Harassment at conferences: will #MeToo momentum translate to real change?

Flores, Nina M.

doi:10.1080/09540253.2019.1633462

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“…Portrayals focusing on women academics do not tend to focus on the decadent aspects. Conferences are shown to be recognized sites for low-stakes sexual encounters and predatory behaviour, an aspect of conferences that is increasingly coming under scrutiny in relation to sexual harassment (Flores, 2020;Jackson, 2019). Portraying academics as lacking moral integrity is an aspect of anti-rational manifestations of antiintellectual thought where individuals, academics in this case, behave poorly (Tobolowsky, 2017).…”

Section: Discussion: the Role Of Conferences In Forming Reader Dis/id...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Mobile, hierarchical, normative, decadent and conflict prone: understanding academia through fictional conferences

Henderson

Reynolds

2022

High Educ

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Representations of higher education in fiction-based sources contribute to forming public perceptions of academia, and so are a form of public pedagogy. Within popular culture representations, understandings of academics are constructed using particular tropes which build shared meanings of the profession. Conferences are one of these tropes and can thus be used as a focus to explore the construction of the academic profession in popular culture representations of higher education. This paper draws on a research project which explored representations of conferences in narrative fiction texts (novels, graphic novels, short stories). In this paper, we analyse references to conferences for what they teach us about the academic profession. The paper is based on analysis of 98 symbolic references to conferences from a sample of 23 fictional texts. Symbolic references are short references which serve as a shorthand to signal aspects of the academic profession, and in this paper, they have been analysed in terms of what they portray and where they position the reader. The paper argues that popular culture representations of academia are pedagogical, in that they show the profession to be desirable to others but encourage a disidentification with academics, reinforcing the exclusionary nature of the profession.

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Section: Discussion: the Role Of Conferences In Forming Reader Dis/id...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Mobile, hierarchical, normative, decadent and conflict prone: understanding academia through fictional conferences

Henderson

Reynolds

2022

High Educ

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“…Many conference delegates have positive experiences yet for some F2F conferences can be uncomfortable to negotiate. Delegates can face sexual harassment and assault, slights (Barr, 2017;Burford, 2017;American Historical Association, 2018;Jaschik, 2018) and microaggressions because of one's lower career or professional status, (deliberate and accidental) (American Historical Association 2018; Etzion et al, 2021;Flores, 2020;Jaschik, 2018). F2F conferences can reinforce patriarchy, status markers, or boundary policing thereby enforcing unwanted conformity (Etzion et al, 2021;Flores, 2020).…”

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Delegate Views on Face to Face and Online Conference Attendance

Edwards

2022

IJBEL

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Research has confirmed that F2F conferences generate significant benefits for destinations, communities, industries and economies. In addition to the immediate economic effect of a contribution to the visitor economy of the destination, F2F conferences build knowledge economies and networks, driving industry innovation and trade and investment. There has also been significant criticism of F2F conferences, particularly in terms of their negative environmental impacts, inequity of accessibility, and the ineffectiveness of traditional event design. The travel barriers associated Covid19 pandemic disrupted F2F conferences and accelerated the global move to online conferencing. While F2F attendance is returning, there is a growing trend for conferences to offer both modes of attendance; the hybrid conference is becoming the norm. Drawing on recent literature and a survey of international delegates, this study explores the advantages and disadvantages of both F2F and online modes of conference attendance and discusses ways in which we might leverage better outcomes from hybrid conferences in order to maximise outcomes for all stakeholders.

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“…Conferences also have their dark sides. Some things that happen are horrible and criminal, such as sexual harassment and assault (Flores, 2020). Other issues are ignoble and disgraceful, such as exclusionary practices around breastfeeding and other care-related issues (Henderson and Burford, 2020).…”

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Reimagining academic conferences: Toward a federated model of conferencing

Etzion

Gehman

Davis

2021

Management Learning

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What should the post-COVID conference look like? In our attempt to answer this question, we first describe the primary functions and affordances of conferences. Our frank appraisal reveals the breadth of reasons why academics attend conferences, and how conference attendance often blends personal and professional motivations. We also elaborate some of the shortcomings of in-person conferences, spanning personal, professional, and societal concerns. Recent alternative (virtual) formats for convening scholars provide means for alleviating some of these shortcomings, but do not seem entirely up to the task of providing a fully satisfactory solution to all that conferencing can be. Moreover, we extrapolate from prior history and ongoing trends to predict that technological solutionism to conferencing is likely to unleash both positive and negative dynamics, some of which will exacerbate current ills in our profession. We then sketch out a values-based approach that can serve as a basis for reimagining academic conferences. This vision promotes a federated model of conferencing, grounded in principles of inclusion, diversity, community, and environmental stewardship.

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Harassment at conferences: will #MeToo momentum translate to real change?

Cited by 14 publications

References 2 publications

Mobile, hierarchical, normative, decadent and conflict prone: understanding academia through fictional conferences

Mobile, hierarchical, normative, decadent and conflict prone: understanding academia through fictional conferences

Delegate Views on Face to Face and Online Conference Attendance

Reimagining academic conferences: Toward a federated model of conferencing

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