It’s conference season, and that means we will soon be suffering together in some drab meeting room. The minutes will tick by as an earnest scholar reads — word for excruciating word — a jargon-filled ...

EXCLUSIVE – Anthropologists from the largest associations of anthropologists in the world canceled an event discussing the importance of biological sex in the context of studying the human skeleton ...

Should we kill the conference panel? Panel sessions seem to be increasingly popular at the edtech events that I attend. Is the same true at your conferences? An edtech panel usually consists of a ...

I continue to participate in panels on a variety of topics and have hosted my fair share as an emcee. I’m shocked by the degree to which panels still exhibit a huge spectrum from terrible to ...

Schools are inundated with potential solutions that improve student safety and therefore enhance educational outcomes. Each school incident offers insight into how we can improve both student safety ...

Stickers proclaiming "Women Also Know Stuff" were distributed last week at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. A group by that name created a website this year listing ...

The annual intimate industry confab, slated for next month, will convene top execs in the live music industry for panels, networking, skiing and more. By Dave Brooks Aspen Live, the annual live music ...

Conferences across a range of disciplines routinely invite more men than women to speak. In the most egregious cases, the speaker lists are entirely devoid of women, producing a so-called ‘manference’ ...

Sadly, the value of most conference panels is questionable, due mostly to the lack of effective moderation. Just recently I heard that one nervous moderator asked the panelists to introduce themselves ...