More on Timonium - Help needed!

[Mark]

I'm starting to get nervous, as I have gotten very little response to my call for ideas for table presentations at the seminar. It was mentioned that perhaps I made it sound too strict or specialized. So, I thought I'd try and explain a little better what I had in mind.

The kind of presentation that I am suggesting can be very flexible. The table displays that our Thai friends use at their daab meetings are good examples, where a display with a certain theme is set up, accompanied by some descriptive captions. More elaborate displays can involve posters, enlarged photographs, graphic displays. Whatever can fit on a table, basically (they are about 3 feet by 6 feet, or 1 by 2 meters, in size). We have always had tables set aside for "show and tell" displays, and my thought was to have somewhat more formal ones around which people can circulate and explore at their own pace.

Ideally a table presentation should have a theme, unlike for example my own "show and tell" tables in the past where I just pack in as many dha as I can and let people check them out. That theme does not have to be something that you would write a PhD thesis on, though. Just something informative and prepared carefully enough that its soundly-based and reasonably-presented (so, nothing suggesting that aliens make the best ultimate kampilans, or that the kora was in fact a weapon created and used by a lost race of arctic Tuareg, for example ). Everyone here has more than enough expertise, so don't be shy about making a proposal.

So, if you have an idea, please send me a summary or outline of it (that is what I meant by "abstract"), so we can announce the line-up. Don't leave us staring at the walls all evening! Use the e-mail function of the forum to reach me, or send a PM.