It’s conference season, and that means we will soon be suffering together in some drab meeting room. The minutes will tick by as an earnest scholar reads — word for excruciating word — a jargon-filled ...

EXCLUSIVE – Anthropologists from the largest associations of anthropologists in the world canceled an event discussing the importance of biological sex in the context of studying the human skeleton ...

I continue to participate in panels on a variety of topics and have hosted my fair share as an emcee. I’m shocked by the degree to which panels still exhibit a huge spectrum from terrible to ...

SANTA ROSA -- A panel composed of a prominent sommelier and leaders from a relatively new winery and fast-growing on-premise equipment supplier are the final pieces now in place for The Business ...

The annual intimate industry confab, slated for next month, will convene top execs in the live music industry for panels, networking, skiing and more. By Dave Brooks Aspen Live, the annual live music ...

Conferences across a range of disciplines routinely invite more men than women to speak. In the most egregious cases, the speaker lists are entirely devoid of women, producing a so-called ‘manference’ ...

Sadly, the value of most conference panels is questionable, due mostly to the lack of effective moderation. Just recently I heard that one nervous moderator asked the panelists to introduce themselves ...