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Society of Early Americanists Conference 2017
Hyatt Regency Downtown-University of Tulsa
Tulsa, March 2-4, 2017
I was late in making arrangements. I missed out on the first hotel block, and the second. I ended up booking at the Fairfield Inn, across the tracks from the conference hotel. I finally registered for the conference only the day before, so when I arrived at the registration desk on Thursday afternoon I had to show the receipt on my phone.
It was because of the election, of course. Like, I guess, millions of others, since November I had been having trouble thinking about my work, especially my research. My teaching had been reinvigorated actually-I felt more connected to my students-but my writing felt more trivial and selfindulgent than ever. And it had been months since I had touched the arcane project I was coming to Tulsa to present, and I suspected I was about to make a fantastic professional face plant. Only really.
INTERVENTIONS
I arrived in time for session 4. The panel title that spoke to the problem on my mind was "Early American Studies as Public and Political Interven- tions." The paper titles informed me that the panel was not really about the Resistance, but it was impressive nonetheless. Roy Boney, Jr., and Jeff Edwards of the Cherokee Nation Education Services Group dropped some of the biggest names ever heard at an SEA conference-Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook-the tech giants they worked with to bring Cherokee syllabary unicode fonts to the major platforms.
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