<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If feedback is indeed one of their aims, what then is the proper mode by which to contest statements made during a conference presentation?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regarding their evidentiary burden, to what extent are claims made in such presentations different from those made in publications?</span></p><br>--Jeff</div><div><br>On May 23, 2017, at 1:22 PM, Nathan Ensmenger <<a href="mailto:nensmeng@indiana.edu">nensmeng@indiana.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p dir="auto">On 23 May 2017, at 1:14, Nabeel Siddiqui wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Conference talks are places to showcase ideas, get feedback on works in progress, and form community.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I am late to this discussion, but it seems to me that Nabeel has identified what is most troublesome about this incident. For historians, conference talks are <em>not</em> publications, and should not be treated as such. The time to criticize publicly the work of another historian is after publication, not based on one’s personal recollection of a conference talk that was never meant to be treated as a finished and fully-cited article. I would be appalled if one of my conference talks were subjected to this degree of public criticism — much less dismissed as the product of “misunderstandings, historical errors, omissions, and confirmation bias”— and would regard such criticism as a deeply hostile and unprofessional act. I certainly would never attend that conference again. I hope that Joy does not feel that way. Not only do I value her and her work, but I found her talk to be thoughtful, thought-provoking, and not at all deserving of this kind of response. </p>
<p dir="auto">-Nathan </p>
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<p dir="auto">Nathan Ensmenger <br>
Associate Professor of Informatics <br>
School of Informatics and Computing <br>
Indiana University, Bloomington <br>
<a href="http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/nensmeng/">homes.soic.indiana.edu/nensmeng/</a> </p>
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