Day 2 of our Workshop at Lorentz Center with presentations on topics like: How international have international conferences been? What is their politics? How has social interaction been structured? How has the conference format been used? How inclusive are conferences?

Workshop Lorentz Center Day 3: How does atmosphere shape knowledge exchange and community building at scientific conferences? Is the (in)formal social program a distraction or the real deal of conferencing? (How) do excursions into nature facilitate thinking?

Last day of our Lorentz Center workshop. Technologies of conferencing, like the camera/microphone, coffee mugs and chalkboard were both an object of discussion and a support system throughout our sessions. What are the strangest conference technologies you have encountered?

We are happy to announce the start of our blog. In the first post, Jessica Reinisch reflects on our recent Lorentz Center conference at Leiden. Full blog post: sciconf.nu/workshop-refle…

How international is International? sciconf.nu/contribution-t… Using as an example the 1920s German and Austrian boycott, Geert Somsen discusses different conceptions of internationalism in scientific conferences, for his contribution in the The History of Scientific Conferences #HST2021 session.

After our first coffee break we have Geert Somsen and Georgiana Kotsou on Convention Conventions: Rituals of Participation in Large Research Conferences, with the commentary this time from Ben Maj.

New website updates after a busy summer! You can now listen to the trailer of our upcoming podcast: sciconf.nu/podcast/ and read two new blog posts by Jenny Beckman and Georgiana Kotsou discussing conferencing as space and community building: sciconf.nu/blog/

Brichot-ing at 28 (Swann's Way)

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The The History of Scientific Conferences group has teamed up with the wonderful Mariana Castillo Deball to produce a series of podcasts about the history of conferences. You're all invited to come to the show & drinks on 18 Nov, 6-8pm @ Birkbeck's cinema. Book here shorturl.at/DJX05 BIMI

For anyone interested in Philadelphia!

🧵Clashes with the police during the 24h general strike #Greece #Απεργια_9Νοεμβρη 1/6

Post-Soviet visual. "My Window" painting by Andrey Dareev, Russia, 2013

And here is another one! Georgiana Kotsou's paper on the Gordon Research Conferences is now online & open access BJHS Editor, as our special issue on international scientific conferences is slowly coming into the world The History of Scientific Conferences Centre for the Study of Internationalism tinyurl.com/53zte34c

#OtD 6 Dec 2008 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos was shot at point-blank range by police in Exarchia, Athens. It sparked weeks of national protests and riots and resulted in the imprisonment of the two officers involved libcom.org/history/greek-…

#OtD 22 Sep 1962 Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini punched a fascist who had confronted him outside the premiere for his film, Mamma Roma. Pasolini's radical politics and openness about his homosexuality made him a frequent target of the right stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9526/p…