facepalming academia

couple of things I've seen recently, first, academics trying desperately to relate their studies to ignorant and uninterested journalists:
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/899473-prehistoric-facebook-found-in-images-carved-in-rocks-by-caveman

secondly, an email from my department has arrived for another american medievalist conference

what amazes me is that there have been 26 previous conferences (but not all on diversity)

Oh my. Those americans are something else indeed....

That medievalist conference sound like a classic example of the Fred Flintstone approach to history.

but have they identified which symbol painted on cave walls means "Like" ?

Difficult, I can't find a cave-painted comedy penis anywhere....

Damn you for beating me to it

*shakes fist at sky*

((((academics))))

Especially not a spunking one.

TBF barney, that comes across like people are angling to milk a few inter-disciplinary Brownie (is that word diversity-aware? ) points with a bit of sociological analysis of approaches to the "medievalist" field. There's always some cunt(s) willing to inflict it.

I suspect there won't be too many people willing to attend purely for the subject matter!!

I think they're just badly written. The first one, the actual subject matter, which I guess is, parallels between early social media communication now and early symbolic paintings (or some shit like that), sounds a bit better like that which to be fair may well have been what came from the academic. Metro have just managed to repackage it into something totally indigestible. I think they do that so you read the adverts, they're better written than the text of it.

I thought the first one was quite interesting, but they didnt need to bang on about facebook quite so much.

But then I guess it is written for metro readers, so they probably wouldnt understand the link otherwise.

If we don't make up nonsense about the past we'll be doomed to repeat it.