tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7404056807161357402.post2574269204266315734..comments2023-05-15T08:51:12.031-04:00Comments on Love and Disdain: Conference calculusDr. Kosharyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07777054788430587906noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7404056807161357402.post-5095371286752838032011-01-17T21:22:41.243-05:002011-01-17T21:22:41.243-05:00My view is the same as Shedding Khawatir's
1)...My view is the same as Shedding Khawatir's <br />1) Submit an abstract for everything<br />2) If I'm rejected then that's ok..unless I've friends there..etc etc (same reason Shedding Khawatir)<br />3) If the paper is accepted figure out if its doable re: finances and timing.<br /><br />Anthea<br />http://www.senseworlds.com/bewildernessantheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10269725364477824869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7404056807161357402.post-7519815056245647042011-01-16T09:47:56.081-05:002011-01-16T09:47:56.081-05:00I totally hear you! I do interdisciplinary stuff (...I totally hear you! I do interdisciplinary stuff (the national Fruit Studies Conference, for instance) as well as have the option of going to a lot of different literature conferences. Lately I just stay home and grade things ---- cheaper and I keep missing the abstract deadline dates.<br /><br />Major Pseudology Conference sounds like the language people's MLA: big and impersonal and boring. I go for (the hope of) interviews but lately haven't even bothering with panels or submitting anything; it's just been a chance to visit friends. But there are still good opportunities to network with Important People if you work it; it's just that they are all busy meeting up with their old friends themselves.<br /><br />Actually, my friends who have advisors/committee members who actually meet up with them and introduce them around to a couple big names have had way more success than I have with publishing and getting a job, so think of that when you make these plans too. <br /><br />(Ok now I'm googling around and trying to figure out if you would be off to gamble, drink coffee, or ... what the hell do they do in Canada? I don't know. Ooh ooh! clearly you should go to SF!)<br /><br />Another way of deciding between conferences of course is to pick the place with the best food, or the place you haven't been to before and would like to take a trip there. OTOH, whenever I tried a new conference I found it to be isolating and not quite as fun the first year, since I didn't know people to talk to them between things. My Specialty Conference got to feel really great a few years in simply because I knew a lot of people from lunch and being on panels with them (although I haven't gone in a few years as they rotate places and they did first England and then a bunch of places in Canada. Phooey!)<br /><br />Finally everyone keeps warning me that the conference papers need to turn into something afterward, so submitting random one-offs just to get a conference line on the cv is not good. (hello, me later this year!) So whatever can/will be most helpful to turn into publications.Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09880634753539329199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7404056807161357402.post-70961917921827829342011-01-16T08:30:37.202-05:002011-01-16T08:30:37.202-05:00My calculations are pretty simple:
1) Submit an ab...My calculations are pretty simple:<br />1) Submit an abstract for everything<br />2) If I'm rejected, it's out (unless it happens to be in a city where I have a lot of friends and thus free housing and the transportation is cheap)<br />3) If I'm accepted, figure out if the finances/timing works<br />4) Go to as many of 3 as I can afford, and 2 only if 3 doesn't come through<br />5) Go to local conferences regardless<br /><br />Generally, this puts me at 2-4 conferences per year, which I think is also about as much conferencing as I can stand.Shedding Khawatirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04643490050277557885noreply@blogger.com