23-29 April 2012

23 Monday April: Supervision five with Sandra, Brown Bag Seminar planning with Viv.

24 Tuesday April: Wrote and sent report of supervision session five.

25 Wednesday April: Attended ‘Mapping Faith Workshop’.

26 Thursday April: Revisions to APG Report.

27 Friday April: Revisions to APG Report. Sent Revised APG Report Draft to Sandra

28/29 April Weekend.

Spring Breaking.

‘Spring Break’ 09-15 April

09 Monday April: Informed by my mother that my paternal grandfather Eddie James died last Friday, 06 April. This means that in the past roughly one year, I have lost my father, my godmother, my paternal grandmother and now my paternal grandfather. Having trouble concentrating today.

10 Tuesday April: Re-read Myths to Live By. Made family phone calls.

11 Wednesday April: Family phone calls and arrangements; will not personally be in attendance of the funeral. Made preparations for tomorrow’s research day and the interview with Peter Barber.

12 Thursday April: Interview with Peter Barber, Maps Room, British Library, London.

13 Friday April: Raw transcription of interview with Peter Barber. Updated social media. Read article for next week’s seminar discussion of ‘Narrativity’.

14/15 April Weekend—did nothing in direct support of research. Please note: have learned that the university libraries in London (and surrounding) close for the week before and two weeks after the Easter Break. In response to this, students bereft of their familiar faculty, descend in force upon a beleaguered British Library. There were no open desks in ANY of the reading rooms . . . 

‘Spring Break’ 16-22 April

16 Monday April: Transcription of interview with Peter Barber and citing references. Read background articles for the interview. Taped BBC 4 broadcast discussion of Drake’s Circumnavigation Medal, part of “Shakespeare’s Restless World’ exhibition preparation.

17 Tuesday April: Reviewed and edited raw transcription. Answering emails.

18 Wednesday April: Cy’s seminar discussion of ‘Narrativity’.

19 Thursday April: Today my father would have been 70. Taking a day away from research for personal reasons. Also battling a cold.

20 Friday April: 'Disciplinarity' Symposium at Museum Studies, University of Leicester. Still miserable with cold and feeling incredibly tired, I left the seminar an hour early.

21/22 April Weekend—did nothing in direct support of research.

Weeks 12-14

Week 12 March

19-25 Monday March Devoted to readings and notes towards drafting the APG Report.

Week 13 March

26 Monday March Museum Utopias Conference –Pre-Conference Events.

27 Tuesday March Museum Utopias Conference

28 Wednesday March Museum Utopias Conference and Brown Bag Seminar: Dr Stephanie Pratt.

29 Thursday March APG Report—University Report and Departmental Version

30 Friday March APG Report—University Report and Departmental Version. Sent out request for Research Week Abstracts.

31/01 April Weekend APG Report—University Report and Departmental Version

Week 14 April

02 Monday April Reviewing Application Process for Arts Council Grants.

03 Tuesday April Revising AGP Reports.

04 Wednesday April Research at Nottingham Contemporary—made use of their reading room/library to revisit W.B. Arcades Project, and Baudrillard’s System of Objects, in terms of current research.

05 Thursday April Liverpool Research

06 Friday April Blackpool Research: Grundy Art Gallery, Blank Stir Exhibition.

07/08 April Weekend Returned from Blackpool, finished APG draft (to be sent to Sandra on Monday).