Robinson, S;
Baumhammer, M;
Beiermann, L;
Belteki, D;
Chambers, AC;
Gibbons, K;
Guimont, E;
... Sumner, J; + view all
(2020)
Innovation in a crisis: rethinking conferences and scholarship in a pandemic and climate emergency.
The British Journal for the History of Science
, 53
(4)
pp. 575-590.
10.1017/S0007087420000497.
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Abstract
It is a cliché of self-help advice that there are no problems, only opportunities. The rationale and actions of the BSHS in creating its Global Digital History of Science Festival may be a rare genuine confirmation of this mantra. The global COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 meant that the society's usual annual conference – like everyone else's – had to be cancelled. Once the society decided to go digital, we had a hundred days to organize and deliver our first online festival. In the hope that this will help, inspire and warn colleagues around the world who are also trying to move online, we here detail the considerations, conversations and thinking behind the organizing team's decisions.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Innovation in a crisis: rethinking conferences and scholarship in a pandemic and climate emergency |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0007087420000497 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087420000497 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of British Society for the History of Science. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Science and Technology Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10125174 |
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