Jim West is back in the thick – or thin – of things, now with a survey article of how the sausage-fest controversy spans the globe. And the untiring Deane Galbraith has come up with the t-shirt, beer coaster, cutting board, apron and much more – all with the sausage-fest logo. Tomorrow, the head honcho of SBL, John Kutsko weighs in, since he has owned up to asking Charlie Haws to send me the initial message. A case of the messenger copping the flack. And as yet I have not received word as to what the SBL will do with my paper title or indeed paper, so I can only assume that it will go ahead. Next: maybe a paper called ‘The Great Sausage-Fest Controversy: On Minced Meat and Censorship’ (ht to DG).
27 October, 2010
The Great Sausage Controversy – update
Posted by stalinsmoustache under anatomy, biblical studies, weird | Tags: censorship, Jim West, sausage-fest, SBL |[7] Comments
27 October, 2010 at 5:52 am
I think the powers that be in the SBL should now be aware of the apocalyptic crisis that will erupt if 1. they don’t accept paper with original title and 2. if they don’t provide alot of extra seating for the inevitable crowds wanting to attend this much publicised session. In order to restore some sort of credibility to themselves, they might also be advised to provide sausages and a sausage sizzle for distribution of hotschlongs at the door.
28 October, 2010 at 1:31 am
Ah no, the usual tactic is to scheduel some miniscule space that holds 5 people.
27 October, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Got my programme for the MLA annual meeting in LA in January. Flipping through it, I found the following paper titles:
Fuck the facts: the multimedia(ted) production of Farley Mowat and the accommodation of a few whoppers’
‘Rape, empowerment, and the spectatorial frisson in Catherine Breillat’s A ma soeur’
‘Shitting on Empire: metropolitan abjection and colonial returns in Virginia Woolf’s London’
‘”Warm blood and live semen and rich marrow and wholesome flesh!”: a queer ecological reading of Christopher Isherwood’
‘Un-Greek love: pederasty and its discontents in the poetry of C.P. Cavafy’
‘The escaped cock? Questioning homoeroticism in Lawrence’s poetry’
‘”Shimmering” backwards: Sarah Schulman and the the politics of queer retrosexuality’
‘Jackal boys and bestial sex: animality in Coetzee’s Disgrace’
And for a here’s a tickler from a panel on Chaucer:
‘How the Archbishop of Canterbury reads Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath’
A breath of fresh air compared to the SBL, whose leaders should perhaps be sent to the MLA’s head office for some good old-fashioned Maoist re-education?
28 October, 2010 at 1:33 am
Thanks Ken, will send the list to John Kotsko. I think my MLA stuff is still going home in Australia. Not sure whether ‘Fuck the facts’ or ‘The escaped cock’ is my favourite in the surrent circumstances.
27 October, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Now, wait a minute there, “shitting on Europe”? Unacceptable!
28 October, 2010 at 1:33 am
As is shitting on empire …
28 October, 2010 at 2:32 am
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