Emily Henderson writes on fulfilling her dream of convening a symposium on conferences research at the Society for Research into Higher Education annual conference
Continue reading “‘Academics in the arena’ – showcasing conferences research at SRHE 2017”
In this post, Christiane Fabíola Momm discusses the role of conferences in the development of the Urban Planning research field in Brazil
In this post, Roma Smart Joseph reflects on the integration of participatory conferences for regional research partners into a national study of diversity and discrimination in higher education in India.
In this post James Burford explores what objects might teach us about conferences and the people who attend them.
In this post, Z Nicolazzo discusses the gap between knowledge gained at conferences and its life beyond the space of the conference.
In this post, James Burford replies to Barbara Grant’s recent post in praise (really!) of academic conferences by reflecting on the transformative role that conferences played in his doctoral life.
Barbara Grant reflects on her conference trajectory, including her first time, and the embodied panic and/or buzz of conferences.
Taking inspiration from Sara Ahmed’s work on queer phenomenology, Emily Henderson considers the role of tables at conferences
In her book Queer Phenomenology (QP), Sara Ahmed refers to the English-language idiom of ‘being treated like furniture’ to make the point that furniture is often positioned in the background of human interaction. To be ‘like furniture’ is to blend into the unnoticed, taken-for-granted objects that, according to a Ahmed’s phenomenological approach, in fact scaffold our lives. Continue reading “Conference tables: Reorienting Sara Ahmed’s ‘Queer Phenomenology’ towards embodied knowledge production (Emily F. Henderson)”
Mark Readman revisits his recent Times Higher Education article on acting selfishly at conferences.
Recently I had an article published in the Times Higher Education in which I criticised what I felt to be egregious conference behaviour. Continue reading “Guest Post by Mark Readman: ‘How to be a superstar scholar’ revisited”
What are conferences for, and how might we seek learning at them? In this interview, James Burford and Adisorn Juntrasook explore what insights the field of transformative and contemplative education might offer for re-thinking conferences.
Conference Inference 