Amazing. Un - bloody - believable!

This is easily the worst conference I've been to.

I should have known when they refused to even wave the fees for the invited speakers, never mind cover travel expenses. Well, you live and you learn.

It's a complete disaster. The schedule is jam-packed with talks, some times 5 ( Read more... )

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 I everyone,

I may be totally off-base here, but I don't think this is normal.

Recently, I submitted an abstract to an international conference. They didn't like it, I didn't follow their template and they felt that what I wrote was a bit too narrow for the scope of the session. Fair enough. What I don't understand is, why instead of contacting me ( ( Read more... )

This is going to sound completely newb-ish, so do excuse me ( Read more... )

So, historians go to the AHA annual meeting. Language and literature folks go to the MLA convention. Is there a one big / dominant conference for people who study (tertiary) education?

My proposal for the 4Cs conference was rejected. However, I was offered to be a chair of a session. Is this something I can put on my CV? I'm trying to build my CV as much as possible...

I'm attending my first conference in August and there are many sessions on at once. Rather than having to write down everything I see I was planning on buying a dictaphone for the experience, so I could record everything spoken by the Speakers, and write down complementary notes. As this is my first conference I'm eager to not make a total fool of ( Read more... )

So I've been going to a few conferences this spring and summer, adding a few lines to my c.v., and generally having a good time ( Read more... )

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I'm an advanced graduate student (ABD) and I submitted an abstract based upon the methods chapter of my dissertation to conference.  This conference is the sectional conference in a related discipline, but not exactly my discipline (I'm in sociology; this conference is the equivalent section in another social science).  The abstract was accepted ( Read more... )