http://www.andyrowell.net/andy_rowell/2009/11/audio-from-sbl-deliverance-of-god-session-with-campbell-gorman-moo-and-torrance.html

My presentation next Tuesday represents my first steps towards a dissertation. That’s not something I really want to expose to the whole world as of yet (we all know the whole world would want to download the thoughts of Pat McCullough).

Thank you for your inquiry, and for requesting permission to record our forthcoming SBL session. I greatly appreciate the courtesy of being asked first!

Unfortunately, past experience leads me to decline virtually all such requests, especially if they involve the possibility of recording (1) unpublished research or (2) unscripted scenarios like Q&A periods. Unhappy experiences with the former make it seem inherently problematic, while in the case of the latter I prefer the freedom to speak frankly or perhaps unguardedly without having my comments (e.g. about viewpoints of which I might be critical) immediately plastered all over the internet. (I occasionally take a somewhat freer view of requests pertaining to other scripted material like popular talks, sermons, or material based on published work.)

I trust you understand, and thank you for your interest.

Andy

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Pauline Soteriology
11/23/2009
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: Grand Ballroom C – SH

Theme: Book Review: Douglas Campbell, The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul (Eerdmans, 2009)

Ann Jervis, Wycliffe College, Presiding
Michael J. Gorman, Saint Mary’s Seminary and University, Panelist (20 min)
Alan Torrance, University of St. Andrews-Scotland, Panelist (20 min)
Douglas Moo, Wheaton College, Panelist (20 min)
Douglas Campbell, Duke University, Respondent (20 min)
Break (10 min)
Discussion (60 min)

Dear Professors __, __, __, __, __,
I am a Duke doctoral student and looking forward to your session at SBL and was thinking about recording it and posting it on my blog. (Or we could post it somewhere else on one of your websites). I taped 9 papers two years ago at SBL/AAR and people loved it. I don’t make any money on it. I’m just doing it because I know a lot of people would love to hear it and it is easy to do. I just have to press play and stop on a little recorder and then upload it on to the internet. It won’t be professional but your fans will still be grateful.

If you could email me back with the ok, that would be great.

If you would rather wait to see how it turns out, that is fine too. I think there will be a lot of people who will come up to you and be sad they missed the session and you can tell them that it will be posted. Then you can give them my website or they can just google your name and paper title and it will come up. I would not be surprised if the room is packed. I will also link to one of your books by each of your names. Don’t stress too much about this. If you would rather not, I just will not post yours.

All the best,

Andy

But Chris and John are of course right that one should be very cautious as there are very different views on these sort of issues.

There are on the one hand people who are completely unfamiliar with blogs and podcasts and are completely unaware of anything besides published journals and monographs. They will of course be appalled by privacy issues. They will say what we all said 5 years ago as the internet was bursting with information: Why would I have a blog? Why would I have a picture of myself online for everyone to see? Why would I post my email address online? Why would I post information and content for free?

Then there are others–perhaps like all of us blog commenters–who are completely used to seeing content online. There are millions of podcasts, interviews, sermons, book reviews, and articles online. Mark Goodacre’s New Testament blog and now podcast are good examples. The NT Wright page is another.

Again, I just think people are on very different pages on this kind of thing.

People who speak publicly all the time are used to it. I may record some this year. I haven’t decided yet.

Andy