Feeling at home at a conference (Joyce Uerpairojkit)
In this post, Joyce Uerpairojkit recounts a recent ‘hot chocolate’ conference that put her right at home, and reflects on how and why that happened.
The trials of migrant academics: The ‘Outsider Within’ at academic conferences (Ladan Rahbari & Olga Burlyuk)
In this post, we trace the experiences of migrant academics from the Global South in conference spaces in the Global North, as shared by authors in our edited volume Migrant Academics Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe.
Keynotes and Key Changes: Finding my Place in the Academic Ensemble (Sophia Kier-Byfield)
This post reflects on how the experience of playing as a member of a live band at a conference became a symbolic opportunity to step out into new identities.
Conference Inference’s COVID-19 Response – from Urgency to Archive? (Emily F. Henderson & James Burford)
This post includes the Conference Inference editorial response to the COVID-19 pandemic, now presented as an archival statement.
Are virtual conferences the same? Reflections on virtual conference experiences from a doctoral student (Chih-Wei [Amy] Wang)
In this post, Chih-Wei Wang shares her observations and experiences as a presenter and attendee at different virtual conferences.
Purposeful travel and unplanned routines in transnational academic conference (Bing Lu)
In this post, Bing Lu reflects on how a sense of time and place brings transnational academic conferencing back to life in the wake of the pandemic.
“I Can Actually Do This!”: Undergraduate Conference Activity in Arizona State’s College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) (Brendan H. O’Connor, Nicole Maestas, Seline Szkupinski Quiroga)
This post discusses how conference experiences empower migrant/seasonal farmworker students as producers of academic knowledge.
Where next? Things to consider when choosing conference format (Katie Tindle)
In this post, Katie Tindle of SRHE shares some behind-the-scenes insights of academic conference organising, in particular the process of choosing a conference format which works.
‘Nothing can replace the face-to-face event’ (?): A poetic turn (Sam Illingworth)
What can poetry tell us about the future of academic conferences and our engagement with them?
How do distance doctoral students learn about and access conferences? (James Burford)
In this post, Conference Inference Co-Editor James Burford considers the experiences of distance doctoral students in accessing conference opportunities and introduces a new survey he and colleagues have launched on distance doctoral education.
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