So now I’ve been talking to Paweł about this plan, because everyone (well, ok, all three people) I spoke with from SFRA about European members said “you should ask Paweł about that.” Of course I could have guessed that already, but he was away. I didn’t guess that he would be the only person… but this can happen in smaller groups; if someone appears to be interested and willing to own some issue, others may assume that they can leave it all to that person. This happens to me all the time around tech-y stuff at my school. In my college (Humanities and Social Sciences, people now think of me as resident tech-head, so they refer everything about that to me.

Anyway, Paweł is also interested in helping and so far he and Sandor both agree that the Netherlands would be a good location. So I guess we will really try to make something happen there next July. 🙂 I was bummed that the change in venue meant a change in guests–maybe we can get Zoran Zivković to attend our gathering instead. That would be nice, since I just got a bunch of his books! I had been planning a paper about him and John Crowley and magical realism (or something like that), and I had been loathe to give it up, even when I thought I could get to the moved SFRA ’08. (Before they announced the date change.)

So, more about this as it develops…