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.
Category: Inequalities of access and experience
Promoting Gender Equity in International Academic Associations (Catherine Vanner, Emily W. Anderson, Christine Min Wotipka & Kristy Kelly)
In this post, the authors argue that the work of monitoring gender in academic societies and conferences should be expanded to reflect the multiple identities and lived experiences of their members, in order to enable equitable participation for all.
Conferences, gender and culture: Reflections from the Indian Context (Namrata Gupta)
In this post, Namrata Gupta argues for the importance for understanding gendered conference in/equalities in socio-cultural contexts.
Benefits and challenges of attending academic conferences for doctoral students in Global South contexts (Caroline Agboola, Helen Linonge-Fontebo, Sahmicit Kumswa)
This post includes commentary on the benefits and the exclusionary challenges of attending conferences – as well as the vital importance of funding bursaries.
Missing objects and silenced voices: Power relations in online conferences (Bing Lu)
In this post Bing Lu contemplates the new framework of power constituted in online conferences and calls to all conference community members to consider creative ways of practicing inclusive conferencing online.
Zoom Lunches and Tiffin Feasts: Inclusivity, Community and the Conference Dinner (Jyothsna Latha Belliappa)
In this post Jyothsna Belliappa considers why conference organisers might experiment with conference meals to enhance inclusive community building.
Conferencing “disabled style” (Nicole Brown)
In this post Nicole Brown discusses how conferences exclude disabled and chronically ill academics, thereby disadvantaging them in career prospects.
Choppy waters for some but not all – patterns of gender and ethnic equality in early career academics’ conference attendance (Claire Timperley, Kathryn Sutherland, Meegan Hall & Marc Wilson)
In this post the authors explore the challenges for early career academics in attending conferences—who gets to go, who doesn’t, and why does it matter?
“I have considered self-financing my own attendance at conferences etc., just so that I can get ahead; however, my current salary [in a part-time position] precludes me from being able to do this.” (Early Career Academic, New Zealand, Woman, Education Department)
Designing an accessible and inclusive conference – v2.0! (Trudie Walters)
In this post Trudie Walters reflects on her tripartite approach to organising an accessible and inclusive academic conference – did it actually work in practice?
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Seeking Approval: The Auto-censoring of Early Career Research in Conference Spaces (Julie Mansuy)
In this post, Julie Mansuy explores the internal pressure felt by early career researchers at conferences to gain approval from senior academics in their fields.
Conference Inference 