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Author(s):  
Sebastian Jäckle

AbstractThis chapter focuses on the carbon footprint of travelling to academic conferences. The cases I present are the last seven General Conferences of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), which are the biggest European conferences in political science, with up to 2000 participants. My estimations show that the travel-induced carbon footprint of a single conference can amount to more than 2000 tons of greenhouse gases—as much as approximately 270 UK citizens emit in a whole year. The average participant produces between 500 and 1500 kg of CO2-eq per conference round-trip. However, by applying three measures (more centrally located conference venues, the promotion of more land-bound travel and the introduction of online participation for attendees from distant locations), the carbon footprint could be reduced by 78–97 per cent. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a general shift towards online conferences—the ECPR switched to a virtual event as well. Estimating the carbon footprint of this online-only conference in a more detailed manner shows that the travel-induced carbon emissions—if the event had taken place in physical attendance as originally intended—would have been between 250 and 530 times higher than those from the online conference.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Trudie Walters ◽  
Najmeh Hassanli ◽  
Wiebke Finkler

PurposeIn this paper the authors seek to understand how academic conferences [re]produce deeply embedded gendered patterns of interaction and informal norms within the business disciplines.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on Acker's (2012) established and updated theory of gendered organisations, the authors focus on the role of academic conferences in the reproduction of gendered practices in the business disciplines. The authors surveyed academics at top universities in Australia and New Zealand who had attended international conferences in their discipline area.FindingsAcademic conferences in the business disciplines communicate organisational logic and act as gendered substructures that [re]produce gendered practices, through the hierarchy of conference participation. Even in disciplinary conferences with a significant proportion of women delegates, the entrenched organisational logic is manifest in the bodies that perform keynote and visible expert roles, perpetuating the notion of the “ideal academic” as male.Practical implicationsThe authors call for disciplinary associations to formulate an equality policy, which covers all facets of conference delivery, to which institutions must then respond in their bid to host the conference and which then forms part of the selection criteria; explicitly communicate why equality is important and what decisions the association and hosts took to address it; and develop databases of women experts to remove the most common excuse for the lack of women keynote speakers. Men, question conference hosts when asked to be a keynote speaker or panelist: Are half of the speakers women and is there diversity in the line-up? If not, provide the names of women to take your place.Originality/valueThe contribution of this study is twofold. First is the focus on revealing the underlying processes that contribute to the [re]production of gender inequality at academic conferences: the “how” rather than the “what”. Second, the authors believe it to be the first study to investigate academic conferences across the spectrum of business disciplines.


2021 ◽  
pp. 13-31
Author(s):  
Աննա Ասատրյան

The contribution of NAS RA Institute of Arts to the formation and development of academic Spendiaryan Studies is outstanding. It includes publication and research of the creative legacy of the prominent representative of Armenian classical music, the founder of Armenian symphonic music, the composer, conductor and musical-and-public figure Alexander Spendiaryan (1871-1928). In the field of Spendiaryan Studies, NAS RA Institute of Arts carried out its works in the following directions: academic publication of complete “Collected Works of Alexander Spendiaryan” in 11 volumes (1951-1988); scholarly research: Knarik Grigoryan’s “Alexander Spendiarov. Life and Ouevre” (1952), Georgi Tigranov’s “Alexander Spendiarov. Based on Letters and Recollections” (in Rus., 1953), collected scholarly papers “Alexander Spendiarov. Articles and Researches” (in Rus., compiled by Gevorg Geodakian, 1973), and many other scholarly papers; publication of the composer’s literary legacy: “Collection of Letters” (compiled by Knarik Grigoryan, 1962); compilation and publication of the chronicle of the composer’s life and oeuvre (compiled by Maria Spendiarova, 1975); organization of anniversary academic conferences (1951, 1971, 2021); compilation and publication of the collection “Contemporaries about Al. Spendiaryan” (compiled by Alexander Tadevosyan, 1960), etc.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Constanze Schelhorn

Academic conferences and other scientific events are an integral part of scientific communication, serving as a platform to discuss novel findings, to establish collaborations, and to foster scholarly exchange in general [...]


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
G. Kazakov

This paper offers an overview of the major events and trends in the field of polyglottery as a science (the study of consciously attained individual multilingualism) from 2010 to 2021 with special attention to its implications for language education and its connections with geolinguistics (understood as global or geographically specified sociolinguistics in the tradition of the American Society of Geolinguistics). Mentioned are, among other things, the milestone academic conferences in New York, Tokyo and Moscow, the creation of the first organized polyglot group in East Asia, and the first graduation papers on polyglottery defended for a bachelor’s degree in linguistics. An attempt is made to put these research results and ideas in general scientific context


2021 ◽  
pp. 530-542
Author(s):  
Nigel Inkster

This chapter assesses semi-official diplomacy in the cyber domain. It begins by describing Track 2 and Track 1.5 diplomacy. Track 2 diplomacy consists of a broad spectrum of activities ranging from academic conferences designed to address specific conflict-related diplomatic issues to much more generic people-to-people contacts designed to create a climate of greater mutual understanding. Meanwhile, Track 1.5 diplomacy seeks to leverage the strengths of both Track 1 and Track 2 diplomacy. It became clear from an early stage that the United States, Russia, and China were in a position to determine the strategic evolution of the cyber domain due to their status as global geo-political actors, their advanced cyber capabilities, their possession of nuclear weapons, and their differences in values and ideology. Russia was the first to make a move towards semi-official diplomacy. Whereas Russia has taken a leading role in international negotiations on cyber governance and cybersecurity, China has arguably become more consequential in terms of how its relationship with the United States will shape the normative culture of the cyber domain. The chapter then considers other examples of semi-official diplomacy as well as prospects for further semi-official diplomacy in the cyber domain.


Geoforum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 126 ◽  
pp. 192-204
Author(s):  
Philipp Aufenvenne ◽  
Christian Haase ◽  
Franziska Meixner ◽  
Malte Steinbrink

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (CSCW2) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Subin Park ◽  
Heejae Jung ◽  
Jae Won Choi ◽  
Jihyeon Park ◽  
Joonyoung Jun ◽  
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