“…The university has often been conceptualised as the site of higher education research, but it is recognised that universities, faced with these processes of change, are no longer places as such, but are increasingly 'borderless/edgeless' (Morley, 2012, p. 27, see also Barnett, 2012a;Derrida, 2001). Conferences, as sites of the globalisation of academia (Childress, 2010;Smeby & Trondal, 2005) and of technological innovation and change (Hart, 1984;Jacobs & McFarlane, 2005), are representative of the overall picture of higher education. However, conferences are also sites that resist the chronological account of change that is associated with the university's 'medieval inception' (Barnett, 2012b, p. 1).…”