EVENT 2024

Overview

Can we imagine an event that contributes to a more sustainable future while providing some advantages that are not possible at a regular annual conference? Those advantages include: increased attendance; more intimate gatherings; a less impacted schedule; reduced costs; and greater international networking and collaboration. Our idea: maintain the pleasures of a face-to-face meeting by hosting “hub” events across the world, encouraging people to attend the closest one to reduce air travel and avoid long-haul flights.  Most hubs will have one panel at a time to create an intimate collective experience. Then, we will link all the papers delivered by way of COVE Conferences, a password-protected, asynchronous annotation platform available only to attendees.  There, you can read papers of most interest to you at your leisure, sharing insights or queries with the authors of the papers.  The face-to-face hub events will occur at the end of September; we will lead up to those meetings with monthly Zoom events over the 2024 calendar year and conclude the conference with with Zoom events linking participants across time zones to discuss large-scale, global issues.

Learn more about our conference hubs