After much speculation it can now be revealed who the primary supervisor of Roel van Leeuwen’s thesis was. The outstanding Marg Coldham-Fussell:
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Well, yesterday I had a meeting with my second supervisor, one I have to say I was somewhat dreading. Marg, my primary supervisor, is cool. She knows me and knows how I work and does little more than ask the occasional question along the lines of “everything going well?” and leaves it at that. Maybe its because she is a laid back quasi-hippy still working on her own PhD.
Dov, on the other hand, is a professor of political science from the old school- but a cool guy. However, I haven’t had anything to show him, nor have I been in contact with him for months so when I bumped into him in the men’s toilets and he said he wanted to see me, I thought “gads, time to harden my buttocks and prepare for an arse kicking” So, at the appointed hour, I rock around to his office and with some degree of trepidation, knock and enter. We spent the next 1hr 28 mins in discussion, during which my thesis and its progress was raised on two occasions for a total of four minutes- and which he said things were going really well and he is very happy and well impressed with what I am doing. I’m sitting there thinking “What the fuck? How would you know how it’s going? I haven’t shown you anything fer Christ’s sake!” I confess I was somewhat confused and wondered if he had confused me with someone else. I can only assume he has been talking to other people and been getting a second hand opinion, but I did say I would send him through my conference papers and seminar notes so he should have some idea where I am heading with it all. What did we spend the other 1 hr 24mins talking about, do I hear you ask? Well, we discussed Iran’s relationship with the UN, Iran’s relationship to Iraq, Iraq’s relationship to Israel, Israel’s relationship to just about everyone else, US domestic and foreign policy, holocaust deniers we had met, Jews in China, his great great grandfather in Japan, the Dutch military in Indonesia during WW2, his uncle who was in the Dutch military in Indonesia in WW2, a guy he met who knew his uncle who was in the Dutch military in WW2, the Dutch War records office and corrupt historians and bureaucrats, my father who was in Indonesia after WW2, my grandmother and her resistance work, Dutch civil honours, N Korea’s relationship to Iran, Israel and the bomb, Israel’s relationship to Palestine, the use of deterrent force and how the West never got the hang on it, justifiable massacre and just war theory. I am sure I missed some bits of the conversation out, but you get the picture. After I left that I went and hung out with some folk I met after my seminar on Thurs, and talked philosophy for about four hours. Among other things they are looking to resurrect the Prior Society on campus, a philosophical and drinking society (and I mean a genuine philosophical society- in their heyday they used to sponsor speakers in from overseas and so on. But they also drank. Like fishes, apparently. Or Rhinoceroses. We are a little unclear on that point). Well, today’s mission is to start writing up more of my thesis, the topic being Satanism and its place within the neo-Pagan movement. I am arguing that Satanism is a fully fledged member of neo-Paganism based on the principle that I can not think of a good reason why it isn’t. Tomorrows mission is writing up my conference paper for the conference starting that night and running to Tuesnight. Any suggestions for good books on Satanism, any one? Well, I shall begonned to have breakfast and a cup of tea before work. Cheerio |
Read it from the ass’s mouth right here: http://diogenes-stone.livejournal.com/15094.html
Step right up Marg and take a bow:
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Margaret Coldham-Fussell
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Research Interests:
Marg Coldham-Fussell is currently undertaking a Doctorate in the area of Spirituality, Consciousness and the New Physics. She also has teaching and research interests in the areas of Eastern Religions, Ancient Mythologies, and Contemporary Spiritual trends, and co-teaches a Philosophy paper that explores religion and ethics in secular society.
Research Publications:
You may like to view publications from 1997 onwards for Margaret Coldham-Fussell
Expertise:
Undergraduate papers taught in 2008
RELS101 World Religions
RELS209 Ancient Mythologies
RELS213 Contemporary Spiritualities
Tags: Dov Bing, Dreamers of the Dark, Marg Coldham-Fussell, Roel van Leeuwen, Satanism, Waikato University
