Bibliographic record
Abstract
ConferencesThe 38th Annual Conference of Joseph Society of United Kingdom was held this summer at Spa University in Somerset, England, 4-7 July, 2012. This event went under banner of Conrad in Bath - though given famous English summer weather across latter days, Conrad in heavy showers might have been more accurate. In spite of unlikely spatiotemporal coupling of and eighteenth century milieu of a provincial English town (Bath is a UNESCO World Heritage Site) place is undoubtedly attractive. All meetings but one took place at Sion Hill campus of Spa University, which is location of their School of Art and Design, this set in a park surrounded by garden villas. The sessions therefore took place in working studios, on one occasion accompanied by a sculptor's side-grinder somewhere across courtyard. The road between school and town and river led (straight) down hill, past an absurdly steep golf course, Royal Crescent and views over Somerset countryside en route to Abbey, Roman Baths, and Britain's answer to Ponte Vecchio, Robert Adam designed Pulteney Bridge. In short, lovely surroundings were suggestive of a gentrified England one does not quite associate with Conrad's oeuvre; and despite Romans having founded town on an older Celtic site, it was perhaps even more difficult to align it with another of the dark places of earth, let alone more bucolic one attending (scholarly) closing of pubs.The conference was international, with researchers and teachers from (in no particular order, and possibly missing someone) England, Israel, Switzerland, Poland, Greece, Italy, United States, Canada, Scotland, Japan, Hong Kong, Albania, Germany, Argentina, Wales, and Taiwan. In view of upcoming centenary of publication of Conrad's novel Chance, papers on that text were welcomed by conference committee, and resulted in a pair of dedicated panels, as well as a number of papers linked to a broad crosssection of interests in work. Given official sanctioning of 38th parallel as world's most representatively populated band of settlement, it is fitting that this, 38th meeting of Joseph Society (UK), should have spanned broad gamut of studies, as well as cross-generational mentoring and generous spirit of both society's longstanding members and their more temporary guests. Especially heartening was encouragement and support - moral, professional, financial - made to younger colleagues arriving from as far as India, Argentina, and North America. Equally positive was good humour by which differing academic interests were met alongside productive meeting of theoretical approaches with more empirical modes of research present in single-author studies.Mention should be made, too, of two conference events in visual and cinematic genres that steered many conversations. First, Society was very fortunate in having Francis Mosley in residence in town. As many might recall, Mosley is acclaimed illustrator responsible for linocuts in Folio Society publications of Conrad's works. Many of these handsome images were on show (and for sale) in book room set out by Hugh Epstein for duration of conference. Here, apart from being able to acquire a wide variety of international publications on and by Conrad, one moved around room in presence of Mosley imaginative revisualizing of Conrad's fictional oeuvre. The artist also gave a slideshow and accompanying talk to delegates on his artistic process, while graciously (and unassumingly) fielding comments and questions from his academic audience as to why he did, or did not, choose particular subjects.A touch more perplexingly, Chantal Ackerman's often challenging film of Conrad's first novel, Almayer's Folly La Folie Almayer), was shown one evening. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".