Covid-19, online workshops, and the future of intellectual exchange.
Covid-19 disrupted the fabric of academic collaboration. Scholars cancelled or delayed in-person talks, seminars, and conferences in an effort to reduce transmission of the virus. In many instances, the academic profession turned to various online platforms to share ideas. What are the possible long...
| Publicado en: | Rethinking History Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 224 - 242 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=150961757&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 150961757 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 13642529 5C5 jtl: Rethinking History issn: 13642529 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jun2021 vid: 25 iid: 2 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 150961757 10.1080/13642529.2021.1934290 ppf: 224 ppct: 18 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.7MB tig: atl: Covid-19, online workshops, and the future of intellectual exchange. aug: au: Davies, Aled Seaton, Andrew Tonooka, Chika White, Jessica affil: Faculty of History, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Department of History, New York University, New York, NY, USA Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Department of History, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK su: COVID-19 pandemic Seminars Videoconferencing Teleconferencing British history sug: subj: COVID-19 pandemic Seminars Videoconferencing Teleconferencing British history keyword: collaboration conferences Covid-19 videoconferencing workshops ab: Covid-19 disrupted the fabric of academic collaboration. Scholars cancelled or delayed in-person talks, seminars, and conferences in an effort to reduce transmission of the virus. In many instances, the academic profession turned to various online platforms to share ideas. What are the possible long-term consequences of this development? Drawing on the experience of organizing an online workshop for early career researchers in modern British history, this article argues that virtual seminars and conferences should become a permanent part of intellectual exchange. This article provides practical guidance to others seeking to establish similar projects within and beyond the historical profession. It uses survey material from workshop presenters and attendees to assess the challenges and merits of using online platforms, and then discusses their longer term significance. Despite some drawbacks in their operation, online platforms offer advantages that include widening participation and responding to the climate crisis. Virtual collaboration facilitates the participation of scholars normally excluded from central field discussions due to location, expense, or institutional status, and it also furthers global scholarly interactions without generating a significant carbon footprint. This article argues that rather than a temporary stop-gap during a pandemic, online seminars present new opportunities for the future of collaboration if embedded as part of a mix with of in-person events. In its conclusion, it presents five proposals for improving virtual collaboration in the future. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Rethinking History is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Rethinking History holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2021 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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