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: Reading conferences through different lenses
“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.
‘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?
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.
Conferences as constitutive spaces of scientific fields (Susanne Koch)
In this post Susanne Koch reflects on whether and why it makes sense to study representation and inequalities at academic conferences, even if they do not ‘mirror’ the social structure of scientific fields.
Conference interpreters: a snapshot of the profession (Antony Hoyte-West)
In this post, Antony Hoyte-West outlines an important but often-overlooked aspect of multilingual conferences… the interpreters!
Gender, Definitional Politics and ‘Live’ Knowledge Production: Contesting Concepts at Conferences
This post announces the paperback release of the book ‘Gender, Definitional Politics and ‘Live’ Knowledge Production: Contesting Concepts at Conferences’ and discusses how other researchers responded to the book at an online symposium.
Re-imagining Audre Lorde’s ‘Sister Outsider’ in an era of online conferences (Emily F. Henderson)
‘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…?
Post-Volcano Musings: Re-visiting the disruptive eruption of volcano Eyjafjallajökull in the light of COVID-19 (Ole B. Jensen)
In this post, Ole B. Jensen ponders on the capacity of disruptive events such as pandemics and natural disasters to re-think our understanding of social orders – including conferences.
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.
Conference Inference 