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The Scientific Conference : Past, Present and Future

October 18, 2021 - October 22, 2021

The Scientific Conference: Past, Present, and Future

The Scientific Conference : Past, Present and Future

18-22 October 2021

Lorentz Center, Leiden

Programme

Monday 18 October 2021

09:00 – 10:00          Arrival, registration

10:00 – 10:15           Welcome by Lorentz Center

10:15 – 10:30           Opening by organizers: Welcome and explanation of objectives and way of working workshop

 

Part I – devoted to discussing conference histories with interested non-historians

Day chair: Cyrus Mody

 The point of the trialogues and following discussions is to identify our different fascinations with the conference phenomenon. Participants come to this workshop from widely different backgrounds, so we are likely to have different interests and perspectives with overlaps and separations. Let’s map out that terrain.

 In each trialogue, two conference historians briefly present their work which they have precirculated to their discussant. The discussants have been asked to articulate what they find interesting about the papers, how the papers connected to their own work (perhaps presenting that briefly), and what new questions the papers opened up in their view. In these sessions, this is more important than giving feedback on how to improve the papers.

 trialogue 1

10:30 – 10:45           Laura Forster

10:45 – 11.00           Sven Widmalm

11:00 – 11:20           discussant: Emily Henderson

11:20 – 12:00           open floor

 

12:00 – 13:00           walk talk

 

13:00 – 14:00           Lunch @Snellius restaurant

trialogue 2

14:00 – 14:15           Georgiana Kotsou

14:15 – 14:30           Waqar Zaidi

14:30 – 14:50           discussant: Jorrit Smit

14:50 – 15:30           open floor

 

15:30 – 16:00           Coffee/tea break

 

16:00 – 17:00           General discussion: what do we learn from conference history? (led by day chair)

 

17:00                        Wine and cheese

 

Tuesday 19 October 2021

 

Day chair: Kenneth Bertrams

 In today’s version of the trialogues, we will have the open floor discussions at the end in the form of a fish bowl meeting. The three trialogue participants start out in the middle seats, but yield their place to whoever else has something to contribute to the discussion.

 The point of the general discussions at the end is to collect the harvest from the preceding two days. The first question revolves around what (others think) historians can contribute to the understanding of conferences and their issues. The second question is geared toward sketching possible research questions for the future.

 trialogue 3

09:00 – 09:15           Jenny Beckman

09:15 – 09:30           Thomas Mougey

09:30 – 09:50           discussant: Alexandra Supper

09:50 – 10:30           open floor fish bowl

 

10:30—11:00           Coffee/tea break

 

trialogue 4

11:00 – 11:15           Jessica Reinisch

11:15 – 11:30           Geert Somsen

11:30 – 11:50           discussant: Henriette Jensenius

11:50 – 12:30           open floor fish bowl

 

12:30 – 14:00           Lunch @Snellius restaurant

 

trialogue 5

14:00 – 14:15           Charlotte Bigg

14:15 – 14:30           Mariana Deball

14:30 – 14:50           discussant: Mareike Smolka

14:50 – 15:30           open floor fish bowl

 

15:30 – 16:00           Coffee/tea break

 

16:00 – 16:45           General discussion 1: what do we learn from conference history? (led by day chair)

16:45 – 17:30           General discussion 2: what are promising research agendas? (led by day chair)

 

18:00 – 21:00           Workshop dinner

 

Wednesday 20 October 2021

 

09:00 – 10:30           drafting plans for future work (following yesterday’s General discussion 2) – in subgroups

 

10:30 – 11:00           Coffee/tea break

 

11:00 – 12:30           harvesting feedback for specific papers and collection as a whole (following yesterday’s General discussion 1) – in subgroups

 

12:30 – 14:00           Lunch @Snellius restaurant

 

14:00 – 14:30           goodbye to some participants, welcome to others

 

 

Part II – devoted to workshopping contributions to a special issue

The discussions in the workshops are not primarily meant to improve individual papers but to seek cross-fertilization and coherence. We should exchange ideas about what we find exciting in each other’s papers, what we recognize in our own work, and what ties could be strengthened or elaborated. We can use the Lorentz Center’s whiteboards and other equipment to jot down our ideas before discussing them.

In the editors’ meetings following each paper discussion session, the four special issue editors translate this and more into Individual feedback for each author.

 

special issue workshop 1

14:30 – 16:00           discussion papers 1-3

 

16:00 – 16:30           Coffee/tea break

 

16:30 – 17:30           editors’ meeting

 

Thursday 21 October 2021 

 

knowledge exchange meeting

09:30 – 11:00           op-eds – in subgroups

 

11:00 – 11:30           Coffee/tea break

 

11:30 – 12:30           walking tours / website

 

12:30 – 14:00           Lunch @Snellius restaurant

 

special issue workshop 2

14:00 – 16:00           discussion papers 4-6

 

15:30 – 16:00           Coffee/tea break

 

16:00 – 16:30           discussion paper 7

 

16:30 – 17:30           editors’ meeting

 

Friday 22 October 2021

 

special issue workshop 3

09:00 – 10:30           discussion papers 8-10

 

10:30 – 11:00           Coffee/tea break

 

11:00 – 12:00           editors’ meeting

 

taking stock and wrapping up

12:00 – 13:00           looking back/looking ahead: grander vistas

 

13:00 – 14:00           Lunch @Snellius restaurant

 

14:00 – 15:00           to-do lists for all of us

 

15:00                       goodbyes

 

 

 

 

Details

Start:
October 18, 2021
End:
October 22, 2021
Website:
https://www.lorentzcenter.nl/the-scientific-conference-past-present-and-future.html

Venue

Leiden
Nederländerna

Organiser

Geert Somsen, Vrije Universiteit, Sven Widmalm, Uppsala University, Jesssica Reinisch, Birkbeck University London, Charlotte Bigg, CNRS