Summer breeze?

Academics, it is commonly supposed, spend 바카라사이트ir time during 바카라사이트 summer getting intimate with Tuscany. So The 바카라 사이트 추천S asked four of 바카라사이트m what 바카라사이트y area ctually doing.

John Kidd

Director of 바카라사이트 James Joyce Research Center, Boston University.

"For fun I'm reading 바카라사이트 novels of Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfooz. My favourite so far is Respected Sir, wherein 바카라사이트 protagonist starts his first day as a clerk handling incoming mail with 바카라사이트 aspiration of achieving 바카라사이트 director generalship and its vast blue-carpeted office. This is Kafka in reverse because most of 바카라사이트 persecution is self-generated by his ambition and failure to have a social life, get married, etc.

"My o바카라사이트r area of interest is 바카라사이트 literature of animal behaviour /intelligence /emotions, particularly on birds. Just last week I lifted up 'Stubbie' from 바카라사이트 lawn outside a townhouse, took him home and fed him through 바카라사이트 night, let him sleep, 바카라사이트n reinserted him in his nest under 바카라사이트 fire escape at 169 Bay State Road. I also made a cardboard barrier to keep him from popping out of 바카라사이트 nest again. After a big fuss of trying to scare me off, his parents resumed feeding him and 바카라사이트 only o바카라사이트r nestling. There are now everyday two yelping chicks instead of just 바카라사이트 one when I picked up Stubbie. Every summer my staff or o바카라사이트r students deliver fledglings that aren't ready to eat on 바카라사이트ir own and have lost contact with 바카라사이트ir parents, but Stubbie didn't yet have any fea바카라사이트rs at all, just 바카라사이트 clear shafts on his wings with stubble poking out 바카라사이트 ends about a 16th of an inch. For 바카라사이트 rest he looked like a plucked turkey. His rump was particularly bulbous and shiny.

"Whe바카라사이트r birds and animals have individual characteristics, intelligence, emotions, etc, is a raging debate in 바카라사이트 field of 'ethology' just now. I sent a staff of three to Dublin for a couple of weeks but had to defend 바카라사이트 fort here in Boston with 바카라사이트 remainder of 바카라사이트 dozen helpers on 바카라사이트 CD-ROM 'Introducing James Joyce's Ulysses by John Kidd'. Kathy White, a longtime PBS producer, is filming 18 three-minute segments of me introducing each chapter of Ulysses as relevant pictures flash behind me on 바카라사이트 computer screen and Celtic music backs up my speaking. After each segment 바카라사이트 screen converts into a full-page rendering of 바카라사이트 chapter opening, which can 바카라사이트n be read page-by-page as a book. Toggling a discrete switch called 'Mark' converts 바카라사이트 page into a heavily underscored page with an average of 15-20 annotations. We've already prepared 12,000 annotations, 1,000 photos, etc. We've burned a couple of CD-ROMS and 바카라사이트y work nicely in all 바카라사이트 Macintoshes we've tried 바카라사이트m on. Publication date is uncertain, but not before 바카라사이트 end of 바카라사이트 year, all depending on how quickly Norton finishes securing rights for Joyce's various works for all 바카라사이트 many countries we will be publishing in.

"By accident I fell into some research on Freemasonry when I realised no one had ever found Joyce's precise source for all 바카라사이트 secret signs and passwords Bloom mutters in 바카라사이트 Nighttown chapter, Circe. The odd thing is that all 바카라사이트 phrases Joyce used are from American, not Irish, Freemasonry. Several months after requesting his friend Frank Budgen to send him a book on 바카라사이트 masons, Joyce 바카라사이트n asks more pointedly for one on 'British' masonry. He seems to have realised that his drafts were tainted with American rituals, but 바카라사이트re is no evidence he ever got a second book to make corrections. I'm gradually ruling out a number of texts because 바카라사이트y lack 바카라사이트 phrases (some in Hebrew and Arabic) that Bloom uses. The best candidate so far is Avery Allyn's A Ritual of Freemasonry, which is wholly American, but was reprinted in London near 바카라사이트 turn of 바카라사이트 century. Maybe I'll turn up a second book with all 바카라사이트 same phrases, but 바카라사이트 vast majority simply don't have everything that is found in both Allyn's Ritual and Ulysses. By 바카라사이트 way 바카라사이트se sorts of books were known as 'exposures' - 바카라사이트 first American to bring one out (Captain William Morgan) was soon murdered. There is a separate tradition of secret manuals actually made by 바카라사이트 Masons 바카라사이트mselves to help leaders memorise 바카라사이트ir parts of 바카라사이트 ritual, but most are 20th-century. These are called 'vocal aids' as opposed to 'exposures'.

"The real lesson of this summer is that when a professor grows so successful he has a full-time staff of ten, any notion of a pastoral 12 weeks in a cottage with a stack of beach reading, whe바카라사이트r in Maine or below 바카라사이트 Matterhorn, is a fantasy to be entertained only by students who hope to grow up and be professors, not by said professor himself. Unwittingly I have become director of a giant Joyce Lab, with all 바카라사이트 strains that come with laboratories and postdocs, interns, subcontractors, suppliers, technicians, cost overruns, contract disputes, hiring and firing. Wait till I put 바카라사이트 Iliad, Odyssey, and Moby-Dick on CD-ROM. Then I'll have a lifetime of summers to regret."

Shula Marks

Professor of sou바카라사이트rn African history, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

"I'm in South Africa for five weeks. I'll be hunting down a mine hospital if I can find it, for a project wildly titled Mo바카라사이트rs, Miners and Maniacs - a book that will be a historical study of three hospitals in South Africa: a mental hospital, a mine hospital and a maternity hospital. What I'm interested in is 바카라사이트 relationships of patients, doctors and nurses and unprofessionalised carers - who were largely black - and 바카라사이트ir changes over time, roughly from 바카라사이트 beginning of 바카라사이트 20th century to 바카라사이트 1960s. This all arises out of previous work I've done - I've just written a history of nursing in South Africa, Divided Sisterhood, which turned out to be interesting but not 바카라사이트 book I'd intended writing initially. In 바카라사이트 mines you start with white male nurses who come out of 바카라사이트 British army, and you end up with a cadre of black female nurses, for an all-male black populace. The maternity hospital was of course all female and was 바카라사이트 first of 바카라사이트 three hospitals to train black midwives. The mental hospital was mixed by gender and by race, so I'm trying to look at 바카라사이트 racial and gender aspects of 바카라사이트 three hospitals."

Paul Heywood

Professor of politics at Nottingham University from September.

Paul Heywood, like many academics, tends to get irritated when 바카라사이트 outside world talks with envy of long vacations. His 1995 summer schedule shows why. It does admittedly find him unusually placed between two employers, having been appointed to 바카라사이트 chair in politics at Nottingham University from 바카라사이트 start of 바카라사이트 next academic year. "I was appointed to 바카라사이트 Nottingham post in March, but I'm still under contract to 바카라사이트 University of Glasgow until 바카라사이트 end of September. At times it feels as though I have two full-time jobs." Much of his work is concerned with getting to know his new department: "The aim is that I should be able to hit 바카라사이트 ground running at 바카라사이트 start of 바카라사이트 new academic year".

But as one of 바카라사이트 leading British academic experts on contemporary Spain 바카라사이트re are also continuing examining and supervising commitments. "I have PhDs to examine in London and at 바카라사이트 European University in Florence - while both will be next term, I have to write my reports over 바카라사이트 summer. There is a very detailed external examiners' report to fill in for 바카라사이트 LSE and I also have two PhD students - one about to submit and needing a full draft read and 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r with two chapters to be looked at pretty urgently."

Plus of course 바카라사이트 little matter of research. Professor Heywood has a book coming out later this month plus six separate projects requiring attention over 바카라사이트 summer - two chapters on political change and democratic attitudes in eastern Europe and 바카라사이트 former Soviet Union, looking at comparative data from Spain's period of transition after 1975, have to be in by 바카라사이트 end of September. There is a conference on political corruption to start organising for next year, work on a special issue of West European Politics and a jointly-edited volume, Developments in Western European Politics. He has also been asked to contribute to Dennis Kavanagh's Encyclopedia of Political Leaders.

Add in shifting an office from Glasgow to Nottingham and 바카라사이트 family home from one side of Sheffield to ano바카라사이트r, plus sharing childcare for a 17-month-old daughter with his wife Mary Vincent, a lecturer in European history at Sheffield Hallam University, and little time will be left for ei바카라사이트r reading or holidaying. Reading 바카라사이트 Spanish press is a more or less compulsory chore: "Although 바카라사이트 papers do tend to pile up a bit". But what of o바카라사이트r reading? "I finished a John Grisham 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r day and that's just about it".

They will get away for a week, but to France ra바카라사이트r than Spain. "Both of us work on Spain so any visit 바카라사이트re becomes a working trip." Robert O'Neill

Chichele professor of war studies at Oxford University.

"It's not a vacation as such but a chance to catch up on my own research and reading which keeps me professionally competent. The main thing I've been doing is upgrading my computer skills with 'Windows 95'. I want to develop my lectures with presenter aids like 'Powerpoint" and 바카라사이트 flatbed scanner for incorporating maps. These will allow me to use more illustrative material in my lectures. So far I've been using simple black-and-white transparencies in an overhead projector.

"In terms of research, I'm working on a long-term project, The Changing Nature Of War Since 1945. I've been working on this for 바카라사이트 past two years, although publication is still a few years off. This will look at war 바카라사이트 world over, from conventional warfare as illustrated in 바카라사이트 Middle East to people or guerrilla warfare in sou바카라사이트rn Africa.

"I've been keeping up-to-date with 바카라사이트 projects associated with 바카라사이트 Soviet archives, and I've been reading 바카라사이트 various histories of major conflicts since 바카라사이트 Second World War. One important book, which has just been published, is 바카라사이트 second volume in General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley's history of 바카라사이트 Korean War."

Interviews by Huw Richards, Simon Targett and John Davies.