On Academic Associations and Conferences: A Curatorial Post
For this week's blog I want to talk about a thing that I talk about a lot, A LOT, which is how large academic associations consistently fail their members. I saw things happen this week in different spaces that made me realize that I am one of many people who have been saying the same thing about needing to redesign how we do conferences for easily the last four years. In fact I went into my blog archive and discovered at least 6 posts that are about exactly this, so I will highlight a few. This first about "saying it nicely" from May 2022 . Another from July 2022 which is my most read blog post with over 12K views about how those who attend inaccessible conferences are complicit in their lack of accessibility. That one made me laugh because 3 years later we are exactly at the same same place and nothing has changed because no one has really made that association have to change. One from May 2024 that reinforces who has to put in the labour to make things better for orga...