Gave a talk this afternoon to my group on the work I had been doing in Australia before I left. One of the academics who helped organise my coming here also came up from Nantes to attend, and he, my supervisor and I had a good discussion about the general space, in both political and academic terms, after the talk. In all, it ran for an hour and a half, which was much more than I had anticipated, but the discussion was good. I had been a bit apprehensive about the talk, since much of what I was saying is a little at odds with the way of doing things here. Still, I am a little more relaxed about it now, and see some complementarity between the two.