LASA: Day Went Well

Right as I walked into the university to register I saw Milagros from University of Havana. She's who I worked with most closely while I was in Cuba. It's weird the nature of the small world, the people you bump into and the people I can't seem to find even though I know they're here.

At 11:00 I was on a workshop panel Greg Weeks organized about blogging about Latin American politics. It was a bit odd that I'd stopped doing Rulablog in between the time the panel was accepted and taking part in it. We had a very good discussion about the pros and cons of blogging.

Waited in line for lunch and read over the papers for my paper panel. I really enjoyed the two papers for my panel. People had some very useful feedback about my work. I'll have to think about if this is worth continuing with as a side-project.

Went to the panel chaired by a student in my program on corruption. Four papers presented in three languages! A professor who went to graduate school with my undergraduate advisor was at the panel. We had dinner afterwards and now I'm home. Some UNC folks are having a party a few block away, but I'm dead tired and I think I'll start winding down for bed. Have to look over the panels for tomorrow to see which ones I'll go to.