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.
Can making connections between flying-less & decolonizing universities help us understand how to reduce air travel & resource consumption in higher education? (Stephen Allen, Joe Nevins & Matt Watson)
In this post, Stephen, Joe and Matt explain how calls to decolonize universities need to connect with action to reduce academic flying to conferences and meetings.
Going Rogue: Teachers designing their own conferences as a transgressive act (Philippa Nicoll Antipas)
In this post, Philippa Nicoll Antipas re-considers conferences as sites for teacher professional learning and development. She details her PhD research project Plan D, a game-like collective activity whereby teachers are supported to go rogue and design their own professional learning and development needs.
Promises and perils for conference posters (Zen Faulkes)
In this post, Zen Faulkes talks about creating resources for poster presenters and whether the poster session can survive in a world of online conferencing.
An experiment with listening: Creating found poems from conference presentations (Adrian Schoone & Sarah Penwarden)
In this post Adrian Schoone and Sarah Penwarden describe how writing found poetry can be a creative approach to engage with conference presentations and provide pointers for writing conference poems.
Another year of conference inferences! 5th anniversary post (James Burford & Emily F. Henderson)
In this post, we reflect back on another extraordinary year of blogging about conferences.
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