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Graduate Students and Conference Logistics

Posted on April 12, 2014 by Melissa Ridley Elmes

My earlier post on graduate student behavior at academic conferences (“It’s Not On The Syllabus”) was very well-received, for which I must pause to thank all of you for taking the time to read and to share your own thoughts … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences and Professional Development Opportunities | Tagged Academic Conferences, academic mothers, academic parents, AHA, conference attendance, Doctoral Students, Graduate School, graduate school and parenting, graduate student funding, graduate student parents, graduate students, How to Find CFPs, how to pay for an academic conference, International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, Longwood Univeristy Meeting in the Middle, MLA, paying for graduate school, Southeastern Medieval Association, travel deals, traveling to an academic conference, what is the difference between a conference and a colloquium | 6 Comments

It’s Not On The Syllabus: Cultivating Collegiality as a Graduate Student

Posted on March 16, 2014 by Melissa Ridley Elmes

This post is designed to tackle a subject that many people might not even think about: how graduate students should behave towards other graduate students or academics they don’t know. I’m not talking about your day-to-day behavior around the other … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences and Professional Development Opportunities | Tagged academic grandstanding, attending an academic conference, conference attendance, conference behavior, doctoral student, getting a PhD, Graduate School, graduate student, how to behave at an academic conference, presenting an acadmic paper at a conference, scholarly elitism, unwritten rules of academia | 48 Comments

Tag Archives: conference attendance

Graduate Students and Conference Logistics

It’s Not On The Syllabus: Cultivating Collegiality as a Graduate Student

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