In this post Mareike Smolka reflects back over a series of online conferences during 2020, arguing that digital environments offer opportunities for deepening connections.
‘Sister Outsider’, Audre Lorde’s famous collection of essays, is imbued with conferences. How might this work have differed if it had taken place in the COVID era of online conferences…?
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.
In this post the Conference Inference editors review advice on writing conference abstracts and explore the underlying assumptions of this somewhat mysterious form of academic writing.
In this post Wade Kelly explores ideas for designing a conference paper that gets people talking.
Conferences are over so quickly that they are bound to come accompanied by regrets – Xuemeng Cao reflects on the phenomenon of conference regret.
In this piece, Cody Freeman examines questions of identity at a global education conference and suggests actions that participants can take to create more inclusive gatherings.
In this post Marilena Karamatsouki wonders about how conferences and activism are connected and whether conferences can be re-thought as platforms for activism.
In this post, Alexandra Supper draws upon two contrasting experiences from her own research to reflect on some ethical issues involved in being a participant-observer at academic conferences
In this post Emma Becket reflects on the joys and pitfalls of conference question time.
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