast and read about a chapter in Malink.

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Saturday, December 28, 2013

I had hoped to go out to the office yesterday afternoon for a few hours. That did not happen.

Reading

Writing

• I recently joined the blog Letters from the Editors, and I published my first two posts today: an introduction and What Makes a Good Referee Report?.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Monday, December 23, 2013

I'm home until Jan. 6 with Gwen, due to university/daycare holidays, so I'm not really expecting to get any work done, so I might be sporadic with these posts. However, she went down for an early nap, and after getting a bunch of C&I work done, I managed to respond to some emails in my inbox.

Reading

• I tried bringing Malink to the playground, but only got a few paragraphs read.

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

• A bit of IEP editorial work.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Emails, oh joy.

Saturday-Sunday, December 21-22, 2013

Reading

Writing

• Finished the first-pass of data-entering/crunching for Zipf. Whoo! I got something work-related done on the weekend!

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Friday, December 20, 2013

Reading

Writing

• Zipf's law and medieval onomastics.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Finished reading Steinkellner.
• Watched/listened to the video of last week's seminar to be caught up for this week's.
• Went to seminar.
• Finished reading student responses (oops, forgot to do that before seminar).

Conferences

• Collected receipts for Pamplona reimbursement.

Miscellaneous

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Read student responses for this week.
• Read the first half of Oetke, "Svabhavapratibandha and the Types of Reasoning in Dharmakirti's Theory of Inference", and skimmed the rest.
• Met with Birgit to discuss tomorrow's seminar.
• Read Steinkellner, "On the Interpretation of the Svabhavahetuh".

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Took a few hours in the afternoon off to spend time with Joel w/o Gwen, and just recover from the last six weeks or so.

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Reading

Writing

• Suddenly ended up writing the first four pages of a paper on Zipf's Law and onomastic corpora. Uh, how did that happen?

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Have nearly finished reading Eltschinger for class on Fri. Am so totally not prepared for meeting with Birgit tomorrow to discuss said class.

Conferences

• Spent most of the day traveling back from Pamplona.

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Reading

Writing

• Suddenly ended up writing the first four pages of a paper on Zipf's Law and onomastic corpora. Uh, how did that happen?

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Have nearly finished reading Eltschinger for class on Fri. Am so totally not prepared for meeting with Birgit tomorrow to discuss said class.

Conferences

• Spent most of the day traveling back from Pamplona.

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

• Day 2 of the Pamplona conference.

Miscellaneous

Monday, December 16, 2013

Reading

Writing

• As of the DMLBS conf. I have come up with a very cunning and devious plan. It involves some writing-up-of-ground-work, which I worked on some today.
• I haz a cunning plan, and it has resulted in a blog.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Read over last week's student responses.
• Catching up on the reading from last week's seminar, and trying to get a start on this week's:
  • Claudius Nenninger, "samanyato drstam anumanam: Analogical Reasoning in Early Nyaya-Vaisesika".
  • Birgit's translation of an extract of Dharmakirti's Nyayabindu (Drop of Reasoning).
  • Starting reading Vincent Eltschinger's "Dharmakirti" chapter.

Conferences

• Off to Pamplona for the VII Navarra Workshop On Vagueness.
• While on the way, wrote my slides.

Miscellaneous

• Slept the entire flight from Frankfurt to Madrid. Was intending to write slides. Oh well.

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

• Looking for JoLLI referees again.

Teaching

Conferences

• DMLBS conference day 3.

Miscellaneous

Friday, December 13, 2013

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

• Sought out one more referee for 1st JoLLI assignment.
• Got a new JoLLI assignment. Whew! They're coming faster than I thought they would. Invited a referee for it.

Teaching

Conferences

• DMLBS conference

Miscellaneous

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

• Afternoon: Headed from London to Oxford for DMLBS conference, and attended opening lecture in the evening.

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

• Searching for referees again.
• Sat in a pub and read more in Malink.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Monday, December 9, 2013

There's a limit to how much you can do while sitting in a cafe and entertaining a 2 year old, but nonetheless, I did actually manage to get work done.

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

• Continued reading Malink's book.
• Got another JoLLI submission assigned to me, so sent off referee requests for it.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• This was a busy weekend for accumulating email, most of which I managed to get through.

Friday, December 6, 2013

Leaving work right after class today in order to head to the UK for Yule Ball!

Reading

Writing

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Reviewed student assignments for discussion; reviewed monotonicity notes.
• Taught. Was planning to leave 5 min. early. Left instead 4 min. late, and then the bus was late, so it was a sprint to the station, but luckily the train to Mannheim was late, so I made it.

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Remembered a few more maps, etc., to print before traveling.

Thursday, Decenber 5, 2013

Reading

Writing

• 53 pages of PoV revising/proofreading. Golly it's awful in places. And deadly dull in places. But, this means I was able to send it off to Mark and Antonio who volunteered to give it a test read.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Read over student contributions for lecture tomorrow.
• Wrote up notes on monotonicity & defeasible reasoning. (Why is it the firefox's spellchecker will accept both 'feasible' and 'indefeasible', but not 'defeasible'?)

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Printed off all our travel docs for England next week. For some reason, there's far fewer than usual.

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Reading

• Combed through all the rest of the open JSTOR tabs I have regarding potential sources for Indian names, of which the following are the ones that I did more than ctrl + f over:
  • Ranabir Chakravarti, "Early Medieval Bengal and the Trade in Horses: A Note", Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Vol. 42, No. 2, 1999.
  • John Stratton Hawley, "The Early Sūr Sāgar and the Growth of the Sūr Tradition", Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 99, No. 1 (1979).
  • G. V. Scammell, "After Da Gama: Europe and Asia since 1498", Modern Asian Studies Vol. 34, No. 3, Jul., 2000.
  • Barrie M. Morrison, "Sources, Methods and Concepts in Early Indian History", Pacific Affairs Vol. 41, No. 1, Spring, 1968.
  • T.H. Holditch, "Notes on Ancient and Mediæval Makran", The Geographical Journal, Vol. 7, No. 4, Apr., 1896.
  • Alain Desoulières, "Mughal Diplomacy in Gujarat (1533-1534) in Correia's 'Lendas da India'", Modern Asian Studies Vol. 22, No. 3, 1988: This one actually had a period feminine name!
  • A.M. Shah & R.G. Shroff, "The Vahīvancā Bāroṭs of Gujarat: A Caste of Genealogists and Mythographers", The Journal of American Folklore vol. 71
  • Rosalind O'Hanlon, "Kingdom, Household and Body History, Gender and Imperial Service under Akbar", Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 41, No. 5, Sep., 2007.
  • Michael H. Fisher, "Political Marriage Alliances at the Shi 'i Court of Awadh", Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 25, No. 4, Oct., 1983.
  • George Birdwood, "The Rajputs in the History of Hindustan, Part 1", Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, Vol. 60: This had a reference to Udai Singh's sister (named!) which led me to the names of four of his wives/concubines, so now I've actually got a handful of 16th C Rajput feminine names!
  • Mary Shepherd Slusser, "On a Sixteenth-Century Pictorial Pilgrim's Guide from Nepal", Archives of Asian Art, Vol. 38, 1985, because how cool is that?

Writing

• Worked on the PoV translation some more. Wow, it's messy...
• Um, yeah, an article on 16th C Rajput women's names.

Revising

Refereeing

• A bit of IEP work.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Sorted out travel to/from Yule.

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Reading

• Spent some of the morning surfing JSTOR for information on pre-1600 Rajput/Rajasthani feminine names, which resulted in reading/skimming the following:
  • Derryl N. MacLean, "Review of Living Without Silver by John S. Deyell", Pacific Affairs, Vol. 67, No. 1, Spring, 1994.
  • Stephen P. Blake, "Review ofLiving Without Silver, by John S. Deyell", Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 51, No. 4, Nov., 1992.
  • R. Burn, "Review of The Dynastic History of Northern India: Early Medieval Period. Vol. II by H. C. Ray", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society No. 1, Jan., 1938.
  • J. Allan, "Review of The Dynastic History of Northern India: Early Mediæval Period. Vol. I by H. C. Ray", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society No. 4, Oct., 1933.
  • E. G., "Review of India: Art and Culture, 1300-1900 by Stuart Cary Welch", Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 115, No. 3.
  • Molly Emma Aitken, "Pardah and Portrayal: Rajput Women as Subjects, Patrons, and Collectors", Artibus Asiae> Vol. 62, No. 2, 2002; most of this is 17th-19th C, but it's still a very interesting discussion of when and how women were named.
  • Kashi N. Singh, "The Territorial Basis of Medieval Town and Village Settlement in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India", Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 58, No. 2, Jun., 1968.
  • Sumit Guha, "Speaking Historically: The Changing Voices of Historical Narration in Western India, 1400-1900", The American Historical Review Vol. 109, No. 4 (October 2004); interesting, but again focusing on 17th C and later material.
  • Debarati Halder and K. Jaishankar, "PROPERTY RIGHTS OF HINDU WOMEN: A FEMINIST REVIEW OF SUCCESSION LAWS OF ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL, AND MODERN INDIA", Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2008-2009.

Writing

• I need to finish up my PoV paper by the end of the year, and thus I'd like to have a decent working transcription/translation by then too. Having solicited some willing readers from the Med. Logic group on FB, I spent some time today trying to fill in holes before I send them what I've got. Made good progress.

Revising

Refereeing

• Took Malink's book to the cafeteria and started reading it over a bowl of absolutely fantastic pumpkin-chili soup.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Monday, December 2, 2013

Reading

• Teaching prep: Nonmonotonic reasoning in SEP.

Writing

• It felt like it had been a long time since I'd done any writing, and suddenly I had a yen to dig up a paper I gave in Konstanz in Sept.'12, which has been mouldering since and really needs to be finished, and started working on it. I know where I'd like to send it, and it would be nice to either get one more thing into submission still this year, or at the very least early next year to start priming the field for 2014 publications. A day when I actually spend a substantive portion writing (even if "writing" today meant "converting citations into the form required by the journal in question", blech), is always satisfying.

Revising

Refereeing

• Finished reading JoLLI#1.
• Squee! A book I've been asked to review -- one I'd been planning to purchase for myself -- arrived today, and it looks awesome. Looking forward to reading this quite a bit.

Teaching

• Extended meeting with Birgit planning this week's lecture as well as discussing out most of the rest of the semester.

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Did some more email catch-up
• Submitted Nepal reimbursement.
• Oh, my, the hair. Gotta love the hair.