Due to COVID-19, it looks like many academics are forced to sit out on some parts of the academic conference circuit this year. But once that is over, and we all can go back to meeting and interacting in person, you might want to read this blogpost by yours truly, on ‘Academic Cosmopolitanism on the conference circuit: Reaching beyond the comfort zone’. In the post I discuss how to open scholarship up with tacit individual actions, when on the conference circuit and how that can improve our all conference experience overall. The post is an after-thought on the conference panel I organized for the last ICA on “Interventions in Media and Communication Studies: Discussing invisible scholarship from ‘within and without’ a Westernized field.” which benefited greatly from the contributions of Eugenia Mitchelstein, Silvio Waisbord, Fernando Oliveira Paulino, Steve Jones and James Skelding Tattle. The post has now been published by Conference Inference a terrific blog, hosted by James Burford and Emily Henderson, which aims at improving diversity and accessibility at conferences. Also reaching out to Felix Ortega my dear co-author on one of the articles that I am referencing in the post.
