In this special mega edition of Shoptalk, guess which performative utterance was said at which conference.
Shoptalk
Shoptalk authors report on the best and the worst exchanges overheard at academic conferences.
Editor: Mary Zaborskis
Shoptalk: Overheard at the Virtual Conference
In this parodic installment of Shoptalk, we salute the year of conferences that have tried to be.
Shoptalk: Overheard at MLA 2020
This year’s Modern Language Association Annual Convention took place January 9–12 in Seattle, Washington. Participants were far from sleepless as they traversed ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at ASA 2019
This year’s American Studies Association annual meeting took place November 7–10 in Honolulu, Hawai’i. ASA President, Scott Kurashige, transformed this year’s ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at ASAP 2019
This year the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) convention was held at the University of Maryland, College Park. The hotel bar may have ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at ATHE
Theater theorists, historians, and practitioners gathered in Orlando for this year’s annual meeting of ATHE, the Association for Theatre in Higher ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at ICA 2019
This year’s International Communication Association (ICA) conference officially took place in the Washington Hilton—or the Hinckley Hilton, as it is called by ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at ACLA 2019
This year’s annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association gathered at Georgetown University. Participants met in small ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at MLA 2019
This year’s MLA convention in Chicago, Illinois, was a suspiciously pleasant affair: clear weather, somewhat navigable conference spaces, and proximity to ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at ASA and NWSA 2018
This year Americanists, feminists, feminist Americanists, and everyone between and beyond gathered in downtown Atlanta for the annual meetings of both the ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at AOIR
This October, scholars from 30 countries headed to Montreal for the 19th annual meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers. Experts discussed the state ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at APSA 2018
Over a holiday weekend in early September, political scientists gathered in the heart of Boston in a mall (well, in a conference center and two hotels ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at Kzoo 2018
Everich yeer, michel clerkes fare tu Michygan and eten, drynke, and telle tydinges. For you plebs who don’t speak Middle English, that means each year ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at C19
This year, members of the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists gathered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the organization’s fifth biennial ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at MLA 2018
Literary critics that managed the trek to this year’s Modern Language Association conference descended into a professional circle of hell: the convention was held in ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at AAA
The American Anthropological Association’s 116th Annual Meeting was brimming with how can we even? under the Trump administration. The theme ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at ASA
This year’s American Studies Association conference coincided with Chicago’s first snowfall of the season. Its theme was “Pedagogies of Dissent,” and conversations that circulated in the conference ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at GSA
Over one thousand scholars gathered in Atlanta, Georgia, in early October for the German Studies Association annual conference. In keeping with the German language’s tendency to prefer the passive ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at ASA
Each August, sociologists from across North America gather for their annual meeting. This year they congregated in and around the Palais des congrès ...
Shoptalk: Overheard at Dickens Universe
Each August among the redwoods of the sprawling campus of UC Santa Cruz, academics converge to discuss and celebrate a novel by Charles Dickens. This year that novel was … Middlemarch. Between ...