16 Feb
2012
16 Feb
'12
10 p.m.
I’ve become aware that there’s a lot of tacit knowledge about how a history conference works that is mystifying to (say) computer scientists, amateur historians or economists but is not included in a typical history CFP because it is “too obvious” to bother stating.
... "mystifying to people without conference management experience" would have sufficed. One need not possess a Ph.D. to appreciate the complexities of conference organization (says the "amateur" historian, while asserting this his Vintage Computer Festival has a lot more complexity than a SIG day.) Some irony: two of this year's VCF East lecturers are Ph.D.s -- Dr. Thomas Kurtz, of Dartmouth, and Dr. Kent Lundford, of MIT.