A few months ago, I attended a conference in Brussels. It was the first conference I have attended ever since leaving academia, and so there were things that were quite new to me. I must say the way the corporate world conducts conferences is quite different from the way conferences are conducted in academia, and there were some very interesting things to note.
Showing posts with label conference. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conference. Show all posts
26 January 2018
19 October 2016
When You Finally Enjoy a Conference City
I'm writing this from the airport in Bilbao. I was here for a few days due to a conference. And I suppose I realized that this is the first time in which I have attended a conference and actually liked the city where the conference is being held. Bilbao is amazing, and there are plenty of reasons why one would like this town. And I am not talking about the contents of the conference.
03 October 2016
25 June 2016
20 December 2015
When Speakers Go Overtime
I was at a conference recently. In this conference, there was an invited speaker, who delivered a talk, longer than the other speakers. After all, this speaker was invited, which meant that his talk had a longer time slot than the other talks. However, what happened was that this speaker went severely overtime. He even took all the time allotted for his question period, that there was only a couple of short quick questions allowed. Somehow, that fact made my impression of this speaker go down immediately.
26 November 2015
14 November 2015
09 March 2015
08 January 2015
25 January 2014
17 October 2013
Excuse Me!
So I was in a conference recently, and wow, sometimes, I wonder whether some people appear "bright" only because they have a lot of bells and whistles and do plenty of hand-waving that the audience is awed, but that's about it. If you ask for substance, well, there wasn't any.
16 May 2013
16 April 2013
DGfS 2013: Day 2-3
Thursday and Friday were the last two days of the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society. I met my adviser before the sessions, and attended several talks in two different workshops. I was mainly interested in the narration and the salience workshops, so I was shuttling back and forth between those two rooms.
14 April 2013
DGfS 2013: Day 1
Last month, I attended the 4-day 35. Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, or in English, the 35th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society. It was held in Potsdam, which is a short S-Bahn ride away from Berlin, so it felt unprofessional to be a linguist in Berlin and not attend the largest meeting of like-minded individuals in the country. It was held from March 12 to 15, but I didn't attend the first day, as there were only workshops that dealt with topics that I didn't have much interest on. After all, I am a psycholinguist, not a computational linguist. So for this entry, what I am considering Day 1 was my first day, March 13.
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