Tag: conferences
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How to Flirt at a Conference: a Harm Reduction Post (guest post)
A year ago today, I put up a guest post by a philosophy professor writing under the pseudonym “Alex Rails”.
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How (and Why) to Organize a Conference in the Global South (guest post)
Conferences provide valuable opportunities to academics and can influence disciplinary agendas.
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APA to End Experiment with Online Divisional Meetings
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has been experimenting with holding one of its three major conferences entirely online. The organization has now announced that,…
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How (and Why) to Organize a Zero-Budget Conference (guest post)
“Obtain free publicity for your conference by writing a post for Daily Nous in which you get to mention it.”
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Invited to Speak? Here’s What You Should Know Before Accepting (guest post)
Here’s “an informational and best practices guide for people who are inviting and people who are being invited.”
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An Ecology of Feedback: On Non-Circular Work-in-Progress Groups (guest post)
“What might an ‘ecology’ of work-in-progress reading groups look like?”
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APA-led Class Action Lawsuit Prevails
In February, a judge ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit known as American Philosophical Association et al. v. District of…
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Flipping the Conference
An upcoming philosophy conference is organized around those interesting and fruitful conversations that take place between the official talks.
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The Ends and Means of a Graduate Student Conference
A graduate student in philosophy has the responsibility of organizing a graduate student conference hosted by their department, and has some questions, starting with:…
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Antidismissiveness
“When I started reading Derrida, I couldn’t understand what the heck he was talking about; but someone like Kripke, it was easy. I remember…
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Seeking Feedback on “Good Practices Guide” – Part 2
This is the second of several posts soliciting comments on a draft “Good Practices Guide” for advancing diversity in philosophy.
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Campaign to Permanently Move Some APA Meetings Online
Philosophers for Sustainability, an international group of over 200 philosophers “that aims to encourage our profession to take leadership on climate change and environmental…
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Planning an Environmentally Friendly In-Person Conference (guest post)
After over a year of COVID-caused mass experience with online academic conferencing, there has been a lot of discussion about whether, for environmental reasons,…
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“Penned Up and Forced to Listen”: On the Value of In-Person Conferences
There has been a fair amount of discussion of the future of in-person academic conferences. The COVID-19 pandemic has acclimated us to online meetings…
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Examining the Future of Academic Events (guest post)
Following up on yesterday’s piece regarding online conferences, Heather Douglas, professor of philosophy at Michigan State University, in this guest post,* asks us to…
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Online Conferences: The New Default (guest post)
In the following guest post,* a group of scholars make the case that the online conferences, the recent prevalence of which has been spurred…
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Will Conferences Recover? Should They?
With promising news of a vaccine, one might hope not just for saved lives, but a return to “normal life,” including the regular features…
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New Leadership at European Society for Analytic Philosophy
The European Society for Analytic Philosophy (ESAP) has a new president and a new steering committee.
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2021 Eastern and Central APA Meetings Moved Online
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced that its 2021 Eastern Division Meeting, scheduled for New York City from January 4th to 7th, and…