Am I the only one who thinks academic conferences are weird? Why do they feel a little bit like a junior high school dance? For background, go read this post about my last academic conference. I’ll try not to repeat what I said there. Because I’m not in a discipline, I tend to go to…

I attended and presented at my first purely academic conference since 2003. I popped my head into the MLA in 2006, but I’m not really counting that. Having attended technology conferences and workshops for the past 5 years, going to this conference was a bit of a shock. First, there was the fact that I…