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 ...

Panels are ubiquitous at conferences. There’s a practical reason for this–panels allow the organizers to bring in three times as many speakers as solo speeches would. With enough big names on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The "Coming Back: Reconnecting Princeton's Black Alumni" conference held Oct. 16-18 at Princeton University featured a variety of panel discussions with Princeton faculty, alumni, graduate students ...

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 ...