I get the sense that lots of scholars are viewing the return (sooner or later) of in-person conference with a good deal of ambivalence. Is it time to take all conference online?
I get the sense that lots of scholars are viewing the return (sooner or later) of in-person conference with a good deal of ambivalence. Is it time to take all conference online?
Dear Readers, In this post, I would like to focus on the few ways in which the blogosphere and social media more generally help junior scholars. I will use myself as an example. It is not easy for...
Tomorrow, my great friend and coauthor Dursun Peksen and I will collect our $200 for winning the best paper award at the annual meeting of ISA-Midwest in St. Louis. The paper, which I’ve talked...
Editor's Note: Â This is a guest post from Professor Peter M. Haas of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Finding myself on the grey haired side of the academic divide and having experienced...
Phil Arena was supposed to present his paper, "Crisis Bargaining and Domestic Opposition" at APSA. If you are reading this on an RSS feed, you should see the audio. His slides are not integrated, as his audio presentation is in mp3 format. This is the first of what I hope will be more of these. If you need an APSA fix, or are just interested in the topic, take 10-15 minutes to listen to Phil's presentation and leave feedback.If and when we accumulate more #virtualAPSA2012 presentations, I will create a more conference-like environment for them.Â
With respect to my prior post....In all seriousness, it would not be difficult to do the following:Put up presentations as, say, 10 minute m4a files -- straight audio, audio with slides added by hand, or audio-video derived from lecture-capture applications;Post audio comments from discussants, their notes, or both;Associate them all with a dedicated feed or feeds; andProvide a place for listeners to comment on each virtual panel.We could do this at the Duck. We could create a dedicated blog. We could impress upon APSA that this might make a worthwhile experiment and that they should host...
I skipped APSA this year in favor of BISA/ISA. In fact, I haven't renewed my membership this year.Still, I wonder if we can't make lemons out of lemonade.How about a virtual APSA? If you are an IR/CP scholar who has bailed on APSA let us know (in comments) and consider posting an abstract of your presentation.Heck, if there's enough interest maybe people can make power points available for discussion.UPDATE: it appears that virtual is the only option (I retain the lovely yellow from the apsanet.org site).2012 APSA Annual Meeting Canceled President G. Bingham Powell announces the cancellation...
If you order from Cafe Press on Amazon, tshirts can get delivered by Tuesday - in time to tell APSA that, even if you're going to the conference, you haven't forgotten that APSA is wrong on this issue. Sorry for the late announcement - my to-do list got a little backed up ...
Flyer below. Posting does not indicate endorsement. But it does look cool.
Ron Hassner has long discussed forming an ISA section on Religion and IR. After attending the last ISA, talking to more people with work that touches on the subject, and seeing the continuing increase in papers that address religion and world politics, Ron is moving forward. If (and only if) you are an ISA member, please take a moment to sign the petition. We need a hundred qualified signatures.
Dan Drezner was kind enough to link to my YouTube ISA Presentation. However Foreign Policy has headlined it "Is This the Future of Teaching?" Given that a number of colleagues have written to me this morning along the lines of "if that's the future of teaching, I might as well give up, it looks too hard," and "how long did that take you, anyway?!!" I feel compelled to provide some caveats. 1) If the medium is the message here, it's a message about conference presentations, not in-class lectures. And while I will continue to use video mash-ups at conferences in the future, they're not always...
I will be on a panel at 1.45pm in Indigo A with the following description:There has been a growing body of work in world politics that relies on or analyzes fictional narratives. To what extent can cultutal phenomena like Battlestar Galactica or Harry Potter be used as for pedagogical purposes in the classroom? How useful are such narratives as data points to either explicate or substantiate theoretical claims in world politics? This roundtable weighs the costs and benefits of using popular culture narratives inside the classroom and in publications.Charli Carpenter will be discussing her...