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Posted inEducation, Higher Education

Academic Conferences Are “Lumbering Dinosaurs.” Can Anything Change Them?

The conventional political science conference is a dinosaur, large, lumbering, and increasingly ill-suited for its environment, although extinction does not appear imminent. So begins a recent article by Georgetown political scientist Mark Rom.  On the eve of the next American Political Science Association meeting, his take is well worth digesting. For starters, consider this.  In […]