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I'm an art historian. At present I'm working as a curator in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, employed on a project to renovate the gallery of Islamic art. These days I do lots of research and writing of labels, database entries, and so forth. I'm also in demand as a lecturer, and have almost finished a (bloody exhausting) stint guest-teaching one term of a colleague's course at the University of London. When my contract here is up in August 2006, I plan to move to Istanbul to be with my wife, who teaches there.
Can't say I ever thought about being an actuary (though my dad was one)!
Barry Wood
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If I remember correctly, Keith Windschuttle has a masterly evisceration of Foucault in his book The Killing of History. I had so much Foucault shoved down my throat in grad school that Windschuttle's chapter really was a lifesaver.
Barry Wood
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Yes, welcome. May I ask where you gave the lectures and what were they on?
I did three lectures titled "Ayn Rand's Aesthetics in Historical Perspective" at the OCON 2004 conference in Virginia. Sad to say they're not available on tape or I'd suggest you buy a copy. I am writing a chapter on much the same topic for a book on Ayn Rand that ARI is bringing out (hopefully) this year.
Thanks for the welcome,
Barry
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Hello to all,
I am new to the forum, if not to Objectivism – I discovered Ayn Rand in 1986. Despite my enthusiasm for Objectivism I haven't really moved in Objectivist circles for some time now, although I did give a series of lectures at the last summer conference, and a forum like this seems to be a good way to interact with other students of the greatest philosophy ever penned.
By way of background: I'm an art historian and amateur aesthetician, trained (Harvard Ph.D.) in Islamic art and architecture and currently working at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. In addition to art I am especially keen on languages, the more "exotic" and out-of-the-way the better (currently obsessed with Georgian).
Hope to show up on a forum or two sometime soon. In the meantime I'll try to think of a cool signature.
Barry Wood
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Heh! You take me right back to the time I was reading Ninety-Three on my daily lunch hours at my summer job (way back when); when I got to the climax, I literally couldn't put the book down and ended up "extending" my lunch hour to within seconds of getting in trouble!
I have to say that Toilers of the Sea has been my only Hugo disappointment so far, although the ending was really powerful, even by Hugovian standards.
Barry