theyellowhobbit

I just had a phone meeting with Ben about the Top Secret Project, and at the end of the meeting I asked him if I could talk to people about it, and he said that it never was secret.

I'm sure at some point in the summer he said not to talk about the project yet. And I told him this, and that I hadn't told anyone thus far. He said that I should be telling people what I'm doing and bragging about it (since it's a cool project).

So here goes:

Ben and I are going to be organizing a session for the 2009 SAA (Society for American Archaeology) meeting. We're going to get a few scholars to give papers on the topic of purity and piety in a cross-cultural context in archaeology. So we're going to search for people working in different regions. And then we're going to take these papers and turn them into a shiny book and publish said shiny book, and then everyone involved will have something cool to add to their CV. :)

And now I'm happy because I finally get to tell Dr. Nasrallah about it! She had asked a while ago what I was working on and I told her that I was working on "stuff that I can't tell anyone about yet." Now I get to sound like I know what I'm doing. Whee!

The only downside is that by doing the SAA conference is strictly archaeological, so I can't invite any cool text scholars to be a part of the session.

The plus side is that it doesn't conflict with ASOR, so I get to go to the conference next year, which will be in Boston. And I just checked, SAA is April 22-26th, and Passover April 9-15 that year, so it will be after Passover. It will be during the middle of my last semester at Div school, but I think I'll be fine if I tell my professors far enough in advance.

Yay project!