After a job candidate talk yesterday, I asked a question. From this question and the job candidate's talk, my colleague Vicky U arrived at the topic what she said will be her last seminar at KU: avant-garde and the city in Latin American Literature. That was kind of a cool thing to have happen. I do try to ask really good questions after a talk.
Advice I give to my students: at every lecture you attend, formulate a question. You don't necessarily have to ask it, but thinking about what you would ask if you were going to ask a question is a good way to focus your response to the lecture.
ReplyDeleteOnce you've done this a few times, start asking your questions.