By Vanessa Moss Vanessa Moss is an astronomer based at CSIRO Space and Astronomy and chair of The Future of Meetings project. She attended our project conference at the Lorentz…
Month: January 2022
HSS Roundtable: On ‘rules of procedure’
By Jessica Reinisch Some contributors to this roundtable have been asking questions about the unspoken purposes of conferences. I want to bring a related but different set of questions to…
HSS Roundtable: Technological Substrata of Conferencing
By Charlotte Bigg The move online of most scientific meetings in the wake of the pandemic has thown into sharp relief the taken-for-granted centrality of conferences within scientific cultures, including…
HSS Roundtable: “‘With scant time for discussion’: A short history of paper session frustration”
By Thomas Mougey If there is one thing that seems to unite all conference attendees is the frustration provoked by attending paper sessions. It appears that this frustration and the…