It’s conference season, and that means we will soon be suffering together in some drab meeting room. The minutes will tick by as an earnest scholar reads — word for excruciating word — a jargon-filled ...

In an effort to strengthen African representation in global development scholarship and ensure that African voices are heard in the debates that help to shape the continent’s future, the Office of the ...

Conferences are an important part of many people’s academic careers: they provide the opportunity to present your research to specialists in your field; to talk with friends and colleagues at other ...

Last week, the New York Times's “Opinionator” published an essay in which Christy Wampole decried the present state of humanities scholarship by holding up the worst forms of conference behavior to ...

The Academic Conference on Africa 2024 will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 3 to 5 December 2024, with the theme "Power, Justice, and the People: Human Rights and the ...

Academic conferences must be the oldest scam in South African universities. A conference is supposed to be an assembly where two things happen: you present groundbreaking research on a topic for your ...

The Graduate School of Business (GSB) will host its Academic Freedom Conference from Nov. 4-5. The conference, which has stirred controversy over its speaker lineup and initial decision to be closed ...