Hi all,

I heard back from the Folger via Meaghan Brown and they're definitely interested. They would like to know more or less which dates we'd like to be there so that they could give us a more solid yes. February and early March can be very cold here in DC (easily below 0°C with wind chill), so we should pick a later date. By late March it gets better. The average cherry blossoms peak is April 4th. The "festival" will stretch between March 20th and April 13th.

One possible caveat: "a Folger representative (probably me [Meaghan Brown]) would need to play host during the period you’re in the building and be on hand to help with logistics. Would it be a problem to have one of us sit in?" I wouldn't have an issue with this, but what do others think?

I suggested we might take this opportunity to network with local staff, to which Meaghan replied: "I can check to be sure certain invested parties would be available – such as our digital postdoc for the Before Farm to Table Project, Elisa Tersigni. She’ll be working on encoding recipe books, and having a consultation with you guys might be super helpful." I also suggested thinking about something more public facing if we all thought that would be useful.

Thoughts?
Raff

On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 1:42 PM James Cummings <James.Cummings@newcastle.ac.uk> wrote:

Apologies for the delay in responding.


To confirm, I'd be willing to host a council meeting here in Newcastle. I could also do so in future years if that was preferable.


Venues: 

There are two possible venues:

A) One is the city centre campus, for which I could find one or more meeting rooms, downtown has plenty of hotels, airbnb, restaurants and that sort of thing.


B) The other possible venue would be about 9 miles out of the city centre (direct metro line) in either a hotel conference room (at charge) or the Dove Marine Laboratory. This is a research institution in a victorian building right on the beach in Cullercoats bay https://goo.gl/maps/cJLSCEX8jHS2, a short walk south is Tynemouth (lots of trendy restaurants, cafes, lovely ruined medieval priory). I've been to university workshops at the Dove and will investigate the rules for booking it. No idea if it is free then. There is also a 'Premier Inn' hotel with conference rooms in Whitley Bay right next to the iconic recently refurbished Spanish City building (mentioned in a Dire Straits song if you are into such trivia).


Travel: Newcastle Airport is connected to the city by a quick, fairly inexpensive and frequent metro system (that goes out to the coast and covers the whole metropolis area between Newcastle, the coast, and Sunderland.) Newcastle Airport is usually 1 hop to most major interchanges (via Heathrow, Schiphol, etc.) 


Dates: As we're really far North (literally, Hadrian's wall used to run through Newcastle), then later is better in terms of weather. In terms of the university calendar the Easter Break is from Friday 29 March to Monday 29 April. Good Friday is 19 April, Easter Monday: 22 April. I only mention it because these are probably not good days to travel or find open restaurants for large groups. I'm busy in the week 1-5 April doing a TEI workshop. This actually presents an opportunity where we might have budget to help with the travel for 1 (or 2 max) council members if they were also teaching on that workshop. This would mean maybe having it sometime in 6 - 12 April. According to weather.com historically that is like 9-10C/48-50F around that time of year (and windy on the coast).


Some random videos:

University promotional ones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3jR3NvU-TY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htlYW8RppWA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Okf1pmDkem8


Cullercoats bay with Dove Marine Laboratory in the middle, boring drone footage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BKf4hZNWRM

Whitley Bay and Tynemouth, better drone footage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn5nx6VIAhw

Spanish City (during refurb) boring drone footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxHW3j83IDY


Many thanks,

James 


--

Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings@newcastle.ac.uk

School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics, Newcastle University

From: Tei-council <tei-council-bounces@lists.tei-c.org> on behalf of Mylonas, Elli <elli_mylonas@brown.edu>
Sent: 03 October 2018 23:23:52
To: TEI Council
Subject: Re: [Tei-council] Spring F2F meeting
 
I can host at Brown most of the spring term. Some better and some blackout dates:
When students aren't here:
Long weekend Feb 16-19
Spring break  Mar 23-31

NOT POSSIBLE - 
April 4-5

best, --elli

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 4:05 PM Scholger, Martina (martina.scholger@uni-graz.at) <martina.scholger@uni-graz.at> wrote:

Dear all,

 

picking up on the minutes from our last call I would ask everyone who offered to host the next Spring F2F meeting to confirm their willingness to do so and to set out the possibilities in terms of place and date before our next call. We should figure out what is feasible as soon as possible.  

 

We have offers from:

Elli at Brown University in Providence

James at Newcastle University

Magdalena in Warsaw

Raff at Folger Library in Washington D.C.

 

Best wishes,

Martina

 

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