ask an anthropologist and they'll laugh that you even had to ask. The
French revolution was (if I remember a very good seminar correctly)
organised at dinners.
But it's more than dining: it's creating the discursive culture and the
place to be able to do it. Dining together could be the perfect way or
it could be awful and painful. Think 'team building weekend':)
I'd be interested in whether this was a cipher for 'Oxbridge colleges'
arrangements (ie highly structured and established surroundings which,
ironically, are sometimes the best way to create informal discussion).
Not a direct answer, I realise...
On 29 Sep 2015, at 11:37, Kieran Kelly wrote:
> Graham Gibbs is reputed to have once reported that the only difference
> he could find between two programme teams, one high-performing and one
> not so much, was that the high-performers ate together on a regular
> basis. My own institution no longer has any staff-only dining
> facilities, does yours and does it matter?
|