Conference Preparation.

A good part of today has been conference preparation -  both for the Textile Forum (planning things, mostly including madder - red seems to be the dye that stimulates a lot of research) and for the EAA in Belfast.

Conference prep in that regard included going through the session list and trying to figure out what I will be able to attend, and downloading the abstract book. Like in all huge conferences, there's a lot of things on offer. Or maybe I should say A LOT. Or, to be even more precise:

A LOT.

There's three days of conference sessions (August 31 to September 2), and there's so many of these that of course most of them are running in parallel. The abstract book and programme book are online now, and the abstract book has a whooping 1192 pages. I kid you not. Almost two thousand pages!

As you can well imagine, I will not be able to catch half of the things that sound really interesting to me. At least there's one time slot where I don't have any trouble at deciding what session to attend, and that's on September 2, where I'll be giving my own presentation in session 468...