Calling all conference goers!
The HERA-sponsored project The Scientific Conference: a Social, Cultural, and Political History is collecting accounts of conferences that have played a formative role in individuals’ careers. We feel it is crucial to supplement our analytical framework with real stories, anecdotes and experiences that can help us to understand why and how conferences have played a significant role in so many academic fields.
Please get in touch with us if you can contribute a short account of a conference you have attended that stands out in your memory. We’d love to read anything about it that you remember: the setting; the atmosphere, the travel, the professional significance of any particular papers or performances, any significant or unusual encounters, off-conference events or activities, any longer-term interactions or discussions that were sparked by the conference. Your response can be as short as a few lines or a paragraph, or several pages long – we’ll be happy with anything you can send us.
Please email j.reinisch@bbk.ac.uk with any questions or to submit your account. Eventually we would like to publish a selection of these stories on our blog, but would of course not publish anything without your permission.