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• Making online conference interactions more structured to make the exchange of ideas more generative
  
  
• Creating new collectives for the exchange of ideas and for political action

• Making online conference interactions more structured to make the exchange of ideas more generative

V21 Collective summer reading groups

Make new collectives!

"The only way we as scholars can affect climate change is not traveling for conferences"

• If everyone attending the 2021 RSVP conference flew the same route I will (SEA-PHL), we would still generate less than one hundredth of a percent of the greenhouse gases the US military-industrial complex does in an average week. (sources)

"The only way we as scholars can affect climate change is not traveling for conferences"

Can we travel more thoughtfully and also have a bigger impact by thinking about how to make structural change through our communities?

• We can, and should, make our conference practices more technologically ingenious, less centralized, and more accessible.

• But we have to be mindful of what might be lost, and why, in order to remember that organizing new collectives for the exchange of ideas can also have direct political utility.

Thanks!

mjpoland at uw dot edu / @mattpoland

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