[governance] GCCS Speech

[Deirdre Williams]

Dear Everyone,

Responding to Nnenna's PS in the realisation that I have probably been
guilty of the sin of jargon -
I have spent most of my "working life" (I have a problem with this
terminology but that's for later) teaching about literature and literary
criticism. Criticism (together with critical/uncritical) does not have any
negative connotation within that context. At its simplest it's the
"because" - I like this poem because, I don't like this poem because.There
may also be a "but". And the because and the but are the value added, the
chance to expand in some small way on the original work. If we add comments
to our approval/disapproval then we add value and move the collaboration a
step further.

>
> PS/ As for critical or uncritical praise.  It does not apply to me,
> personally. As I never see speeches as mine. I only distill issues that are
> common and I present them with a passion. So praise is not mine, but to all
> who contributed. And I can tell you, there are many.
>

For the rest of Nnenna's message I think we should say thank you for
providing a mouth, and such an eloquent and charismatic mouth, for so many
of us. We may approve/disapprove of the conference itself; that's a
separate issue.

For me, I wonder whether the word "access" might not benefit in future from
a second adjective - effective, usable - as well as the one it has at the
moment - affordable?

Looking forward to the becauses and buts

Deirdre



-- 
“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William
Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
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