to shout herself, and I wanted to ask her if she didn't think she was committing a "gender infraction "in asking me. But I didn't. Should I have? One simply "attends "a conference, as we say. But what sort of behavior is authorized by such attendance? Or is attendance merely an occasion for any sort of behavior, pretty much as it is anywhere else in nonconferenced life? At which session did I hear which speaker on what text that demonstrated the "multiplicity of identity-related acts "? In the shuttle bus between the Sheraton and the Hilton I overheard a German woman with two interviews whose husband, she said, is an engineer, ask a Chinese visiting scholar from a Midwest liberal arts college, "Do you think they'll do to Deng Xiaoping what they did to ... "-- but then I missed the name because somebody behind me proclaimed rather loudly that he was "geographically mobile