The Kalamazoo Medieval Experience

I recently attended my first ever Kalamazoo.  This is not a strange musical instrument, or a kind of olive.  It is an annual gathering of 3,000 medieval historians, which takes place on the campus of Western Michigan University, USA.  The breadth of scholarship on offer is legendary - as are the seediness of the campus accommodation, and the scariness of the dancing at the Saturday night disco.

You can watch a video of my conference presentation on vernacular astronomy here.  But in this blog post I've compiled some of my favourite tweets, to give you a flavour of my conference experience...

Tweets from the Biennial History of Astronomy Workshop - Part 2

Here is the second instalment of my tweets from the Eleventh Biennial History of Astronomy Workshop.  If you missed the first batch, you can read them here.

Once again, if you enjoy reading them, don't forget to follow me on Twitter!




Congratulations for making it through all those!  Remember, if you missed the first instalment, you can find them here.

Tweets from the Biennial History of Astronomy Workshop - Part 1

I've spent the last few days at the Eleventh Biennial History of Astronomy Workshop, at the University of Notre Dame (in the USA, not Paris).  It was a tremendous learning experience and very enjoyable.

I hope to post some reflections on the conference soon, but first, I've collated all the tweets I wrote during the last five days.  I found the 140-character limit made for an interesting challenge in summarising what was being said.  As there were quite a few tweets, I've split them in two (you can find the second batch here).  If you enjoy reading them, don't forget to follow me on Twitter!



Wow! Did you really read all those tweets?  If you're a glutton for more punishment, click here for the second instalment.

Tweets from the Catalan Congress

At the weekend I attended my first ever academic conference, the XII Trobada (twelfth congress) of the Societat Catalana d'Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (Catalan Society for the History of Science and Technology).  I had a wonderful time, enjoyed making a presentation about this globe, met some very friendly fellow historians of science, and learned a lot.

I will post more of my thoughts about the conference soon, but for now, here are some tweets.  I've just joined Twitter (as @astrolabestuff) and thought I would tweet my thoughts on the conference (or at least summaries of the talks) as it progressed.  Here's what I wrote...