Tag: Conferences

How to Have Your Best Academic Conference
Academic conferences can be hard to do well, especially when they’re larger. But some simple steps can help you make your next meeting your best one yet.
18 November 2024
TEDification How To
TED curator Chris Anderson has an article in Harvard Business Review (2013) that seeks to digest key presentation advice derived from the past several decades of TED’s work. Perhaps not all Anderson’s advice is appropriate to the genre of the academic conference paper, but doubtless a good many would substantially benefit from a healthy dose of some…
2 February 2015
On the Web (February 12, 2013)
On the web: John Goodrich reflects on how to respond when one’s conference paper solicits no questions from the audience. Jim Davila notes a UC Berkeley press release about automated language reconstruction efforts. Mark Goodacre lectures on “Myths of Mary and the Married Jesus” (HT: NT Pod): [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CtVG5GyluA]
12 February 2013