Follow-up: the end of conference plenary with a chat g summary of reflections that people put into the conference app.
Sigh
Coming soon! Reissue of Design for Independent Living, an exceptional document of disabled expertise in collab with architecture students in the 1970s, by Raymond Lifchez and Barbara Winslow. New intro by me, Aimi Hamraie & Ignacio Galán.
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792140...
Pandemic pushed fwd virtual participation a lot (tho still uneven). The Society for the History of Technology #SHOT is one that really seems to embrace this, I believe partly because they have been seeking non-travel/visa conferences for a while. Their annual conf is all online this year.
0 days since I have heard "I asked [AI tool] about this and.." in a keynote/commencement speech, etc
me: oh my next book is going to be way more succinct and won't go down every rabbit hole like my dissertation-to-book
also me: reading entire books to inform 1 to 2 sentences of current hodgepodge of partial drafts
Ever since I've been in academia (almost 20 yrs) people have been talking about the end of the traditional academic conference yet they largely persist.
What changes have you seen in conferences that you think make a difference? I'll start